Join U.S. Olympic silver medalist Dara Torres as well and other celebrity athletes as they take a plunge into freezing waters to benefit Special Olympics. The Mullin’s Park Swimming Pool (10000 NW 29 St., Coral Springs) will be filled with icecubes until it reaches a frosty 35 degrees. Swimmers can…
Party down as Hollywood Beach lights up for the Mardi Gras Fiesta Tropicale & Fat Tuesday celebration. Enjoy good tunes, bitchin’ Creole and Cajun food, and all sorts of fun concessions. There’ll be two main stages packed with acts from Thursday through Fat Tuesday, including performances by the Inner City…
Here’s a good deal: you can help fight Crohn’s Disease and Colitis, and all you have to do is drink some wine. That’s right, Hollywood Vine and Gold Medal Wine Tour are sponsoring “Wine a Little, Cure a Lot,” a blind wine tasting to sponsor the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation…
Picture one of the dinner scenes in a classic gangster movie: the macaroni with gravy is being passed around by guys with hands like ham hocks. There’s osso buco, there’s garlic bread, there’s very nearly a deadly fight when someone’s tableside banter doesn’t go over well with the Don. If…
Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s The Weir opens at the Palm Beach Dramaworks this weekend, which means you can expect a gritty narrative full of folklore and mystery. In the Weir, a group of men whole up in a tavern, where they exchange ghost stories in an attempt to attract a…
Join the Jove, a 5-member troupe of professional actors and comedians, for Black Valentine, a series of sketches, improv acts, comedy bits, and parodies based on everyone’s favorite holiday to hate, Valentine’s Day. Of course, Valentine’s is over, but there’s still plenty of material to cull for laughs. Tickets cost…
I don’t know if you all have caught on to this, but arts and crafts have been taken back. What once were nostalgic activities most often seen in Better Homes and Gardens such as stitching, needlepoint, and craftmaking have been totally punkified by groovy ladies looking to reclaim their heritage…
Sinbad, fresh from a virtual death on Wikipedia, performs today at the Parker Playhouse (707 NE 8th St., Fort Lauderdale). Perhaps you heard: The actor/comedian was in the news again last year. For weeks, the media debated whether Hillary Clinton had actually come under sniper fire on a visit to…
Local reggae/breaks/dub artist somejerk is throwing down at PRL this Saturday with the release of his latest album. Stop by the nifty little hole in the wall at 11 p.m., grab a beer from their selection of over 100 import bottles, and listen to tunes from The Substitutes (George Young,…
The Miami-based duo of Tasha and Monica López De Victoria, better known as the TM Sisters, have already garnered national acclaim for their eclectic art — 2D, video, and interactive pieces that marry an indie aesthetic to an almost retro approach to futurism. But with “Ideal Tonight,” the pair’s first…
It’s not often you think of small boxers — flyweight and featherweights — as knockout kings. Lacking the mass that the big boys do, these hitters owe their successes to supernatural endurance and sound technical ability. But not Cuban boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa. The former Olympic gold medalist has fought and…
Your ability to crack on your friends’ physical defects is unparalleled. Your mouth moves a mile a minute, and you’ve got a knack for rhyming even the most obscure words. Screw the pen — your mouth is way mightier than any sword. Well, Sir Spits-A-Lot, you just might have what…
The story of Les Liaisons Dangereuses is one that’s been retold many times over: Deceitful Vixen uses her sex appeal to coerce her equally Deceitful Suitor into seducing Naive Vixen, thus breaking the heart of Naive Vixen’s Potential Romancer, who Deceitful Vixen was interested in seeking revenge on all along…
Just two days after the Super Bowl, Denny’s Restaurants across the nation gave away a free Grand Slam breakfast to all comers, going so far as to advertise its intentions during the Big Game. The result: people queued up for hours in the longest lines ever to form outside of…
They serve your food. They sort your mail. They man the ladder trucks. They are your accountants. Your nurses. Your personal trainers. But when they are finished cooking your food and bagging your groceries and driving your children home from school, they become something bigger: a heavily armored storm trooper,…
Many of you probably spent a romantic Valentine’s Evening at a fine restaurant, supping on foie gras and fine wine. And that’s all good. But here’s an alternate view of Valentine’s Day – a less expensive option for leaner times. This simple meal of salad, cheeses, good olives, fresh bread,…
I decided to spend Valentine’s Day – at least the day part of it – at the Delray Beach Garlic Festival, a weekend-long ode to the clove going down at Old School Square. The fest had a lot going on: there were vendors aplenty, hocking garlic-based sauces, dips, spreads, and…
Long-time readers of Short Order may remember that the New Times offices weren’t always a safe and happy place. There was a time long ago when terror stalked our cubicles — when unsuspecting men and women fell pray to evil. I’m talking, of course, about the Shrimp Bandit: a fishy…
The words “Friday the 13th” conjure up images of dudes in hockey masks, running around and cleaving promiscuous teenagers in twain with their giant machetes. Tonight is Friday, February 13, and although said promiscuous youth will likely get to keep their nubile limbs intact, there will be dudes running around…
There’s a mysterious, irresistible force present in garlic — one that commands you to savor its pungent aromas lustfully, no matter the odiferous penalty to be paid later. It’s a good thing, then, that at Delray Beach’s Tenth Annual Garlic Fest you will be surrounded by hundreds of other people…
When it comes to “things one wants to avoid on Friday the 13th,” wrestling a guy named Homicide is probably right at the top of the list. But then again, if you are fighting Homicide on Friday, February 13, that means you’re likely Pro Wrestling Fusion champion the Sheik (who…
Here’s a secret, gentlemen: Being a sensitive guy doesn’t just mean you’re willing to spend the night watching heavy-handed chick-flicks. Sometimes, it’s being the kind of dude who enjoys seeing four femme-fronted bands who can rock a crowd like nobody’s business, testosterone be damned. The Freakin’ Hott, Mad as Birds,…
