That hip, boutique coffee shop, Undergrounds Coffeehaus (2743 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale), is back in the art game this Saturday with their latest gallery show, “Coma Girl: The Artwork of Lisa Parrot.” Parrot’s art, images of cute but slightly devious little ladies lounging around slightly off-kilter flora and…

For actor-comedian Charlie Murphy, life after the unbelievable success of Chappelle’s Show is a beautiful thing. After all, it was his “True Hollywood Stories” sketches featuring retellings of his classic run-ins with Prince and Rick James that helped launch Chappelle’s Show from cable sketch series to comic cannon. His newest…

Open mic comedy can be a real mixed bag (you never really know what to expect on stage). But no matter how terrible or talented one open mic performance might be, the right unfiltered, raw vibe can transform an otherwise awkward room into Showtime at the Apollo. And that’s the…

Fans of piano-rock singer/songwriter Ben Folds are not too thrilled about his latest tour with soft-rocker John Mayer. For proof, just look at Folds’ Myspace site; it’s littered with comments from fans decrying Mayer, like, “Hope to see you again soon, without Mayer,” and (our favorite) “John Mayer isn’t worthy…

Society at large generally recognizes three designated meals per day – breakfast, lunch, and dinner – each categorized by the time in which they take place and the type of food ingested. Granted, there are exceptions (eggs for dinner, cold pizza for breakfast), but we think these rigid gastronomic definitions…

Nora is not happy. As the Guest Relations supervisor in a boutique Manhattan hotel, she coddles cranky actors and fussy debutantes while contemplating where, in fact, her artistic aspirations fell by the wayside. Despite hours spent seeking enlightenment through Buddhist meditation, the downward dog, and life affirming chats with her…

You could call them glam-house or even prog-dance, but no matter the classification, the French duo of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, better known as Daft Punk, have always pushed the boundaries of art and performance beyond simple electronic sounds. Way back in 1997, when their debut album Homework…

As the son of Grammy winner and country-rock legend Delbert McClinton, Clay McClinton was born with a remarkable musical lineage. While speaking to New Times just before the start of his U.S. tour, Clay says that he always knew he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps but admits to…

So South Florida sports are in the doldrums right now – each professional team floundering like the soaked sea creatures machined onto their tired uniforms – but it’s OK. It’s summer, after all, and though we have reasons to be skeptical about how far the Heat will drift away on…

There was a time when punk rock stood for something. Not only was punk about the rebelliousness of youth acting in concert, it was also about gazing through the thin membrane of social cohesion and throwing an absolutely righteous fit at the political monsters shitting on our liberties from the…

It was just two months ago that former Saturday Night Live star Tracy Morgan had a bit of blowout here in South Florida. Don’t remember? That was when a drunken Morgan stumbled into the Mega 94.9 studios to plug his upcoming Improv performances and wound up stumbling out with a…

If you’re like most South Floridians, you probably take the fact that we live moments from one of the best strips of beaches in the world for granted. It’s not that we don’t love the ocean; we do – it’s just that the last time many of us visited the…

Golf is a real bitch. It’s expensive, exclusive, and (doh, what’s another adjective starting with ex?) exacting. Disc golf, on the other hand, is just one word: extreme. Well, it’s also easy, accessible, and very cheap. As far as rules go they’re simple: start at the tee-off spot and toss…

Even if summer in South Florida is a mix of sub volcanic days and sadistic levels of afternoon rainfall, we still have our sunsets as respite. In those moments, just before that brutal orb retires for the evening, the skies hum with a pink radiance. Plumes of orange and red…

To prevent heat stroke, medical experts recommend that you get indoors and drink plenty of fluids. Non-medical experts (that’s us, by the way) don’t recommend drinking anything that doesn’t require a bottle opener or a Boston shaker. Which is why – solely in the interest of medical safety, mind you…

It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, what race box you check off on your SAT’s, or what class you belong to, everyone has a friend who is obsessed with 311. And, like it or not, that friend will try incessantly to wave their domineering reggae-funk-rock-rap politics in…

If there are two things that the rest of the free world unanimously disdains about America, the first would be, of course, our foreign policy, followed close behind by our beer. Not that you can equate shoot-first-ask-no-questions-later statesmanship to insipid, ultra-mass produced toilet water, but, come on now… it takes…

Surfing has a barrier to entry that’s a lot more difficult to surmount than other sports. First, there’s the equipment – are you really going to buy a board if you don’t know how to use it? Then, there’s the problem of training – you can’t really teach yourself to…

Listen up, gents, and listen good: Women are taking the pole back. As in stripper pole. That’s right; those buffed, metal pillars are no longer phallusized representations of sexual oppression. Now they’re sources of exercise (Carmen Electra, eat your heart out), self worth (Freud would have a field day), and…