When Blues Brothers 2000 hit the theaters in 1998, some die-hard fans feared that the late John Belushi (a.k.a., Jake Blues) would be replaced by his brother, Jim. But then John Goodman stepped in to play a different character and the issue was sidestepped. The Brothers’ most recent incarnation does…

Amanda Timms knows her town’s landscape like the pages of a phone book – at least, that’s how it sounds when she describes it. In a monotonous tone that suggests a sense of bored hopelessness (or a Ben Stein impersonation), Timms runs down the list: “Taco Bell, KFC, Kmart, Weight…

A half-circle of fast-stepping folk dancers, a guy playing a sopilka, and lots of sashes, boots, and baggy trousers — goodness, it’s A Ukrainian Montage… and it’s coming this Sunday to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale). Joined by a cadre of vocalists…

An orange is orange. Period. Anyone who says otherwise is insane, pure and simple… or, perhaps, from a different culture. In Joe Penhall’s play, Blue/Orange, the question of cultural relativity versus mental illness erupts into a power struggle at a London psychiatric hospital. Christopher, a black patient thought bonkers for…

Photographer Elliot Landy lives in Woodstock, New York. And yes, he was there on that historic day in 1969 when his town’s name became synonymous with the hippie generation. So maybe, just maybe, Landy has a shot or two of Bob Dylan or Janis Joplin rockin’ the stage. But for…

:If you’re not sold on the idea of male belly dancers, that’s OK. But if you’re not charmed out of your senses by the belly-dance duo Desert Sin, you must be lacking a pulse. And for those who are titillated by exotic acts of tummy-tumbling, the annual Spirit of the…

There are many paths to sexual repression, and not all of them are paved by religious puritans. The rejection of worldly pleasure is an idea just as likely to be held by a teenage philosophy student as a gray-locked rabbi. But as Karin Albou’s suggests in her film, La Petite…

It’s an accepted rule of live performance: Don’t wear-out your welcome; always leave the audience hungry for more. But in the case of Midwestern punk legends the Zero Boys, that credo defined the band’s recorded legacy. One EP (1980’s Livin’ in the ´80s) and one full-length (1982’s Vicious Circle) was…

Sophocles’ classic play Antigone is the story of a woman who challenges a tyrannical king and is sentenced to death. All she wants is a proper burial for her late brother, an enemy of the state – but she ends up paying with her life. So when French dramatist Jean…

In the United States, miners rely on their employers and/or unions to make conditions more like a workplace and less like a death trap. But in Bolivia, there’s a different type of workers comp plan – devil worship. And in the eye-opening documentary Devil’s Miner, directors Kief Davidson and Richard…

While local politicians were busy bending over for developers, a Palm Beach County middle school student named Efrain Marti was rounding up signatures to stop some of the bulldozing — specifically, that which endangered the lives of an already endangered species, the gopher tortoise. Marti succeeded, having collected 709 signatures…

With Iraq showing no signs of stabilizing and tensions with Iran simmering to the surface, what do our pals in Washington do? They change the subject to immigration. Forget about the high-paying jobs we’re outsourcing to India; it’s the thought of undocumented Mexicans working in cane fields that has Americans…

Ten minutes into Cirque du Soleil’s Delirium, you may find yourself wondering if someone slipped you a mickey or you’re developing an ear infection. But then you look around and notice everyone else is in the same boat. Then it hits you: Duh! It’s the show that’s causing all this…

Lord George Carnarvon “mysteriously” died in 1923, a year after he and British archaeologist Howard Carter opened the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Was it because he aggravated a mosquito bite or was it the curse? In the 1980 British film The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb, the answer is, well……

In high school, there are plenty of social cliques — the jocks, the geeks, the preps, the freaks. Though many of these groups look down on each other (“Nice shirt, Poindexter!”), the loose contingent known as artists look at everyone from a different angle — as potential subjects. The artists…

If political pundits weren’t so busy harping on the so-called immigration crisis, they might take a few steps back and see the bigger issues at play – namely, the growing economic challenge posed by China. For most Americans, China’s as foreign as a country can be. But what the mass…

It’s a no-brainer. A long-defunct band you grew up worshipping gets back together and chooses you to replace the original vocalist… How can you say no? Sure, there’ll be plenty of griping from diehard fans about how you’re not the real singer. But that’ll pass. At least, it did for…

Another April Fool’s Day has passed, and so has the fear of being pranked by your buddies around the office. Now it’s time for another annual April event — April Pool’s Day, the yearly fiesta hosted by Miami’s kings of creep-core, Pool Party. OK, so maybe creep-core isn’t a real…

Having grown up with a horseman for a father and a photojournalist for a mother, Carlos Eduardo never had to look far for an artistic calling. Like mumsy, the Coral Gables native took up photography and began exhibiting his work about five years ago. The inspiration for his photographs –…

There’s only one rule when it comes to winning a hot-dog eating contest: It’s not the size of your stomach that counts; it’s how you use it. If size really mattered, a pipsqueak like Takeru Kobayashi wouldn’t be the five-year returning champion of Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot…

Face it, there’s no way to get back the brain cells you lost watching Bubble Boy, the 2001 comedic bust starring a pre-Brokeback Mountain Jake Gyllenhaal. However, while your soul is forever tainted, you can make good with your brain at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival at Cinema…