South Florida is a tough spot to take up surfing. Unless there’s a hurricane or a tropical storm roughing up the coast, it’s tough to find waves here worth waxing down for. But wakeboarding… that’s a sport where Florida’s tranquil, interior waters can be put to good use. The idea…
“It’s an unfair world from a dog’s perspective, I tell ya’. Every day, I’ve got some human telling me what I can and cannot do: ‘No, get off the coach. No, don’t take food off the table! NO! BAD DOG! STOP HUMPING MY NECK PILLOW!’ Grrrrrr! I’ve had it up…
The old axiom “You first eat with your eyes” is true enough of food, but can the same be said of art? If so, then we have to wonder whether you’d be hungry, nauseous, or just damned intrigued by artist Roxy Paine’s sausage-like spheroids on display at FAU Galleries’ newest…
The Writers’ Guild strike sweeping Hollywood is bound to adversely affect a whole host of our favorite television programs, from the The Daily Show to Maury. Fortunately for fans of the WWE, their favorite sports opera, Monday Night Raw, will be just fine. Not convinced? Consider this bizarre, straight-from-the-depths sequence…
So you can’t seem to get this whole Battle of the Sexes thing down. You try dating, but girls ditch you faster than dirty laundry. You act sweet and chivalrous and buy flowers — she’s allergic. Bake her some cookies — she’s diabetic. You finally hook up, but suddenly she’s…
A: A subgenre of alt country exclusively credited to the Austin five-piece, the Gourds. Also known as “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” or more pointedly, “Gourds Music.” The group is most commonly known for a rollicking, Southern-fried live cover of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice” that toured the Internet almost 10 years…
It’s always interesting when organizations invite comedian Chris Rock to host their live televised events and then go into an uproar when the dude swears on stage. In July, Rock hosted the Live Earth concert at London’s Wembley Stadium, a banal concert/pep-rally for global warming. Mere seconds into his introduction,…
Horrorphiles are a tough crowd to please if only for one reason: With each gruesome, gore-caked flick they witness, the ante for the next is upped tenfold. So if you see a film with on-screen dismemberment this week, the next better linger on the gushing limb at least five seconds…
Anthony Joyce has always been interested in politics; the problem, he says, has been getting his peers as involved as he is. In 2004, then 18-year-old Joyce ran for mayor of Pembroke Pines, earning over 2000 votes. He ultimately lost the race, but the experience opened his eyes to a…
Anthony Joyce has always been interested in politics; the problem, he says, has been getting his peers as involved as he is. In 2004, then 18-year-old Joyce ran for mayor of Pembroke Pines, earning over 2000 votes. He ultimately lost the race, but the experience opened his eyes to a…
Here’s a novel thought: The Dolphin’s game against the Bills this Sunday afternoon is one they could actually win. No, really, this Buffalo team may be 3-4, but they’re an exploitable 3-4. Buffalo’s defense is ranked thirtieth in the league, allowing a dismal 381.3 yards per game. Likewise, their offense,…
We here at New Times don’t exercise. But if we did, we’d have a really badass regimen – like pushing two-ton trucks down a track, lugging massive, wooden logs, or deftly flipping heavy tires with a flick of our well-toned arms. Basically, we’d model our routine after the Ultimate Athletic…
Palm Beach County is lucky enough to be graced with two awesome greenmarkets, the West Palm Beach Greenmarket (Second St. and Narcissus Ave., West Palm Beach) and the Delray Greenmarket (150 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach), both of which recently opened for the fall season. We know what you’re thinking:…
Say goodbye to the hot dog cart, Fort Lauderdale. Five years ago, downtown was home to a handful of vendors who slung cased beef on the cheap. I remember one cart at Broward and Federal Highway where you could buy two dogs and a can of soda for $3. Now…
It’s nice seeing a Florida boy achieve some success, so when Hi-Life Café’s own Carlos Fernandez made his way onto the second season of Bravo’s Top Chef, we were thrilled. Now that Fernandez’ star has risen, everyone back home is curious about the experience. Happy to oblige a little dish…
The Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, only in its first year, might already be a better foodie shindig than its megabucks South Beach cousin. First, you have unlimited access to sample food and booze from more than 20 of the finest restaurants and wine bars in Palm Beach, like…
Just think about all the pop culture references you’d miss out on if you never saw the classic 1985 film Back to the Future. When a hungry friend mentions that her flux capacitor needs refueling, you’d be all like, “WTF?!” You – like the rest of the scientific community –…
The promise of a festival with henna tattooing alone is too much to resist – yes, you still love to freak our parents out with a face-spanning henna tribal – but throw in the possibility of eating outrageous amounts of curry, and you’re totally there. But that’s not all. The…
Photo credit: Karin Martinez Talking on the phone with prolific comedian Richard Lewis is like attending one of his stand up shows: Ask a pleasantry such as “How are you doing?” and the answer you get is a hilarious exposition that starts with meeting his future wife at one of…
Part of us wants to be pissed off at the archetypal New York metal band Helmet. Since the group debuted in 1989, its now infamous post-hardcore sound has been duplicated ad nauseum by far lesser bands. You could even argue that the entire despicable genre of nü-metal – with its…
This year’s incarnation of the esteemed Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show promises to be bigger and, er… boatier than ever, with what flacks call “$2 billion worth of runabouts, sportfishers, high performance boats, cabin cruisers, express cruisers, sailing yachts, motor yachts, bowriders, catamarans, trawlers, inflatables, canoes, and extraordinary superyachts.” That’s…
Back in the days when slavery was first abolished, the African American contingency of Houston, Texas, was relegated to a separate section of the city called the Third Ward. Initially, the Third Ward flourished with black-owned businesses, churches, and schools. But over the course of the 20th century, it became…
