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INSIDE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2016 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. I, No. 23 • FREE 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 SEE WOMENFEST, A10 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. 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