If the Damned Things show at Revolution doesn’t provide you with ample opportunity to show off all of your tattoos or if you’re simply not done going berserk, don’t fret. You’ll have more time to strut your rocker stuff — and go nuts to more raging bands — next door…
In an apparent attempt to show South Floridians the biggest line of coke they’ve ever seen — an ambitious move, for sure — at least 17 local theaters will join nearly 500 other theaters nationwide for a special screening of Scarface, which will include the debut of a 20-minute featurette…
Ryan Trecartin has been called the first YouTube art star. Rather than simply go online to see his hallucinatory flicks, it’s a lot more fun to view the movies spooled together at the Museum of Contemporary Art, where videos, sets, and props for Trecartin’s opus will be on display for…
“Anything Is Possible” is an exhibit at Broward College on “manufactured reality” that makes you happy about contemporary art. Three artists take on the theme. Party Pooper, by Andrew Nigon, is a favorite of mine: a headless statue with a balloon on a pole stuck into its neck, sitting on…
A cinematic reboot for the patron saint of 98-pound weaklings, Conan the Barbarian is both truer to the vision of its character’s creator, Robert E. Howard, and more satisfyingly pulpy than John Milius’ 1982 movie incarnation. Director Marcus Nispel, along with no fewer than three screenwriters, eschews the lugubrious mythmaking…
Directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig from a screenplay and novel by David Nicholls, One Day stars Anne Hathaway as Emma, a too-serious would-be writer in Coke-bottle glasses and combat boots. She’s nursing a crush on Dexter (Jim Sturgess), her too-good-looking rich-boy college classmate. She’s earnest, tenacious, and crippled by…
Nothing screams “French crossover comedy” like jokes about Auschwitz and childhood sexual abuse, the main rib-ticklers of Michel Leclerc’s blood-clot-inducing second feature. Cowritten with Baya Kasmi, Leclerc’s partner for the past decade, and apparently inspired by their own culture-clash meet-cute, The Names of Love traces the bumptious courtship between reserved…
The Guard is a shaggy-man character study, its subject a 50-something policeman in West Ireland, Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson). No by-the-book cop, Boyle spends his days off romping with hookers and has no qualms about gulping MDMA from the pockets of a freshly dead teenager — he also displays…
Watching Todd Allen Durkin wend his way through a character as hefty and complex as his latest host body — a shell-shocked World War II veteran marooned in St. Louis in the Caldwell’s Six Years — is nothing short of a gift. In his Caldwell debut, Durkin is jittery and…
This posthumous world premiere by counterculture chronicler Ann Morrissette Davidon is an ambitious study of cultural oppression in a changing world. It’s set in 1962 in a secluded estate above the Hudson River, where playwright Lorraine Hansberry (Karen Stephens), still reaping the rewards of her groundbreaking Raisin in the Sun,…
“Do you believe that our culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?” asks author and radical environmentalist Derrick Jensen. He doesn’t think so either, and that’s why every time a sweet little granny buys his two-volume Endgame from Barnes and Noble, an anarchist…
Sunday, we know where we can find a few people who love to ollie, grind, and shove it; whose stances are goofy; who think the number 360 seems way too small. Tony Hawk and his crew are kicking off the “Birdhouse Skateboards MIAtoNYC Tour.” Skateboarding pros like Hawk, Kevin Staab,…
You need just ten people for the discount — when the greats hit BankAtlantic Center on Friday and Saturday. Just walk into a bar and get those patrons all fired up talking about monster trucks. Start small: Ask, “What are monster trucks to ya?” And sit back and watch the…
Chad Henne was supposed to be the Miami Dolphins’ savior. The former Wolverine, whose pedigree was as strong if not stronger than Tom Brady’s coming out of college, had all the tools and clichés (strong arm, pro-style offensive experience, winning mentality) to bring a once-proud franchise back to prominence. But…
Oh, the horror! — when you see those pity eyes staring into yours as the words “I’m a native” come out of your mouth. The eyes get worse — are they in pain? — when you add that you’ve never lived out of the state. Yeah, that’s right: I was…
Downtown Delray Beach will be an open-air art gallery on Thursday, with four-by-six-foot gallery walls set up along six blocks. Show up in the evening and you’ll get to ogle and analyze works by 20 selected artists while taking in live music and guzzling alcohol (if that’s your thing). The…
Many of us who have chosen the tip of this peninsula as our dwelling place have done so because, well, we like it hot! But as we all know, there are those pesky few days each year when the temperature dips down into the 30s. You may ask, “Is there…
Have you ever wanted to be one of those art students you see in the movies, sketching a naked model in a room full of people all pretending to be thoughtful and not all impressed with nudity? Have you ever wanted to stick your antennae, as it were, into the…
As a kid growing up in Florida, you were most likely given the following rules of survival: (1) Don’t go anywhere without an SPF of at least 30. (2) Don’t swim past the buoys. (3) Don’t light those illegal fireworks until you father gets home to help you. (4) And…
Historically, the jet set were people of great wealth who used their exceptional financial resources to fly around in airplanes — something the general public at the time could not afford to do — indulging in decadent activities together. Today, flights are often cheaper than Greyhound bus tickets, and, more…
Cigar City Brewing was founded in Tampa by a bunch of guys who love beer. Laser Wolf bar was founded in Fort Lauderdale by a bunch of guys who love beer. Cigar City Brewing was founded with two goals in mind: “First to make the world’s best beer and the…
You meet the same types of people throughout your life, and they can all be compared to characters from Star Wars. And if a dog matches the appearance of the owner, then perhaps too what one purchases at Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery’s “Stitch Wars Strikes Back” exhibit may…
