Danny Diablo takes on Fort Lauderdale THU 12/1 Fred Durst and his ilk of rap-metal frontmen know how to go through the motions, but c’mon, who are they kidding? Those dudes are about as street-tough as Michael Jackson. Now, Danny Diablo — there’s a guy who ain’t front- in’. Having…

A really ungrateful houseguest THU 12/1 You’d think the Bush administration would listen to former POW Sen. John McCain when he says that torturing suspected terrorists is not the way to good intel. But nothing seems to stop Uncle Sam from playing the role of international dominatrix. While the Bushies…

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…

Is it that time of year again? SAT 11/26 Thanksgiving is upon us, and that means one thing — Christmas trees! Wait… already? Well, yes. And lots of ’em too, from the posh streets of Palm Beach to the artful avenues of Delray Beach. Yep, the season is here, and…

Behold, the Dukes of Controversy SUN 11/20 The Sex Pistols might have scared many a God-fearing Brit in the late 1970s, but that doesn´t mean there weren´t more provocative bands around at the time — bands that wore pig masks and wrote songs raunchy enough to make even Johnny Rotten…

Artists make an impression on Beantown SAT 11/19 Before every piece of art in the world was made perusable on the World Wide Web, the best way for American artists to see what was going on across the pond was to, well, cross the pond. In the mid-19th Century, that´s…

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…

A FLIFF premiere FRI 11/11 Though it got under way smack-dab in the middle of a crippling hurricane, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival never pulled down the shutters on its 200-some movies. In fact, there’s still another week and a half left before the final credits run. And if…

Everything’s better with garlic FRI 11/11 Hurricane Wilma may have had some potent breath, but she’s got nothin’ on this weekend’s Seventh Annual Delray Beach Garlic Festival at the grounds of Old School Square (51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach). You name it and there’s a recipe for it that…

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…

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…

After spreading the seeds of local music throughout various bars and nightclubs in Broward County, By the Way promoters Garo Gallo and Yvonne Colón are trading the confines of the club scene for a more open environment — Fort Lauderdale’s public parks. In early September, the pair hooked up with…

Lake Worth needs earplugs! FRI 10/21 Sure, a movie called Blow Me could be about a lot of things. But since it springs from the quirky cranium of Lake Worth’s merry prankster Kenny 5, there’s nothing prurient or suggestive about its content. “Brutal hurricane footage with noise” is how he…

Admit it. You’ve Googled your name once or twice, curious to see how many other “yous” there are in cyberspace. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Dave Gorman certainly wasn’t embarrassed when he wrote Are You Dave Gorman?, a true tale about hunting down 24 other people who share his…

July 4, 2005 — While most people were busy getting hammered and shooting off bottle rockets, some conniving coward (or cowards) set fire to the Presidential Women’s Center in West Palm Beach. But their mission failed. The center reopened five weeks later, the City Commission OK’d a 20-foot buffer at…

A Bergman family feud THU 10/13 Marianne had a feeling that paying Johan a surprise visit was a bad idea. But she just had to do it. Three decades had passed since the troubled couple in Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage parted ways. So the famed writer/director decided to…

Neo-prog shores up at Dada SUN 10/9 A million years ago (OK, so maybe more like 30), ambient instrumental rock was poised to take over the world (OK, maybe just the record stores). Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and even Pink Floyd were using emerging technologies to weave electronic…

… or mind control? THU 10/6 Imagine if the X-Games were a state-run event. Think about it. What better way to promote the Bush administration while indoctrinating young athletes? While that sounds like an Orwellian nightmare, it’s real life for the North Korean kids who participate in the Mass Games,…

Heat plays for good cause MON 10/10 The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has led to more than $1 billion in donations. If you’ve yet to donate money to the relief efforts through a charity, at the supermarket, through your house of worship, on the Internet, during telethons, at one of…

Gabrielle Union and 112 host a post-hurricane jam SAT 10/8 She’s one of those actresses who keeps popping up: First on Saved by the Bell in 1989. Then as “the black girlfriend” on an episode of Friends (in 1994). Film roles in Bring It On, Cradle 2 the Grave, and…