As technology expands, and it is possible to be connected to the office via Blackberry or iPhone whether you are having lunch around the corner or trekking through the Alps, there is a slight but growing trend within American businesses. This year 1 percent of US businesses have begun to offer “unlimited paid vacation.”
The purpose of starting a new gay and lesbian newspaper for South Florida this year was to insure that our history would still be recorded, online and in print. SFGN has delivered that to you in a professional, newsworthy, crisp, and aesthetic fashion. We are proud of what we achieved thus far, and we are even pushing our way through the long hard ‘mean season’ of summer in South Florida.
Bringing Social Media to the Masses Have you ever had a friend on Facebook who you feel like you know, but never had the chance to meet? Michael Hendrix, Founder and CEO of The Precise Agency Group is one of those people. Headquartered just south of Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale, Hendrix leads a team of nine employees, each of whom contributes something unique to the organization.
Jerry Herman’s musicals have become a staple of the weekly showtune nights at gay bars, where dozens of men can be heard belting out the signature songs of “La Cage aux Folles,” “Mame” and “Hello, Dolly” from Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco. And while “I am what I am” and many other tunes have become anthems, ask the openly gay composer Herman about his favorite show and he will likely tell you, “Mack and Mabel,” the rarely produced show about silent filmmaker Mack Sennett creator of the Keystone
At only 4’ 8’’, Bishop S.F. Makalani-MaHee has relentless energy. For the past decade, she’s served as a local pastor and political activist, while also playing her hand as an artist and a musician. At age 38, Bishop has become a spiritual leader and mentor of the kind that she says is sorely lacking these days in the commercialized gay environs of Fort Lauderdale.
As an African-American and a lesbian, the bishop faced more than her share of strife growing up in a Pentecostal household in the Bronx, that she
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Orlando’s oldest gay entertainment club, the Parliament House, faces foreclosure and is headed into receivership, according to court filings.
Want to call France for $0.08 a minute? How about Tirane, Albania for $0.12 a minute? Have a friend teaching English in South Korea? Well, you can call Seoul for between $0.02 and $0.05 a minute. If you’re friend is unfortunately kidnapped by North Koreans it does cost more to call Pyongyang, at $0.77 a minute but I don’t think Americans are allowed to call North Korea, anyway.
Although the world’s 13-million-plus Jews are divided in many ways – politically, geographically, and in the ways they observe their mutual faith – for the majority of them, an important period of reflection, atonement and celebration begins next week.
An Event to Benefit Tiny Tina ‘A Copa Reunion’ at Bill’s Filling Station last Saturday evening, August 28, featured a host of South Florida’s most renowned female impersonators as a means of raising funds to benefit Ray Fetcho, known to adoring fans as ‘Tiny Tina.’
Last year’s global sensation Fashion’s Night Out is back and this year it’s coming to Aventura Mall. This event was created to put the fun back in shopping and participating mall retailers will do just that.