Arts & Culture

Ladies, let’s chat about a scenario that’s happened to all of us. It starts like this: You and your boyfriend break up because he lives on some dude’s couch and can’t hold a job – you grew weary of picking up both the check and his dirty laundry. A week…

Photo credit: Karin Martinez Talking on the phone with prolific comedian Richard Lewis is like attending one of his stand up shows: Ask a pleasantry such as “How are you doing?” and the answer you get is a hilarious exposition that starts with meeting his future wife at one of…

The promise of a festival with henna tattooing alone is too much to resist – yes, you still love to freak our parents out with a face-spanning henna tribal – but throw in the possibility of eating outrageous amounts of curry, and you’re totally there. But that’s not all. The…

“My goddaughter called me up last year and said that her girlfriends couldn’t believe that I was Duke the Dog in Barnyard,” says Dom Irrera. He’s chatting with us during a short break from his new television series, the Supreme Court of Comedy out in L.A. “She said ‘Could you…

BBQ’s fridge is empty. He’s multitasking at home in Montreal: hacking up smoke from a night of partying, talking with us on the phone, and mixing a batch of Kraft macaroni and cheese with all butter, ´cause he’s outta milk. He’s also trying to prioritize an alarmingly lengthy to-do list…

In a city where the clubs close at sunrise, it’s a no wonder that South Beach revelers know what stimulants can keep ´em up all night. Energy drinks, people – we’re talking about energy drinks. Jeez, get your mind out of the gutter. You’ll need to stock up on extra…

It’s a food product! It’s a dance! It’s a festival! Bring your appetite, party shoes, and fastest little doggie to partake in SalsaFest (a.k.a. all the tomato chunks and cilantro you could ever desire). Salsa cook-offs, dancing competitions, domino tournaments, and a Chihuahua race will be held, along with other…

There are a few calendar days that warrant a collective weep for the lactose-intolerant community. National Ice Cream Day (July 18) and National Butterscotch Pudding Day (September 19th ) are standouts, but now we can add a whole weekend to the list, thanks to Sorrento Cheese’s Feast of Little Italy…

Just think about all the pop culture references you’d miss out on if you never saw the classic 1985 film Back to the Future. When a hungry friend mentions that her flux capacitor needs refueling, you’d be all like, “WTF?!” You – like the rest of the scientific community –…

If you’re like most people, “Groovin’” gets bumped from your daily to-do list for more pressing schedule conflicts, like school and work. Without having an allotted time, “Groovin’” gets smashed into little more than a communal mid-shift toke break with the guys from the graphics department. But for Wilmington, North…

Certain events just kick off the holiday season: the tree-lighting in Rockefeller Center, clearance sales on strappy sandals at your favorite secret shoe spot, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring the Rockettes. Sure, as a girl you wanted to be a Rockette. Now as an adult you’re still tempted…

Photographer Michael Joseph is best known for his modern, 35mm photos, highlighting structural angles. Peter Langone is internationally recognized for his celebrity shots. Put their works together and you’ve got “Form & Function,” an exhibition of mostly black-and-white images contrasting bodies and architecture. Intrigued? Meet the artists from 7 to…

The Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, only in its first year, might already be a better foodie shindig than its megabucks South Beach cousin. First, you have unlimited access to sample food and booze from more than 20 of the finest restaurants and wine bars in Palm Beach, like…

It’s nice seeing a Florida boy achieve some success, so when Hi-Life Café’s own Carlos Fernandez made his way onto the second season of Bravo’s Top Chef, we were thrilled. Now that Fernandez’ star has risen, everyone back home is curious about the experience. Happy to oblige a little dish…

Space junk, iPhones, injuries on Dancing With the Stars. A trillion dollars expunged in Iraq while Bush vetoes healthcare for children. Credit markets decay, oil nears $90. How long before a shoe drops? If global warming is just hot air, then nothing could stop us on our trajectory — except…

Heat fans, beware: The loser talk has already begun. After Miami closed out its seven-game preseason slate with a seventh loss, this by 17 points to the defending champion Spurs, a reporter apparently asked Udonis Haslem his thoughts on the worst preseason in the Heat’s 20-year history. “Even though we’re…

Most of the experiments slated to run at the Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator under construction outside Geneva, involve blasting protons at one another and seeing if any weird bits of matter are produced. Hopes are high that the collider will produce a Higgs boson — the mysterious little…

Whether it’s $600 PlayStation 3s or the five bucks Nintendo shamelessly charges for 20-year-old NES games on the Wii’s Virtual Console, gamers have gotten used to assuming the position when it comes to the costs of their hobby. So if you’ve just heard about The Orange Box — five of…