The Brew Crew

Over the past year, Dialect introduced Brew Urban Café to a more nocturnal crowd, one that has come to favor the downtown Fort Lauderdale coffee shop for its selection of frothy microbrews and eclectic local art. Celebrating its one-year anniversary Friday, Dialect will once again replenish the walls of Brew…

“She’s Dead… Wrapped in Plastic”

South Florida has all the makings of a David Lynch film — it’s an overwhelming blend of disturbing beauty and depravity that colors the landscape and populace alike. And who better to bring Lynchian surrealism to life than the local characters of Kill Miss Pretty? Kicking off the Southeast portion…

Loveable Mad Hatter Solo Show

Fort Lauderdale indie art space the Bubble has become a beacon of artistic expression, a gathering space for emerging artists to showcase their unique views and sounds. With its latest show this Saturday, a solo exhibition of more than 50 pieces by the Loveable Mad Hatter, the Bubble is bringing…

Guys and Molls

There was a time when gambling evoked more than the image of little blue-haired ladies hunched over slot machines engulfed in the clouds of their chain-smoked companions. A time when being underground really meant something, like knowing where all the good bars were, especially the ones that actually served alcohol…

Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya

If you’ve ever had the strange desire to see a live reenactment of the Shakira-Danzig mash-up video, you should head over to the tenth annual tribal-fusion belly-dancing extravaganza better known as Spirit of the Tribes. Tribal fusion is belly dancing with multiple-personality disorder, taking cues from Bollywood, hip-hop, psychedelic rock,…

Soul Refill

If you’ve lived in South Florida long enough, chances are that you’ve lost, sold, or bartered your soul away. No worries though, because you can fill that empty void — or at very least your belly — at the Soul Food Festival. Vendors will be serving up delicious Southern eats…