Get up, stand up SAT 2/26 Few musicians can say they transcended their craft to achieve the vaunted status of cultural icon, especially if you consider an untimely demise to be a prerequisite. John Lennon, Elvis Presley, and Jimi Hendrix may have defined their generations, but none can claim the…
Future Hall-of-Famer comes to town MON 2/21 Howard Dean’s presidential run was ruined by The Scream, but Sammy Sosa’s career was sidetracked by The Sneeze. Last season, while playing for the Chicago Cubs, the slugger missed a month of ball games because he strained a back ligament while sneezing. Still,…
No Problem! FRI 2/18 For all intents and purposes, Sunsport Gardens (14125 North Rd., Loxahatchee) is a typical family resort. It has a heated pool, a spa, a sauna, and plenty of sports and activities. The only difference is the attire — or lack thereof. As one of south Florida’s…
Quiet Waters Park gets medieval on your ass SAT 2/12 Native south Floridians are accustomed to determining the seasons by the migration patterns of tourists. For example, when we see cars with their headlights on during the daytime, we know it’s the December arrival of the Canadian snowbirds. When Las…
Ten of them! FRI 2/11 Playwright Ronnie Larsen certainly knows how to get our attention. He called his first play Ten Naked Men. He followed that with Making Porn. Then came All-Male Peep Show. You get the point. Is he smart? Or merely lazy? On www.bringdown.com, where people can make…
Canadians baking SAT 1/29 Like the swallows of Capistrano, it’s that time of year again — when Canadians drag themselves from the drudgery of shoveling snow (and the occasional dog-sled race) to make their annual migration to South Florida. Go ahead and joke. Say something about their horrendous driving or…
You want me to do what? WED 2/2 So the legendary Second City comedy troupe chose to sit out this year’s Miami Improv Festival. A loss, no doubt, but hardly a deterrent; with six more troupes than last year’s festival (including the Groundlings, the alma mater of megastars like Will…
Poets are like rock stars FRI 1/21 In 1998, just after she’d been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, writer Patricia Smith was fired from the Boston Globe for having fabricated material in her columns. The scandal pretty much spelled the end of Smith’s journalism career. From her home in Westchester…
Since its heyday in the ’80s, standup comedy has gone through more ups and downs than Anna Nicole Smith on a pogo stick. But with the recent success of the reality show Last Comic Standing and Comedy Central’s latest hit Shorties Watching Shorties, it seems the standup stage is in…
