With so many art galleries and museums showing off mammoth collections and exclusive exhibits, it’s hard to fit all that strolling and viewing into the daytime. That’s why the smart art meccas are switching up their basic formula. The new museum trend is to extend evening gallery hours and, in…
What’s life without a horse and pony show?! Not the negative kind that you constantly find yourself being drawn into — an actual Heritage Horse Show at Plantation Equestrian Center on Saturday. The day, dubbed Ride for the Animals, not only promises to be filled with exciting horse-jumping competitions but…
With his role in 1998 stoner cult classic Half Baked and a permanently droopy, glazed look in his eye, New York-born standup comic Jim Breuer has earned a reputation as a true pothead’s comedian. Breuer hasn’t done much to steer away from that reputation either, considering his ’02 comedy album…
Connoisseurs love wine, because it’s representative of human life. The same exact vine can produce diverse embodiments of wine based on what has occurred in its environment during the course of a season. It’s deep. Only the winemaker knows how to tame the natural world to produce the perfect product;…
Although many are working on developing better treatments for cancer, plenty of work still needs to be done. Do your part to help breast-cancer research by having some fun on Sunday, February 23, from noon to 7 p.m. Stout Bar & Grill and Glam-a-thon are hosting a fundraiser where 50…
Though tap takeovers were once a rarity in these parts, it’s become a fairly average thing these days — and we’re certainly not complaining. But to keep it interesting, we need to see some new things or, maybe, new breweries. For the first time, Tap 42 is hosting The Bruery…
This isn’t your classic Broadway play with hours of theatrical singing or enormous animal costumes (no offense to The Lion King; you’re great). In fact, at times the characters won’t be wearing anything in this play — after all, it is about porn. Australian playwright Ronnie Larsen’s comedy Making Porn…
So you are probably really good at taking pictures, right? What’s the best picture you have taken recently? Chances are it was with your iPhone. You probably Instagrammed to make sure the masses were able to get a glance at your masterpiece. There’s a 50/50 chance it was a glorious…
The first time I met artist Virginia Fifield — during an art show opening at ArtServe, where she was on the board and I was working as a marketing consultant — I asked what she did. The elegant brunet merely responded, “Oh, I do drawings of animals.” Several months later,…
Andy Warhol frequently selected glamorous women — Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — as his muses. He was known to give his attention to people who were socially prominent, especially in and around the art world. Yet there was one muse who had a style like no other:…
Consider the Lego, the toy of contradiction. With one — well, with hundreds of them — you can build anything: houses, airplanes, house-airplanes. You can even build something that will change the world, as Larry Page and Sergey Brin did in 1996 when they housed the server for their new…
Claude Lanzmann built Shoah, his nine-hour, 1985 Holocaust documentary, from more than 350 hours of footage — interviews, staged scenes, silent European landscapes as seen from a passing train, their secrets reborn in tender shades of green. One interview, with the only surviving former chairman of a Czech ghetto’s Nazi-appointed…
Art may not be more important than human lives. But on the list of things that mean something to human lives, across centuries, it ranks pretty high. That’s what’s so compelling about the story of the Monuments Men, a group of people from 13 nations who volunteered to protect cultural…
The Outsider takes place in a world of endless lens flares, a J.J. Abrams–inspired visual tic as derivative as the rest of this vigilante B-movie in which no-nonsense British military contractor Lex Walker (Craig Fairbrass) returns to L.A. upon hearing of the overdose death of his daughter, Sam (Melissa Ordway)…
Every December, hundreds of artists converge on Wynwood in the weeks before Art Basel Miami Beach. With spray paint, a few bucks from building owners, and determination to display their brilliance, these artists transform the city of Miami’s former garment district. In recent years, these masters and neophytes have created…
How retrograde are many of the core tenets of the Disney princess? Consider this: My daughter owns a book called Snow White’s Secret, in which Disney’s royal archetype reveals her devilish hidden life: When the Dwarfs are working at the mine, she sneaks into their cottage and joyfully cleans the…
Greetings from the 64th annual Berlin Film Festival, where it’s a surprisingly balmy 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit). The weather here may not be business as usual, but the festival looks promising — the competition includes films by Alain Resnais, Lou Ye, Yoji Yamada, and Claudia Llosa (whose odd…
It’s a little sad that Colin Farrell has outgrown roles that require him to wear raggedy sweaters and say things like “For fook’s sake!” It had to happen, though. Farrell has always made a terrific bad boy, but he clearly knows he couldn’t be a scamp forever, and he seems…
Beer fests bring together craft beer enthusiasts geeking out over craft brews, and frat boys going on a bender. Winetastings are a great way to get drunk with the illusion of class and sophistication. Though we love both booze-fueled events equally — or any drunken fest, for that matter –…
A veteran of comedy, Jay Leno has a sarcastic sense of humor that has made him a household name in showbiz. Since 1992, he has held the spot on NBC’s The Tonight Show and somehow still has time to travel across the country to perform standup in comedy clubs and…
The soulful indie rockers of Old You — South Carolina’s fave fusion rock/blues band — will entrance audiences with their original sound as they make their South Florida debut at the ArtsPark in Hollywood this Saturday. Who better to open for Old You than Hollywood’s own band Beach Day, which…
Salaries for animal rights protesters are at an all-time low. So when fighting for your furry friends in animal jail lands you in people jail, it takes a rich uncle or a generous crowd to alleviate the financial burden. Fortunately for the Smash HLS Nine, the latter will step up…
