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 like someday, and 90 percent of the time, you’re dead wrong. Consider the ideas of the future that sprouted in the atomic ’50s –…
THU 11/27 If you can’t stand the heat today, get out of the kitchen — literally. There are a few Broward County establishments sympathetic to the plight of the lazy and the poultry-challenged. 15th Street Fisheries (1900 SE 15th St., Fort Lauderdale) offers turkey, soup, salad, potatoes, and sorbet for…
THU 1/20 The Broward County Fair opens its gates today at the Pompano Race Track (corner of Atlantic Boulevard and Powerline Road, Pompano Beach). You can expect the typical county fair fare, so to speak, from this year’s event, along with a few surprises. Like past years and, in fact,…
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 for years and whom the young comedians look up to. Just look at all the copycats. When Woody Allen came out with his neurotic…
The way an artist discovers his or her niche differs individually. For Pam Rosen, a.k.a “the Glitter Girl,” it happened by chance. After she received a degree in printmaking from the Art Institute of Boston, she moved to New Orleans. “I was working on a Mardi Gras costume and started…
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 Old School Square (51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach) for a Meet the Masters series. Every month, the museum presents an educational event on a…
Part of a music journalist’s job is to find, or in some cases invent, that perfect descriptive word. Richmond, Virginia, four-piece Denali has been labeled “moody,” “atmospheric,” and even “glacial,” but guitarist Cam DiNunzio understands. “I used to be a writer for a paper in Richmond,” he says. “And I…
At the end of rows of neatly manicured lawns, freshly polished SUVs, and lush green palms is a long, black, iron gate, behind which are hundreds of marble headstones. From a distance, these chunks of South Florida history look like pale thumbs protruding from the earth. This land backs up…
What can be said about Fort Lauderdale’s neighbor to the north — Pompano Beach? Unless you enjoy mullet-spotting, sports bars, or lying facedown in a pool of your own sick after that sixth shot of tequila — well, not a whole lot. But much can be said about Whirlaway’s third…
A friend recently compared Mates of State’s new album, Team Boo, to “getting a stomachache from swallowing too much sunshine.” After hearing this, Jason Hammel is quiet for a minute, then agrees: “Yeah, I actually like that comparison. Wait, did he mean it made him sick?” Not-so-eloquent statements aside, Mates…
THU 10/30 As if we didn’t have enough yachts in town already, the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show drops anchor at six locations in Fort Lauderdale today: Radisson Bahia Mar Yachting Center, Broward County Convention Center, Marriott Portside Marina, Hyatt Pier 66 Hotel and Marina, Hall of Fame Marina, and…
THU 10/23 Don’t miss your last chance to catch the Andreas Feininger exhibit at the Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach). The son of one of the master instructors at the Bauhaus, Feininger trained as an architect in Germany before moving to Stockholm, where he…
THU 10/16 Deicide is scary. Like, scary for real. Not cheesy, metal-dude scary, but genuinely frightening. Deicide is loud and fast and sinister enough to get you thrown out of the house for listening to devil’s music. First, there’s the band’s trapped-in-the-blades-of-a-helicopter brand of metal. Then there are those lyrics:…
The Body Shop ran advertisements a few years ago featuring a “plus-size” Barbie-esque doll lounging on a couch above the following words: “There are 3 billion women who don’t look like supermodels and only 8 who do.” Simple images like that jump-start new thoughts. Or so says Jessica Devaney, a…
THU 10/9 The Fyrplace Gallery (131 N. M St., Lake Worth) continues its traditional conceit of inserting a y for every i as it presents its latest event: Author Spotlyght. In this first evening of the new series, held from 8 to 10 p.m., participants take a close look at…
Stephanie Adams went to Catholic school — all-girl Catholic school — for more than 13 years. Then, she posed for the glossy pages of Playboy. Right now, if you’re a straight male over 15 years of age, you are probably already concocting an elaborate fantasy involving softly lit underage schoolgirls…
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 daily?), often the works that spring to mind are the paintings. Picassos, Chagalls, Manets, all beautifully wrought and now the property of the ages…
After watching Weird Science, one has to wonder: What makes the perfect woman? Is it just a nice rack and Albert Einstein’s brain? Well, then, what makes the perfect band? Is it an equal combination of chiseled looks, good chops, and a seedy addiction to some over-the-counter sleeping pill? No,…
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 Chile its own September 11 — President Salvador Allende was killed in a coup on that date in 1973. Thousands more died over the next several…
THU 9/18 Are you sick of your emotions, or are they sick of you? The Delray Beach Public Library offers a three-part lecture by Dr. Laura Feoglio called “Can Emotions Make You Sick?” We all know emotional outbursts can feel good, but too many can turn us into sobbing gelatinous…
Erick Jackson is worried about the weather in South Florida. He wants to know if it’s going to be hot, humid, and mosquito-infested for the Apes’ upcoming stop in the beautiful Sunshine State. Upon telling him that that’s most likely the case, one has to wonder what he’s so worried…
THU 9/11 “Charlotte Sometimes” is a song by the Cure, and it’s also the title of the new Eric Byler film. Charlotte Sometimes tells the classic story of a love triangle, but with a fourth person. So it’s really a love quadrangle. It’s a simple love story: Boy likes girl…
