So maybe you think the best thing about state fairs is funnel cake. Since funnel cake is a foodgasmic taste sensation, you could be right about that. Still, there’s more to the fair than fried foods, carnies, and the Gravitron. With the South Florida Fair sharing its ground with the…

Just when you thought the endless football season was coming to an end, basketball kicks into high gear. Now, not only do you have to watch another sport you don’t care about but your Law & Order reruns are getting preempted on TNT. Oh, the humanity! Luckily, the Humane Society…

Nothing sells like sex, except, perhaps, violence. (We’re a sick, sado-masochistic people.) Combine those two and you’ve got a rated R film that’s going to break box office records. The folks over at the Empire Stage are using it to their upmost advantage with their latest production — simply called…

It can be hard sometimes to find authenticity in modern-day, fast-paced, ever-expanding South Florida. It seems like every new business is a chain – prepackaged and shiny with a big corporate logo. Locals search out the mom & pops’ and the locally owned which can be hard to find. One…

Do you have a significant other, male or female, who is maybe more into hot rods and football than wine and theater? And did you, perhaps over the holidays, drag said other to various events that he or she hated — maybe a nephew’s fifth-grade holiday play or a performance…

It’s the first week of 2011 and you’re already not living up to your New Year’s resolutions. The treadmill is still a clothes rack, that expensive journal you bought yourself for Christmas is still blank, and you are still living the same boring, uneventful life you were a week ago…

At New Times, we pride ourselves on bringing you the very best in party debauchery. Never is this more true than on New Year’s Eve. (We had an entire guide devoted to it.) But we recognize that drunken high jinks and half-naked shot girls are not for everyone — especially…

“Love is so short and forgetting so long.” We don’t know if Pablo Neruda was a drinking man, but whether it’s a hangover of the heart or of the bottle, recovery can be a long and painful road. And there’s probably no more epic hangover that the one that shows…

As a newspaper, on occasion we offer our opinion. At other times it is incumbent upon us to provide the reader with pure, unbiased information. We shall now attempt the latter. (Anyone with PETA sympathies or coulrophobia should look away.) In recent years, the circus has become controversial, but for…

According to modern tradition — or perhaps it’s just a cliché? — persons of the Jewish persuasion usually hit up movie theaters and Chinese food restaurants on Christmas Day. Super fun. But if you happen to be young, single, and Jewish, maybe standing in the world’s longest Chinese food buffet…

This is not information for people who like football. If you like football, the Dolphins play the Bills at 1 p.m. Sunday. There, look away now, because this is for the poor, non-sports-loving friends and significant others who are forced to endure endless hours of men running around a field…

Crafts never really go out of style. In dark times, the craft industry lurks at the edges of our social awareness as being the sole province of grannies and Girls Scouts. But the truth is, the crafties are true artists, seamstresses, painters, haberdashers, sculptors, and knitters. And nowadays they’re often…

The French will argue l’art pour l’art. Art for art’s sake. Aestheticism has its place, but most art has a story, involves symbolism, or serves some larger purpose. Serving a larger purpose is the mission behind Art/Heart. Formed about a year ago, Art/Heart plans to put on art shows that…

Remember the Christmas (or Chanukah) when your parents got your brother a magic set and for the next month you were tortured with endless card tricks and that collapsing wand? You were so glad when he finally stopped pulling coins from your ears and asking, “Is this your card?” (It…

There really aren’t enough exclusive parties in South Florida — I mean, really high-end stuff. I’m longing for the kinds of parties with disdainful doorpeople who let in only A-listers — or at least solid B-pluses. I mean, parties with celebrity DJs, bottle service, perfectly proportioned women in barely there…

Americans have marathons for every cause, charity, pet, and ailment known to humankind. But sometimes, like around the holidays, it’s nice to get off your feet and take it easy. And let’s face it, not everyone was born to run — some of us were born to ride! Presented by…

Art is born in one’s imagination — you dream something up, and then you make it happen. Artists and teachers Jean Minuchin and Randy Hendler dreamed of a space where they could not only display their own creations but where people could come together to express themselves and experience art…

Mmm. Beer. Everybody likes beer. Light beer. Dark beer. Red beer. Ales, lagers, stouts, and pilsners. It has so many uses. If you get a promotion at work, your friends buy you a beer. If you get fired at work, your friends buy you a beer. Rinsing your hair with…

It’s official. The holiday buildup has begun. And, in America at least, that means only one thing. Shopping. For better or worse, Americans show their love and holiday cheer through mass consumerism. It’s our way. It’s not that other things aren’t important; we just like stuff. Expensive stuff. Cheap stuff…

No matter what people might say, we’re all a little bit superstitious when it comes to keeping ourselves healthy. We believe in little things, from apples keeping doctors away to wearing the same underwear every game to help our team win the series (OK, maybe that one has nothing to…