It’s not often you think of small boxers — flyweight and featherweights — as knockout kings. Lacking the mass that the big boys do, these hitters owe their successes to supernatural endurance and sound technical ability. But not Cuban boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa. The former Olympic gold medalist has fought and…
The Miami-based duo of Tasha and Monica López De Victoria, better known as the TM Sisters, have already garnered national acclaim for their eclectic art — 2D, video, and interactive pieces that marry an indie aesthetic to an almost retro approach to futurism. But with “Ideal Tonight,” the pair’s first…
The origin of life is a mystery. The best guess was given by a Soviet biochemist, Aleksandr Oparin: he hypothesized that lightning strikes and volcanic eruptions sparked life in “primordial soup.” The 1950s Miller-Urey Experiment lent substantial credence to his theory, but it remains speculative. Esoteric debate continues between the…
Lest you thought the economic crisis meant it was time to start stocking up on dried legumes, here’s a reason for you to cash in that jar of pennies at the bank. The South Beach Food and Wine Festival is here from February 19 to the 22, and if anything,…
Local reggae/breaks/dub artist somejerk is throwing down at PRL this Saturday with the release of his latest album. Stop by the nifty little hole in the wall at 11 p.m., grab a beer from their selection of over 100 import bottles, and listen to tunes from The Substitutes (George Young,…
Sinbad, fresh from a virtual death on Wikipedia, performs today at the Parker Playhouse (707 NE 8th St., Fort Lauderdale). Perhaps you heard: The actor/comedian was in the news again last year. For weeks, the media debated whether Hillary Clinton had actually come under sniper fire on a visit to…
I don’t know if you all have caught on to this, but arts and crafts have been taken back. What once were nostalgic activities most often seen in Better Homes and Gardens such as stitching, needlepoint, and craftmaking have been totally punkified by groovy ladies looking to reclaim their heritage…
Join the Jove, a 5-member troupe of professional actors and comedians, for Black Valentine, a series of sketches, improv acts, comedy bits, and parodies based on everyone’s favorite holiday to hate, Valentine’s Day. Of course, Valentine’s is over, but there’s still plenty of material to cull for laughs. Tickets cost…
Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s The Weir opens at the Palm Beach Dramaworks this weekend, which means you can expect a gritty narrative full of folklore and mystery. In the Weir, a group of men whole up in a tavern, where they exchange ghost stories in an attempt to attract a…
Picture one of the dinner scenes in a classic gangster movie: the macaroni with gravy is being passed around by guys with hands like ham hocks. There’s osso buco, there’s garlic bread, there’s very nearly a deadly fight when someone’s tableside banter doesn’t go over well with the Don. If…
Here’s a good deal: you can help fight Crohn’s Disease and Colitis, and all you have to do is drink some wine. That’s right, Hollywood Vine and Gold Medal Wine Tour are sponsoring “Wine a Little, Cure a Lot,” a blind wine tasting to sponsor the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation…
Party down as Hollywood Beach lights up for the Mardi Gras Fiesta Tropicale & Fat Tuesday celebration. Enjoy good tunes, bitchin’ Creole and Cajun food, and all sorts of fun concessions. There’ll be two main stages packed with acts from Thursday through Fat Tuesday, including performances by the Inner City…
Join U.S. Olympic silver medalist Dara Torres as well and other celebrity athletes as they take a plunge into freezing waters to benefit Special Olympics. The Mullin’s Park Swimming Pool (10000 NW 29 St., Coral Springs) will be filled with icecubes until it reaches a frosty 35 degrees. Swimmers can…
In 1669, English theater houses were still just experimenting with allowing women on stage. Rascally King Charles II had liberalized the country’s theater-licensing policies nine years earlier, but some theaters still employed males only, using boy players in female roles. Playhouse Creatures is an inquiry into the lives of some…
The exhibit “Designing Intelligence? Continuing the Intelligent Design Project” actually begins before you get to the Schmidt Center Gallery. It starts in the long corridor that leads from the building entrance. You’ll find a 120-foot-long banner mounted on the wall, blanketed with splashy, seemingly disconnected imagery, with dozens of phrases…
Tom Tykwer’s The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings, and inconspicuous public spaces (museum galleries are a particular favorite), travel under assumed names, and always glance nervously over their shoulders, fearful of being spied on through a sniper’s lens. Some…
If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray’s Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might make a touching, if not noticeably fresh, romantic drama for tweens. Not that adults don’t nurse unhealthy crushes and regress madly under the pressure of hopeless infatuation, which may be…
“Doing Business As…,” now at the Broward County Main Library’s Gallery Six, might as well be called “Business as Usual…” That’s how tame much of the art is. Fortunately, there are some exceptions. Included in this uneven mix are nearly a dozen South Florida artists identified as graduates of the…
Most everybody has been there: You meet a seemingly-nice person, who in short time becomes your seemingly-nice love interest. Things are going well for a while, but you slowly start to notice things like his affinity for pentagrams, his knack for kicking cute animals, and his undying love for Elizabeth…
Go ahead and let the Brits have Northern Soul. And leave Stax’s back catalog for those rebellious southerners — neither could hold a crocodile loafer next to Motown’s dancetastic acts the Temptations and the Four Tops. Some say there was magic in those old, rickety Motown floorboards; others credit songwriting…
Trade talks have been heating up between Panthers GM Jacques Martin and several teams throughout the league concerning stud defenseman Jay Bouwmeester. The Cats reportedly offered Jay a multiyear deal last summer worth more than $5 million per season, so Martin has every right to believe that the soon-to-be free…
Truth in television and film is not a new concept. Agent Fox Mulder nearly drove himself crazy, insisting “The truth is out there” in the X-Files television show and movies. Comedy Central personality Stephen Colbert is so insistent on finding the truth that he has coined his own phrase for…
