LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth |
BEACH Buzz |
by Chris Riss |
Poodle Beach #1 Gay Beach in USA USA Today and Gay.com have selected Poodle Beach as best gay beach in the country. 1. Poodle BeachRehoboth Beach, Del. "The gayest beach in the button-down mid-Atlantic attracts a mainly younger, club-y crowd. It really lets down its (long, luxurious) hair once a year on Labor Day Sunday for a head-turning day of drag volleyball," Gay.com travel editor Ed Salvato. 2. South BeachMiami Beach, Fla. 3. West Street BeachLaguna Beach, Calif. 4. Ogunquit BeachOgunquit, Maine 5. Little Beach (Makena)Maui Love 2003 Best Ever Kudos to Bill Alldredge and his LOVE team for moving LOVE to a new level. LOVE starts in February at the Beach House Rush Party and continues with June's Bachelor Auction and all the events on July 4th weekend. The crowning achievement this year was the new Retro Ball with Martha Wash. There was an enormous amount of energy in Convention Center. Thank you all for making it happen and to all those who have kept Love going over the years. Key West Cabaret, Sydneys, July 8-9 Popular cabaret duo Debra and Patrick, direct from Key West via Provincetown and Fort Lauderdale will appear at Sydney's Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8-9, 8:30 p.m. Dinner show, 10:30 p.m. late show. Elegant and sophisticated jazz, blues and pop. 302-227-1139 Bingo American Style Saturday, July 12, 6 p.m., RBCC. Admission and regular games $12 advance from Pelican Loft, CAMP Rehoboth, and Beacon Thrift Store, $15 at door. Benefits AIDS Delaware, Delaware Pride, Rainbow Choral of Delaware, and Metropolitan Community Church of Rehoboth. 302-652-6676. The Big Score: Game Day at 312 Bayard Justin Nelson and the 312 Bayard team hope to see you in your fantasy sports garb on Saturday, July 12, 9 p.m. This will likely be one of best theme parties of summer. If your old football uniform or wrestling singlet doesnt fit anymore, just wear what you would in the locker room. Am Big Success After entertaining thousands of sweating men July 4th weekend AM plans to keep the fun happening. Saturday, July 12 NYC DJ Alex Lauterstein. July 19 NYC/Miami DJ Escape. Ladies Teas with DJ Jam Foks Saturdays 7-11 p.m. Country Western Tea Dance July 13 Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association invites you to kick up your heels at Boots On The Beach (boots not required) Sunday, July 13, 1-5 p.m, under the pavilion at Cape Henlopen State Park. DJ Shark (Sharon Messina) will spin favorite country tunes while you enjoy dancing under an open-air pavilion at the beach. Free basic lessons. Free admission for dance. Park fee $2.50/car (DE tags) or $5.00/car (out of state tags). Italian Wine Master Hosts SCAC Benefit Luca Mazzotti, renown Italian wine master connoisseur, hosts an Italian wine tasting. Classic Italian cheeses provided by Beautiful Foods. Regional appetizers by Restaurante Solero. $40. Saturday, July 19, 2:30-4 p.m., Restaurant Solero on the eighth floor of the Henlopen Hotel. Afternoon Delight in Canal Corkran David Shotwells boys of 22 Fillingame Way in Canal Corkran invite you and your cute friend to Afternoon Delight cocktails, Saturday, July 19, 5-8 p.m. If you're not familiar with this fabulous new neighborhood just west of the canal off Rehoboth Avenue, its time you checked it out. Beach Essentials Fashion Show July 25 Beach Essentials is hosting a runway Summer Fashion Show and Fundraiser benefitting the Gay Business Association of Rehoboth and SCAC, Friday, July 25, 9 p.m. Show will be taped for Under The Pink Carpet, a NY cable station. Beefy models in designs by various vendors with John Falocco fashion highlighted. 33 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-5210. Follies on its Way to Being Sell out Again Tickets are selling briskly now that the CAMP Rehoboth Follies is just two weeks away. Ten groups of Rehoboth regulars, many of whom you would recognize out of drag, will perform campy skits on the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center stage Saturday, July 26. Doors open at 7 p.m., Show starts at 8 p.m. Email news to share via Rehoboth Beach Buzz to ChrisRiss@JackLingo.com. |
LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth, Vol. 13, No. 9, July 11, 2003 |