There was a time when going out to dinner at 5 p.m. was a practice reserved solely for Metamucil-swillin’, golden-age types. But them tides are changing, folks – today’s hip diners are taking the tables back from the Q-Tips. Why? First off, eating early is healthier: Nine out of ten…
Let’s not understate the facts just because they’re so wild: Bernadette Peters is the single greatest living exponent of musical theater. Frank Rich said so in the mid-1980s, during Ms. Peters’ star turn in Song & Dance, and every critic on the planet has more-or-less agreed, as Ms. Peters blazed…
Singles Bars have lost their luster. The nine-to-fivers just want to drone on about (a) their crummy bosses, (b) their crummy exes, or (c) how much better they are without their crummy exes and/or bosses. Trying to have fun in those places makes you wonder: When did people get so…
Smell that? Is it patchouli oil? Organic chai tea? The collective aroma of hundreds of sweaty rock ´n’ roll musicians and their groupies? Actually it’s all of the above, which could only mean one thing: The arrival of Florida’s favorite multi-day, progressive, camp-tacular music festival, Langerado! This year’s fest is…
Watching the waning seconds of the Super Bowl this year, a fan was left with a hollow feeling: This was the last televised football game until August. (Unless you count the odious Pro Bowl, and if that’s the case, for shame.) Fortunately, we have heroes such as Michael Irvin, the…
The hockey trade deadline has come and gone. Thankfully, Olli Jokinen is still on the team, and more surprising, the Panthers added some good role players in gritty winger Chad Kilger, ironman Karlis Skrastins (who has played in 495 games in a row, an NHL record), and tough-guy Wade Belak…
The ambient music scene in South Florida is a little like George W. Bush’s opinions on global warming – some peeps think it doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Now, DJs Jeff Wrye and Floyd Kelley – the dudes behind the Foundation nightclub reunion parties – are…
There’s a list of comedians who fit in the differences-between-men-and-women mold, and, largely, it’s all very obvious, PG-type stuff that’s akin to watching grass grow. (Yes, yes…guys feel very differently about shopping than women do, we know.) But funny girl Diane Ford is a tad different. For starters, Ford isn’t…
Improv, of the kind you see on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, was born in Italy in the 1500s. In those days, it was called “commedia dell’arte.” A troupe of ten people – seven men and three women – would get together on a street and play out a scene…
A flat two hundred dollars buys you a piece of original art at “12 x 12 — the Collective,” the new show opening Thursday at ArtServe. The local art support group has tiled the walls of their gallery (1350 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-8190) with hundreds of pieces of…
He was really a bit of a wanker, wasn’t he? Things just sorta fell into place for that arse, didn’t they? I mean, it isn’t like he wasn’t nice enough – although at times a spot of bother to hang out with in the pub, what with ´im being all…
Barbie: Mariposa and Her Butterfly Friends (Universal) Comanche Moon (Sony) Day Zero (First Look) Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale (HBO) Family Affair: Season Five (MPI) The Fugitive: Season One, Volume Two (Paramount) Goya’s Ghosts (Sony) Highlander: The Source (Lionsgate) Jesse Stone: Sea Change (Sony) The Last Emperor: The Criterion…
You could be forgiven for wondering whether you’re in an art gallery or a plant nursery when you come upon the work of glass artist Debora Moore, now on view at Habatat Galleries in the Gallery Center art mall in Boca Raton. Such is Moore’s mastery of her medium. She…
Justice League: The New Frontier (Warner Bros.) Based on Darwyn Cooke’s comic-book miniseries — a masterpiece starring all of DC Comics’ major-leaguers at the dawn of their immortality during the Cold War — this animated adaptation plays stronger, faster, and further than any direct-to-DVD in recent memory. It’s a grown-up…
When you sleep with the king, it ceases to be a private matter.” And so it comes to pass that young Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) must stand before her father, Sir Thomas (Mark Rylance), and her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk (David Morrissey), and report the nitty-gritty details of having…
Semi-Pro’s much better than Blades of Glory, which wasn’t nearly as good as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which was a little better than Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which was almost as funny as Old School, which was better than everything else Will Ferrell had done…
Lost Odyssey wants to be Microsoft’s answer to Final Fantasy — not that that’s such a good idea. Like Star Wars, Final Fantasy survives as a power brand thanks to the shining stars of its past, rather than the overwrought installments of recent years. Final Fantasy XII — the most…
In his preshow announcement at Agnes of God, Palm Beach Dramaworks’ executive artistic director, Bill Hayes, points out that Agnes has not been performed in South Florida for almost 30 years. You think: Amazing! Such a famous play, so talked-about in its time and so well-regarded. Thirty years? Of course,…
To get into “southXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art” — or at least the half of the show that’s at the Schmidt Center Gallery at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton (the other half is across campus at the Ritter Art Gallery) — you must first pass through a large installation. Mike…
Strictly speaking, SPAM is a cooked-meat product containing bits of many long-dead animals — pigs, chickens, turkeys, clumsy factory workers — jammed together and canned for the gastronomic pleasure of Hawaiians and others. Spamalot is not a dissimilar product. Part of former Monty Python Eric Idle’s never-ending quest for money,…
Francis Ford Coppola’s new opus Youth Without Youth has been getting panned unanimously by critics – the only thing they can’t seem to agree on is what constitutes the most offensive part of the film. Variety thinks that you “will be disappointed by the mishmash plotting and stilted script.” While…
When Michelle Whitedove went on Lifetime’s reality competition America’s #1 Psychic, she swayed even the naysayers. Her accuracy in assessing situations – picking out a car in a car lot that had a man squirreled away in the trunk and giving eerily point-on readings to skeptics – won her the…
