Shopper’s remorse: Everyone suffers from it from time to time. Usually, it’s the low that results from checking one’s bank after the exhilarating high of a shop-a-thon, but there’s another, more-insidious type. It’s the feeling that comes from walking away from a one-of-a-kind item. Maybe it was that constellation-pattern Pyrex…

If you have ever sat on the beach as a kid in December and squinted your eyes at the white sand, trying to pretend it was snow, you might be a native Floridian. Taken to a public park and plopped on a giant pile of shaved ice and told to…

We’ve got STEM problems in this country. Not the argument over stem cells but not enough people choosing STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) as a career path. Maybe this has something to do with the way we view STEM subjects — boring. The Max Planck Florida Foundation and the…

We’re sure the reason you want to eat out on Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the charred carcass of a 20-pound turkey smoking in your oven as you read this. You just prefer that the money you spend on this dinner of thanks goes to a more thankful and…

There are people who love the holidays, love the cooking, the gift wrapping, and the time spent in the warm bosom of kith and kin. Those are them. And they’re probably not looking to get blitzed the night before Thanksgiving. But you are. Before you drudge off to a self-imposed…

Gridiron! Fire! Meat! Football! Manly things men like! Finally, a food event men can appreciate. Keep your bakeoffs, your wine pairings, and your cupcake battles. The 2011 Gridiron Grill-Off Food, Wine, and Tailgate Festival is coming to the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre (1806 NE Sixth St., Pompano Beach) on Friday from…

At Naked Lady Parties, you bring the clothes you don’t want, put them all in a pile, then drink wine and eat snacks while trying things on (the naked part), and then you take home whatever you want. Anything left at the end goes to charity. It’s recycling, it’s charity,…

Full moons get blamed for a lot of things. They fill up ER waiting rooms. They send pregnant women into labor. They bring out werewolves, crazies, and high tides. (The high-tide part is definitely true.) Now, full moons bring out the paddle boarders. BC Surf and Sport will lead a…

If you’ve ever purchased one of those “Porn for Women” wall calendars featuring hunky guys cooking, cleaning, and offering to share the remote, then “Real Men Bake for the Rescues” is your kind of event. Monday, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Sundy House (106 S. Swinton Ave., Delray…

With a slogan like “18 to cum, 21 to swallow,” you might think you know what to expect from Electrolust and its fetish parties, and depending on how active your imagination is, you’re probably right. The outrageous, skimpy costumes, sex toys, and salacious double-entendres certainly abound, but curious outsiders need…

Long overlooked is the long cultural history of African-Americans that runs deep in the sandy Floridian soil. Eatonville in Orange County is one of the first all-black towns to be incorporated after the Emancipation Proclamation. Zora Neale Hurston grew up there and always claimed Florida as her home. She set…

Who would have thought the rotting undead would ever be so popular? Zombies are just so in these days. Sure, they’re not exactly sparkly vampires or werewolves with rippling muscles, but for reanimated corpses, they are seeing quite a renaissance. They are even popping up in the coolest nightspots, like…

Are you self-conscious about dressing up for Halloween? Do you secretly love it but worry that your friends think it’s ridiculous? If so, first of all, get new friends, because they sound really lame. Second, register to enter the Third Annual Scary Rock Star Costume Contest on Friday at the…

Boca Raton is a special place. You can tell the instant you cross into Boca city limits: The high schools don’t have bars on the windows, and the shopping centers become shopping centres. Though the city is now home to plenty of year-round residents, it is still known for the…

There’s political fervor in the air these days. Political commentators and talking heads drone on about how the parties have never been so polarized, so divided right and left. Well, the Caldwell Theater’s latest play will remind a new generation that political strife is not new. It also will warn…

There are some who object to the pinkification of breast cancer awareness. The argument goes that the color infantalizes breast cancer patients and detracts from the seriousness of the issue. Those in the antipink camp should try telling that to this year’s Glam-a-Thon 2011 Glam Doll Strut: Kiss Breast Cancer…

There is certainly no shortage of ghoulishly themed entertainment in October, but the Coconut Creek Casino (5550 NW 40th St., Coconut Creek) is making a seriously frightening attempt to scare you into deading it up there all month long. In addition to a different harrowing Halloween event every weekend, the…

Having a dog is a lot like having a kid. Both are completely dependent on you, you probably take both of them to their respective doctors far more often than you visit your own, and you feel guilty when you leave them home alone to go out drinking. Well, now…