There’s an old adage that the only thing New Yorkers can agree on is how much it’s always changing. There’s a loyalty to the past that N.Y. residents share, a common understanding that nothing is as good today as it was several decades ago. That goes for where the best…
So it’s Thursday night, and you’re not sure if you want to go out. Cocktails with some friends sound nice, but that gets expensive fast. You could just as easily hole up in your apartment and work on a bottle of tequila while watching TiVo’d episodes of the Love Boat…
A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical acclaim, lowering over a landscape of barren mesas and hot, scrubby hills. Anderson’s epic, no less than his career, is both fearfully grandiose and wonderfully eccentric…
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the jury’s Best Director Award for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, his French-language adaptation of the bestselling memoir by the late Elle magazine Editor Jean-Dominique Bauby. Felled by a massive stroke at…
Best Sleeper Hit: WordJong (Nintendo DS) — It may not sell like Mario, but this mishmash of Scrabble and mah-jongg hooks you like handheld crack. Already a word-of-mouth hit, despite being released only this month, WordJong is perfect for quiet afternoons, loud commutes, or romantic walks on the beach. Best…
Far more good things than bad transpired on the stages of Broward and Palm Beach in 2007, and many of them are obvious only in retrospect. Quite often in theater, you won’t think much of a play or of a scene in the moment of performance. It’s only later, after…
American Pie Presents: Beta House (Universal) The Brothers Solomon (Universal) Eastern Promises (Universal) Galactica 1980: The Complete Epic Series (Universal) The Heartbreak Kid (Universal) Intimate Affairs (Universal) The Kingdom (Universal) Lost and Found: The Harry Langdon Collection (Facets) Shattered (Lions Gate) WWE: The Best of Raw 15th Anniversary (WWE) American…
The first thing you notice when you walk on to the set are the 300 extras in late-1920s period costume, seated at cafeteria tables in a holding area, gazing up at you in their wool suits (for the men) and cloche hats (for the women) as if all of this…
You don’t meet the book when you meet the writer,” the novelist William Gibson has said. “You meet the place where it lives.” A relatively uncontroversial remark about the people who vent their imaginations on the page — no one should expect Philip Roth to sound exactly like Nathan Zuckerman…
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Warner Bros.) — It’s the collector’s-set briefcase that seals the deal, a gunmetal-gray case that all but shouts “Completist dork!” Also: There’s damned near every single version imaginable, plus a making-of doc almost as essential as any iteration of the movie itself. Film school in…
It’s an ugly world out there, full of invasion, erosion, corrosion, distress, and decay. But “Phillip Estlund: Modern Nature” creates from such destruction, finding beauty and meaning there. Using discarded reference books, field guides, trade catalogs, and salvaged materials, the Lake Worth artist creates collages that juxtapose the natural environment…
History lesson, youngsters: Before Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock ´n’ Roll,” — before rock existed — there was Pete Seeger, folk icon, and American rebel. Incidentally, Pete isn’t related to Bob — unless you count the elder Seeger’s seminal influence on subsequent generations of folksters and singer/songwriters (which you should)…
You’ve pined to incorporate hot-and-sweaty dance moves with water play, but just about all you came up with was an H20 aerobics class at granny’s condo. While that’s great on the knees and your new octogenarian friends are a real hoot, you still feel like there could be more. How…
“Well, it’s certainly been a long season, guys. We’ve had some really low points, and… some other really low points. But I have to say, I’ll miss you. Yes, my fellow fans and I have spewed a lot of vitriol about y’all over the airwaves, in print, and across the…
Shotgun shacks crafted entirely out of Popsicle sticks. Glittery strings of precious jewels (AKA macaroni). Minimalist renditions of life and its cycles (stick figure family units). Kids have lots of ways to express themselves artistically – of course, some of them are easier to display in your home than others…
You’re well-versed in the vodkas and gins of the bar, but absinthe is one highly-potent brew that’s always flown under the radar — until now. Legend has it that, if you take a sip of the fabled, green-tinted elixir, your mind will journey to places that your eyes haven’t seen…
Somebody call VH1. There’s a new theater trend demanding a reality show: America’s beloved television stars from the ´60s and ´70s are taking to the stage this holiday season in traditional British panto plays. Both Henry Winkler (the Fonz) and Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) have skipped across the pond and…
Zombies have been big in the ΄00s. There have been zombie-zombies (Dawn of The Dead), thinking zombies (Land of The Dead), funny zombies (Shaun of The Dead), still-alive zombies (28 Whatevers Later), canine zombies (I Am Legend), and in the theater community of South Florida, an endless parade of singing…
It takes some major cojones to embrace the parts of yourself that you can’t change. (Who do you think you’re kidding by putting a band aid over that hairy mole? The jig is up.) It takes a pair the size of Saturn’s moons to make roomfuls of people laugh at…
It was only in 1957 that the Seminole Tribe of Florida was given sovereignty and created its own constitution. It had been quite a rough and rocky road to that point – the Seminoles, actually made up of multiple, native tribes living in the wilds of Florida, had endured centuries…
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is sort of like the Microsoft of the circus world. The “Greatest Show on Earth” got to be the greatest by “teaming up” with (read: acquisitions and mergers, dude!) or rolling over any competition over the last 138 years. Just look at their…
Finally! The Dolphins won their first game! Now that their pursuit of anti-perfection is over, it’s officially time for south Florida sports fans to get passionate about their Panthers. And there’s plenty to root for; the Cats have at least one bona fide superstar in Olli Jokinen and they might…
