Halloween / Music
Moonfest is Palm Beach County’s annual place to be on Halloween weekend, and Saturday evening’s lineup of entertainment should prove to exception. The free block party will stretch across the 500 block of downtown Clematis Street, with live music pumping from a large outdoor stage as well as inside
Respectable Street, O’Shea’s and The Lounge from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. The night’s headlining act will be Brooklyn-based noise-rock band A Place to Bury Strangers, signees to the ironically named Mute Records. Their sound, which borrows from shoegaze and psych-rock music to create a wall-of-sound aesthetic, is anything but mute. The evening also features a rare performance from Surfer Blood side project Weird Wives as well as 11 South Florida mainstays, from The Freakin’ Hott to A Hunters Pace to Band in Heaven. Those arriving in costume will have the chance to win up to $1,000 in cash and prizes, and the event will feature a laser light show, midway rides and numerous food vendors.
***
Down in Fort Lauderdale, the Zoo Bar (formerly the Monterey Club) will have a couple of nights of spooky entertainment, and they’re both free. Saturday night will feature the punk and psychobilly sounds of Flees, the Instant Whips andJolly Badfellow, along with a costume contest. On Sunday night, the bar is hosting a bigger costume contest called Zombie Prom, with cash and tab prizes for the best dressed. The band Betty Had to Boop will perform at 9 p.m., and guest DJs Sensitive Side and Mikey Ramirez of Radio-Active Records will spin Halloween dance favorites. If Oingo Boingo’s “Dead Man’s Party” is not played at least twice, there’s something wrong with the world. The Zoo Bar is at 2608 S. Federal Highway.
Theater
Florida Stage opens its first full season at the Kravis Center Friday with “Cane,” a world premiere from local playwright Andrew Rosendorf. The play is set in Florida in both 1928 and modern times, described on the website as “a story of betrayal and bloodshed, water and wind, family and fortune.’ It sounds compelling in an epic “Giant’ sort of way. It’s also the first in the theater’s “Florida Cycle,” a series of works shedding light on Florida’s rich history. Tickets are $47 to $50. For the box office, call 561/585-3433. The Kravis Center is at 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.
Dance
The theatrical production “One’ arrives at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach at 8 p.m. Friday. Presented by Rakstar/Fuzion Dance Artists, the 20-member performance explores Indian, African, Spanish and modern dance fusion trough the foundation of Oriental belly dancing. Tickets are $35 for this multiethnic dance celebration. The Colony Theatre is at 1040 Lincoln Road. For information, call 305/674-1040.
