Sitting the folks down and announcing your life’s dream to be a fashion designer isn’t always met with the same enthusiasm as say, the dental school decision, but for those students who choose the road more fashionable, it’s the right one — even if a career path of uncertainty awaits…
Judging from the Martin Scorsese treatment of the memoirs of the “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort — there are some things in life we might never want to ask Belfort for advice on. Like how to properly treat the little-people community like actual human beings (Belfort and his coworkers…
This summer’s to-do list held so much promise: more sunset bike rides to the beach, more nighttime sea turtle sightings, more greenmarket visits, and so many more trips to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens — specifically for its short-lived but much-loved summer Sushi & Stroll. Where else can locals…
It’s not every day you come across a true friend, one to sit and have a good laugh with when embarrassing paparazzi pictures surface of the two of you swimming on holiday in St. Barts together. Or commiserate about what a total buzzkill that Chevy Chase could be on the…
As a grown woman with a critical eye on society’s (sometimes ridiculous) cultural norms, do you ever wonder who in the ever-living eff started the moratorium on white clothing after Labor Day? And why — season after season — you witness store employees banish the verboten whites to the clearance…
Although the sport of MMA has seen its fair share of headlines lately, they have not been the kind that an industry would strive for. With the arrest last week of MMA fighter Jonathan “War Machine” Koppenhaver making international news for an alleged brutal attack on his ex-girlfriend, the sport…
It’s a tale as old as a bad E! reality-TV script: Entitled rich woman’s plans for remarriage foiled when hardheaded but passionate ex-husband shows up days before the wedding with a posse of tabloid reporters and forces her to rethink everything she thought she knew about love and [insert dramatic…
Don’t get us started… don’t even get us started on the stale and sad stereotypes of female improv comedians out there. (For anyone who got the vintage Molly Shannon reference — high-fives forever.) Because as much as that old trope exists of the permanently-stuck-in-the-’80s, shoulder-pads-to-the-earlobes-wearing woman who is a Cathy…
Maybe it’s our ever-shrinking attention spans, our addiction to Vine videos and listicles, or our constant need for instant gratification, but if the thought of sitting silently still for the average 90-minute-plus play complete with intermission and second act has you feeling like pummeling the sweet volunteer usher in front…
Remember when we were younger and wanted nothing more in the entire world than to sit for hours in the dirt and play racetrack with our Hot Wheels monster trucks? And then we wrapped the monster trucks up in teeny-tiny Band-Aids and took them to the makeshift truck hospital for…
What drew director Michael Leeds to the 1969 classic Broadway play Butterflies Are Free was not so much the sweet back-and-forth of a young blind man out living on his own for the first time and a liberated, free-thinking actress neighbor next door but the underlying lesson of how deceptive…
If your initial feelings on communal drumming conjure up a cloudy Nag Champa thought bubble of sweaty Matthew McConaugheys or a bad trip at a beachside bonfire with some young and grating trustafarians, perhaps it’s time to scrub your brain completely clean of everything that college experience delivered to you…
Follow your dreams. Find out where you truly belong. Keep your head just above the bullshit to survive the daily struggle — the ideas at play in the Tony-winning musical In the Heights are ones that, no matter where they’re relayed, strike immediate universality. What are not as universal, though…
Even for the true normies out there, the role of today’s teenager can be a rough gig. What if you were to add to the average pressures of fitting in: a striking resemblance to a wee Marty Feldman, a wild mane of Gene Wilder proportions, a penchant for devouring Mary…
For all of the heteronormative hooey and gender stereotyping that the über-popular 1992 best-selling book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus offers, we can distill one piece of wisdom out of this relationship guide that works for folks of all sexual orientations and genders: If you are nice…
Is there anything more classic than dinner and a show? And no, we don’t mean McDonald’s and a movie. (Though, if that’s your thing, we’re sure someone out there still loves you.) Take a chance and class up your life with homegrown Italian food and a live performance from psychic…
With a 5:30 p.m. start time, Boca Museum of Art’s “Late Night Thursday” may be considered “late night” only by those of us who like to pack in the early-bird special and slip into our PJs as PBS’ Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff lull us to slumber by a cool…
With a 5:30 p.m. start time, Boca Museum of Art’s “Late Night Thursday” may be considered “late night” only by those of us who like to pack in the early-bird special and slip into our PJs as PBS’ Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff lull us to slumber by a cool…
If you poll a room full of vegans and ask what their reasons were for deciding on a diet free of animal products, you’ll hear a laundry list of reasons. Many times, it was the first time they made the connection that the cheery Old McDonald’s Farm we recited as…
At the height of American Idol’s ratings heyday, the televised talent show responsible for launching myriad opportunities, from Jennifer Hudson’s acting career and subsequent Weight Watchers deal to Clay Aiken’s political career, scooped up a coveted 30 million viewers — a triumph that has yet to be duplicated. This season’s…
Truth: With the promise of a couple of beers and good grub at the end of a particularly sweaty task, you can get most ordinary folks to stretch beyond their comfort (and fitness) level and agree to just about anything. Helping you move a couch up three flights of stairs?…
In an era of Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decisions, thigh-gap controversy, and Fox News reporters denying the “war on women,” it may be absolutely mind-boggling that here we sit, discussing an upcoming Miss Florida USA 2015 competition. But the pull toward this grown-ass-women version of Toddlers and Tiaras is strong,…
