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How To Throw A Circus Themed Birthday Party For Your Kid?

Planning an unforgettable circus-themed birthday party for your child is a delightful way to create cherished memories filled with laughter, wonder, and excitement. The vibrant and lively world of the circus naturally captivates kids, making it the perfect theme for a joyous celebration. In this article, we'll guide you through the steps to organize an incredible circus-themed birthday party that will leave your child and their friends utterly enthralled, from the initial planning to the magical moments that will unfold during the festivities.

Planning the Circus Extravaganza

Planning is the key to ensuring that your circus-themed birthday party goes off without a hitch. To make this event truly special, you'll need to carefully consider decorations, activities, and delectable treats that will keep the young audience entertained from start to finish. From selecting the perfect venue to sending out creative invitations, every detail plays a crucial role in crafting a magical experience that your child and their friends will treasure for years to come.

Step 1: Create a Vibrant Circus Atmosphere

To transport your young guests into the magical world of the circus, start by adorning the party area with bold and vibrant colors. Hang colorful balloons, streamers, and posters featuring circus animals and acrobats. If possible, set up a big top tent or a circus backdrop to make the scene even more authentic.

Step 2: Invite Magicians and Party Clowns

No circus is complete without talented performers, and for your child's special day, consider hiring professional magicians and birthday clowns. For instance, skilled Miami magicians can perform captivating tricks, create intricate balloon animals, and even offer face painting services. Their presence will leave the little ones giggling and utterly amazed, creating memories that will last a lifetime.

Step 3: Organize Fun Circus Games

To keep the excitement going, plan a variety of thrilling circus games. Classic games like ring toss, duck pond, and bean bag toss have always been a hit. Additionally, consider having a mini circus parade where the kids can dress up as circus performers and march in a joyful procession. This will be more special with party clowns Miami and other places. Don't forget to offer exciting prizes for the winners to add an extra layer of fun and competition.

Step 4: Serve Circus-Style Snacks

When it comes to refreshments, go all out with circus-themed snacks. Treat your young guests to popcorn, cotton candy, and hot dogs – staples you'd find at a real circus. A circus-themed cake can take center stage as the highlight of the dessert table, complete with colorful decorations and, if you wish, a miniature circus tent as a cake topper.

In Essence

Themes are generally fun to do for kids' parties, and hosting a circus-themed birthday party for your child is a fantastic way to create cherished memories and a day filled with joy. Children are usually excited to see colorful and fun things, so this theme will be perfect for the little ones. For more party entertainment, consider exploring the offerings available on MamaMia Magic, a leader in the area of party entertainment. You can discover a whole lot of options, like party magicians in Miami, on their website, Mamamiamagic.com, that will help you turn your child's special day into a true circus extravaganza.

[tobiasdrake]

One of the funnier thing about episodic detective fiction is that eventually some murderer comes to the conclusion that the best way for their plans to succeed is ensure that a world famous detective is present at the time of the murder, to secure their alibi. And the funniest thing is one when one the fiction runs for so long that Multiple murderers attempt to pull this off.

"I'm going to get a detective involved just to secure my alibi!" is a twist that I think works best when the detective should rightly be a fucking joke who couldn't solve this case if their life depended on it.

Jim Carrey vehicle Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls comes immediately to mind. Neither movie has aged well; The first is transphobic as shit and its sequel is extremely gross about indigenous communities.

But it takes the premise of "Aha! You were my alibi!" pretty well. The detective in question is some two-bit dipshit who makes a living finding runaway dogs in Miami, tasked with solving an international smuggling ring. The guy in question was able to go "Don't worry, I've hired an investigator who specializes in animal cases!" but it was honestly a pretty safe bet that this clown would be completely in over his head.

It also just makes for a fun reveal when you find out our guy was supposed to be a patsy and have to stop and go, "Oh yeah, we're fucking shit-tier detectives. I was so into the mystery I completely forgot we're trash."

[talesfrommedinastation]

My redneck neighbor Doug watches 'The Bad Batch': Tipping Point

It's pretty darn clear that Doug's love of Daddy Warcrimes runs hard and it runs deep, along with his love for Toaster Strudel and Rex, who is the Daddy of Daddies. So you KNOW this episode made him a happy smiley boy.

For as grumpy and grouchy as 'Pabu' made him (and his extremely weird pairing of Mayday and Phee, which haunts me to this day), the amount of smiley faces and emojis I got in this one was the polar opposite. Or maybe that's because the Crimson Tide lost that day. Who knows.

Onto the Doug commentaries of 'Tipping Point' aka 'THE WRATH OF TOASTER STRUDEL'.

CW: "Call your momma if you wanna read my comments, I guess. Shouldn't the kids be watching that Australian dog show, anyway?"

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Well, it’s a cloudy gross day in wherever. Is this to remind us that Daddy Rambo and the other two clowns are partying in Daytona while everyone else is suffering? I’m still mad OH HOLY HELL IS THAT JORGE?!

It is Jorge! And oh no it’S BLOND JACKASS’S BROTHER. God damn it, do they only hire the children of the corn to run this damn Empire, what the hell. I hope they’re not going to die, I’m still mad about Sassy Park Ranger.

Okay, they’re going out–woah! What’s this? Space battle? With the old school bloop-bloop noise, that’s great.

WHAT, YES! IT'S TOASTER STRUDEL! AND REX! Wait, no, that’s not Rex–who is that? Oh! It’s Jorge’s cousin, Manny! Hell yeah! And his new best friends he picked up from outside of Miami, no doubt doing some weird survival camp in the Everglades, based on their camo gear and grunts. I’ll call ‘em Trigger and Nutsy, for now. 

RAIN HELLFIRE ON THEM, TOASTER STRUDEL! Pretend it’s yo daddy that left yo convection oven momma!

CLENCH YOUR BUTTHOLE AND BITE THE PILLOW, BLOND JACKASS’S BROTHER, YOU ABOUT TO FEEL THE WRATH OF TOASTER STRUDEL AND HIS TEAM OF FLORIDA MEN. 

Holy SHIT, where has THIS SHOW BEEN?! I feel like a little kid watching Star Wars again! This is awesome! Kick everyone’s ass, Trigger and Nutsy! I mean, Jesus, they’re wiping the floor with them! I almost feel bad for the troopers, but they work for the Empire, shoot ‘em and let God sort ‘em out.

Manny remembered his electric bocce ball, love the guy. Go Toaster Strudel, go! 

Seriously, I could watch Toaster Strudel shoot assholes and take over ships and bark orders at Trigger and Nutsy all day, forget dumpster diving with Church Lady and the gang looking for James Franco’s arm in Utah, THIS IS THE SHOW I WANT TO SEE!

(Hold on, my wife is yelling at me to calm down. I should’ve watched this at work on my phone, but I figured I’d watch it on the TV instead while drinking some Abitas. The last two episodes were not good for my blood pressure. )

10/10 would recommend to chug while watching Copy Paste Bois kill.

“Where are you taking those clones” man, Trigger is FIRED UP, and oh there goes BLOND JACKASS’S BROTHER KILLING HIMSELF ON SCREEN. And look at ol’ Nutsy, saving Jorge and handing him guns! Oh Jorge is so happy to see his militia boo and know his cousin Manny’s got his back. God damn I am smiling so much right now. 

Welp, Toaster Strudel can’t download shit, must be the old Limewire acting up. BLOND JACKASS’S BROTHER was probably downloading porn onto the ship’s mainframe and the FBI caught ‘em in the act. The ship was clearly manned by Millenials. 

Uh oh, Empire’s here! With the music! Seriously, I feel like a kid again screaming at the theater in Lafayette. Toaster Strudel and Jorge’s cousins escape! Go, go, go! My boys, my boys! Go!

Oh, man, Dr. Meat Muffin, I am a happy old man right now. So happy. 

And they’re safe with Sonic Special, she’s getting them drinks and figuring out there’s shit going down in the place. Man, we need more of her and Toaster Strudel. If this is all we are getting from either of them, I’ll find the director’s front lawn and take a dump on it. MORE TOASTER STRUDEL PLEASE 

Back in Daytona. Is it bad this place is starting to piss me off? I don’t CARE how pretty it is, I want people kicking ASS and taking NAMES and taking DUMPS on front lawns. At least Julio’s fishing and having fun. Did he just catch an Asian carp? 

Woah! Ryan-from-Accounting clearly wants to die, as he’s got Little Orphan Blondie behind the wheel of the HMS Search Warrant and she’s flinging them across the sky. His bitch wife Laura must have found the posts online that Church Lady did of her and Ryan-from-Accounting, or maybe he got some extra life insurance. Who knows. 

And there’s TOASTER STRUDEL! I love this bald bastard so much! Look at him hugging Little Orphan Blondie! Talking business with Ryan-from-Accounting! Shaking hands with Daddy Rambo! All after he took down an imperial ship and saved Jorge and his brothers! I bet he even brought some gas station chicken for everyone too! When does HE get his own show?! 

Ryan-from-Accounting takes us to his true love, his Windows computer. Maybe he’ll show us his downloaded copies of that show from Japan with the screaming people and the aliens and no one wears a shirt. 

(You mean Dragonball Z? -Dr MM

I guess? My nephew won’t stop watching it since he lost his job. - Doug) 

That computer loves him more than both Church Lady and his bitch wife Laura combined, I bet. Which is okay, Church Lady’s true love is Sassy Park Ranger, he’ll be back someday.

“When will it be enough?” Oh can it and get a job, Daddy Rambo, don’t knock my boy Toaster Strudel like that. He’s a hard working man. 

Oh man, Ryan-from-Accounting is panicking. Daddy Warcrimes is being held prisoner by weirdos, led by Ryan-from-Accounting’s bitchy stepsister, Beth, and Jimmy-the-Scientist. 

“We don’t leave our own behind.” Why does this feel like a set up and Daddy Rambo is going to leave Ryan-from-Accounting behind at a Circle K or something? 

Man, even coked out of his mind Daddy Warcrimes can take a clutch of folks down. Why do these scenes remind me of that show with Ed Harris and cowboys and robots?

Westworld?

Yeah that. Oh man, Daddy Warcrimes. I like those grey jammies on him. Oh man, it’s torture time. If this goes right back to Daddy Rambo’s gang having a kegger I’m serious, I’m taking a dump on the director’s lawn. 

Now he’s getting lectured by Ryan-from-Accounting’s stepsister, Beth. She hates Ryan-from-Accounting because he has friends and she’s stuck in the 9-to-5 working in a place that looks like it smells like mildew and ass. 

(“Where did you come up with the name Beth?”

“She looks like one, and she only drinks almond milk lattes and is a total bitch to waiters. She introduced Ryan-from-Accounting to his Bitch Wife Laura, they were sorority sisters in Alpha Amma Bitcha”)

Ahhh shoot them all, Daddy Warcrimes! Oh, now there’s gas. Is the Joker going to show up? I need Prince doing the soundtrack now. Will the internet get that reference? Michael Keaton was the best Batman.

Oh shit man no, it’s Jimmy-the-Scientist! I wanted the Joker :( 

What’s going to happen next? Are they going to rescue Daddy Warcrimes?! What’s Stepsister Beth up to?!

(I gave up correcting Doug on Mayday and Phee. Just gave up. - Dr MM) 

[astarab1aze]

➥ CirQuet Dancer

⸻Technical Information. // Face, Voice, etc.

01. Faceclaim. Lucyna Kushinada  [ Cyberpunk: Edgerunners ] 04. Voice Claim. TBA

⸻Profile Information. // Name, Age, etc.

01. Name. Nishka Varonis 02. Alias. Neesh, Ninnie Mouse (given by Faith) 03. Sex. Female 04. Gender. Female 05. Age. 26 06. Birth Date. April 24th   [ Aries ] 07. Blood Type. Sub-type HS-WB+ 08. Race. Witch, American by nationality ; Polish-Latvian by ethnicity. 09. Marital Status. Single   [ Multiship ] 10. Orientation. Bisexual  [ Biromantic / no preference ] 11. Residence. In the same shitty apartment complex as Faith (they’re neighbors, actually!) in Salem’s Crossing, Miami, Florida ; She keeps her place as neat and as clean as possible, almost as if nobody lives there.

⸻Physical Information. // Body, Equipment, Family, etc.

17. Physical Description. Nishka has short, iridescent white hair cut into an asymmetrical bob, some illusionary hints of various colors shining through in certain lights. Her eyes are pale white with an almost-luminous white ring around each of her pupils, framed by thick black lashes. Her skin is pale, almost milky white, delicate and soft, unblemished. She stands at 5’3”, slender, petite, lean and lightly toned. She has no scars, but myriad minimalistic geometric tattoos across her back, shoulder, and collar bones, with some mechanical doll-like joint tattoos throughout her body in similar style to the others (sort of…built-in costuming), which she enhances with illusion magic in order to make them glow. She has a wide variety of tastes, but can most often be found in any odd assortment of handmade costuming, enchanted with illustrious illusion charms, and she may occasionally wear a wig depending on the vibe of the show. Salmon lip gloss, red eyeshadow, and sharply-winged eyeliner (thank you, Faith!).

13. Equipment. She doesn’t keep much on her aside from the very basics; A traveling mirror, her cellphone, wallet, keys, her howlite wand, a broom for posterity’s sake, and a change of clothes. Often, she can be seen carting around a suitcase full of costumes and outfits for the Cyber CirQuet. 14. Occupation. Technically, she has many, but the job she was actually hired for was to be a simple acrobat - it just so happened to be that she would play nearly every role in management, customer service, performance, and more. She’s a contortionist, illusionist, dancer, clown, juggler, tightrope walker, special effects specialist, HR– Working for a small-time cyber-themed circus show, Cyber CirQuet. 15. Job Performance. Highly valued, the circus would dissolve without her hard work. They would never have made it out of Salem’s Crossing to New York or Chimachi were it not for her dedication, willingness to sacrifice personal time, and ability to work a crowd. 16. Parents. She’s an orphan, raised by sectarian bloodweavers of the Sightless Eye. 17. Siblings. She considers some of the other orphans to be like siblings, but she wouldn’t say she has siblings at all.

⸻Personality Information. // Likes, Strengths, etc.

18. Likes. Performing, making people laugh, smile, or gasp in wonder, lavender and lemon, gin, periwinkle, shrinking violets, FrankenLeeches, boo berry pies, practicing her routines, spinning unique conjurations for the kids, sewing, reading fantasies, stargazing, gossiping with Faith, photography, music, lemonade, chatting up the Bearded Lady for beauty tips, night markets, building ‘bucket houses’ for dumpster fey, etc. 19. Dislikes. Bearing all of both the responsibility and the risk, making mistakes, bruised feet, scarbuncle cheese, the ‘dirty’ aspects of magic, modernist architecture, uncleanliness, dolls, bugs, Sanguinarians, snallygasters, blackwyrms, humans, daytime, popcorn, water, Salem’s Crossing, people who can’t directly answer a direct question, slime, affinities opposed to her own, cleaning up the mess after a show, eye stalks, beanstalk stew, etc.

20. Positive Traits. Friendly. Fun-loving. Hard-working. Compassionate. Flexible. Generous. Resilient. Moderate. Patient. Loyal. Mindful. Gentle. 21. Negative Traits. Proud. Unforgiving. Workaholic. Short-tempered. Stubborn. Picky. Jealous. Cynical. Impulsive. 22. Goals. To bring the Cyber CirQuet to new heights in popularity as an attraction and show, earning enough of a raise in pay she might be able to more comfortably split rent on a possible joint apartment with Faith. 23. Desires. To eventually learn about her birth parents, find some closure and peace there, where she comes from and why she was orphaned. 24. Alignment. Neutral Good

25. Personality. Nishka is somewhat socially detached despite being a bit of a butterfly, uncertain of the world around her and exposed only to illusions and elaborate lies. Other people are separate from her, at arm's length, while she painstakingly recharges her batteries, rifles through her mind on what she needs to prepare for work, what themes she's going to use, whether or not she brushed her teeth and hair, what year is it-- Somewhat scatterbrained, mostly preoccupied, and happily so, putting off her goals in an effort to distract herself from the context. She is a hard worker and often incredibly proud of her work and herself, sometimes to her detriment. She doesn't trust other people easily and will have cynical views of their (presumed) intentions, managing her (and others') expectations - she doesn't like to be proven right, and when she is, well, she can be quite unforgiving. She's lived an interesting enough life that sorta dips to one side or the other - safety and security vs chaos danger, simply put, so she knows not to put too much of her heart into something when its certain to fail, even if she's just stubborn enough to see it through to the end anyway. Ultimately, she's a complicated and somewhat contradictory woman, informed by a number of experiences, loving and good in her own ways but woefully wrapped up in her own little world.

⸻Sorcery Information. // Affinity, Talent, etc.

26. Affinity. Light, Air, some Bestial - low-level but high acuity in select spells and talents, truly above and beyond potential but an inability to apply herself. 27. Shapeshifting. Innate Sugar Glider- naturally capable of shifting into the form of a palm-sized white sugar glider with a single, almost entirely invisible stripe down her back; She cannot maintain this form for long, limited to the transformative capabilities of any low-level mage despite her blood. 28. Utility. Alteration, minor conjuration, light enhancement, Float, barriers, minor telekinesis, charms, animal speech, 29. Specialization. Neon, Prismatic, and Illusions - in combining her natural-born affinities, she’s developed the ability to harness neon gas and prismatic light, using both in conjunction with her illusions to enhance her performances. 30. Graduate School. Dogwood J. Cotton’s Vocational Sorceries - school dedicated to job sorting lower classed and academically unclaimed children into a fitting magical career choice 31. Classification. Non-Anthromorphic Hybrid - Witch & Shapeshifter ; As she is both witch and shapeshifter, she is considered a hybrid between the two, though she lacks the potency of a full-blooded shifter.

⸻Background Information. // Past to Present.

    Yaddayaddayadda working on this later (sorry)

[bootybetterbebruised]

The life of Jesse Cromeans

On August 17, 1977, In Jacksonville, Florida, Jesse Charles Cromeans was born. His mother, Melissa, was a 22-year-old waitress. His father, John, is a 25-year-old cemetery groundskeeper with a drinking problem, bad temper, and a general mean streak. When Jesse was five months old, his parents broke up. He mainly lived with his mom in a trailer park, but sometimes he would spend weekends with his dad, which was rare. As Jesse got older, he noticed more men coming and going from the trailer, and suddenly, somehow, his mom had more money than before. As that happened, Melissa became more distant towards her son. When he was four, she dropped him off at his dad's for the weekend and never picked him up. Jesse never saw his mom again. As an adult, he hired a private investigator to try and find her. All they found was a death certificate saying she died of AIDs sometime in the 80s.

John hated his ex. He had her for leaving Jesse with him. He never hated Jesse, but he never loved him either. Jesse spent a lot of time being babysat by the mortician at the funeral home. Death was something he was always around, and it never bothered him. He has a specific memory of the older man telling him to touch a dead body. So Jesse did. To say that was the moment he changed would be a lie. He just saw it as an everyday occurrence. But that incident did make death tangible. Death could be touched, not just seen.

Jesse was a very rambunctious child. He found out later in life that he had ADHD. Now on to the elephant in the room. Jesse wasn't born mute. He only became mute when he was 28 and got into a car crash. The seat belt nearly decapitated him, and as a result, he can't speak anymore.

Jesse in school was hard to describe. He wasn't bullied or popular or the class clown or a jock. He was just there. If you asked his classmates about what they remember about Jesse Cromeans, they'd say he was tall and intelligent. That's how he likes it. Nowadays, looking the way he looks, he wishes he could go back and be unremarkable.

He dropped out at the beginning of his senior year. He knew he wasn't going to go to college, and he was wasting a year that he could be getting work experience. He got a job at a chroming facility in the town he lived in, and he enjoyed it, but he wanted to do something more significant with his life.

Eventually, he saved up enough money to move to Miami. There he got a job as a bouncer at a nightclub. He ended up becoming friends with the bartender named Preston. Jesse always had the desire to be rich. He hated growing up poor and decided to change it, so he started dealing coke. That was his first business venture.

One thing Jesse misses about being young and carefree is drugs. He did a lot of them. Interestingly enough, he was never really addicted. He just did them for fun. That may not be entirely true, but more on that later. He has all sorts of wild stories from back in the day. He's more than willing to tell them to you if you ask nicely.

One day Preston introduced his uncle to Jesse. This man happened to own the club they both worked at and had seen how easily Jesse dealt with some of the more unruly patrons. So he asked Jesse to do a favor for him. That’s how he started as a hitman. Jesse quickly moved up the ranks in that organization. He was the one who was willing to get the messiest. Jesse has never been much of a sniper; knives have always been more his style. His original code name was pretty boy, but he hated it. So he came up with the character of Chromeskull. Eventually, he figured out he could make even more money making and selling snuff, so he started doing it. Jesse is a smart man. He knew he needed a way to hide everything he was doing. He decided to but the chroming facility he first worked at and several others around the country. That’s how Cromeans Chrome Incorporated came to be. That’s Jesse’s day job, the snuff is his side hustle, but from what the government knows, he makes all his money through chroming.

Jesse doesn’t hate women; they’re just easy targets and what sells. In the first year of making snuff, he tried to make a couple of videos of men. No one wanted them. At the end of the day, Jesse pretty much just makes really fucked up pornography. People who watch it want beautiful blond bimbos having their fake tits poped with knives while they scream. So that’s what Jesse makes. Interestingly enough, every year, organizations that support the rights of sex workers get a large donation from a man only ever known as Mr. Sorry.

In 2004 Jesse married his wife, Emily. Their marriage was more of an agreement than anything. She wanted a rich husband, and he needed to look normal. They did love each other but more for what the other one could provide.

One night in 2006, Jesse was chasing down some prey. Somehow she had managed to hotwire a car and drive off, so Chromeskull was driving after her. Suddenly she swerved, and before Jesse could react, he hit a tree. This is the car accident that made him go mute. Recovery took a long like, and he was never able to get his voice back. So he adapted. Immediately everything in the company was changed. Everyone had to take sign language courses and learn to live with his assistive technology.

He moved on. Mostly. Remember earlier how I mentioned addiction? That’s where this comes in. Jesse always had a bit of a coke problem. He eventually figured out he was using it to self-medicate his ADHD; once he got onto meds for that, he stopped using it. With the car crash, he developed a pain pill habit. He decided to check himself into rehab and stayed sober. Until the accident with Princess Gemstone, at least. Then he spiraled into addiction again. The loss of his wife and unborn child only made it worse. That is until he met the special person reading this. Jesse is like a phoenix; he rises from the ashes every time.

Authors note: I hope you enjoyed reading this. I am not really a writer so I’m sorry if it’s awkward sounding. I may write more stories from his life.

[salylimon]

About Carolina:

hello! I figured I could use this space to tell you a little bit about Carolina. this may be long but I'm trying to build a solid background/get my thoughts together and also for you/your char/anyone interested in a plot so you can get to know her a bit more and see if she clicks with what you've got. 

ABOUT HER

Name: Carolina Natalia Correa

Nicknames: Caro, Carito, Chiquita

Age: 28 

Height: 5′2 

Birthday: March 8th, 1994 

Born: Bogota, Colombia 

Raised: Miami, FL 

Employment: Started as manager of Lagniappe, recently promoted to area manager for a private nightlife company. She currently oversees 3 bars in the Los Angeles area, but the company is expected to branch out to other cities in California. All TBA. Her boss, the owner, is a Greek/Italian man that you can meet and have a drink with at Lagniappe. She currently manages ASTRA, Lagniappe and Lost Boy (opening soon!)

Living situation: She is now the proud owner of a 2 bedroom apartment in Pasadena, CA. She is 17 minutes away from her office, located inside Lagniappe. 

Family: Her family consists of two sisters and a baby brother. By baby she means 17. the order from youngest to oldest is: her brother, baby sister #1, Carolina, older sister. Her mom, aunts and uncles who had lived in LA for years with a few cousins. Three nieces she likes to babysit (ages 4, 8 and 12) and the matriarch of the family is her grandma.

Likes: poetry, books tons and tons of books, plants, coffee, paranormal (although her mom hates that she does), painting, decorating, cooking, learning new things (bartending techniques, promo material and creations for their menu/bars), snow globes and teaspoon souvenirs, kinder egg surprise, salsa (the genre but she’s also pretty fond of the Mexican salsa y guacamole), true crime, music (I'll be adding more with time)

Dislikes: lizards, gore, clowns, winter, loud chewers, liars, lack of cleanliness, an attitude for no reason, going a long time without getting her nails done. (adding more with time)

BACKSTORY:

Carolina was born in Bogota, Colombia. She attended a private catholic nun school for the first few years of her life, which gave her a solid education. Her mother began to fly back and forth from Bogota to the US, attempting to start a life here. It finally happened when her 10th birthday came around, her parents decided to move to Miami, FL. After a few years of living there, her dad was suddenly very vocal about not liking the US and decided he would move back, leaving her mom and siblings on their own. Coming from a humble and hardworking background, her mom decided she would take the head of the household title and open up her house cleaning business, taking her and her oldest sister to help.

When she graduated high school, she was forced to work two jobs and go to college in order to afford all her classes until she decided it just wasn’t for her (her mom still bugs her to this day) and dropped out. She began to help her moms business until they decided to move to LA three years ago. Carolina didn’t want to leave because her ex-boyfriend in Miami, but they ended things a year and a half ago because she found out he was cheating on her. So, she moved to LA just last November. 

She’s poured her heart and soul into Lagniappe after her boss hired her without any proper interview or experience, first thing he said to her was “you look like a korítsi (girl) with a plan.” She always tries to make every bar under her supervision a safe and private space for everybody to enjoy. And she isn’t afraid to let the bad ones out if they fuck with the rest of her guests, even if she’s shorter than the average person. She is also accepting song requests for the house dj, a man she met at the bakery down the street from it. An angel. 

If you happen to be introduced to her family, I hope you are ready for Sundays at the Correas. She doesn’t like to brag, but she thinks it’s the best plan you’ll have during the weekend. Her niece says it’s better than Coachella. 

[postyxmendes]

Someone stupid and evil hired Dvora obviously someone who's greedy. Shawn the clown will have to be stuck in Miami now since he can't go near his family to stay on the safe side

he can go back to Canada he’ll be under quarantine immediately plus he can just go to his condo

[newagesispage]

                                                          FEBRUARY           2019

 PAGE  RIB

***** I am over the moon at the suggestion of a biopic of Dave Letterman starring Michael Shannon. Will somebody think about really putting this into production??? Please??

***** Criminal Minds will wrap it up after this next and 15th season. The season 14 finale on Feb.6 will have Rossi’s wedding. They will spend the last season chasing after ‘a worthy adversary’ rumored to be played by Harold Perrineau as they jump ahead in time.

***** I am so touched by shows like Grace and Frankie and Schitt’s Creek that look right past the usually discussed issues for interracial and same sex couples .  Gee, just think, it’s like we are all the same.

***** If you haven’t seen Michael Bennet and his senate floor speech about Ted Cruz, government shutdowns and Trump, run to C-span and catch it. These things make me proud to be in a DEMOCRACY!

***** Can this be true?? The constitution of Texas states that one can’t hold public office unless they believe in a supreme being??

***** Julian Castro is running for President.

***** Kamala Harris is running for President.

***** Cory Booker is running for President.

***** HGTV is apparently working on a huge publicity stunt and ratings grabber. They have purchased the home whose exterior was used in the Brady Bunch. A show will reunite the cast, bring in some famous fane and remodel the inside to look like the Brady set. At the end they may give the house away.

***** Michael Shannon and Audra McDonald will team up to revive Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune on Broadway.

***** Rashida Jones and Bill Murray will star in Sofia Coppola’s’ On the Rocks.’

***** Why isn’t extreme ironing a bigger sport by now??** And can we make Petanque a bigger thing while we’re at it?

***** Craig Ferguson is selling his LA compound.

***** China has landed on the far side of the moon!!!

***** NASA’s New Horizons has went further than anyone has gone before for our first image of Ultima Thule.

***** Kentucky has introduced a bill to ban abortion in the state.

***** Told to a reporter: “It’s your job to speak truthfully and precisely, not mine.” –Kellyanne Conway** The new book, Team of Vipers, suggests that The Conways are working in concert.  It is thought that she is valuable to Trump because she has no qualms about saying anything.

***** Super bowl LIII will host Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi. They will have no pre- concert interview. It is said that many artists turned down the gig because of the controversy. Maroon 5 has gotten some shit for performing but they caution us to just watch.** Roger Waters has asked Maroon 5 to take a knee during the show.

***** Natasha Lyonne is getting raves for her new show, Russian Doll.

***** Tom Sizemore was arrested for drug possession.

***** 6 NFL coaches were fired in one week!!!

***** Pentagon chief of staff, rear admiral Kevin Sweeney is out.

***** Rod Rosenstein is on the way out.

***** Jaymo’s, a Peoria company is suing Wendy’s over the use of their S’Awesome sauce.

***** We should enact the stop the stupidity act.

***** Why does it seem every other show on the air is sort of an entire season of a Twilight Zone episode?

***** There are more people in the Kremlin than in Washington who know what Trump said to Putin. – Tom Nichols

***** Members of congress can retire at full pay after 1 term. Children of congress members don’t have to pay back student loans. Is that true?? Can this be right??

***** Dupont is laying off workers.

***** Check out love your brain.com.

***** The Golden Globes were held and were hosted by Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh.  My best dressed was Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Moss. Danai Gurira, Julia Roberts, Carol Burnett, Emily Blunt, Lupita Nyong’o, Patricia Clarkson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jameela Jamil, Rosamund Pike, Jim Carrey, Alison Brie, Gemma Chan and Bradley Cooper. Worst dressed goes to Rachel Weisz, Julianne Moore, Layra Dern, Anne Hathaway, Maya Rudolph, Rami Mlek, Molly Sims and Heidi Klum. I was so happy for winners like The Americans (highlight of the evening!!!), Regina King, Lady Gaga, Mahershala Ali, Patricia Clarkson, Darren Criss, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rami Malek, Olivia Colman and Green Book.  The Cecil B. DeMille award went to Jeff Bridges. The new Carol Burnett award started off with Carol herself. I was saddened that Bill Hader, Henry Winkler, Kieran Culkin, Keri Russell and Sacha Baron Cohen went home empty handed. The Fiji water girl got most of the press and gave much free advertising to her product.  Some of the stars did not like her getting in their shots to push a product without their knowledge, both a clever and sad state of affairs.

***** The Kominsky Method will be back for season 2.

***** The Sag awards had their big night and gave the lifetime achievement to Alan Alda. Winners included Emily Blunt, Darren Criss, Black Panther, Rami Malek and Glenn Close. I was especially thrilled with some love goingto Jason Bateman and Patricia Arquette. Best dressed were Amy Adams, Yara Shahidi, Brian Tyree Henry, Sydelle Noel, Eddie Griffin, Holly Taylor, Sofia Hubitz, Emma Stone, Emily Blunt, Darren Criss, Laverne Cox, Timothee Chalamet, Robin Wright, Lily Tomlin, Chadwick Boseman, Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell, and Catherine Zeta Jones. The WTF award goes to Alison Brie.

***** The Oscar race is on. Best picture could go to Blank Panther, Blackkklansman, Roma, The Favourite, Green Book, Vice, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star is born. Black Panther also got some love for music and costume design.  Fingers crossed for Isle of Dogs in the animated category. Actor nods had a few surprises. Willem Dafoe and Rami Malek , Lady Gaga and Melissa McCarthy are up for leads and supporting mentions are for Mahershala Ali, Regina King, Adam Driver and Sam Elliott. I am so hopeful for Spike Lee and I want to hear that speech.

***** If you haven’t seen Trigger Warning with Killer Mike, you gotta check it out. He and Sarah Silverman should go on a tour of teaching acceptance for their fellow man.

***** So.. Fox news said that Ruth Bader Ginsberg was dead??

***** In sexual harassment news: Harvey Weinstein is hiring new lawyers.** Les Moonves is seeking arbitration with CBS.

***** Cher has sold her Beverly Hills cottage.

***** Cindy Crawford and Randy Gerber’s daughter, Presley was arrested for DUI.

***** CBS news has named its first female President, Susan Zirinsky.

***** What is happening to the butterflies?

***** Illinois has refused a concert permit to R Kelly and Sony has dropped him. The pressure is finally starting to pay off??

***** Get ready for biopics about Harriet Tubman, Elton John and Ted Bundy.

*****  NY mayor Bill De Blasio has given healthcare to every resident of NY city.

***** 25% of Russians do not have indoor toilets. Putin and his buddies have about $1trillion tucked away from London to Miami.

***** Days alert: I wonder if Leo’s real name ‘Matthew Cooper’ is a nod to out actor Chad Allen from Dr. Quinn??!! It is also fun to see Judith Chapman take on the role of Leo’s Mama, Diana. The pair played Mother and son previously on The Young and the Restless. Is she really Diana Colville from John’s past??** So Stefan has been played by Tyler Christopher who asked for some time off and a sub was put in place who will take over in March. Since Christopher left, he has since decided that he will leave permanently so things are up in the air. Will Stefan and Gabi hook up? Days has been renewed for season 55. HOORAY!!!! Ratings are up 4%. **Loved the line when Chloe told Rex he should wear a cup. **Leo and Xander’s playful “lust” was so sassy!!

***** Happy Valentine’s Day!

***** Steve Buscemi will play God on tv’s Miracle Workers.

***** So, the new Conan format has ups and downs. I miss the band and the desk but I am Loving the fade in and fade out at commercials. I have always hated the, “We’ll be right back “ nonsense. I was sad to lose a half hour at first but Conan and Andy do seem refreshed.

***** Still waiting for the release of Apple Seed which is written, directed and starring Michael Worth. It is one of the final films of Rance Howard who stars with his son, Clint, Adrienne Barbeau and the other Father and son team of Robby and Zephyr Benson.

***** The January Bob Segar concert in Illinois at the Peoria Civic Center is the top selling concert ever at this venue. Old rock acts take note.

***** Bob Costas is out at NBC after 40 years.

***** Trial and Error has been cancelled. BOO!!!

***** Steve Carell will star in Space Force which he is co-creating with The Office showrunner Greg Daniels.

***** Despite some people I admire that are giving Alexandria Ocasio Cortez a talking to like she’s a child, I say ‘Give ‘em Hell!’  She could well be President so fight girl!!

***** Word is that Karen Pence is now teaching at the Immanuel School in Virginia. The school refuses admission to students who participate in or condone homosexual activity. The application for the school states that misconduct includes heterosexual activity outside of marriage, homosexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity and use of pornographic websites. The application goes on to state that ‘a wife must submit to her husband’ and a pledge must be signed to that effect.

***** There is controversy over the bill to give people a day off for Election Day. Many people will still have to work, the country never completely shuts down. How many fucking times do I have to say it: VOTE BY MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!

***** So, Scary clown told us Mexico would pay for ‘the wall’. During the campaign he gave actual ideas for that like Mexico giving us a one time payout or else he would not allow Mexican immigrants to western union money back to Mexico. Another idea was that there would be a great ta on that Western union money. It does not seem like they tried any of that and just decided we would pay for the stupid ‘wall.’ How about the money he makes off Trump merch which his website and hotels still sell to pay for it?? How about the $35 million that Trump sold in real estate in 2018? The ‘Wall’ go fund me did not reach its $1billion goal so the $20 million they did collect is being offered for refunds. Some of those people still want that money to go for its purpose so Trump is creating a non- profit. Can’t we use that money to help the border patrol agents and get the backlog in immigration court moving?? That we are still talking about this ridiculous wall and that it had a go fund me page is enough to boggle the normal brain.** I think Kimmel said it best when he suggested that Trump just tell the red hats that the wall has been built.  They believe everything he says so why wouldn’t they believe that??  It would save the country a lot of headaches. ** What the Hell is with his new “wheels and walls” mantra??** Russia caused Brexit too? Putin is a menace.** Another sink hole appeared the White House. WTF?

***** The congressional budget office says the shut down cost the U.S. 11 billion

***** Trump is talking to Herman Cain about a job on the Federal Reserve Board.

***** The GOP is selling fake bricks that cost about 50 cents for $20 each to send to Senate Dems. Some have said that the Dems should sign them and sell them and give the money to government workers. ** Why are Russian jets fucking around on the North American coastline??

***** Roger Stone has been indicted on 5 counts of false statements, 1 count of obstruction and 1 count of witness tampering. The FBI officers who arrested him were part of the shut down and they still did their job!!  He publically and privately claimed to have communicated with Russia. Predictions are that many more indictments are coming down the pike that involve many familiar faces.** Roger Stone has a Nixon tattoo on his back. I feel sorry for his cell mate.-Bill Maher

***** Bill Maher got some flak for comments after Stan Lee died. He wasn’t slamming Lee, but wondered about comic book fans putting away childish things. I suppose that could include weed but point taken.

***** Jared Kushner along with 30 other White House staff was denied top secret clearance but Trump advisor Carl Kline overruled that decision and gave it to them anyway. This has never been done before, this is a job for intelligent agencies.

***** Empire star Jussie Smollett was attacked in Chicago in what cops are saying was a possible hate crime. The attackers were yelling that this was MAGA country, poured bleach on him and put a rope around his neck.  The actor was previously sent a letter full of homophobic and racist slurs which he FBI had been looking into.

***** Ellen page gave us some memorable, powerful words to chew on with her appearance on Stephen Colbert. I am sure she gave courage to many who suffer because of our hate filled administration.

***** Gwyneth Paltrow is being sued from a 2016 ski incident for 3 mil.

***** I gain more and more respect for Seth Meyers. I did not really understand the choice of him as host in the beginning. His notice of local stations, choice of guests and revolving drummers makes for a great show.

***** A Dutch company may have invented a small device that converts heat into cold and Forbes is saying, ‘it could save the planet.’

***** So looking forward to Ryan Murphy’s The Politician which will star Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow and January Jones.

***** I know that is has happened little by little and we go thru times in our history when things get worse and then things get better but… When did this country get so fucking corrupt?? I mean seriously.. Why is Brendan Dassey still in prison and why is there no real justice for Teresa Halbach? ** Why is Trump still in the White House?**Why are government workers being told to work for nothing?? Why is R Kelly still living it up?? Why are some states going backward in time when it comes to women’s health?? Why do many corporations care more about their own pockets than the children of their employees or the environment around them??** Why does our justice system so often punish big for small infractions and allow the powerful to do anything they want?? **Why is a wall a better idea than infrastructure or warm beds for the homeless or food for our children and why are so many children in cages??

***** How can it be that we are still in a world where people are not allowed to reach their full potential?? Why do so many selfish humans actually fight to live in a world where they actively hold others back? Shouldn’t we all be concerned about the greater good?  We should all be allowed to see a Doctor when we are ill. We should all be able to excel in education if we choose .We should all be able to get a job to fit our skills and work ethic.  Opportunities and the pursuit of happiness should be available to all. Why is this so fucking hard for so many to grasp in this world? Imagine!

***** Sundance premiered the new flick, Big time adolescence with Griffin Gluck and Pete Davidson. Pete has since made no bones about filming in Syracuse. He hated it.

***** Jeff Flake will join CBS news as a contributor.

***** Tom Brokaw is in a bit of trouble for saying Hispanics should work harder at assimilation.

***** The Tom Hanks/ Matthew Rhys film, A beautiful day in the neighborhood has pushed back its release date to Nov. 22.

***** People are illogical and self- centered. Love them anyway. -Hedy Lemarr

*****R.I.P. Bob Einstein, Millie Wiesehan, victims of the Torrance. Ca. bowling alley shooting, Captain Darryl Dragon, Jo Andres, Lamin Sanneh, Carol Channing, Sandra Harmon, Bradley Bolke, the victims of Mediterranean shipwreck, Lorna Doom, victims of the Florida bank shooting, Kaye Ballard, Willie York , Barbara Claman , victims of the mining dam collapse in Brazil and James Frawley.

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Ryan Murphy hates the word “camp.” He sees it as a lazy catchall that gets thrown at gay artists in order to marginalize their ambitions, to frame their work as niche. “I don’t think that when John Waters made ‘Female Trouble’ that he was, like, ‘I want to make a camp piece,’ ” Murphy told me last May, as we sat in a production tent in South Beach, Florida, where he was directing the pilot of “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” a nine-episode series for FX. “I think that he was, like, ‘It’s my tone—and my tone is unique.’ ”

Murphy prefers a different label: “baroque.” Between shots, the showrunner—who has overseen a dozen television series in the past two decades—elaborated, with regal authority, on this idea. To Murphy, “camp” describes not irony but something closer to clumsiness, the accident you can’t look away from. People rarely use the term to describe a melodrama made by a straight man; even when “camp” is meant as a compliment, it contains an insult, suggesting a musty smallness. “Baroque” is big. Murphy, referring to TV critics (including me) who have applied “camp” to his work, said, “I will admit that it really used to bug the shit out of me. But it doesn’t anymore.”

We were outside the Casa Casuarina, the Mediterranean-style mansion that the Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace renovated and considered his masterwork—a building with airy courtyards and a pool inlaid with dizzy ribbons of red, orange, and yellow ceramic tiles. A small bronze statue of a kneeling Aphrodite stood at the top of the mansion’s front steps. In 1997, a young gay serial killer named Andrew Cunanan shot Versace to death there as the designer, who was fifty, was returning from his morning stroll.

The previous day, Murphy had filmed the murder scene. Cunanan was played by Darren Criss, a star of Murphy’s biggest hit, “Glee.” I’d visited the set that day, too, arriving to find ambulances, cops, and paparazzi swarming outside. There was a splash of red on the marble steps. Inside the house, Edgar Ramirez, the Venezuelan actor playing Versace, sat in a shaded courtyard, his hair caked with gun-wound makeup, his face lowered in his hands.

Now Murphy was filming the aftermath of the crime, including a scene in which two lookie-loos dip a copy of Vanity Fair into the puddle of Versace’s blood. (They sell the relic on eBay.) The vibe was an odd blend of sombre and festive; a half-naked rollerblader spun in slow circles on the sidewalk next to the beach. Murphy, who is fifty-three, is a stylish man, but on set he wore the middle-aged male showrunner’s uniform: baggy cargo shorts and a polo shirt. He has a rosebud mouth and close-cropped vanilla hair. He is five feet ten but has a brawny air of command, creating the illusion that he is much taller. His brother is six feet four, he told me, as was his late father; Murphy thinks that his own growth was stunted by chain-smoking when he was a rebellious teen-ager, in Indiana.

Murphy’s mood tends to shift unexpectedly, like a wonky thermostat—now warm, now icy—but on the “Versace” set he made one confident decision after another about the many shows he was overseeing, as if skipping stones. He also answered stray questions—about the casting for a Broadway revival of “The Boys in the Band” that he was producing, about a grand house in Los Angeles that he’d been renovating for two years. “Ooh, yes!” he said, inspecting penis-nosed clown masks that had been designed for his series “American Horror Story.” He approved a bespoke nail-polish design for an actress. A producer handed Murphy an updated script, joking, “If there’s a mistake, you can drown me in Versace’s pool!,” then scheduled a notes meeting for “American Crime Story: Katrina,” whose writers were working elsewhere in the building. Now and then, Murphy FaceTimed with his then four-year-old son, Logan, who, along with his two-year-old brother, Ford, was in L.A. with Murphy’s husband, David Miller.

“I never get overwhelmed or feel underwater, because I feel like all good things come from detail,” Murphy told me. It’s what got him to this point: the compulsion, and the craving, to do more. “Baroque is a sensibility I can get behind,” he said. “Baroque is a maximalist approach to storytelling that I’ve always liked. Baroque is a choice. And everything I do is an absolute choice.”

Murphy’s choices, perhaps more than those of any other showrunner, have upended the pieties of modern television. Like a wild guest at a dinner party, he’d lifted the table and slammed it back down, leaving the dishes broken or arranged in a new order. Several of Murphy’s shows have been critically divisive (and, on occasion, panned in ways that have raised his hackles). But he has produced an unusually long string of commercial and critical hits: audacious, funny-peculiar, joyfully destabilizing series, in nearly every genre. His run started with the satirical melodrama “Nip/Tuck” (2003), then continued with the global phenomenon “Glee” (2009) and with “American Horror Story,” now entering its eighth year, which launched the influential season-long anthology format. His legacy is not one standout show but, rather, the sheer force and variety and chutzpah of his creations, which are linked by a singular storytelling aesthetic: stylized extremity and rude humor, shock conjoined with sincerity, and serious themes wrapped in circus-bright packaging. He is the only television creator who could possibly have presented Lily Rabe as a Satan-possessed nun, gyrating in a red negligee in front of a crucifix while singing “You Don’t Own Me,” and have it come across as an indelible critique of the Catholic Church’s misogyny.

When Murphy entered the industry, he sometimes struck his peers as an aloof, prickly figure; he has deep wounds from those years, although he admits that he contributed to this reputation. Nonetheless, Murphy has moved steadily from the margins to television’s center. He changed; the industry changed; he changed the industry. In February, Murphy rose even higher, signing the largest deal in television history: a three-hundred-million-dollar, five-year contract with Netflix. For Murphy, it was a moment of both triumph and tension. You can’t be the underdog when you’re the most powerful man in TV.

On that sunny afternoon in South Beach, however, Murphy was still comfortably ensconced in a twelve-year deal with Fox Studios. On FX, which is owned by Fox, he had three anthology series: “American Horror Story”; “American Crime Story,” for which he was filming “Versace,” writing “Katrina,” and planning a season based on the Monica Lewinsky scandal; and “Feud,” whose first season starred Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford.

For Fox, he was developing “9-1-1,” a procedural about first responders. He had announced two shows for Netflix: “Ratched,” a nurse’s-eye view of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” starring Sarah Paulson; and “The Politician,” a satirical drama starring Ben Platt. Glenn Close was trying to talk him into directing her in a movie version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Sunset Boulevard.” Murphy was writing a book called “Ladies,” about female icons. He had launched Half, a foundation dedicated to diversity in directing, and had committed to hiring half of his directors from underrepresented groups. And, he told me, there was something new: a series for FX called “Pose,” a dance-filled show set in the nineteen-eighties.

It was no mystery which character in his current series Murphy most identified with: Gianni Versace himself. Versace was a commercially minded artist whose brash inventions were dismissed by know-nothings as tacky, and whose openness about his sexuality threatened his ascent in a homophobic era. Versace, too, was a baroque maximalist, Murphy told me, who built his reputation through fervid workaholism—an insistence that his vision be seen and understood. “He was punished and he struggled,” Murphy said, then spoke in Versace’s voice: “Why aren’t I loved for my excess? Why don’t they see something valid in that?”

[...] Murphy has long been a connoisseur of extremes and hyperbole, games and theatricality. He rates everything he sees and revels in institutions that do the same—the Oscars are a kind of religion for him. In Miami, at dinner with the “Katrina” and “Versace” writers, he played a high-stakes game in which he was forced to immediately choose one person in his circle over another; he demurred only when the choice was between Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson. His go-to question is “Is it a hit or a flop?,” and he asked it about every show that came up in conversation, as I observed him giving shape to “Pose,” from scouting locations to editing dance footage. (He has other stock phrases. “What’s the scoop?” is how he begins writers’ meetings. “Energy begets energy” explains his impulse to add new projects. “That’s interesting” sometimes indicates “That’s worth noticing” but just as often means “That’s infuriating.”)

[...] His multitasking benefits greatly from the freedoms of cable and streaming: he has zero nostalgia for the twenty-two-episode network grind of a show like “Glee,” in which “halfway through Episode 15 you had nothing left to say, the actors were sick, the writers were sick, and it was fucking oatmeal until the end.” He favors eight or ten episodes, often with a small writers’ room, as with “Pose.” He writes scripts for some shows, whereas for others he gives notes; on a few projects, like his HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play “The Normal Heart,” he’s very hands-on. “We left blood on the dance floor,” Murphy said, affectionately, of his three-year collaboration with Kramer. “Versace” had one writer, Tom Rob Smith. But Murphy provided close directorial, design, and casting oversight, and he had a strong commitment to the show’s themes, particularly the contrast between Versace and Cunanan, two gay men craving success, but only one willing to work for it.

[...] In the meanwhile, Murphy had scored a ratings bonanza with Fox’s “9-1-1,” a wackadoo procedural featuring stories like one about a baby caught in a plumbing pipe. It was his parting gift to Dana Walden. “Versace” had been, by certain standards, a flop: lower ratings, mixed reviews. Artistically, though, it was one of Murphy’s boldest shows, with a backward chronology and a moving performance by Criss as Cunanan, a panicked dandy hollowed out by self-hatred. After the finale aired, a new set of reviews emerged. Matt Brennan, on Paste, argued that “Versace” had been subjected to “the straight glance”—a critical gaze that skims queer art, denying its depths. “Even critics sympathetic to the series seem as uncomfortable with its central subject as the Miami cops were with those South Beach fags,” Brennan wrote. Murphy was reading a new oral history of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” in which, in one scene, Roy Cohn denies being gay because, he barks, homosexuals lack power: they are “men who know nobody and who nobody knows.” The line echoes one in “Versace.” A homeless junkie dying of aids tells the cops, bitterly, why gay men couldn’t stop talking about the designer: “We all imagined what it would be like to be so rich and so powerful that it doesn’t matter that you’re gay.”

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Here’s Why You Should Party Characters on Your Child’s Birthday Party

One thing many of us can agree upon is that no one likes to stay longer at a party where there is no factor of fun. A party has to be fun, cheerful, and joyful because that’s exactly what it’s meant to be. There are many ways you can make a party fun, but when it comes to children’s party entertainment in Miami, or anywhere else, that's when you need to brainstorm ideas.  It's because kids get bored easily. They always need something fun to do, especially when it comes to parties.

But you don't have to ponder any more on it as reading the article is surely going to help you out. In this article, we are going to talk about why you should hire Party characters for the upcoming birthday party of your child. So without any more talking, let's get straight to the point.

Keeping Everyone Engaged

Letting everyone escape the boredom, party characters have the skills to keep everyone engaged. There won’t be any awkward silence, which is the last thing we want at a birthday party. They perform various activities that can leave your guests awestruck. With the fun activities, they add charm to the party and make it livelier, which your child and other guests are sure going to love.

Making the Birthday Party Unique

In a city like Miami where not many people organize themed birthday parties for the children, you could be the one. It's one of those ideas, which does not really pop up in the minds of many when it comes to arranging a birthday party for kids. Letting Miami party characters perform in your event will add life to kids' parties since it is something that all of the guests can enjoy whether they are younger or older.

Less Stress

You take plenty of burden off your shoulders when you let the party characters do the job. While they are doing what they are best at, you will be able to enjoy the party because you will no longer be caught up in those activities where you have to make sure no guest gets bored. The time they will spend on these things.

So these were a few of the reasons why you should consider hiring the party characters in your child’s upcoming birthday party. Hope you found the information helpful. There are plenty of moving companies allowing you to move your house.

Why Should You Choose Mamamia Magic

Mamamia Magic is the ultimate entertainment source if you have any party or event coming up. The company has hired only the highest skilled magicians, clowns, jugglers, fire performers, mimes, and plenty of other party characters that add life to your birthday party, or kind of event. Best of all, they are affordable and have a very convenient booking and inquiry services.

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How to Make Your Kid's Party Special by Hiring the Right Rental Company

Children’s parties are supposed to be fun and exciting so that kids can experience fully.  

Kids are quite hyperactive, and except you desire them running every minute in a party so they need something to spend their reactions in. With the endless parties and games, children will never allow them to leave the party. You might be worried about the place where it can happen so why not prefer a Kids party rentals Broward. Every kid in the party will enjoy its full potential. 

  But you also need to make sure that every rental house is different and you have to take some elements in your account before you choose the right company. Just dig into the tips of choosing the right company for your kid's special day.

 Talk to your Child

 This might be an apparent start, but communicating with your child is a great point to begin. You can do it in two different ways such as:

 Ask for your     child that what they want to have in the bouncy castle

Or also if     you want to keep it as a surprise then observe about the child that why     he/she likes to do. 

 Well, the 2nd option is quite tough and also requires some efforts. 

 Nevertheless, if you have been especially careful and understand what to examine or study for, it shouldn’t demand too hard until you notice some thoughts on whereby to prepare the foundation of the party.

 If your child loves cartoons or if he/she has some specific interests in cartoon books then you can start with the talks and recognize what type of theme would be best for your children. 

Give awareness to special features while you’re paying time with your child, or you can choose to watch the cartoons with him/her and figure out the favorite one. 

 Try to rule about the hobbies and activities where the kid finds interest. 

 Proper Entertainment

Kid’s parties can't run without the entertainment part, make sure the rental company you are hiring have arrangements for the entrainment characters such as magician or clown or other cartoon characters. You also need to make sure that these rental companies provide some kind of games for fun such as scavenger hunts or bean bag toss. During the summers you can add some DIY crafts in which kids can bring their homes too. 

 Party Favors

This is the most important factor that you can forget; you have to give something special to every guest so that they will leave with a smile or gratitude for your party. You can add personalized gifts as a perfect party favor so that they will remember your party forever. You also need to look for other arrangements like Chiavari or the food stalls for kids and their parents or you can take Chiavari rent Miami. 

  Thank You Notes

You can make this part more exciting with the handwriting of your child as a thanks note. It looks quite outdated but still holds value. With the thanks notes, you can simply show positive gratitude to your children and their parents.

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[thekillerblogofkillers]

Jeffrey Dahmer (1960-1994) PART ONE

Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was an American serial killer who raped, murdered and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. His murders included cannibalism, necrophilia and preservation of body parts.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960. He was the first of 2 sons born to Joyce and Lionel Dahmer. Dahmer’s mother was a teletype machine instructor and his father was a student at Marquette University, working towards a chemistry degree. Although Dahmer was doted on by both parents as an infant and toddler, his mother was known to be tense, greedy for attention and argumentative with both her husband and her neighbours. As Dahmer entered first grade, Joyce began spending a lot of time in bed recovering from “weakness”. Lionel’s studies kept him away from the home, and when he was home, Joyce demanded constant attention, once even attempting suicide by overdosing on Equanil pills. Because of these issues, neither parents paid much attention to Jeffrey. Dahmer was described as an energetic, happy child until he underwent double hernia surgery shortly before his 4th birthday. Dahmer himself recalled his childhood as being full of tension between his parents, whom he noticed constantly arguing with each other. In elementary school Dahmer was quiet and timid. On his 1st grade report card his teacher described Dahmer as a reserved child that she felt was neglected at home, stemming from his mother’s illness. However, despite being reserved and uncommunicative as a child, he did have a few friends in grade school.

Dahmer began to show an interest in animals from a young age, with friends recalling him collecting large insects, dragonflies and butterflies which he kept in jars. As he got older, Dahmer, sometimes when out with friends, would collect animal carcasses from the road before either dismembering them at home or in some woods behind his house. One friend recalls Dahmer dismembering these animals and storing the various body parts in jars in the tool shed, saying that he was curious about how each animal “fitted together”. He is known at one time to have impaled a dog’s head on a stake behind his house. It seems that his fascination with dead animals began at the age of 4 when he saw his father moving animal bones from underneath the house. According to Lionel, young Jeffrey was “oddly thrilled” by the sound that the bones made and instantly developed a fixation for collecting and playing with them. Occasionally, he would be seen searching under and around the family home looking for bones. With live animals, he would sometimes explore their bodies to discover where each bone was located.

In October 1966 the Dahmer family moved to Doylestown, Ohio. Joyce was pregnant with the couple’s 2nd child whom she allowed Jeffrey to name – he chose David. The same year, Lionel got his chemistry degree and began working as an analytical chemist in Akron. 2 years later, the family moved to Bath, Ohio. One night, over a family meal, Dahmer asked his father what would happen if the chicken bones were placed in a bleach solution. Lionel, who was at this point quite worried about his son’s lethargic attitude and his solitary lifestyle, was pleased at the initiative of his son towards what he believed to be scientific curiosity. He demonstrated to Jeffrey how to safely bleach and preserve animal bones. This knowledge would later be used by Dahmer on many of the animal remains that he continued to collect.

From his first day of high school, Dahmer was viewed as an outcast with few friends. Many of Dahmer’s former classmates have recollected that they were disturbed by how much Dahmer drank – he would smuggle beer and spirits into school inside the lining of his jacket and conceal it in his locker. This drinking would occur before, during, and after school, and was first noted when Dahmer was around 14 years old. Once, when a classmate saw Dahmer drink a cup of gin, she asked him why he was drinking in class and he replied, “It’s my medicine.” Despite being reserved in his freshman year he was noted by staff to be polite and highly intelligent, but due to his apathy he received average grades. Upon reaching puberty, Dahmer realised he was gay. He did not tell his parents, but in his early teens he did have a brief relationship with someone his age, although the pair never had sex. He began to have sexual fantasies about dominance and control over a completely submissive partner. These thoughts became entwined with dissection. Once, when he was 16 years old, Dahmer dreamt up a rape fantasy of knocking a particular jogger he found attractive unconscious and having sex with his unresponsive body. Dahmer ended up hiding on the jogger’s usual route, with a baseball bat at the ready, and lay in wait. However, this lucky jogger did not take that route that particular day and Dahmer never attempted the plan a second time.

Despite being a loner at high school, Dahmer became somewhat of a class clown due to the pranks he pulled – pranks that became known as “Doing a Dahmer” and included bleating, faking seizures and cerebral palsy, and knocking over items at school or in local stores. By 1977, Dahmer’s grades had dropped due to his alcoholism and his continued lack of interest in his studies. His parents hired a private tutor for him, but this achieved only limited success. The same year, Joyce and Lionel Dahmer began going to marriage counselling to try and resolve their differences. The counselling was ultimately unsuccessful and they couple decided to divorce. Although the divorce began amicably, both parents began arguing frequently in front of their 2 boys and in early 1978, Lionel moved out of the family home. Soon after, Jeffrey graduated from high school. A few weeks before one of his teachers had seen him sitting near school in the parking lot drinking beer. When the teacher threatened to report the issue, Dahmer said he was having “a lot of problems”  at home that the guidance counsellor knew about. Not long after this incident, Joyce gained custody of her youngest son and moved out of the family home – because Dahmer was 18, he was legally an adult and not subject to any custody agreements and was left alone.

Dahmer’s first murder occurred in the 1978 when he was just 18, 3 weeks after graduation. He was living alone in the family home – his father was living in a nearby motel and his mother had moved to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin with his brother David. On June 18, Dahmer encountered 18-year-old Steven Mark Hicks hitchhiking. He lured Hicks to his on the pretext of drinking together. After several hours of drinking together and listening to music Hicks “wanted to leave and I didn’t want him to.” Dahmer picked up a 10lb dumbbell and hit Hicks twice in the back of the head with it. When Hicks was unconscious, Dahmer strangled with to death with the bar of the dumbbell before stripping the corpse naked and masturbating over it. The next day, Dahmer dismembered Hicks’ body in his crawl space before burying the remains in a shallow grave in his backyard. Several weeks later he dug up the body and removed the flesh from the bones. He dissolved the flesh in acid and flushed the remaining sludge down the toilet.  He crushed Hicks’ bones with a sledgehammer and scattered them in the woods behind his home. Six weeks after this murder, Dahmer’s father moved back to the family home with his new fiancée, where they discovered that Jeffrey was living alone. Later that year, at the urging of his father, Dahmer enrolled at Ohio State University, hoping to major in business. Dahmer only stayed for one term, however, and was completely unproductive due to his constant alcohol abuse. Once, Lionel surprised Jeffrey by visiting, and discovered his room covered with empty liquor bottles. Dahmer dropped out of university after just 3 months.

Because of his drinking and dropping out of university, Lionel made Jeffrey join the U.S. Army in January 1979, where he began to train as a medical specialist at Fort Sam Houston until being stationed in Baumholder, West Germany where he served as a combat medic – Dahmer was an average soldier. 2 soldiers claim to have been raped by Dahmer during this time, one of whom claims to have been raped repeatedly over a year and a half period, the other believing he was drugged before being raped. Again, due to alcohol abuse, Dahmer’s performance deteriorated and he was deemed unsuitable for military service in 1981 and formally discharged from the army. He was sent back to Fort Jackson for debriefing and was given a plane ticket to go anywhere in America. Dahmer later stated that he could not bring himself to face his father so he travelled to Miami Beach, Florida because he was “tired of the cold” and wanted to live on his own means. There, Dahmer began working in a deli and rented a room in a motel. He spent most of his salary on alcohol and was soon evicted for not paying his bill. He began sleeping on the beach until deciding to phone his father and asking if he could come home after just 6 months of being alone.

After returning to Ohio, Dahmer lived with his father and new stepmother and insisted on doing chores to occupy himself while he was looking for work. However, he continued to drink heavily and just 2 weeks after coming home, Jeffrey was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. He was fined $60 and given a suspended 10-day sentence. Lionel Dahmer tried desperately (but unsuccessfully) to get his son off the alcohol. In December 1981, Dahmer went to live with his grandmother in West Allis. This was the only family Jeffrey ever showed affection towards and Lionel hoped that her influence and the change of scenery might help Jeffrey to get sober, get a job, and be responsible. This plan seemed to work at first, with Jeffrey doing chores, going to church, seeking work and drinking less. In early 1982 Dahmer found a job working as a phlebotomist at the Milwaukee Blood Plasma Center and worked here for 10 months before being laid off. He was then unemployed for over 2 years, living on whatever his grandmother could give him. It was around this time that Dahmer was arrested for indecent exposure, following an incident at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, where he was seen exposing himself to a crowd of 25 women and children. He was convicted and fined $50 plus court costs.

In January 1985 Dahmer began working as a mixer at the Milwaukee Ambrosia Chocolate Factory, where he worked 11pm-6am six nights a week. Shortly after beginning to work here, Dahmer was propositioned by another man while he was reading in the West Allis Public Library. The stranger passed Dahmer a note offering to perform oral sex on him. Dahmer did not respond to this proposition but it did stir fantasies of control and dominance like the kind he had as a teenager, and began visiting Milwaukee’s gay bars, bookstores and gay bathhouses. He is known to have once stolen a mannequin from a store which he used for sexual stimulation before his grandmother found it in his closet and made him throw it out. By late in the year he was a regular in the bathhouses, describing them as “relaxing places” but became annoyed when his sexual partners kept moving during the act. After his arrest, Dahmer stated: “I trained myself to view people as objects of pleasure instead of people.” For these reasons, from June 1986 onward he began to giving his partners sleeping pills in liquor before raping their unconscious bodies. After 12 of these instances, the bathhouses’ administration revoked Dahmer’s membership so he began using hotel rooms to do this instead. Not long after this, Dahmer read a newspaper report about the upcoming funeral of an 18-year-old boy and he formed the idea of stealing the fresh corpse and taking it home. According to Jeffrey, he tried to dig up the coffin but the soil was too hard, so he abandoned the plan.

In August 1986 Dahmer was arrested for masturbating in front of 2 twelve-year-old boys near the Kinnickinnic River. Dahmer admitted the offence and was charged yet again with indecent exposure but changed his story and said he had just been urinating, and didn’t know there were witnesses. The charge was changed to disorderly conduct and Dahmer was sentenced to a year’s probation, with extra instructions to undergo counselling.

[darkcozyforest]

Quotes from my Stagecraft Professor Spring 2017

Okay I am going to preface these quotes by saying that this is a man probably in his late 30′s early 40′s originally from Pennsylvania and now in Missouri. He, along with his wife, has done work in the theatre for his entire professional career. He is the king of dad jokes because he is one. And he has been through hell and back with medical issues that he has gone through or his family has gone through. That said, let us begin:

“White People are like olive oil mayo. We’re not really sure why we’re here. We’re not really good for you. We don’t really taste good.”

“’She’ is a an option. Let’s start breaking those gender barriers. He or she is allowed.”

“Theatre is someone doing something and someone to watch it”

“Hamilton tickets are up to what like 3/4 the GEP of Ghana?”

“You didn’t go to see Spider-man Turn Off the Dark because it was good. You went to see it to see who would get injured that night.”

Yea I mean I guess you could say that Jeffrey Seller has a pretty good track record. Hamilton, In The Heights, Rent, Avenue  Q...”

“Boston took second in the Poker game and said we’re not taking 2nd we’ll take two ones and that is why they are Local 11.Talk about petty”

“To those people who say you must be an actor I say not anymore because I grew accustomed to things like food and shelter.”

“Break down those gender barriers!!”

*When talking about where the Rock and Roll hall of fame was* “IT’S THE NORTH COAST! There’s like a shit ton of water up there!”

“I have never seen someone want to be swallowed by their own asshole so much in their life. He said nothing good ever came out of South Korea and I said ‘oh you mean like my wife?’”

“The Backstage Handbook is the greatest non-religious book known to man.”

“Nails are easy. Put it in, bang it with a rock or a hammer or your friend.”

“I am blue color all the way. Like fuck the man. If you are in administration you are like a turd on my shoe.”

“The president of our university is like our flu shot.”

“If you know anything about opera well... Save that for Monday.”

“Next time someone tells you that women don’t belong in the shop two things. A: BULL FUCKING SHIT! Some of the best carpenters I’ve seen in my life are women. B: Women think things out better than men. Dating back to cavemen when men would just focus on the same thing til it died and women would look at the whole thing.”

“This is the circulur....lar. saw La-la la-la.... Wicked? No nobody?”

“No show tunes playing during shop. You all get distracted and then try to one up each other and then you get hurt acting like idiots.”

“Pi are not squared. Pi are round.” *talking about circle formulas*

“Authority throne? I think that’s what our president uses to tweet out every morning” Other student: “Did you just compare me to--” Professor: “Yupp! Moving on.”

Me: “Then why do we call it a podium?” P: “Because we’re all fucking ignorant. It is a lectern and if any of your professors say it is a podium you walk up to them a slap them across the face and say ‘No that is a fucking lectern”

“Oh...Single clown tear of not caring.”

“And here we have the dead body in the river for a week grey traveler. Look at it. Have you seen CSI Miami? It’s the same color as those dead bodies.”

“You need to know what the Bible, Torah and Qur’an say. And you need to be able to quote Star Wars, Harry Potter and know who fuckin Indiana Jones is.”

“You always wanna be ‘something fucking something’ never “fucking something something. Like if you hear someone say Fucking Billy Bob, you know Billy Bob is an idiot. But if you hear someone say Billy fucking Bob, you know Billy Bob is a badass”

“What the fuck you said it was dry? Yea dry not cured dumbass.”

“For any of you in off campus housing with borderline slumlords for landlords.”

“If I wanted vandyke brown, which is the sexiest brown ever-- Vandyke brown is like being hugged by your favorite coffee and favorite chocolate as it holds you and just whispers it’s gonna be okay. One day I will be able to go steady with vandyke brown but until then it is just a fleeting tryst.”

“Audra McDonald is like vandyke brown in human form. My wife and I were watching the Tony’s one night and for all of you who are in this class because you are actually doing something with theatre you know who Audra McDonald is and you know that she is a gift this world does not deserve. Anyway we were watching the Tony’s and Audra comes out to start singing and I turned to my wife and said ‘I would leave you for Audra McDonald’ and my wife turned back to me and said ‘Good ‘cause I would leave YOU for Audra McDonald.”

“What do I care? I’m tenured. I can do anything short of killing you assholes.”

“My God you read the back of a hotpocket but you can’t read the back of a can of paint? You just wasted $200″

“Very good! Blue’s Clues seems to have paid off”

“We removed Spongebob from his home in pineapple acres, split him in half and now paint with him.”

“Google screaming death sounds of natural sponges”

“The shop hires do immediate death. I am patient. I wait years and years to the perfect time and then get my revenge.”

“Let’s split the tools into tools that can kill you and tools that can’t”

“And here we manipulated spongebob to make a paint cover for a roller. Someone somewhere said hey spongebob bend over and then there ya go”

“Soooo..... ELECTRICITY!”

“You’ve all shuffled your feet across the carpet then touched a friend...or your son because the fucker did it to me first.”

“9/8 time is the holiest of time signatures. It’s a Trinity within a Trinity. Thank you Johnny Bach.”

*Talking about bights in rope* “Think about it, you wouldn’t want a bite in you. Or...well... maybe... you would..... BUT you wouldn’t want your mother knowing you had a bite in you. Well played Mr. Benson (his name)”

“I don’t call you student #12. You a have a name. So do they.”

“Oh my God spell ferrule, it’s in your book.” Me: “What if we spell it with a and u (we had been giving him shit about spelling). Professor: “I will fail you for the course”

“You can make paint brush handles out of anything. Wood, plastic, metal, bones of failed students as I sit at my work bench late at night fashioning them for the next semester.”

*student dabs after giving right answer* *Mr. B gives them look of disappointment* “Hardly dab worthy.”

“The heat is distributed unevenly. Kind of like wealth in a capitalistic society *laughs sarcastically then gives deadpan* Tell me I’m wrong” 

“On today’s episode of how to get away with murder in the theatre.”

“Here we have an athletic director to talk about money and how it should be spent. We’re either going to get funding for the next season of shows or learn how to dispose a body.”

“If you’re gonna murder someone, use a revolver so your casings don’t go flying.”

“Mental illness is a real thing. And it is completely okay to reach out. If you are struggling, let someone know. Because we care. I care. They care. You matter to someone even if you don’t think so.”

“There are two types of performers. Moths and cockroaches. Moths run to the light, cockroaches scurry away. Be the moth.”

“Negligence is you failed to check. Criminal negligence is you were aware and you ignored it. And now for all of you theatre teachers in the class you can be charged with criminal negligence if you get the wrong rigging equipment because I just made you all aware and it says so in your syllabus and will hold up in a court of law ha ha ha.”

“I know that look. That look either means that the cat is in the microwave, the bathroom is flooded, or there’s a mud covered swamp monster. And we don’t have a cat.”

“There are no unimportant parts in the theatre. You don’t have to act either. And now you all have like 8 columns of just some of the jobs in the theatre. How many require acting? One.”

I told you at the beginning of the semester to pick a statement. I can or I can’t. So go ahead and pick one again. Sometimes ‘I can’t’ is chosen for you. The senior who is in a wheelchair will never be able to dunk a basketball in the NBA. But she tries her damndest to do everything else in front of her. ‘I can’ takes effort. I have tried all semester to get you to believe that you can do anything within your power. You have to at least try something first. Can you get ‘I can’t’ out of your vocabulary? You already have so many people telling you that you can’t do something. So don’t tell yourself. Because you sure as hell won’t hear it from me. So you shouldn’t hear it from yourself either.”

[demitgibbs]

Top 10 of the Week

PRIDE FORT LAUDERDALE The 42nd edition of this beloved event has expanded to a 5 day extravaganza with a Fashion Show, a Parade, a Latin T Dance, a Lesbian T Dance, a couple drag brunches, a block party, and of course the festival. Wed, February 20 through Sunday, February 24; PrideFortLauderdale.org

BROADWAY – Waitress

Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s beloved film, Waitress tells the story of Jenna – a waitress and expert pie maker, Jenna dreams of a way out of her small town and loveless marriage. A baking contest in a nearby county and the town’s new doctor may offer her a chance at a fresh start, while her fellow waitresses offer their own recipes for happiness. But Jenna must summon the strength and courage to rebuild her own life.

Tues, February 26 – Sun, March 3; Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami); Tix: start at $34; ArshtCenter.org

COMEDIAN – Paula Poundstone

She is one of our country’s preeminent comedians, known for her smart, observational humor and spontaneous wit tours regularly performing over 85 shows a year. She was the first woman, in its then 73rd year, to perform standup comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. She won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Standup Comic.

Sat, February 23; 8pm; Coral Springs Center for the Arts (2855 Coral Springs Dr.); Tix: Start at $38; TheCenterCS.com

PSYCHIC – Theresa Caputo Live!

She is an American television personality best known for portraying a medium on the TLC reality TV series, Long Island Medium since 2011. She is also the author of two books and tours around the country with her live experience. Sat, February 23; 8pm; Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood); Tix: $60, $75, $90 and $105; seminolehardrockhollywood.com.

BANDS – South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble Renowned composer and clinician, Robert Sheldon, will conduct the 8th Season of the Youth Pride Band of South Florida. The Youth Band is comprised of over 90 high school students from the tri-county area. They will be joined by another 50 members of the South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble for the second half of the performance. Before the night is over, at least 15 students will be awarded with $1,000 college scholarships Sun, February 24; 7pm; The Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale); Tix: $30; BrowardCenter.org

AGT’s – Puddles Pity Party

The “Sad Clown with the Golden Voice” is back with a suitcase full of all-new emotional anthems and plenty of Kleenex. As with any Pity Party performance, it’s not all sadness and longing. Puddles’s set is peppered with a brilliant sense of the absurd, mixing lots of humor with the awkward, tender moments.

Wed, February 27; 8pm; Parker Playhouse (707 NE 8th St, Fort Lauderdale); Tix: $33-$48; ParkerPlayhouse.com

TV – World Of Dance

Season 3 of the Jennifer Lopez-produced dance competition will move to Sundays at 8pm after the premiere episode. Lopez is back as a judge, along with Derek Hough, Ne-Yo and host Scott Evans takes over for Jenna Dewan. This show gives dancers the platform to showcase their talents and the opportunity to receive a life-altering grand prize of $1 million.

Tues, February 26; 9pm; NBC;

MOVIE – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

In the 3rd and final installment of this much loved animated movie, Hiccup discovers Toothless isn’t the only Night Fury, he must seek “The Hidden World”, a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first. This Animation/Action/Adventure/Comedy/Family/Fantasy movie features the voices of: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, and Cate Blanchett.

Premiere’s Friday, February 22; Rated PG; 104 minutes.

OUTSHINE’S – Big Night Out

They invite you to celebrate Hollywood’s biggest night – the 91st Academy Awards watch party event. The night will feature a red carpet, complimentary valet, passed appetizers, full sit down dinner, 3 hour open bar, and will honor Scott Greenberg, De Palazzo, Jacqueline Lorber, Emery Grant and Julian Cavazos.  Performers will be Joe Posa, Tony Tripoli, Angeliki Tasic and Cindy Curtis. Benefits the Outshine Film Festivals Education Initiative.

Sun, February 24; 7pm; The Venue (2345 Wilton Dr. Fort Lauderdale); Tix: $150; Outshinefilm.com

BAND – The Beach Boys

These American icons celebrate more than half a century of making music, and are led by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, who along with Jeffrey Foskett, Tim Bonhomme, John Cowsill, Keith Hubacher, Scott Totten and Christian Love continue the legacy of America’s iconic band. This concert will not feature Brian Wilson, Al Jardine or David Marks. Wed, February 27; 8pm; Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood); Tix: $45, $65 and $85; seminolehardrockhollywood.com

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[cynthiajayusa]

Top 10 of the Week

PRIDE FORT LAUDERDALE The 42nd edition of this beloved event has expanded to a 5 day extravaganza with a Fashion Show, a Parade, a Latin T Dance, a Lesbian T Dance, a couple drag brunches, a block party, and of course the festival. Wed, February 20 through Sunday, February 24; PrideFortLauderdale.org

BROADWAY – Waitress

Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s beloved film, Waitress tells the story of Jenna – a waitress and expert pie maker, Jenna dreams of a way out of her small town and loveless marriage. A baking contest in a nearby county and the town’s new doctor may offer her a chance at a fresh start, while her fellow waitresses offer their own recipes for happiness. But Jenna must summon the strength and courage to rebuild her own life.

Tues, February 26 – Sun, March 3; Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami); Tix: start at $34; ArshtCenter.org

COMEDIAN – Paula Poundstone

She is one of our country’s preeminent comedians, known for her smart, observational humor and spontaneous wit tours regularly performing over 85 shows a year. She was the first woman, in its then 73rd year, to perform standup comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. She won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Standup Comic.

Sat, February 23; 8pm; Coral Springs Center for the Arts (2855 Coral Springs Dr.); Tix: Start at $38; TheCenterCS.com

PSYCHIC – Theresa Caputo Live!

She is an American television personality best known for portraying a medium on the TLC reality TV series, Long Island Medium since 2011. She is also the author of two books and tours around the country with her live experience. Sat, February 23; 8pm; Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood); Tix: $60, $75, $90 and $105; seminolehardrockhollywood.com.

BANDS – South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble Renowned composer and clinician, Robert Sheldon, will conduct the 8th Season of the Youth Pride Band of South Florida. The Youth Band is comprised of over 90 high school students from the tri-county area. They will be joined by another 50 members of the South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble for the second half of the performance. Before the night is over, at least 15 students will be awarded with $1,000 college scholarships Sun, February 24; 7pm; The Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale); Tix: $30; BrowardCenter.org

AGT’s – Puddles Pity Party

The “Sad Clown with the Golden Voice” is back with a suitcase full of all-new emotional anthems and plenty of Kleenex. As with any Pity Party performance, it’s not all sadness and longing. Puddles’s set is peppered with a brilliant sense of the absurd, mixing lots of humor with the awkward, tender moments.

Wed, February 27; 8pm; Parker Playhouse (707 NE 8th St, Fort Lauderdale); Tix: $33-$48; ParkerPlayhouse.com

TV – World Of Dance

Season 3 of the Jennifer Lopez-produced dance competition will move to Sundays at 8pm after the premiere episode. Lopez is back as a judge, along with Derek Hough, Ne-Yo and host Scott Evans takes over for Jenna Dewan. This show gives dancers the platform to showcase their talents and the opportunity to receive a life-altering grand prize of $1 million.

Tues, February 26; 9pm; NBC;

MOVIE – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

In the 3rd and final installment of this much loved animated movie, Hiccup discovers Toothless isn’t the only Night Fury, he must seek “The Hidden World”, a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first. This Animation/Action/Adventure/Comedy/Family/Fantasy movie features the voices of: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, and Cate Blanchett.

Premiere’s Friday, February 22; Rated PG; 104 minutes.

OUTSHINE’S – Big Night Out

They invite you to celebrate Hollywood’s biggest night – the 91st Academy Awards watch party event. The night will feature a red carpet, complimentary valet, passed appetizers, full sit down dinner, 3 hour open bar, and will honor Scott Greenberg, De Palazzo, Jacqueline Lorber, Emery Grant and Julian Cavazos.  Performers will be Joe Posa, Tony Tripoli, Angeliki Tasic and Cindy Curtis. Benefits the Outshine Film Festivals Education Initiative.

Sun, February 24; 7pm; The Venue (2345 Wilton Dr. Fort Lauderdale); Tix: $150; Outshinefilm.com

BAND – The Beach Boys

These American icons celebrate more than half a century of making music, and are led by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, who along with Jeffrey Foskett, Tim Bonhomme, John Cowsill, Keith Hubacher, Scott Totten and Christian Love continue the legacy of America’s iconic band. This concert will not feature Brian Wilson, Al Jardine or David Marks. Wed, February 27; 8pm; Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood); Tix: $45, $65 and $85; seminolehardrockhollywood.com

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