Willie Nelson plays the Amp tonight
A Willie Nelson night at the Amp anchors the calendar, the city has new overdose-reversal cabinets in public buildings, and a sculpture drop at Shipwreck Park is back on the...
Willie Nelson plays the Amp tonight
Willie Nelson headlines the Pompano Beach Amphitheater tonight, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.
The city's events listing flags the seven-decade career and the awards résumé, but the practical point for residents is simpler: a heavy-traffic night at the Amp on a Tuesday, on top of an already busy week of programming at city venues.
If you are driving in from the west side or off Atlantic, plan for the usual amphitheater queue along the venue's access road. The Amp is the city's largest ticketed room, and a Willie Nelson booking on a weeknight is the kind of show that fills it, so getting there closer to doors than to showtime is the safer bet.
The same night, the Hive Black Box Theater runs its Modern Fusion Dance Class and a Teen Dance Class, both teaching Horton, ballet and a touch of Graham technique. If you have a kid already enrolled, the Amp crowd is the variable you did not have last week — leave earlier than you normally would for a Tuesday class drop-off.
Reef Rider sculpture install rescheduled after weather call
nditions. The original media-invited install had been announced on May 12 as a marquee moment for the city's underwater park.
For divers and charter operators who follow Shipwreck Park, the cancellation is the operational headline. The city has not posted a replacement date yet; the press-release archive is the page to check later this week.
The broader context: Shipwreck Park is one of the city's signature outdoor assets, and "Reef Rider" is the kind of install that draws attention from divers and local media in a way few other city projects do. A weather hold is routine; the rescheduled date is the one worth tracking.
Online city payments going dark Thursday night
If you have a city bill, permit fee, or other C2G payment to handle this week, do it before Thursday evening.
The city has posted that online payments and other online services will be unavailable beginning Thursday, May 21, 2026, after 6:00 p.m., with all C2G payment applications and E-Services down for scheduled maintenance. The city anticipates services will be restored sometime on Friday, May 22, 2026.
That is a roughly overnight-into-Friday window with no specific restore time, so anyone with a deadline that falls in that span should either pay early or be ready to handle it in person on Friday. Auto-pay arrangements that route through C2G are the easy thing to forget.
Overdose-reversal cabinets going up across the city
Pompano Beach Fire Rescue and The Robin Foundation announced on May 14 that they are launching overdose emergency cabinets across the city.
The cabinets are a partnership between the fire department and the foundation, and the rollout is being treated as a city-wide public health measure rather than a single-site pilot.
The practical read for residents: expect to start seeing the cabinets in public buildings the way you already see AEDs, with the same logic — bystander access to a life-saving tool before a 911 response arrives. If you work in a building that gets one, it is worth a five-minute look at where it is mounted and what is inside before you ever need it.
This is also a signal about how the city is framing the overdose problem. Putting naloxone in publicly accessible cabinets is an admission that the response window is short and that trained professionals will not always be the first hands on a victim.
Financial literacy series kicks off Wednesday at multiple sites
The city's Wheel in Motion Financial Literacy Series begins Wednesday, May 20, with sessions livestreamed and RSVP required for access.
The city is framing the series around "a new era of growth and opportunity," with sessions hosted across multiple venues rather than a single auditorium.
For residents, the useful piece is the livestream plus RSVP combination — you do not have to be in the room, but you do need to register to get the link. If financial planning is on your list this spring, this is a free, city-run option that does not require buying anything at the door.
What to watch this week
The Amp follows up tonight's Willie Nelson show with Sam Barber on May 20, doors at 6:00 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m.
Bailey Contemporary Arts runs Lunch with Art and Watercolor Techniques on Wednesday, and the Hive hosts Lyrics Lab Open Mic the same night. Plan around the Thursday-evening city payments outage if you have a bill to clear.
Lead pitch for downtown Phase I infrastructure is out
licitations tied to the downtown rebuild. A separate RFP for the new downtown City Hall and parking deck project went out March 12.
For anyone tracking what "new downtown" actually means on the ground, these two RFPs are the milestones that turn renderings into bid documents. The City Hall and parking deck package is the more visible piece; the Phase I infrastructure package — utilities, streets, the unglamorous layer — is what determines how fast the rest of it can move.
Residents near the downtown footprint should expect construction-staging questions to start showing up at commission meetings as bids come back. The press-release archive is the cleanest single source for the next round of dates.