Comedian Brian Posehn — you know him? He played the medical patient in the episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer was given gonorrhea. He’s the guy who was once criticized by Gathering of the Juggalo attendees as being “not metal.” Oh, yeah, he’s also been in popular movies that rub…
Charles Dickens’ classic retold today: Ebenezer Scrooge gets away with a golden parachute while his underling clerk Bob Cratchit joins the rest of the 99 percent at an Occupy protest. But it’s the holidays, so we’ll stick to the uplifting script of people changing for the better. Unless you’ve been…
Back when the old masters were slinging paint, if they had a beef with their royal patrons, they had to keep their beaks closed or risk losing their heads. “Lowly serfs or artists like Brueghel, Bosch, and Goya couldn’t complain about social ills to the king,” says Barry Fellman, director…
Nationally syndicated radio host Stephanie Miller says she’s on the left, but her brand of humor tacks strongly to the mushy middle. It’s fun for everyone! You don’t have to rock a Che tattoo to get it. Think Palin’s a little dumb? Think Bachmann’s a little crazy? So does Miller!…
New Times recently wrote a feature on nudism — naturism (read it!). And like the good pub that we are, we now provide the info for you to attend such an event. You may dig nudism in theory. But tinkering with the idea of hitting up the FYN Winter Gathering…
When the NFL season began, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the Philadelphia Eagles were going to come to town and slam the Miami Dolphins in the face with their juggernautness. But things haven’t quite turned out to be as awesome for the Eagles as originally thought. They…
Funky Buddha Lounge and Conundrum Stages is throwing all the South Florida misfits a big, raucous celebration for the second year in a row — which is further proof that you don’t have to work for a big company to go to a great holiday party. And to boot, Holiday…
‘Tis the season of perpetual hope. And giving. And retailers trying desperately to part you from your hard-earned money. It starts Black Friday — which now seems to span multiple days — to Cyber Monday — the entire month of December has become a frantic consumer sprint to the holiday…
How do you attract the peepers to your spanking-new, 250,000-square-foot art and automobile museum during a whirlwind December when the eyes of the international art scene have been left glazed over by Art Basel? If you are mogul collector and developer Michael Dezer, the answer is simple: You fill the…
Big, soft, squishy: These words describe Jonah Hill’s heart as well as his body in The Sitter, the mixed-bag last record of its star’s physique before a radical slim-down. As the film opens, Hill’s layabout Noah, kicked out of college and living at home in the suburbs of New York…
An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small Southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That would be the abyss of the title, though if you’re looking for more of that kind of shameless lyrical swagger, you…
Panicked over being late to artificially inseminate his wife at the hospital, an unhappily married therapist (Dane Cook) pulls his mistress’ mouth off his cock and forces her to spit into a plastic donation cup. So begins this wretchedly unearned provocation of a drama, in which cowriter/director Matthew Leutwyler rips…
The pleasing sounds of Carmen Maura’s whispery Castilian lisp open this 1962-set film about the friendship between a Parisian captain of industry and a group of Spanish maids. But all the words that follow assault the ear in this unnecessary rehashing of the earthy virtues of low-paid laborers versus the…
Since you’re already jogging through the “high” culture of the Miami Beach Convention Center, basking in the glow of curator masturbation material, stop by the Kohn Compound in Wynwood. Let the fearless group there haunt your audio dreams and bring Baseling to the next level with pure sound quality. Your…
Although some are trying to refer to the next five days as Miami Art Week, most refer to it as Basel in homage to the Swiss art fair that opened in Miami ten years ago. Art Basel Miami Beach opens to the public Thursday at noon and runs through December…
In film, as in rock ’n’ roll, the moments of greatest genius are often unscripted and accidental. (Think Jack Nicholson hissing “Heeeere’s Johnny.” Totally unplanned.) Such moments will be given pride of place at the fourth-annual 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soiree, where local filmmakers will unveil new 8 ml, 210-second,…
We have seen the DJs of Black Fridays play records to a pack of goths and rivetheads, folks who flock to the industrial-music scene, at the Green Room in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Working themselves up into such a frenzy stirred by the gloomy passion provided by the Cure and the…
Shopper’s remorse: Everyone suffers from it from time to time. Usually, it’s the low that results from checking one’s bank after the exhilarating high of a shop-a-thon, but there’s another, more-insidious type. It’s the feeling that comes from walking away from a one-of-a-kind item. Maybe it was that constellation-pattern Pyrex…
OK, you live in South Florida — maybe you’re privileged? The privileged have the luxury of being art snobs — maybe you’re one of those folks who can leave Art Basel with actual artwork? But you live in Broward County. Maybe you’re a patron-level museum member at the Museum of…
We’ve gotten more humane, replacing watching gladiators fight to the death with watching the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). And good thing: The prior was the source of entertainment for pretty much just the Roman Republic — smaller niche than, let’s say, the latter, which is entertainment for the whole world…
All film festivals are inherently Jewish, since Jews invented Hollywood, the studio system, the indie film movement, the modern summer blockbuster, and, what the hell, American pop culture in general. But they’re not as Jewish as the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival. Check it out: This is, according to the…
The Coral Springs Museum of Art (CSPOA) is featuring a photographic exhibit until January 3, and New Times is proud to announce that we’re quite familiar with the artist’s work — his writing work, to be exact. The photographer, Michael Mills, has been the New Times Broward-Palm Beach art critic…
