Celebrate this Labor Day by being treated like a scab in a gimp mask. Head to the fourth-anniversary party of Electrolust, a semisecretive SoFla ball for freaks and fetishists. They’re marking the anniversary like New Year’s with a ball-drop and toast and a competition for the wildest girl/girl and girl/boy…
Ever have that nightmare in which you’re lying in bed naked and your bed is speeding down a street in Coconut Grove? And there are thousands of drunk people yelling at you and laughing at how small your bed is? (What did you think we were going to say? Somebody’s…
The main difference between a gem at a yard sale and a gem at a vintage boutique is the price tag. Yard-sale stuff is pretrash stuff for the taking, where-as “vintage” stuff is pretrash stuff that has been recognized as a gem by an expert. The extra cash paid to…
The thing about attending a decade-specific theme party in this day and age is that unless you really go overboard, your costume could easily be mistaken for a stab at modern-ironic hipster fashion. That’s why you need to set the “cheese dial” to “max vom” before heading to the First…
It’s the end of the summer, a recognition of hard work done, and the day you don’t wear white after — it’s Labor Day! And its arrival means it’s time to fire up the grill and bust out the swim trunks (not the ones with the netting inside; we hate…
There’s a reason the snowbirds flock home for the summer months. For all its Sunshine State notoriety and gleaming sandy beaches, summer in Florida is borderline unbearable. Even for those full-timers who manage to stick it out year ’round, by September, enough is enough. Luckily for the locals, with the…
Dinner and a show just got a bit more affordable with the launching of Di+Sh, a program that offers 15-percent off dinner at select North Miami Beach restaurants before or after a show at Miami Beach’s Byron Carlyle Theater. Getting your meal deal is easy—though Halloween, just present a ticket…
The Boca Museum is taking portraits out of storage and showing them off to the public. The collection is topnotch. There’s an original Andy Warhol print (though calling it an original is, admittedly, oxymoronic) of a young Mohammed Ali in red, blue, brown, yellow, and green. In one print, his…
The 101 artists featured in “All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition” seem to share an intuitive feel for things Floridian. It’s there in Sonya Gaskell’s Kaboom, a thrillingly gestural acrylic that portrays an imploding high-rise that will no doubt make way for another development project. It’s even there, deep down,…
Precocious playwright Andrea Dunbar (1961 – 1990) spoke for the lumpen abused of her native Bradford, England; The Arbor, video artist Clio Barnard’s pitch-perfect Dunbar biopic, named best documentary last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, reprises her pungent, profane voice, but from a discreet distance. Barnard revisits the foredoomed…
Is there such thing as a sincerely calculated naïveté? Or put another way, does Miranda July have any idea of how annoying she is? On the basis of The Future, writer/filmmaker/performance artist July’s second feature, I’d guess she must. A fabricator of her own screen image, July — the high…
In Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd plays Ned, an upstate New York version of “The Dude” Lebowski who is “entrapped” into selling pot to a uniformed police officer and swiftly sent to jail. Post-prison, Ned discovers that his longterm girlfriend Janet (Kathryn Hahn) has taken up with a new dude,…
Die-hard horror fans (including this one) generally spend their adult lives hoping to re-experience the fear and awe they derived from the scary flicks they saw as kids. Which may be why Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro was inspired to co-produce and write (with Matthew Robbins) a remake of…
Brimming over with outrage not so much at the eponymous Ponzi schemer as against the government body that failed to rein him in, Chasing Madoff documents whistleblower Harry Markopolos’ futile 10-year effort to get the SEC to listen to his case against the world’s most notorious financier. Drawing on every…
The basic premise of roller derby is that of a bunch of women banging one another — that is, banging into one another — on roller skates. But there’s more to it than glorified cat-fighting. Each of the two teams chooses one fast, flinty skater to make as many circuits…
Five thousand good stars are awarded to our lovely indie venue, the Bubble, because when it needs to pay rent, it provides the world with a Sexy Car Wash. The washers? The Bubble Dudes. Starting at 3 p.m., they’ll strip down to their own unique style of skivvies and wash…
Happy 24th birthday to the dark, rugged old music venue, Respectable Street! It alone collects a wonderful crowd — goths, gays, scenesters, grinders, old men, kids who just want to play their music, bringing in both Robert Smith-wannabees and desirable Robert Smiths. (If you’re going to this event, you should…
We’ve picked up on why, if there’s a street with an art gallery or two, there’s an art walk to go on it. In these lean financial times, the bored, broke average Joe — or the cool you — gets an hour or two of free entertainment and maybe a…
After two glorious hours of drinking on the Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop, a socialite found herself in quite the predicament. Here she stood on Las Olas at 11:23 p.m. when she spotted the trolley — phew! — that would take her back closer to her car — and then it…
In their heyday, hippies were rebels, outsiders, counterculture subversives out to change the world, living on communes and opening their minds with psychedelic drugs. Nowadays, most of the original hippies have aged into yuppies with jobs. They got loads of responsibilities. But there is that indelible stamp left behind by…
Bars are the world’s Temples of Emotion. Think about it: Where else do we connect with who we really are inside? In bars, we laugh about our problems and drown them too. Relationships are broken in bars, and lovers are made. When we step into those dark rooms and our…
The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival is undertaking a three-day celebration of Spanish cinema and cuisine. On Friday, the “opening night fiesta” starts at 6 p.m. with A Boyfriend for My Wife, an Argentine rom-com about a man who hires a womanizer to seduce his wife. At 7:30 p.m., there’s…
