Taishi one on TUE 12/13 The lives of geishas are particularly intriguing to those of us in Western culture. These women, with their flawless façades, are so well-versed in the arts of hostessing, beauty, and manipulation that they could be seen as the Navy Seals of proper etiquette. While most…
Last time we checked, going to the movies cost about as much as making one. But during this weekend’s Can Film Fest at Cinema Paradiso, two canned food items or one new, unwrapped toy will get you past the ticket-taker. Which leaves you plenty of cash to spend on beer…
A fundraiser that’s Taylor made MON 12/5 In the logo for the Seminole Tribe of Florida JT’s Ping-Pong Smash 2, a contorted caricature of Miami Dolphin All-Pro Jason Taylor shows his left foot angled behind him as the sole of his right sticks out in the forefront. Pretty funny, but…
Be all that you can be. An army of one. No doubt these tag lines have a poetic ring to them. But a military recruiter’s speech as “performance art”? Who woulda thunk it? Well… two artists who have persuaded a recruiter to come to the “Art Perform” series at Collins…
He’s trying his best, at least FRI 11/25 Judging from the play’s name, one might assume that a solo performance titled The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? is full of the revenge-seeking rantings of a disgruntled divorcée. But alas, the person behind said performance is a full-fledged carrier of the Y…
A week full of parties FRI 11/25 “I moved here on July 15, 1997, to work for the Versace family. Unfortunately, that was the day Gianni was murdered. It was heartbreaking,” statuesque queen Elaine Lancaster says. Eight years after her fateful arrival, it’s difficult to imagine South Beach without Lancaster…
American Dragon: Jake Long is a Disney cartoon about a 13-year-old who (along with friends Trixie and Spud) protects animals by using his skills in martial arts and skateboarding. Cuuuuute. It’s so popular that it airs in more than 35 countries. Hmm… how would parents in, say, the United Arab…
And bring your autograph book THU 11/17 Rock stars have the MTV awards. Performance artists have the Burning Man Festival. Stupid people get together whenever FEMA hosts an employment open house, and smart people have the Miami Book Fair. We take that back. You don´t even need a high IQ…
We have seen the dark spawn of Hello Kitty… and its name is Mr. DOB. Actually, the cartoon creation — sort of a bloated Mickey Mouse, sometimes depicted with two (or sometimes 25) unmatching eyeballs and a mouthful of sharp teeth — was born in the deliciously twisted, shamelessly commercial…
Bill Maher breaks all the rules SAT 11/12 Conservatives control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and a good portion of the media. Possibly the only thing the right has not conquered is America’s funny bone. Searching for weapons of mass destruction is a…
New England: champs to chumps SUN 11/13 It was an unusually brisk Monday evening the last time the New England Patriots ventured into Dolphins Stadium. Along with the cold weather, the Pats also brought a horde of fans who were incapable of pronouncing the letter R and gratuitously used the…
In hell, temperatures hover around 8 billion degrees, George W. remains president for eternity, and the soundtrack consists of a loop of Gilbert Gottfried’s voice. Or so we thought until we actually spoke to the comic, whose telephone persona is surprisingly soft and pleasant. Hmmm — then, without an audience…
Christian rappers aren’t all that different from secular rappers — they want to make rhymes, they want to make beats, and they want to take a crowd backstage after the show. For real. Proverb Newsome, the 36-year-old president of Souljourn Ministries, DJ for 88.1 WAY-FM, and member of hip-hop group…
THU 11/3 The Miami Heat hit the hardwood for their home opener on Thursday at 8 p.m. against Ron Artest and the fan-punching Indiana Pacers. It’s a new season, and championship aspirations are high with the return of Shaq, Dwayne Wade, Alonzo Mourning, and Udonis Haslem. The team fell just…
FRI 10/28 God created the heavens and the Earth over the course of six days, they say, and on the seventh day, he rested. Somewhere around the 20 millionth day, he created screamo music. And in the year 2005, he created the Grab Your Guns Tour, headlined by the apostles…
SAT 10/29 Five-year-old Bridger Giles stands about three apples tall — the size of a Smurf. Which makes it easy for him to maneuver around obstacles on skis and avoid a Sonny Bono-esque introduction to a pine tree. The precocious racer is fascinating to watch — if you can distinguish…
SUN 10/30 When some kid says “Trick or treat!,” the usual assumption is that, if you don’t give him a handful of candy, you’ll wake up to a Christo-like display of toilet paper strewn through your front yard. But at the Underground Surf Co. (1330 S. Federal Hwy., Deerfield Beach),…
THU 10/27 As if the Bocatonization of Palm Beach County and the scourge of pink condos weren’t creepy enough, Fright Nights at the South Florida Fairgrounds (9067 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach) brings three truly haunted houses to the 561. Bypass PG entertainers like mummies and vampires in favor of…
Is that you? WED 10/26 When Rob Thomas learns that Bat Boy: The Musical will be in town the same night as his show at the Hard Rock Live (One Seminole Way, Hollywood), his competitive spirit comes out. “Actually,” he confides, “my producer and I have a few songs that…
But Galaxy Girl’s one of a kind THU 10/20 “I have a home studio. Inside there, it’s a mad place!” warns lovely electronica artist Jeannette Romeu, a.k.a. Galaxy Girl. Her Weston pad houses “12 synthesizers, four computers, a supernova, access virus — that’s an instrument! — guitars, violins…” And the…
Our Lady Peace heads south for the fall SAT 10/15 Rock is a dying genre. Not rock ‘n’ roll. Not hard rock, punk rock, alt rock, folk rock, prog rock, post rock, or any other variation of the genre. Just plain rock. You know — grandiose-gesturing, lighter-waving, arena-playing, message-disseminating, larger-than-life…
Hockey picks up where it left off THU 10/13 When the Florida Panthers opened their season against the Atlanta Thrashers on October 5, just a tiny fraction of seats in the big, fat BankAtlantic Center (1 Panther Pkwy., Sunrise) were empty. It’s nice to know that after a yearlong strike,…
