Whether you believe it’s a made-up holiday manufactured by the greeting card industry or your once-a-year chance at getting lucky, Valentine’s Day is upon us, folks. Which means it’s time to put down the Xbox controller, slip into your best threads, and whisk up your sweetheart for a night on…
Nothing says “I love you” more than strapping your beau to a stainless steel bondage apparatus and spanking him with a studded paddle until he screams “banana!” (It’s your safe word.) If that’s your bag, baby, head to Club Purgatory tonight at 10 for the Valentine’s Fetish Ball, sponsored by…
Crowded restaurants, packed nightclubs — what’s a couple gotta do to get some privacy? Well, if you’ve got the coin, you could always reserve a private ocean-side cabana at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale (found at 1 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd.). For $450 a couple, you get your own slice…
If you’re thinking about buying your love some Valentine’s Day bling, you’ll want to check out the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show going down through February 17 at the Palm Beach Convention Center (650 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach). Today at 3 p.m., design director for ultra-exclusive…
There are likely to be plenty of folks out there without a date tonight at all. And that’s OK — just head to Seminole Paradise for the largest Valentine’s Day Singles Party in South Florida. There will be a dating game, along with a bachelor/bachelorette auction, plenty of dancing, and…
Buying produce in the supermarket has become more and more of a drag lately. Take a supermarket tomato, for example: even the best looking in the bunch are usually as flavorless as they are over-firm. Then there’s the hot peppers, which are almost always laced with fuzz and mold around…
Most everybody has been there: You meet a seemingly-nice person, who in short time becomes your seemingly-nice love interest. Things are going well for a while, but you slowly start to notice things like his affinity for pentagrams, his knack for kicking cute animals, and his undying love for Elizabeth…
Food porn is all the rage these days. There are entire sites devoted to the obscene pleasures of voyeuristic foodie-ism, and they’re growing in number each day. Just this week, food writer and chef Anthony Bourdain explored the subject on a special episode of his Travel Channel series No Reservations,…
According to Gail Shepherd’s Dish column this week, Palm Beach County residents have at least one more joint where they can sate their cravings for authentic Mex (though Ameri-Mex fans should clearly look past Cottonwood). But Gail also mentioned a host of great Broward places to get either iteration of…
Your mouth is watering just thinking about it: Thin shavings of beautifully caramelized gyro meat finding comfort inside a warm, pillowy pita. Chunks of marinated lamb and pork souvlaki, charring as they rotate over open coals. The generous pouring of anise-flavored Ouzo and Greek wine, congregating with all the food…
He traversed the galaxy as the unfrozen, 20th century layman Phillip J. Fry and his faithful companions, Dr. Zoidberg and Professor Farnsworth. He amassed an impressive collection of nose goblins as the lovable cat Ren Höek, and screamed “You eediot!” at himself, essentially, as Ren’s bosom buddy, Stimpson J. Cat…
Your average battle-of-the-bands event usually ends with some group getting the equivalent of a decent night working behind the bar. But at the Groove On Battle of the Bands at Gulfstream Park, the lucky winner will fly all expenses paid to New York City to play Live Nation’s Know Music…
“In the U.S., table tennis isn’t really considered a sport by many people,” says Carlos Zeller, one of the volunteers that collectively run the Broward Table Tennis Club, a non-profit, public center devoted to a game more commonly known as ping pong. “People think that it’s something you only play…
Lips sashays around your Broadway faves as part of Art Explosion. Drag and Broadway have oh so much in common, don’t they? There’s the all that make up, the fabulous flowing gowns, and the way participants and spectators alike have a knack for getting hyper-dramatic and clapping a lot. There’s…
It wasn’t too long ago that it was rare to find a good selection of craft and microbrewed beer at your average South Florida bar or restaurant. But these days, craft breweries — small, independent beer makers producing with traditional methods — are making a run on Florida like it…
Comedian Mitch Fatel is bringing his crime-fighting persona, Super Retardo, to the West Palm Beach Improv at City Place Thursday through Sunday. The former Howard Stern Show intern has appeared regularly on the Late Night with Conan O’Brian, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Late Show with Dave…
Take another trip with Howard Hall, Toni Myers, and Graeme Ferguson, the production team behind IMAX’s Deep Sea 3D as they explore some of the most extraordinary marine life ever shot on film. Under the Sea 3D continues the journey in the South Pacific, filming the rare Stonefish, the Leafy…
Hopeless jackass and Palm Beach county resident Rush Limbaugh has a particularly ridiculous sound byte traveling around the internet lately in which he’s basically quoted as saying he doesn’t want the Obama doctrine to succeed. The quote came from an interview Limbaugh did with Sean Hannity, in which Hannity asks…
Just how irrelevant has PETA become? The one-time-animal-rights-organization-turned-ludicrous-marketing-machine long ago gave up trying to reach people with reasoned arguments about the sanctity of all life or the wastefulness of our meat-happy culture. Instead they’ve adopted a fairly standard marketing strategy with which to convert confused meaties: 1) Create supposedly offensive…
The Third Annual Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival took place on Saturday, and in case you missed out on what was a perfect day of beer sampling and cavorting, check out our slide show here. What made the fest so “gee, shucks” great? For starters, the festival area – the amphitheater…
As far as desserts go, what’s better than a cupcake? Think about it: these morsels of goodness are self-contained, portable, portion-controlled, and, when done right, can taste pretty swell. And now, they’re showing up on Las Olas. Lola’s Cupcakery is a new venture from Toronto restaurateur, Donald Kaplan, and his…
You may have noticed that it’s colder than a witch’s teet outside. I mean, I really enjoy these few months where flip flops and Bermuda shorts aren’t required attire lest you suffer heat stroke, but come on… 40s? That’s not what I signed up for, folks. So last night, feeling…
