The South Florida Tattoo Expo celebrated its 24th year earlier this month in Coral Springs. My FIRST POST in this three part series focused on the remarkable tattoo artists this expo attracts. This post will take a look at the unique entertainment the expo offers its guests. From some of South Florida’s hottest bands to […]
The South Florida Tattoo Expo, which just celebrated its 24th year this past weekend, is a three day affair (Friday-Sunday) that was held yet again at the Coral Springs Marriott Hotel, Golf Club & Convention Center. It not only featured the best tattoo artists in all of Florida but a truckload of live bands, a […]
A painter paints, a writer writes, a dancer dances, and so on. Photographers take photographs. However, it isn’t as easy as opening a Word document on one’s computer, dusting off a fresh canvas or turning on some music. A photographer needs to go where there are things to photograph. So as my weekend freed up, […]
For those of you who don’t know, I grew up a hardcore metalhead (a lover of heavy metal music, not a metallurgist). The early 80s (when I was a teenager) brought on the dawn of thrash metal acts Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and so many others. It was a good time to be a metalhead […]
Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1400 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. The first Record Store Day took place on April […]
Had my mother visiting me from the Bronx a few weeks ago and the day before she was to return home, I kept my schedule free for a day out with her and my daughter. Turned out that after weeks of lovely weather, it started to rain (that heavy South Florida rain) just as we […]