“The sap pollutes the water, and then they die,” florist Eloise (Jennifer Aniston) upbraids her employee on the importance of cauterizing stems. A similar befouling occurs in the directorial debut of Brandon Camp, who, with Mike Thompson, co-wrote Love Happens — which is not so much a romance as it…
Local artist Paul Frank McEnery takes inspiration in part from his early childhood struggling in rough areas of Brooklyn with overcrowded schools and crime-ridden neighborhoods. He moved to Coral Springs when he was 13, but never forgot his past (at the age of 4, he stumbled across a dead body…
No, No Nanette is a classic of the Roaring Twenties. It’s also a musical long associated with the so-called Curse of the Bambino. For years the rumor went that the original showing on Broadway had been bankrolled by selling Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees, dooming the…
In this economy, people are struggling to keep their homes and jobs, and businesses are closing. If people are investing, they’re doing so carefully and conservatively. So it may not have seemed especially prudent when promoters Garo Gallo and Yvonne Colon opened the Bubble four months ago. Outside of the…
The annoying truth is that there are tons of parking spaces in our cities – even if you never snag a good one — but there aren’t many pretty, grassy places for you to park your actual ass. On PARK(ing) Day 2009, which is presented by Downtown Cultural Alliance and…
It’s time to make a bold decision. The time has come to unlearn everything you’ve ever believed about pagans, and perhaps more importantly, about pagan celebrations. Admit it — until now, you’ve bought all the silly urban legends surrounding these polytheistic partiers. Virgin sacrifice? Sure. A diet of raw meat…
Oh, the wisecracks we could make about a singles’ lock and key party, where women get locks, guys get keys, and you mingle from stranger to stranger to try to find your perfect match. We could say that one man has the key to your heart this Saturday at Delux…
You may remember him tokin’ on “Billy Bong Thornton” in Half Baked alongside Dave Chappelle, or fighting his tourette tics as “Goat Boy” on Saturday Night Live. Also known for his heavy metal impersonations, Jim Breuer brings his gut busting animated facial expressions to West Palm Beach for “The Family…
No film in history has had more impact on American cinema than The Wizard of Oz, the prototype for the monster-sized, soundtrack-infused color pictures that have come to define big-studio movies. Of course, it also paved the way for movie-inspired merchandise, sequels, remakes, and retellings. But ignore the orgy of…
It’s 7 p.m. and you must be lonely. You’re driving toward Seminole Hard Rock Live (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood) with a ticket that reads Rob Thomas and OneRepublic, and you’re hoping that somewhere in that audience is a person who feels the same way you do. You know, stranded, and,…
If there were one word to describe the 2009 Florida Marlins — besides maybe “craptastico!” — it would be “implosion.” This was a team painfully close to a postseason berth, but the plethora of strikeouts, the horsecrap bullpen, and the two biggest stars getting into a verbal brouhaha in front…
In 1962, the typically hidden-in-cupboards Campbell’s soup became an international icon after Andy Warhol treated it as his muse. His series of pop art pieces based on the can, and in particular his piece 100 Cans, have since become landmarks in the modern art movement — and now, they’ve inspired…
This time last year, after going 1-15 the previous season, Dolphins fans knew that winning just a few more games would make the season a success. Fast forward to this year, when we find the Dolphins reigning as AFC East champions and any step backwards would be a disappointment. See,…
Get ready to eat, drink, and be merry — Latin-style — when the 16th annual Hollywood Beach Latin Festival hits the sand. The day will be filled with two stages blasting Latin sound; expect performances by Tony Swing, Orquesta Brava, DJ Luandy, Fulanito and Didier Hernandez y Su Orquesta. There…
Nimble fingers and on-the-fly creativity have earned upright bassist Jamie Ousley first-call status among South Florida’s jazz elite. Last year, Ira Sullivan paid him the ultimate compliment: Sullivan took the bassist with him to Chicago for a week at the Jazz Showcase. And then, there’s Ousley’s four-year musical partnership with…
If you think Yoo-hoo brings out the true flavors of Doritos, it’s time to broaden those horizons, my friend, by checking out New Times’ annual Pairings event tonight. Around 50 of the area’s hottest restaurants will be representin’ with samples of fine eats, brought together with cocktails, wines, and craft…
One of the best of a new breed of indigenous movies prying open the Pandora’s box of German suffering in World War II, A Woman in Berlin takes on the mass rape of German women by victorious Russian soldiers entering the country in 1945. Skillfully adapted and directed by Max…
Early in Shane Acker’s computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and the titular numeral emblazoned on his chest awakens to the lifeless body of his human creator and sets forth into a decimated industrial landscape — all twisted metal and smokestacks — that…
In the early ’00s, I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue — pre-Devil Wears Prada. Each sighting of Anna Wintour, no matter from how great a distance, was terrifying enough to immobilize me for a few seconds, leading to a sweaty paralysis when I found…
It Might Get Loud Marketed as a guitar summit of the Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White, Davis Guggenheim’s affectionate, intermittently insightful behind-the-music doc is more electric triptych than meeting of the minds. Yes, the trio gather ’round the soundstage amps to teach one another a few tricks, but it’s…
If you are the director, producer, writer adapting your own stage play, and co-star of a film, you really show how bad you can do all by yourself. Usually thrilling in their lunacy, most Tyler Perry movies can at least keep up their momentum through the combination of an overstuffed…
The first credit to roll for Sorority Row, director Stewart Hendler’s highly unnecessary remake of a 1983 slasher, is for a character known as the “bra-clad sister.” A few entries down are “slutty sister,” “ditzy sister,” and “sarcastic sister.” I’m not sure you need to know much more than that…
