You’ve been a dedicated fan of the art of brewing for years – if some crafty brewer needed beer removed from a glass ASAP, you could make it happen. Well, here’s your shot at the big time, bubba: BX Beer Depot, South Florida’s homebrew headquarters, is hosting its first ever…
I spent my high-school lunch breaks hiding behind the bowling alley to smoke cigarettes because, A) I hated everyone, and B) I wanted to lose 15 pounds. My choice soundtrack for wallowing in self-pity was, of course, that of Buffalo-hailing songwriter/feminist icon Ani DiFranco. (My unofficial anthem: “Not a Pretty…
Yup, it’s hot out. Don’t even bother trying the beach; your suit will melt and your feet will fuse with the sand. What you really need it an air-conditioned adventure, you need — A mechanical bull. That’s right. Meet the Bud to your Sissy tonight at Tequila Ranch where the…
Sommelier Sven Vogtland of the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale Beach is not the kind of wine spectator who hordes his knowledge – he’s all about enhancing his guests enjoyment of the wine and spirits through education. He can talk for days on the intricacies of rare Highland Scotch, the resurgence of…
The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster nor total triumph. In filming David Hayter and Alex Tse’s adaptation of the most ambitious superhero comic book ever written, director Zack Snyder has managed to address…
Philosophical question: If a play includes a character so annoying that it becomes unwatchable, is it still a good play? This is the question posed, perhaps accidentally, in The Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a characteristically weird romp from Pulitzer-nominated author Sarah Ruhl. In a nondescript café, a shy young woman…
The last time the Miami Heat met the reigning NBA champs, the Boston Celtics, things didn’t turn out so well for D-Wade and crew. The hometown boys were completely manhandled; getting beat up and down the paint by Ray Allen and a much more unlikely hero, former Heat guard Eddie…
Dame Edna Everage is the most notorious drag queen in the Anglo-Saxon world. She’s a hybrid of Lou Dobbs and Ursula (the octopus queen in the Little Mermaid). There are more fake jewels on her dresses than there are grains of sand on a beach, and her trademark cat-eye glasses…
Purim is a Jewish Holiday that commemorates the escape of the Chosen People from annihilation at the hands of the Persian, Haman (“get in line, Haman,” they must’ve said). So what better way to observe Purim than to enjoy all that’s good in life?: namely, booze, smoke, and good friends…
Broward-based filmmaker John Craven first became interested in the stories of South Florida’s homeless when he would film videos for his skate crew, a group of freestyle rollerbladers. “When I would film our skate videos we’d encounter all these homeless people who would want to hang out,” Craven recalls. “Some…
Good news, merfolk: the Marine Industry Association of South Florida’s 32nd Annual Waterway Cleanup hits the waves this Saturday at 9 a.m., asking volunteers to help brighten Florida’s most abundant natural resource at nearly 40 locations across Broward County. Last year’s cleanup had a stellar turnout of over 2000 aqua…
Few celebs can brag that they’ve hit rock bottom like Britney Spears. Her oh-so public breakdown included a scalping, drunken matrimony, and assault with an umbrella. We don’t think that paparazzo was really screaming “Hit me baby one more time,” Brit. Her antics were better suited to some rock star…
It’s been a brutal stretch for the Panthers these last couple weeks. Dates with the Bruins, Rangers, Devils, Caps, and Penguins have tested the mettle of this team and their playoff hopes. The trade deadline is finally behind us, so we can focus on the rest of the season rather…
When Andrew Dice Clay rolled onto the comedy scene in the 1980s, his big mouth and crude attitude matched the decade: all big hair, bad leather jackets, and wild excess. In 2009, the fashion is tamer, but Dice remains largely the same. Clay’s claim to fame is his thick Brooklyn…
“Wait. Do you want to know a secret? About what goes on? It won’t be long. Ask me why. I want to tell you: Beatlemania Now! A rock n’ roll musical. A magical mystery tour. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Strawberry Fields Forever. Yellow Submarine. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…
Stanley Coopersmith didn’t set out to do bad things, he wanted to go unnoticed — or better, to fit in. But his classmates at the academy had other ideas, all of which involved pushing him right against sanity’s edge. What’s a displaced, tormented orphan to do? In the grindhouse jam…
You have to wonder who would have the balls to be in a rockabilly band nowadays, especially in South Florida. Not only do you have to play your heart out, but you also have to lug around that giant ass upright bass in the hot sun on a daily basis…
Bui My Hahn rallies in Vietnam against the misconception that HIV/AIDS is the fault of those stricken; Jacqueline Dembele defends the right of migrant girls in Mali to an education; and in the war ravaged country of Bosnia, Nada Markovic rebuilds relations between Serbs and Bosniaks. The stories of these…
In the land of humorless vanity, the man with at least one joke is King, and that man happens to be Daniel Reskin, brother of Sweat Records owner Lolo Reskin and host of a monthly showcase of Miami comedic talent called Casa de Ha-Ha. Fans of stand-up know that all…
Most Miami Heat fans were hoping that in his quest to land a proven veteran post presence, Pat Riley wouldn’t sacrifice the future before the recent trade deadline. There were reports flying everywhere of Riley’s infatuation with Suns forward Amar’e Stoudemire and his desire to land him at all costs…
If there’s a higher purpose of this nouveau depression, perhaps it’s to inspire us to appreciate the simple pleasures. If so, this Sunday distract yourself from your money woes by frolicking along a beach with a colorful, streaming kite soaring above you in the salty ocean air. And you can…
If you only go to one sketch and improv 10th Anniversary show this year, make it this one. In the long tradition of comedy shows over-hyped with purple sentence after purple sentence culminated by fence post-lines of exclamation points, Just the Funny’s 10th Anniversary Blowout Weekend stands apart! (Because it…
