Kevin Nealon entered the public spotlight in 1986 thanks to an obscure television show called Saturday Night Live. For nearly ten years, Mr. Nealon brought his dry wit to characters like Subliminal Man, Franz, and Mr. No Depth Perception, and became a star by transforming himself into one of the…
Monster Jam returns! Big trucks race! Kids all squeal. Smells and noises! Trucks weigh five tons! Engines with 1,500 horses! From rafters look like toys. Drivers do donuts. Is that rubber burning? No, that’s big fun! Fun smells dangerous! Pick your favorite! Instigator races Pure Adrenaline! El Toro faces Grave…
There in the tattoo shop, after a long-drawn-out buzzing noise, comes a sobering shriek. The indecipherable scrawl that was on a crumpled bar napkin two hours earlier is now on your left bicep. A displeasing wrong-time, wrong-tattoo scenario like this deserves rectification — or better yet, prevention. Become a smart…
In the opening scene of The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez, a Confederate soldier has a gangrenous leg amputated. The lopping off is performed by a slave of the DeLeons, a plantation family in Virginia. Here’s the kicker: they’re Jewish and so are their slaves. The irony of Jews owning…
It was 1969 when a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, transformed into the coolest place on Earth. To think that a spot where cows chewed cud and got their udders yanked would be the site of rock ‘n’ roll legend must have seemed insane. But 40 years later, concert…
It’s time to chase those crazy baldheads out of town. Catch the Florida premiere of RiseUp, a film that pays homage to Jamaica’s rich reggae tradition, this Friday at 8 p.m. at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater. The film, which won Best Music Documentary at Silverdocs, traces the…
Despite their recent 5-0 loss to Mexico, the U.S. soccer team is surging. In July, they defeated World Cup champion Spain, stopping the squad one victory short of setting a new record for consecutive unbeaten matches by an international team. Then two days later, they took Brazil down to the…
What more could concertgoers ask for from Bayfront Park Amphitheater? How about a better bayfront view, no more wooden benches, new VIP boxes, and more concession stands so (theoretically) the lines will be a bit more tolerable? Your wishes have been granted, or at least they will be by the…
If you’ve been itching to tap your tootsies down memory lane, hoof it to the Mayfair Antique Market, where you might score some classic vinyl LPs. The monthly confab is a virtual fortune hunter’s paradise and features dozens of vendors with unusual items for the serious collector or weekend browser…
Have you just started watching the popular HBO series True Blood? Well, you missed an entire season of titillating, shocking, suspenseful drama about those intriguing bloodsuckers. Undergrounds Coffeehaus is hosting a True Blood viewing party for the next three Fridays, starting tonight. Follow the beginning of Sookie and Bill’s relationship,…
It was only a matter of time before South Park unleashed its comic wrath on generation guitar-hero. If they only spent as much time practicing a real instrument, they’d be able to play a real instrument, Stan’s mom observed. Well, real talent be damned. Undergrounds Coffeehaus is hosting a Guitar…
Making headline writers’ lives everywhere easier: The Goods doesn’t deliver. Don Ready (Jeremy Piven, not changing a note from Entourage) is a hired-gun slasher salesman, the guy you call when your used-car business is in trouble. With his team, Don’s a genius at clearing out stagnant lots. Producers Adam McKay…
While many of us are feeling draggy and listless during the hot, humid days of a South Florida summer, the seemingly tireless executive director of the Coral Springs Museum of Art, Barbara O’Keefe, has assembled not just one but four shows to get us through the season. The first and…
“When you bad,” boasts the young and beautiful, piss-and-vinegar-filled Muhammad Ali early in the documentary Soul Power, “you can do what you wanna do.” The film, which takes too long to get to the meat of its matter but captivates once it does, documents the three-day music festival that accompanied…
Late in the infectiously frisky documentary The Cove, an older man calmly gate-crashes an international conference on whaling with a television screen strapped to his chest, showing bloody images of the mass slaughter of dolphins in a pretty cove off the coast of Japan. It’s a show-stopping publicity stunt by…
Julie and Julia There’s half of a great movie here — the one featuring Meryl Streep as Julia Child, and not the Smithsonian-enshrined, encased-in-amber, forever-in-reruns Julia Child either but the toweringly lean and tremendously lustful Julia Child, new to France in the late 1940s and ready to devour everything in…
Credited as the first “action figure,” G.I. Joe came to life in 1964 as Hasbro’s answer to Mattel’s Barbie doll. There were actually four Joes — one for each branch of the armed forces — and in the imaginations of boys everywhere, they fought Nazis. Forty-odd years later, the Joes…
Haulover Beach Park is a protected stretch of coastline sporting big-wave surf, well-sculpted sand dunes, and an infamous clothing-optional zone at the north end. In other words, it’s a great place to “hang out.” Prudes who prefer to steer clear of people’s bits and pieces can stick to the non-nudist…
There’s more than one way to catch a fish, but if your best technique includes your bare hands and a lot of luck, you might never eat mahi-mahi again. If you have a strategy that works, enter the third annual Miami Fishing Tournament, where local fisherman take to Biscayne Bay…
Ain’t no party like a hurricane party ’cause a hurricane party don’t stop. So why wait for the hurricane? Head to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida for its Hurricane History 101 Family Fun Day this Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Experts will show storm lovers how hurricanes have…
The Cottage will host Pucciarelli’s Medicine Show Saturday, which will feature artwork by Lake Worth tattoo artists Leo Vendetta, Brad Cain, Scott White and Pooch. Pooch’s real name is Mike Pucciarelli, the award-winning tattooist and fine artist, whose artwork and tattooing style incorporates vibrant colors and lots of detail. He…
If evolutionary theory is correct and nature really does select the animals that best adapt to their surroundings, humans in year 10,000 are going to have some bulbous optic nerves. Those thin channels now have the weight and size of dental floss, but at the rate we’re sucking down YouTube…
