Cannibal! The Musical Through September 6 at the Promethean Theatre, 3301 College Ave., Davie. Call 786-317-7580, or click here. Cannibal! is a musical Trey Parker composed as a college student, years before he found fame and fortune as cocreator of South Park. But all of that show’s signature elements are…
Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of 1999. The two movies were always intended as bookends, with Extract countering the earlier film’s woe-is-me tale of the put-upon Prole. But in between…
Laila’s Birthday Toward the end of Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi’s tragicomedy about daily life in his West Bank hometown, the frustrated protagonist shakes his fists at the heavens and blames the 60-year Israeli occupation for his woes. That’s the only direct polemic in Laila’s Birthday, and this beguiling second feature,…
When was the last time you did something nice for someone else in bed? How about in front of 15,000 screaming spectators? Put away the cookies and shut off the T.V., Miami, because after six years of hitting the snooze button, The Great Coconut Grove Bed Race is making its…
Monday (noon): It’s labor day. You’re back at Exit 66. Back in the pool. Searching for your lost keys. It’s been a long journey since you’ve first arrived here 48 hours ago. Saturday (noon): Doors open: yippee! It’s Detox Pool Party time! The young girl before you in line doesn’t…
A prominent contributor to the Pop Art movement in postwar America, George Segal is best known for placing life-size human sculptures in natural environments. “George Segal: Street Scenes”, now displayed at the Norton Museum of Art, captures the melancholy and ironic isolationism associated with city life via ghostly white, plaster…
There are a lot of annoying things about experiencing unmolested nature. Old-growth forests are notorious for their lack of air conditioning and the very real possibility of being mauled by a bear. The shrub-steppe grasslands of Utah completely lack shopping malls and, most disappointingly, are located in Utah. Only an…
The arduous task of finding a subject for your poetry stops here: Relax. Poetry, after all, can be a form of confessional release. This Saturday at 1 p.m. poets will overlook memories of childhood, current lovers, and not-so-current lovers for ones which stem directly from their passion of writing. At…
The humans are mostly quiet, polite young men, willing to climb atop animals a dozen times their size and try to hold on for eight seconds. The quadruped participants in this arrangement are snorting, slobbering masses of muscle, with lethal weapons affixed to the end of each leg and to…
With his outsize charisma and sweat-raising vocals, Bobby Stringer has been charming the pants off local audiences since he was a nervous teen nursing Cokes in clubs he was too young to enter. The 62-year-old Miami native built a loyal following in venues throughout Coconut Grove, Overtown, and Liberty City…
You’ve spent hours in the chair listening to the buzz of the drill. Sometimes you fall asleep, sometimes you watch a movie. When it’s over, you thank the artist for leaving you with a piece of art tailored just for you. People with tattoos are like walking galleries for such…
If you’ve lived in South Florida long enough, chances are that you’ve lost, sold, or bartered your soul away. No worries though, because you can fill that empty void — or at very least your belly — at the Soul Food Festival. Vendors will be serving up delicious Southern eats…
The kittenish, titillating activity of the spanking enthusiast, of the metal head, of the vampire, restocks this Friday when the ball drops at midnight at Club X-It (219 N. 21st Ave., Hollywood). This marks the beginning of Electrolust Year Two. Once every month for the past year, a party made…
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a funkier, cozier hangout than DaDa Restaurant and Lounge (52 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach). For more than eight years, Dada has hosted South Florida talent ranging from spoken word artists to bands to comedians. It has also served as a late-night stop for tipsy…
“It’s a geeky wonderland,” says Chibi Pa: Evolution Head Organizer Jason Bailey. Whether you’re an avid aficionado of Nerf Halo Wars or a novice with a penchant for Pokémon, there’s a little something for everyone. At this Japanese Anime and cultural festival, role-players can break out their cosplay gear and…
Streaks are generally a good thing, unless we’re talking about those people in England that run around naked at tennis and soccer matches. Or the Florida Marlins. The Fish had themselves a pretty cool streak a few weeks back when they went fifteen-straight games with ten or more hits —…
Humpday opens with a pair of breeders in bed. A youngish married couple, Ben (mumblecordeon Mark Duplass) and Anna (Alycia Delmore), confess that they’re too tired to procreate that night. As if in response, the doorbell rings at 2 a.m., and Ben’s long-lost college buddy, Andrew (Blair Witch Project survivor…
The IWAN space The Bubble has officially positioned itself as one of the premier venues to consistently catch great local music in Fort Lauderdale, alongside the Poor House and Alligator Alley. Saturday, September 5, promoters/owners Garo Gallo and Yvonne Colon will present another eclectic evening of music that will include…
If you haven’t traveled to Clubland (AKA Miami Beach) in the past 48 hours, you might not be aware there’s a new party genre in the offing. It’s a little something called “neo-hippie cyberpunk kiddiecore,” and to “get it,” envision a computer-generated Woodstock set in the Neuromancer universe all about…
Take Me Out is the story of a major league baseball player’s coming out. Written by Richard Greenberg, it won a Tony Award for Best Play and it was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. When it debuted in 2002, there were no openly gay baseball players. There still…
For those of us who weren’t blessed with god-like physiques, athletic prowess, and, well, the motivation to get off the couch for anything other than work and the bar, DP’s Beach Bar has planned the perfect night of sport: Bar Olympics. Don’t worry, you won’t die of alcohol poisoning. The…
Last year’s Hugs and Spoons Show didn’t draw quite the crowd organizers expected, so this year the Fair Expo Center decided to change course and host Victor Bean’s Southern Classic Gun and Knife Show. The doors to the Fuchs Pavilion will open at 10 a.m. this Sunday, and inside will…
