Florida Agenda

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 [...]

The Mayor and City Commission of Wilton Manors are inviting business owners and concerned citizens to a chat-and-chew on May 17 at 9:00a.m., in the city’s Hagen Park Community Center. The Small Business Roundtable will include coffee and refreshments as well as presentations by officials about recent business-friendly initiatives, business incentives offered by Broward County’s [...]

By DREW MILLER People ask me all the time, “How do you do so much?” My response is “It’s not so much, I really enjoy it. Along with good time management and a fine-tuned calendar, I make it work.” In this column, I would like to shed light on how “Giving Back” is enjoyable and [...]

Networking lunch Meeting in Sunrise May 15, 11:30am- 1:30pm, $25 The Lobster House 3521 N. antibiotics no prescription Pine Island Rd, Sunrise, FL (NW corner of Oakland Pk & Pine Island) Chima Brazilian Steakhouse Biz to biz Wednesday, May 4th, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Chima Brazilian Steakhouse 2400 East Las Olas Blvd, Ft. Lauderdale, FL SoLita [...]

By CLIFF DUNN You may not have gotten your invitation to attend the Royal Nuptials between His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales and his future consort, Kate Middleton (bear in mind the couple sent out 1,900 invites, so yours may just be lost in the mail), but Cliff Mulcahy and John Zieba, the owners [...]

IGLTA: Countdown to Convention – Part Three of a Six-Part Series By Cliff Dunn Although he might not be consciously aware of it, Reece Darham is an exponent of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s admonition that “there are no second acts” in life. This can be witnessed in the almost monomaniacal way the chairman of the Rainbow [...]

By Cliff Dunn   It Must Be Gelato, ‘Cause Sorbetto Don’t Shake Like That To officially mark the most recent expansion of their comfort food empire, Shawn Bombard and Nick Berry – of the eponymous Shawn & Nick’s Courtyard Café, Shawn & Nick’s Courtyard Café at the Saloon, and Shawn & Nick’s Gelato Station – [...]