If visions of stockings and sugarplums dance in your head; if dreams of silver bells and cockle shells disturb your sleep; if you can no longer tell which is worse, family or fruitcake — well, you need to get out more, my friend. And what better way to warm the…
Talk it up at the debut of Chit Chat on Tuesday, December 17, at Sticky Fingers (3399 Virginia St., Coconut Grove, 461-3313). The brand new restaurant/bar/club opened last week, injecting some new flavor into the we-are-presently-remodeling-and-will-be-done-by-the year-2000 Mayfair Shops. The joint is open seven days a week, serving up finger…
After a weekend of as much pump and thump at your favorite club as you can cram into a couple of days, gear up for a rock and roll week. It’s live-music heaven on Monday, December 9, when everybody’s favorite boy-next-door band Weezer steps out of the garage and into…
Is the family driving you crazy? Have you had just about as much as you can take of Aunt Martha’s story about how she met Uncle Don? Lucky for you, clubland offers some interesting options that not only stir the soul, but warm the heart as well. Get into the…
It’s all about music this weekend with some phat and funky new additions to the one-nighter bandwagon. On Saturday Thunder Alley (3025 NE 188th St., Aventura, 933-9003), the usually mild-mannered waterfront haunt, transforms itself into Club F/X. The party starts early — 9:00 p.m. — and ends late, so there…
Now that winter is slowly rolling in — the period affectionately called “season” in clubland — so are the parties. Eighties opulence abounds on Saturday when the Jockey Club (11111 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami, 893-3344), normally a private meeting place, opens its doors to the public to broadcast the Mike…
This week, grand openings abound in clubland with two particular parties standing out. For hearty fun from a bygone era, dust off those platform shoes and disco down to South Beach for the dazzling debut of Polly Esther’s (841 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 535-5633) in a new SoBe location. If…
Cheers (2490 SW Seventeenth Ave., 857-0041), the lesbian club turned punk emporium and more, turns two this weekend with enough anniversary events to choke a pig. Tonight (Thursday) Cheers does what it does best — put on a punk show. Beginning at 8:00 homegrown talents Level 9, Against All Authority,…
They’re baaaack! That bastion of big hair, Button South (100 Ansin Blvd., Hallandale, 954-454-3301), returns this and every Friday night, with all the music and mayhem that made it famous. Back are the bands, with Shad, Beggar’s Opera, and Motor scheduled to take the stage this Friday. Back also are…
Even though, it debuted some weeks ago, Chili Pepper’s (619 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 531-9661) newish Thursday night Bite the Pepper is still rocking. Former radio personality Erin, better known as “the DJ with Bite,” jumpstarts your weekend by spinning old-school progressive and alternative tunes. The Pepper people have also…
Raver madness arrives this Friday as Megacult, the German group known for its unique dance events (traveling raves across Europe, airborne raves in chartered jets, last year’s tribal gathering in the Mohave desert), launches Transatlantic Move II, a progressive rave in two segments, one in the tropical paradise of the…
We celebrate the not-so-old and the very new this week. On Thursday, September 19, mega music chain Spec’s marks the first anniversary of its South Beach location — its largest store, incidentally — in true SoBe style, with plenty of musical panache. The store teeters on the brink of being…
The long hot haul is almost over, and one-nighter debuts and oh-so-trendy parties are popping up everywhere. Hopping on the season’s first party bandwagon is 821, with a new night called Crash! The funky new arrival debuts on Friday, September 13, with various and sundry party kids and an equally…
Churchill’s Hideaway, an institution among even — ahem — more mature clubgoers, is about to turn the big five-oh. That’s a lot of shepherd’s pie, and for the last quarter century at least, a lot of live music. The monthlong silver-anniversary celebration kicks off this weekend with a full lineup…
Labor Day, a particularly long wallow for club kids, with party promoters and club owners working overtime to jump start the season. On Thursday, August 29, get Liphtid into Pyramic Descent with a dance party full of the purely positive fusings of some of the phattest tunes in town. The…
A weekend of happy high jinks to look forward to. On Friday, August 23, party promoter extraordinaire Napoleon brings us a reprieve from the usual disco and brain damage with a night where high style rules, with a fashion spectacular showing the 1996 collections of Gianni Versace, Gianfranco Ferre, and…
thursday august 15 Dawn to Dusk: Director Larry Miller and choreographer Grace Campbell present France Luce Benson’s play about affirmation through culture and knowledge, Dawn to Dusk. The protagonist Aduska explores her personal history, as well as the history of her African and American ancestors, in order to improve her…
It’s a slow week for inaugural one-nighter celebrations, but there are a couple of newish doors to pound on if you can bear to drag yourself from the comfort of your air-conditioned home and onto the heat of the street. For starters, South Beach institution Warsaw (1450 Collins Ave., Miami…
A weekend chock full of things to do, places to go, and people to see. On the beach end, three restless brothers from New York open Cream (601 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 674-7988) with promises and plans for frivolity. The festivities begin on Friday with a private party for VIPP’s…
thursday august 8 Self: The songs on the Tennessee-based band Self’s debut album Subliminal Plastic Motives (Zoo) move with the groove of one marvelously mutant mind, that of 22-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Matt Mahaffey. In this collection of a dozen tunes that Mahaffey wrote, performed, and produced, grungy, crunchy guitars meet liquidy,…
With South Beach undergoing a strange summer regeneration of sorts, new parties are springing up all over while old (in SoBe terms) haunts are still hanging on. On Friday, Society Hill (627 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 534-9993) hosts a big blowout to celebrate its glorious first year in existence –…
Nightlife, it’s the right life. And this weekend, it’s also a meltdown of music and mayhem. Tonight (Thursday) begin to relive the glamour and elegance of Havana in the Forties and Fifties as Yuca Restaurant (501 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 532-9822) starts the summer run of Havana Nights. Enjoy the…
