Florida Agenda

By Drew Miller I have had an incredible month since my last column. “Don’t Spread Negativity” has been remarkably well-received, based on all the feedback I have received from friends and colleagues. My life experiment of “21 Consecutive Days Without Negativity, Complaining and Gossip” has really been transforming. Today, I am on day (wait for [...]

There has been a great deal of ink devoted elsewhere recently to the doom and gloom related to the long and dark shadow said to be cast over the future of Wilton Manors, with reports of the closure of 17 businesses in the Island City over the past 18 months, as well as the projections [...]

By Cliff Dunn Events for Stonewall Pride Weekend are cropping up faster than one of Jonathan Bleiweiss’ victims, with a number of local establishments and watering holes teaming up to support charitable and service organizations, while serving up products to help shore up the summer slows. To The Depot Cabana Bar & Grill’s Stonewall Saturday [...]

Words can shape how people view you. by Drew Miller You never know who is listening. Negativity spreads so easily from one person to another. It’s an uncontrollable virus that lives on and on. Networking is the last place you want to spread negativity. antibiotics no prescription Networking is your moment to make the best [...]

Tongues have been wagging – and without apparent justification (go figure) – regarding an imminent/eventual demolition of some/all of the Shoppes of Wilton Manors, the strip shopping center at the corner of Wilton Drive and Northeast 7 Avenue in Wilton Manors, home to such businesses as Island City Health & Fitness (ICHF), Georgie’s Alibi, Juiceblendz [...]

By Cliff Dunn Photo: Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida Members  sing the National Anthem at this year’s  Florida AIDS?Walk in Huizenga Plaza The inaugural season of the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida (GMCSF) will end with a bang the weekend of June 17 and 18, with the East Coast premier of Metamorphosis: Change [...]

MIAMI BEACH, FL – Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s popular Women’s Empowerment Luncheon series continues at Morton’s Steakhouse in Miami Beach (4041 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Fl), with special guest speaker Ms. Cindy Brown, President of Cenergy, LLC. Cost: MDGLCC members $35, potential members $45 ($10.00 applied to MDGLCC membership) The luncheon will [...]

Photo: Rich Rodriguez, Mister Ramrod 2011 Zak Enterline and Steve Whitney, proprietors of Fort Lauderdale’s oldest gay bar, Ramrod, are sending a contestant to the 2011 International Mister Leather (IML) competition, this year being held in America’s Second City, Chicago. Rich Rodriguez of Wilton Manors, who was crowned Mister Ramrod, is Chi-Town-bound this Memorial Day [...]

LGBT Greater Fort Lauderdale:  The Future is in Your Hands Part 6 of 6 By BOBBY BLAIR & CLIFF DUNN “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.” – Abraham Lincoln “We few, we happy few, we [...]

IGLTA: Countdown to Convention.     Part 5 of a Six Part Series   “If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.” Kahlil Gibran With less than one week remaining until the start of the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association’s (IGLTA) 28th Annual Convention, called “Unleashed,” Greater Fort Lauderdale’s LGBT-owned businesses are [...]