If you’re waiting until Friday night to head downtown Fort Lauderdale, you’re just living for the weekend. Don’t be that person — live for Thursday, too. And don’t be a person who just knows the downtown experience as rock cover bands, copious liquor shots, and girls dancing on bars. Broaden…

The Fort Lauderdale 13.1 half marathon is here — that’s a fact — but if you’re prepared to run it is all opinion. Normally, we would steer you away from such grandiose physical endeavors if you haven’t been preparing Rocky-style for this run. But there’s a place for us all…

Most Norman Rockwell paintings depict a sweet childhood memory, or some terribly cheery adult outing. For more than four decades, the painter illustrated everyday scenarios for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. His subjects included boy scouts, or Gramps at the Plate. They werealmost sickly-sweet feel-good images that…

The Bible isn’t the only place to go to read about Christian morals. Sure, the Bible has parting seas and Jesus, but author C.S. Lewis has brought Christian philosophy to a whole fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, which includes the popular childhood staple The Lion, the Witch, and the…

Our days are infiltrated with machines: assembly lines, bulldozers, the corporate machine. Technology has also influenced the pop and conceptual art movements. These days, plenty of art is made by machines. In some cases, machines are art! But the exhibit, “Set to Manual,” at the Girl’s Club Gallery (117 NE…

The reality of Catholic high school tarnishes the dream of Catholic high school. The reality is that priests and nuns are sober, restrained elders with stern humors. If you were spanked, you didn’t enjoy the chastisement. If a nun was nasty, it wasn’t referring to the new positive spin on…

You would love to see a person walk on a bed of bare nails. Or having knives hurtled at them. See how one can eat fire, walk on glass. Witness someone whose job description contains the phrase “human cutting board,” and who is subject to being hit with whips and…

On Halloween, female Willy Wonkas are sexy. So are women dressed up as clownfish, and hell, even female Ghostbusters are provocative. Guys can dress up as a smoldering pirate, a charming vampire, a cool Fred Flintstone. But costumes don’t guarantee a wicked good time — or role play. If you…

Pagans, you live by the cycles of the moon. You celebrate the sun. And while most folks participate only in trick-or-treat matters, you know today is Samhain, the greatest sun celebration of the year. It’s the day the veil between the human and spirit worlds is the thinnest. The day…

Here’s a spooky, tragic story. In 1940, on the way to a fire, firefighter Robert Leeland Knight jumped off the fire truck and landed in a charged puddle of water. A power line was down, and Knight wasn’t wearing protective boots. He died immediately. Legend has it that this fallen…

Say adieu to the candy-corn nightmare before Christmas because Halloween’s over. Now, the season of magical trees, potential eggnog overdoses, and whimsical dreams of dancing sugar plums approaches, and this season waits for no one. It’s time to turn dough into holiday cookies, evergreen conifers into Christmas trees, and weird…

It’s unsettling that many diseases out there don’t have cures yet. But when we band together for awareness, the result is nothing short of empowering. For instance, in the month of October, pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness were found on football helmets during NFL games. So while we threw…

The possessed university you saunter through is dark, horrific, and haunting – with creepy things lurking around each corner. Four witches carried unto this university an ancient book of spells, and although they discovered the book was possessed by an evil spirit, they still translated the text. Once they spoke…

Our days are infiltrated with machines: assembly lines, bulldozers, the corporate machine. Technology has also influenced the pop and conceptual art movements. These days, plenty of art is made by machines. In some cases, machines are art! But the new exhibit, “Set to Manual,” at the Girl’s Club Gallery (117…

Rest assured, Fort Lauderdaleites, we’re not deprived of artists. But, yeah, we could use some more space to cultivate our arty garden and let it grow. Back in June, promoters Garo Gallo and Yvonne Colon gave us the art/music-filled venue the Bubble. And thanks to two New York-transplant artists, we…

Say you have a crazy dream that you’re copiloting a plane, and Jon Bon Jovi is the pilot. Soon, he gets up and asks you to grab the controls. Why would he do this? Hint: This dream isn’t revealing you were meant to be a pilot. It’s to tell you…

Unless you plan on a clan of ten, it’s pretty useless to hold onto infant clothes when your kid is a toddler, toddler clothes when your kid is in second grade sniffing the glue, or maternity clothes when you’re pretty sure that isn’t going to happen again. And, anyways, who…

How does an indie director get South Florida’s coolest nonconformists to star in his film? Persistence and a love for the titillating art world. Local director Aiden Dillard’s newest film Death Print stars Ted Vernon, Otto Von Schirach, Notorious Nastie, the TM Sisters, wrestler Maximum Capacity, and latex fetish queen…

Sure, all your buddies think you’re funny on Friday nights when you’re stumbling through Himmarshee. That dance you do? Bah-ha! Your Chris Rock impressions? Hilarious! But try standing up in front of a tough crowd of strangers — who are “having a case of the Mondays,” no less. Monday’s the…

Just imagine the benefits of becoming a good actor. Never again will someone call you a liar (because you will never be caught lying; you’ll be that good). Never again will you be stuck daydreaming about being someone else (method acting means you stay in character; you will be someone…

Bob likes dressing up in his Halloween costume — a gator this year — and reaping the benefits of a good friggin’ deal. Lucky for Bob, during the whole month of October, Billie Swamp Safari offers a 50 percent promotional discount on the Swamp Buggy Eco-Tour to anyone sporting a…

A beer buzz is more than a feeling. It transcends thought. It heightens. senses. While reflecting upon the impact beer has had on his life, Homer Simpson — beer theologian extraordinaire — has said, “Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution.” His third-person proclamation “Homer no function beer well without” drives…