South Floridians love their festivals. From Renaissance fairs to garlic-centric events to beer-guzzling drunk fests, we’re all about finding a reason to celebrate something (anything) outdoors. And if there are two things we tend to like the most, it’s seafood and art. While we generally stick to one commemoration at…
Join the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood for an exhibit opening reception for four distinctive artists — Augustina Woodgate, Johnny Robles, Juan Erman Gonzalez, and Tony Mena — on Friday. The opening reception celebrates Woodgate’s “Rug” series of displays, which are hand-sewn rugs made from recycled stuffed animal skins…
Wes Anderson’s latest cinematic confection, The Grand Budapest Hotel, features distinguished English actor Ralph Fiennes in the film’s leading role. It marks the first time Fiennes has appeared in one of Anderson’s films. Speaking over the phone from his London home, Fiennes revealed a great admiration for Anderson’s work. “I love…
Leave it to Wes Anderson to make a film about World War II without mentioning Germany. In The Grand Budapest Hotel, a wundercabinet set in the fictitious Eastern European Republic of Zubrowka circa 1932, Anderson captures the collapse of a kingdom and rise of a reich without so much as…
Let’s start with the ending, the closing credits disclaimer that insists that none of the lead actors in Lars von Trier’s two-part erotic epic Nymphomaniac filmed penetrative sex. If there is real sex in the movie, and it sure looks like there is, it must have been the duty of…
If you count forward from Jim Henson’s mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, who would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have outlived most of their early puppet peers by more than two generations: You don’t see…
For the past month, the world’s geopolitical chessboard has been dominated by a blustery pair of familiar figures: the United States and Russia. Their ostensible objective is the stabilization of a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map, but it’s the uneasy diplomatic brinkmanship between these former rivals that…
On February 16, a middle-aged man with hazel eyes and a crown of salt-and-pepper hair walked into Pérez Art Museum Miami. The heavy wooden doors on the new $220 million public building swung open with a whisper. Smooth jazz murmured from speakers hidden somewhere in the Dorothy and Aaron Podhurst…
Dystopian movies don’t have to make sense. As the audience, we’re obligated to sit down with our popcorn and soda and pretend that yes, of course, in the future monkeys rule the earth, women can’t bear children, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is an everyday construction worker. It’s a mutual contract of…
The Tri-County Humane Society is an incredible organization. It is a 100 percent no-kill shelter that rescues more than 3,000 pups that would’ve otherwise gone to the big dog park in the sky. The society travels far and wide, going from natural disasters like the Oklahoma tornadoes from last year…
If you have gotten sucked into even just one Law & Order: SVU marathon, then one thing is for sure: You know how to crack a case. With enough Law & Order and CSI varieties to fill an entire channel, it’s clear that the public still likes to solve a…
Attracting nationally and internationally recognized writers, the 25th-annual wRites of Spring Literary Festival is a monumental tradition at Broward College’s North Campus. Since 1990, this festival has functioned to augment student coursework while offering programs of interest to surrounding communities. Over the years, the festival has also added film and…
If you’re a young professional in South Florida, chances are you have a home. And every night, after a day of being young and professional, you retreat to that home and crawl into bed (or into the bed of a fellow young professional). But what if that bed were a…
Harumi Abe mixes sunny Florida landscapes with her memories of growing up in Japan to create personal pieces that can’t be matched. This weekend, she’ll talk about her inspirations and recent projects at the Girls’ Club Collection as part of the Artists in Action! series. She’s been featured in group…
Flower Power, disco fever, Madonna mania, and grunge glory are in store for the ultimate fitness event on Saturday. Put on your bell-bottoms or other past-time gear to attend the Dash From the Past 5K happening in Markham Park in Sunrise. Outfits from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s are…
We all know it’s dangerous to drink and drive. But South Florida is spread out, with an utter lack of public transportation — you need to get in some sort of vehicle to drink your way around town, especially if you’re looking to stick to craft brews. Fortunately, though, South…
You probably don’t give much thought to where your food comes from; it’s neatly packaged, plastic-wrapped, and readily available on a shelf in Publix. Who cares, right? Well, some of us are a bit more curious; some of us want to know how it got to this point of convenience…
There’s nothing like a great big saxophone, drinks, and fabulous art to get you in the mood to relax on Sunday. With dozens of artists showcasing their work in the ninth-annual Art & Jazz Festival in Fort Lauderdale’s Victoria Park, you’ll be bleeding paint, photographs, crafts, and more. The festival,…
It should not come as a surprise that Green Day’s seminal 2004 rock opera American Idiot translated magnificently to the stage. The multiplatinum, Grammy Award-winning record was made by the hugely successful punk-rock trio with grand operatic intentions — in the vein of other rock operas like the Who’s Tommy…
Think adapting War and Peace is difficult? Try adapting the racecar videogame Need for Speed. Tolstoy’s 1,225-page behemoth has nothing on the Electronic Arts franchise’s irreconcilably complicated 20-year, 20-installment history: Sometimes cars are subject to physics; sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes they’re invulnerable; sometimes they break. Maybe you’re in London; maybe…
According to lore, Liberace used to greet the tourists who’d come by bus to gawk at his bejeweled home with the line, “I hope you like it. After all, you paid for it!” Not everyone has to like Rob Thomas’ Veronica Mars, the feature-length incarnation of his much-loved television series,…
Masculinity is reasserted and order restored in the Sam Rockwell and Olivia Wilde dramedy Better Living Through Chemistry, which could be subtitled “How Douglas Got His Dick Back.” Writer-directors Geoff Moore and David Posamentier’s droll, unsatisfying film — about a henpecked suburban pharmacist (Rockwell) who learns to become a man…
