London’s dubstep movement has spread like a summer heat wave across the globe in recent months, moving out of East End garages and into sweaty dance clubs stateside. Here in South Florida, dubstep and grime’s shuffling bottomed out sound jibes well with our own dance phenomenon, Miami bass. And local…
Some artwork is best viewed in a gallery, with a buffer of velvet rope providing a more analytical perspective. Other pieces — like the sort hanging at Undergrounds Coffeehaus — require plush seating, conversation, and loads of caffeine to properly distill. The bohemian coffee dive will have those things in…
Every day after work, I would drive home along Sunrise Boulevard and spot Texas Hold ‘Em BBQ’s big barrel smoker chugging along out front. I got really used to seeing — and smelling — it out there. Occasionally, the fuming stack would churn out a plume of rich smoke so…
Just two months ago, New Times called Cafe Boulud the best restaurant in Palm Beach County, a place where local and season ingredients are transformed into perspective-changing meals by Executive Chef Zach Bell. We mentioned then that you don’t have to be an Everglades Club member to afford a meal…
I’m a sucker for poor boys of all types: hulking sandwiches filled with fried catfish, oysters, and shrimp and beefier equivalents stuffed with sopping-wet roast beef or hot Italian sausage. No matter the filling, I prefer them served with crusty French bread and gobs of spicy remoulade, with a smattering…
Move over, dinner: Happy hour is coming through. That magical few hours — usually from 5 to 7 p.m. — is a great way to get your post-work liquid intake. But at quite a few places, it’s also a great way to taste some dishes from the kitchen on the…
You think health care’s bad now? Just wait till 2056 – that’s the year when widespread organ failures will wreak havoc across the planet. There will be so many bum tickers and faulty livers, that the only way to get another one is going to be putting yourself at the…
You’ve heard of cosmic bowling, where pin heads toss heavy balls around under the glow of blacklights and pulsing strobes. Well, Seminole Casino in Hollywood is taking that concept to the next level with Cosmic Bingo, going down every Friday night at 10 and 11. During that time, the still…
ArtServe’s fourth annual Red Eye art show reception premiers Friday at 6 p.m., unleashing an optic blast of local, multimedia art on Fort Lauderdale. The fest, which meshes street art with a gallery setting, has as many facets as a kaleidoscope: there’ll be low brow goods from the Independent Working…
For those that haven’t yet been to Auteur Explosion — the monthly gathering of local artists, musicians, and filmmakers — you’re really missing out. The last one took place in June, and featured the following: A gold-painted cowboy convulsing and drooling on the dance floor as Timb Krueller’s Craven played…
Last week, Gordon Ramsay wrapped up his Kitchen Nightmares transformation of Anna Vincenzo’s, an Italian “pizza and” joint in east Boca Raton. As we reported, the celeb chef stopped in on Thursday afternoon to treat a crowd to a pizza contest starring athletes and commentators from local sports teams, and…
Hot on the heels of Clematis Social closing up shop, long-time South Florida restauratuer Burt Rapoport is jumping ship on his chic Boca Raton eatery Opus 5. According to the South Florida Traveler, Opus 5 had been practically giving its food away for the past few weeks, offering lunch specials…
Although I like cranky British Chef Gordon Ramsay, I’m not really a huge fan of his Fox show Kitchen Nightmares. It’s far too formulaic, for one — every episode shares the same story arc, with only the set pieces changing — and it’s 99 percent about drama and only 1…
For years we’ve praised the deli counter sandwiches made at Fort Lauderdale’s My Market, a convenience store/bodega with a thriving sub shop attached. And for good reason: each of the fifty-some varieties are made with bread baked fresh daily, quality deli meat (what’s not Boar’s Head is usually made in…
If Hollywood ever decided to revive the bloated corpse that is the Police Academy franchise and opted to cast Michael Winslow’s sound-effect spewing Officer Jones as a white guy, there would be no one more suited to play that role than comedian Pablo Francisco. Known for his uncanny impressions and…
You’re intelligent, attractive, and relatively well-adjusted — still, you have trouble meeting someone who is also at least two of those three. Craig’s List is a den of weirdoes, Match.com a crapshoot, and MyBootySpace is like clicking your way to syphilis. Well, Casanova, dare we suggest something slightly more wholesome?…
The Sunday night drag revue Trannie Palace at Bill’s Filling Station has been going strong for a year now, making it the premier destination to see six-foot-tall women with shoulderspans like linebackers saunter around the stage performing everything from showtunes to feats of mysticism (not to mention sheer mystery). What…
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is a stunningly beautiful movie with an equally engrossing premise: if intelligence governs the relationship between man and nature, what about man’s relationship with technology, and God? Its approach to that question is extraordinarily complex and nuanced, making it a prime candidate for lengthy…
House of Sweets — the nostalgic cupcake bakery attached to Delray’s House of Vintage — opened its new Cupcake Cafe this Saturday with a host of free giveaways and a cupcake-eating contest that saw one dude devour a dozen of the personal-sized pastries in under six minutes. House proprietors Amanda…
I remember my time spent eating school lunch fondly. My favorite was Mexican pizza day, when the lunch ladies would roll out crumbly, cracker-crusted pizzas topped with hardened American cheese, sweet and spicy taco sauce, and delectable little pellets of “meat.” What’s even better was Mexican pizza day, part two,…
Cupcakes are everywhere these days. Shops selling the little rounds of heaven have sprung up all over South Florida, from Miami to Jupiter. The only trouble is, a lot of them sell a sub-par snack. Some are too dry, others too heavy. But House of Sweets, the Cupcake Bakery and…
Promoter Paul Gnu has been putting on concerts and club nights in the area, covering hip-hop and beyond, for almost 20 years. In the early ΄80s, when Gnu was 15-years-old, he was heavy into the skateboard scene, and even had his own skateboarding mag’ called Grinnd Life Sk8 Zine and…
