Halloween isn’t only for young people, but it’s a little odd to show up at someone’s door as an adult, unaccompanied by any kids, holding out a bag and demanding candy in a costume. If you’re looking for a classy way to celebrate as a nonkid, Fright Night, an adult…
Pop art originated in Britain as a parody of America’s plastic and monstrously extravagant consumer culture. In the early ’60s, Americans made pop art their own, the critique became something more innocent and un-self-conscious in technicolor prints that faithfully transcribed the country’s cornucopia without necessarily commenting on it. Meantime, France…
Through its 23-year run on Broadway from 1907 to 1931, the Ziegfeld Follies — part revue and part vaudeville variety show — assumed larger-than-life proportions. (A 1946 movie adaptation starred Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Fred Estaire, and Gene Kelly, among many others.) In May, the last living cast member in…
“Monsters Under My Bed: Childhood Fears Group Art Mega-Show” October 2 — November 13 at the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery, upstairs at Tate’s Comics, 4566 N. University Drive, Lauderhill. Call 954-748-0181, or visit tatescomics.com/bearandbird. Tate’s Comics has a slick art gallery upstairs, Bird + Bear, where the young…
The Rising Action Theatre has moved to a new venue, the Sunshine Cathedral, but left its essential character as a gay hothouse unchanged. And things don’t get much gayer than in its latest play, Fit to Be Tied, about a rich guy, Arloc, with mother issues; his kidnapped and hogtied…
The L-Dub Film Festival is a noble little experiment in its inaugural year, put on for the benefit of local filmmakers. Under the submission rules, all films — from music videos to documentaries — were shot in just one week. From 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, the festival first opens…
We at the New Times love a nice drink — or 40. That’s why we’re setting up more than 40 winetasting stations, with pairings from Florida’s finest restaurants, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale). The New Times’ Third-Annual Food and Wine Pairing…
Ever wonder what a bunch of bowling balls melted together would look like? Probably not. But now that the image is in your head, it needs to be seen. You’ll find those melded-together bowling balls — or what appear to be those, anyway — at the Art and Culture Center…
To be on TV or not to be on TV. That’s the question facing Andrew Rally, the protagonist of the play I Hate Hamlet. Rally is caught between a chaste girlfriend, the ghost of legendary actor John Barrymore, and a Hollywood executive. His girlfriend and Barrymore’s ghost want him to…
Flashing your genitals in public used to be the privilege of homeless people and perverts. Not anymore. Every Wednesday, the VooDoo Lounge holds “Whip It Out,” a talent contest in which people have been known to unleash their trouser snakes. The stage is wide-open to anyone with a knack for…
The Silk Road is remembered as the Route 66 of antiquity. Its 4,000 miles of windblown trails interwove the East and the Middle East with the West. Slaves, spices and, most especially, silk went back and forth, and the exchanges gave rise to cosmopolitanism, and even a pocket of Greco-Buddhist…
Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli are the God/Jesus team of gays. They’ve got all the tragedy, venerability, and immortality of an Abrahamic religion; the church is cabaret. Judy is long since dead from an accidental drug overdose, but with the right dress, stage makeup, and accent, she can be resurrected…
A fair warning to prospective guests at the Deerfield Beach Hilton: If, while checking in this weekend, you notice a woman in a bikini with hooks in her flesh hanging upside down from a crane by the pool, don’t be alarmed. From Friday to Sunday, the hotel’s being taken over…
Sildenafil is the cold, flaccid, clinical name for Viagra. But it’s also the title of a short film screening at the Colony Theater (1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach) at 8 p.m. Friday — a film about a parched wife trying to persuade her hypochondriac husband to get it up chemically…
The last name of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician and astrologer, is the root of the word mesmerize. His method and theory of animal magnetism, a convoluted absurdity based loosely on alchemy, was taken seriously enough in 1784 that King Louis XVI commissioned a panel of experts to…
There’s going to be an orgy of the quaint and archaic at the Antique and Collector Faire Saturday and Sunday. You can tell because they’re even spelling faire old-fashioned-like. About 75 dealers will sell heaps of antiques, collectibles, memorabilia, and jewelry. If you’ve got crusty silver or a cracked crystal…
Every day, pets are euthanized — 150 dogs at Miami Animal Services alone — because no one takes them home from a shelter. But a local organization called Save a Death Row Dog, founded by activist Diane Peters and run by volunteers, gives dogs a second lease on life. They’re…
If you’re looking to improve your nutrition or hold up the aging process, the second-annual Green, Health, and Wellness Expo at the South Florida Science Museum is a necessary stop. It’s not giving away Botox, but it is teaching people how to live, and age, healthfully. Sponsored by Whole Foods,…
Six months after a Biblically destructive earthquake, Lil Haiti: The Untold Story is a much-needed affirming tale about the Haitian people. The play’s tour of Florida has made headlines. It’s the autobiographical account of playwright Damien McKnight, an African-American kid who contravened unwritten code in the 1980s by befriending Haitian…
The Cold War’s over, but there are still 23,000 nuclear warheads on Earth and perhaps just as many real-life Dr. Strangeloves. In fact, for the first time, a nuclear power, Pakistan, is being threatened to the core in a civil war with Islamic terrorists, who have unabashed hard-ons for the…
Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach is a play about an unabashedly fey talk-show host on a public access channel and his macho, meathead assistant. In 1998, it nearly induced an orgasm for a New York Times reviewer, who called playwright Paul Rudnick a “zinger-meister” and warned folks that Rudnick’s…
To artist Kerry Phillips, a pack rat’s personal effects are the ultimate expression of art. As cataloged in her Sun-Sentinel profile last year, these include netted fruit bags and buttons. Phillips is the winner of Best in Show for Chairs Found and Fixed at the “59th Annual All Florida Juried…
