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Pink Triangle Vickie Shaw: Beautiful, blond, Southern Baptist and hilarious. A6  INSIDE: YOUR GUIDE TO ALL THINGS WOMENFEST. A10-11

This week BY MAXINE LOPEZ-KEOUGH the island Florida Weekly Correspondent MANY HAVE TRIED. SOME HAVE even will prove come close. But in truth, no one’s one thing — said it better than Cyndi Lauper did back in 1983: Girls, they wanna girls, they just have fun. As we cling to the last sun- wanna have soaked tendrils of summer — with Labor Day the symbolic end of the fun. season, and therefore, of fun itself — it seems only right to celebrate with a girl’s weekend like no other: Key West WomenFest, Things to do this week through Sept.11. Browse our calendar and check out For decades, Key top events. A8-9  West’s WomenFest weekend has drawn

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Bartender of the week Landon Bradbary – bartender, thespian and Cicerone extraordinaire. A21  Suede: Simply too good to be true ist liaison or something like that, which was BY C.S. GILBERT fun because I dealt with more performers and Florida Weekly Correspondent fewer press. Then along came a main stage vocalist/ Back in the heady early days of women’s musician whose performance totally captured (or womyn’s) music, my friends and I were my attention. I wrote a published review, say- midwifing the birth of a wonderful little ing that this performance would “knock your festival called Campfest in a sleepy corner socks off and polish your toenails.” That was of Pennsylvania near the Delaware border. more than 35 years ago, but I stand by it today. Music COURTESY PHOTO It was, especially in the very early days, too The performer is Suede and she is headlin- Coffee Butler: From Hukilau to Suede will perform at the Key West Theater small for a full staff, so I morphed happily with her pal Vicky Shaw. from publicist into program organizer or art- SEE SUEDE, A14  history. A22 

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A6 WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2016 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY KEY WEST PINK TRIANGLE Vickie Shaw: Beautiful, blond, Southern Baptist and hilarious

BY C.S. GILBERT Ms. Shaw is married to one Sgt. Florida Weekly Correspondent Patsch, whose job on the cruises has been to me, personally, and to any- What do you call a classy, gorgeous one else with a challenge, accessibility and beautifully made-up blond Texas angel. Suede remembers: “Vickie and princess who is also a Southern Baptist- Sgt. Patsch met on an Olivia Cruise! I born mom and grandma with a slight witnessed much of it and it was lovely. reputation as a potty-mouth? Then they ran into each other at a Vickie Shaw. festival. They were both smitten and And how is it that a woman with this couldn’t get each other out of their constellation of anti-Birkenstocks and minds and eventually got together. I bare-faced bona fides became the toast COURTESYCOURTESY PHOTOSPHOTOS don’t recall how long ago it was, 12 of the LGBTI comedy circuit, appearing Vickie Shaw will years? 15? But they just got married in Key West on Friday night? perform at Key in May on Vickie’s 60th birthday. It That is a story that her friend, boost- West Theater’s was quite a weekend full of fantastic er and the show’s headliner, vocalist/ WWomenfest show. celebration with many of her entertain- musician Suede, shares with the obser- er friends — me, Roxanna Ward, Lisa vation that Ms. Shaw is so funny that my feet is an Koch, Kate Clinton, Karen Williams, she’ll make you “laugh till your cheeks off-white can- Jennie McNulty — insane!” hurt and your ribs ache.” Powerful exer- vas tote bag, The two reportedly dote on their cise, that, but I’ve had the joy of seeing imprinted, in the grandchildren and Sgt. Patsch is a regu- the show probably a dozen times and company’s swash- lar character in the repertory of Ms. Suede is 99 percent correct. At least. buckling cursive Shaw’s routine. Still, the Shaw story is a tale that signature, “Olivia/ Cruises “Vickie is about the funniest person likely won’t be told in full unless there’s and Resorts.” It is souvenir on the planet as far as I’m concerned a follow-up feature after she opens for of a 2005 (I think) cruise and the whitest woman on the planet, Suede at Key West Theater’s Women- to St. Petersburg, Russia, too — she’s hysterical and classy and fest show at 8 p.m. Friday because, dur- with stops in Sweden, Fin- unleashed — in a good way! ing the entire week of our interviews land, Estonia and Norway. Together we’re a great team. I cannot for this article, she was working an Near the bottom seam is an wait,” said Suede. Me either, friends and Olivia Cruise around Tahiti. That meant autograph no less graceful; it readers. “she is on the other side of the planet says “Love — Vickie Shaw.” The frosting on this particular con- and therefore time of day!” according to mon to the vacation company’s travel That’s the effusive and affectionate, fection is the piano magic and patter of Suede. Poor baby. Tough gig — not. But on the high seas: hideously expensive sincerely sweet Southern lady coming local favorite Larry Smith. let’s cut her a break, anyway. and maidenly sporadic. So let this through. As a comic, she will skewer Key West Theater is located at the We well know Olivia Cruises and the reporter’s memory and pal Suede speak your sacred cow in a New York minute. corner of Eaton and Bahama streets, privations and challenges of both inter- for Ms. Shaw. But my persistent memory is of a warm, one-half block off Duval. ■ net and email on the ships most com- I sit here at the computer and at funny, friendly soul.

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Green Parrot Bar Tropic Cinema SPECIAL EVENTS 601 Whitehead St. 416 Eaton St. Live music nightly tropiccinema.com Check the schedule at greenparrot.com. Check the website for ongoing films.

Gas Monkey Bar and Grill 217 Duval St. Live Music Nightly Check the schedule at WomenFestF gasmonkeykeywest.com. Sept. 7-11 Complete schedule at Womenfest.com Suzanne Westenhoefer Sept. 8, 8 p.m. The Studios of Key West 533 Eaton St. Tickets at tskw.org Smoking Tuna 4 Charles St. LGBT Luau in Paradise Live Music Nightly Little Room Jazz Club Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m. Check the schedule at 821 Duval St. Aqua Nightclub Sigsbee Park smokingtunasaloon.com. Terri White 711 Duval St. Key West Naval Air Station Saturdays, 9 p.m. Aqua Idol for Fantasy Fest King and 800 Sigsbee Road Live jazz nightly Queen Check the schedule at King of WomenFest Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. Littleroomjazzclub.com. Drag Shows Sept. 9, 8-11 p.m. Nightly, 7 and 9 801 Cabaret Karaoke 801 Duval St. Monday through Thursday, 11 p.m. Greg McGrady Memorial Orchid Aquakeywest.com Auction Sloppy Joe’s A benefit for Thomas Ryan for King of 201 Duval St. Fantasy Fest Live music nightly Sept. 10, 6 p.m. Check the schedule at sloppyjoes.com. The home of Bryan Green and Tony Konrath 910 Watson St. Suede with Vicki Shaw Sept. 10, 8 p.m. PHOTOGRAPHY Key West Theater 512 Eaton St. Photographs from the Bobby’s Monkey Bar Tickets at ticketfly.com permanent collection 900 Simonton St. Ongoing Karaoke Key West Art and Historical Society Irish Kevin’s Nightly except Wednesdays, 9:30 MUSIC Custom House 211 Duval St. Bobby’s Monkey Bar on Facebook Live music nightly 281 Front St. Check the schedule at irishkevins.com. Kwahs.org CINEMA

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■ Greg McGrady Memorial Orchid Auction, A benefit for Thomas Ryan for King of Fantasy Fest, Sept. 10, 6 p.m. at the Island House home of Bryan Green 1129 Fleming St. Islandhousekeywest.com and Tony Konrath, 910 Watson St. La Te Da 1125 Duval St. ■ Aloha. Tea Dance Grab your Sundays 4 to 6:30 p.m. Lateda.com lei and join the Luau in AROUND 9.10 Paradise KEY WEST Sept. 9 , 6-9 p.m. Ghost Tours and Ghost Hunts at Sigsbee Nightly 301 Whitehead and 1102 Duval St. Park, Key (305) 395-1435 West Naval hauntedkeywest.com Air Station, Green Market 800 Sigsbee ■ Laugh it up with Bayview Park 9.9 Road lesbian stand-up comedian North Roosevelt and Jose Marti Drive Suzanne Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Key West Greenmarket on Facebook ■ ■ Enjoy an evening with two Westenhoefer talented ladies. See Suede with Sept. 8, 8 p.m. Vicki Shaw Sept. 10, 8 p.m. at at The Studios the Key West of Key West, Theater, 512 533 Eaton St. Eaton St. — tskw.org 9.10 — ticketfly.com 9.8 A10 WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2016 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY KEY WEST WOMENFEST From page 1 thousands of lesbians and their friends to what is arguably the premier gay vacation destination in the country (sorry, Provincetown, but you’re already getting too cold for our taste.) The weekend has a simple goal: to serve as a gathering for women who want to mix, mingle, feel comfortable being themselves, soak up some rays and then party their heads off. Since its debut more than 20 years ago, Key West WomenFest has grown to become a standard for lesbian gathering. Couples, singles and families arrive in the southernmost town each year to enjoy the famously gay-friendly atmosphere that the Key West Business Guild — the nation’s first ever gay-ori- ented chamber of commerce — works tirelessly to maintain. With Lilith Fair a mere memory and the Dinah Shore Weekend already come and gone, the streets of Key West (complete with LGBTQ-themed rainbow sidewalks) are guaranteed to be overrun with women looking to celebrate in all their Sap- phic glory against the lushly tropical backdrop of our remarkable island paradise While this year’s schedule of events ranges from raucous pool parties to ANDREW PRINTER / COURTESY PHOTO intimate art openings, much of the draw Drummer Amy Blaze and singer Jennifer Cor- of WomenFest is the simple promise of day bring the party on a Sunset Sail. lazy days spent poolside, or else stroll- ing through the sun-dappled historic Key West Community Sailing Center. neighborhoods of Key West with the Then it’s time to don your mustache comfort of knowing you can hold your (we hear Fu Manchus are very in this girlfriend’s hand without some psycho- year) for the second annual Southern- path yelling hateful slurs from across most Tattoo Mustache Bike Ride, when the street; Key West is a city where gay biker babes unite at Bayview Park, then couples don’t just vacation, they settle take off on a leisurely sightseeing ride down and send their children to the across the island. If your tourist style local Montessori school. is more history buff than Harley David- While many arriving for WomenFest son, hop onboard the Gay Trolley Tour, will invariably take advantage of Key another WomenFest classic event, to West’s picturesque state park, its wide- hear all about Key West’s most famous ranging culinary scene, unique muse- spots (and the gays who made them ums and world-famous watering holes, great.) Or maybe you’d prefer to cool it’s the official WomenFest events that off in the normally-off-limits-to-those- keep people coming back year after without-a-Y-chromosome New Orleans year. This year’s schedule has been House Garden Bar and Pool at Duval curated to appeal to a wide audience, St.’s famous Bourbon St. Pub. There will with family friendly events and those be games, prizes, and in true Key West decidedly adult in nature. We’ve got the spirit, clothing is completely optional. full schedule, so read on to learn what’s drag king pageant at the legendary 801 sweat out the toxins with a friendly Later that evening, enjoy a two-hour happening when, and where you should Duval Cabaret, where you can watch game of IWFFA Flag Football in Bay- sunset sail hosted on one of Fury’s be for the whole weekend. Spikey Van Dykey award the next King view Park at 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 10. deluxe catamarans, with hors d’oeuvres, This year’s WomenFest party head- of WomenFest her crown. You can party If you’ve overslept, you’ll still make top-shelf drinks and a pulse-pounding quarters is Key West’s quintessential all the way into the next morning, then the 10 a.m. free sailing lessons at the dance party to round out the trip. Or, drag bar, Aqua Night Club, whose “Reality is a Drag” shows and open- air Back Bar make it the perfect spot to take in a show, or enjoy cocktails under the stars. On Thursday, Sept. 8, art fans will want to make their way to the Key West Contemporary Art gallery, where the opening reception for artist A.E Fournet’s solo show kicks off at 6 p.m. Two hours later, prepare your abs for unrelenting laughter before you attend inimitable comic Suzanne West- enhoefer’s 8 p.m. show at the Studios of Key West. Ms. Westenhoefer, who was both the first openly lesbian comic to ever appear on television, as well as the first to host her own HBO comedy special, has brought audiences to the brink of hysteria with her stand-up comedy for decades, performing across the nation, including on David Letter- man’s stage. Back at Aqua, the party starts at 11 p.m., when legendary spin queen DJ Citizen Jane steps behind the decks to deliver her patented brand of impossible-to-resist beat-murdering music. Your feet have been warned. We suggest you spend the next morning recharging your batteries, because Friday night is going to require some stamina; flit back and forth between a mix of ladies night lounge specials, a “Get Lei’d” dance party at Aqua, and a FLORIDA WEEKLY KEY WEST www.FloridaWeekly.com WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2016 A11 if hours of touch football didn’t quench your thirst for competition, we have five words for you: Cute. Girls. In. Roller skates. Show your support for local star skaters the Key West Derby Dames as they battle their South Florida rivals, the Miami Vice City Rollers, at the 6 p.m. roller derby match benefitting local women’s center Womankind. Once the bout is over, you can toast their victory (or dry their tears) at the after-party happening at local Irish pub Shanna Key. With critics hailing her as the vocal equivalent of an Adele-fronted Rat Pack, musical diva Suede — who sings, plays guitar, piano and trumpet — is sure to bring the house down when she opens for comedian Vickie Shaw at the Key West Theatre on Saturday night. Suede has packed some of the best concert halls and jazz clubs in the nation thanks to her effortless mix of hilari- ANDREW PRINTER / COURTESY PHOTOS ous commentary, dizzyingly proficient The party was kicking during last year’s instrumental prowess, and her “bring WomenFest with kissing, drinking and fun on down the house” belting of blues, jazz, a Sunset Sail. pop and self-penned ballads. Once she’s Of course, the weekend wouldn’t riled you up, comedian Vickie Shaw, the be complete without a traditional Tea self-described funniest comedian ever, Dance at Key West’s gay mainstay, La Te will take the stage to deliver the whip Da, in the heart of Duval Street. That is, smart brand of comedy she has become if you can manage to drag yourself out famous for. A regular headliner at the of bed Sunday morning. Don’t worry, world’s top LGBTQ events, Ms. Shaw we have that covered, too: Key West has appeared in movies, television, four Hangover Hospital is more than happy comedy specials and countless gigs to make house calls, and will administer across the globe. a magical potion of IV fluids to get you If you’ve managed to avoid crack- up and running in under an hour. We ing a rib from laughter, make your recommend the “Code Blue” to get your way back to Aqua for their “Dance the head back on straight — though a cute Night Away” dance party, with drink Derby Dame can work similar miracles, specials until 4 a.m. A couple hours of or so we’ve heard. Whether she’ll make sleep afterwards should get you just house calls, though — well, that’s up to rested enough to attend the Red, White her. and Blue Drag Brunch at Chicago’s on For more information, ticket prices Greene Street, where guest star Déjà and contacts, visit.womenfest.com. ■ will be leading the In Loving Memory- themed event.

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Here are three attractions for the whole family that capture Key West’s artistic inclinations, diverse history and whimsical beauty. Mallory Square The nightly Sunset Celebration at Mallory Square is the best free show in town, a center of Key West commerce and performance art (mallorysquare. com). The square’s history dates back to the town’s early years when it was incorporated in 1828. Everything blurs together here: past and present, tour- Indigenous Park at 1801 White St. and ists and locals, day and night, music it is open seven days a week. Paved and magic, artists and hustlers, pho- trails weave throughout the park, where tographers, friends and you can visit and enjoy native flora lovers. The aroma of and fauna. The main focus of the food vendors fills center is wild bird and wildlife the air along with services. It provides reha- the acrobatics bilitative care to over 1,000 of fire-juggling native wild animals and performers, birds, while also provid- the future ing rescue services for told in tarot sea and land turtles, and cards, and marine and land mam- magnanimous mals. It provides 24-hour good cheer. emergency rescue servic- On any given es within Key West. In addi- Key West Butterfly and Nature on average about 10 days. The female night you might tion it provides chicken res- Queen Alexandra’s birdwing, consid- find the Rev. Bill cue services for sick, injured Conservatory ered the world’s largest butterfly, has Welzein preaching or orphaned feral chickens. This peaceful enclave filled with doz- a wingspan up to 11 inches while the to the crowd, hear the The mission of the Wildlife Center ens of butterfly species from around pygmy blue, the smallest, has a half-inch melancholy stylings of Dennis Riley, is to “Ensure the future of our diverse the world, flowering plants, birds and wingspan. Check out a 15-minute film the “southernmost bagpiper,” or for native wildlife by providing timely res- cascading waterfalls is its own world, a about these “flowers of the sky” in the the feline-inclined, Dominique the Cat cues and quality rehabilitation with the calming respite from Duval Street’s bus- learning center or view Sam Trophia’s Man. The festivities begin about two hope of release back to the wild.” tling commerce. Take your time stroll- artwork in Wings of Imagination — the hours before sunset. It is located at 1801 White St. and is ing through the conservatory with a Butterfly Gallery. Butterflies that have open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. computerized weather control system lived out their life cycles are preserved Key West Wildlife Center (305) 292-1008, keywestwildlifecenter. keeping it a tropical 85 degrees. Be still in clear acrylic cases. More information: The Key West Wildlife Center is org. and the butterflies might land on you. 1316 Duval St.; (305) 296-2988; keywest- located inside the 8-acre Sonny McCoy Raised on farms in the tropics, they live butterfly.com. ■

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Joan Rivers. SUEDE But Suede’s background well-prepared her for her successful musical career. “I From page 1 don’t recall a time when music wasn’t a major part of my life,” she said. “My mother tells a story that she heard some- ing, with her pal Vicky Shaw (see Pink one playing the piano one day, went into Triangle, page A6), Key West Theater’s the room were the piano was, to find I’d absolutely kick-ass Womenfest show. somehow climbed up on the bench and Lights go up at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9. was sounding out a song I’d heard on the Another fun fact: I was so impressed radio. I was about 3 or 4 years old. I knew by Suede — it’s always been just the one from very early on that I wanted to be a name — I booked her for the annual ban- musician. I dreamed of seeing the world quet of the Sisterhood of Temple Shaarey with music — as far back as I can remem- Tefilo Israel in South Orange, N.J. She ber. I cannot believe I’ve actually been drove all the way up from Baltimore for able to do just that.” for the gig. While she’s always said her favorite Believe me, Suede has come a long, long instrument is her voice, the fact is that she Join Us way since then. plays umpteen instruments, all of them She’s graced the stages of “The Ken- well. Typically, first came piano. “Then nedy Center, Birdland in New York City, my dad handed me an old Army issue Scottsdale Performing Arts Center and bugle. He had to see if I could play it. I HappY Hour Feinstein’s in San Francisco, where I head figured it out quickly and was saluting the Daily 4:00-6:30pm after Key West,” she reported in a recent whole neighborhood before you knew it. interview with Florida Weekly. Then I would sneak into my big brother’s 1/2 Price Brewery Beer Wines by the Glass “So let’s see,” she continued. “I have room when no one was home to figure Ł somehow managed to realize my child- out how to put his clarinet together and hood dream of being a touring musician teach myself how to play ‘Where Is Love’ Dom Bottles and Well Drinks! and seeing the world.” She has gone “from from ‘Oliver’ — a favorite tune back then. ONLY AT THE BAR hauling around my own sound gear — I got into his guitar case and figured out which weighed a whole lot more than the how to play guitar tablature from a Peter, STARTERS • SOUPS & SALADS • SANDWICHES teeny tiny great systems of today — and Paul & Mary songbook he had in the case all my instruments too, and have managed (Album 1700).) I was fascinated by any to talk some amazing venues into produc- instrument and always wanted to try to ing me,” she said, “although thankfully I play them all — my entire childhood.” have not hauled my gear along in a long And the rest, as they say, is history. time.” “The press has been kind to me, too,” I asked about her first professional Suede noted modestly. “NY says I’m like gig. “First professional gig? Professional Adele meets Diana Krall meets Bette like for pay? I used to go to Buzzy’s Pizza Midler — sassy, smooth and intoxicating. Parlor in Annapolis right across the street Boston Globe says I’m ‘wicked exciting.’ from the Naval Academy. The academy Sweet. Bea Arthur interrupted my show musicians played there every night and by standing up to give me a genuine I loved to go listen while in high school. standing O and shouting ‘You are f#!king I sat in one night with my trumpet and incredible! Thank for the best night of then my guitar, singing, etc., and got hired my life in an audience. You are to die for.’ — for beer and pizza. That was in the Whoa!” mid-’70s.” The performer has always had a good The pay and perks have gotten better, business head, so there have of course too. Suede has won high praise from the been recordings. “There are four CDs Brewery likes of Bea Arthur and Joan Rivers and to date,” she said, “all big sellers, and a The New York Times (besides me) and DVD ‘Live at Scullers Jazz Club,’ which has enjoyed a career that has featured was grabbed up by PBS and has aired on Tours not only standard large- and small-stage 54 stations nationally thus far as part of performances but one set of remark- their fund drives. And a new CD is in the Every Saturday at 2pm able cruise ship venues around the globe works, slowly but surely,” taking a back and an even more remarkable long-term seat to marketing of the third, “recorded Call for Reservations opening gig. with my own hand-picked, New York Suede tells of “over 100 Olivia cruises 12-piece big band, done at Tony Bennett’s (tough gig, not), played in The Flirtations studios in NYC, ‘Dangerous Mood’ — in (seen in the Jonathan Demme film “Phila- case anyone’s interested in becoming a delphia”), opened for Janis Ian and Joan patron of the arts.” Investment opportuni- Rivers and oh, so much more. It’s been ties are available. an amazing ride and I’m a long way from “I’ll be doing tunes from all the CDs, done. In fact, my voice, my first instru- including the upcoming one,” she report- ment, has never been in better shape and ed. An enticement for old fans: On the I’ve learned a lot about the business and program will be “Emily Remembers” It’s entertaining since you and I first met all “an incredible song by the amazing song- those years ago. It shows in my perfor- writer Shirley Eikhard (‘Let’s Give ’em mance. There’s enough for that book I’ve Something to Talk About’) written about talked about, believe me.” a couple I met on an Olivia cruise,” Suede One for the book, certainly, is this one. explained. “It became the No. 1 song of Asked to name her most memorable the year in Washington, D.C., and WJZW Game gig, Suede wrote this: Being Joan Rivers’ Radio because a DJ played it and the opening act was a truly incredible expe- phones rang off the hook asking what it rience for many reasons. Her audience was. That thrills me because the story — room was incredibly generous to me, especially an amazing love story — got told far and as an opening act — you know, the act wide and touched so many lives to this for Kids and Adults! that everyone just sort of endures, talks very day.” through, until the star comes on. Not I’m probably going to cry. I always do. so with Joan’s audiences, who gave me Suede and Key West are in fact a great ENTRÉES FROM THE LAND & SEA • SWEET TREATS • WINES genuine standing ovations in the middle fit, and there are wonderful parallels of songs! And Joan herself could not have between Suede’s paradise and ours. “I been more gracious, supportive, compli- moved from Baltimore about the same FREE FLIGHT mentary. time you went to Key West, 20 years ago, of Brewery Beer “After our first show together she to my own little beach town, just further searched me out backstage to grab my north. 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______SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY around the property. The bricks, tour guides note, are a little crooked, sug- The crown jewel of Key West’s rich lit- gesting that the hard-drinking writer erary legacy, which has attracted writers and his friend may have been a little such as Tennessee Williams, Ralph Elli- sauced at the time. son, Robert Frost and Carson McCull- Fellow writer John Dos Passos first ers, is Ernest Hemingway’s old home at suggested to Mr. Hemingway that he 907 Whitehead Street. The sprawling visit Key West. The first place he stayed two-story property is a National His- in 1928 was the Trev-Mor Hotel at 314 toric Landmark where Mr. Hemingway Simonton Street with his wife Pauline, lived and wrote during most of the where he finished “A Farewell to Arms.” 1930s. It is also famously home to about They purchased the property on White- 50 cats. They lounge among the tropi- head Street, a 19th century Spanish Colo- cal foliage and occasionally leap into nial style house, in 1931 for $8,000. It’s a visitors’ laps. An average cat has five lavish property and, including the gar- front toes and four back toes, but about dens, the single largest property on the half the cats have an extra toe on one or island. Mr. Hemingway, his wife Pauline more paw since they’re descendants of and their two sons Patrick and Gregory Hemingway’s cats. All the cats on the lived there until 1940. They added a property carry the polydactyl gene in pool in the late 1930s, at the time the their DNA. only one within 100 miles, that Tour guides offer a complete nar- cost an astound- rative room by room, or you’re free to ing $20,000. The explore on your own. Forget the crowd home is filled with and listen to the breeze rustling the original furniture, palms like the sound of gentle rain on art, European his upstairs wrap-around porch. Then antiques, and tro- you can almost imagine the peace and phy mounts from solitude the famous writer may have Mr. Hemingway’s felt as he hammered away on a type- African safaris. writer working on stories he published You’ll also find his at the time such as “To Have and Have old bookshelf with Not” (with some characters inspired by outdated titles such his Key West friends) and “For Whom as “Cranberry Red” the Bell Tolls.” He would write in the by E. Garside, “The mornings and go out exploring in the Iron Mistress” by afternoons. Paul Wellman and COURTESY PHOTOS S Later the press leaked his address. “Poise: How to Attain It” by D. Starke. Ernest Hemingway’s home, inside After that Mr. Hemingway and his The Hemingway Home & Museum is and out. At right is Hemingway with friend, Capt. ‘Sloppy’ Joe Russell, who open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. More infor- sons and kittens at Finca Vigia, also owned Mr. Hemingway’s favorite mation: (305) 294-1136 or visit Heming- Cuba, ca. 1942. bar and indulged his taste for big-game wayhome.com. ■ fishing, built a brick wall that still stands COURTESY JFK LIBRARY FLORIDA WEEKLY WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2016 A17 DRAG LIFE Fine time for the surprising Ms. Lucille BY C.S. GILBERT Florida Weekly Correspondent

The property was large, even for New Town, and enclosed by a tall concrete wall. Opening the gate, which revealed a huge patio and a large, free-form pool, was a very attractive and welcom- ing young man. It took a long split-minute to realize this was Kylie Jean Lucille. Kevin Odon, pro- nounced just like the Norse god Odin, (also known as the all-father of all the Nordic gods, heavily associated with BARBARA RAMEY / COURTESY PHOTO magic) invited this Flori- Kylie Jean Lucille da Weekly Key West correspondent to interview him while he put on his makeup and to witness the transfor- to his brows, followed by black liner in mation from Kevin Odon to Kylie Jean the same arc. Lucille. “I remember talking to Gary the sum- Turns out that Mr. Odon is distinctive mer between 10th and 11th grades, saying in a number of ways. Most surprising ‘I just want to be crazy — not be bored.” is probably that he was a member of He admired the outrageousness of Boy the International Brotherhood of Team- George, David Bowie and RuPaul. Long sters, worked for a grocery chain in L.A., story short: After high school and a year and then made damn sure he was vested of college, he ended up as a Teamster in in his retirement fund before moving to L.A. with a roommate who came home Key West. in drag one day, believing himself more But let’s back up a bit. Born in L.A. attractive to men that way. But for the on Sept. 11, 1968 (he looks 10-15 years nascent Ms. Lucille — the name came younger, really), the family moved to from a game of musical trivia when a Keiser, Ore., a suburb of Salem, when friend blended another friend’s name, he was in sixth grade. In high school he Kylie Jean, with “Fine Time to Leave became best friends with a kid named Me, Lucille,” then declared Kylie Jean Gary Marion, now better known in Key Lucille was the prefect drag name — it West as Sushi. Keiser “was a pretty con- was still all a lark. servative town and boy, did we make a “I didn’t care,” Mr. Odon shrugged. racket,” he said. “When Gary moved to Key West, I Mr. Odon said this while showing me wasn’t sure it was part of the U.S.” But into his bedroom and offering a chair he visited during Fantasy Fest in 1996 in view of his vanity, a bamboo desk “and moved here Dec. 15.” Initially he topped by four bright, theatrical lights; and Gary both worked cleaning Bour- he immediately set about applying a bon Street Pub. “Then 801 Bourbon Bar substantial layer of old-fashioned pan- called Sushi and said, ‘This is yours.’ cake makeup, and then carefully press- We ended up putting on seven shows ing on an even layer of powder. a week.” He and Sushi bartended and “Not that we dressed in full drag, hawked on the sidewalk. “I didn’t really but we wore dresses — didn’t think intend to perform” but he learned so of them as dresses, but we made box much: theater from Inga, humor from dresses with yarn.” That was the begin- R.V. Beaumont, makeup from Mila. ning of Sushi’s fabled co-career as cos- “We all liked each other, didn’t go tume designer and creator. “We both anywhere without each other … I’ve learned through trial and error,” Mr. learned a lot from every girl I’ve worked Odon remembered, “but it became a with,” he said. Another close friendship passion with him.” Indeed. was with Margo, “the oldest drag queen In many ways, Sushi is the ultimate in captivity,” until she died in 2006. in feminine grace, delicate, and often He had highlighted the black arcs quite ladylike. Not Kylie. “We were sent with a narrow white line, applied bright home for wearing makeup, he more than yellow inside the top of the bridge of his I,” but there’s not much that’s delicate nose and hot pink to his eyelids, then about Kylie. A strong woman originally pressed on “pinkish” lavender sparkle inspired by Joan Crawford and “Bay- eye shadow. “I like color a lot, so I tend watch’s” Pamela Anderson, with an over- to overdo it,” he confessed. His persona lay of Valley Girl; unlike his best friend, “really took off and evolved over the there’s no inner feminine there. “I was years,” but he no longer climbs naked just a gay guy who liked to dress up.” in the cabaret rafters. He still, however, The school had a very conservative has a considerable fan base of returning vice principal, who called his mother in tourists. “We’re not getting rich, but we and asked if she knew what her son was make a living.” doing. “Mom’s pretty liberal. She wasn’t Then came huge eyelashes and spar- horrified — she thought it was a phase.” kle lipstick and there was Kylie Jean When he came out as gay to his par- Lucille, in full riotous living color, ready ents, his dad stormed out of the house. to head in for 801’s 5 p.m. Sunday family “Fathers always take it the hardest,” his show, kids welcome. The colors glow in mother soothed. black light, he noted. By now he was pressing white pow- How has he managed to turn out so der under his eyes to define cheek and- well? jaw lines, then applying a peachy pink “I’m lucky,” he said. ■ from inside the bridge of his nose out A18 WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2016 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY KEY WEST KEY WEST HAPPY HOUR GUIDE

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BY BUCKY MONTGOMERY Aces and played the Imperial Cafe large crowd was forming and the late Florida weekly Correspondent and the old Cuban Club. The band hour caused the local police to ask grew to nine performers, but the that the music end. Beatles drummer Key West music legend Coffee Butler Korean War and the draft soon Ringo Starr said, “Let the man play.” still has a lot of juice. At the age of 87 he reduced their numbers to a quartet Coffee helped his Uncle Bill Butler still fills the seats. Last week at the Key or even a trio, which became Cof- rekindle The Junkanoos with their West Theater he filled 280 of them during fee and His Cups. Their first big gig special Latin and Bahamian rhythms. the dog days of August. He is a very spe- in Key West was at Johnny Neebo’s The group featured percussion- cial performer and beloved Key Wester. Starlight Club on Duval. Many other ists Charles Allen, Kenny Rahming, Lofton “Coffee” Butler was born and clubs featured the band, including Joe Whyms and Alvin Scott. Harry raised in Key West. Family and friends the Bamboo Room on today’s Apple- Chipchase played trombone. Edwar called him Loffy except for one friend routh Lane. Weech played saxophone, even who kept mispronouncing Loffy as “Cof- Coffee was an outstanding short- though he had lost parts of his fin- fee.” Soon the name “Coffee” stuck. Later, stop and revered Jackie Robinson, gers in an explosion while serving in when he was playing at the Hukilau, the who joined the Brooklyn Dodgers the Army. They appeared often at the owner’s girlfriend said that story had to in 1947. Coffee wanted to follow a COURTESY PHOTO Florida Folk Festival from 1977-1991. be embellished. She came up with the line career in baseball. After graduat- Coffee later went solo with gigs that Coffee got his name because he was ing in 1948, he tried out with the Negro while, Tallulah approached Coffee, sat on at the Casa Marina and became a fixture so stimulating. League’s Kansas City Monarchs. Eventu- his piano and struck up a conversation. at Allan Merrill’s Hukilau on North Roo- Coffee’s uncles, Bill and Oliver Butler, ally, he played in the Florida/Cuba League Coffee told her how he loved her movies sevelt (the current Homeland Security played saxophone, as did most of the for the Palm Beach Rockets, traveling and her deep sexy voice. The flamboyant Office). One of his favorite gigs was play- Butlers. After attending Francis Xavier between Miami, Tampa and Cuba in 1950 Tallulah purred, “If you made love to me, ing with Jim Holt, Jack Holt and Jack’s School, Coffee studied music at Frederick and 1951. you would have been dead a long time wife, Sheryl Lynn. He also performed with Douglass High School and learned to play Coffee was drafted in 1952. When he ago.” musicians Hector Barossa (saxophone), the piano. His favorite musicians were returned from the Army, Coffee met the An encounter with The Beatles also fig- Buddy Chavez (drums), Bobby Lowe Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. Torn love of his life. He married Virginia “Mar- ures in Coffee’s story, although he doesn’t (bass) and Duke Yannacone (drums). between music and baseball in his early tha” Carpentier in 1957. Martha was a big make much of it. On Sept. 10, 1964, The Coffee said the owner of Howie’s life, Coffee was encouraged by Ellen San- reason for his long success and stable Beatles were in Montreal en route to a Lounge wanted to take him to Las Vegas chez, his high school music teacher, who life, keeping him well-grounded in his concert in Jacksonville. and open a bigger venue. Coffee remained saw his potential and tried to encourage Key West roots. After 54 years of happi- Hurricane Dora forced a detour of their in Key West rather than moving to the big him to pursue music. In the Jim Crow ness, Martha passed away in 2011. Coffee flight to Key West. The Beatles stayed at city to become a star because he remem- era, baseball, she felt, didn’t provide the cried his eyes out. He still sees a doctor the old Key Wester Hotel on South Roo- bered what happened to his good friend opportunity that music would ultimately in Miami about his troubled left eye. Mar- sevelt, now the Hyatt Windward Pointe. Fats Navarro and, he says, he “didn’t want provide. Ms. Sanchez wrote a song, “The tha’s favorite Coffee Butler song was “Let They were jamming all day with a number that to happen to me.” Fats Navarro, a leg- Beautiful Isle of Key West,” which Coffee Them Talk.” of different groups. After Coffee finished endary Key West trumpeter, succumbed sang to Harry Truman during the dedica- Coffee encountered many famous folks his gig at the Hukilau, Herb Rosenburg to heroin at 27. Navarro left Key West after tion of Truman Avenue. during his performances. Tennessee Wil- took Coffee to the Inner Room at the Key graduating from high school and became In the late 1940s, Coffee and his father, liams once came into the Bamboo Room Wester and Coffee joined in and played an a huge sensation in New York before his “Duke” Butler, formed Duke and the Royal with Tallulah Bankhead. After listening a old Fats Domino tune, “Blueberry Hill.” A life and meteoric career were cut short. ■

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BY MAXINE LOPEZ-KEOUGH time pilot whose shipwrecking through the Mitchell Wolfson Trust, Florida Weekly Correspondent success had made him one of the and remains a reputable dealer of richest men in the Florida Keys, original Audubon work. The three- It’s midway through the tour of Key such wealth demanded a home story home is filled with precious West’s stunningly pretty Audubon House of appropriate grandeur. In 1846, antiquities and, of course, with and Tropical Gardens that the truth comes Audubon’s work, as well as infor- out: John James Audubon — famed natu- after the rest of the ilsand was most- mation about the artist’s life and ralist painter, whose lifelike paintings of ly flattened in a hurricane, Capt. career. An acre of lush tropical gar- bird portraits line the walls of the museum Geiger chose a prominent lot on dens surrounds the home, featuring — never actually lived in the Audubon which to build his family’s new hundreds of orchids, a koi pond and House. But don’t let this spoiler keep you home — a lavish American Classic a replica of the property’s original from visiting; indeed, a visit to the Audu- Revival mansion of tropical wood 1850s outdoor kitchen building. bon House offers so much beauty, charm at the intersection of Green and Visitors are encouraged to wind and historical interest, you’ll be left feeling Whitehead streets, with an unob- their way through the quiet brick only that it was Audubon’s loss that he was structed view of the ocean (and any pathways, taking note of the rare never able to inhabit such a magical place. new potential shipwrecks). It was tropical plants (carefully labeled for Amassing a fortune from treasure gath- a grand, busy estate encompassing those without extensive botanical ered from the ruins of shipwrecks might 6 acres, home to Capt. Geiger, his knowledge) and view the medicinal seem like a job description for a storybook wife, his children, and a number of COURTESY PHOTO and herb garden, a staple of 19th- pirate, but in 19th-century Key West, it was slaves who, in addition to domestic century upscale homes. Though a lucrative and respectable way to make chores, were made to assist in the the museum and its grounds are a living. The busy passage between the wrecking business that fueled Geiger’s ily mansion would later be constructed. located in the bustling downtown district, Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf Coast was a wealth. The Wolfsons began a two-year pro- once inside the protective foliage of the dangerous place for ships to sail, and each For over a century, Capt. Geiger’s home cess of painstaking renovation, the first grounds, the sights and sounds of the out- year saw many boats wrecked on offshore remained in the family’s possession, until historical renovation of its kind in Key side world are muffled. Visitors are trans- reefs during the frequent storms that pum- Capt. Geiger’s great-grandson, Capt. Wil- West, at the end of which marked the ported back in time to an island without meled the area. liam Bradford Smith, took up residence. rechristening of the Geiger home as the tour buses or T-shirt shops, where fame “Finders keepers” might not mean much Smith, a Key West Harbor pilot, lived Audubon House Museum. They filled the and fortune awaited any man brave enough today, but for those in the wrecking indus- in hermit-like seclusion without indoor house with antiques, including many items to watch the sea for a wrecked ship, and try of Key West, it was law. When a ship plumbing, electricity or cooking facilities, from the Geiger family, as well as numer- beat his fellow wreckers to the prize. ■ ran aground, the first man to reach the boat and by the time of his death in 1956, the ous original hand-colored lithographs by became the “wreck master,” who — after house had fallen into ruin. Audubon. saving the crew and passengers, if possible Slated for demolition, it was saved in Today, Key West is known for having — directed the salvaging of the ship and 1958 by Mitchell and Frances Wolfson, who one of the most colorful and well-protect- its cargo. Back on land, the recovered haul were compelled to purchase the property ed historical districts in the United States, The Audubon House was auctioned off, with the wreck master after hearing it was destined to become a with the highest density of historic frame >> Location: 205 Whitehead St. taking the largest cut of the profits. It was gas station. The Wolfsons had heard the buildings in the nation. Yet few who visit a dangerous, highly competitive and regu- same folklore that speculated James Audu- know that it was the Wolfsons’ renovation >> Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. lated industry, the spoils of which helped bon might have conceived many of his bird of the Audubon House that began this >> Tickets: The museum offers discounted solidify Key West as the richest city in the portraits during a visit to the gardens of Dr. now-priceless movement to protect and museum tickets to locals. country by the mid-1800s. Benjamin Strobel, whose home was locat- preserve the island’s oldest architecture. >> Contact: For more information, call (305) For Capt. John Huling Geiger, a mari- ed on the property where the Geiger fam- To this day, the property is cared for 294-2116 or visit audubonhouse.com.

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