Just in mid-April, we reported the upscale hangout was shutting down, due to unpaid rent. At the time, an anonymous source informed us that there were several groups vying to purchase the club. "It presents a rare opportunity for the right party to purchase a turnkey nightclub at the height of its popularity, right in downtown West Palm Beach," said the unidentified party, who was involved with one of the groups attempting to acquire the 6,000-square foot venue.

He was not exaggerating. Less than eight weeks later, Monarchy is back, revamped, and ready to section off your next party of four in the VIP section. Monarchy's new owner is Randy Epstein, co-founder and CIO of Host.net, a company that specializes in managed network infrastructure services (you will have to ask your IT specialist pal what that means exactly).

All I could see were his pointed chin and the slender, downward curve of his mouth illuminated under the bluish light of the bullpen. The rest of his face was shrouded in the shadow of his cowboy hat. With one hand raised to the controls and the other tucked under his arm, the cowboy lured curious passerby with his silent bait.

As I leaned over the fence of the pen, mesmerized by the mechanical beast bucking and twisting under the operator's spell, I let the teasing voice of my friend Danny dissolve my trance.

"Falyn wouldn't do it," he was telling Rene, my friend whose idea it was to hit up Wednesday's Ladies' Night at Cowboy's Saloon. The bar is sandwiched between a Bed Bath & Beyond and a Pet Supermarket in a Davie strip plaza. "She wouldn't last five seconds on that thing."

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As you probably read earlier this week on County Grind (and if you didn't, shame on you!), C&I Studios Twilight Notes, and All Together Now presented a multidisciplinary cultural event called Dialect this past Saturday night. And given that it was part of Fort Lauderdale's FAT Village art walk, you might think, "Who cares; art is art." However, Dialect was anything but typical. What follows are five reasons the event was truly somethin' different.

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Which is exactly what Miami native and Palm Beach County resident, Christina Farrah (known to many of her friends and acquaintances as "Kiwi") was hoping to invoke when she named her new monthly musically-inclined getty at Lake Worthy's Coastars Coffee Bar.

"I called it 'Plush Lounge' because I wanted it to be lounge-y," Farrah confirms. She is quick to add, "It's not really a dance night, but we'll see how it goes." She continues, with an honest chuckle, "Resisting bass tracks might be difficult."

Adam Kaplan

The fourth annual Dialect art walk takes place Saturday at their Fort Lauderdale location, taking music and visual art to the next level. DJs will spin new sounds -- none of that mainstream crap, people -- and match them up with totally innovative artistic creations. And after the party, it's, well, the after-party at Vibe Las Olas, where Obscene and Adam Foster will spin the night away.

We sat down with Foster, who made it clear why we are definitely going to Dialect, and also shared with us two songs he matched as soundtracks with two of artist Steve Baum's paintings.

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