Not really a threesome (tour manager Nolan McGuire often plays guitar for live shows), Chicago’s Alkaline Trio is nonetheless one of the best purveyors of catchy and thoughtful punk/hardcore at a time when fashion sense and well-applied eyeliner have sadly become the modus operandi of many in the genre. Even…
You’ve already done the preliminary Halloween costume scouting mission. Your store-bought options are limited to: sexy cat, sexy politician, sexy fast food worker, and the dreaded solution to frat-fulfilling fantasies, sexy cop. Such ensembles are cool — if you work as entertainment at bachelor parties. You don’t. Darlin’, you’ve got…
If you’re unfamiliar with Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín, there’s a good reason: His work has not been extensively shown in the United States for more than half a century. “Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín,” now at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt Center Gallery in Boca Raton, goes…
When artist and gallery owner Timothy Leistner slips and characterizes his by-appointment-only display space as “tiny,” he says his friends correct him and say “intimate.” They’re both right. Leistner’s spot in a cozy Dania Beach complex called Canterbury Square is currently host to the small show “Inside Out,” featuring the…
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most of all in cyberspace. Directed with terrific verve by Ridley Scott (coming after the listless American…
Two Thursdays ago, I described the links between one of gaming’s biggest P.R. companies, TriplePoint PR, and a small gaming news and review site founded by TriplePoint’s general manager and founder, Richard Kain (“A Slave of Two Masters,” JoystickDivision.com, September 25). Though the site — GameCyte.com — was set up…
Theater “by women, about women, for everyone.” This is the slogan of the Women’s Theatre Project, and it is as harmless (in a nü-school, inclusive, P.C. kind of way) as it is brainless (would women ever go to a theater that was “by men, about men, for everyone”?). It is…
Over the past decade, Pandora Events has become the top women’s event producers on the East Coast. The hundreds of events they produce every year attract over 20,000 women annually. From South Beach to Atlanta, Orlando to New York and cities in between; their “estrogen only” parties, soirees, shows and…
So you weren’t aware that Sunday night is reggae and soca night at the Catch Restaurant in Weston (2210 Weston Rd.)? Well, then perhaps it’s time to catch up. To be sure, western Broward County has long been a hotbed of Caribbean culture. Here’s one more reason. If you’ve got…
Comic book writer Harvey Pekar is perhaps best known for American Splendor, non sequitur tales from his workaday Cleveland life that were adapted in 2003 into an Oscar-nominated film starring Paul Giamatti. Though never mundane, Pekar’s work is a slice of life. His delivery is blunt and honest — a…
Picture Stitch Bird Workshops as a sort of punk rock take on craft circles: A bunch of highly creative people who’ve taken dusty, nostalgic craftwork and reappropriated it for themselves. At past shows, they’ve wielded that DIY attitude to create durable and fashionable wallets out of plastic grocery bags, turned…
The phrase “support our troops” is one that has become synonymous with the war in Iraq. And it’s a noble and just directive. But what about those who remain at home: the families, friends, and wives of the warriors battling overseas? These people are soldiers in a battle with uncertainty;…
Throughout history, women who push against socially-accepted norms have been persecuted. It’s true from earliest alleged offender (Eve was framed), to current headlines (Hillary’s pantsuits, anyone?). It seems that when two X chromosomes get together and try to move things ahead, the village gets irate. An especially tumultuous time for…
The French have a knack for making anything sound positively charming — take Julie Budet, singer/rapper of Yelle, for instance. Her first major hit single, “Je Veux Te Voir,” is dripping with adorable vocals like a sticky sweet fruit-filled croissant. You wouldn’t suspect the lyrics are actually a jab about…
Singer Bob Hoose may look like somebody’s sleazy uncle on All My Children, ‘80s vintage, but he can sing like Frank Sinatra. Really — he sings a lot like Frank Sinatra, or at least the way Sinatra sang before he pickled his vocal cords in Johnny Walker. This is the…
So what’s the difference between a comedian and a humorist? An NPR tote bag. Case in point: Author and humorist David Sedaris. Whether he’s spotting Judge Judy at a flea market in France, attempting to slay a dragon-sized poo in a public toilet, or teaching college creative writing classes about…
Taking a shot of tequila can give you the type of heady inebriation that one-night stands are made of, and chugging beer from a frosty mug can bring you to your knees — either in front of a toilet or in front of your bedmate. But when you take the…
Sometimes your prayers are for a new pony. Other times they’re for the bank teller to accidentally add a few extra zeros to your deposit. But among the odd requests to the big, omnipotent guy upstairs, changing one’s own sexual orientation still seems to be a prayer that’s most perplexing…
Think you’d have to pay someone lots of money just to touch your ugly ass? Now, thanks to the efforts of some sharp folks behind Spa Week, you can get various professionals to do it for only $50. And they’ll squeeze your nose zits and remove your toe cheese, too,…
Halloween comes and goes faster than a clearance sale at Kmart. In fact, there’s probably a good deal right now on his and hers “spooktacular” vampire outfits — you know, the type that make you look sexy and scary in a Disney Channel sorta way. If you want the real…
There are conflicting views throughout feminist circles on whether high heels represent power or oppression for women. Sure, they can cause cramping, backaches, and the occasional face-first stumble, but heels also signify ownership of societal ideals. By having the strength to not only walk, but strut through your day in…
Olli Jokinen is gone, doomed to suffer in Phoenix after the Panthers traded him for two young defensemen (Keith Ballard and Nick Boynton). The Cats also welcome another stud D-man in Bryan McCabe, acquired from Toronto for Mike Van Ryn. No one is happier about these moves than goalie Tomas…
