The weekend is a sacred fun zone and no bummers whatsoever will be accepted. Therefore, the following things are unconditionally outlawed: 1) Glowstick fists, 2) drunken emo rants about your ex, and 3) dudes in rhinestone dragon tees. Oh, and another note: The idea of carb-counting — or counting of…
What was once a humble event at the Pompano Farmer’s Market in the 1950s has now blossomed into the Bean and Pepper Jamboree, a two-day festival celebrating fresh local produce. The free event will offer food sampling, contests, live music, and even the Miss Bean and Pepper pageant. Find the…
Check out over $15 million worth of art on display during the Las Olas Art Festival Part II, the second half of the twice yearly street fest. Stroll the Boulevard, observing hundreds of paintings, sculptures, photos, glass, wood, jewelry, collage, and ceramics from American artists. Not everything is ultra-expensive either…
Every great athlete needs a nemesis – someone to push the competition, to force each competitor to do their best. For surfing, that great rivalry was between Andy Irons and Kelly Slater. The film A Fly in the Champagne explores the overwhelming tension between the two, and the heights they…
So Carlos Mencia’s humor isn’t exactly for everyone — believe it or not, some people don’t laugh at tossing the word beaner around like it was the latest rendition of smurfy. But there are still others who can appreciate the subtleties of Mencia’s rants. Those A-type individuals should be easily…
There are many similarities between Laurent Cantet’s terrific The Class and any of the following schoolroom chestnuts — Mr. Holland’s Opus, Dangerous Minds, and To Sir, With Love. There are the structural similarities: misbehaving students, an educator who wants them to succeed, and big thoughts about the classroom as urban…
OK, class. Today we examine the work of those two great visual poets of the American Southwest, painter Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Ansel Adams. Compare and contrast among yourselves. No such academic exercise is needed, fortunately. The work — or most of it anyway — has already been done for…
“Shock of the Real” is a lavish look at a movement that more or less came and went nearly half a century ago. Of the roughly 18 artists generally considered to make up the first generation of the movement — including Robert Cottingham, Richard Estes, and Ralph Goings — nearly…
Long before it was the norm for comedians to redefine themselves with dramatic rolls, Robin Williams was getting crap for it. Some people just couldn’t get over that the guy moving them to tears in films like Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, and The Fisher King was the very same guy…
An eloquent bartender named Elliott explains that the building currently occupied by the Hotel Biba was built in 1939, in the “Bermuda vernacular” architectural style, which reminds this writer of a manor house on an especially verdant tropical slave plantation. It probably never occurred to the architect who designed it,…
There’s something about having the two best basketball players in the universe facing off on the same court. The 1970s had Dr. J and George Gervin, the ΄80s Magic and Bird, and the ΄90s gave us Jordan and, well, everyone else. The present day NBA is filled with great players…
If you’re looking for a nice family friendly hypnotism act where a guy in a funny outfit twirls around a wristwatch and makes someone walk across the stage like a chicken, don’t attend Rich Guzzi’s Psycho-Hypnosis show. If instead you would like to see a dozen people performing oral sex…
There are few songs as commanding as “Sweet Georgia Brown.” No matter where you are or who you are, when you hear those mercurial, whistling notes play you’re almost insatiably forced to want to pick up a basketball and roll it over your shoulders from one arm to the other,…
The only certain thing in the current world is that you have questions, but nobody has answers. “What happened to my parents’ retirement fund?” “Why am I working so much harder while my paycheck is shrinking?” And, “Why did they cut the cool soup girl from Top Chef?” In response,…
Alright, alright — in years past we’ve been not-so-kind to the annual Caribbean Festival, known in years past as the Bob Marley Fest. But can you blame us? With previous lineups blending thuggish hip-hop elements and random pop music wonders, some local fans grew skeptical. We’re happy to report that…
By day, Tad Carpenter is a mild mannered designer, crafting creative for companies like Target, Hallmark, and Lee Jeans at the Kansas City branding and design firm for which he works. But by night, Tad Carpenter is: Tad Carpenter, Illustrator Extraordinaire! Watch in disbelief as Tad crafts oddities from the…
For ten years, comedic actor Michael McDonald created and played dozens of characters on the sketch comedy show MADtv. One of his notable recurring characters was Stuart Larkin, a rosy-faced boy who disturbed every person he ran into. Part of the genius of this character was Stuart’s undying urge to…
Look around any given American road, and you’ll notice at least one quarter of the drivers chatting away on their cell phones. You might even spot a truck driver swerving across freeway lanes, text-messaging. Then there are the hands-free zombies, to be found in supermarkets and malls rambling into ear-mounted…
The Rokafonik Philharmonik is certainly no School of Rock. Although the group is composed of all teenage musicians from age 14 to 19, none of them are new to their instruments, nor are they just learning how to play. And according to the group’s conductor, Cliff Wallach Greenberg, these kids…
See if this makes you uncomfortable: Picture Andy Griffith… lovable, huggable, grandfatherly Griffith. Next to him is Liz Sheridan — you may remember her as Jerry Seinfeld’s doting mother Helen on the hit series Seinfeld. The two are floating in a sea of plush pillows on top of a rounded…
When you hear the description “one-man band,” you may conjure up images of an artist on the street corner dressed in an obnoxious suit and top hat. He’s got a guitar in one hand, a giant bass drum strapped to his back, a harmonica dangling from his chin, and a…
Miami’s Art Basel hangover lasts for at least a month or two, and then the natives start getting restless again. And Saturday night’s alright for gallery crawls, but sometimes an art fan just needs more than passé exhibits, thimble-size cups of room temperature wine, and ubiquitous bottles of Grolsch to…
