Buying produce in the supermarket has become more and more of a drag lately. Take a supermarket tomato, for example: even the best looking in the bunch are usually as flavorless as they are over-firm. Then there’s the hot peppers, which are almost always laced with fuzz and mold around…
Huge hair, ludicrous nicknames, and scripted trash talk have become the strange trademarks of boxing in America. For haters, these are the signs of decline. Meanwhile, for fans raised on pro wrestling and tabloids, today’s game is a perfect mix of prizefighting and freak show. It’s a rift that can…
The downer French philosopher E.M Cioran once remarked that Western civilization has become a mass of listless people, wedged between lonely billionaires and the homeless. That’s something to keep in mind during Sex Drugs Rock & Roll by Eric Bogosian, a new production at Fort Lauderdale’s Sol Theatre that has…
There are likely to be plenty of folks out there without a date tonight at all. And that’s OK — just head to Seminole Paradise for the largest Valentine’s Day Singles Party in South Florida. There will be a dating game, along with a bachelor/bachelorette auction, plenty of dancing, and…
If you’re thinking about buying your love some Valentine’s Day bling, you’ll want to check out the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show going down through February 17 at the Palm Beach Convention Center (650 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach). Today at 3 p.m., design director for ultra-exclusive…
Crowded restaurants, packed nightclubs — what’s a couple gotta do to get some privacy? Well, if you’ve got the coin, you could always reserve a private ocean-side cabana at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale (found at 1 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd.). For $450 a couple, you get your own slice…
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 Valentine’s Fetish Ball, sponsored by…
Whether you believe it’s a made-up holiday manufactured by the greeting card industry or your once-a-year chance at getting lucky, Valentine’s Day is upon us, folks. Which means it’s time to put down the Xbox controller, slip into your best threads, and whisk up your sweetheart for a night on…
Here’s a secret, gentlemen: Being a sensitive guy doesn’t just mean you’re willing to spend the night watching heavy-handed chick-flicks. Sometimes, it’s being the kind of dude who enjoys seeing four femme-fronted bands who can rock a crowd like nobody’s business, testosterone be damned. The Freakin’ Hott, Mad as Birds,…
When it comes to “things one wants to avoid on Friday the 13th,” wrestling a guy named Homicide is probably right at the top of the list. But then again, if you are fighting Homicide on Friday, February 13, that means you’re likely Pro Wrestling Fusion champion the Sheik (who…
There’s a mysterious, irresistible force present in garlic — one that commands you to savor its pungent aromas lustfully, no matter the odiferous penalty to be paid later. It’s a good thing, then, that at Delray Beach’s Tenth Annual Garlic Fest you will be surrounded by hundreds of other people…
Valentine’s Day is here again. The pink hearts, the chalky candy, the love stinking up the air — it’s enough to make you want to go on a rampage. J. Vinazza and Dawn Dubriel know the feeling. That’s why for this month’s installment of Auteur Explosion, the monthly gathering of…
The words “Friday the 13th” conjure up images of dudes in hockey masks, running around and cleaving promiscuous teenagers in twain with their giant machetes. Tonight is Friday, February 13, and although said promiscuous youth will likely get to keep their nubile limbs intact, there will be dudes running around…
It isn’t that comedian Ralphie May is racially insensitive; he’s just a man who loves excess. Sure, other funnymen might be content adding a hint of “white people sure are silly dancers!” or a dash of “black people sure do dress well!” to their shticks, but not Ralphie. His set…
Actor Chazz Palminteri’s father always told him: “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” He even wrote it down for his baby boy to hold onto. Later, when Palminteri got fired from his job as a club doorman and was down to his last $187, he went to his…
If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick’s 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in which the bored, blue-haired 11-year-old of the title (voiced by Dakota Fanning) travels through the looking glass and ends up in a world that strangely resembles her own —…
The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock is like an old Appalachian ballad — like one of the mountain songs captured in the 1930s by Alan Lomax and played by Dylan, full of lust, damnation, magic, and death. It is set in the immediate wake of the Civil War in the mountains…
The smirky, overbearing, and subliminally hostile romantic primer He’s Just Not That Into You — which sold a regrettable 2 million copies when it was published in 2004 — seizes on some partial truths about the gender wars and blows them up into evolutionary gospel, as follows: Since cave-dwelling times,…
For a while, it seemed as if the feisty Charlotte Bobcats just flat-out had the Miami Heat’s number. The Cats had taken down the Heat six times in their previous eight meetings, including a 100-97 win over Miami back in November. So when Charlotte came to town last December, it…
A wise man once asked, “If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?” We say, because love fades; crotchless panties lose only their elastic. And since Victoria and Frederick have the shopping mall market on lock, hit the uber-luxurious Vizcaya Museum and Gardens and witness the first couture undies…
You’ve surely heard the theory that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, and considering that Mars is an unpredictable planet that spouts juices at the most inopportune moments, and Venus is named for the Roman goddess of love, it kinda makes sense. The battle of the sexes…
The Panthers are currently just two points out of a playoff spot, which is a classic case of good news/bad news for GM Jacques Martin. Obviously, the goal is to win the Stanley Cup this year, and the best way to do that is to go out and pick up…
