SoFla is star-struck. Our heads snap collectively towards every blinged-out entourage in hope of catching a glimpse of whoever’s at its nucleus. So when one of the stars that’s struck us the hardest – Gary Sinise – comes to town, expect everyone you know to flock. Friday night the Fort…
You say you like dirty-ass-funny comedy and sleazy dive bars. If you somehow miss seeing Doug Stanhope at the best bar in this god-forsaken city, the Poorhouse (110 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale), then you don’t deserve to ever set foot in Broward County again – ever, never, ever. End…
Horrorphiles are a tough crowd to please if only for one reason: With each gruesome, gore-caked flick they witness, the ante for the next is upped tenfold. So if you see a film with on-screen dismemberment this week, the next better linger on the gushing limb at least five seconds…
With your eyes closed, the Three Redneck Tenors could be the classically-trained, illegitimate sons of Luciano Pavarotti. But with those eyes opened, the Mullet-topped crooners are more a Jeff Foxworthy joke come to life through song. It’s in these two polar opposite spheres — the stiff world of opera and…
It’s always interesting when organizations invite comedian Chris Rock to host their live televised events and then go into an uproar when the dude swears on stage. In July, Rock hosted the Live Earth concert at London’s Wembley Stadium, a banal concert/pep-rally for global warming. Mere seconds into his introduction,…
Seeing Steven Patrick Morrissey at the Fillmore Miami Beach (née Jackie Gleason Theatre; 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) is like attending a fabulous mid-´80s holdout’s version of the second coming of the Fab Four — complete with hysterical, screaming fans thrusting themselves past beefy security guards in an attempt to…
A: A subgenre of alt country exclusively credited to the Austin five-piece, the Gourds. Also known as “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” or more pointedly, “Gourds Music.” The group is most commonly known for a rollicking, Southern-fried live cover of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice” that toured the Internet almost 10 years…
Rolling Stone’s Elysa Gardner praised her “feisty courage.” That same magazine’s Greg Kot said she “glowed with a hard-won grace.” Robert Christgau, late of The Village Voice, called her “boring.” Alack, Bonnie Raitt is probably worthy of all of this and more. She has been a barefoot Boston folkie, an…
Kevin Durant is built like the answer to some Sphinx’s riddle: What has the offensive skills of a Michael Jordan, the rip-out-your-lungs-and-eat-them drive of a Michael Jordan, but is taller and rebounds better than a Michael Jordan? Or maybe a “Jeopardy!” square: “Basketball maven John Hollinger scored this rookie prospect…
Triptych is not a play about Lisa Morgan’s boobs, but they deserve a shoutout. Morgan’s got a stunning, stunning set of knockers. Perhaps a gay theater critic can find more constructive uses for his time than ogling an actress’ Carbonell-caliber cleavage, but it was hard this week. All throughout Triptych’s…
The Amicus Collection (Dark Sky) Angel: Complete Series Collector’s Set (Fox) Beastie Boys: The Complete Story (Video Music) Benny Hill: The Complete Megaset (A&E) A Christmas Story (Warner Bros.) CSI Miami: The Fifth Season (Paramount) The Cup (Festival Media) Day Watch (Fox) Dear Jesse (Sovereign) The Devil Came on Horseback…
It must’ve been a scorching summer day when the game developer stared at his thermometer and realized “Sweet sassy molassey, this would make a helluva game!” How else to explain the existence of the quirky puzzle series Mercury Meltdown? Debuting on the PSP, the original Mercury Meltdown turned Marble Madness…
You can check out the original Da Vinci code, the mirror writing of the artist’s personal notebook, Codex Forster I, in “Medieval and Renaissance Treasures From the V&A.” You won’t even have to fight an albino or dodge the Illuminati to get at the code in this or the other…
No End in Sight (Magnolia) Charles Ferguson’s debut doc, easily the most important in a year full of notable fact-gathering films, assembles some of the key players behind the invasion and occupation of Iraq and seems to ask them but one question: “What went wrong?” In short: everything. But Ferguson’s…
American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem dope king Frank Lucas in Hollywood heaven, heir to Scarface and the Godfather. Or, as suggested by the Mark Jacobson…
These reviews are part of our continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Sexina: Pop Star PI. “Probably, intending to be campy is always harmful…,” Susan Sontag wrote in her famous 1964 essay “Notes on Camp.” “The results are forced and heavy-handed.” Never mind that the same could…
The man who gave us Young Darth returns with a Young Indy boxed set. Rick McCallum had nothing to do with the original Star Wars. He was just 23 years old and chasing his first job in the film industry when it was released in 1977. “I’m portrayed as 70…
“There’s a reason I’ve had some good pictures and other guys will never have good pictures,” Sidney Lumet says matter-of-factly on a recent afternoon in his New York office — four cramped white walls, unadorned by awards or other memorabilia, on the top floor of the Ansonia Building, where Enrico…
I hope people ask me, ‘Where did you find that local actress?'” Ben Affleck told Amy Ryan when he cast her as a wreck of a single mother in his directing debut, Gone Baby Gone. When Ryan showed up on the Boston set in ratty hair, muddy makeup, and a…
Part of us wants to be pissed off at the archetypal New York metal band Helmet. Since the group debuted in 1989, its now infamous post-hardcore sound has been duplicated ad nauseum by far lesser bands. You could even argue that the entire despicable genre of nü-metal – with its…
You come from a family whose cooking vocabulary consists of only two words: boil and defrost. Thanksgiving at your house is a day of partially-frozen HoneyBaked ham, Stove Top Stuffing that never touched a stove top, and limp, boil-in-the-bag noodles with Alfredo sauce. That’s okay, it’s a humorous part of…
We often forget that roots grow in Florida’s sandy soil. Buildings are demolished, progress is made, people move away and return – but at the base of it all is a historical underpinning of stories, music, and relationships that tells the underlying tale of what’s currently visible at the surface…
