What a Drag
The Tides Hotel Complains Local Drag Performance is Too Loud, but are They Motivated by Something Other Than Noise?
By Lee Molloy
For more than two decades, The Palace at 1200 Ocean Drive has been a staple of South Beach life. Locals and visitors from all over the globe turn up every week to witness one of the last remaining examples of an experience that helped to put South Beach on the tourist map — a full drag show.
“It’s the most entertaining thing on South Beach,” drag queen and regular performer at The Palace, Tiffany Fantasia, told The Lead. “Where else are you going to find a 6-foot-4 drag queen prancing around on the sidewalks, dancing around, and spinning like she’s lost her mind?”
However, one local ‘diva’ is not at all happy with the fabulous competition. The management of the neighboring The Tides South Beach hotel at 1220 Ocean Drive, which is ironically nicknamed ‘The Diva of Ocean Drive’ has been waging a war of complaints against the drag shows at The Palace by calling the City Code Compliance department to say the shows are too loud. READ MORE
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