Getting old sucks. I mean seriously. Remember what it was like being able to stay up all night drinking, then rolling into work the next day with nothing more than a cup of Starbucks and mixed visions of the previous one’s debauchery and those of the one to come dancing…
Getting old sucks. I mean seriously. Remember what it was like being able to stay up all night drinking, then rolling into work the next day with nothing more than a cup of Starbucks and mixed visions of the previous one’s debauchery and those of the one to come dancing…
Author/actress/Elvis’s cousin Edie Hand will be at Borders Saturday to sign copies of her latest novellas A Christmas Ride: The Miracle of Lights and The Soldier’s Ride. Although those don’t have anything to do with Elvis, she has paid homage to the Hillbilly Cat through works like Elvis: Precious Memories,…
It’s Martini Mondays at Gatsby’s (5970 S.W. 18th St., Boca Raton). Every week at 8 p.m., a voguish, cultured man searches through the three pages of specialty martinis, which today are all priced at five bucks. He’s the Gatsby Man, and he knows Monday Night Football is best watched with…
So you think you know Norman Rockwell, eh? I thought I did. Turns out there are multiple Norman Rockwells, not just the one whose hundreds of Saturday Evening Post magazine covers and their ubiquitous reproductions routinely prompt eye-rolling condescension among the terminally hip. As “American Chronicles: The Art of Norman…
Seven months after its theatrical release in the United Kingdom and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a different title (it was formerly known as The Boat That Rocked) and most of its better bits excised. Writer/director Richard Curtis, paying homage…
Completing his multifilm vendetta against the world’s tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to level the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower, and a priest-filled Vatican City in his newest end-times thriller, 2012. From Independence Day (1996) to The Day After Tomorrow (2004), taking down…
If you’re nostalgic for the punk of the ’90s, when it still had some muscle (despite the osteoporosis that was setting in), catch Margate punk band The Shakers, a group that formed in 1994 and whose blend of punk and hardcore would have been an appropriate addition during the Warped…
If you’re nostalgic for the punk of the ’90s, when it still had some muscle (despite the osteoporosis that was setting in), catch Margate punk band The Shakers, a group that formed in 1994 and whose blend of punk and hardcore would have been an appropriate addition during the Warped…
Our days are infiltrated with machines: assembly lines, bulldozers, the corporate machine. Technology has also influenced the pop and conceptual art movements. These days, plenty of art is made by machines. In some cases, machines are art! But the exhibit, “Set to Manual,” at the Girl’s Club Gallery (117 NE…
After undervalued supporting turns in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, North Country, and Gone Baby Gone, dainty girl-next-door type Michelle Monaghan finally and deservedly snags a star vehicle in the film Trucker to show off her chops. Against the roadside Americana of writer-director James Mottern’s well-shot desert drama, Monaghan flips the…
AFI, also known as A Fire Inside, Asking for It, or Anthems for Insubordinates, is definitely not the same band it was when it began in 1991. Back then, AFI was known for having a hardcore punk/ D.I.Y. sound with little polish and tons of raw emotion yelled over dirty…
Old-school circuses are so out of style. Who wants to fight through crowds of animal rights protesters only to see a gaggle of abused animals trotting around in tutus while creepy clowns in unwashed costumes squirt each other with seltzer water? The good people at the New Shanghai Circus abuse…
Art school isn’t the best choice if you want some semblance of security in your financial life. But if you’re a free spirit, bound only by the lines you draw outside of, security may be the code word for misery. You’ve got wings, dammit. Don’t trim them. Still, it’s nice,…
The Bible isn’t the only place to go to read about Christian morals. Sure, the Bible has parting seas and Jesus, but author C.S. Lewis has brought Christian philosophy to a whole fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, which includes the popular childhood staple The Lion, the Witch, and the…
Ever dreamed of a place where musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, and performance artists could congregate, cultivate fresh ideas, and share new ways of looking at the world? While getting drunk? Look no further. Welcome to Artopia, an eye-popping art event that would make Leonardo DaVinci, Sir Thomas More, Andy Warhol,…
It’s the season to be grateful. And amidst all the good cheer for family and friends, we should show thanks for neighborhood music havens like Radio-Active Records, which puts on free shows almost every weekend and gives us an opportunity to buy our tunes from an independent source instead of…
Most Norman Rockwell paintings depict a sweet childhood memory, or some terribly cheery adult outing. For more than four decades, the painter illustrated everyday scenarios for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. His subjects included boy scouts, or Gramps at the Plate. They werealmost sickly-sweet feel-good images that…
You probably already separate your plastic, paper, and aluminum. You might even turn off the lights when you leave a room, or turn the water off while you brush your teeth. But today at the South Florida Living Green Fair at John U. Lloyd State Park (6503 N Ocean Dr.,…
The Fort Lauderdale 13.1 half marathon is here — that’s a fact — but if you’re prepared to run it is all opinion. Normally, we would steer you away from such grandiose physical endeavors if you haven’t been preparing Rocky-style for this run. But there’s a place for us all…
When Jason Taylor was traded to the Washington Redskins last season, it left a huge void in the Miami Dolphins. Watching JT strut around in those burnt red Redskins colors was like watching Bizarro Superman. It just didn’t look or feel right. Lucky for us all, the Fins re-signed Taylor…
He delivered one of the most quoted and concise motivational speeches of our time in the H2O-jerking hospital scene of The Waterboy. Before that, his nickname-barraging SNL character drove officemates up the cubicle walls. We’re referring, of course, to none other than Rob Schneider, the Schneid-meister, The Great Robarino. Post-SNL,…
