Do yourself a favor and spend your Tuesday evenings from 6 to 7:45 p.m. on the sixth floor of the Main Library (100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale). That is where a volunteer Spanish-speaking teacher leads El Club. Sure, immersion is the best way to learn a new language, but…
Art is like fossils. The fossil left behind is a wonder to those who discover it, but for the dinosaur, it’s really sort of after the fact. And for the artist, the result — whether it be a film, a painting, or a poem — is merely proof that art…
Rebecca Dittmar did the Delray Bus Loop, which traveled all over downtown Delray Beach on Friday.Like any opening night, there have been a few glitches. A huge success in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the fundraising alcoholic trolley adventure has made its way to Palm Beach county. My friends (V and M)…
South Florida is arguably one of the funnest times to be had anywhere. From the hot sandy beaches to the cool nightclubs and back to the sweaty dive bars dotting the shoreline, you don’t have to look far to find a good party. But partying responsibly can be difficult in…
Stop being polite and start getting real — newspapers were the original social networks. Sure, Mark Zuckerberg (and possibly those Winklevoss twins) thought he was coming up with something original, but the truth is that newspapers have been connecting human beings since the very first printing presses were built. Articles,…
After a certain age, chances are you will never be a singing sensation, but that’s why God invented children. You might never have your name in bright lights on Broadway or be the next Judy Garland or Liza Minnelli, but that doesn’t mean your kids can’t. Drag your little future…
It’s a post-Twitter society, y’all. Thanks to Twitter, we want everything in 140 characters or less, preferably with a humorous pic of a cat attached. So how does the green movement, which has been shouting about recycling for the past 20 years or so, keep things fresh? For the past…
South Florida has an active indie art scene. Born out of the rabid success of the annual Stitch Rock fair in Delray Beach, a new indie craft show seems to pop up every other weekend. The idea of buying locally and supporting local small-business people in these tough economic times…
Philanthropy is such hard work. You want to be a hero, a Good Samaritan, a saint — not for yourself, of course! No, no. You just have this desperate urge to help people. But, ya know, you’re just, like, so busy and junk. You work almost every day. Plus, ya…
There’s a reason the snowbirds flock home for the summer months. For all its Sunshine State notoriety and gleaming sandy beaches, summer in Florida is borderline unbearable. Even for those full-timers who manage to stick it out year ’round, by September, enough is enough. Luckily for the locals, with the…
In their heyday, hippies were rebels, outsiders, counterculture subversives out to change the world, living on communes and opening their minds with psychedelic drugs. Nowadays, most of the original hippies have aged into yuppies with jobs. They got loads of responsibilities. But there is that indelible stamp left behind by…
We’ve picked up on why, if there’s a street with an art gallery or two, there’s an art walk to go on it. In these lean financial times, the bored, broke average Joe — or the cool you — gets an hour or two of free entertainment and maybe a…
Cigar City Brewing was founded in Tampa by a bunch of guys who love beer. Laser Wolf bar was founded in Fort Lauderdale by a bunch of guys who love beer. Cigar City Brewing was founded with two goals in mind: “First to make the world’s best beer and the…
The idea of seeing a play about AIDS might not, at first blush, seem like the most inviting experience. It’s a heavy topic, and the potential for cloying melodrama is high. Since its first appearance on Broadway in 1993, Angels in America has not only given life and humanity to…
With Pottermania gearing up for perhaps it’s last big hurrah with the release of the eighth and final film this Friday, a cookbook full of British favorites and wizard treats could not have been better timed. The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory – More than…
If you’ve been to one church fair, you’ve been to them all. There’s the bake sale area: cookies, cakes, and no complaints. There’s the craft area: because you can never have enough plastic doll heads with macrame bodies. And there’s the game area: You totally rule at tossing the bean…
Art shows always sound like good ideas, but more often than not, they end up with you standing awkwardly in front of an incomprehensible work of “art” in a painfully pretentious gallery sipping free wine from a plastic cup. Art is not created in a vacuum and shouldn’t be viewed…
As urban sprawl pushes farther and farther into formerly wild and rural areas, the comforts of modern living are beginning to stress our natural resources. Despite the welcome rains of the past week, anyone with a vegetable garden or even a couple of potted plants can tell you that typically…
Once upon a time, fairy tales were cautionary tales to show that, if you had naughty behavior, you would be spanked. Today, well, they still do that. At the “Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream: Twisted Fairy Tales & Happy Endings” party, pretty much any kind of behavior will get you a…
For some, beginning of summer causes a panicky clutch near the area of their wallet (we’re halfway back around to the holiday season!), while others get all nostalgic and plan Christmas-in-July parties. How about a little taste of Halloween in June? Undergrounds Coffeehaus is having a weekend filled with costume…
For J. Pierrpont Finch, life comes with an instruction manual. i>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying takes Finch from the newsroom to the conference room and beyond. At every turn, the magical tome tells Finch just how to manipulate each accident to his advantage, coerce every coincidence to…
Misanthropy and activism don’t seem like they go hand in hand, yet they do. For instance, you might care passionately about the environment and yet find the concept of enforced contact with strangers repugnant. Well, let’s hope your passion for nature, and specifically for the oceans, is greater than your…
