Arts & Culture

There are not one but two bands that currently tour as The Wailers, and it’s hard to keep them straight. The trio the Wailers Band has been around, though not in its current formation, since 1974 and was Bob Marley’s back-up group until his death in 1981. It now, however,…

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…

Looking to get your copy of Undertow signed by Maynard James Keenan? Well it seems Tool’s lead singer is a little more interested in signing something else now. Not breasts, posters, or babies (although he’d probably sign at least one of those things if you asked nicely enough) Maynard is…

For more than eight years, the hipster hangout DaDa Restaurant and Lounge has hosted poets, musicians, singer-songwriters, and just about anyone who has something to say or play during its weekly Open Mic night. The event shifted from one night to another over the years, but now takes place on…

Not long ago, this would have been the Barry Bonds Show — the game itself a footnote to admiring the feats of a slugger who had somehow transplanted a mule’s hind legs onto his shoulders and a prize-winning pumpkin onto his neck. In retrospect, it was pretty obvious that Bonds…

“Brachot” is a Hebrew word that translates as “blessing,” and this is the main theme for the 13th edition of the annual Israeli Dance Festival, which celebrates its Bar Mitzvah in 2009. The numbers created for this year were mostly inspired by the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv and also…

In June, 1934, the Nazis launched the Night of the Long Knives, the Reich’s first-ever purge. In the international press, it was billed as a cleanup of Germany’s “public baths.” Those public baths teemed with the boys and men of the S.S. They were led by Ernst Rohm, a beefy,…

Boca Raton’s Zombies! Organize!! may be hard at work on a new album (and cultivating a rebellion of undead corpses, of course). But that hasn’t stopped the electro-crunk trio from performing on a near-weekly basis. A recent weekend saw the group with three shows over a two-day span, including the…

Of all the secrets to Disney’s success — the belief in perpetual childhood, the ability to fix life’s problems with a healthy sprinkling of pixie dust, the uncanny ability to fit a life’s worth of baggage into one smart handbag a la Mary Poppins — the tightly held veil of…

In the last 15 years it seems we’ve been inundated with bubbles: the dot-com bubble, the housing bubble, the stock market bubble, Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles. After all these messes, the term stopped conjuring up images of that beloved bathing staple Mr. Bubble, and became synonymous with the plundering of…

This weekend, thousands of Florida’s finest fanboys and girls (many dressed in their cosplay best) will venture out to the premier festival for South Florida geekdom: the comic book/B-movie/anime/cosplay convention Supercon 2009. Surrounded by the madness will be horror and B-movie icon Bruce Campbell, infamous as the hero Ash from…

Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, and Luis Buñuel headed the avant-garde movement during a time of bourgeois conformism in the Spain of the 1920s, leaving behind a rich legacy of art and lust. In the film Little Ashes, their lives are explored from the time when a young Salvador Dalí…

When Amanda Magnetta started organizing her latest gallery show, “Made in Mexico,” she knew what she wanted. Getting it, of course, was another thing altogether. Her criteria was finite: the artists must currently reside in Mexico and create artwork that appeals to the Bear and Bird aesthetic. The pieces chosen…

Squeamish about giving blood? Purchase a yummy, painless smoothie from any Jamba Juice located in Florida this week (until Saturday), when the franchise will donate 20 percent of each purchase to the local American Red Cross Heroes campaign. The money raised during this campaign will help continue the services the…

When people think of the Opera, they think of grand-scale performances, box seats, little binoculars that make those holding them seem insanely pretentious, serious lung capacities, and grandiose opera-house architecture. When people think of bluegrass, they think banjo-wielding, grass chewing, down-home honky tonk. These two worlds will collide at the…

One New Year’s Eve (he doesn’t remember exactly what year), comedian Earthquake was scheduled to take the stage at precisely 11 p.m. at a St. Louis club (he doesn’t remember exactly which one). He does, however, remember that inclement weather kept his plane from landing on schedule, and he subsequently…

Homer Simpson once asserted that the only people who wear Hawaiian shirts are gay guys and big, fat party animals. We’re not much interested in Gabriel Iglesias’s sexual orientation, but the boisterous, tropical shirt-sporting comic undoubtedly embodies the latter group. The former All That cast member actually refers to himself…

For all those who regret overlooking photography 101 in college, here’s your chance to flex your photography muscles, or index finger, in a free group offered by the Secret Woods Nature Center in Dania Beach. The free photography group will meet on Thursdays from 2:30 to 4 p.m., and photography…

Nothing says “I love you” more than strapping your beau to a stainless steel bondage apparatus and spanking him with a studded paddle until he screams “banana!” (It’s your safe word.) If that’s your bag, baby, head to Club Purgatory tonight at 10 for the Alter Ego Fetish Ball, sponsored…

The title of Vickie Pierre’s “If You Win Me, I’m Forever,” now in the Project Room at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, rings an ever-so-slightly ominous note as if to say, “Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.” The installation itself is a fairly innocuous…