If someone like sake educator John Gaunter were around to give advice during career day, life might’ve looked different for those of us who were struggling to find that perfect gig: one that allows you to see the world through booze-colored glasses. Gaunter’s a sake journalist, evangelist, and expert of…

Sure, you don’t ordinarily get all hot ´n’ bothered scheduling tasks for the upcoming year. With penciled reminders for a routine New Year hi-colonic, a February tattoo removal, and one obligatory scrap-booking class with stepmother in March — who can blame you? But something tells us that, if you plunk…

As the spandex-clad darlings of the Miami-based freestyle movement, Exposé had all of the accolades and backstage drama that bespeaks any successful girl group. From 1984 to 1996 career highlights and lowlights went like this: (1) Broke a record held by the Supremes for having ten hits off of one…

There’s been a lot of emphasis on consuming locally lately. We do it for everything from produce to the news, so if ya’ think about it, there’s no reason we shouldn’t also include local art. Who better to give us perspective on a South Florida encounter than the artiste who…

Nothing turns friends into frienemies quicker than acts of subterfuge, like one hoodwinking the other into a “dinner party” when the real goal is to show slideshows of a vacation, bridal shower, or birthing process. Yikes, indeed. It isn’t as much the subject matter (except for with birthing pics –…

It’s not a moment to be proud of, but on your last trip to the American Museum of Natural History, you sidelined the “suggested donation” admission by handing over your pocket lint and spare change to the attendee and darted directly to the Hall of Asian Mammals’ water buffalo diorama…

Maybe it was the overabundance of Amy Winehouse costumes this Halloween or the bouncy heads of hair bobbing down the runway during the fall fashion roll-out, but one thing is clear: big hair is back with a big ol’ heaping spritz of Aquanet superhold. And what better way to celebrate…

With your eyes closed, the Three Redneck Tenors could be the classically-trained, illegitimate sons of Luciano Pavarotti. But with those eyes opened, the Mullet-topped crooners are more a Jeff Foxworthy joke come to life through song. It’s in these two polar opposite spheres — the stiff world of opera and…

If you’re like most people, “Groovin’” gets bumped from your daily to-do list for more pressing schedule conflicts, like school and work. Without having an allotted time, “Groovin’” gets smashed into little more than a communal mid-shift toke break with the guys from the graphics department. But for Wilmington, North…

There are a few calendar days that warrant a collective weep for the lactose-intolerant community. National Ice Cream Day (July 18) and National Butterscotch Pudding Day (September 19th ) are standouts, but now we can add a whole weekend to the list, thanks to Sorrento Cheese’s Feast of Little Italy…

Pistols. Swallows. Brass Knuckles. While they’re all iconic clipart and endless fodder for regrettable tattoos — they still can’t hold a rusty Bic lighter’s flame to the always-appropriate human skull. Think about it. That thing will never go out of style. Whether it’s a reminder of death’s inevitability, an image…

On your birthday, you adored the orchid your mother brought you. But months later, it sits on your desk — a flowerless, skinny mess of roots — secretly mocking your inability to properly nurture and care for much besides your Myspace account. Truth is, you’re a perfectly nourishing human being…

In a move almost as brilliant as pervy Lou Pearlman’s invention of the 1990’s boy band “father of Chinese rock music,” Wang Xaio-Jing’s concoction of China’s Twelve Girls Band has created an unexpected pre-pubescent-like frenzy in the otherwise comatose world of classical music. So much so that even in the…

Like a bazillion floating, illuminated red and white blood cells lighting up downtown Fort Lauderdale streets, the seventh annual Light the Night Walk will be a critical mass of volunteers carrying bright red, white, and gold balloons for cancer awareness — specifically targeting leukemia and lymphoma. With a meet-up near…

It’s strange to see what the promise of free food can do. Tasty grub on someone else’s dime can turn a happy hour spread into a feast of Thanksgiving-proportions, and it can make even the stiffest company wallflower show up ready to throw down at the holiday party (with Tupperware…

With all of the things that Jerry Garcia’s name has been associated with – from the gluttonously half-baked Cherry Garcia ice cream and intoxicating Jerry Garcia wine to the inappropriate and depressing Jerry Garcia neckties and Grateful Dead Psychedelic Bus computer game – it seems there is little the Garcia…

If you were part of the 1980’s working class, you no doubt had a soundtrack for punching the clock. Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, and the like helped finesse the monotony of being a blue-color drone by glamorizing the art of barely scraping by. But lately, it seems no one besides…

One of the beauties of livin’-la-vida-SoFla is being able to walk into any ramshackle beachside bar and see an artist’s airbrushed wall mural of tropical fish. Of course, this cartoonish interpretation isn’t the only way to appreciate sea life. In the works of Helter Skeletons, it’s what is underneath the…

You’re probably shocked that Yeehaw Junction was recently picked as Florida’s latest Best Destination for Florida Real Estate. After all, the non-descript strip of turf along the turnpike that provides little more than a pee stop before Disney was affectionately dubbed “Jackass Junction” by its own inhabitants. So why any…

Party people, there’s something we need to address: organized dance moves have hit an all-time peak of laziness. Moves like the “Shoulder Lean” and “Walk It Out” are making us sound like extras from the Sit and Be Fit geriatric aerobics show instead of young and agile clubgoers. Perhaps it’s…

Any open mic comic worth their weight in complimentary drinks carries with them a difficult childhood experience that- – while not so funny at the time- – turns into joke fodder for years to come. For comedian Mike Epps, this meant revisiting a one-bedroom apartment he shared with nine brothers…

Matthew, Mark, Luke and… Rev. Billy C. Wirtz? Not quite the same ring to it as John admittedly, but if the slapstick boogie-woogie bluesman had his way, we’d all be waving arms and fainting in the pews of his House of Polyester Worship. Looking like Dog the Bounty Hunter’s slightly…