Life After Basel

Just when you thought you’d had your fill of Art Basel, the Village at Gulfstream Park will host about 100 artists from around the U.S. at the Gulfstream Park Art Festival this weekend. Works in a variety of mediums will be for sale at the juried art festival, now in…

Hungry for a Laugh

Overindulgence. It’s an American tradition, especially this time of year. But a half-dozen cookies, third slice of pie, and wafer-thin mint later, you might be looking for a way to burn the pudge. Lucky for you, there’s a sedentary solution: laughing! Not only does it burn calories, but you can…

Hog Wild For Charity

This weekend, South Florida’s biker community will saddle up for the 15th-annual Bikers Bash and 26th-annual SFPC Toys in the Sun Run. Both events benefit kids, and both will draw thousands of steel hogs from the tricounty area to Hard Rock Live in Hollywood and Markham Park in Weston. Because,…

Downtown Treasure Hunt

Get ready to climb trees, scale ledges, and possibly Dumpster-dive as you scour the nooks and crannies of Fort Lauderdale’s downtown for the 13th-annual Art Scavenger Hunt. Each year, Steve Sticht organizes a group of South Florida’s best artistic talents to contribute unsigned artwork for the hunt. Participants will receive…

So Swole, It’s Scary

In case you need another excuse to feel guilty for picking Taco Tuesday over treadmill time, the most ripped and chiseled bodies in the U.S. will descend on Fort Lauderdale for the NPC National Bodybuilding Championships this weekend. More than 1,000 competitors will strut their hyperbronzed über-bodies across the stage…

Broward Beatdown

Ah, pro wrestling, where meaty men don skin-tight spandex and roll around with other meaty men. Whether you believe the violence is real, the testosterone and tribal tattoos definitely are. The Future of Wrestling group will toss the biggest beasts of Florida’s independent wrestling circuit into the ring for Saturday’s…

The Joke’s On You

Comedians starting out in Broward have a tough gig. Rookies looking for a start have few places to go outside of Grandma’s living room. But in an unassuming Oakland Park strip mall, a fledgling comedy club is changing that. Named for the standup mecca in upstate New York, Catskills Comedy…

Howling With The Wolf

When you were 13, drinking beer in Fort Lauderdale meant lukewarm Budweisers at the perma-haunted Riverfront and Coronas smuggled on Dania Beach that you sliced your finger trying to twist off. This Halloween, don’t let the past haunt you. You’re fancy now; your taste in beer should prove it. Laser…

Feel the Spirit

The Stranahan House is throwing a party. A funeral party, that is. For eight nights, the Historic Stranahan House Museum is partnering with Bluefoot Pirate Adventures for a Victorian home funeral and New River ghost cruise. This is your chance to mourn the dead in Fort Lauderdale’s oldest house, where…

“Let There Be Radness”

And so there will be. This Friday, the folks at Island Water Sports will take a break from praying for surf to kick off Daytime Radness, a huge fundraiser, sale, and silent auction now in its third year. In between skate contests and autograph signings, IWS will raffle off tons…

Which Craft?

Although October may usher in the horrors and haunts of Halloween, what lies ahead is far more bloodcurdling. Yes, the holidays are just two months away. Lucky for you, there’s an opportunity to ditch the annual gift-card exchange and find some one-of-a-kind gifts at Sunday’s Indie Craft Bazaar: Paranormal Craftivity…

The Angry Pursuit of Happiness

His dad was an abusive alcoholic, and his mom was committed to a mental institution. A divorce (which he filed for on 6/6/06) left him bitter and broke. But now, Christopher Titus has a new wife, a new Comedy Central special, and a six-show stint at Fort Lauderdale Improv starting…

Bare Because They Care

What’s sexier than a night of rock-hard abs, assless chaps, and jiggling pasties? That, plus philanthropy! Now in its fourth year, Broward Bares It! is billed as “South Florida’s Sexiest HIV/AIDS Fundraiser.” What’s hotter is that not only did Seminole Hard Rock donate the venue for the night but the…