Are you female? Do you love working out, dressing up, contributing to good causes… or playing with gourds? Because if you are, and if you do, then you know how you’re spending your morning: suiting up in your Halloweeniest aerobic gear and heading over to Esplanade Park (between SW Fourth…
Sensitive souls have always perceived a whiff of diabolism around music and the fine arts. Gregorian chant was, for a time, actually banned by Pope Gregory on account of its devilish beauty; Paganini and Robert Johnson are rumored to have traded their souls for virtuosity. Among many animists and their…
Who would have thought the rotting undead would ever be so popular? Zombies are just so in these days. Sure, they’re not exactly sparkly vampires or werewolves with rippling muscles, but for reanimated corpses, they are seeing quite a renaissance. They are even popping up in the coolest nightspots, like…
Costuming can be about embracing your alter ego. Or it can be about a shitty downgrade. Your choice. For Fetish Factory’s Halloween Fetish Ball at Exit 66 on Saturday, anyone in costume gets in. But here’s a hint: At fetish parties, it’s all about becoming your alter ego. Your alter…
We don’t give a shit whether you believe the origin of Halloween came from the Celtic festival of Samhain, which celebrates the end of the summer; or if you believe it came from the festival of the dead, which celebrates the miraculous dead; or if you just think it’s a…
Downtown Fort Lauderdale may not seem like the ideal backdrop for the Mexican holiday Dias de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. No desert fixtures like cacti or tumbleweeds. No cow skulls. (Sand at the beach doesn’t count.) It rains a whole helluva lot down here. And where are…
In 2009, Oren Peli’s low-budget, “found-footage” thriller Paranormal Activity came out of nowhere to gross more than $100 million domestically at the box office. Not bad for a first-time filmmaker who made a $15,000 movie in his house in San Diego with two friends and sold it to Paramount for…
Joseph Dorman’s Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is a film-essay-cum-biodoc on author Solomon Rabinovich (1859-1916), who, taking as his pen name the Yiddish greeting Sholem Aleichem (“Peace be with you”), was at once popular writer, literary artist, and Jewish culture hero. Laughing in the Darkness opens with the inevitable…
In heavily outlining the tragedies and injustices that befell the musically gifted older sister of Wolfgang “Amadeus,” writer/director René Féret underplays the most interesting elements in this story of Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart. Forced by their father to tour under hellish circumstances, young Wolfgang and Nannerl traverse Europe year-round, performing…
After 20 years together, 40-ish arts professionals Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper) have succumbed to bed death. Other stresses burden the relationship: the passing of Simon’s mother, his diagnosis of testicular cancer soon after, the insistence of writer/director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, The International) on constantly using…
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly reported that the the Infinite Abyss company changed the age of the lead character in Mitzi’s Abortion. New Times regrets the error. A reputation of controversy precedes Mitzi’s Abortion, a Seattle black box hit in 2006 that deals directly with late-term abortion…
The Women’s Theatre Project’s episodic world premiere of Women Drivers explores the harried life of a driving instructor, Erin (Pilar Uribe), and the pupils who consume her life. There’s the enthusiastic teenager (Lela Elam, saucer-eyed and hilarious), an accident-prone mother (Jacqueline Laggy), and an elderly woman stricken with Parkinson’s (Miki…
Do zombies make you hungry? If so, you’re gonna have a good time. Every Thursday in October, Seminole Hard Rock’s doing something called “Movies With a Bite,” which brings together — finally! — food trucks and horror movies in the parking lot of the Hard Rock’s Hooters (1 Seminole Way,…
Boca Raton is a special place. You can tell the instant you cross into Boca city limits: The high schools don’t have bars on the windows, and the shopping centers become shopping centres. Though the city is now home to plenty of year-round residents, it is still known for the…
The Bubble combined the best of several worlds — Broward County loves zombies nearly as much as it loves showcasing its dominant city’s local talent — and turned it into an inevitably magical event: the Zombie Dance Escapade. Organized by IWAN and local artist Blair Hess, the Zombie Dance Escapade…
The world’s longest, most exhaustive, and intermittently exhausting film festival is back, and it’s awesome. The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival — FLIFF, as it’s called — begins on Saturday, with The Artist (a drama set in the silent-film era, starring John Goodman, James Cromwell, and Malcolm McDowell, among others)…
The Las Olas Art Fair needs no introduction unless you’re a first-time tourist from Canada reading this — which you’re not. Call us out if we’re wrong — we’ll see all you Canadians soon enough. Going on for 24 years, the Las Olas Art Fair is just another reason to…
If women shaking their hips majestically in such serious repetition hypnotizes your soul and gets your heart pumping, shimmy down to Lotus Dance Studio on Saturday for the dark and the gothic belly dancers. We were privileged to watch them perform a couple of weeks ago — and never were…
There are no rules on Halloween: If it’s an event in October, you are allowed to dress up. Committing crimes that follow the protocol of what is expected at a zombie dance-off are totally allowed. See, for Halloween, our friendly tiki mecca on U.S. 1 is celebrating all things horror…
With Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’ continued misguided attempts to bring people to games by doing everything but putting a competitive team on the field comes his latest brain-busting idea. Because the Dolphins will host the Tim Tebow-led Denver Broncos this Sunday at Sun Life Stadium, why not have Gator…
Forget that imported artsy party in Miami called Art Basel, which is in December. Friday to Sunday, almost every major South Florida arts institution will be involved in the Wynwood Art Fair. Expect to encounter a giant cartoon balloon procession led by local chuckleheads Friends With You, guaranteed to lift…
Next time you truly want to get to know someone, asking which character in the Rocky Horror Picture Show the person relates to the most can save you hours of layer peeling. Dr. Frank-N-Furter? They will be the conniving, self-obsessed, Mommie Dearest type that’s best to avoid. Janet Weiss? They…
