First it went to Qatar. Then it went to Australia. Now it’s coming to… Delray Beach? Yes, the unassuming little city is a hot spot on the professional tennis circuit and the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships is the biggest sporting event in Palm Beach County. It’ll draw some 50,000…
Back in 1999, artist Todd Forstyhe took as series of photos of a Barbie doll, naked. In one picture, the buxom blonde splashed happily in a martini glass; in others, she was stuffed in a blender. It is not entirely clear what Forsythe was trying to communicate with the series,…
“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody whose life gives them vodka, and have a party!” That’s a typical gem from Ron White, a.k.a. Tater Salad, the big, loveable guy who got famous as one fourth of the successful Blue…
It’s not even 7 a.m. The sun is barely up. Yet you’re at dead stop, stuck in traffic, still two miles from C.B. Smith Park (900 N. Flamingo Rd., Pembroke Pines). But life could be worse. You could not be surrounded by pickup trucks full of cute girls in cowboy…
Before Che Guevara became a rock-star-esque rebel figure whose likeness graced T-shirts from Urban Outfitters, he was a revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro overthrow a regime in Cuba. But even before that, in 1952, he was a 23-year-old medical student who traveled through South America on his motorcycle on his…
Back in the Less than Zero ´80s, if you talked about your “young professional” friends, we would have probably turned our mohawked heads on you and sneered, “Yuppies go home!” (That is, if we’d been older than eight.) Then, of course, the thing to do was to collect your MBA…
So there’s this Hispanic kid named Rosario who lives in the ghetto. He got his ex-girlfriend pregnant, and yeah, maybe he beats the holy living crap out of her now and then, but he still wants the best for their unborn baby. She, however, has gone off to live with…
NiFlame, a 27-year-old designer, knows that fashion isn’t humanitarian relief or anything, but still, “I realize how clothes can change people’s lives. You see it on those makeover shows – people start crying, saying, ‘I never thought I could look this good.’ When people see you, they’re judging you right…
Get your calendar and mark Wednesday nights as “booked,” now that the Poor House has launched its weekly “Art of Moving Butts” extravaganza. Jay and Josh (formerly of Hashbrown) are back from an exhausting year of playing/partying in New York, and they’ll be laying down background sounds for a slew…
You thought that every day was “Hockey Day in Canada.” But, no – the unofficial holiday fell on January 7. It started just six years ago, and now, one Canadian fan says, the event is “bigger than Santa.” On the big day, grassroots hockey games are played and celebrated throughout…
Nick DiPaolo might not be the most popular guy at church — but he seems to be the first guy that Comedy Central calls when they need help roasting celebrities. DiPaolo has ridden his snotty attitude from Howard Stern’s airwaves through roasts for Pamela Anderson, Jeff Foxworthy, and Denis Leary,…
Whoever said that writing a musical comedy was difficult never tried to write a musical comedy about national politics while President Bush was in office. Why, the team behind the touring production Capitol Steps is downright prolific. Under this administration, the jokes almost write themselves. For example, on its website…
By day, John Morrissey is a Palm Beach lawyer who deals with probate cases, guardianships, that type of thing. Zzzzzzz. But by night (and weekends), he morphs into an uber-cool supercollector of contemporary artwork. As Morrissey will humbly admit, he was featured in both ARTnews and Details magazines as one…
Once upon a time, anyone who wanted to make a career in music got his start by busking on the streets, or by strong-arming his way onto a concert lineup, or by camping outside of a record company’s door. These days, however, you can go to the School of Higher…
About three years ago, Heeb, the magazine for young, Jewish hipsters, hired Susannah Perlman to coordinate the entertainment for one of its events in New York City. She rounded up a bunch of what she calls “really great acts that just happened to be Jewish,” from spoken-word performers to comedians…
Why did the chicken cross the road? “Well, that is an excellent question,” says Jack Reda, a man who wears a chicken suit for a living. “I don’t know if I can answer it now. It would ruin it for anyone who is going to come to the show” –…
Suresh Atapattu, the education coordinator for the Buehler Planetarium, is excited to tell you that, “The Orion nebula is up in our night sky right now! It’s very important because it’s a stellar nursery. Stars are actually being born out of those gases right now. If you look through a…
Bobby Collins’s website boasts that the New York Times called him “the most natural comedian working today.” But there’s no date attributed to that quote. It’s fair to assume that “today” was actually quite a while ago, considering that Collins has toured with Cher, Julio Iglesias, and Tony Bennett; that…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was the quintessential late-19th-century artist. He was born into an aristocratic family, started drawing as a youngster, then moved to Paris and slummed around Montmartre. Of course, he had the requisite tragic flaw: his parents were first cousins (aristocrats of the day often married within the family…
Out of sight, out of mind… right? So it may take you a minute to recognize the name Valerie Harper. The actress was all over television in the ´70s and ´80s, thanks to her successful role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which eventually led to a…
Jake Gyllenhaal’s hot. Heath Ledger’s hot. They’re two hot tastes that go hot together. No matter your sexual orientation, watching these guys in their so-called “gay cowboy movie,” Brokeback Mountain (see Film section), in which they swap spit (hotly), will make you want to slip into a ten-gallon hat and…
Markings, musings, and… haiku? SAT 12/10 Hanne Niederhausen is obsessed with shape, line, and mark-making in general. For this German-born Boca Raton resident, inspiration comes in the form of dance and music, as well as from her love of books, printing, and even the gentle curvature of calligraphy. Niederhausen brings…
