Bobby Slayton is ass-nasty — and nicknamed the “Pitbull of Comedy.” He’s a Jewish guy in his 50s who self-admits he’s always been cranky. So at his shows in SoFla, Slayton might not use his Haitian cabdriver routine, but he’s bound to mortally offend someone. For instance, he doesn’t like…
In the ’50s, the Tupperware party types were the ones who celebrated the dawning of suburbia and plastic. And saleswoman Brownie Wise was the party’s pioneer. After she appeared on the cover of Business Week, Earl Tupper, the inventor of Tupperware, got jealous of her fame. He cut her out…
When David Rockefeller came up with the idea of a World Trade Center for Lower Manhattan, there was just one obstacle in his way: Radio Row, several jumbled blocks of little electronics stores, where radios, circuity, and miscellaneous used goods piled up on the sidewalks to be picked over. Whatever…
When Florida Citrus Commission spokeswoman Anita Bryant got a Dade County referendum passed in 1977 to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance and make LGBT people second-class citizens, local activists organized a Pride Parade and Rally. Almost 20 years later, they helped reinstate the ordinance. Gays still can’t adopt in Florida or…
Over the past year or so, incest, child molestation, and refugees from Darfur have all been featured on the stage at the Mosaic Theatre. So it’s a surprise to find Mosaic’s director, Richard Jay Simon, greeting the coming of spring with a cheery musical revue and not a wrenching play…
It’ll be exciting to see how Caldwell Theatre adapts The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novella, to the stage. After all, most of the action takes place on a skiff in the Gulf Stream, where a Cuban fisherman is trying to reel in a monster-sized marlin that…
This year’s Miami International Film Festival, which runs March 5 to 14, features as many quality films as are humanly possible to screen, plus workshops and at least nine award categories. It kicks off with the Opening Night Celebration at 9 Friday night at Miami-Dade College’s Freedom Tower (600 Biscayne…
Here comes your one chance to guzzle wine on the street without looking like a crazy wino — tonight, Latin American wineries are taking over seven blocks of Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. They’re offering an unlimited amount of wine paired with a smorgasbord of food from local joints. Throw…
The Samba Room (350 East Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale) is a classy little joint along Las Olas with hot music, gourmet Latin food, and offshoots in Orlando and Denver. And now it’s sexing itself up with a lingerie show. Every Sunday at 7 p.m., Samba Room hosts the music/art…
“Speaking in Parables Will Get You Nowhere in this Crowd” is an exhibit about today’s post-industrial landscape — or should I say wasteland? — opening at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center (1650 Harrison St., Hollywood). It’s the joint project of two artists, Michael Balbone and Emily Martinez, who share…
ArtPalmBeach may be smaller than Art Basel Miami Beach, but it’s a sleek and worthy answer to the Swiss behemoth. Opening to the public on January 15 for its 13th year, APB features 75 international dealers, including a few from Israel and Syria, and 1,500 artists. The works of painting,…
Reports of poetry’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The art form is certainly alive and kicking here, where the Palm Beach Poetry Festival is bringing together a clique of eminent poets — with enough medals and honors among them to decorate an army — for readings, lectures, and workshops in…
Naughty Marietta is an American operetta dating back to 1910. It hasn’t been staged much in decades, but it’s about to see the light of day again with a revival by the Palm Beach Light Opera Company, a newfangled nonprofit, on the operetta’s 100th anniversary. The star is Countess Marietta,…
What happens when a bunch of embittered Capitol Hill staffers turn into singers and songwriters? The Maltz Jupiter Theatre (1001 E. Indiantown Road, Jupiter) gets serenaded with bipartisan political satire, that’s what. It’s a must-see show for anyone who wants to laugh at the withering away of democratic politics that…
The Seminole Casino’s swank Pangaea Lounge and Gryphon Nightclub is ringing in the new year with “One Night in Bangkok,” an Oriental bash named after that soaring ABBA-style anthem by Murray Head. It’s safe to assume that Pangaea’s party won’t include any Ping-Pong shows or underaged lady boys. But it…
According to Time, student-teacher sex, especially involving female teachers, is a “Florida epidemic.” Indeed, Google the phrase “student teacher Florida” and you’ll be met with enough reports on student-teacher sex to freeze a computer’s hard drive. Given all that, it seems questionable to stage the world debut of a play…
The annual Holiday Fundraiser and Toy Drive at Avenue Pilates (430 Northeast 5th Ave., Delray Beach) is gathering donations and toys for AVDA, Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse. The goal is to collect $5,000 for AVDA and more toys than ever for children in need. The fundraiser will offer…
“As a Jew, you have to pick something on the menu… and alter it beyond all recognition.” That’s one of the not-so-Talmudic teachings handed down in Jewtopia, which became the longest-running comedy in off-Broadway history in 2007. Now, the show is coming to the Coral Springs Center for the Arts…
Lost in Yonkers swept the Tony awards in 1991 and that year also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Neil Simon play is a coming-of-age story set in New York. It’s a comedy, but it comes with serious drama and plenty of weighty characters. The main characters, Arty and…
If you’re looking to be publicly flogged, spanked, and humiliated this holiday season — or, alternatively, if you’re looking to administer brutal discipline — show up tonight at Purgatory Nightclub (1000 State Road 84, Fort Lauderdale) for this month’s fetish party. The theme is Alter Ego. And your alter ego’s…
Love Letters is as minimalist as plays come. Two aging, moneyed WASPs sit at desks opposite each other on stage, but in different parts of the country, and read from a chronicle of notes and letters they’ve exchanged since second grade. If it sounds as exciting to you as a…
Andrea Bocelli is what you call the “Michael Jackson” of pop opera. Dubbed the “King of Popera,” he got his start when an Italian rock star put him on a demo tape as a tenor. In the 17 years since, he’s sold a considerable number of albums — 60 million,…
