“I wish it was drinking-related, but it wasn’t,” comedian Dave Attell joked apologetically after calling almost an hour late for his scheduled interview. Yeah, right, Dave… sure. He went on to explain that, after a long stint on the road, he’d forgotten to reset his clocks for daylight-saving time. Completely…
THU 21 After seven days and more than 150 films, including 11 world premieres, six U.S. premieres, and 43 Florida premieres, the Palm Beach International Film Festival finally calls it a wrap at 7 p.m. at the Muvico Parisian 20 at CityPlace (545 Hibiscus St., West Palm Beach). The closing…
The real contenders square off FRI 4/22 Few sports can match the savage brutality and enthralling artistry of boxing. Two men enter the ring, but only one can leave victorious. And you probably thought it was just a couple of dudes kicking the crap out of each other. Fight fans…
Says, “We are the gumbo” SAT 4/16 B.B. King once sang, “The blues had a baby, and they named it rock ‘n’ roll…” He wasn’t suggesting that the blues had unprotected sex — he was just layin’ down a metaphor. So what’s the progeny of blues and a cooking show?…
Miami gears up for finals run SUN 4/17 While flipping the calendar to April means no more college hoops, it also means pro hoops finally get serious. The two-month, post-All-Star-break swoon is over, as squads have been gearing up for the playoff run since the fourth month rang in. The…
Meet the people behind lowbrow art SAT 4/16 Lowbrow art is a lot like Michael Jackson. Which is to say, the genre is often creepy, sometimes surreal, but almost always entertaining. Also, you don’t want it around your kids. However, unlike Michael Jackson, lowbrow art has found a way to…
It was brief and so close to perfection that nobody noticed it wasn’t Christopher Walken. That deliberate and apoplectic voice reading Goodnight Moon to terrified children in The Simpsons episode “Insane Clown Poppy” was ball-busting comedian Jay Mohr. “They asked Walken to do it and he wanted too much money,…
THU 14 Motley Crue did it. Poison did it. And Kiss did it best. So why shouldn’t King Diamond dust off his Caboodles makeup case, capitalize on his 19-year-old accomplishments, and cobble together a few bucks for his permanent retirement? Back in 1986, it was still possible to get Tipper…
Jekyll & Hyde is all about the duality of man and the battle that rages within us all between good and evil. So perhaps fittingly, the musical now at the Stage Door Theatre offers radically contrasting moments. There are, that is, strokes of theatrical excellence and passages of grindingly bad…
SAT 4/9 For the average college football fanatic, the year is separated into two distinctly separate and inequitable parts — the college football season and the long and arduous eight months spent waiting for it to start again. Like a basehead fiending for one more hit of the tasty rock,…
TUE 4/12 If you’re more of a boozer than a foodie, think of this as the opportunity to reform yourself — while still catching a decent buzz. The Himmarshee Bar and Grill (210 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale) will school you in the finer points of quaffing during complimentary winetastings…
Take one look at local fashion designer Adrianne Russin’s revamped vintage threads and you’ll have no question where her inspiration comes from. “Rock ‘n’ roll and funk is my answer to everything,” she admits. The formula has been working. She’s created styles for tons of freelance clients, including current American…
THU 7 You may not have heard of comedian Pablo Francisco, but chances are, after his show you won’t forget him. The 20-something Tucson native got his first break during a comedy competition at age 17. Since then, he’s been spotted on Mad TV, Comedy Central, and the Tonight Show…
FRI 4/1 “Yuh mean to tell mi seh yuh really stop already?” dancehall star Macka Diamond sings to a “one-minute man” on her hit “Yuh Nuh Ready.” She laments, “Like a monkey ‘pon yuh tree mi waan climb/Yuh come so quick, bwoy, yuh commit a crime/I gwaan lock yuh inna…
SAT 4/2 Attention, all crawdaddies ‘n’ mommies — here comes crawfish stew, crawfish kebabs, and crawfish étouffée. In Bubba-speak, it’s time to come out for a big taste of the Big Easy at the First Annual Palm Beach Cajun Blues Crawfish Festival from 3 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Meyer…
The mere notion that The Simpsons and William Shakespeare have a lot in common is enough to make your average high school drama teacher let out a derisive “D’oh!” But once you get past the obvious disparities, thou shalt see that many of the characteristics that made the Bard so…
What’s in a name? W`hen it comes to punk rock, not much. The Dead Kennedys aren’t dead, nor are they Kennedys. The Damned were most likely never actually damned. None of the members of the Ramones has a surname that’s even remotely similar to Ramone. And guess what? The Queers…
There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned hoedown. Country music blaring as the dance floor fills with men and women following a set of choreographed steps. Cowboy hats and boots as far as the eye can see. Guys with chiseled abs that peek through their unbuttoned, sleeveless flannel shirts, exposing oversized…
Necessary Targets lands in Broward THU 3/17 Can well-meaning, unscathed Americans reasonably expect to heal another country in the wake of war? That question is being explored again as the Women’s Theatre Project revisits Necessary Targets, which made its South Florida debut last August in Miami. “Toward the end of…
Celebrities, stars, and Sin FRI 3/18 Celebrities are just like you and me — they put their pants on one leg at a time. It’s just that once their pants are on, they make gold records, catch touchdown passes, and emit immeasurable cool. That’s why, when a chance to rub…
The iconography of an icon THU 3/10 Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Another acid flashback? Not quite. It’s the art of Peter Max, which has come to define the generation of free love, flower power, and psychedelic expression. Though he might…
Mystery authors just love Florida THU 3/3 More than 250 mystery writers and their groupies descend on Sleuthfest today at the Renaissance Hotel (1617 SE 17th St. Cswy., Fort Lauderdale) for four days of author/editor/agent parties, workshops, and seminars. Can you smell the gunshot residue yet? Why is there so…
