There's a troop surge for all you dancers out there, and the Afghan Raiders are leading the pack. Thursday night's Bravado at Mix will be hosting the Afghan Raiders (AR), a musical twosome from Las Vegas. The two musicians, Beans and Mikey, are not ethnically Afghani— the inspiration for their name came from the French film Amelie. "[Amelie] is trying to find her boyfriend and she makes up this long, kind of neurotic story about how he might have been kidnapped by Afghan raiders," said Beans. "We thought it was a really cool phrase and intriguing." Beans and Mikey, the other half of AR, have known each other since high school. Heavy rock and punk music brought them together, and their

You better run for your spandex, because Club Lyfestile is an epidemic dancing the nation. Bravado night at Mix, a rooftop lounge and bar downtown, hosted a 13-person dance troupe from Philadelphia on Thursday. Bravado is a party held at Mix every Thursday night. Past guest DJs include Nick Catchdubs, Designer Drugs, and Treasure Fingers. I was able to follow the dancers around town for the night, and had the pleasure to know fun as I had never known before, the Club Lyfestile method. The dancers are Versastile, Bumble Bees, RazzMaTazz, Champagne, Señor Sexweed, Jovius, Blackout, Miracle, Aquamarine, Marvey, Zephyr and Azimuth. They are followed by a videographer, Autofocus. Videos of