The holiday season is in full effect, which means there is no shortage of passé retellings of age-old morality lessons disguised as history (queue the manger scene). That is, unless you’re the Rising Action Theatre Company, whose members have taken it upon themselves to spread their own brand of all-inclusive…
It has been roughly two years now, and the monthly Foundation Fridays event has become a staple of weekend life at Respectable Street. Like everything else remotely worth a damn around here, it’s easy to take for granted — and even easier to confuse with the annual Foundation Reunion, the…
When the aliens do invade, will you be ready? Will you bake them a welcome wagon gift or celebrate your Second Amendment rights by stockpiling semi-automatics? Our built-in distrust of change is what made the original version of The Day the Earth Stood Still a cult classic. Our love of…
One of life’s cruelest tricks is that we become hardened with age. For children, everything is fascinating, but as our timeline’s tail stretches, we see only the science behind the magician. Thankfully, there is still one place that lures out our inner ankle-biters with cotton candy and thrills galore, and…
Good things come in small packages. Or so goes the thinking behind “Small Stuff 2,” a droll holiday-season show at Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery in Lauderhill. Everything in the exhibition is no bigger than a sheet of notebook paper, and much of it is considerably smaller, the better…
I hear America singing, and I see… Richard Nixon. Not the man but the muse: Has any president since Lincoln inspired more movies, TV miniseries, and operas? As Nixon’s beetle brows, ski nose, and mirthless grin were made for caricature, so his rampant pathology was a gift for novelists and…
No question about it, Raging Geisha rules! If you don’t believe us, check out the video below. Go see them live, its even better. BTW, drink specials tonight include two-for-one Jaeger shots and $3 Miller Lites: Thu., Dec. 18, 2008…
Before cell phones and internet, there was Bird Bowl. This old-fashioned, Big Lebowski style bowling alley has been open for 52 years. Besides the bowling lanes, there is a billiard room with 18 newly recovered tables, an arcade with tons of video games, and a lounge area with drink specials…
Ever since “Diana: A Celebration” and “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” brought it back from the brink, the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale has struggled against the perception that it has become an institution of artifacts. Even an exhibition of paintings as electrifying as those in “Chicano Visions:…
First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured among its stable of artists Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Etta James, plus many others who birthed…
Nobody in the film industry wants to be pigeonholed. Personal assistants long to be studio heads, gaffers want to direct, and name actors fantasize about hanging it up and doing something that, y’know, matters. In such an environment, director Randall Miller’s career is fairly typical. Using his 1990, feel-good film-school…
On Christmas morning, American families will gather in pajamas around their trees and gleefully open presents. Contrast this wholesome ritual with tonight’s “Hardcore Holiday” at the Fred Lippman Multipurpose Center, where wrestlers in spandex will gather around a Christmas tree and attack each other with gift-wrapped weapons (2030 Polk St.,…
You’ve seen Heinz Award-Winner/International Sculpture Lifetime Achievement Award-Winner Mark di Suvero’s sculpture before. At FIU, outside of the Miami Fed, and in dozens and dozens of places across the USA — sometimes it’s so big, so of a piece with the urban landscapes surrounding it, that you figure it’s something…
Listen up, party people. There’s a principle that governs any event where free or extremely cheap drinks are involved. It’s called the Open Bar Postulate. It states the following: the time frame in which free alcohol is available is in inverse proportion to the drinker’s level of shitfacedness. In other…
For eleven months of the year, South Floridians live in a state of perpetual summer. But every December, something magical happens: We celebrate winter. Or rather, we celebrate what we recall or imagine winter as being. Inject yourself with an added dose of merriment and attend the most Christmassy event…
Ever wonder what it would look like on the set of Three’s Company had the writers flipped the script and offered a little summin-summin to its large gay audience? Maybe Jack Tripper and Larry Dallas would have one too many drinks down at the Regal Beagle and confess that the…
It was a sad day when, on September 26, legendary actor Paul Newman passed away after a devastating bout with lung cancer. Newman was a marvel on the screen — he was nominated eight times for an Academy Award, winning once for The Color of Money, and he’ll be forever…
Maybe when you hear of three rapping New Yorkers spittin’ sounds, the words “beastie” and “boys” come to mind, but this Thursday, it’s time to meet a new trio of sassy tongue-slingers. Mayhem Poets, comprised of three Brooklyn lads, will take to the stage with their mad rhyming skills. Along…
We know there’s a percentage of visiting Art Baselers legitimately there for art. We’re feeling generous, so we¡¯ll guesstimate that elite group of bonafide art lovers at 10 percent. The rest of you yobs are here to look cool, be seen, and party like its 1999, thanks to any number…
Despite being active in the underground scene for over a decade, Of Montreal is best known for selling one of their songs to Outback Steakhouse. For years, every time you turned on the TV or radio, you could hear “Let’s Go Outback Tonight” played ad nauseam. These one-time darlings of…
Good news! If getting strapped down and fed is your favorite fantasy, Dinner in the Sky Events has your hookup. Up to 22 daring diners sit in leather chairs and buckle up before their platform is hoisted by crane about 18 stories. Executive Chef Francois Ternes of Seminole Casino Coconut…
Yeah, it’s the Bobcats again. If you’re still wondering whether Charlotte really does have a team (only since 2004, after the Hornets left), this is your chance to verify it. There’s not much to distinguish the Bobcats these four-plus seasons other than losing aplenty. This season, though they’ve got a…
