Waxy O’Conner’s South Beach will be hosting a series of celebrity chef beer dinners, pairing great food with strong beer, starting on January 21. Cindy Hutson, the talented, bandana-ed chef/owner of Coral Gables’ Ortanique on the Mile will host the first event. Take a gander at this menu: Sierra Nevada…
Richard Lewis, star of Curb Your Enthusiasm and veteran stand up, will be hitting the Palm Beach Improv this weekend for a three-night stint. “The NY Post recently said; ‘Richard Lewis built the strongest stand-up comedy career on a blazing trail of neuroses since Woody Allen.’ He’s taken his lifelong…
Chistopher Plummer stars in Wind Across the Everglades, a seminal film about environmental protection and poaching that also happens to include Seminoles. Members of the tribe will be in attendance. The film follows the fashion “feather craze” that destroyed much of the wild bird population in South Florida during the…
When the closest you’ve been to wide-open spaces is little more than the nature screensaver montage that plays when your computer enters sleep mode, it’s time to unplug and step outside. Take root in the great outdoors and revisit the masters of American landscape with “Natural Affinities” this week. The…
Don your widest bell-bottoms Tuesday night and take a chance on Mamma Mia!, the lighthearted comedy-cum-musical that manages to squeeze 24 ABBA songs inside an original plot without changing a single lyric. As you unabashedly belt out your favorite tunes, like “Waterloo,” “Dancing Queen,” and “Take a Chance on Me,”…
Every icon has their niche: John Lennon had love. Marilyn Monroe had her skirt. But when it comes to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, things get blurry. Some folks sport Che’s infamous, two-tone visage on their T-shirts as a symbol of free-thinking rebellion. Others — mostly those who read history books —…
For years, people have found that their sorrows are best drowned in a mixture that is one part liquor, one part twangy, sappy country music. Although that game plan has never let anyone down — ever — let me submit another suitable substrate in which to drown woes: chili. Think…
The French philosopher Descartes once argued that life may all just be a dream we haven’t woken from yet. If that was true, then wouldn’t it be more of a nightmare? Is our idea of a dream sitting in I-95 traffic or working a nine-to-five job? Maybe our dreams just…
Any punk worth his weight in safety pins knows The Ramones are the king of all punk bands. Unfortunately, only one of the four original members is still kicking it above ground. Whether you missed them live in the ’70s, or you weren’t around back then, you can still experience…
Levitation, vanishings, and escapism: There’s no telling what hocus-pocus David Copperfield will conjure up next. His Intimate Evening show, going down Saturday and Sunday at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, promises to jolt your imagination by melding dreams with reality through the magic of illusion. Copperfield’s realm is…
When it comes to South Florida, there is an abundance of two things: sun and water. The Girls’ Club will capitalize on Mother Nature’s freebies by teaching artists how to save money, save the Earth, and save their health. Jan Johnson, an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Broward College…
Florida has some strange bottling laws that basically prohibit brewpubs from selling their specialty beers anywhere but in house. As a result, the only way you can usually get locally crafted beer is going down to those restaurants and ordering a pint. Well, that changes today, beer fans. The Third…
Finding cool local art, music, and film in South Florida is sort of like scrounging through vinyl at the local record store — the rare, soulful shit is definitely out there, provided you know which dusty bin to look in. Well, thanks to Auteur Explosion, a new monthly rocking the…
What if you could turn a short walk into a journey, with each step revealing more about the universe in which you dwell? How far would you go? How much would you desire to learn? The egg heads at the South Florida Science Museum must like you. They’ve brought in…
600-pound wrestler Maximum Capacity is a sight to behold: He’s a mammoth of a man, towering tall and wide above his already large opponents. The hair on his head is shaved into a wide Mohawk, tracing down into a wispy mullet. He wears a menacing grimace, buttressed by an imposing…
What will our joketellers amuse us with once the malapropism-spewing C-student we’ve had as our President for eight years is finally out the door? A general survey of the acts at the South Beach Comedy Festival, that began on Wednesday January 21 and ends Saturday with a cavalcade of stars,…
For those of you who may have seen the billboards around town and wondered aloud, “wasn’t Cirque du Soleil here like a month ago?”, here’s the good news: you’re not crazy. The arguably most famous avant-garde acrobatic troupe just completed a run in downtown Miami, c’est vrai. And now a…
Forget about Texas Hold-Em or Omaha High Low; series card players know that it takes real strategery to play Magic the Gathering. The ever-expanding collectible card game, which pits two or more opponents against each other with the ability to cast spells and animate monsters, has been through countless iterations…
Got a taste for the good stuff? Join Hollywood Vine as they host a Scotch Whiskey sampling by Artisan Brands, distributor of the largest single malt collection in South Florida. Taste selections from the four major producing regions in Scotland, and learn about what makes the golden stuff peaty, mossy,…
Some think of it as nothing more than a glorified strut down an empty walkway, but a closer look reveals that fashion shows are pure theatrics. From the perfectly sculptured figures — also known as “models” — down to the clock which times each entrance and every wardrobe change, it’s…
Throughout South Florida calf muscles quiver. These naked lower legs are just one casualty of the impending WAKA Kickball season. As adults clamor to reclaim their favorite recess sport, local merchants face a tragic shortage of tube socks, Dixie cups (for Jell-O shots), and ironic sweatbands of every hue. FEMA…
The last time they faced the Los Angeles Clippers, the Miami Heat fell to the league’s bottom dwellers by a score of 97-96. A one-point loss to one of the worst teams in basketball is never easy to swallow, especially when the loss comes courtesy of an inadvertent whistle from…
