Around Town

Lake Worth Hipsters Welcome New Breed Jesus Freaks; Music Ensues.

By Fire Ant Thu., May 9 2013 at 12:07 PM
Categories: Around Town, Free Music, Over the Weekend

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A very cool venue on a very cool street is hosting the Christian faithful Saturday night, when local young believers are coming to Coastars Coffee Bar to make music and social justice. We'd go just to see how husband-and-wife team the Vegas and their flock blend in with the hipsters of Propaganda next door and the blues fans from the Bamboo Room down the street.

The show is in support of END IT, a coalition of organizations that work to disrupt and eradicate slavery in all its contemporary forms -- human trafficking, child labor, the global sex trade. Step one, and the purpose of the Coastars show, is to raise awareness, let people know that slavery still exists, with an estimated 27 million men, women and children in its grip worldwide.


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Shane Watt Graffitis DJ Andie Sweetswirl's House

By Stephen Feller Mon., Apr. 1 2013 at 11:41 AM
Categories: Arts & Culture, Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, Over the Weekend

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Better than: Anything that's ever happened at your house.

Lots of people have art in their homes. Many of them have art outside of them too. But few have murals like the one Shane Watt painted on the back of Andie Sweetswirl's house in Fort Lauderdale.

After two months of planning, drawing and painting, Sweetswirl, a longtime booker, DJ, and show promoter in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, turned the mural's unveiling into "Myland: A Mural Exhibition" and invited South Florida into her home. Literally.


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Ten Sexiest Photos from Paul Oakenfold's Set at Gryphon Nightclub, Hollywood

By Liz Tracy Mon., Mar. 11 2013 at 8:49 AM
Categories: Over the Weekend, Slideshows
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If you were beaten by the bass and trance-ported to a divine electronic headspace this weekend, you were definitely '90s-tripping to Paul Oakenfold's DJ set at Gryphon.

The nightclub was packed with sweaty, animal flesh. The crowd was amped and ready to rave into a darkened bedroom after a night of lights pulsing on the dance floor and guzzling magnums of champagne. Click on for our 10 sexiest shots from the show.

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- Full Slideshow of Paul Oakenfold at Gryphon
- Paul Oakenfold Calls Himself "an Underground Guy Who Made It Overground"

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Everybody Got Lucky at Fort Lauderdale's St. Patrick's Day Parade and Festival (Photos)

By Travis Newbill Mon., Mar. 11 2013 at 8:09 AM
Categories: Around Town, Over the Weekend
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All photos by Travis Newbill
Attention: This blog is rated PG, SFW, etc. (sorry, horny folks)

A nice way to view St. Patrick's Day is to consider it a celebration of luck. Even those who treat it as a celebration of booze are still celebrating the former on some level. Because, if you're in a position to pound a green beer, you are living the good life.

This past weekend's St. Patrick's Day Festival in Fort Lauderdale was a wonderful luckstravaganza. A mass of people cheering their own good fortune -- some more loudly than others. There were even lucky animals, horses with four leaf clovers stenciled onto their haunches and sparkling, green hooves. We offer you some of the tastiest luck-nuggets of the sunny day.

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Johnny Winter Performed a Clean Set at Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale

By David Von Bader Tue., Feb. 19 2013 at 8:09 AM
Categories: Over the Weekend
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Better Than: Johnny Winter's performance on the Crossroads Festival DVD 

There are increasingly fewer artists with a tangible and direct impact on the direction of blues music still working today. We have but one of the three Kings left in B.B., and Buddy Guy is hanging tough and arguably playing as well as ever. However, for a genre that truly depends on its aural tradition to continue and that holds such an incredible reverence for its history, performances by what few members of the fabled old guard that remain are important. 

Accordingly, people came out in droves to Fort Lauderdale's Culture Room to catch Johnny Winter perform a set of his incomparable rock 'n' roll blues on an fittingly cold Saturday night. 
 
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Big Lebowski Over the Line Night Features Rock and Bowling in Pompano

By County Grind Mon., Feb. 18 2013 at 12:38 PM
Categories: Over the Weekend
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Better than: Having a ferret thrown in the bath with you while some nihilist pisses on your favorite rug.

At least three people ordered white Russians, but nobody showed up in a purple jumpsuit or robe and sandals for the first Over The Line, a Big Lebowski-themed monthly rock and roll bowling event at Diamond Strike in Pompano.

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- Photos: Lebowski Bowling Extravaganza at Diamond Strike Lanes

The 40-year-old bowling alley heated up on a cold Sunday night as the Shakers, Los Bastardos Magnificos, and Mobile Homies offered everybody in the building their first experience hearing a live band while trying hard to throw more strikes than gutter balls.

"This kind of thing is huge out west in Vegas and all over California," said event organizer Mark Pollack. "We've been trying to get something like this going for a long time. Bowling and rock and roll go together like milk and cookies -- it seemed obvious."
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Balance and Composure with the Jealous Sound - The Talent Farm, Pembroke Pines - February 15

By David Von Bader Mon., Feb. 18 2013 at 9:32 AM
Categories: Over the Weekend
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Better than: Andrew Dice Clay calling you a "snapperhead."

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- Jealous Sound's Blair Shehan on the Return of Melodic Punk: "People Crave Something Substantial"

A tour package that had the goods to satisfy fans of any era of emotive rock music lured fans deep into the swamps of western Pembroke Pines on Friday night. Regardless of whether they were coming of age to the current sounds of Balance and Composure, or there chasing a taste of early 2000s nostalgia via the recently rebooted Jealous Sound, they came.

The house was packed with a predominantly young mob of fans, peppered throughout with occasionally uncomfortable looking post-teens and quarter-lifers, who were most likely remembering the embarrassing behaviors they once exhibited in similar surroundings, as the teenager show shenanigans played out around them.
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The Rhythm Foundation's Mardi Gras at Hollywood ArtsPark Is More Babies, Less Babes

By County Grind Mon., Feb. 11 2013 at 2:14 PM
Categories: Over the Weekend
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By Katrina Naar

Better than: sitting in the comfort of your warm home listening to Mardi Gras music by
yourself and eating inauthentic Cajun cuisine.

The smell of newly lit cigarettes and Rosey Baby's Crawfish Cajun House swirled around the heart of Hollywood this past Saturday night as New Orleans smooth jazz and funk filled the chilly air. 

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Families and friends sat on blankets and chairs on the lawn of Hollywood Arts Park to enjoy the free five-hour Mardi Gras concert and festivities. Not really what you picture when you hear Mardi Gras, right?


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Andrea Bocelli - BB&T Center, Sunrise - February 8, 2013

By David Von Bader Mon., Feb. 11 2013 at 11:16 AM
Categories: Over the Weekend
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Better than: Beyonce' lip syncing and stompin' all over the stage at the Super Bowl. 

When it comes to contemporary artists within the realm of orchestral and operatic music, Italian born tenor Andrea Bocelli's talent and work has been so widely appreciated and lauded on an international level that he stands literally without peers at this point in his career. 

Since the passing of famed tenor (and champion of Bocelli's talent), Luciano Pavarotti in 2007, Bocelli and his gifts have served as the opera world's sole torchbearer and ambassador to the mainstream.  
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Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carrabba Acoustic Set - Bienes Center for the Arts, Fort Lauderdale - January 11

By Lizzie Rae Sat., Jan. 12 2013 at 6:23 PM
Categories: Over the Weekend
Dashboard Confessional live acoustic set with Chris Carrabba
Bienes Center for the Arts, Fort Lauderdale 
January 11, 2013

Better than: Not hearing "Several Ways to Die Trying," even though it's one of the greatest Dashboard songs, ever.

Nestled a block from Davie Boulevard in East Fort Lauderdale is the Bienes Center for the Arts, St. Thomas Aquinas High School's auditorium. It was the perfect sized space for the one-night-only acoustic set by Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba. The stately venue held 300 or so lucky ticket holders pumped to see the king of emo render the crowd emotionally exhausted during the hours long set that was just as nostalgic as it was rare.


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