If failed attempts to replicate your favorite confetti-like fried rice takeout only result in a dense pile of tamari-drenched risotto at home, one thing is clear: a Wok Star, you are not. Why not try again and take a recipe card from the pro, self-appointed “Wok Star,” Eleanor Hoh? Hoh’s…
Paw-Paw never wanted to step foot in the suburbs. Those grid blocks with identical yards, each with an SUV parked in front. Paw-Paw never believed that was how folks should live, so why should he have to spend eternity there? In Still the River Runs, Promethean Theatre’s current production, two…
As adults, Halloween is an excuse to cross-dress or emulate a Bourbon Street prostitute without repercussions. This year, The G-Star School of Arts is going all out to scare you into a coma during X-Scream Halloween (2030 S. Congress Ave., West Palm Beach). With four different haunted attractions as well…
To understand the chaotic fervor that is the Red Elvises, you’ve got to take everything you know about surf rockabilly, distill it in an oversized bottle of Stolichnaya, funnel it into the mouths of your favorite polka musicians, and watch the magic unfold. Californians by way of former Soviet states,…
The Ruhr area is the center of Germany’s industrial past; it was a hub of steel, coal, and roughneck miners. After the war, it became a hub of international tensions and a pissed-off working class. Today it’s a hub of technology, culture, and badass music. SITD (shorthand for Shadows in…
Louis C.K. is the Emmy-winning writer of The Chris Rock Show, I Think I Love My Wife, Pootie Tang, and HBO’s Lucky Louie. He draws deeply from his personal life, transforming uncomfortable or taboo subjects into comedy. In his routine, Louis (whose last name is actually Szekely) explores everyday issues…
This damnable recession is really getting in the way of the most important aspect of your life — which is, naturally, your obsession with food. Banks are going under, houses are foreclosing, and you … all you can think about is the next time you’ll be able to snarf some…
He’s been waiting on the couch all day. His nails are freshly trimmed and his stylist gave him a sexy new seasonal do. Why keep your number one wingman, your adorable pooch, on the bench? Tonight you don’t have to. Thanks to Yappy Hour on Las Olas, your furriest companion…
Dolphins linebacker Brian Cox once famously walked into Buffalo’s Ralph Wilson Stadium while giving the finger to Bills fans as they hurled boos and flying objects towards him. The battles between Hall of Fame quarterbacks Dan Marino and Jim Kelly are legendary. And both teams were the pride of the…
It’s rare nowadays that you go to a rock show and suddenly, irresistibly, you get the urge to dance. But that’s exactly what goes down at a Faint show: Todd Fink and company warm up the synths, roll off the stage into some chunky baselines, and, before you know it,…
Haunted houses have a large order to fill, namely because it takes talent and careful planning to scare the crap out patrons who are so obviously waiting for exactly that thing. But there’s a tried-and-true formula that certifiably screams suspense. The answer: clowns. Also: carnivals. Also: sausage. All very creepy…
On one end of the wrestling spectrum is the spectacle of your typical WWE match, with Armageddon choreographed like a hair metal video. Then there’s the ER-filling backyard jump-off-the-garage crap that the neighbor kids are always pulling. Somewhere in the middle stands independent semipro wrestling. Wrasslin’, you might call it,…
Whether you’ve spent moments or months creating your Halloween outfit, you want to wear it to the best party possible. The ideal event would let you roam with friends, but still talk to strangers. It would block off traffic so that you can safely stumble drunkenly from one beer stand…
Being a hardcore gamer is not the best hobby for folks looking to improve their social skills. Spending hours on the couch with a controller in hand and headset strapped may be nirvana to some, but whether it really increases your human interaction experience points is highly debatable. That’s part…
At Soultech, DJs Andres Amadeus, Maurizio, and Danyelino spin deep house on the regular — revealing what they call “Miami’s minimalist yet soulful side.” Meanwhile, Davide Danese and Mattia Mazzega — hosts to this poolside shindig — are working hard to bring so-fly SoFla international sound-makers to amp their cred…
Politics is always confusing, and in dangerous times, it’s probably better to be knowledgeably cynical than gaily ignorant. All by itself, Jason Pollock’s The Youngest Candidate ought to be enough to douse the fire of youthful idealism, at least when it comes to electoral politics. In fact, the film is…
You probably don’t know photographer Eddie Adams, though you know his work. His most famous picture is the one of South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan blowing out the brains of captive Vietcong Nguyen Van Lem on the third day of the Tet Offensive. That picture won Adams a Pulitzer…
Filmmakers and novelists love to talk about American insularity and blundering naiveté. You know, that distinctive and ultimately insidious impulse to do good while making a profit — a course that, witness the hapless characters in Coyote, invariably seems to create havoc. Steve and J. (Brian Petersen and Brett Spackman,…
For anybody who has tried to ride the often-blown-out waves of the Sunshine State, the glassy and perfectly rolling Australian surf in Newcastle is simply stunning. But while there’s talk about surf contest and national champions, Newcastle is a teen drama, a road-trip film that you know will go wrong…
The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival opened officially on October 17 — over 200 films in 29 days at three separate venues (Cinema Paradiso, AMC Coral Ridge, and the Miniaci Performing Arts Center). New Times reviews some notable entries, including the Southeast premiere of the opening night film, Coyote, and…
Are political cartoons art? As the title implies, “Art of Politics: Drawings & Paintings,” now at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, takes the answer to that question for granted. The show features dozens of works by Jim Morin, who in his 30 years with the Miami Herald has racked…
Oliver Stone’s W. may be less frenzied than his typical sensory bombardment. But in revisiting the early ’00s by way of the late ’60s, this psycho-historical portrait of George W. Bush has all the queasy appeal of a strychnine-laced acid flashback. Hideous re-creations of the shock-and-awful recent past merge with…
