Should funerals be somber remembrances or cheerful celebrations of life? Traditional funeral versus jazz funeral. If you prefer the latter, join the artist-run collective 1310 Gallery (1310 SW Second Court, Fort Lauderdale) from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday for the opening of “Love Thy Liberty.” Thirty-three South Florida artists, including…
The place: Starlite Lounge, 960 N. Federal Highway, Pompano Beach. 954-946-3477. The hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. The deal: Draft beers $2.25 instead of $2.50, domestic beers $2.75 instead of $3.25, well liquors $3 instead of $3.75, wines $3.75 instead of $4.25. The digs: Starlite Lounge,…
The place: Caliente Kitchen, 8 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Call 561-450-6940. The hours: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday; 4 to 10 p.m. on Monday. The deal: Two-for-one drinks and $2 tacos. Reggae on Mondays. The digs: The setting is standard these days for a Tex-Mex-themed cantina: faux…
Though usually only children bother to mark half years, the charitable drinkers at the Young Professionals for Covenant House mark the halfway point to St. Patrick’s Day, the foremost of drinking holidays. That’s fitting for a group of 21- to 45-year-olds who drink to raise money for youths under 21…
The place: Kahuna Awa Kava Bar, 123 NE 20th Ave., Deerfield Beach. Cal 954-663-0757.The hours: 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The deal: Two-for-one kava drinks. The digs: The Kahuna gives off an upscale vibe from the outside that belies the casual, relaxed mood inside. It does the Polynesian…
Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6 Street, Fort Lauderdale) will host what can only be described as a survey course in the history of comedic movies for its “Comedy-A-Thon.” Except this won’t involve quizzes, papers, or homework — it is Labor Day, after all. Even though school has started, our summer…
The Place: The Lodge, 200 S Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. 561-392-5003 The Hours: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. every day. The Deal: Two-for-one on select drafts and free chips. The Digs: This place looks and feels like a ski lodge or hunting lodge, or a bar north of the Mason-Dixon and…
Cinema Paradiso (503 SE Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale), with its endless film offerings, was founded by those who brought us, according to Guinness World Records, the longest film festival in the world: the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, better-known as FLIFF. But the art-house theater has never featured a festival…
The place: The Jib Room, 2104 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-564-3581. The hours: Noon to 7 p.m. every day.The deal: All beers are 50 cents off, and all liquors and wines are 75 cents off. Normal prices range from $3.50 for domestic beers and $4 for imports…
The place: 101 Ocean, 101 E. Commercial Blvd., Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. Call 954-776-8101. The hours: 5 to 7 p.m. every day. The deal: All drinks half price. The digs: If they ever decide to add another number to the Ocean’s (Eleven) Trilogy, 101 Ocean would make an ideal filming location. But not…
The place: Bru’s Room Sports Grill, 235 S. Federal Highway, Pompano Beach. Call 954-785-2227.The hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. every night.The deal: Daytime happy hour gets you half-price domestic drafts, well drinks, and house wine and $2 domestic longnecks. Late night,…
Bear and Bird Gallery, perched atop Tate’s Comics in Lauderhill, has long explored the connection between fine art and toys. Past events have included a munny doll extravaganza (the plastic toys that serve as blank canvases), getting as close as you can to making a silk purse out of a…
The place: T-Mex Cantina, 204 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-463-2003. The hours: 4 to 8 p.m.; 4 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The deal: Buy one drink, get one free (of equal or lesser value). The digs: Formerly San Loco, this location and its South Beach sister store…
In the beginning, there was man. (For the purposes of this article, only man.) And man needed tools, because without tools, he was no different from the common beast, a big gorilla with less hair. Not only were tools practical; they made life easier and the impossible possible. And like…
French for “new art,” art nouveau — drolly mispronounced by Ali G as “now-voo or now-voh or whatevuh” — was an art movement that aimed to make art a part of everyday life. So it’s apt that an art-events company by the same name would host an exhibition dedicated to…
What if there were an island where dinosaurs still roamed? Where they evolved intelligence and the ability to speak? Illustrator and author James Gurney answered this question when he created the fantasy island Dinotopia in 1992 with the publication of Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time. It was the first…
Straight outta the mean streets of LBS (Lauderdale-by-the-Sea) comes the locally flavored hip-hop trio Kawabungaliztikz (pronounced kou-uh-buhng-guh-lis-tiks). The group’s aesthetic, a puff-puff-pass cocktail of smart-alecky rhymes and nerd-boy swagger, offers insider perspective on local beach culture in between the bong rips and Commercial Pier surf sessions — think a crunk-style…
From the earliest cave paintings to Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters, Picasso’s Guernica, and Fairey’s Hope, art has been used to advocate a point of view. Since art has the ability to inspire change, it has proven a worthy avenue with which to communicate the humanity of issues. And what…
The idea of the motorcycle has evolved over the past 100 years. What started out as a simple form of transport, a bicycle with a motor attached, was transformed into an outlaw symbol with the Hollister riot in 1947 — inspiring the 1953 Marlon Brando film The Wild One. The…
