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PrideFête is coming to Wilton Manors Saturday.
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PrideFête Returns This Weekend
By John Hayden
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The distinctive smell of Caribbean food wafts through the air as music jams as a hype-filled palate cleanser. People in colorful costumes mingle and firedancers fling flames. These are all the hallmarks of PrideFête, the LGBTQ celebration of Caribbean culture.
The party returns this Saturday, Aug. 8, at Richardson Park in Wilton Manors. Gate is at 6 p.m. and the party only gets wilder as the sky gets darker.
Octavia Yearwood is back for her fifth time as host.
“I love any space where I can be my absolute self,” she said. “I just love being able to connect with community and dance.”
Connecting with culture and community will be easy at PrideFête. Trinidadian, Haitian, and Latin Caribbean food vendors will serve up flavors while musical entertainers will include LSE Steel Pan Band and Karnival Bounce.
Nightfall will bring its fire dance performance, and there will be a costume/masquerade drum promenade through the food and booths up to the stage featuring Carnival Costume dancers and drummers.
Keeping the beats going will be DJ Shakiera.
Those are the scheduled items, but Octavia is ready to go off-script.
“Listen, I am here for the shenanigans. Please, shenan with me!”
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Nominations Open for 'Your Choice Awards'
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Out South Florida is opening up its annual Your Choice Awards nominations – where our readers get to nominate favorite local people, places, and things. Nominate here.
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More Than a Running Club: Front Runners & Walkers Fort Lauderdale Builds Community One Step at a Time | Opinion
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Frank Mendez: Hotspots Magazine’s Unsung Hero for More Than 21 Years | Opinion
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Every successful publication has familiar faces—the publisher, the writers, photographers, and personalities whose names readers know. Yet behind every issue is someone whose work often goes unnoticed, even though it shapes every page readers hold in their hands. For more than 21 years, that unsung hero at Hotspots Magazine has been Frank Mendez.
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TODAY: Taco Tuesday Come on out and enjoy authentic tacos for $3 all day at La Mexicana Taco Bar.
WEDS: Soulful Screens It's an evening of meaningful cinema, mindful connection, and engaging conversation.
THURS: Glam Girlz An evening filled with one-of-a-kind drag experiences.
FRI: Cirque of Chaos
Get ready for a wild night of rock, acrobatics, and dinner all rolled into one crazy Cirq of Chaos experience.
SAT: Gentle Yoga An hour of yoga.
SUN: Breakfast at Tiffanys It's a fun morning painting Breakfast at Tiffany’s scenes while enjoying tasty brunch bites.
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Community Mental Health Worker -- Fort Lauderdale
Smith Community Mental Health is hiring a Community Mental Health Worker to assist in breaking down access barriers to service provision and stigma around receiving mental health services, and more. $20.00 - $22.50 an hour.
Literacy Outreach Manager -- Fort Lauderdale
HandsOn South Florida is seeking a Literacy Outreach Manager to collect and enter program data, monitor outcomes, and prepare monthly, mid-year, and annual reports using the organization's volunteer management system, and more. $45,000 a year.
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