We don’t know if y’all are aware, but we got a shitload of art walks all over the place in South Florida. FAT Village, Las Olas, Hollywood, North Beach, to name a few, but those are Broward County art walks. We’re heading up north Thursday. We haven’t been to “the…
Thanks to Retro Arcade Night at Arcade Game Sales (829 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale), you no longer have to do weird things in the privacy of your own darkened room. Instead, you can gather with your fellow hip nerds and rock all the classic, retro, and newer arcade games…
As you know, we’re writers here, so this quote from John Waters hits rather close to home: “We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.” Hear, hear! You fine folk will read blogs all day long, but…
If you build it, they will come. “It,” in this case, is a children’s hospital named after a baseball great; “they” are a bunch of retired ballplayers who will play one another in a one-off game at Fort Lauderdale Stadium (1301 NW 55th St., Fort Lauderdale) at 1 p.m. You’ve…
What’s a modern-day, young feminist to do? With stalwart originators of the modern women’s movement beginning to gradually exit stage left and an almost undying stereotype of feminists as bitter and/or ugly and/or lesbian and/or asexual man-haters, how can young women today move forward the cause of women? Perhaps by…
The monthly FAT Village Art Walk (521 NW First Ave., Fort Lauderdale) is not only an occasion to explore what’s happening in the South Florida art world but, through the artwork, to explore worlds beyond. As you stroll the neighborhood popping into gallery after gallery, each a microworld in and…
Forget spending time with your family Sunday, because that day is reserved for booze and balls. Sweaty man meat, firmly grasping their ball between their hands? Mmm, the orange rubber and bumpy texture is enough to send our libidos skyrocketing! Those hormones will spike significantly today when Miami Heat fans…
A radical bisexual anarchist before it was cool, Paul Goodman is remembered today as the 1960s philosopher of the New Left. With his thick-rimmed spectacles, corncob pipe, and rumpled suits, he resembled a right-wing parodist’s image of a left-wing intellectual, but his contrarian ideas helped shape the minds of future…
It’s common knowledge that everything is better with dinosaurs. Take chicken nuggets, for example. Or Chef Boyardee. That’s exactly why your kids will be stoked for the South Florida Science Museum’s upcoming traveling exhibit, aptly titled “Dinosaur Attack!” The exhibit itself is totally hands-on, allowing kids to touch 70-million-year-old dinosaur…
Before The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity begins, two wrestlers for hire go through their motions in a ring onstage, writhing with pseudo-pain after every ear-piecing slam on the forgiving mat. It’s a tone-setting juxtaposition of lowbrow entertainment in a highbrow theater, and it’s brilliant. Buttoned-down spectators are expected to…
In the Promethean’s spirited revival of this ’60s comedy by French playwright Marc Camoletti, a playboy architect named Bernard (Matthew William Chizever) has arranged his life around his three fiancées, all of whom are flight attendants on different international airlines — and none of whom knows the others exist. He…
Like a skater gliding across an icy pond, or someone skipping stones across the waters of a placid lake, “American Treasures” revels in surfaces. It’s an exhibition that celebrates sparkling high points, not murky depths. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as the Seinfeld gang might put it. The…
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close not only has serious lit pedigree, based as it is on the sophomore novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, but also two global-historical tragedies to play with. Ten-year old Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) has lost his father (Tom Hanks), who was on the 105th floor of…
Take the awkwardness of adolescence one step further by incorporating elements of academic insecurity and stage fright. The new play at Lake Worth Playhouse sure will. It’s only one act and has been called the “funniest thing on seven consonants” by the Washington Post while Time magazine described the play…
Several locals were sick of watching wrestling. They wanted to feel the glory themselves. They wanted to face a beefy opponent, partake in the sweaty bliss of body-slamming action. That’s why the Future of Wrestling (FOW) was created — to help turn local wrestlers or wrestling fans into local celebrities,…
New year’s resolutions are one of those ridiculous concepts invented by women’s self-help/flagellation magazines designed to give us yet another reason to feel that we have failed to achieve some goal. Not that we’re bitter or anything. But let’s start this year out right: Your NYE vow was to live…
The whole indie art scene will be at Rocketown on Saturday, and we know what happens when they all get together: It’s a night of self-circulating positivity. There is something about strength in numbers of people wearing Chucks. Even if all 35 local artists who are showing their work are…
Larry King prepared less to talk to more people than anybody. Occasionally, when he sat down to chit-chat with somebody he knew a lot about during his 26-year run on CNN — like Marlon Brando, say — his interviews were magic. When he interviewed Brando, he was starstruck, and the…
No fan base holds a bigger grudge against the Miami Heat than the Cleveland Cavaliers, whom LeBron James famously snubbed two offseasons ago when he announced on national television that he was leaving them for the sunny beaches of Miami. No one took it harder than Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert,…
The holidays are over, but you just can’t seem to let them go: The frenetic activity, the constant parties and holiday jingles, the unnecessarily cheerful people all conspired to fill you with the warm glow of the season, and you just want to hold on to that feeling. Maybe it’s…
In the first scene of The Iron Lady, 80-something Margaret Thatcher is presented as a little old lady unfit for the fast-moving world outside her hermetic London townhouse. The bulk of the movie takes place in an even smaller, more airless space: the dementia-stricken former British prime minister’s head. The…
Legend has it that in the process of filming the 1972 movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, lead actress Joanne Woodward became so engrossed in her sordid part that it strained her relationships off set. Her character was Beatrice Hunsdorfer, a…
