There is no sign of trouble upon entering the Rising Action Theatre Company’s new digs on Oakland Park Boulevard. The theater is full of wood and warm light, and you feel glad that the arts have found such a lovely little home on the outskirts of Wilton Manors. Cling to…
Since promising Armageddon in the leadoff bars of Straight Outta Compton, star-producer Ice Cube has been one canny career man. In recent years, he’s pulled up stake in the foundering rap game and doesn’t seem to think twice about the cred damage that could come from pratfalling through PG family…
“Everyday Objects” speaks to the subject matter of three artists, but their exhibit is anything but common. Stephanie Jaffe Werner creates dioramas framed in candy wrappers for dolls dressed in clothes the Miami artist has made from still more brightly colored confectionery packaging. From these objects of childhood whimsy, she…
If you missed it when she performed here in August, now’s your chance to catch Kathy Griffin. She’s returning to SoFla, but this time as the opening act for the mega-popular South Beach Comedy Festival. (Jeez, it’s like she likes us or something! She just can’t stay away.) Ms. Griffin…
Shaquille O’Neal joshes with the best of them, suggesting that he must know when he’s even bullshitting himself. Witness, for example, his assessment of the Heat’s chances of landing a top playoff seed. “We’re not going to get in one of those four spots,” O’Neal said after the likes of…
If American Idol proved one thing, it is that this country loves people who have no talent and are willing to get on stage to prove it. (The horrific auditions are the best part!) Tonight, you don’t have to sit in front of a television to watch folks shame themselves…
Cultures can be defined not only by the attitudes and beliefs they express but also by what they produce artistically. You get the idea when, visiting a museum, you see artwork categorized not just by date or art movement but also by cultural provenance and lineage. But isn’t that also…
“Great sex is when you scream The Deity during the act. Kosher sex is when you remember each other’s name the morning after the act.” (buh-dum-duh ching!) Or that’s what Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the author and host of a reality TV series called Shalom in the Home, says on the…
Roger McGuinn changed stuff. In 1967, he changed his name from Jim to Roger on the advice of an Indonesian guru. The dude thought “Roger” would “vibrate better with the universe.” As the driving force behind The Byrds, McGuinn also helped change pop music in the mid-´60s by bridging the…
If the Addams Family taught us anything, it’s that a hand can be as expressive a body part as a face. Just take a look at Thing – for an animated, severed hand, he was easily the most relatable character on the show. He always went into situations with his,…
As far as sports towns go, there are the big ones – Boston, New York, Chicago, and Detroit – and then there’s everyone else. But how does a city get on that list? Is there a governing board with the sole purpose of determining which city’s fans are rabid enough?…
Did you ever see that Power Puff Girls episode where Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup are all buxom and grown, exiled to the outskirts of society and running into trouble with Johnny Law? Yeah, me neither. But looking at artist Alex ab Barrera’s work makes you wonder what could’ve been if…
Woody Harrelson’s greatest challenge as an actor is to overpower, through force of performance, that little voice in your head that says, “Hey, it’s Woody Harrelson!” every time he appears. But say this for him: Lately he’s been enmeshing himself in great ensembles, in the likes of A Prairie Home…
Well, slap your hogs and pluck those chickens—the hoe-down-cum-musical, A Murder, A Mystery, & A Marriage, is being brought back to life. Originally written by Mark Twain in 1876 for an Atlantic Monthly magazine competition, the tale involves two young, soon-to-be betrothed lovers who get wedged apart by family, a…
When Pixar’s Toy Story was released in theaters back in 1995, the world marveled. Back then, computer animation was exciting and new, and the film quickly achieved both critical and box office success. Little did we know that a decade later, digitally animated movies would be inching us closer to…
Who says Floridians don’t understand history and preservation? Sure, we might not have cobblestone streets and ivy-lined mansions that date back hundreds of years like those snobby folks up north. But what we do have, we cherish. Take for example the West Palm Beach Historical Walking Tours. These guided foot…
There’s something alluring and attractive about the Highland Games. Maybe it’s because the events are primitive and self-explanatory: instead of throwing a shot-put, hulking beefcakes in skirts (nay, kilts) hurl giant stones. (The event, coincidentally, is called “Stones.”) Also on the bill is the Caber Toss; that’s where the hot…
Gone are the days when tens of thousands of people would gather in a local arena to watch armed men fight to the death (or become a play toy for a hungry lion). Thanks to a newfound respect for human life, our bloodlust must be satiated in entirely different ways…
Everyone wants to be part of whatever world they can’t fit into. It’s the basic principle of marketing: The rich want to slum it with the club kids; the club kids want to look rich. That’s why magazines dress up outrageously hip, young, and penniless kids in $1,000 sunglasses –…
Thursday nights can be the most stressful evenings of any work week. You’ve spent your last four days protecting yourself from office toxicity. On Monday you sound-proofed your cubicle so that you wouldn’t be tempted to strangle your Celine Dion-addicted neighbor. On Tuesday you brought your lunch so that you…
Ever since Carrie Bradshaw turned to her erstwhile boyfriend Berger for relationship advice and the uttered the now-famous line “He’s just not that into you,” Greg Behrendt’s name was rocketed into the forefront of American consciousness. Well, all right. Maybe “forefront,” is overstating it, but he was on Oprah. Behrendt…
“Climate change” is the nice way to say it. There’s just this pesky stigma surrounding the phrase “global warming.” It makes people think about unpleasantries like polar bears floating on melting islands of ice and Al Gore and even that terrible movie Water World – because deep down we know…
