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Best Rock Band
Important: This article was last updated on October 18, 2006. Please call ahead to confirm hours, prices, dates and other information.
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Readers' picks
Best Rock Club
Revolution
Fort Lauderdale
Best Happy Hour
Yard House
Palm Beach Gardens
Best Concert Venue
Hard Rock Live
Hollywood
Best Bar
The Poor House
Fort Lauderdale
Best Dance Club
VooDoo Lounge
Fort Lauderdale
Best Strip Club
Scarlett's Cabaret
Hallandale Beach
Best Martini Bar
Blue Martini
Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach
Best Beer Selection in a Bar
Billabong Pub
Pembroke Park
Best Sports Bar
Bru's Room Sports Grill
Various locations
Best Movie Theater
Muvico Theaters
Various locations
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Brendan O'Hara and the Humble Ones
Brendanohara.org
For a piano-based trio, Brendan O'Hara and the Humble Ones can rock a room. Animated and expressive, O'Hara stands and delivers from behind his keyboards -- no piano stool needed for the lanky, bearded frontman, thank you -- a marked contrast to his stoic (but hardly static) rhythm section of bassist Billy B. Bowin and drummer Jon Weiner. Mixing elements of funk, rock, blues, jazz and hip-hop, O'Hara provides additional propulsion as he pounds the keys like a honky-tonk madman, sings in an emotive and bluesy shout and even rocks the mike like an MC when he steps out from behind his instrument. It's not as though Weiner needs the help, but O'Hara will steal a piece of his drummer's kit and perform a drum solo, too, as he did during a recent show at China White. The band has a new album on the way, following last year's Perceptive Inception, behind which the Humble Ones did an East Coast tour. And true to its name, the group has played tsunami and Hurricane Katrina benefits, as well as at their pal Aaron Jackson's Planting Peace fundraiser for an HIV orphanage in Haiti. Did someone say rock stars? Oh, hell yeah.
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