What would you do with that $150 you could use to buy into the Seminole Hard Rock & Casino’s Summer Open Poker Series? You could pay for five days’ rent. You could buy enough gas to drive to Pensacola and back. You could buy two grams of meth. You could…
When Ruth Harkness became a widow in 1936, the majority of her wealthy husband’s estate went to his stepmother. Harness was left with $20,000, which in 1936 wasn’t exactly small potatoes. What she chose to do with that inheritance serves as the premise for the film China: The Panda Adventure…
“To say the phenomenon was ‘unexpected’ would be an understatement,” says Jared Monk, who works in the keyboard department at Guitar Center in Hallandale. “One minute I’m showing off the jazzadelic beats of a limited edition Fender Rhodes to some dad and his kids…” He drops his head in shame…
If the idea of paying big bucks for the opportunity to date someone brings to mind the world’s oldest profession, better think again. bub. While the Venus and Mars Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction, being held by the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, will give you a chance to entice some lucky lady or lad…
It’s been seven years since musician and bar owner Carl Pacillo, spurned by a deal with the Seminoles gone awry, set up shop in the last refuge he could find, a long, narrow hallway of a space in a strip mall in the middle of industrial Oakland Park. And in…
If the extent of your knowledge in tiki-culture is the talking parrot ride at Disney World, it’s time to wise up. For the past seven years a band of so-called tikiphiles have gathered in the City of Fort Lauderdale for what has become the premiere celebration of Polynesian Pop. The…
If the many fine pieces of artwork within the Norton Museum of Art came to life for one evening a la Ben Stiller’s madcap Night at the Museum films, the result would probably not be a wild night of revelry — rather, you’d be in for a somewhat contemplative evening…
There never seems to be too many Irish pubs. They’re as ubiquitous as Chinese restaurants and have come to represent a friendly home-away-from-home for travelers on six of the seven continents (Antarctica has one pub, but it’s English). Delray will add another one Friday when Tim Finnegans celebrates its Grand…
After seeing almost a hundred years’ worth of gangster films, we’re all familiar with the tropes: greed, betrayal, restitution, etc., and of course the black-market trade of products such as guns and drugs. Logic suggests gangster films of the future will continue down a similar path, except the illicit smuggling…
Hey, you, under the rock, there’s a really cool festival every year that brings short plays to Miami. It’s called Summer Shorts, and it includes productions for the young’uns (Shorts 4 Kids), some that are simply awesome and dramatic or hilarious (Signature Shorts), and others so dirty they should bear…
Leave your topsiders at home, Pops — this definitely isn’t your grandfather’s afternoon regatta. The biggest powerboats in the nation are revving it up in Sunny Isles Beach for the second annual Offshore Powerboat Challenge Weekend. From the shores of Florida’s Riviera (sort of), you can watch motorists take it…
There’s almost nothing as debilitating as cancer. For local director Aaron Wells, learning he had the disease was a call to action. “The minute I was diagnosed I knew I had to do something. So I’m documenting my experiences (good, bad, and ugly) in hopes of helping others in my…
With the economy in the toilet and job loss rates at an all time high, your hometown Florida Marlins seem to be perfectly built for our times. The Marlins have the lowest payroll in all of Major League Baseball, and yet are off to the best start in the entire…
Something about coffee shops and art go hand it hand – one of the best shot scenes in the career of French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was the coffee shop scene in Two or Three Things I Know About Her, where a stirred cup of coffee slowly enveloped the frame, spiraling…
Aside from a few notable exceptions – we’re looking at you, Fat Albert – cartoon characters are generally in great physical shape. That’s either due to the reflection of our ideal selves, or an intense amount of exercise from time spent chasing mice, roadrunners, and other manner of gentle creatures…
Who wants to pedal places on a traditional bicycle? It’s inefficient, for starters, and wasteful, since you’re converting all that Dorito fat you’ve stored up into useless energy. Well, you energy conscious cycler you, today you can test drive your ride of the future for free at Whole Foods Fort…
The Lake Worth Playhouse will be holding open auditions Monday and Tuesday for their upcoming thriller, Woman in Black, a stage adaptation of the classic Susan Hill horror novel. The story has all the hallmarks of great scare bait: a middle-aged attorney, Arthur Kipps, moves to a quiet, seaside town…
Even if you’re typically allergic, show some love for A Pair of Nuts tonight, when this nationally known comedy duo performs skits, plays video clips, and dresses in costumes that Britney couldn’t pull off on a good day. The Miami-based Cuban duo, comprised of the handsome cue ball Yamil Piedra…
What Fletch was to plaid-checked water-cooler wits in the ’80s, what National Lampoon’s Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of Dubya, that’s what 2003’s Old School is to Gen-X frat rats — a secret-handshake movie. A shaggy, intermittently hilarious wish-fulfillment nightmare about sorta dissatisfied, sorta middle-aged dudesters…
Although Brazil is often associated with beach-bronzed Amazons, Carnaval, soccer, and painful bikini waxes, its cinema has a rich, oft-overlooked history. In 1930, the film Limite by director Mario Peixoto became a silent film masterpiece. In the 1960s, after a military coup resulted in dictatorship, an avant-garde film movement called…
Easy Virtue Quick! Noël Coward—sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott’s deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of the satirist’s lesser-known jabs at the British upper crust will charm your pants off. The movie opens with a contemporary rendition of Coward’s “Mad About the Boy,” impressively…
Neil LaBute became famous as a brutalizer of psyches, his characters’ and ours. His early plays, in the late 1990s, were all about the evils humans visit upon one another without provocation. They were studies in venality and cruelty, and it was hard to watch them without thinking that LaBute…
