In hurricane season, the American Red Cross and you are the tightest BFFs. If need be, they bring you bottled water, surprisingly “OK-tasting” emergency meal packs, lend an ear for your bitch session about your blowhard neighbors’ generator, and, if your story is extra compelling, maybe you can even count…
Following South Florida’s tribute artists around town can feel like a Dr. Seuss riddle. Would you watch them on a boat? Why, yes, the Chris MacDonald Elvis cruise. In the back room of a seaside liquor store and bar? Of course, Hot Rod’s Christmas Eve Rod Stewart tribute! You may…
As a theater attendee, audience participation can be a real deal breaker. Sure, you expect it at the Rocky Horror Picture Show or at the twentieth anniversary of Dirty Dancing, but you know better than to answer those curtain calls. The action belongs onstage and not in the theater seats…
People who nostalgically pine for a time before events like the civil rights and women’s movements have some explaining to do. Sure, the 1950’s had a couple of things going for them, like the drive-in restaurant, the milkman, greasers, and a booming industry for girl groups — but all that…
There is no style of art quite as forgiving or complimentary as the impressionist painting. Slight imperfections blur into colorful renderings that sometimes give the same effects as waking up without your contacts in. Like admiring someone from afar, you get the essence of their beauty without getting up close…
I’d like to buy a vowel TUE 12/6 Television game shows are like relationships. We lust violently after some for a season or two, only to have them vanish, cowardly, without so much as a “We need to talk.” (I still love you, Remote Control!) Others grow stagnant but possess…
SUN 10/30 When some kid says “Trick or treat!,” the usual assumption is that, if you don’t give him a handful of candy, you’ll wake up to a Christo-like display of toilet paper strewn through your front yard. But at the Underground Surf Co. (1330 S. Federal Hwy., Deerfield Beach),…
Praisin’ and roof-raisin’ FRI 9/30 Billed as the largest party of the year for grown folks, the Jubilee Groove Fest is a weekend-long celebration of comedy, music, fashion, poetry, and worship. Worship? Not in the hushed, monastery sense of the word but the fun, hands-in-the-air kind of worship. The party…
Fins try to make Panthers extinct SUN 9/25 With the exception of the curse of Tutankhamen, the Heisman jinx, and possibly the curse of the Black Pearl, nothing foreshadows impending doom faster then finding yourself on the cover of Sports Illustrated. So after nailing the newsstands as the cover boys…
Norton ponies up the sculptures SAT 9/17 From the polo fields of Wellington to the horse-friendly McDonald’s in Davie to the backstretch at Gulfstream, South Florida has got to be the equestrian capital of the United States. Of course, states like Montana have some horse history of their own, and,…
Four cool exhibits at FAU FRI 9/9 There’s a running joke that FAU stands for “Find Another University,” not Florida Atlantic University. But it would be hard to find another university — in these parts, anyhow — that’s so bent on proving its dedication to the arts. Its league may…
Jack Johnson stars in The Accidental Rock Star TUE 9/6 Why this dopey little, monkey-headed, acoustic-guitar-playing guy is selling gazillions of records is anybody’s guess. Is it because he’s just so damned likable, with his bare feet and his beach vibe? Or because he’s just so damned cool, having grown…
Can you handle the dancehall? SAT 9/3 In 1994, Spragga Benz was a short-haired, handsome, young dancehall star whose string of Jamaican hits landed him a deal with Capitol Records. He’d started out as a DJ (or “selector,” as they’re called in Jamaica), then unexpectedly became a singer (“deejay”) after…
Hamilton gets you all misty-eyed THU 8/11 Mountain Dew doppelgänger Sierra Mist knows a little something about cracking a joke. As part of the company’s new ad campaign, it enlisted comedians like Nicole Sullivan and Michael Ian Black and recently held a standup competition to find the best young comic…
Artsy interns show what they’re made of THU 8/4 For many high school students, the transition from sheltered teen to frat-ready adult usually involves the switch from home-cooked meals and freshly scented laundry to dining on cold cereal and wearing boxers so stiff they could stand up and walk to…
Adolescents bring in the kids FRI 7/22 Orange County, California, punk veterans the Adolescents were gearing up to record a new album last year, O.C. Confidential, when guitarist Rikk Agnew’s penchant for tossin’ ’em back got him tossed from the band. Meanwhile, Frank Agnew — Rikk’s brother and the band’s…
A most immodest proposal FRI 7/15 Here’s a dilemma you’re unlikely to face in your lifetime: Your boss informs you that your job has been eliminated. But rather than making you redundant, he offers you a new position — and quite a few positions for your spouse as well. Yes,…
Boca’s got the je ne sais quoi WED 6/29 Invited to gawp at the surreal boulevards of gay Paree through the lusty lens of a brilliant photographer, you see it as an opportunity to fantasize about sipping absinthe with your ex-patriate Jazz Age friends. But, alas, you’re no Hemingway –…
Get “Down and Dirty” in Boca FRI 6/17 You know you’re not in Kansas anymore when Thea Vidale takes the stage. And God help you if you’re a “bony bitch” — you’ll be the target of Vidale’s merciless ridicule. The plus-sized comedian (whose breasts alone could comfortably house the Olsen…
Country music with a conscience SUN 5/29 Way before all the girls in your family sang “Redneck Woman” karaoke-style at the last family barbecue and every boot-scoot joint in town praised the outspoken wit of Jo Dee Messina’s “My Give a Damn’s Busted,” Emmylou Harris was holding a seat for…
Who’s afraid of the big, bad b-boys? THU 5/19 At a real b-boy jam, “you’re not going to be dancing and pour Skittles on somebody,” says DJ Trails of Hip Hop Elements, referring to a recent TV commercial and to the fact that big companies are always trying to capitalize…
One former VJ makes you love him THU 5/12 Bill Bellamy continues to do the unthinkable. As the former host of MTV Jams, he continues to have a flourishing career — thus disproving the notion that video jocks are destined for nothing more than commentary on VH1’s Best Week Ever…
