For the unfamiliar, Rifftrax is an MP3 loaded with seemingly off-the-cuff comedic commentary. You play it in-synch with a designated film. A scenario to get you really acquainted: A sweet girl brings over Twilight. You take out your Rifftrax. Enter the voice-over crude remarks. Enter your hysterical laughs, her squeals:…
Why try to originally opine on the sounds of the heavy Miami trio Vultures are Wolves when the band’s MySpace page is so darn descriptive? There, you will find that they tag themselves as being appropriate for fans of “repulsive uncontrolled chaos,” and sounding like “blasts of bloated diarrhea spit.”…
British fashion photographer Rankin made a name for himself conjuring edgy images of Kylie Minogue, the Spice Girls, and Queen Elizabeth II. Now he has turned his lens toward Scotland for the Macallan Masters of Photography collection. True to its name, Rankin’s exhibit is an intoxicating suite of Polaroid snaps…
What are the sexiest shoes you own? Are they your wedding shoes? Probably not (white satin rarely matches anything besides that dress). Your prom shoes? No, the heel broke off those when you landed from the keg stand (which lasted a whole 18 seconds!). The sexiest shoes you own have…
The IWAN concept facility The Bubble in downtown Fort Lauderdale will be hosting another event Saturday. Except this show will break somewhat from the indie rock/punk that usually fills the space and show some love for the metal heads of South Florida. Opener Lazer Beast describes its music as “two…
South Florida’s arts community may be disorganized, but if you don’t support your local arts scene, there won’t be a scene to support. Open Mic Nights are a great way to check out local talent, like the one held Fridays at Mega Bite Cyber Café and hosted by poetry slammer…
Everyone loves Johnny Depp. He has done some great movies, and a few not-so-great ones (Secret Window comes to mind). Tonight, Undergrounds Coffeehaus will show two. Benny & Joon is the unconventional romantic comedy with a kooky Sam winning the heart of the even kookier Joon. Edward Scissorhands was the…
The two-man show “Recent Works 09: Drawings, Paintings, Digital, Sculpture,” now at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale’s Mark K. Wheeler Gallery, pairs current Art Institute instructor Jon Hunt with former Art Institute instructor Jim Radford, and it’s an odd-couple affair that works wonderfully. Both men are essentially realists, although…
Post Grad Post Grad tries to do three things at once — and half-hits the mark on only one. Part of it is wacky Little Miss Sunshine family time, with Carol Burnett in the Alan Arkin part and Michael Keaton as the clueless paterfamilias. Part is sketch comedy, which is not half-bad, especially…
For a lot of us, green living means changing our light bulbs, doing our best to recycle, and signing a petition to save polar bears. Baby steps, we tell ourselves; we can’t overhaul the system overnight. But according to the graphic novel As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You…
The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s fast and furiously inventive District 9, their huddled masses long ago extracted from their broken-down mothership and deposited in the titular housing slum on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Unlike the space…
Adam There’s not much to get passionate about in this amiable chamber piece from theater director Max Mayer. Hedging just about every bet it lays on the table to the tune of a gentle guitar, Adam spins a wish-fulfilling romance between a recently bereaved young man with Asperger’s syndrome (Hugh…
You spot your ex-girlfriend Julie, lurking near the stripper pole. You dumped her for Amy — blessed, heart-crawling Amy, seated in a corner booth. Sucking down Jack & Cokes and “pussy shots” — specialties at Area 7 (3809 Powerline Rd., Oakland Park) — has prepared you for this moment, and…
If Broward County were deserted by humans, the only remnants left would be our buildings, our bridges, our lighthouses, and that classified tower in Port Everglades. What would they say about us residents? We’re young — not even 100 yet. We’re very contemporary. Unlike the north, we have only one…
“Do you guys masturbate together?” hollered the rowdy but good-humored Guttermouth frontman Mark Adkins. It was 2000, I was 16, and a long-time pal (we’ll call him Will) and I were backstage at a Guttermouth show at the now-defunct West Palm venue Orbit. Taken aback, Will and I looked at…
The dawn of fall in America brings a cornucopia of emotions for the die-hard football fan. The titillation of gridiron season nears — the symphony of collision in a goal line stand, the despondency of a last-second field goal through your heart, the fiendish compulsion of a fantasy football run…
The Florida Marlins became buyers before the trade deadline when they traded for Washington Nationals first baseman Nick Johnson. And that’s a good thing, because when the Fish trade for a player, it’s usually some useless aging relief pitcher with Styrofoam for ligaments in his throwing shoulder. But this time…
Piano and drums mixed with vocals that are simultaneously breathy and uncompromising define the sound of The State Of, the female duo from Miami playing Wilton Manors’ New Moon (2440 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors) tonight at 8. Although you can really hear their influences (Fiona Apple, Portishead, Radiohead, to name…
There are no hippies left, only Phish fans and other wandering dread-head souls who travel from jam festival to jam festival, yearning for the 1960s like a pothead for a brownie. Thus the revolutionary tone of the decade is sometimes lost through tie-dye-colored Sixties nostalgia. But for a lot of…
Most of us are a little Japanese-snack deprived. So shall we partake of a quick run-through to increase our knowledge of snacks from our Eastern neighbors? 1). Kiwi Gummi is green, gummy, and tastes like kiwi. (Unlike how watermelon Jolly Ranchers “taste like watermelon,” Kiwi Gummi is known to taste…
Once and for all, prove your cynical friend wrong! The pro wrestlers are putting their makeup on, greasing up their chests, squeezing into their tiny trunks, and heading down to good old Davie on Saturday, August 15. After your buddy witnesses the “body slam,” “spinebuster,” or a chair to the…
In 1896, William Selig founded the first film studio in Hollywood, then a sleepy farming town, to escape Thomas Edison’s eastern cartel. From then on, Hollywood churned out product. Film was a commodity, seldom art – and even less today. Speed-the-Plow, a play by David Mamet, concerns an aesthete and…
