Every year, you enter your office’s Oscar pool and carefully select the major categories while haphazardly guessing the minor ones (Animated Short, Makeup). Every year, you lose. Why? Because you’ve got it backward: Oscar pools are always decided on the margins, where information is sketchier and outcomes are harder to…
We know hipster has become quite the pejorative these days, but we really can’t see why. Hipsters are intellectual, independent thinkers with good taste in music, movies, and books; a love for skinny jeans and scarves; and a propensity for riding one-speed bicycles. We don’t see anything wrong with any…
Although it may seem a bit curious that Budweiser is the title sponsor of a free-spirited music-meets-wellness festival in Overtown celebrating “our collective soul and the magnetic energy that unites us as a planet,” it really isn’t too far-fetched. After all, the “King of All Beers” is an alcoholic beverage…
Feminism is alive and well. Enjoy that Saturday at Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach) with the “RAW Symposium: Imagining Feminities.” From 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., the symposium will explore how women are represented in contemporary culture through the works of three scholars: Maud…
Not all erotic entertainment happens on 18-inch laptop screens. And cars? They’re more than just rolling computers. In fact, there is a strong sub-culture here that combines the two: the smell of hot steel under the hood and the sight of curvaceous figures on stage. Their home base was the…
Why aren’t roller derbies more popular in America. They’ve got everything we crave in our sports. Strength, speed, power, on-the-fly strategizing. The idea is this: A bunch of people on teams A and B skate around a track, with a designated member of each trying to lap the other team…
“Can’t you just pretend like we can’t hear each other through the walls?” You may remember that line from the cult classic Office Space, and if you’re like lots of apartment-dwelling folks, you may relate very much to the sentiment. For many, any neighborly communication beyond a nod and “hello”…
Oh those young professionals, always out and about, socializing, networking, rubbing elbows. They might on occasion seem like a profligate lot — aimlessly wasting their time on shallow, empty social engagements. You are so, so wrong. The Young Professionals for Covenant House socialize in the name of philanthropy. The proceeds…
“Love Struck/Love Stinks” is a rolling bacchanal-cum-art-show featuring discounted booze, music by Danxiety, body-painting by Devious Body Art, a glass-blowing demo by KissMyGlass, and, for your very drunkest comrades, live body-piercing by Shorty, of Hellcat Tattoo — as well as displays by 25 SoFla artists exploring themes of love, loss,…
Boca Raton might seem like the land of the retirees and stuffy society matrons, but there is actually something of a scene there. It’s true, a lot of that scene is mixed right in with the retirees and snowbirds along a stretch of Federal Highway, just south of the well-known…
While The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife garnered only middling reviews when it opened Broadway, it nevertheless played nightly to packed houses for 777 performances. Why? Because it was so damned acute: The story of Marjorie, an upper-middle-class housewife and aspiring aesthete of the Upper West Side whose midlife crisis has convinced…
“The Pitmen Painters” are a gaggle of British miners in 1930s England. These cats enroll in an art-appreciation course only to gain recognition from society’s upper echelon. Want a roller-coaster ride through personal expression and societal pressures to a world of ultimate personal triumph? It debuted in London several years…
Solid is the best word to characterize “D.B.A. 2012,” the latest group exhibition featuring graduates of Broward County’s Artists as Entrepreneur Institute. The show’s title stands for “Doing Business As…,” and the show itself features ten artists, most of whom any sane curator would never put together. The common denominator…
In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian’s worst nightmare. Forced to give up her independence (and downtown loft) when a reckless night with schlubby photographer flame Franklin (John C. Reilly) results in accidental pregnancy, free-spirit travel writer Eva becomes an unhappy housewife in…
The Conquest is a brisk, fascinating chronicle of Nicolas Sarkozy. It time-shifts from May 6, 2007— the day he was both elected president of France and left by his second wife, Cécilia, for good — to the five years leading up to his victory. It’s all pre-Carla Bruni and illuminates…
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island continues the weak Jules Verne-inspired adventures of 2008’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. The production design appears inspired by Yes album covers and Candy Land. Of the original cast and major crew, only Josh Hutcherson, as Sean, a sulky teenaged Vernian, returns. Sean…
The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most of us ask ourselves: If you could do the last five years over again, would you live them the same, or take a mulligan? A young, married…
If a pointy-headed New York liberal said the things redneck comedian Jeff Foxworthy says about the rural American working class, he’d be lynched. (Or given tenure.) Jeff Foxworthy says them, and he’s loved. Not by television audiences so much — the Jeff Foxworthy Show lasted just one season, got moved…
We’re into movements (who isn’t?). We were into Picasso’s Blue Period, and we were into Andy Warhol’s pop art, and we’re into what’s been going on for almost three years right here in downtown Fort Lauderdale: an art/music event called “Dialect.” And the theme for this artistic soiree Thursday is…
If you’re sick to death of Valentine’s Day by now, that’s OK. Us too. But don’t hate on the day. Don’t rant, “It was invented by the greeting card companies.” Wow, did you come up with that all by yourself? Shut up. Look, you either actually don’t care or you’re…
Sex is one of the most taboo acts in human existence. Catholics seem to think it’s injurious to a person. And then you got the hippies believing free love is necessary for personal growth. But everyone can agree on one thing: When it’s good… oh, it’s damned good. It all…
While cookie-cutter, imitation “hip stuff” can be found on the shelves of Ross, to really get the heart-quality goods, one must go closer to the source. At the Retro Indie Market, seekers can wander rows upon rows of genuine treasures, displayed and offered for purchase by the very folks who…
