Life is Better Down Where It’s Wetter

Take another trip with Howard Hall, Toni Myers, and Graeme Ferguson, the production team behind IMAX’s Deep Sea 3D as they explore some of the most extraordinary marine life ever shot on film. Under the Sea 3D continues the journey in the South Pacific, filming the rare Stonefish, the Leafy…

Super Retardo

Comedian Mitch Fatel is bringing his crime-fighting persona, Super Retardo, to the West Palm Beach Improv at City Place Thursday through Sunday. The former Howard Stern Show intern has appeared regularly on the Late Night with Conan O’Brian, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Late Show with Dave…

An Architect of His Own Fortune

As a seedling, South Florida photographer Robert Giordano wanted little more than to be a well-known architect when he reached adulthood. Then high school hit and the structural framing of architecture gave way to the natural framework of the photograph. The two paths would battle again in college when Giordano…

Malts & Crafts

It wasn’t too long ago that it was rare to find a good selection of craft and microbrewed beer at your average South Florida bar or restaurant. But these days, craft breweries — small, independent beer makers producing with traditional methods — are making a run on Florida like it…

Guys as Dolls

Lips sashays around your Broadway faves as part of Art Explosion. Drag and Broadway have oh so much in common, don’t they? There’s the all that make up, the fabulous flowing gowns, and the way participants and spectators alike have a knack for getting hyper-dramatic and clapping a lot. There’s…

Richard Cortez’s New Glam Folk

If you were queer, male, and 15 at the end of 2003, you already know who Richard Cortez is. He was the teenaged song stylist with the abs of a god, the voice of Rufus Wainright’s basso-profundo older brother, and the schnoz of a Caesar. He was everywhere then, singing…

Tom Goes to Revolution

A large portion of you reading this will have no idea who Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are. The rest of you, however, probably exist in an underslept, overcaffeinated, slightly feverish state — which is the best way to take in the altered reality of Tim and Eric Awesome Show,…

Monet and Courbet Make An Impression

A bunch of ragtag artists in Paris, including Monet and Renoir, overthrew aesthetics and invented Impressionism. They dared to dab their paintbrushes. France’s establishment was unimpressed. Art critics panned the Impressionists’ first gallery opening in Paris in 1874 — the term “impressionism” was actually an epithet coined by one such…

Step Up to the Table

“In the U.S., table tennis isn’t really considered a sport by many people,” says Carlos Zeller, one of the volunteers that collectively run the Broward Table Tennis Club, a non-profit, public center devoted to a game more commonly known as ping pong. “People think that it’s something you only play…

“Faire” Ye Well

Maybe you’re used to seeing those strange characters the Florida Renaissance Festival attracts annually — rednecks who conjure up King Arthur accents, fairies with nose piercings, pirates wearing running shoes, and ladies in corsets so tight that their cleavage serves as a resting place for their beers. But this year’s…

To the Victor Go the Spoils

Your average battle-of-the-bands event usually ends with some group getting the equivalent of a decent night working behind the bar. But at the Groove On Battle of the Bands at Gulfstream Park, the lucky winner will fly all expenses paid to New York City to play Live Nation’s Know Music…

Small Band, Big Sound

Miami based female indie duo Steph Taylor and the State Of are rockin’ the two-story house-turned-restaurant/pub DaDa Friday night at 11. Expect to see two girls sitting side-by-side, framed by the rather large instruments they play, piano and drums. But don’t expect the percussive equivalent of an acoustic show —…

Grindhouse Gory Days

When the Grindhouse flicks of the 1970s morphed into direct-to-video releases in the ΄80s, some of their charm was lost. Instead of the musky theater filled with rickety seats and sticky floors, movie buffs were able to enjoy their campy delights on their own smelly couch. Now with the digital…

Wild Wild, West

He traversed the galaxy as the unfrozen, 20th century layman Phillip J. Fry and his faithful companions, Dr. Zoidberg and Professor Farnsworth. He amassed an impressive collection of nose goblins as the lovable cat Ren Höek, and screamed “You eediot!” at himself, essentially, as Ren’s bosom buddy, Stimpson J. Cat…

We Don’t Need Another Gyro

Your mouth is watering just thinking about it: Thin shavings of beautifully caramelized gyro meat finding comfort inside a warm, pillowy pita. Chunks of marinated lamb and pork souvlaki, charring as they rotate over open coals. The generous pouring of anise-flavored Ouzo and Greek wine, congregating with all the food…

To Trade or Not To Trade

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…

“It Was This Big!”

You stand firm where lesser fishermen buckle. Your poise behind a rod and reel is worthy of rendition through chiseled sculpture. And your tackle skills? Why, they’re the stuff of champions. You sir, are a Master Baiter. Prove it to the world this weekend at the 44th Annual Billfish Tournament…

Boom! Goes the Art

ArtExplosion — the largest gay and lesbian juried art festival in the south east — kicks off on February 7 and runs through the 21. “Over 100 original works of art will be on display in the JM Family Enterprises Gallery from February 2 through 27, 2009. “The Opening Night…

Artbeat

Leave it to Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery, the funky little lowbrow display space upstairs at Tate’s Comics in Lauderhill, to come up with an exhibition theme as clever as it is gimmicky. For “Three of a Kind,” two dozen or so artists, most based locally, were invited to…

Kicking Nixon

I don’t think anyone can explain the point of Frost/Nixon — the play or the movie. That goes as well for playwright Peter Morgan, who apparently believes that a play about a disgraced president squaring off against a marginal TV personality is so novel, such a smashing good idea, that…

Reading Rainbow

Brendan “Kids’ Choice” Fraser returns to the multiplex daycare as “Mo” Folchart: an antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer. In Inkheart’s opening chapter, he’s identified as a member of a race of “Silvertongues” — those who, when they read aloud, can suck people out of and into the texts they’re reciting from. Mo has abstained…

Artbeat

The trouble with too many watercolor exhibitions is that they’re so, well, nice. You know — oh-so-tasteful florals, kids and kittens, quaint landscapes. It’s all so… expected. “Florida Focus: Gold Coast Watercolor Society,” now on view in the gallery at ArtServe, has its share of the expected, especially in the…