History means a lot to Billy Mitchell. The 42-year-old gamer from Hollywood has had a long one, beginning back in 1982, when he first set the world record in the arcade game Donkey Kong. Mitchell was a master behind the joystick — manipulating the popular gnome-like action hero Mario as…
“My work comes from sensations of childhood; feelings and experiences that were important at that time, but people tend to put away as they get older,” explains Peter Santa-Maria, a Miami artist who will exhibit his latest collection of ethereal dioramas this Saturday at “Peter & Dex Made Some Art.”…
Donkey Kong has long been one of the most powerful and fearsome figures in all of video gaming. The massive primate, piston-like arms effortlessly flipping barrels at a red overall-wearing protagonist, is probably the meanest, toughest boss in perhaps the most difficult and unforgiving arcade game ever created. Naturally, that…
Remember being a kid and having slumber parties filled with pillow fights, movie marathons, and all the candy a hopped-up adolescent could take? Frank Edwards does. As the founder and mascot of the Frank-e-oke karaoke empire, Edwards has incorporated the slumber party prime directive – keep rockin’ till the last…
It used to be that going to the arcade and plopping a fresh fin’s worth of quarters into the Street Fighter II cabinet was a weekly ritual. Now, thanks to high-powered consoles that bring the arcade experience home, you can play your throwback copies of SFII over Xbox Live while…
In the grassy mountains of Argentina, cattle-rustlers feast on super-sized lunches of beef and starch to provide the primo energy they need to corral cows all day. Here, in mist-covered office towers of South Florida, bold executives look toward low-carb wraps and health-conscious salads to keep them alert and attentive…
I knew there was something different about the jerk chicken served at Betty’s Place (5601 Pembroke Rd., Hollywood, 954-226-3340), but I wasn’t completely sure what. I was determined to find out. “I can’t tell you, man,” the guy behind the counter gasped with a wide smile. “She’ll kill me!” Come…
“The blues died when they took the ‘fuck’ out of it, ” says Rocco DeLuca, the front man of California rock outfit the Burden, in his bio. “To get [the blues] back we need to stick the real soul, that punk element back into it.” DeLuca would know; his father…
If last year’s Miami Dolphins team was a cast member on CSI: Miami, it’d have to be David Caruso – the poor bastards were trying sooooo hard to get all those lines right; and still, they came out laughably bad. This year, with the team’s demons banished to Alabama, the…
T-shirt designers Laki Politis and Marc Edgar are still in college, but that hasn’t hampered their clothing-biz careers. Up in their hometown of Wellington, you might even call them made men. That’s where Politis first started hocking tees emblazoned with the words “561 – Wellington Mafia” to kids at his…
People love tragedy as long as they’re not on the receiving end. It’s an artistic premise that’s not likely to be shelved anytime soon thanks to our sickly little addiction to sadism, and a willingness to stuff unwholesome urges deep in our guts. But hey, it works for us; and…
At Boca’s debauched dueling piano bar, FunKey Nutz (303 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton), patrons are usually the ones who shed their clothing. During naughty renditions of classic rock and pop tunes, guys at tightly packed, stage-side tables whoop and holler as inebriated women do their best Motley Crüe groupie…
There’s absolutely nothing embarrassing about being a 26-year-old man who rides waterslides. There may, however, be something embarrassing about screaming louder than that girl who was in line before you for Pirate’s Plunge. But you’re not afraid of monsters in your closet, and you eat all your broccoli – what’s…
We’re at the tail end of the dog days of summer – that sweltering August sun sapping every last bit of our will like a chunk of Floridian kryptonite – which, if you listen to mom, means we should be cooling off indoors and drinking plenty of life sustaining fluids…
It’s one of the oldest adages of fame: once your big break hits, you’re destined to forget all the little people, without whose steadfast support you’d have never risen to the top. Somehow, South Florida’s own local-DJ-done-good, DJ Icey, didn’t get that memo. The Orlando spinster began his ascendancy to…
What image appears in your head when you hear the words “comic book community”? Two costumed convention-goers, one squeezed into tight red-and-blue spandex with a homemade “S” splashed across his chest, the other an admitted Moon Knight fanatic in a stitched white cowl? Well, for lifelong comic and role-playing game…
When the bike-nic film Easy Rider first screened in 1969, it was met with heaps of praise from film critics, burgeoning rock ´n´ rollers, and motorcyclists alike. As the first great road-trip film, Rider represented a unique time in American history, before antiauthoritarianism became a slick advertisement and our naïveté…
If you’ve ever spent time in Spain you know that drinking wine – whether it’s quaffing bottles of cava at Madrilleño nightclubs, ducking inside a dusty Salamanca tapas bar for a glass of Rioja, or slow-sipping sangria on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas strip – is as integral a part of Spanish…
Ahhh, remember the Miami Dolphin’s 2007 offseason? Those were great times! Magical times. Times when we were still optimistic about our dewy-faced, new head coach Cam Cameron — a guy we knew would be able to turn a bloated 6-10 team into a bunch of winners! Remember how he made…
Got a craving for beer that goes beyond the ordinary, mass-produced labels that line supermarket’s shelves? Look no further than BX Beer Depot (2964 Second Ave. N., Lake Worth). The Palm Beach institution has been a haven for lovers of both microbrews and obscure foreign brands for over 30 years…
We’ve all got our college classes to attend, our TPS reports to finish, and our kids to chauffeur around, but every once in a while we, as Floridians, need to be reminded of why we choose to stay here: the lazy Florida life, with its salty beach bars and Buffett-esque…
God bless the fetish community. Their unwavering support of the scene and their steadfast, fanatical determination to dress up in skin tight latex dotted with holes for various body parts to slip out of are proof positive that following your passions wholeheartedly is a beautiful fucking thing. (If only we…
