Sick of being busted for checking out other peoples’ parts? If so, “Out of Shape: Bodies in Contemporary Art” is tailor-made for you. Spend hours ogling human figures depicted in various mediums by artists such as William Kentridge, Viola Frey, Duane Hanson, Yinka Shonibare, and Robert Rauschenberg —- even with…
Some stories just can’t be done through interpretive dance. For example, Platoon would be a bitch to pull off. (Unless of course you got the real Willem Dafoe to express the sadness of being left behind in the Vietnamese jungle by busting into an oddly depressing jitterbug – that man…
If you consider the late-sixties psych/sapsters The Turtles as being: “That band that sang ‘Happy Together,’” you need to revisit them. Their arsenal of hit singles runs the gambit of poppy ditties, like “She’d Rather be With Me” and “You Baby (Ain’t Nobody but You),” to the swingin’ serenade “Elenore.”…
In today’s world of iPods and MP3s, it’s not often that you listen to an album front to back. But remember when you used to put a record on the turntable, tune everything else out, and simply enjoy it? Remember when playing an album was an experience? Well the musicians…
Creating art doesn’t have to be a solo affair; at least not at Wet Paint, the new weekly art night kicking off at the Lounge (517 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) Wednesday night. An extension of ArtRx – the quarterly gallery show that acts as a restorative salve for the…
The words “Goooooood morning, Tigers,” echo through the halls of Warsaw Community High School, welcoming its students to a new year. And like that, American Teen begins. Documenting ten months in small-town Indiana, the film American Teen delves (again) into the hell that is high school, only this time, director…
Itching for some fisticuffs this Wednesday? Warriors Boxing has you covered: Eight bouts means 16 blood-thirsty fighters looking to dismember one another, including one of the most anticipated matches of the year in undefeated Super Welterweight Joe Green (19-0 with 14 KOs) taking on Jose Miguel Torres (20-3 with 18…
There are several other teams in the mix – the charging Milwaukee Brewers, the stinkin’ New York Mets, the hard-slugging Philadelphia Phillies – but there’s a chance the National League’s Wild Card slot could fall to either the Marlins or the St. Louis Cardinals. After all, both are teams accustomed…
He wasn’t in a basket. There was no stork in sight. And yet Logan, the Dixie Dingo puppy, arrived on the steps of Miami’s Dorsch Gallery (151 NW 24th St., Wynwood). All involved parties immediately recognized that Logan was home. Five years have passed since these strangers were introduced, and…
A giant, gold gong that you could smack to shut people up would be useful. Say your boss is asking you to work the weekend – apparently there have been staff shortages and problems with the supply chai…GOOOOOOONNNGGGGG! Problem solved. Oh what’s that? Your friend from college who’s too busy…
So you’ve been in a long-term relationship for a while, and things are starting to get stale. The romance is fleeting. The sex is formulaic. And now, you’re starting to get that wandering eye. You’re beginning to wonder if you’re cut out for this monogamy thing. You keep telling yourself:…
Grease! may be considered a show that’s fun for the whole family, but it’s cheesy music and 1950s setting are really just disguises for one of the dirtiest musicals ever written. With song lyrics like “You are supreme, the chicks will cream, for greased lightnin’” and stories about missed period…
The Bon Festival is a day for remembering the dead and marking their passage into the afterlife, or the Great Beyond, or wherever the hell it is they go. (Nobody knows.) In Japan, it’s a three-day holiday. Here in Florida, it’s a one-day event at the Morikami Museum and Japanese…
For Tiki Kaliki, life must be one big party. The Hukilau organizer has been influential in getting live music at the Mai Kai, as well as corralling tikiphiles from all over the damn place for her rum-soaked bashes. Word around the wicker bar is that Ms. Tiki is kickin’ it…
Say what you will about the Miami Dolphins, but these guys know how to entertain. What other team in professional sports – especially one so abysmally bad – could consistently provide such thrilling offseasons full of violence, mystery, intrigue, backstabbing, and scandal? Since Bill Parcells has come in to shake…
You have the soul of a sea captain, but the wallet of a deck hand. If only you could craft a vessel from inexpensive materials, then you could proudly float through the Intracoastal, exchanging knowing nods with other water-bound explorers. What’s less expensive and more abundant than cardboard? Yes, yes,…
It takes far less than five minutes to convey complex emotion, which might be why we determine compatibility with others based on first encounters. That initial reaction is a sort of vetting process that comes in particularly handy in bar environments. Say a strange guy starts chatting you up: you’ll…
A few times each year, New Times takes a break from reporting to party down with you, dear reader. Booze can’t lose, so Beerfest scores major points. And now, we’re plugging sex: How would you like to get Unzipped? If we exchange our usual words and rhetoric with a fashion…
Whether it’s the flirty way the clothes make you feel or the unexpected situations you wind up in while you’re wearing them, once you slip that Betsey Johnson dress over your head, the world is yours. And better, it’s pink and covered in rhinestones. Betsey’s been givin’ gals a fluffy,…
Tapestry is too delicate a word for the chunky, textured weavings of Madie Lazenby. Created on a Navajo loom, hers are often bold – sometimes shaggy – wool creations that work with the varying textures of the medium, which are as much a part of the composition as the shapes…
Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that “Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be… while holding untenable opinions.” Which is a nice way of saying that Waugh, a world-class satirist of everyone from the rich down, was…
Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that’s about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it were. The clever premise, which would have seemed like pure science fiction no more than eight years ago, concerns a U.S. presidential election…
