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Key West’s top-notch restaurants are rolling out exclusive New Year’s Eve menus of their own. Settle in for the night with delicious takeout or celebrate the arrival of 2024 at places like Seven Fish and Martin’s, who both have special New Year’s Eve celebrations and menus planned. On May 31, the Key West Art & Historical Society will open its latest exhibition, “Sushi in the Shoe: Celebrating 25 Years of New Year’s Eve Drop” that will showcase many of the iconic dresses designed and worn by world renowned drag queen Sushi, also known as Gary Marion. She's captured attention around the world in quirky Key West fashion, Sushi the Drag Queen has welcomed the new year being lowered in a big red pump for more than 2 decades. On May 31, the Key West Art & Historical Society will open its latest exhibition, “Sushi in the Shoe: Celebrating 25 Years of New Year’s Eve Drop” that will showcase many of the iconic dresses designed and worn by world renowned drag queen Sushi, also known as Gary Marion. On May 31, to kick off the island’s Pride celebration, the Key West Art & Historical Society opened its latest exhibit, “Sushi in the Shoe: Celebrating 25 Years of New Year’s Eve Drop,” that showcases many of the iconic dresses designed and worn by renowned drag queen Sushi, also known as Gary Marion. After 25 years of “dropping” in a giant red high-heeled shoe on New Year’s Eve, elaborately dressed as legendary Key West drag queen “Sushi,” Gary Marion is hanging up the heel. KEY WEST, Florida Keys – Christopher Peterson has a big shoe to fill: the giant red high heel that carried drag queen Sushi for 25 years during Key West’s famed New Year’s Eve Red Shoe Drop -- a takeoff on New York City’s Times Square ball drop. Renowned drag queen Sushi drops in on 2023 inside a giant red, high-heeled show for the 25th year. Seconds before midnight, the elaborately gowned Sushi is lowered from the balcony to the cheering crowd below. Past “Red Shoe Drops” have been featured on CNN. With the weather warm and dry, spectators cluster on the main street to watch the infamous drag queen Gary “Sushi” Marion who has taken center stageor shoeto descend from the Bourbon rooftop with each final minute of the year. Guide to Key West, Florida Keys New Years Eve celebrations for NYE 2023-2024. Where to watch the Conch, Wench and Red Shoe Drop events. Find the best Florida Keys new years eve fireworks displays. For 30 years Gary Marion has portrayed drag queen Sushi. A Key West institution, Sushi was at the center of one of the town's most beloved New Year's Eve traditions - but after 25 years, it's time New Years Eve Glow Hour: The Studios of Key West: 30 Dec 2024: Glow on the Beach Party & Fireworks: 3841 North Roosevelt Boulevard, Key West, FL 33040: 31 Dec 2024: GERD RUBE - NEW YEARS EVE - Key West Solo Rock Show: Sloppy Joe's, Key West: 31 Dec 2024: NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION : 308 Front St, Key West, FL: 31 Dec 2024: 31 NEW YEAR 2025 - THE Key West attracts a variety of different tourist demographics throughout the year based on a creative and culturally diverse events calendar. The Southernmost City is well known for its historic architecture, sunny beaches, the third largest coral reef in the world and huge party festivals like New Year’s Eve, Fantasy Fest and Spring Break. For New Year's Eve revellers in Key West, sushi does not mean the Japanese concoction of fish and rice. Instead, it refers to a drag queen who plans to bring in 2009 suspended above the island city’s famous Duval Street perched in an eight-foot red high heel shoe, spraying the crowds below with champagne. Every New Year’s Eve, Gary Marion takes center stage as “Sushi,” a drag queen, inside a massive high-heeled red shoe dangling over Key West’s main street. CNN values your feedback 1. New Year’s Eve celebrations in the southernmost city traditionally feature balmy temperatures and a warm welcome for revelers fleeing colder climes. Chief among Key West’s festivities are five offbeat takeoffs on the traditional “ball drop” in New York’s Times Square. As midnight approaches Sunday, Dec. 31, thousands of people are expected to ring in the [] Thousands of revelers watch female impersonator Randy Roberts, the new star of the New Year’s Eve ‘Red Shoe Drop,’ as he is lowered in a gigantic replica of a red high heel late Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, to mark the beginning of 2024 at the Bourbon St. Pub Complex in Key West. After 25 years of “dropping” in a giant red high-heeled shoe on New Year’s Eve, elaborately dressed as legendary Key West drag queen “Sushi,” Gary Marion is hanging up the heel. New Year's Eve revelers in subtropical Key West enjoyed several offbeat warmer-weather takeoffs on New York City's traditional Times Square "ball drop" -- including the 25th annual "drop" of a KEY WEST, Fla. — Christopher Peterson has a big shoe to fill: the giant red high heel that carried drag queen Sushi for 25 years during Key West’s famed New Year’s Eve Red Shoe Drop — a
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