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Brazil Next and ISL are launching Camarote Boom , the first ever gay box at the Sambadrome in Rio.

Like a fireworks display during Carnaval in her native Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian Ana Paula has exploded on the U.S. gay party scene.

"Paulo is definitely the IT Girl of the DJ/Producers," says Epic Saturdays resident DJ Richie LaDue.

This past August, New Yorkers discovered that Mother Nature had yet another weapon in her arsenal of inclement weather: a sudden and violent storm called a microburst that wreaks havoc on the landscape-and last night at Roseland, an even more fearsome microburst hammered the crowd-and this one was called Peter Rauhofer.

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DJ Peter Rauhofer's WORK! party is dropping the gore on this Halloween's dancefloor.

As the song from Chicago has it, "The name on everybody's lips is...Ana Paula." Ever since her North American debut a year ago, the Brazilian bombshell has been rocketing through the nightlife galaxy, igniting dance floors from Montreal to Miami, New York and Toronto-and her M2 debut in Manhattan was no exception.

Who the hell wants to go to work on Saturday? Not me, but apparently lots of guys do.

House music runs in William Umana a's blood. It's been a part of who he is for over 20 years.

Last September, I wrote about dance music gaining credibility among high-minded indie aficionados, most notably with the critical praise given to the alt-disco bands Hercules and Love Affair , Cut Copy and LCD Soundsystem.

RAUHOFER LAUGHS! RAUHOFER IN HYSTERICS! RAUHOFER CRACKS UP WATCHING ALAN T. PERFORM "WHATEVAH"! Yes, that Alan T., the voice behind some of the fiercest bitch tracks ever recorded.

An ailing Sigmund Freud spends an hour with the younger C.S. Lewis. They argue about everything on the eve of Britain's entry into World War Two and resolve nothing.

On the eve of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir contemplates her decisions, actions and her entire life; she comes away satisfied that she has done her best.

''A lot of people miss the Roxy and the big-room experience," says Peter Rauhofer.

So it's summer-in the City-and you're about to take a bite out of the Apple for the BIGGEST Pride celebration of them all.