It’s hard to believe, but there used to be actual tea served at tea dances. Well-appointed ladies and gents would gather on Sundays after church and do wholesome little dances like the minuet or the gavotte, drinking Earl Grey and chattering into the evening. But then the gays came along…
There’s a propensity among fans of the Grateful Dead to trade in bootlegs of the jam band’s finest live performances, speaking about certain dates and venues as if they were canon. One such performance is the Dead’s stop at Cornell University in May of 1977, often lauded as one of…
Wait no more all ye art fanatics, for this weekend over 100 high-end artists from around the world will hawk their wares once again at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale’s National Art Festival. Sure, the festival ducked out for a while, but hey — so do we when we…
This is South Florida, home of Chevy’s riding high; but you ain’t a real big timer until you’re sittin’ on 66-inch tires and have 1475 horsepower pumping out of a 540 Merlin engine. That’s Gravedigger, the most famous monster truck in the world. And you can see it live at…
The Super Bowl takes place tomorrow, and although the competitors have already been decided, you’ve yet to make a decision on one crucial element: which beer will hold the marquee spot at your watch party. There are just so many fantastic brews out there to choose from; you thought about…
Hyperrealism is a form of art that uses exacting, realistic detail to make a comment. In the case of sculpture by Duane Hanson, it’s used to create a nebulous narrative, a quiet context, and an everyman truth. Hanson’s bronze sculptures, painted and adorned with life-like precision, are unsettling glimpses into…
Blockbusters, megaplexes, and gargantuan vats of butter-soaked popcorn have turned the cinema experience from a cozy cultural outing to a journey into the belly of the beast. (An economical beast without a soul, that is.) The theatres and festivals which dare to display the reels that can’t score the hundred…
Most people know Vincent Van Gogh as the artist malcontent — a guy who was a couple stars short of a starry night, who lopped off his own ear in a fit of the crazies. But the real Vincent was infinitely more complex than that. Nobody knew this better than…
One whiff of Limburger cheese and you were convinced your sense of smell was one you could’ve done without. And during one seemingly endless NPR pledge marathon, you decided hearing could be overrated. But taste… that you’d trade all other perfectly good senses in order to hold onto. Treat your…
Most pubs you crawl into to watch the Big Game will have beer specials galore: you’ll get all-you-can-piss-out Buds for $1 or Miller 64 specials with the Hydroxycut already mixed in. But can you find a place showing the game with good beer? That’s a tougher call. Pop into Ye…
If you’re looking for some ladies who enjoy a game of pigskin as much as the next gal, check out the Super Bowl party going down at New Moon. The femme-centric bar will have multiple six-by-nine-foot screens plus a cornucopia of other big TVs around the bar to view the…
Unless you’re an actual Pittsburgh Steelers or Arizona Cardinals fan (no you’re not, there are only two of them) chances are you’ve had the blues this postseason. All the more reason you should watch the Big Game in a real blues bar with people who understand your ache. Alligator Alley…
You’ve found yourself in a dilemma: you want to get your lazy butt out of the house for the Super Bowl, but you don’t want to miss the creature comforts of home. Here’s a compromise: The Ritz-Carlton on Fort Lauderdale Beach is offering a Super Bowl special on its private,…
Sometimes it might seem like NFL players tower over mortal men, looking down and laughing at us “small folk.” Really: these guys are huge. But only once you’ve seen them on the 30-by-40-foot screen at Cinema Paradiso have you really experienced their largess to the fullest. Tonight, Paradiso is hosting…
Looking for a cool joint where your hard-earned Super Bowl bucks will go the furthest? Check out South Shores Tavern’s Super Bowl party, which features a host of flaggable deals: All day long, get $10 longneck buckets, $1 drafts (One Dollar!) and $1 Hot Dogs, and $.30 chicken wings. From…
Rosey Baby’s Crawfish and Cajun House is hosting a Super Bowl BBQ Sunday night starting at 6 p.m. The Babe will have an all-you-can-eat BBQ buffet spread out for just $14.99 per person, or $5.99 per little’un. What you’ll get: Ribs, chicken, pork, chicken wings, potato salad, Cole slaw, and…
It’s no secret the economy is sputtering like an engine in dire need of a tune up. Once-vibrant downtown areas are floundering, especially on weekdays when turnout is low. It wasn’t that long ago when Downtown Lake Worth was feeling that pinch. But if you head to down on a…
Culturally speaking, “Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited” is so 15 minutes ago. It’s a lavish look at photorealism, a movement that more or less came and went nearly half a century ago. Influential critic and historian Edward Lucie-Smith called it “a briefly fashionable movement” that “has lost nearly all…
Coming upon “Leo Stitsky: Arte Facts,” a small installation tucked away in a back corner of the Coral Springs Museum of Art, is sort of like stumbling unexpectedly across a natural-history exhibit. The items on display have the fascinating feel of ancient objects retrieved from an archaeological dig. The Miami-born…
Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn lately in the movies, it’s swastika flags and SS uniforms. Although the Holocaust movie has been on hiatus for a while, lately it seems as if everyone is trying to squeeze in his…
Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the first film George Tillman Jr. has directed since 2000’s Men of Honor, about a sharecropper’s son who becomes the first black diver in the Navy who becomes the first amputee to return to…
The young Hannah Arendt, who would go on to become one of last century’s most brilliant political theorists, was the star pupil of phenomenologist Martin Heidegger in mid-1920s Germany. When Arendt was still a teenager, they began a romantic relationship that endured, in secret, until secular Jew Arendt fled the…
