Smell that? Is it patchouli oil? Organic chai tea? The collective aroma of hundreds of sweaty rock ´n’ roll musicians and their groupies? Actually it’s all of the above, which could only mean one thing: The arrival of Florida’s favorite multi-day, progressive, camp-tacular music festival, Langerado! This year’s fest is…

There was a time when going out to dinner at 5 p.m. was a practice reserved solely for Metamucil-swillin’, golden-age types. But them tides are changing, folks – today’s hip diners are taking the tables back from the Q-Tips. Why? First off, eating early is healthier: Nine out of ten…

Why might actress and multiple Emmy, Oscar, and Golden Globe nominee Glenn Close be appearing today at the Society of the Four Arts (2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach)? According to the folks at the Society, she was asked to come and do a lecture. However, they’re not sure what…

They Might Be Giants, but they’ve also been a lot of other things over the course of their 25-year musical career: Avant-garde heroes, anti-hipsters, movie stars, and now, children’s music icons. Yep, TMBG, who for years have entertained growth-addled adults with songs like “Birdhouse in Your Soul,” “Your Racist Friend,”…

Is it possible for you to honor your history while simultaneously blowing it into oblivion? Can you give tribute to the conventions that helped form your identity and, at the same time, call for their disassembly? These are some of the questions surrounding the new exhibit “Exploding the Lotus,” a…

They say blood is thicker than water, that the family bond is the tightest one can share with another human being. Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want to serve your family a tall glass of shut-the-hell-up every now and again. Especially when personal politics are involved: Jimmy…

We’re of the belief that any excuse to party is a good one: On November 19 each year, we pack up the coolers and give praise to the porcelain gods; that would be World Toilet Day. On Left Handers Day, August 13, we celebrate the southpaw – hopefully by double-fisting…

It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, if you were a kid in the 1970s or ΄80s, you remember watching the Harlem Globetrotters on TV. Each week on their Saturday morning TV show, the ΄Trotters would travel from city to city, inevitably running into some dastardly…

Rick Derringer is rock ΄n’ roll’s cockroach: Dude has been everywhere, produced everything, played in all your favorite hit songs, and probably will outlast all of us. Plus, his resume is like the real-life version of Spinal Tap: His first break came in 1965, when his cheeky pop rock band…

Some people are crazy for animals: Cats, dogs, ferrets, sheep. Some people are crazy for television: Tyra, American Idol, Lost, Talk Sex with Sue Johanson. Still others are completely obsessed with food: Five spice spare ribs, Vietnamese pho, miso-glazed sea bass, ahi tuna poke. That last group of folks is…

Anyone who’s tried to make true Indian curry at home knows that it’s difficult work. First, there’s the matter of procuring all the various spices – cardamom, anise, coriander, red chilies, turmeric, mustard seed, and fennel, to name a few. And for any chef used to coaxing a roux into…

Hardcore was huge in Miami in the late 1990s. The city was the birthplace of a whole army of groups considered among the genre’s best – Morning Again and Shai Hulud often show up on top 10 lists – but none of them became as influential as Poison the Well…

Although it’s certainly achieved cult status, you have to wonder why more theaters don’t show late night screenings of Monty Python and the Holy Grail with regularity. Perhaps it’s that Grail doesn’t have an interactive, audience element, a la The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And why not? The Pythons’ 33-year-old…

We know you’re excited about the 80th Annual Academy Awards Show, but please don’t do what you did last year: that is, put an evening gown on the dog, spread a red bed sheet across the floor, and then interview the poor mutt as he drags his butt across it,…

A- N- I’m- E- LIVES! A- N- I’m- E- LIVES! It’s so easy! Joyful Yankee blue jeans! Super Con is in Davie! We have costumes and games! Woot, woot, woot, woot, hai, hai, hai, hai! Kawaii! (refrain) Anime! Anime! Otaku Dance Party is you! Anime! Anime! Come dressed as Sailor…

It’s not going too far to believe that Harland Williams might be certifiably insane. If you’ve ever caught his antics on film – say in Something About Mary, Half-Baked, or Employee of the Month – you’d at least think some of his wiring is totally crossed. But just like Leeroy…

Jeff Yeager may have been recently crowned the world’s Ultimate Cheapskate, but he didn’t earn the title overnight. “I grew up in the mid-west, in a middle-class family, and being frugal was the way people lived,” Yeager explains. “… Although I do come from a long line of cheapskates.” Yeager,…

Every year, you do the same thing: You sit down to watch the Academy Awards, and you realize about 15 minutes into it that you have not seen a third of these films. Shoot, you’ve never even heard of most of them, you terrible, awful, poor-excuse-for-a-film-nerd you. Just pray that…

Ever wonder what lies in the murky waters, deep off the coast of South Florida? Captain Ahab’s fallen vessel? Missing votes from the 2000 election? Britney Spears’ long-lost implants? Fort Lauderdale-based artist Nathan Lumm must have thought these questions before, because his new solo show “From the Depths” (opening at…

It doesn’t matter if you can bench press fallen tree trunks or if you eat iron screws for breakfast. It’s totally futile, even if you’ve got a nickname like “The Axe Murderer” or “The Silent Assassin,” and you’ve earned it. You need to start practicing eating through a straw, because…

With the Writers’ Guild strike still going strong, the concept of Mel Brook’s famous musical, The Producers seems more plausible than ever. In it, egotistical, Broadway producer Max Bailystock and his weasely accountant Leo Bloom concoct a scheme to steal a millions of dollars. How do they plan on grifting…