You can’t swing a dead Noid these days without hitting some comedian from the 1980s doing a “comeback” tour (read: the account’s gone dry!). But one-time CableAce winner Paula Poundstone is doing her best to distance herself from the flock of other funny folk from comedy’s heyday. After her 2001…
Remember when you got stoned and watched Godzilla flicks all night? You swore you saw the 50-foot-tall reptile bust through your apartment roof and treat you like a Cheeto. For a more certain 50-foot-baddie experience, check out Monsters Vs. Aliens, appearing in three wicked dimensions at the Blockbuster IMAX theater…
Photography is a gorgeously democratic medium, and it becomes more so each time a teenager buys a cell phone and starts snapping away at the bathroom mirror. In the new century, photographs multiply like tribbles — your MySpace profile, which five years ago could accommodate only ten pics, can now…
Some memories are so painful, that your subconscious has no choice but to suppress them. For Israeli Ari Folman, his mind went completely blank when he tried to recall the first Lebanon War. Folman was only 19, still just a child, when he served in the Israeli Defense Force. It…
It might sound cliched to compare sports superstars to fictional superheroes, but when it comes to the Miami Heat and the Orlando Magic, it’s almost impossible not to. The Magic haven’t been this good since The Diesel left, and probably the biggest reason is Dwight Howard, the young center who…
If you’re gay and Floridian, PrideFest is the place for you. Today’s mammoth parade through Lake Worth will attract up to 10,000 people, a Billboard-ranked pop star, Jenna Drey, and an array of musicians and DJs. 150 local businesses are showcasing a bazaar’s worth of knick-knacks along the route, which…
In the 1950s, mobsters established the major casinos of Las Vegas. So it’s historically apt that former cast members of The Sopranos – the hit show about postmodern mobsters – should gather tonight at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino. Corralled to Florida by ringleader John “Cha Cha” Ciarcia (who played…
If you’re unfamiliar with the shoegaze genre, well you’re probably not alone. The movement peaked and pretty much ended in the early 1990s when most young kids were still listening to Nirvana’s Nevermind. Despite its underground fan base, pioneers of the sound like My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary…
Whenever any small business survives its first two years in South Florida, it’s cause for celebration. But when that business is also completely outdoors, has a mini-golf course created by local artists, and screens rare foreign films (and porn!), it’s cause for drunken revelry followed by respectful urination onto Biscayne…
Is there any place better suited for an animation festival than Miami Beach? Every Ray-Banned, man-pursed, Pomeranian holstering, deep v-necked dude on the street could pass for a figment of Chuck Jones’ imagination. So embrace your Steamboat Willie and take a chunk of time this weekend to escape from the…
Ever since James Beard appeared in the first network cooking show, I Love To Eat, in the late 1940s, people have been obsessed with filming their food. Today, we even have terminology to describe the way the camera languishes over our succulent eats, tightening into Extreme Close-Up Mode for each…
If you’re not at Churchill’s tonight for the Black Lips show, we’ll know why. Because you drive a BMW. Because your soul has been crippled by the weight of your bourgeoisie possessions. Because you don’t feel like riding the steel-and-teak elevator twenty floors down when you have Sushi Samba on…
If the first image you see when you think of the boating community is one that is an amalgamation of Gilligan’s Skipper and the trusted Gorton’s fisherman, you’re not alone. Those engrained images of an uptight captain and silver-bearded salty dog are hard to shake. But humans’ love with the…
Art by the Pool is as decidedly un-WMC as you can get this weekend: Yes, it’s taking place at a pool, but said pool is at a community clubhouse in Palm Beach Gardens, not at some posh hotel. And there will be music, but the thumping techno is being usurped…
You weren’t planning on sleeping this WMC weekend, right? Well then head to the Ice Palace in the Design District (59 NW 14th St.) for a multi-stage showdown that will rock well past sun up. Adultnapper, Cassy, Ida Engberg, Marco Carola, Matthew Dear, Mr. C, and more will hit the…
If you missed “Mr. Essential” himself, Pete Tong, at Ultra, don’t sweat it. Instead, check him out with a veritable dream team of performers at the Surfcomber’s Friday pool party. Dubfire, Steve Lawler, M.A.N.D.Y., and Space resident Cedric Gervais will keep those bathing suits rocking from 11 a.m. till question…
Trying to filter through all the coked-out parties, DJ sets, pool-side romps, and beach blowouts going down during the Winter Music Conference is akin to trying to figure out what goes on inside a black hole: maybe there’s an extra-planetary race of lizard beasts staring back at you from the…
More than just the ivories are being tickled over at 10@2 Saloon during the weekly dueling piano nights, Thursdays through Saturdays. Yes, even your funny bone may be fondled a bit as pianists pound out tunes like “Sweet Home Alabama” with comedic commentary thrown in. Guests can help control the…
Anybody with keen ears, common sense, and good taste buds digs the Dresden Dolls. Why? Because they’re the most exciting thing to sound off since Marlene Dietrich sang for Josef von Sternberg, that’s why. And to think otherwise would be to miss out on music itself. And if you dig…
Haven’t we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer/director Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over treats the subject of illegal immigrants coming to (and from) Los Angeles with the same vulgarity that Kramer brought to his 2006 children-in-peril thriller Running Scared, this time (barely) concealed under a…
Just as we thought the “bromantic comedy” had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with I Love You, Man. The subtext is finally the text—it’s right there in the title. The movie delivers an absolutely complete, fully realized, delightfully novel redo of the hoariest of forms: the…
Duplicity It’s little surprise that, for his second film as director, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy leans heavily on his favored tropes of international espionage and cutthroat capitalism. The surprise is that Duplicity is a comedy — about two people who love each other more than they could ever trust…
