There’s probably a good movie buried somewhere in the story line of Truck Farm, an obnoxiously quirky documentary by Ian Cheney that has been circulating at film festivals. It’s about the director’s transformation of his 1986 Dodge pickup truck into a mobile “truck farm” — a 1/1,000th-acre farm designed on…
Celebrating Mother Earth doesn’t have to come with patchouli and hemp handbags. Many South Florida locations are decking the halls with pine cones for Earth Day on Sunday. These events are just a few of the myriad celebrations occurring in Broward and Palm Beach counties. • Slough Slog Muddy Hiking…
Huuu-keeee-looowww. Sound it out and say it with us. Doesn’t it just roll off your tongue ever so beautifully? Traditionally, the Hukilau is a Hawaiian festival at which a large net is cast into sea so the villagers can work together to pull the catch to shore. The feast that…
Like superheroes battling a common enemy, two of South Florida’s newest theater companies will band together Monday in what they hope will be a victory for both of them. Parade Productions, a Mizner Park-based company with just one production under its belt, will host a reading of Better Than Damn…
It doesn’t matter who you are. When you hear “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers, you think of Ghost, the 1990 movie that broke ground by being the first film to present pottery-throwing as foreplay. That famous, clay-caked scene harks back to a more innocent time, when Demi Moore looked…
Fleet Week arrived in SoFla 25 years ago, becoming a Fort Lauderdale tradition at precisely the moment spring break ceased to be one. (Sailors, as it turns out, are a lot more amiable than beer-crazy frosh.) This year, we’ve got six vessels in port and thousands of sailors taking in…
There is always something to be excited about, furious over, and bored by in the world of South Florida pro sports. Currently, Miami has claimed the Marlins for itself and given them a crazy, sexy makeover; the superbad Heat are serving up stanky plates of whoop-ass to (almost) everyone who…
The Lucky One is the seventh movie based on a Nicholas Sparks book — two more are in preproduction — and, well, it’s no Notebook. In fact, it’s the most leaden of the bunch. Zac Efron stars as U.S. Marine Sgt. Logan Thibault, who’s on his third tour of Iraq…
Disneynature’s latest Earth Day release hunkers down in an Ivory Coast rain forest, taming its beasts-in-the-wild raw material into a family-friendly (though not totally sugarcoated) heroes-and-villains adventure. Chimpanzee follows energetic young primate Oscar, still reliant on his mother, Isha, for food and protection. Conflict arrives via a fruit-and-nut-based turf war:…
Jenny and Tom (Rachel Blanchard and James D’Arcy) meet on the rebound during a redeye flight from L.A. to New York and strike up one of those weirdly intimate and confessional in-flight relationships that exist only in movies about flying. Around them are a few supporting players (including Anthony LaPaglia…
As in his directorial debut, Mid-August Lunch, Gianni Di Gregorio stars in this quiet comedy, this time as Giovanni, a man in his early 60s forcibly retired nearly a decade ago and whose only employment today is playing gray-haired errand boy to the still-active women who surround him. Giovanni lives…
Based on Original King of Comedy and Family Feud host Steve Harvey’s self-help primer Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, this adaptation often plays like a book on tape. The women characters, advising one another about 90-day rules and “controlling the cookie,” begin their lines with “As Steve…
Making up for its 40-minute run time in turgidity and sheer size, To the Arctic, whose 70-mm IMAX presentation stretches postcard hokum to JumboTron size, is a travelogue doubling as an eco guilt-trip. Director Greg MacGillivray (Everest) buries the viewer in an avalanche of helicopter-view majesty while narrator Meryl Streep…
In light of the tragic recent events in Sanford, it seems like the appropriate time for a play about racism — especially the insidious kind that manifests itself when “provoked.” Playwright Athol Fugard, a white South African who grew up during his country’s apartheid era, knew and even participated in…
There isn’t much you can’t find or do in South Florida. Sure, it’s hot as hell nine months out of the year and you have to put up with snowbirds and tourists during the pleasant three months. But in exchange for being a vacation mecca, we have every amenity, facility,…
The Miami Heat needs a little motivation right now. They’ve been a giant pile of ass when they’ve played on the road lately. Their point guards have been abysmal, and the Big Three are getting no help from the bench. With only nine games to go before the playoffs kick…
It’s no coincidence that with a presidential election looming on the not-too-distant horizon, issues of manipulation, protest, and power are occupying artists’ minds. After all, the republic is on shaky grounds. Fixing the economy remains a tall order, and political hopefuls are crisscrossing the nation offering empty rhetoric while the…
If you were in a fraternity or a sorority during college, you probably remember the head-splitting hangovers you endured, the keg stands you attempted, and the messy (and nasty) frat houses you stepped in. And if you really think back to the good old days, you might find a few…
“Candola” is basically a gondola race held annually in the “Venice of America,” Fort Lauderdale, and sponsored by Red Bull. Saturday’s race course is a third of a mile, stretching from Huizenga Plaza (32 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) to Esplanade Park (400 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale). Audiences…
The city of Fort “Liquordale” didn’t get its nickname for just any old reason. The patrons living here had to work hard for it, attending events like pub crawls, beer pong tournaments, and of course the Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop. The bus loop is a new kind of pub crawl…
Pride means different things to different people. To some, it’s their child’s first steps. To others, it’s a set of jiggly new breast implants. To a dwindling few, it’s Dolphins pride for life. (Yes, they still exist.) But this Saturday on Ocean Drive, pride will mean only one thing: a…
Lifelong athlete Barbara Hutson discovered the healing power of yoga when it helped her to get back on her feet — or foot, if she is doing tree pose — after a devastating bicycle accident about a year ago. To show her appreciation for yoga and to help others discover…
