Playing alongside huge acts such as Kenny Chesney, Ben Harper, and Lynyrd Skynyrd at the inaugural Tortuga Music Festival is a notable band with a lesser-known name but no lesser amount of soul. Poised to amp up the crowd and blow the LandShark-beer-toting concertgoers off the sand with a high-energy,…
Who ever said white boys don’t have soul?Take it from David Bowie, the Bee Gees, Hall & Oates, George Michael — all these guys have defied the odds and earned permanent slots in our booty-shaking, baby-making playlists. Even our reigning Prince of Dirty Pop, former boy band heartthrob Justin Timberlake,…
The parking lot outside FAU’s Kaye Auditorium rippled with three inches of flood waters from the evening’s flash thunderstorm. Late in the afternoon, a blanket of darkness over North Broward suburbia brought 60 mph winds and hail the size of quarters.Still, out of the cool darkness of the night, a…
Could the mythical, England-based street artist known as Banksy have painted his latest bit of street art in… Tequesta?The small city (population 5,629) is a retirement haven in northern Palm Beach County. Last week, a New Times reader noticed this mural artwork on the wall of a vacant space inside…
There is nothing like the desperation of: Either you get a job and make money or your family won’t eat,” says Joshua Miller, founding director at C&I Studios, a 7-year-old media company and “idea agency” based in the up-and-coming FAT Village Arts District in Fort Lauderdale. In March 2009, balancing…
On Saturday, April 20, Fort Lauderdale’s indie beacon of light, Radio-Active Records, will celebrate Record Store Day 2013 with an action-packed, 13-hour event chock-full of free stuff, live music, and delectable and rare musical items. Just streets away, at the massive Revolution Live complex, Block x Blog will be making…
Tonight at 6 pm, C&I Studios in the FAT Village in Fort Lauderdale will kick off its new night, simply titled BBQ at C&I Studios – a free, monthly BYOB event featuring burgers and hot dogs (including vegan options), along with “the largest game of beer pong ever.”…
When you push a lawn mower across the grass on a crisp Saturday morning, perhaps all you’re thinking about is keeping the homeowners’ association off your back. But no. Your action is positively loaded with symbolism. “When I approach America’s obsessive quest for the perfect lawn,” says artist Don Lambert,…
We’re not exactly sure who coined the style of décor called “deco glam” or whether it should have ever been paired with the word “chill” (or invented), but we do know that Chill Wine Lounge in Fort Lauderdale has a lot more going for it than aesthetics. Ultramodern chrome accents,…
Yacht rock isn’t dead, and apparently neither are the 50- to 70-year-olds who comprised most of the crowd at the Daryl Hall and John Oates concert at the Hard Rock Live, Hollywood on Friday night.That’s not to mention the soulful pop rock stars themselves, aged 66 and 63, respectively, who…
It seems like the majority of holidays these days exist for the sole purpose of playing on Americans’ addiction to buying pointless things and feeding the hungrier-than-ever corporate beast. But not Record Store Day. See also- PHOTOS: Record Store Day 2012 at Radio-Active RecordsEach year on 4/20, appropriately aligned with…
It’s that time of year again — that time when Fort Liquordale makes its magical transformation into Fort Liquordale on crack. It’s spring break 2013, and in anticipation of all the alcohol consumption, we’ve compiled a guide to drinking (as cheaply as possible) at all the best spring break-friendly hot spots…
Hollywood trio Beach Day has the sunny sound, unpretentious charm, and just the right amount of Hollyweirdness to keep our ears perked for anything it puts out. While the South Florida-native surf rockers have released only a handful of tunes — a few on Brooklyn imprint Kanine Records — their…
In 2011, when nutritionist and holistic health coach Elena Pezzo, owner of Green Bar & Kitchen, learned of her brother Anthony’s stroke and subsequent coma, she was devastated. Only a few years earlier, the 33-year-old New York native had lost both of her parents and had battled poor health and…
A chaotic vortex of white paper strips — enmeshed with metal wiring and plastic toy soldiers — quivers in the stream of air flowing from a ceiling vent. It cascades to an end amid a miniature paper city on the floor. Here, in the back of the Ritter Art Gallery,…
All photos by Tony Salazar.If you bring the bass, they will come. That’s what we learned last night, after watching Fat Cat’s in downtown Fort Lauderdale fill up with a crowd of subtly hip and pleasantly low key 20- and 30-somethings, some trekking from as far north as Tallahassee, to experience…
Remember back in December when electronic veteran DJ Shadow created a stir in our social media feeds after promoters at South Beach’s Mansion nightclub kicked him off the decks at his own headlining show, claiming his music was “too future” for the crowd?The accomplished and unanimously respected DJ never got…
Delray Beach nonprofit, the Arts Garage, is a “cultural hub” in Palm Beach County, presenting jazz, drag, and an eclectic mix of multi-disciplinary programming and performances in Palm Beach County. The two-years young organization was recently granted $80,000 in matching funds from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation…
Every winter, South Florida gets an influx of retirees, sun-hungry snowbirds, and… world-renowned photographers. Each January, the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in downtown West Palm Beach hosts FOTOfusion, a weeklong event that brings together photo industry leaders for a series of more than 200 workshops, lectures, and community events. The…
Affordable Art Gifts by South Florida Artists
Girls’ Club Collection is a large industrial art space inside a converted warehouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale, miles inland from the beach. So it is a tad disjointing to hear a soothing ocean breeze, the cooing of seagulls, and an endlessly rolling tide floating down from the mezzanine and echoing…
