For more information on the Film Festival, go here.

“South Beach On Heels” Trailer from Dmitry Zhitov on Vimeo.

“We need your help as federal funding is being debated and may very well impact the amount of food that Poverello can provide to our customers,” the organization wrote in a recent press release. “Low-income individuals living with HIV/AIDS should not have to choose between paying for their medications or putting food on their table for themselves and their families.”

Give Out Day will allow Poverello to continue its mission of “providing life saving food and basic living essential with the highest degree of understanding, respect and love for indidivuals living with HIV, who are residents of Broward County and meet the specified qualifications for services.”

You can help Poverello out by donating in person (or online) on May 15. For more information on Poverello, visit their Facebook at facebook.com/HungerFighter, or donate online by visiting razoo.com/story/Poverello-Saves-Lives.

SAVE Dade is Miami-Dade’s oldest and most active LGBT advocacy nonprofit organization, whose mission is to promote, protect, and defend equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender in Miami-Dade county.

Enjoy a provocative play by Nobel-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa that focuses on “machismo in the Latino community, transgender issues, gay and lesbian relationships, and the individual journey that is discovering and embracing your sexual and gender identity,” according to a press release.

Join the nonprofit for an exclusive open-bar reception hosted by SAVE’s Guardians and Young Guardians Society before the performance.

Tickets for the performance are $40 ($30 for members) and include an open bar cocktail reception. Proceeds from your ticket purchase will help fund SAVE’s advocacy efforts.

For more information visit SaveDade.org

“I’m featuring Jacqueline Ripstein, who is not only a phenomenal artist but who is also releasing her book The Art of Healing Art,” Burke said.

The book’s mission is to “empower you to achieve mastery over all trials of life,” according to the official summary from the author. Each image contains the key to “a different vibrational dimension, to inspiring life-changing insights. Learn step-by-step how to apply these keys in major aspects of your life, including relationships, health, wealth, and happiness.”

Ripstein will be at Art Frenzie signing books while her original works will be on display, from 7 to 10 p.m.

For more information on Art Frenzie, check out facebook.com/ArtFrenzie

Tickets are $30 in advance, Groups up to 10 in advance only $200, and tickets $40 day of event.

To purchase tickets, go to gayteacruisesfl.org

Where:
Aboard the Yacht Musette

Riverwalk South – Smoker Park

540 SE 5th Avenue 

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

When:

Sunday, December 15, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)

Boarding time for the cruise is 5 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

About Gay Tea Cruise, Inc.

Though the application period is now closed, thousands of small businesses made profiles, telling viewers why they deserve to win. One of those thousands of businesses is local gym Push Fitness.

Push Fitness is asking for the grant to fund their new program, called Poz Fitness. Developed by HIV Fitness Specialist Peter Jackson, Poz Fitness aims to help people living with HIV/AIDS to achieve optimal health through strategic fitness programs, including a “specialized yoga program,” according to the official site.

You can vote for Push Fitness until November 15. For more information, visit pozfitness.com and missionmainstreetgrants.com

The actor and writer flexed his “human” muscles on Wednesday, December 12 as part of a celebrity panel of pledge-takers during a telethon that ran concurrently with the “12-12-12” benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy.

New York City’s Madison Square Garden played host to the event, which was simulcast live on television, radio, Facebook, iHeartRadio, and in movie theaters, as well as being streamed live in New York’s Times Square, along with Paris and London.

The benefit concert brought together a Who’s Who of rock and pop royalty, including Kanye West, Alicia Keys, The Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Chris Martin of Coldplay, as well as a special performance from Paul McCartney, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, and Roger Waters performing music by Pink Floyd.

Before the event, $32 million had been raised through sponsorships and ticket sales.

“Jim Gandolfini [who played mob boss Tony Soprano] pulled us together in an effort to help support [New Jersey] the state that gave us so much during the run of the show,” Capotorto told the Florida Agenda in an exclusive interview.

Over 130 people died in October when Sandy blanketed the U.S. east coast, and thousands in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut were left homeless in the aftermath of the devastating storm, which caused billions of dollars in damage.

Capotorto told the Agenda that donations raised from the concert went to support the Robin Hood Relief Fund, which has launched a large-scale relief effort to aid neighborhoods in the tri-state area that were devastated by Sandy.

Robin Hood-funded non-profits have provided blankets, hot food, heaters, generators, and other necessities to residents from across the region. In November, the fund reported that it had provided over $8 million in grants to more than 90 different relief groups.

The New York City-born-and-raised actor says that the cultural and emotional ties between Greater Fort Lauderdale’s LGBT community and the global center of arts and culture were never so on display as during the benefit, which was organized to help those whose lives were forever changed by the superstorm.

“I’ve long said it and I’ll say it again: South Florida is New York City’s sixth borough!”

WILTON MANORS — After a ruling this fall by Broward County Circuit Court Judge Mark Gold, a Consent Final Judgment has been issued requiring the payment of $750,000 damages by Matty’s on the Drive to plaintiffs Jackson Padgett and Mark Negrete, the owners of Georgie’s Alibi.

The case made headlines this fall as part of the backdrop from other legal actions between Padgett and Negrete and Terry Norman and George Kessinger, the former owners of the Alibi, and one of whom, Norman,  is a principal in Matty’s, which opened in 2008 at the north end of Wilton Drive.

In February, another judge ruled that Norman and Kessinger and Norman had made knowing fraudulent misrepresentations of material facts in their sale of the Alibi to Padgett and Negrete, which entitled them to $255,000 in damages.

In his ruling, Judge Gold found that Norman, who is listed as an officer of Matty’s on the Drive’s operating entity (NAG Bar, LLC), violated a non-compete agreement he had with Padgett and Negrete when he entered into a business relationship with Matty’s.

According to the judgment, the $750,000 judgment against Matty’s and Norman resulted from “intentional, malicious, and wilful acts” to harm the plaintiffs. It also says that Norman and Matty’s agreed to the terms of the judgment’s settlement.

“The University of Arkansas tennis team of 2012 came out to watch me win,” exclaimed a delighted and grateful Blair, who also serves as Chairman and CEO of Multimedia Platforms, LLC, and who recently celebrated his 48th birthday. Blair says he was especially moved by the respect he was shown “as one of the players who helped build the Razorback program in the mid 80s.”

Blair was ranked in the U.S. Top 5 in Division I college tennis in 1985, and was ranked Top 5 in the U.S. in Junior tennis in 1983. He played professionally during the 1980s, scoring wins over Wimbledon champion Pat Cash at the Tournament of Champions in Forest Hills, NY, among other professionals.