Visiting “I Shot Warhol Wesselmann Lichtenstein Rosenquist and Indiana” is sort of like flipping through a friend’s personal photo albums — if your friend has also been friends with some of the top names in pop art. The exhibition, now winding down at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, includes…
In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome.” So wrote Hunter S. Thompson of the Hell’s Angels after riding with California’s motor-psycho Mongol hordes in the mid-1960s, a feat of embedded journalism that left…
In the 25 years or so I’ve been playing games, never once have I encountered an earnest conversation about what a game means. You see every other sort of discussion — people talking about how a game looks, or how it plays, how long or short or difficult or easy…
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads… prepare yourself… thrillers and spy novels. Or at least that’s the only conclusion one can draw from the “Story by” credit the comedian receives on Traitor, an uneven yet engrossing…
Those Olympic athletes may have earned medals for their superhuman feats, but let me ask you this: Can they beat Cashetta, South Florida’s most prolific drag magician and entertainer, in a game of Wii Bowling? And with one hand tied up with a cocktail? Unlikely! But you, my friend… you…
Le sigh. Coffee District (325 NE 2nd Ave) is the kind of place that had to be in Delray, isn’t it? Of course it is. An artsy café with simultaneous hippie and modernist pretensions, good coffee, lovely paninis, a quirky wine list, over 80 microbrews, and nightly performance art? Shit,…
One of the first things they teach in science is that stuff is made out of other stuff, or rather, the more you break things down, the more things you find to break down further. Take a rock, for example: Rocks are composed of one or more minerals. Some rocks…
With the likes of the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies propping it up, and the Washington Nationals guaranteed to crawl under the house and die, the National League East was destined to be a two-tier division this year. The pleasant surprise is that the Marlins have joined the upper…
With better costumes than any porn film, more gripping suspense than Fatal Attraction, and perhaps even racier sex scenes than that infamous HBO series (you know which one we mean) is the little French import, The Last Mistress. Directed by the ever-controversial Catherine Breillat, this tale follows a destitute rascal…
Bragging rights mean an awful lot. To earn them, you might train vigorously in your spare time, shooting as many free throws as your arms can handle, running hundreds of laps around the track, and stuffing your belly with meatballs nearly to the point of rupture. Wait a second… Stuffing…
In need of a good cry? Got a lot of pent-up emotions? You’re in luck! When Did You Last See Your Father? is playing all this week at the Lake Worth Playhouse (713 Lake Ave., Lake Worth). The film is an adaptation of an autobiographical novel of the same name,…
You know him as one of the greatest actors of all time, but aside from his roles in A Streetcar Named Desire, Apocalypse Now, and the Godfather, you’d be hard-pressed to come up with facts about Marlon Brando’s life. For background on the man as a father, husband, and lover,…
Sunday afternoon wet T-shirt contests at Shooters, last call at Blondies, and Anybar on Harrison St. are all great places to hook up with the opposite sex (as long you don’t want to see them again). But what if “the opposite sex” isn’t your target? Women who like women consider…
Imagine: It’s a distant and strange future, and party people are preparing to go out for an evening of nostalgia. They put on their baggy Sean John jeans, pulled down past their ass to expose their Old Navy boxers, or choose one of their six, nearly identical Coach handbags before…
No decade sparked more one-hit wonders then the ’80s. It was the generation where unknown artists could become rock stars over night with the help of some catchy synthesizer effects and a poorly shot MTV video. Despite falling off the planet, these bands, their songs, and their obnoxious hairstyles still…
A pattern has developed: Each time you’re given the precious gift of a three-day weekend, you ruin it. You don’t intend to self-destruct any more than Lennie meant to hurt those bunnies in Of Mice and Men; you simply get so excited that you can’t recognize limits. By Sunday —…
Jim Florentine is what you might call an OG crank caller. Aside from voicing the characters Bobby Fletcher and the completely obnoxious Special Ed on Comedy Central’s now-defunct Crank Yankers, the New Jersey born funny man has released four (count ’em, four) comedy CDs of him goofing on telemarketers. Florentine’s…
In Hawaiian mythology, it is believed that volcanic eruptions are caused not by tectonic plate activity but by Hawaiian goddess of fire Pele, who stomps her feet and digs Pa’oe, her magic stick, under the earth until a fiery eruption occurs. To keep Pele at bay, legend suggests offerings must…
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! will be the campiest spectacle to hit America in 2008 — rivaled only by David Hasselhoff’s looming TV talent show. It’s the long-awaited follow-up to Another Gay Movie, in which four gay boys made a pact to lose their virginity before graduation. Though a…
When the first Sheila Witkin Memorial Concert was held last January, it gave local music fans something to be proud about in this quirky town. It was a show full of the finest bands from Florida’s vibrant, early ’80s rock scene, reuniting under a banner of tribute to the late,…
Technically Labor Day Weekend kicks off tomorrow, but who has enough self-restraint to keep their party pants locked up till then? Nobody, that’s who. Lucky for us MOCA (770 NE 125th St., N. Miami) has been packing its schedule full of exciting events all summer long and one of its…
In 1929 Detroit, Henry Ford was laying off workers by the thousands. At the same time in Gorky, Russia, he began construction on the world’s largest auto factory. The Great Depression didn’t affect the Soviet Union. During the ’30s, in fact, tens of thousands of Americans (known as “Yanks for…
