Nobody knows insanity like the Scandinavians. Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist, could only have painted The Scream under the delirium of Arctic days and nights. And Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish filmmaker, dedicated many of his works to human madness. His 1961 masterpiece, Through a Glass Darkly, takes place on the…
“I wanted to do a karaoke night where I could sing what I wanted and not have people glare at me,” explains Joseph Bonilla, as he gestures around Fuci-Fino (pronounced:fuk-if-I-know). The bar is duded up in underwear, bras, and other mementos of drunken evenings gone by. The crowd is as…
On August 7, 1974, a crew of men covertly entered the Twin Towers, disguised and heavily laden with supplies. Phillipe Petit readied himself as progressively heavier lines were shot and snaked from one tower’s roof to the next, until they were connected by a 450 pound steel cable. He then…
Smoke-filled seniors centers. Q-tip-topped retirees. Crazy Cat Ladies schlepping around specialized blotters, and “lucky charms.” Take everything you associate with Bingo and vanquish it from your mental inner workings; since The Standard (40 Island Ave., Miami Beach) took over the sport it’s been repackaged, rejuvenated, and infused with booze and…
Suck a few down at the new 101 Ocean Restaurant (101 E Commercial Blvd., Lauderdale-by-the-Sea) Tuesday at 7 p.m. as celebrity bartenders mix drinks for wild animals. Well, technically, us humans will be doing the drinking, but the proceeds from our purchases will go to SPCA Wildlife Care Center. You’ll…
The Florida Marlins are among the major league leaders in game-ending hits this season with nine. They’re also among the best at celebrating these kinds of victories, seeing that they have plenty of experience. Two weeks ago, in a crucial series against NL East leader Philadelphia, that game-winning hit came…
The popularity of Chappelle’s Show has been attributed to how Dave Chappelle used humor to dismantle racial boundaries and stereotypes — but that’s not why the thing became such a phenomenon. See, whether it’s through his sketch comedy or his stand-up what you notice most about Dave Chappelle is that…
So you’ve seen The Dark Knight four times in the regular theater and twice in IMAX. You’ve started your official Watchmen and Terminator: Salvation calendars for 2009. But until then, what’s a local geek gonna do to wile away the summer? We’ve got just the event for you — where…
All moms want their children to have access to life’s greatest stuff: good schools, loving relationships, and long, healthy lives. Accomplishing those goals, as any mother can attest, is a process that starts early on — way before baby gets his first pair of cool kicks. Proper prenatal care is…
In the younger days of hip-hop, unknown artists tried to spread their music with nothing more then a trunk full of cassette tapes and mix CDs, hoping that in time, fortune and bling would come raining down on them. Now, up-and-coming acts don’t even need to leave the comfort of…
Apart from being talented, famous, and rich, it probably kind of sucks to be Kevin Pollack. Pollack clawed around the far edges of showbiz from the age of 10 ‘til the age of 20, finally becoming a household face (if not a household name) after landing a supporting role in…
Skot Olsen is one of those painters for whom everything he does looks like a window in a magical world — one where bizarre creatures roam the land and humanity holds dark secrets. In Olsen’s creations devils walk among us, sowing the seeds of chaos, while mere mortals struggle against…
Seems like people just can’t get enough BBQ this summer — at least, that’s the case over at Johnny V’s (625 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). Barbequelooza, the popular chef’s prix-fixe ode to slow, smoky cooking, made so much noise it’s returning as a dinner series scheduled to take…
By the end of your weekly hour-long yoga class, you feel like a lovely puddle of well-being. If that high lasts a few days, imagine how much longer you’ll be buzzing after today’s tantric-style, three hour yoga workshop with guest yogi Jordan Bloom. Bloom specializes in Anusara, a newly hatched…
Japanese-American relations are the theme of Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece opera Madame Butterfly, which is being performed tonight, 8 p.m. at the Colony Theater (1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach). Sung in Italian, set in Japan, and featuring an American leading man and music in the German dramatic style, Butterfly was first…
One of the basic tenets of our legal system is that you are innocent until proven guilty. If there is a single, reasonable doubt in the mind of the judge or jury that the accused committed a crime, then innocence is assumed. But what do you do when that doubt…
Nobody portrays entrails as beautifully as Carol Prusa. Stripped of all their bloody messiness, pale organs float in a sort of stylized heavenly realm in her mixed-media paintings, a reminder that the words ether and ethereal share a common root. Ducts trail away from body parts, curling into plantlike tendrils…
I haven’t seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the win-at-any-cost NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby, calling on Jesus, Tom Cruise, and Oprah Winfrey to put out the psychosomatic flames engulfing his…
Forget all those stereotypes of drug use, dirt, and promiscuous mattress romps — if there is one thing hippie culture should be remembered for, it’s the uncompromising protest spirit. That energy helped change the country’s attitude toward sex, politics, and war. But as our culture grows lazier, Americans trade off…
You have a problem: You don’t feel nearly bohemian enough. You’ve never smoked Galoises, your existential crises are brief and inelegant, you know little about post-structuralism, and you’re crass. But you want to live la vie boheme. In Florida, where do you begin? You can start today at the Seventh…
Most comedians aren’t known for their humility; after all, comedy is a cutthroat business reserved purely for those with thick skin and a penchant for torture. So when Cedric Kyles decided to change his surname to The Entertainer, the earth shook under the weight of his gravitas. That kind of…
One of the real joys behind the movie Big was that it effectively illustrated the intrinsic struggle between kids and adults. That is, kids always want to grow up faster and to be treated with respect and equality despite their age — so much so that they would forfeit their…
