Florida Agenda

Fort Lauderdale FRIED GREEN TOMATOES Dine & Donate Movie Night at Courtyard Café benefiting Women in Network (WIN). Thurs., September 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Enjoy the movie Fried Green Tomatoes and the great food at Courtyard Café. 100% of every fried green tomatoes order will go directly to WIN. 10% of all other [...]

By PAUL RUBIO For most of the world, the Amazon remains an intangible expanse of land and water, undoubtedly shrinking at an alarming rate, possibly holding the key to a number of life’s great mysteries. Much like the ambiguous notion of climate change, the average denizen relates to the Amazonian rainforest insomuch as a donation [...]

Classic South Florida with a Touch of Modern Luxury

by Paul Rubio Stand face to face with a half-ton gator A vast expanse of roughly 1.5 million acres spanning the width of Florida, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States and the third largest national park in the continental United States. Rich in wildlife, these mysterious wetlands are a [...]

City Of Miami Beach Becomes A Sponsor Of New York Pride Parade & Festival Photo: South Beach’s own Elaine Lancaster will lead a Miami Beach delegation during NYC’s Pride at the end of June. The City of Miami Beach is packing its rainbow flag and heading to the Big Apple as one of the sponsors [...]

The diving off of the Commercial Blvd beach is astounding. by Mike Rosenfield Beginners Park the car on the north side of the pier, don your equipment and walk into the water. Just 50 yards off the beach, the ocean brims with life. Coral mounds jut up from the sandy bottom; angelfish glide around the [...]

The Hollywood hills are majestic as you relax poolside at the Andaz Hyatt. (Photo Courtesy Paul Rubio). By PAUL RUBIO Since the 1920s, the L.A. enigma of wealth, fame, and pretention has lured celebrity hopefuls and aspiring anybodies to enter a vortex of the fake and fabulous, in a desperate attempt to become “somebody.” Likewise, [...]

An oasis of old Fort Lauderdale Beach By BOB KECSKEMETY Size doesn’t really matter when it comes to some of our gay guest resorts in Fort Lauderdale. Tucked inside lush, tropical landscaping, for instance, is The Dunes located on Fort Lauderdale Beach. The Dunes only has ten units, but it stands tall as an oasis [...]

Calgary offers Western culture up north By JIMMY IM Downtown Calgary (courtesy of Wikipedia.org) Wearing a cheap, white cowboy hat, I’m with my friend Dennis at Upper Lake in Kananaskis Country just 45 minutes outside Calgary. Behind us is the commanding backdrop of the Canadian Rockies: magnificent ice-capped mountains rising at the foot of a [...]

In South Australia everybody knows your name By JIMMY IM I’m drinking a Cooper’s Light on the rooftop indoor patio of Mars Bar when a tall, hot Australian approaches me with two of his very young Asian-Australian friends. “Who are you?” Tall-guy Josh says with his thick Aussie accent, smiling, leaning into me as if [...]