There are children in Northern Uganda who are surviving in a war where they’re forced to act as baby soldiers. So, Thursday, instead of chowing down on a deep-fried heart attack while watching the most recent (and ridiculous) episode of Survivor: Some Island That’s Not Actually Deserted, head on over…
This year’s five-day celebration of all things female, the Women’s International Film & Arts Festival opens — where else? — in Broward County. Fort Lauderdaleans love their women, and this will be shown at the star-studded, opening-night, red-carpet event at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW Fifth…
The ancient Chinese believed strongly in the afterlife, viewing death as a continuation of their present life. In their quest for eternity, the Chinese made many preparations, believing present-day behavior determined their reincarnation fate as either human or animal. Few elected the Buddhist death ritual of cremation, therefore leaving tombs…
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.” So proclaimed André Breton, the great theoretician of surrealism, in the closing words of the 1928 novel Nadja. But he could have just as easily tossed off the line last week in reference to any one of three new exhibitions…
Paul, it should be noted up-front, is not the third installment in the so-called “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy” featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, though there are indeed servings of both. Note the one key missing element: Edgar Wright, who directed and cowrote with Pegg both the 2004 zom-com…
Are you curious about the history of the cubicle or the lost surfing culture in New York City? Now you are. And the Palm Beach International Film Festival has you covered. The festival’s opening night is Wednesday: There’s a party, seminars, and a screening of Win Win, an acclaimed film…
The cat in the hat is going avant-garde at the Lounge in West Palm Beach. Every third Wednesday of the month, the club holds a themed live-art show involving up to 25 local artists, and the theme this week is all things Dr. Seuss. There will be body-painting and glass-blowing…
If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably been running around for the last, oh, 20-something years of your life like a chicken with your head cut off. You’ve been jogging from errands to meetings and spewing nonsense in between. Sometimes your kids even end up spending an extra three hours…
The last time your Miami Heat faced the Denver Nuggets, LeBron James was nursing a sprained ankle and Carmelo Anthony was on a tear, despite his constant whining for a trade. Those brutal January conditions led to a 130-102 drubbing for the Heat — the team’s second-worst margin of defeat…
With the exception of Halloween, comic cons, and ren fairs, there aren’t many public gatherings where you can play the kind of dress-up that will garner you questionable stares or threats of Baker Acts. This weekend, you’ll have another opportunity to let your geek fly high and proud at Morikami…
Female chauvinist piglets, rejoice! Now you can have your very own beefcake to objectify, all for a very good cause, of course. Head over to American Rock Bar around 7 p.m. Saturday and you’ll be able to ogle and objectify the flesh on sale at the “Hunk-a-Burnin’ Love” live firefighter…
Community outreach and the arts: a perfect union in which one can literally support the other. Brought to you by the Independent Working Artists Network (IWAN) at the Bubble, “For the Little Ones” will unite South Florida’s art and business communities to benefit the Jack and Jill Foundation. Whether you’re…
In 1950, artistic icon Charles Schultz introduced the world to lovable loser Charlie Brown; his beagle sidekick, Snoopy (the dog that was more human than canine); and the rest of the eclectic Peanuts gang of personalities. Peanuts went on to achieve considerable success, appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers around…
Hot-body contests and VIP bottle specials might not exactly be a one-of-a-kind occurrence in South Florida, but that doesn’t mean you don’t still want to know where to find them. Malcriado! Mayhem: Spring Break 2011 is the latest incarnation in the prestigious tradition of spring-break debauchery to grace Fort Lauderdale…
Ever been to a big music festival and after hours of booze, nonstop junk food, blazing sun, and, uh, blazing you feel like you need to get your chi in check? Well, instead of drunkenly lying on top of a tie-dyed blanket in the middle of a never-ending-jam-band jam hoping…
Rock stars don’t need to use St. Patrick’s Day as an excuse to party — they live every day of their lives like it was a drunken holiday. But us work-a-day folk? We need more excuses than a leprechaun with a bladder problem. So here’s your motivation: Shimmy on down…
A gleeful celebration of nonstop doping, Limitless offers up a dim Better Living Through Chemistry fantasy that refuses to rain on its own pill-popping parade. With long, disheveled locks and matching facial scruff, novelist Eddie (Bradley Cooper) struggles with writer’s block until he runs into his ex-brother-in-law, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth)…
As devoid of spontaneity as a D.A.’s defense strategy, this adaptation of fiction machine Michael Connelly’s 2005 legal thriller is convoluted and completely predictable, which fans at least should appreciate. The title refers to Mick Haller (Matthew McConaughey), an L.A. ambulance chaser who conducts business from the back of a…
Andrzej Krakowski pegs his water-treading labor-of-love indie to the always-cool but here too-blithe Ben Gazzara, playing a reclusive screen legend dodging a pushy agent. (Guatemalan location-shooting is the only other attraction.) Suited and ear-pieced on the colorful streets of Antigua, Josh Ross (David Moscow, kinda still “the kid from Big”)…
They say Miami is a melting pot of cultures, but then those same people say Miami has no culture. Who are they anyway? Obviously, they’ve never been to the Biltmore, which has an embarrassment of history and culture under one lofty roof. For starters, the Biltmore is a melting pot…
Drink your art at Miami’s Wynwood Kitchen & Bar, where the street artists who helped create the artsy restaurant’s interior and outdoor murals have inspired a new array of equally artful cocktails like the David Ellis (151 liquor, squid ink, hot sauce, olive brine and horseradish). On second thought, maybe…
Was the new play Ghost-Writer really written by Michael Hollinger, as its credit states, or was it penned by Strunk and White? A grammarian’s play if there ever was one, Ghost-Writer announces itself by subverting conventional punctuation with its title. It is not the standard, hyphenless Ghostwriter, nor is there…
