Five Points Lounge continues its monthlong series of frightening festivities with the Kreepy Luau on Saturday. The Polynesian Proud Productions troupe will bring the fire and the hula for a twisted take on its authentic Pacific Island dance performance, while the pseudo-goth/surf duo the Necrophiles will keep the howling good…
When Dominick Daniel is asked to describe his artistic style, he explains it as “whimsitaneous.” A bit of whimsy meets spontaneity is what he bases his ethos on and manner of painting designs that explore life’s darker side. In time for spooky October, Undergrounds Coffeehaus will showcase Daniel’s work on…
Start the evening off with dessert this Saturday at Broward Meals on Wheels’ sixth-annual Chocolate Extravaganza. Enjoy live music and entertainment and savory and sweet culinary stations from a number of highly esteemed restaurants, plus a silent auction. Also featured is the “Who Do You Know Famous?” contest, in which…
This inaugural event will ask local restaurants, chefs, and caterers to bring it, by competing for Top Claw. Tickets to the event, which will benefit Parent-Child Center, a member of the Community Partnership Group, are $55 per person or $100 per couple. Each ticket includes entry, wine- and beertasting, entertainment,…
Looking for something more one-of-a-kind for your Halloween shrine? If so, the 60-plus artists, crafters, and vintage vendors of Indie Craft Bazaar have compiled a wickedly bizarre, best-of-the-best, Halloween-inspired kitsch collection for Witch{CRAFT} at Revolution Live and Green Room. The spooktacular event will include a pumpkin patch, fitted with a…
And who do you think were there? The sculptor, the painter, the jewelry maker. And all of them gone to the fair. And they didn’t go to just any old fair. They went to the 25th Anniversary Las Olas Art Fair. You can go to one of the largest and…
One of countless survival stories to splinter from the tragic tree of Holocaust fiction, Barbara Lebow’s A Shayna Maidel opened off-Broadway in 1985. It has become an enduring testament to perseverance, family, and the horrible reverberations of Nazism. It charts the relationship between two Polish sisters — one a concentration-camp…
A show by Virginia tunesmith Phil Vassar, with his foot-stomping hits like “Carlene” and “Six-Pack Summer,” would be enough to befit a proper shebang thrown by local country station 99.9 FM. KISS Country fans are in luck, however, because the ever-popular ten-gallon-hat-loving local radio station has flown in not one…
Election debates spur many things: wins, losses, drinking games in which everyone ends up blackout-drunk (“OK, guys, let’s drink every time they say middle class or tax cut”). There are other ways to watch the debates, like seeing them after you enjoy a free Neon Trees concert. Rock the Vote…
If you’ve been inside a drinking establishment in the past three years, you’ve heard the track “Sleepyhead” by Passion Pit. And then proceeded to have it stuck in your head for weeks on end. Well, the Massachusetts-based synth-poppers will be hitting the ArtsPark Amphitheater in Hollywood on Tuesday, where they…
Imagine feeling the crunch of dead leaves underneath your feet, hearing sounds of animals howling as you make your way through Flamingo Garden’s “Haunted Nights,” on Friday and Saturday. It gets creepier. A swamp witch is on the loose. Although swamp witches don’t really exist (except for your bitchy boss),…
Who doesn’t like to celebrate life with a bit of bubbly? On Saturday October 27, join the Virginia Philip Wine Shop and Academy for a chance to learn about champagne from the experts. For $75, guests will be able to learn about the highly regarded sparkling wine while sipping on…
Celebrate the year’s most mischievous holiday, Halloween, at Muddy Waters Restaurant & Raw Bar in Deerfield Beach. Starting at 8 p.m. on good ole’ Halloween night, the restaurant will feature its annual karaoke Halloween costume contest. There will be giveaways, prizes, and food and drink specials. All ages are welcome…
This weekend event kicks off November 10 on the east end of Atlantic Avenue in downtown Delray Beach. The event will feature more than 200 exhibitors, wines, craft beers, live music, and food and wine pairing seminars. The event run Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from…
Perhaps you thought you were wasting your time as a youth, spending hours upon hours trying to reach the next level on Super Mario Bros. Guess what? You were not. You were an active participant in one of modern society’s most expressive artistic media, videogames. Beginning Wednesday and lasting until…
As guests came and went from the Ramada Inn at 1925 Harrison St. in late September, Ruben Ubiera was outside, sweating, shirtless, smiling, and guiding his paintbrush carefully over a long diagonal line that traversed the building’s exterior. A diamond-patterned background that erupts with splashes of paint was being laid…
Perhaps you’ve lost faith in movies about amusingly digressive criminals. Maybe you believe it’s no longer possible to be pleasurably jolted by inventive swearing, from-no-place headshots, and posteverything structural flourishes. Certainly you have no reason to expect blood-splattered poetry or throat-clearing laughter from yet another movie in which Los Angeles…
“Positive characterizations are complex characterizations,” says writer-director Ava DuVernay, tucking into a serving of roasted potatoes. “That’s all we need to know. They shouldn’t be saccharine. They shouldn’t feel like medicine. You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.” It’s a recent Sunday afternoon, and…
In Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, a prune-faced, simian-mouthed sexagenarian sits by the road in an old suit and brown-patterned tie, and cradles a white bunny in his arms. This is precisely what we’ve come to expect of a Tom Waits entrance. Waits has long been one of Hollywood’s favorite sight…
Exhibiting great specificity about gay sexual mores — the phone sex hook-ups, the fear of AIDS, a dichotomy between carefree promiscuity and desire for stable monogamy — while also rooting its story in tumultuous universal emotions, Keep the Lights On details a long-term romance fraught with turmoil. Like his prior…
Precious director Lee Daniels’ Southern gothic noir pulp presents itself with the doubtful come-hither hospitality of a gator-filled swamp. Moistly set in South Florida in the ’60s, it involves corn-fed creep John Cusack wrongfully on death row and coming to the attention of investigative journalist Matthew McConaughey, whose kid brother,…
The characters in Thinking Cap Theatre’s All-American Genderfuck Cabaret discuss and engage in many a godforsaken activity over the play’s two-plus hours. So it’s a good thing they have their own omnipotent, omnipresent god who intervenes in their lives and doesn’t care what they do with their genitalia so long…
