Since the band’s debut show two years ago, Stonefox has quickly become a local favorite. This indie four-piece uses a driving mixture of 1960s rock and early American blues to gain the attention of South Florida fans who have been force-fed a diet of classic rock cover bands and nu-metal…
How can you not love Anthony Bourdain? He travels the world getting drunk and eating weird shit, yet still keeps his composure long enough to have a successful show on the Travel channel. And now the 28-year culinary veteran brings his panache to South Florida when he hosts the Celebrity…
Bellydancing: a sexy fertility dance or family folk tradition? Either way, practitioners of this mysterious ancient art form will seduce Palm Beach with fluid movements and ripples of vibrant colors when South Florida’s first international bellydance festival, The Sharqi Experiment starts today. Let’s hope for clear skies for the free…
No matter how much you love Jesus, Christmas will never feel quite right in South Florida. Sure, we’ve got global warming, palm trees, and bikinis…but we never get any reindeer. Every year the Festival of Trees tries to make up for lost seasons with a winter-wonderland exhibition of beautifully-decorated Christmas…
Just as Miami Heat fans are holding their breath over whether star Dwyane Wade will re-sign with the team, Cleveland Cavalier fans are worried that LeBron James will leave when he enters free agency at the end of this season. At least the Cavs’ management has made moves to appease…
If you don’t know what beer pong is by now, you’re probably not going to want to enter this, a satellite tournament with a berth in the fifth annual World Series of Beer Pong in Las Vegas at stake. If you didn’t realize that beer pong, historically a method by…
If you’re waiting until Friday night to head downtown Fort Lauderdale, you’re just living for the weekend. Don’t be that person — live for Thursday, too. And don’t be a person who just knows the downtown experience as rock cover bands, copious liquor shots, and girls dancing on bars. Broaden…
Much about the overall aesthetic of Fort Lauderdale metal favorite Murderous Rampage can be gleaned from the band’s new video for its song “Programmed to Kill.” The stars therein are topless zombie chicks who are way more brutal than Jenna Jameson (no matter how much Nietzsche she reads in Zombie…
Naked Women Fully Clothed Poet Muriel Rukeseyer once asked, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” If the opening-weekend audience at Naked Women Fully Clothed is any indicator, the world would share a hearty laugh. This production by the Women’s Theatre Project is a series…
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany’s loss in World War I, the JFK assassination, and 9/11 are all naturally understood as the stuff of unimaginable plots, unspeakable cover-ups, and unseen forces. The guys who made The Men Who Stare at Goats can’t quite decide whether this syndrome is risible or…
To call Audience With the Queens a documentary would insult the word documentary and burden this little trifle with expectations it can never match. Purporting to be a look at Key West’s drag queens, “on and offstage,” in practice the film is little more than a half-hour postcard for the…
The Red Army Faction robbed banks, planted bombs, shot cops, and assassinated judges for the better part of the decade that followed the convulsions of 1968. Directed from Bernd Eichinger’s screenplay by Uli Edel, The Baader Meinhof Complex is a sweeping, hectic docudrama. Despite a large cast, the film focuses…
Seventysomething Melvin Van Peebles plays the lead role from age 15 to 45 in this homely home-video-art love story. He’s opposite actors who are, in every case, younger, making the scenes of teenaged sexual discovery particularly eyebrow-raising. Like practically everything in the movie, the device really “works” only on a…
Every year, while prescreening Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival entries for human consumption, a little indie gem invariably jumps out. Punching the Clown, Gregori Viens’ fable on fame and the record industry meat grinder, is 2009’s leaper. Henry Phillips, who cowrote the script with Viens and supplied all the music,…
Seventy-one years after Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion scenario, The Fourth Kind writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi tries a similar gambit, albeit with less showmanship than Welles had in his pinkie finger. Likely rushed into cinemas to cash in on…
This film aims wide and misses, its satire of the contemporary-art scene seemingly lifted from the transcripts of late-’80s Senate debates about the NEA. It centers around two highly competitive brothers: Josh (Eion Bailey), a successful painter of dull hotel art; and Adrian (Adam Goldberg), a perpetually indignant, brow-furrowing composer…
Few people can boast the success Joan Rivers has achieved during her half-century on the stage. Since reaching stardom on The Tonight Show in the Sixties, the raspy-voiced fossil has gone on to become a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer, and syndicated radio host,…
If you grew up in a family of eaters whose concept of sharing samples was snagging all the best bites right off your plate while they polished off their own food (without even sharing a tiny morsel), it’s no wonder your forearms stay snug around your dish when you eat…
Tonight marks the official final night of the 2009 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival at Cinema Paradiso. Technically, November 8 was the closing night and wrap party, but it was also the night the jury got together, fiercely debated in the way only true film aficionados (read film geeks) can,…
You have two choices this Monday. Stay home and listen to Ron Jaworski vocally fellate mediocre Denver Broncos QB Kyle Orton and his horrendous neck-beard, or brave the 85-degree weather and venture out to Miami-Dade College (300 NE 2nd Ave.) for one of the greatest author combinations the Miami Book…
Dwyane Wade and Co. need to send the guy who came up with the 2009-10 NBA schedule a Christmas card as the Heat play eight of its first 10 games at home. Tuesday, November 10, the Wizards visit American Airlines Arena (601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami). The Wizards have underachieved the…
Enjoy being serenaded by sorority sisters and surrounded by bubblegum-colored accoutrements without getting entirely sick to your stomach at Legally Blonde, The Musical. Becky Gulsvig, the star of the show, claims, “People will think that it’s going to be just fluffy and sparkly and pink, but there’s actually a lot…
