Who told you that knitting was for octogenarians? One look at designer Karelle Levy’s hooked-up confections and you won’t dare to think that some bespectacled bitty created it. Now’s your chance to learn from Levy and create some pieces of your own at her weekly yarn throwdown, Stichin’ Boozin’ Bitches…
If you’re looking for a nice family friendly hypnotism act where a guy in a funny outfit twirls around a wristwatch and makes someone walk across the stage like a chicken, don’t attend Rich Guzzi’s Psycho-Hypnosis show. If instead you would like to see a dozen people performing oral sex…
Sharks and gamblers go together in so ways that it’s impossible to make a precise analogy. Loan sharks, pool sharks, card sharks, a gambler will run into some form of shark at some point in his or her profession. But not until now — ok maybe in the late ’70s…
Jose Carrera perfected his art in jail. “I made my first tattoo gun using a Bic lighter and a small motor I stripped from an old Walkman cassette player,” he says. “I used the spring inside as the needle and would burn styrofoam cups to collect the black smoke and…
Click here for a slideshow of photos from Stitch Wars. What if Darth Vader were a cuddly Beanie Baby — a tiny, stuffed Sith Lord accompanied by a lovable poem about his dark side and tucked under the arm of an unsuspecting 6-year-old? The cutesy, stuffed-toy company Ty Inc. may…
When I tell you the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood’s big summer show features the work of a Jack Russell terrier, you’ll probably expect a string of dog puns: “It’s the dog days of summer!” “The Art and Culture Center has gone to the dogs!” Well, you’re barking up…
In the one-woman show “Passages,” now at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale’s Mark K. Wheeler Gallery, Art Institute instructor Jody Thompson explores her fascination with a couple of key items: female mannequins, especially, with Arabic numerals running a close second. In archival digital prints and mixed-media works, we encounter…
Don’t let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the generally grim, occasionally startling, and altogether enthralling sixth chapter in a movie franchise that keeps managing to surprise just when one would expect it to be puttering…
If you think it’s impossible to underestimate the cultural significance of American Idol, go see British filmmaker Havana Marking’s documentary about its Afghani imitator, a smash hit television show whose musical wannabes run the gamut of Afghanistan’s bruising ethnic divisions. The even more socially and geographically heterogeneous audience votes for…
Replacing the childish Peter Pan poster on your bedroom wall for the one of Slash in his notorious top hat signified a time of growth. Jon Bon Jovi’s close-up put puberty in overdrive. The teenage years beckoned when black light posters were all the rage; then on to college with…
In a town where original music is the exception, Chrystal Hartigan’s Songwriter’s Showcase, held the third Tuesday of every month, is a respite from the endless rotation of cover bands playing “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Margaritaville,” and “Brown Eyed Girl.” This Tuesday’s showcase will run the oft-overlooked gamut of musical…
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is a stunningly beautiful movie with an equally engrossing premise: if intelligence governs the relationship between man and nature, what about man’s relationship with technology, and God? Its approach to that question is extraordinarily complex and nuanced, making it a prime candidate for lengthy…
The Sunday night drag revue Trannie Palace at Bill’s Filling Station has been going strong for a year now, making it the premier destination to see six-foot-tall women with shoulderspans like linebackers saunter around the stage performing everything from showtunes to feats of mysticism (not to mention sheer mystery). What…
In the United States’ master timeline, South Florida hasn’t been settled for long. Any long-term resident will tell you about how it used to be: back before massive highways baked in the sun and the reflective sides of high rises blocked out all views of the ocean. Back then, Florida…
Joe Rogan has had his hands all up in pop culture. He started off on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, hosted Fear Factor for six seasons, did a quick stint on The Man Show, and is currently hosting and doing color commentary for UFC bouts. In between all that, Mr. Rogan…
With art school grads ready to give their right arm — or at least a sweaty summer as a costumed “cast member” of the Disney team — for future job contacts, it’s hard to believe there was a time when an animator would’ve risked a cushy job with Disney for…
You’re intelligent, attractive, and relatively well-adjusted — still, you have trouble meeting someone who is also at least two of those three. Craig’s List is a den of weirdoes, Match.com a crapshoot, and MyBootySpace is like clicking your way to syphilis. Well, Casanova, dare we suggest something slightly more wholesome?…
Noel Coward’s Private Lives premiered in the UK in 1930. Panned by major British critics, it was reprised in New York to American acclaim. Through six runs on Broadway, the comedy has been a vehicle for stars like Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton. Private Lives’ premise…
Affordable studio space is always a problem for artists: they’re bound by popular idioms to starve. Couple that with the South Florida real estate market, and it seems like they can’t catch a break. The Flamingo Clay Studio, a not-for-profit collective of clay, glass, metal and stone artists, has tried…
When it comes to fans of different genres of music, no two could be more opposite than eye-liner sporting goth-punks and line-dancing, country rednecks. Throwing both groups in a room together should be more awkward then a middle school prom, if not more violent. Yet somehow, through fusion, the two…
If Hollywood ever decided to revive the bloated corpse that is the Police Academy franchise and opted to cast Michael Winslow’s sound-effect spewing Officer Jones as a white guy, there would be no one more suited to play that role than comedian Pablo Francisco. Known for his uncanny impressions and…
In case you haven’t heard quite enough of the King of Pop over the last few weeks (is it ever enough?) Who’s Bad, “The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band,” is coming to Revolution Live on July 22. Founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, five years ago, Who’s Bad has been…
