Email Author Dan Sweeney

2003 Stories by Dan Sweeney

• Good Night, Hashbrown

  published December 25, 2003

  Hashbrown performs at the Poor House, 110 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale, at 10 p.m. Wednesday, December 31. Admission is free. Call 954-522-5145. More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published December 25, 2003

  THU 12/25 By now, all of your preparations had better be set. You should have strung up all of your billions of blinking lights. Boca... More >>

• Theosophistry

  published December 18, 2003

  Religions, by and large, tend to have roots dating back centuries upon centuries. For some reason, it was just more possible to start a religion a... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published December 18, 2003

  THU 12/18 Die Mommie Die!, the latest film from playwright Charles Busch, has all the elements of a good murder mystery -- a... More >>

• D'oh!

  published December 4, 2003

  By now, it is almost impossible to fathom the collective impression The Simpsons has made on Western culture. The word d'oh now... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published December 4, 2003

  THU 12/4 So-called "futurists" must have the easiest job in the world. All you do is sit around and think about what the future will be... More >>

• Sacred Science

  published November 27, 2003

  Religion and science are, to say the least, not the best of friends. You've got creationism versus evolution, the stem-cell controversy, and don't... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published November 27, 2003

  THU 11/27 If you can't stand the heat today, get out of the kitchen -- literally. There are a few Broward County establishments... More >>

• The Beatdown Goes On

  published November 20, 2003

  As long as there have been people, there have been those who kick the crap out of other people. But even with this long history, and despite the... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published November 20, 2003

  THU 1/20 The Broward County Fair opens its gates today at the Pompano Race Track (corner of Atlantic Boulevard and Powerline... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published November 13, 2003

  THU 11/13 Slowly yet surely, Dom Irrera has become one of the old men of comedy. One of the guys who have been in the business... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published November 6, 2003

  THU 11/6 Want to get your kids unwound from all the Halloween festivities? Then bring them to the Cornell Museum of Art and History at... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published October 30, 2003

  THU 10/30 As if we didn't have enough yachts in town already, the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show drops anchor at six... More >>

• Psychic Sonya

  published October 23, 2003

  Sonya Fitzpatrick, star of Animal Planet's The Pet Psychic, has an amazing ability. An ability perhaps unmatched in history. The talent we... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published October 16, 2003

  THU 10/16 Deicide is scary. Like, scary for real. Not cheesy, metal-dude scary, but genuinely frightening. Deicide is loud and... More >>

• It's Kansas, Not Indiana

  published October 16, 2003

  "I was still in Africa taking pictures and writing articles and sending them back, but money was always a problem. At one point, in order to raise... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published October 9, 2003

  THU 10/9 The Fyrplace Gallery (131 N. M St., Lake Worth) continues its traditional conceit of inserting a y for every i... More >>

• Less Traveled

  published October 9, 2003

  For a brief moment in the mid- to late 1990s, it looked as if the hippies were taking over. Phish had picked up where the Grateful Dead left off.... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published October 2, 2003

  THU 9/02 When one dwells on the masterpieces of the great artists (and surely, don't we all ponder on this at least two or three times... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published September 25, 2003

  THU 9/25 Whatever happened to the CIA? When the people of Chile elected a Socialist president back in the early 1970s, the CIA gave... More >>

• Velcome to Oktoberfest

  published September 18, 2003

  Nearly 200 years ago, Crown Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I) married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on October 12. They decided to... More >>

• You Bastards!

  published September 18, 2003

  More than 40 years ago, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow called television programming "the vast wasteland." But if TV is... More >>

• Sample This Café

  published September 11, 2003

  Nearly a century ago, Ezra Pound, perhaps the most Modern of the Modern poets, tore up everything that came before him with the battle cry, "Make... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published September 4, 2003

  THU 9/4 Even a couple of weeks is enough to change a political landscape, and mark our words, the landscape of next year's... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published August 28, 2003

  THU 8/28 Now that he's assured himself a place in the history books with his master-ful rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game,"... More >>