Last year’s Hugs and Spoons Show didn’t draw quite the crowd organizers expected, so this year the Fair Expo Center decided to change course and host Victor Bean’s Southern Classic Gun and Knife Show. The doors to the Fuchs Pavilion will open at 10 a.m. this Sunday, and inside will…

Despite what the fitness industry tells you, transportation is still the best workout, provided you leave the automobile in the garage and use your feet. And what if every time you jogged to the grocery store, former Miami Heat point guard Tim Hardaway trotted beside you? Well, you’d be participating…

Here is something we can’t understand. If you were born in Long Island but have lived in Boynton Beach since the late ’70s, you are not a New Yorker. You are a Floridian. So by all means, wear your ugly New York Mets jersey to Land Shark Stadium (2267 Dan…

Despite their recent 5-0 loss to Mexico, the U.S. soccer team is surging. In July, they defeated World Cup champion Spain, stopping the squad one victory short of setting a new record for consecutive unbeaten matches by an international team. Then two days later, they took Brazil down to the…

If evolutionary theory is correct and nature really does select the animals that best adapt to their surroundings, humans in year 10,000 are going to have some bulbous optic nerves. Those thin channels now have the weight and size of dental floss, but at the rate we’re sucking down YouTube…

Ain’t no party like a hurricane party ’cause a hurricane party don’t stop. So why wait for the hurricane? Head to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida for its Hurricane History 101 Family Fun Day this Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Experts will show storm lovers how hurricanes have…

Remember when there was an understanding that if an actor’s career crossed the hills into the San Fernando Valley, she was done as a serious actress? My, how things have changed. Sasha Grey, the 21-year-old porn star who calls herself a “sexual athlete,” has made the opposite leap — out…

Jazz combos helmed by a bass player have a solid track record: Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, Dave Holland, and, if electric is your thing, Stanley Clarke. Maybe one day, 27-year-old local Diogo Brown will be added to that list. He plays the electric bass and runs an outfit that fuses…

What is Montreal’s impact? Mostly banana-hammock bathing suits, “Je me souviens” license plates clogging the fast lanes in February, and the band Of Montreal, whom no one over 26 has ever listened to. Also, a smaller version of the bagel and some of the best strip clubs in the world…

Has it ever occurred to you that, several thousand years from now, 99% of what we consider “culture” will be lost forever? And what if, by sheer circumstantial luck, one of those very few surviving works of art is a VHS cassette of Wrestlemania III? Might our descendants rationally conclude…

Poor Pittsburgh Pirates. Their city is two-for-two in sports championships this year, following a dominating romp through the NFL playoffs by the Steelers and an improbable (and epic) comeback march by the Penguins in the NHL playoffs. The Steel City hasn’t been this ecstatic since, well, it was actually making…

After seeing almost a hundred years’ worth of gangster films, we’re all familiar with the tropes: greed, betrayal, restitution, etc., and of course the black-market trade of products such as guns and drugs. Logic suggests gangster films of the future will continue down a similar path, except the illicit smuggling…

Donning costumes designed by the ghost of Freddie Mercury, the L.A.-based artist collective My Barbarian seems about as far away from a group of art school hipsters as one can get. How many tortured MFA grads do you know who would have the gall to get on stage wearing a…

If you’re not excited for this Saturday’s Andre Berto vs. Juan Urango fight at Hard Rock Live, you’re A) not into sports, and B) not proud of South Florida. Winter Haven-born, Miami-raised Andre Berto is not only the undefeated WBC welterweight champion, but he’s incredibly personable and down-to-earth. In short,…

“People describe me as a little dirtier,” says comic Jessica Gross. “I like the word ‘edgier’ better. ‘Dirtier’ sounds like the hidden part of the video store.” Gross, and that is her real name, is just one of the twelve or so stand-up artists that Daniel Reskin has recruited for…

We could plug Unwigged and Unplugged featuring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer quite easily, but perhaps it’s better to turn it over to Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel: “Yes, hello? Is this mic turned up to 11? I rather like Miami. I remember when we played the Marine Stadium…

We’ve been hearing about the death of the record store ever since CD sales started getting edged out by Napster. And yet, Miami’s own Sweat Records keeps on slouching towards Bethlehem. One of the reasons they’ve survived is the re-birth of the vinyl record, that inimitable combination of art, nostalgia,…

You spend a lot of time drinking sherry, smoking a pipe, and ordering every foreign film ever reissued by the Criterion Collection — La Jetee, Jules & Jim, The Naked Kiss, Yojimbo. During all that down time you dream up strangest adventure that will carry you away from South Florida…

If you’re not at Churchill’s tonight for the Black Lips show, we’ll know why. Because you drive a BMW. Because your soul has been crippled by the weight of your bourgeoisie possessions. Because you don’t feel like riding the steel-and-teak elevator twenty floors down when you have Sushi Samba on…