Going to a wake and sequestering yourself with a grief-stricken husband for 75 minutes in the presence of his beloved wife’s corpse. Listening and saying nothing, even though the husband is plainly in no condition to be speaking with anybody, least of all a stranger. Hearing ickily personal details of…
The only thing smoother than acoustic jazz vixen Cat Shell’s steamy vocals? Fine, aged tequila. The two are pairing up together every Wednesday at MoQuila Mexican Restaurant & Tequila Bar (99 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton) as part of its new Summer Ladies Night and Happy Hour. Head down to…
Bubble tea sure is some strange business — but damn good business at that. The Taiwanese treat is one part iced tea, one part milky smoothie, and one part chunky cocktail, replete with gooey little pearls of congealed tapioca that get sucked up in an ultra-thick straw. Wait… gooey pearls…
It would be fair to call Tampa Bay and Florida the surprise teams of the American and National League, respectively, and for once it’s not because they returned after off-season. No, as they both edge further away from rumored demise at the hands of Commissioner Bud “Contraction” Selig, they’re flowering…
It’s easy to be discouraged by the family you were born into, especially when your racist drunkle pops his dentures in and out during Thanksgiving dinner. But feeling mild discomfort over the cranberry sauce is one thing; having your entire life’s mission revolve around your lineage is another. Imagine that…
When indie stalwarts Modest Mouse signed on to tour with R.E.M. and the National this summer, music fans couldn’t have been happier. The bill carried with it the promise of total vindication: For R.E.M., its latest album Accelerate was heralded as a return to form, and fans wondered if the…
Ever wonder what would happen if your biology lab was transformed into a heated, sweaty dance party? At Dancelab, instructors dubbed “Danceologists,” use a scientific approach to body movin’ that replaces the four main elements of earth, air, fire and water with strength, flexibility, coordination and endurance. They also use…
Flight of the Red Balloon is a French movie by a Chinese filmmaker. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Nena’s “99 Red Balloons.” Rather, it’s a remake of the more simply titled Red Balloon, a 1956 flick about a boy who is trailed around Paris by, yes, a red…
Sure, there have always been ancillary parties the week of Stonewall. The bars, clubs, and artist nooks lining Wilton Drive can be counted on for oodles of pride-packed activities, but never has Stonewall itself stretched beyond the 24 hour mark. Until now. This year’s street festival is bigger, gayer, and…
There was a time not too long ago that many people had legitimate fears that computers would take over their jobs and render them obsolete. Along came Michael Winslow, giving everyone hope that no matter how awesome technology gets, there’s always a place for the old school technophobes. Winslow is…
If there is one thing that the Starbucks colonization of America has taken from us, it’s our old hangouts. You didn’t used to necessarily go to your local coffee shop just to sip a cup o’ Joe. Instead, you went to catch up with friends, study for finals, play board…
There are many training options for youngsters hoping to become professional boxers: Join the local gym or Golden Gloves, get a professional trainer, or be abandoned by your mother at one month of age, and then be ritually abused for the next eight years by a family friend. The last…
How do you know when you’re the villain in a film? Huge piles of coke on your desk are a dead giveaway, but what about the more subtle cues? For instance, if you command legions of mindless henchmen and you’re not ordering them to bring ice cream to sick children,…
You have Thanksgiving affairs on lockdown, but when it comes to gay pride you could learn from Wilton Manors. During the Stonewall Street Festival (Wilton Dr., between NE 20th St. and N.E. 11th Ave., Wilton Manors), the whole GLBT community comes out for a killer parade. This year boasts the…
Regardless of how much you dread it, each year Take Your Child to Work Day happens. Your otherwise peaceful sanctuary (AKA: employee break room) is overrun with headless, naked Barbies and all imaginable varieties of Spiderman collectables. But you do the gracious things — make chitchat about height/age gain, and…
I didn’t have the cash to do my collecting at Art Basel or Art Miami — not even across the street, in that weird little warehouse where people with dreads were selling abstract expressionist paintings by their dog (sans frames). That’s because I, like you (dear New Times reader), am…
It’s that time of year when we start scouring stores and hoarding D batteries (no, not Valentine’s Day.) It’s hurricane season! Floridians are an odd bunch when it comes to the five months of wind and impending doom; we have a couple of quiet years and we forget entirely about…
The award winning play, Why We Have a Body, by Claire Chafee is literate and lyrical with both hilarious scenes and “shattering moments,” explains local director, Robert Hooker. Chafee’s characters are not of the color-in-the-lines variety: a jungle-traipsing, feminist-theorizing mother, a lesbian private eye, a bubbly bisexual paleontologist, and a…
Screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it, and what it looks like depending on where you’re standing. In Conrad’s The Weather Man, the central figure was a vain TV news personality who had everything that…
Loath though I am to carp about any director who’s devoted chunks of his career to bringing the non-white world’s suffering to Western attention, Roger Spottiswoode’s The Children of Huang Shi — a drama based on the life of an Englishman who saved an orphanage full of boys from Japanese…
I am absolutely dreading the arrival of Guitar Hero: World Tour. Can’t even enjoy the summer. It might sound like insanity, given that the fourth installment in the Guitar Hero franchise could end up being the most successful game of 2008. It won’t even hit store shelves till late October,…
The Exceptional Theatre Company is the largest theater company in South Florida, but you’ve probably never heard of it. It’s got more than 200 actors on the books, three dozen unpaid assistants, a board of directors, three employees who draw regular paychecks (or could, in theory, if they’d ever submit…
