In 2009, the music-cum-art venue the Bubble was the first to inject life into the burgeoning downtown arts neighborhood that now houses Radio-Active Records and Laser Wolf. (Technically, the great migration of black-donning, tattoo-fawning, militant-eyewear-wearing types began with vanguards the Mudhouse and Far Out Records, but those closed more than…
There’s a club in downtown Fort Lauderdale that doesn’t vibe with its douche-tastic counterparts. It’s a little classy, a lot of sexy, and is beloved for the pulse-pounding music, breast décor, and strong drinks. We awarded it the title of Best New Club in 2011. Vibe Las Olas’ one-year anniversary…
Full moons get blamed for a lot of things. They fill up ER waiting rooms. They send pregnant women into labor. They bring out werewolves, crazies, and high tides. (The high-tide part is definitely true.) Now, full moons bring out the paddle boarders. BC Surf and Sport will lead a…
At Naked Lady Parties, you bring the clothes you don’t want, put them all in a pile, then drink wine and eat snacks while trying things on (the naked part), and then you take home whatever you want. Anything left at the end goes to charity. It’s recycling, it’s charity,…
Whether you love your pet, are looking for a pet to love, or are bored with your pet and would like to be entertained by more interesting animals, a trip over to the Happy Paws Pet Expo at the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds (4271 Davie Road, Davie) ought to get your…
Wednesday is going to be every dork’s wet dream. Read the outrageously famous J.K. Rowling series? Yeah? Seen those Harry Potter movies? Time to throw on your robe and head to Respectable Street — this month, Art Nouveau Events presents “Harry Potter.” More than 30 artists will be on hand…
Smooth jazz is one of those musical genres that you hated as a kid. Fact. A parent would strap you into the seat. Your mom would bob her head to the trumpets as she glided down the highway. Do you understand why she loved it so much? Smooth jazz is…
“Confidence is contagious,” goes one of Vince Lombardi’s many famous quotes. “So is lack of confidence.” The legendary football coach and creepily obsessive Catholic really believed that, which may be why, even today, the name Lombardi is synonymous with athletic success — even though Lombardi was not, as it happens,…
All My Sons was Arthur Miller’s first great play. Originally published and performed in 1947, it was the beginning of Miller’s 20 years of relentless brilliance — 20 years in which he explored the dimensions and mapped the fracture points of the human conscience and community in intricate plays –…
A Danish couple, escaping city life after one of them commits infidelity, moves to the Norwegian countryside next door to an insecure couple whose sex life is just as stagnant as theirs in Happy, Happy, the feature-film debut from director Anne Sewitsky. As libidos awaken, so do uncomfortable truths in…
The morality of the mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein’s hubristic claim to “know what it feels like to be God” to Jurassic Park’s criticism of “scientists [who] were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop…
A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against penthouse. Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the manager of the Tower, an exclusive apartment building on Columbus Circle (the Trump International, in fact). Josh’s job is to know every peccadillo…
The Double, Michael Brandt’s post-Cold War spy film, is grade-B hokum, but it’s not without its occasional generic thrills. Apparently more adept at staging individual set pieces than he is at building tension, creating believable characters, or stringing together a coherent narrative, Brandt places his best sequence, a successful jailbreak…
For his third film, outer-borough sensationalist Dito Montiel sets most of the action in Astoria, the Queens neighborhood that dominated his first, 2006’s A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. He reteams with Channing Tatum, the star of all his features, here playing Jonathan White, a second-generation cop tormented by the…
The doobie brothers are back, though wildly diverging lifestyle choices have left the best bud-loving buds all but estranged. Harold (John Cho) continues his ascent at his Wall Street firm, returning each night to his suburban nest, where wife Maria (Paula Garcés) greets him with a demand for baby-making sex…
The beauty of the human race is our ability to feel everything wonderful, insightful, and difficult about being human just by browsing inspiring artwork. Rolling Stock Gallery totally gets that. “The Raw Revolution 2011” is all about the passion and drive that the local artist community exemplifies on a daily…
Long overlooked is the long cultural history of African-Americans that runs deep in the sandy Floridian soil. Eatonville in Orange County is one of the first all-black towns to be incorporated after the Emancipation Proclamation. Zora Neale Hurston grew up there and always claimed Florida as her home. She set…
With a slogan like “18 to cum, 21 to swallow,” you might think you know what to expect from Electrolust and its fetish parties, and depending on how active your imagination is, you’re probably right. The outrageous, skimpy costumes, sex toys, and salacious double-entendres certainly abound, but curious outsiders need…
We thought, there is something so cuddly and warm and comforting about puppets when we pondered the notorious tale of Pinocchio — why would he want to be a real boy? Dark thoughts did then come — we acknowledged that puppets aren’t necessarily the most sane creatures, that they can…
Deep in Sailboat Bend, the neighborhood tucked behind and around downtown Fort Lauderdale, there is an artist-ran gallery called 1310 Gallery (1310 SW Second Court, Fort Lauderdale). To say you can feel creativity in the air would be beyond a cliché statement: You have to be an artist to live…
All diseases are bitches. And the ones that still do not have cures yet? What do you call an uber bitch? But, in a way, banding together for awareness is a cure. The support, advocacy, education — all that is empowering, motivating, and comforting. It keeps the fight strong. And,…
Nope, not a typo. Further Seems Forever drummer Steven Kleisath is going for an honor just as elusive as winning a Grammy or performing at Madison Square Garden — he wants to record the highest Turbo Ms. Pac-Man score of all time. Aiding him in this pursuit is Arcade Game…
