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. Widespread Panic slipped into household-name status for a millisecond. And Blues Traveler had a little multiplatinum album called Four. So it’s…
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…
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…
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…
More than 40 years ago, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow called television programming “the vast wasteland.” But if TV is really that bad, what’s radio? The medium has become one cookie-cutter station after another, usually because Clear Channel likes to stick with the same model. But this leaves a…
Nearly 200 years ago, Crown Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I) married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on October 12. They decided to hold the wedding in a picturesque field outside the city gates of Munich. Being the magnanimous royals they were, they also chose to turn the wedding into a…
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 it new!” Everything that had gone before was just a piss down the drain — n ot just the poets of yesteryear, but all…
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 presidential election is already a-changin’. Former U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark will probably dive into the primary race after September 15, so that he doesn’t have to…
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,” Ozzy Osbourne is ready to take South Florida by storm. Actually, we didn’t mind the bizarre garbled singing. We just wondered how come his “Ball…
THU 8/21 So the grass on your front lawn is filled with brownish splotches, and your only concession to landscape fashion is a pair of garden gnomes. Sounds like it’s time for Secret Woods Nature Center’s (2701 W. State Rd. 84, Dania Beach) Summer Landscape Series. From 7:30 to 9…
For many observers, the antiglobalization effort is something to be snickered at while watching CNN. Few people understand what all the fuss is about. Another problem is the appearance of antiglobalization activists in the media and, to some extent, in real life. It’s hard to take anybody seriously when they…
After 30 years of LSD-friendly rock ‘n’ roll, the Grateful Dead requires no introduction. But perhaps the Dead needs one. After Jerry “Captain Trips” Garcia embarked on his final journey in 1995, the rest of the band got together and continued as the Other Ones. The resulting tour highlighted the…
The conventional wisdom about Ziggy Marley is that as he gets older, his voice more resembles that of his daddy, Robert Nesta Marley, and his music sounds less and less like that of his father. This maxim has been stated so many times by music critics who feign knowledge of…
Donavon Frankenreiter leads the sort of life that normally exists solely in daydreams. For the past 15 years, he has surfed beaches around the world, for the past decade as a professional. And for a dozen of those years, he was also touring with Sunchild, a band he had been…
Rising above the other beachside hotels of Hollywood’s Ocean Avenue like some glittering green-and-white Tower of Babel, the Westin Diplomat spares no expense. As people troll for low-cost parking on A1A (valet service at the hotel’s front entrance is $11 an hour), the staff of the Diplomat is trying to…
This week, we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence in a suitable American way — through massive explosions. Happily, the bombs in question are not the military kind but the sort that make pretty colors and loud bangs. Many cities are content to go with the traditional show…
The statement that one thing or another puts the fun in dysfunctional is now far beyond cliché, but for Christopher Titus, it may be apropos nonetheless. For three seasons, the comedian’s show Titus, which was canceled earlier this year, took the conventions of the family sitcom, a form that was…
Danforth Prince appears at Pride Factory and Café, 845 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale, from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 21. Call 954-463-6600.
While R&B has moved on, blending hip-hop into the genre for a harder edge, there are those who insist on harking back to the days of yore, when rhythm and blues developed the Quiet Storm genre as a sort of response to soft rock. Named for the similarly titled 1975…
Jacques Cousteau may have gained a certain degree of celebrity with his underwater adventures, but he never managed to transform that fame into a marketable enterprise. Sure, he has been immortalized by bad impressionists the world over, including the narrator on SpongeBob SquarePants. Who can forget that hypnotic French-accented voice?…
Any fan of mob flicks will know Dominic Chianese (that’s pronounced kay-a-NAY-see, not chi-an-ESE, ya half-baked meatball). Watching Corrado “Uncle Junior” Soprano, we have peered into his fictional life for four fun- and mayhem-filled seasons of The Sopranos. We laughed when he uttered the series’ most memorable line (“Federal marshals…
When SoCal post-grunge band Failure broke up, great things were expected from all, and, in fact, the ex-bandmates lived up to expectations. Drummer Kelli Scott joined Blinker the Star, while guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen helped form A Perfect Circle. Failure’s leaders, Ken Andrews and Greg Edwards, went their separate ways…
