“This event is the perfect opportunity for Doris Italian Market & Bakery to kick off the holiday season and promote a significant cause such as breast cancer beyond National Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” said John Alfano, president of Doris Italian Market & Bakery in anticipation of the upcoming holiday season,…
The Florida Grand Opera’s (FGO) ambitious season is ready to kick off this month, and as part of its Young Artists development programs and opera awareness events, it’s had a busy preseason in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. One of the easiest ways for a niche cultural institution like the FGO…
The 2014 Michelob Ultra Half-Marathon is the inaugural race for the Florida Storm Marathon Series. With five events in total running through next March and taking place in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Sarasota, Miami Beach, and the Palm Beaches, there’s a certain regional pride added to the satisfaction of simply participating…
When Danny Ashe relocated to Germany in 2010, he left behind a tangible void in South Florida’s music scene. As a DJ and musician, his presence had been felt in the tricounty area for numerous years with his eclectic sets of rock ‘n’ roll infused with Motown, postpunk, and pop…
In the world of heavy metal, only one band besides Black Sabbath has had an equally massive and lasting impression on the generations that followed. That band was and continues to be Judas Priest. Iconic for its introduction of leather S&M garb to the metal genre, and aside from a…
Horror (or rather “shock”) has had a long and rather fruitful relationship with punk rock. Many of the classic bands of the genre have touched upon the topic, whether addressing human horrors, fantasy/science fiction, Reaganomics, or even All Hallow’s Eve itself. Even the Misfits made a career out of the…
It’s safe to say that with exponential growth over the past few years, huge community involvement, and enthusiastic attendance, Fort Lauderdale has fully embraced Florida’s Day of the Dead as a new but already beloved tradition. This year’s celebration, the fifth annual, is shaping up to be quite the party…
No one knows for sure which is the scarier proposition: Boca Raton on Halloween or Lil Jon in Boca Raton during Halloween, making the attendants of the fifth-annual Trick or Beats two-day event extracrunk with his crunkiness. Actually, scratch that — what could possibly be better than having Lil Jon,…
Surely the best part of Halloween is the socially acceptable sanctioning of defrauding your neighbors of candies and other treats with the gravitas of, again, a socially acceptable sanction of revenge (i.e., trick[s]). This is already good stuff on its own, and it only gets better when large institutions open…
Dan Gorostiaga has been a key a figure in South Florida’s underground. As founder and sole constant of Cavity, he put Miami on the metal map during the ’90s with the band’s highly imitated, stripped-down sludge. Since its split in 2001, I have personally pestered him about the band getting…
“James is one of the most talented mixologists we have ever worked with,” says La Ferme’s owner Bobby Shapiro in his latest news release. “Owning Flex Mussels in Manhattan and a number of other restaurants over the years, we’ve worked with quite a few mixologists, and James’ cocktails are well…
Chain coffeehouses continue to be all the rage — after all, when it comes to pleasing American palates, consistency seems to be the most important factor, and chains certainly offer that. But slowly, in the same way we’ve changed our attitudes toward “craft” and “artisanal” products, coffee is having a…
It might be hard for the uninitiated to understand the pairing of Enrique Iglesias (heir apparent to the Iglesias charm) and Cuban-American rapper Pitbull. However, given their working relationship, one that reaches back a few years with appearances on each other’s albums, it begins to make sense. Perfect sense almost…
The annual Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Craft Festival is now in its 16th year, proving the enduring appeal of this event in this sun-loving community. There’s an older sibling in the spring, looking to turn 19 next March, but the best part about these two is that given South Florida’s unique year-round summer…
Ghosts, vampires, sci-fi monsters, and whatever cartoon is the flavor du jour are all fun and acceptable Halloween costumes, but they fall a little short on the “Floridiana.” With Florida’s colorful history involving fearsome raids by pirates and buccaneers, you’d think piracy as a costume motif would be more rampant…
The lengths to which some companies go to protect their image can sometimes be, well, ridiculous at best. In the olden days, before chefs and foods became trendy and marketable, when mom-and-pop operations staked their claims and reputations on their family name, you found real quality control. Since larger culinary…
Ah! A girl’s sweet 16 is a special coming-of-age celebration. This party, marking the transition into adulthood, has over time become a bit of a spectacle. The days of it being small parties at home have turned into full-on “bridezilla”-like monstrosities in hotels, boats, and/or halls with extravagant, thematic productions…
The Florida Grand Opera (FGO) is poised to start another successful and well-rounded season this fall with fan favorite, cross-cultural drama Madama Butterfly, which enjoyed a well-received run in Broadway. While the opera might recall a romanticized idea of elitism, the FGO has continuously managed a varied and accessible repertoire…
You know those Red Bull Flugtag events with cool-looking, potentially aquatic and/or aerial contraptions that are launched with much fanfare and violent aplomb into the water? Yes? Well, this is nothing like it. Hollywood Marina’s Cardboard Boat Race is way more hard-core and potentially more of a maritime disaster than…
By taking to heart Franklin Roosevelt’s quote of educating the youth for the future, the GBDC Entrepreneurship Institute has worked with about 40 teenagers each summer to develop social entrepreneurs through training, business coaching, and technical assistance. Annette Gray, the institute’s founder said in a recent news release that “the…
Tim Reynolds might be best-known as the one who offered Dave Matthews his first words of musical encouragement. Matthews, born in South Africa, and Reynolds, born in Germany, would have their confluence in Virginia. The two are separated by a decade in age, with Tim the elder, and though it…
Music and food share similarities as forms of art. Passion drives both, and as such, you’ll have true practitioners of their crafts in the forms of master musicians and master chefs. Anything of lesser honor or execution can immediately be relegated to the arenas of “top 40” drivel or the…
