Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington’s shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it’s only natural that Hollywood has followed suit, giving us a series of Iraq-themed films that can be set neatly alongside their Vietnam-era counterparts. Just as the initial wave of angry anti-Vietnam documentaries (In the…
Developers seem to believe that their first-person games are required to include online modes. Blame it on the few narrow-minded gamers (and critics) who constantly hammer away with that boneheaded message. At best, it’s a strange logic of inheritance: Since the earliest first-person shooters were playable online, every first-person game…
In your daydreams, your yard is a place for fabulous garden parties where you serve guests tri-colored salad greens and cocktails embellished with bouquets of edible flowers, all of which sprung straight from your little patch of earth below. Wiping the drool away, what’s really lurking past the window looks…
It’s a question that’s haunted us since the dawn of time: What would happen if Dancing With the Stars and American Idol merged? Holy shit. Would Earth implode? Would the time/space continuum rip, creating an interplanetary vortex that transports us all to another world where people’s heads are replaced by…
It takes a special appreciation for 10-minute-long, prog-infused orgies of guitar, keyboard, percussion, and brass to dig The Mars Volta. That shit ain’t for everyone. Apparently, it is not for critics, who, after praising the hell out of Volta’s first record, De-Loused in the Comatorium, proceeded to almost unilaterally ravage…
Growing up in mid-century New York, Elliot Tiber was just another struggling artist. Then, Woodstock happened. Throughout the ´60s, Elliot had been struggling to keep his family’s farm/hotel in White Lake afloat by organizing small music festivals with his revolving cadre of fellow out-of-work entertainers. The efforts, although admirable, were…
Did you happen to catch Dolphin’s key defensive end Jason Taylor on his first night of Dancing with the Stars? JT was off the hook, kid. He was gliding around the floor like a man possessed, gracefully dipping and twirling partner Edytas Liwinska (soooo hot!) with style and poise. And…
You’ve seen the commercial: Its slogan “The Delray Affair – See you there” has the sort of down home sound that makes urbane urbanites raise their noses. But it’s also got that folksy visual feel — families scarfing conch fritters and lemonade shake-ups, kiddie rides, and arts and crafts –…
Finally, the Panthers have shown some pluck! After losing eight of 10, Florida won everything they played in the first half of this month, setting a franchise record for consecutive victories along the way. A couple of the scalps they collected belonged to the Rangers and the Bruins – teams…
There was a time when Sushi was a foreign word – whenever it was spoken you would almost immediately hear someone reel back and yelp, “Ew, raw fish?!?” But now Sushi has become so popular it’s arguably more of an American cuisine than Japanese. Even our supermarkets employ Sushi chefs,…
Even an otherwise peaceful city like Lake Worth needs the occasional socially active hoopla. Luckily this Saturday and Sunday are just that. Pridefest of the Palm Beaches is now in its 15th year, and the two-day soirée has grown into a monster event of recording artists, DJs, celeb sightings, and,…
It’s impossible to understand women: They get irrationally angry at the silliest minutia. Like in the new Simon Pegg, Michael Ian Black vehicle Run Fatboy Run, Dennis Doyle’s character, Pegg, has a love interest who’s still holding a grudge against him for a mistake he made years before. Granted, his…
My, have the rules of flirtation and courtship changed in the last 200 years. Take Napoleonic general Armand de Montriveau’s bizarre crack at courting his sweetheart in the 1820s, for example. Obsessively smitten, he cattle-brands her forehead in a passionate (and vicious) declaration of ownership in director Jacques Rivette’s tragicomedy…
There’s a trick to surviving Winter Music Conference — a little thing we like to call Home Base. To be a godsend, Home Base has to have the right mix of lounging areas, fabulous friends that you haven’t yet met, cocktails, and, of course, great music. You have to be…
The last time Twyla Tharp combined her unique choreographic talents with the music of a genius rock ´n’ roller, the results were… well, “shameful” is probably too strong a word, but “regrettable” is far too weak. That was The Times They Are A-Changin’, an unfortunate contribution to the even-more-unfortunate “jukebox…
The Grand Canyon is one of nature’s most breath-taking creations, but let’s face it: packing the kids into the station wagon and driving 36 hours to Arizona ain’t pretty. So skip the trip and check out the Grand Canyon Adventure 3D on IMAX instead. It’s a stunning river ride with…
You’ve sat around watching late night cable enough times to learn this all-important truth about the world: College kids + booze + cameras = disappearing clothing. It’s infallible logic; you know this because even though Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis is a despicable douche bag, perky coeds still trip…
Groupies come in all shapes and sizes. There’s the I-haven’t-eaten-since-the-´80s-so-that-I-can-still-stuff-myself-into-my-acid-washed-jeans type; they want desperately to become lip-locked with rock idols. Professional athletes also get the star treatment: Sports groupies are usually girls who were in Flag Team in high school but then got really hot later in college. For them,…
There’s an episode of Quantum Leap where Sam is transported back to 1955, into the body of a black chauffer tasked with protecting the elderly, white widow of the former Governor of Alabama. Oblivious to the gravity of the situation, Sam awkwardly commits all sorts of indiscretions: Drinking from a…
When guys fantasize about becoming rock stars, they picture more then just playing music to millions of adoring fans and making tons of cash. They also think of the “other” benefit: Lots and lots of promiscuous sex. It’s one of the many reasons rock marriages don’t last. Fighting the constant…
What do you get when you combine the true flavors of Mexico and America? Nope, it’s not Taco Bell’s newest colon-cleansing menu item; it’s a photographic exhibit entitled “The Hunter Gift: Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Arthur Rothstein.” The last in a series of three photography exhibitions this season at Norton…
Right about – wait for it, wait for it – now, there are 6,145 DJs spinning wax at WMC parties across Miami (not an official statistic). Stacked end-to-end, that’s enough skull-capped hipsters to circle the island of Miami Beach from the southernmost tip to the Convention Center and back. Scary…
