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This week's DJ events and free-food offerings

Wednesday (Nov. 22): • South Beach has a slew of high-profile events this week, including a high-energy night featuring resident DJ Jimmy Skinner and new addition DJ XRay, who will be previewing his...

Rocbar grand opening and more

Friday (Nov. 17): • Rocbar opens its doors with a weekend of debauched events. Playboy bunnies, fashionable denim and Motley Crue singer Vince Neil are all part of the party. And Sunday "Metalshop"...

Chances bar closed due to fire

Chances, a popular lesbian bar in the Montrose area, sustained "substantial fire damage" Tuesday night, according to the club's myspace page. The Chronicle reported the fire, which came from an air-conditioning unit, forced...

Ring the alarm at Papi Chulo Thursdays

It was just as I'd feared: Even for a Thursday, pre-10 p.m. club shenanigans just don't draw much of a crowd. I'd pondered questions of time and place most of the week,...

The Coach, Cookie and the end of the yellow brick road

"I feel like I know you guys from somewhere," a girl in a bright-red wig said as she stood between Olive, Coach Springer and I at the bar. We were at the...

What -- nobody wants my job?

Either you folks are slow with the submissions or you're just plain lazy, but we're still looking for someone to take the reins here for BarTab. All you need to do is...

Space at the bar

Magician/comic/all-around-brilliant soul Penn Jillette, who makes a habit of getting out to the Space Coast to attend shuttle launches as much as he can, once recalled a conversation he had during a night...

A scare for the weekend

Saturday (Oct. 28) Halloween, or at least the Saturday party night that precedes it, is tricky because everybody is having a party, and to be honest, none of them really look to...