Sometimes they’re all doe-eyed and deadpan, like a cross between a drowsy Audrina Patridge and a ’70s-era Blythe doll. Other times, the characters created by Lisa Perz (AKA Coma Girl) are perfectly mischievous with a sly “I didn’t do it” air splayed across their face. Inspired by Cyndi Lauper and…
In America, it’s never enough just to eat a burger. It has to be the biggest or the juiciest or the weirdest or the most fattening burger ever created. A system has been devised to assure that the ground, bovine flesh we are about to masticate has been rigorously scrutinized…
New Times enjoys a night of experimental noise. Artist/musician Richard Vergez, who will be one of the performers Friday at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, poses a very interesting question: “Why are people so put off by nonmusical noises but can stroke their chins and sip wine to…
Don Giovanni, a two-act opera by Mozart, has captivated artists and philosophers for centuries. Kierkegaard called it “a work without blemish, of uninterrupted perfection.” So what’s all the hype about? Don Giovanni is the antihero, a young, rich, and lecherous playboy, so slutty that he records his sexual conquests on…
Indie art-house Cinema Paradiso will never be filled with more sexual tension than on Thursday. Seriously, how often do you hear about a burlesque/drag show combo! Then, to top that off, prepare your hormones for after the show, when an ‘80s prom will commence. The night kicks off at 8…
Here’s a rare statement: It’s a great time to be a baseball fan in South Florida. Why? The Marlins are hot, player. Since the season began last month, the Fish have been duking it out with Philadelphia for first place in the NL East. Leading the charge has been Josh…
DJ Skribble may be Italian-American, but that didn’t stop him from spinning in a group called Young Black Teenagers in the early 90s. From there he went on to work on Wyclef’s first album, to releasing MDMA, Essential Dance 2000 on Atlantic Records. You may also know him for teaming…
Thanks to your sedentary lifestyle, you likely only engage three or four of the 33 vertebra in your spine. But what all you aging, office hunchbacks probably don’t realize is that your longevity, and not just your posture, is linked to the health of your spine. Circus freaks like contortionists…
No doubt, vibrators are therapeutic. We women live in a stressful world, littered with selfish men. Many a woman’s most satisfying sexual partner is a battery-operated, brightly colored, transparent phallus. Not everyone knows that in the darker ages of medicine, these little stress releasers were used by doctors as a…
What do you do with a building that was last used as a laundry facility for a state hospital in the 1950s? If you’re the City of Pembroke Pines, you turn it into an artists’ colony. That is, if you have a million dollars and eight years to invest in…
Something Borrowed is based on a 2005 work of chick literature by Emily Giffin. It was directed with extraordinary impersonality by Luke Greenfield (Rob Schneider’s The Animal), and produced by Hilary Swank in collaboration, apparently, with the restaurant Shake Shack — one of the lifestyle brands prominently featured in this…
With post-Goodfellas crime-movie tropes dyed for St. Patrick’s Day, this Ballad of Danny Greene attempts to enshrine the Irish-American strongman, a real-life folk hero among Mob-lore nerds and Cleveland Teamsters for his Rasputin-like resilience through multiple assassination attempts. Kill the Irishman aims to come out bumping chests in upstart insouciance,…
Sam (Michael Angarano), a young kids’-book author, suckers his neglected childhood best friend, Marshall (Reece Thompson), into driving them out of Brooklyn. Romantic egotist Sam’s hidden ulterior motive behind their impromptu vacation is to ambush old flame Zoe (Uma Thurman) at her fiancé’s posh shore house — where he unexpectedly…
One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams documents a secret wonder of the world, the Chauvet cave — a subterranean gallery of 300 animal images discovered in 1994 in the South of France. Twice as old as the paintings at Lascaux yet…
Any stir caused by this stilted historical melodrama is more likely to be over its controversial real-life protagonist than its cinematic merits, such as they are. There Be Dragons compresses, embellishes, and probably whitewashes true events in its depiction of how Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá (Charlie Cox) founded Opus Dei…
A rare breed of mood movie, 3 Backyards crossfades through three stories, each begun in an unidentified Long Island suburb. The protagonists are an anxious housewife, Peggy (Edie Falco); a man burdened by vague marital and financial worry, John (Elias Koteas); and an in-her-own-world 9-year-old, Christina (Rachel Resheff). In the…
A gift from the Swiss, dadaism never made much sense — please, do not defend it. Dadaism is the shortest section of the Norton Anthology of World Literature for a reason. One Gertrude Stein poem is quite enough. , Still, it’s not like dadaism didn’t have its place or purpose…
Given the typical work-to-sleep ratio in this culture, most of us are familiar with our inner zombie. Usually we attack it with coffee and yell at it when it spills the piping-hot weapon on our shirt when we’re trying to drag it out the door. It’s rare that we take…
Florida fashion has to be cutting-edge and climate-friendly. Fashion-industry hopefuls vying to make their mark here have to pull double duty as well. Diana Kramer (dinkadesigns.com) might be a fashion designer, but for her upcoming show at Gallery 101 (3354 NE 33rd St., Fort Lauderdale), she also has to be…
In South Florida, there’s no shortage of blasé art shows, but who really wants to buy a painting that looks like it’s from a doctor’s office? Not us. Thank you, Amanda and J.R. Linton, for “Art Rock,” an art show and indie marketplace showcasing the work of local accomplished and…
At Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery’s second anniversary, there will be a moment of communion with life’s splendor. Hundreds of monarch butterflies will scatter from the showcase windows. This artistic expression can only be symbolic of a larger situation. The existence of this gallery, which exhibits only three-dimensional works, is…
Like you need any other reason to go out than it being Thursday, but we’ll humor you anyway. Because it’s Cinco de Mayo, you might be craving something that sort of honors that battle in Puebla, Mexico, in which the Mexicans conquered the French, on this day, so many fucking…
