Local comedian Marvin Dixon (he’s from Miami) has been hosting comedy shows like Def Comedy Jam, BET’s Comic View, and Showtime at the Apollo for 15 years. You’ve just never heard of him. That might change with the ironically titled All White Comedy Show coming to the Miramar Culture Center…
Sol Theatre is going out of business – but with a bang. Its final show, Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown by Guillermo Reyes, is a set of monologues done by one actor, Angel Perez. He’ll be metamorphosing between five Latino immigrants whose identities have warped and cracked…
After titillating audiences at the Arsht Center for a month, Summer Shorts – South Florida’s biggest and weirdest theater tradition – comes to the Broward Center in all its ribald and risque wrongness. You’ve got two programs, Signature Shorts (made up of eight short plays, from playwrights including the deceased…
Apparently, one out of every six kids in SoFla goes without proper nutrition. This is wrong – especially since the other five kids are fat – which is why you should pony up the $100 to $250 it takes to attend this year’s Taste of the Nation. TotN is an…
MadTV alum Aries Spears is no stranger to South Florida – he’s toured down here quite a bit, and has a sordid history of promotions in these parts as well. A few years back, Spears was a guest on the Paul and Young Ron morning radio show on Big 105.9…
Can you remember the last time you heard someone pounding on garbage cans, clomping on hubcaps, and thrashing the floor with brooms? If you live in certain unnamed apartment complexes, your answer might be “last night.” If you live with inventive, percussion-loving kids, your answer might be “this morning.” But…
The first woman to swim in the Olympics past the age of 40, Dara Torres seems to have been genetically created to do nothing outside the pool. At 5’11 and 150 pounds, she is pure muscle, and her long body covers a lot of ground. Her career spans 24 years…
What’s better than seeing a 50-foot-tall robot on the big screen? Well, that would be a 50-foot-tall robot on the really, really big screen. This week, you can catch Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen at IMAX theaters, which, by the way, is the only way to see every bit…
Throughout her career, Tera Patrick has been used to taking shots. Tonight, you’ll take a few shots of your own at Pangaea and Gryphon’s Sixth Annual Lingerie Party, headlined by the porn goddess herself, Patrick. DJs Kimball Collins, Willie Morales, Edgar V., RioTGeaR, and Matt Spector will command the decks…
I dated an Irish guy who once told me about an extensive network of Irish people prepared to help their brethren and sistren at the drop of a hat. There are people all over the world, he said, ready to get someone situated or give him or her a job,…
The first guest in the new StitchBird Stuffed Artist series, Rosanna Pereyra seems like the ultimate DIY artist. If you look on her website, you’ll see a giant doll house she’s working on, beautiful, delicate little masks, and a membership to Much Ado about Dolls. For the upcoming workshop, which…
Two exhibitions at two venues take a look at the phenomenon of outsider artist Purvis Young. One, titled simply “Purvis,” is now winding down at the 12th Floor Art Space at Broward College (formerly Broward Community College) in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The other, called “Purvis Young: Raw,” has a slightly…
Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers’ solipsistic, terminally apologetic-for-being-solipsistic portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-slacker-messiah, the author, upon interviewing to become a cast member of MTV’s The Real World, makes the following observation about his generation of self-obsessed, media-savvy technobrats: “These are people for whom the idea of anonymity is existentially…
Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I’d forgotten I’d seen The Proposal. Well, that’s not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in my memory with a thousand other films just like it — those in which phony lovers bound together by dubious circumstances become honest-to-kissin’ couples in just…
Public Service Announcements want you to believe that your brain on drugs is comparable to an egg frying in a pan. But do you really want to listen to people who use eggs as metaphors? We may not know what your brain looks like on Pink Floyd, but a laser…
Just when the Marlins look ready to compete for the title of most craptastic team in baseball, whoa, they come back to mere mediocrity by doing what they seem to do best: slapping the pill around the yard. Dan Uggla just hit his 100th career homer, and in fewer games…
Some decisions are best made impulsively, like: Which ice cream flavor combination creates the best Sundae? (Answer: chocolate and marshmallow.) Or, which color glitter paint gives my Hyundai the most street cred? (Answer: gold.) And even, should I dress my cats up for special events? (Answer: always.) And then there…
Anyone who grew up hanging out under Commercial Pier, around Villas, or at Second Street in Pompano during the late ’90s and ’00s knows Dutch, the scruffy, beach-blond manager of South Florida surf staple B.C. Surf & Sport. It’s not that we saw him at Commercial or Second Street. Instead,…
May God bless Hooters, that imitable representation of American sex at its most digestible. For 26 years now, the chain of eateries has been dishing out bar food served by saucy gals clad in form-fitting orange and white spandex — and pent up males with indigestion all across the world…
South Florida native artist Hilda Vazquez is celebrating nearly 12 years of showing her work with her latest exhibit, “[ärt] n.”, opening Saturday at 8 p.m. at Undergrounds Coffeehaus. Hilda’s paintings are heavily influenced by photography: she cites the photos of pioneers Julia Margaret Cameron and Man Ray as major…
Lately, it seems there’s been a rise in events combining live music and visual art. Saturday’s Soul School Special Assembly at Mix Ultra Lounge is no exception. Hosted by Serum, the event features national artists Sket One, Pon, and Shane Jessup, and local artists Duane Hosein and Spen One. On…
Breast cancer’s a bitch. Organizations like the National Breast Cancer Foundation do great things by keeping awareness alive and funding much-needed research. But let’s be frank: traditional fundraising parties can be a bit boring. No Hard Feelings Tattoo Gallery is putting its own spin on the process Saturday with its…
