Everyone in South Beach knows the gayest grocery store is the Publix on West Avenue (1920 West Ave., Miami Beach). Yes, gays also like Epicure, but that place is crazy expensive! The West Avenue Publix has been adopted both for its wine selection (two aisles!) and for the fact that…
Flores de rojo, Flores de azul, If you’re anywhere near Weston, Read your poems en Espańol. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, Broward County Library has scheduled a multitude of events for all ages, from visiting authors and art exhibits to family Salsa lessons. As part of their adult program…
It was more than just another weekly New York party; Squeezebox! was an institution. The deliciously seedy party-slash-rock concert raged from the late ‘90s to early 2001. It was populated by celebrities of every sexual orientation and persuasion. To give you a feel for how things went down, know this:…
Pablo Picasso and Carlos Luna have little to do with each other. Sure, Spanish was a first language for both of them; Picasso half-invented Cubism, and Luna has at least a passing interest in the form. They were born in different centuries, but the work of both seems to belong…
Have you ever had an instance that was so 2008 that no dictionary-approved word could quite capture it? Language is changing faster than we can approve/disapprove words on UrbanDictionary.com. That’s why Daily Candy — the e-mail service geared toward women – has decided to create its own compendium. The Daily…
Your faith in your neighbors is restored every October. That’s when the folks you’d least expect to see reppin’ a pink ribbon show up wearing one to rock concerts, work, and school. It’s great that Breast Cancer Awareness Month has so many opportunities for the community to get involved, but…
Do you like a side of angry fidgeting and doomsaying with your stand-up? If stroke-hand gesticulating and quivering jowls are your thing, be there when Lewis Black brings his high blood pressure curmudgeonry today to the Kravis Center (701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach). The star of Comedy Central’s The…
Let’s say you’re a South Florida parent casting about for a school of higher education for your artsy-fartsy teen. The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale comes immediately to mind, right? Well, not so fast. A swing through the Art Institute’s current “31st Annual Faculty Art Exhibition” might give you pause…
There’s a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy issues — fucking in a cramped airplane bathroom, on a barnyard’s itchy haystack, in a grimy toilet stall, in a hospital chapel even…
On some level, you’ve got to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put together the financing for a three-hour war movie lacking any marquee names and performed largely in Italian and German with English subtitles. Spielberg…
The photographs of Alex Heria have an eerie quietness that’s sometimes at odds with the means of their creation. Take the triptychs from a series called “Roadside Gardens,” whose prosaic names belie their beauty: I-75 North, Northern Georgia, for instance, or I-195 East, Wilma Staging Area. Heria parked himself and…
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed reality-TV producer from the bedroom community of Altadena. During the jury-selection process, when the judge asked if we had any…
August Wilson, in case you’re not a fan or happened to miss the obits in 2005, was a half-black, half-white American playwright who, in a scattershot way, attempted and completed one of the most ambitious projects in the history of American theater. That project was “The Pittsburgh Cycle,” a series…
Honestly: Would we Americans actually notice if our votes ceased to matter? According to director Dorothy Fadiman, this isn’t even a hypothetical — they don’t, and we didn’t. Stealing America: Vote by Vote is a new agitprop documentary detailing the ways the powers that be have driven certain minorities from…
This election cycle has been particularly “big top” in execution. From moose burgers to knuckle bumps, it seems that inconsequential data is chomping up most of the media waves, while genuine issues get buried in less sexy plutocracy. That’s why the world needs cartoonist Jim Morin. For the last 30…
You can tell whether someone is an optimist or a pessimist by the way he reacts to Wednesdays. The pessimist drags himself into the office, plops down, and bitches about how far away the weekend is. Everyone around him puts on their headphones. For the optimist, Wednesdays are just splendid…
Just last week, the winningest cyclist in the history of the Tour De France, Lance Armstrong, announced he would be coming out of retirement for the 2009 season. His return to the sport that he dominated from 1999 to 2005 is based on two things: One, that he’s been disappointed…
Scientists take joy and beauty from the little things — literally. Just ask Julie Davidow, the frustrated scientist behind Hollywood Art and Culture Center’s (1650 Harrison St., Hollywood) current jewel, “The New Strain.” At first glance, you might see abstract lines and colors arranged all willy nilly, but after you…
If there’s one group of people that South Floridians have grown accustomed to it’s New Yorkers. Being the retirement capital of the world brings us our fair share of kvetchers in the supermarket, pushy drivers who always seem ready to lay on their horns when you slow down for a…
Move over, Laser-Floyd, there’s a new sensory overload in town: IMAX. If forty-eight-hundred square feet of mind-blowing color and a mega-decibels audio track sounds like fun, listen up. In the new AMEX Explore India Film Festival running through October, the majestic country of India gets the IMAX treatment. You’ll soar…
OK, we’ve got to vent about something right quick: This two-broadcast-NFL-games-per-Sunday-afternoon bullshit has got to go. Thanks to boneheaded programming decisions, when a Dolphins game is on CBS, we South Floridians get nothing on Fox. And when a game is on Fox afterwards, CBS usually switches to golf or tennis…
According to its slogan, Georgie’s Alibi (2266 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors) is always “the right time at the right place,” but few probably cash that in at 10 a.m. On Saturday, however, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. is the right time to be there for some canine camaraderie and pooch…
