Going out to a nice bar and restaurant and relaxing with a couple of friends is probably number one on most adults’ list of things they like to do. In fact, we often don’t even think of it as an activity. It’s just life. But let’s face it: Sometimes even our…
The 16th-annual New Times “Original” Beerfest coming to Esplanade Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale on April 6 is still a little ways off. If you’re counting down the days with thirsty impatience, check out the “Warm Up” event at Crown Wine & Spirits from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday…
Tomorrow – Saturday, March 23 – the long-awaited Delray Marketplace will open on West Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. While most of the action in Delray is to be found in the quaint but bustling downtown area in the eastern most part of town, civilization has been slowly pushing itself…
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In a way, drag is the ultimate male vision of womanhood. If you think about it for a moment, it’s actually a flattering homage. It’s not about the hair, the shoes, the makeup, and the dresses — that is just the medium. A queen’s (and notice they’re called “queens,” not…
The 11th-annual Boca Bacchanal Bacchus Bash returns this weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The event, which raises funds for the Boca Raton Historial Society and Museum, has always been a bit of a high-brow affair.But this year, they’re adding a new component, one that is likely to appeal to the common…
First of all, lets start off with a little debunking about what Guinness is and is not. It is not motoroil. It is not heavy or thick. It does not have a harsh or overly bitter flavor. You’re thinking of IPAs. Guinness is light. It is creamy and smooth with…
Believe it or not, there’s more to do this weekend than drink green beer and pretend to be Irish — though there’s certainly nothing wrong with that.See also- Behind the Scenes at Ultra Music Festival- Peeps Invade Lake Worth Art Gallery…
With all the St. Patty’s Day buzz in the air, it can be easy to forget there’s another spring holiday hot on its heels. As with most holidays that have a religious background, there’s plenty of secular fun to be had in regard to Easter. Perhaps no secular treat is…
With all the St. Patty’s Day buzz in the air, it can be easy to forget there’s another spring holiday hot on it’s heels. As with most holidays that have a religious background, there’s plenty of secular fun to be had in regards to Easter.Perhaps no secular treat is more…
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You probably thought pub crawls were named such because of the semi-ambulatory position you end up in halfway through. Wrong. Clever of you, but wrong.The word crawl is used to indicate the slow pace with which the large group travels from bar to bar.It is this slow pace that makes the Dishcrawl –…
Improv is often perceived as a bit of a shtick. The performers get up onstage with little or no plan and just… go. But it’s actually a lot more work than that. It’s hard enough for a cast to get their act together when they’re rehearsing lines and have character…
Improv comedy is back, seriously. In today’s rapidly changing world, you need to be flexible, adaptable, nimble. Improv brings these very skills to the stage and turns them into entertainment. It also incorporates our growing obsession with needing everything to be personalized to our likes and wanting to have input…
Sunny South Florida in March doesn’t have much in common with Ireland — though we do have some snakes that need driving out, as St. Patrick once did for Ireland, so there’s some shared ground. When it comes to a reason to celebrate like the Aires, that’s quite enough. This…
If your family has a favorite Seder side dish, you can enter it for consideration in Josef’s Table’s Passover Side Dish and Dessert Cooking Contest. The organizers are looking for Pesach-appropriate submissions of side dishes and desserts such as potato kugel, spinach kugel, tsimis, vegetable medley, sponge cake, macaroons, meringue…
South Florida is home to the highest concentration of Jewish people outside of Israel. This used to be true only seasonally, thanks to snowbirds, but now it is true year-round. Take that, New York!So it is only fitting that South Florida should play host to a lavish Jewish food fest…
The farmer’s market is a long-standing American tradition. Affordability and convenience of grocery store produce seduced the general public, and farmer’s markets became the province of your favorite crunchy granola. With increasing concerns about GMOs and pesticides and ripening chemicals and the use of fossil fuels to transport long distances, farmer’s market…
There’s a problem that isn’t much discussed here in South Florida: the Scots. Every year they stage an all out invasion of Snyder Park in Plantation – damn close to the Armory, too!They act out war games, throwing rocks and stuff. They flaunt convention with their plaid skirts and corrupt the…
Temperatures are dipping below 70 Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Some nights, they’ll even get below 60! By Floridian standards, that’s damn near freezing. Luckily, it’s rare enough (and not actually freezing enough) that most people enjoy the chance to pull a barely worn sweater out of the closet…
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Meatless Monday has been around for quite some time, since WWI, actually. At that time, however, it was more about rationing meat during wartime than health, environmental, or animal-rights issues. Times change, and whether or not you believe meat is unethical or bad for your health, Americans certainly get plenty of it. Cutting it…
