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Party
Click! Click! You're IN!
Dek23, Miami Beach, Fl
by Mark Thompson & Robert Doyle
September 2, 2007
 
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Meanwhile, down here in the Sixth Borough—aka South Beach.... There's this Sunday night party called CLICK which happens in the lower reaches of Washington—Sixth and Washington, to be exact—in the same environs where so much of the notorious and fabled South Beach party life of the 90's happened (and for those keeping score, it’s the same space which once housed Living Room, Butter, and Bash….)

And this party CLICK promoted by this young hottie named Omar Gonzalez gets all the elements right.

The club is now called Dek23 and, as with so many of those clubs along lower Washington, it's something of a extra-long shoebox—with a secondary back room/outdoor patio with a second sound system, bar, dance floor, couches, banquettes, etc (along with that BALMY South Beach air—and a half-moon hanging just out of reach....)

Out in front are the requisite South Beach velvet ropes and stanchions and glama-fierce door person with clipboard—and a small line of South Beach hotties at midnight when we arrive.

Inside, in the main room, it's dark and sexy and YOUNG. And fashionable. The kids WEAR CLOTHES. And on the boards it's DJ Roxx—who's at least fifteen—but HE KNOWS HIS MUSIC! He sets up a beat system which proves to be so contagious and infectious that even though there's carpeting—GAG! GAG! GAG!—on the floor, there's not one person in the room who can resist. We're talking mixing—and overlaying—and kids werqing the banquettes—and spontaneous go-go boyz on the boxes—and shows! These are shows in the spirit of 1994 South Beach. We're talking Elaine Lancaster doing “Pride (A Deeper Love)”—which doesn't interrupt the night’s flow—because these kidz aren't into standing around and facing just any one person. Elaine does her number with a spotlight following her—and DJ Roxx keeps it going, mixing in “Beautiful Liar”—and the flow goes on.

A little later, there's another show by another dq named Adora (she and Elaine are charter members of SoBe night life—and they’re still so professional without one ounce of bad attitude)—who gets the spotlight to follow her from box to box to banquette to stage as “She Werks (Hard For the Money.” And while both of the dq songs/numbers are throwbacks, there's nothing at all retro about DJ Roxx's set which keeps the boyz, the kidz, the real girls, happy and smiling and grooving and moving.

We didn't leave until four (leaving Doug and Josh with a new hottie named Willie) and there was an after-party in Miami at Discotekka that we skipped—because, the truth was, we were werked. But we walked home the three blocks feeling like we'd just glimpsed a bit of what made South Beach so wildly popular way back when—and why it's still werking now.

Omar Gonzalez has a hit with CLICK. Don’t miss being a part of the legend.
 

 
 
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