As a neo-Nazi recruiter, Tom “T.J.” Leyden used a classic military tactic to woo racists. “We’d plaster schools with hate literature and let the black and Hispanic kids think that the Anglos had done it,” he says. “As soon as the first white kid got beat down, every white kid…
Architect and designer Abby Suckle sounds a tad jealous as she talks about “Against Design,” the furniture-as-art exhibition on view through this weekend at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA). She says the show’s artists were allowed the opportunity to create in a vacuum, a luxury she didn’t…
“Our purpose is to get people high,” offers Dorothy Tanner, pausing for effect before adding, “… without drugs.” High. Relaxed. Mellow. Whatever you want to call it, visiting Lumonics will induce in viewers an altered state of some sort. Tanner and her late husband, Mel, opened the “light and sound”…
It’s a Sunday afternoon on Fort Lauderdale beach, where a brief thundershower and an onshore breeze have temporarily tempered the muggy scorch of August. On the patio of the beachfront Atlantis nightclub, bare-chested men and barely dressed women sip beer and frozen drinks to the strains of reggae classics like…
The new album being marketed disingenuously under the moniker of Icelandic trip-hop darlings GusGus is not a collaboration among the collective’s nine members. The seven tracks of GusGus vs. T-World were actually laid down in the mid-’90s by DJ Herb Legowitz and programmer Biggi Veira, who were known as T-World…
It isn’t exactly the X Games, but local boarders and in-line skaters will tear it up this weekend at Brian Piccolo Park’s Skate Park, which celebrates its one-year anniversary with an In-line Skate and Skateboard Competition. Most competitors are already familiar with the facility’s layout, since a majority are among…
You’d think a couple of film festivals with overlapping content would be at odds, but the six-year-old Asian Pacific Film Festival of Florida (APFFF) has coexisted peacefully as part of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) while hosting its own periodic screenings of movies by Pacific Rim filmmakers. In…
Italians are known for their hospitality. As they say, mia casa è sua casa, which means “my house is your house.” Primavera restaurant owner and chef Giacomo Dresseno and his wife, Melody, dispense such neighborly friendliness, providing personalized service amid the fresh flowers and terra-cotta tile accents in their elegant,…
Northwood Hills is one of the very few South Florida communities with “hill” in its name that actually sits on a promontory of any significance. In our mostly flat portion of the Sunshine State, the slope made the area mighty desirable to early settlers. The first houses in this West…
The Milagro Center in Delray Beach has become a hub for multicultural learning since it opened in October 1998. Classes are offered in dance, African drumming, tai chi, pottery, and various other visual and performing arts by a racially diverse faculty, and artwork on the walls represents artists from myriad…
The cover art for Installation Sonore, the full-length debut album from France’s rinôçérôse, is a perfect metaphor for the band’s sound: A Concorde jet’s gleaming white nose cone set against a steel-gray background evokes both speed and sleekness, the latest technology wrapped up in an aerodynamic package capable of producing…
Book FareChef Marvin Woods believes in keeping it real. He also believes Southern cooking doesn’t have to kill you.Take collard greens, for instance. “I leave out salt pork and fatback,” says Woods, who has made a name for himself by reinterpreting Southern cuisine. “They are all cured and have a…
Bulbous black ants — each a foot long — appear to crawl across the light gray walls in the corners of the room, which is also graced by several Daliesque paintings. In fact the painted insects, a favorite of the Spanish surrealist, could have marched off a Dali canvas and…
Get Pitchshifter frontman J.S. Clayden talking about politics in his native Britain, and it’s like listening to comedian Dennis Miller rant about crap here in the United States, only in a thick north-London accent — and not as funny. Clayden, who sings and writes the lyrics for the techno-tinged, heavy-rock…
Heading into the South Beach Cinema for an opening-weekend glimpse of the dance-culture flick Better Living Through Circuitry,it’s immediately obvious how far underground the rave scene still is. Although it’s mere minutes from landmark dance clubs, on this Saturday evening the small theater is populated by a hearty crowd of…
Like a little kid playing with his toys, quirky puppeteer Paul Zaloom makes believe that a cardboard cutout is a miniature logging truck and that a bunch of junky fake flowers is a tropical rain forest. Little plastic gag monkeys (the type you can hang from the rim of a…
Sure, you could drop $30 per night on an acting class, during which you’d get maybe 15 or 20 minutes of individual instruction and spend the rest of the time watching other people try. “Is that any way to learn how to act?” Billy Yeager asks, somewhat indignantly. Of course…
Cuban-born artist Ernesto Rodriguez’s piece Lunch Break is a shimmering, bucolic, Renoiresque picnic scene, sans diners, in which a blanket and basket sit beneath the shade of a large tree. Renoir and other impressionists gave their landscapes a gauzy effect by incorporating broadly painted, broken brush strokes, capturing the essence…
Walk into the Borders bookstore in Fort Lauderdale on the right Monday evening, and you’re likely to run into an odd assortment of characters holding court. Catch a snippet of conversation, and you might hear them discussing the best way to build an archery quiver or the proper design for…
“I was at a party in Syracuse, New York, in ’63 or ’64, and a dog was drinking out of the toilet bowl, there was folk music in the living room, someone was having a fight in the stairwell and trying to push a refrigerator down on someone else, and…
Trying to make his way in the world as a young man during the Great Depression, Arthur O. Stone was enamoured of the sleek, flashy cars driven by the well-to-do. He especially liked the ostentatious autos being produced by the Packard Motor Company; the magnificent automobiles had the class and…
Michael Jordan’s smooth, bald dome fills the movie screen as rivulets of sweat trickle down the sides of the basketball superstar’s head and face. And thanks to the wonder of large-format film, the Blockbuster IMAX Theater at the Museum of Discovery and Science brings us the image five stories tall,…
