Arts & Culture

“The Other Half: Women Artists in the Collection” seeks to help balance the gender inequity, one supposes. Acknowledging that women’s “contribution to society, arts, literature, and sciences has been overshadowed by their male counterparts,” Boca Museum has selected works from its permanent collection by women who “have created important work…

The newly opening Girls’ Club may sound like either a gentleman’s joint or an exclusive dive for femmes. But it’s neither. It’s actually an alternative art space showcasing (among its many male and female works) a broad collection of local and national contemporary female artists. The Club (117 NE Second…

Latex-clad shock-rockers, ahoy! The horror climate couldn’t be more perfect for the resurgence of fetishistic metal band, Genitorturers, what with the near-endless stream of torture flicks like Hostel 5 and Saw 33 piling up heaps of money. The Orlando-born group is famous for melding balls-out rock with an X-rated sideshow…

Inside Out Theatre’s second-to-last play, Manuscript, was about a conniving woman devoted to man’s ruin, and the men who avenged themselves against her. Then came The Faith Healer, about a woman ruined by a man too self-absorbed to notice. Both productions were jewels, tucked improbably away in the little theater…

Back in the days when slavery was first abolished, the African American contingency of Houston, Texas, was relegated to a separate section of the city called the Third Ward. Initially, the Third Ward flourished with black-owned businesses, churches, and schools. But over the course of the 20th century, it became…

If your prevailing wisdom about sharks still stems from that bloodthirsty ´70s Spielberg number, here are some neat facts: odds actually favor death by falling coke machines and Buffalo wing bingeing before that of death by a Great Whites’ jaws. If you find that shocking, just think how much more…

This year’s incarnation of the esteemed Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show promises to be bigger and, er… boatier than ever, with what flacks call “$2 billion worth of runabouts, sportfishers, high performance boats, cabin cruisers, express cruisers, sailing yachts, motor yachts, bowriders, catamarans, trawlers, inflatables, canoes, and extraordinary superyachts.” That’s…

Cast your mind back to a moment in your childhood — you were hiding behind your living room couch watching a Disney movie; it was scaring you shitless. Disney movies didn’t usually have that effect, but this was Fantasia, with its satanic denouement: a giant demon descending from a mountaintop…

There are certain things that can only be said aloud if you’re Sarah Silverman. It’s a phenomenon that’s been demonstrated repeatedly since her one-woman show/musical, Jesus is Magic, hit the video store shelves and her appearance on The Aristocrats became urban party legend and her new series, The Sarah Silverman…

Without costumes, Halloween would just be a bunch of people running around, talking about ghosts and demanding candy. (Lame.) Thankfully we do masquerade as someone else, and who we pick says a lot about what parties we should go to. Latex Devil, Feathery Angel Saturday’s Halloween party at Duck Soup…

You’ve beheld his physical beauty on Sierra Mist commercials. You’ve constructed shrines to his biting commentary on VH1’s I love the ´90’s and his comedic genius in cult-classics like Wet Hot American Summer and The Ten. Why not go see the whole live man? He’s a wonderful man. Oh yes…

In only ten months, Pink Ghost (21 W. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) has injected itself into the local art community’s consciousness. The pop culture venue showcases independently crafted work in local art shows, the next of which, Purgatory: Soul’s Lounge is happening Saturday night. This new exhibit displays the…

A boxer without a story may as well be a horse. A man’s history inspires empathy in others; with empathy, we taste the bitterness of the sweet science. A 168-pounder from Colombia, Edison “Pantera” Miranda (28-2, 24 KOs) knows this fact well enough to pump his piteous bio in his…

Try this musical experiment just for giggles. The next time you’re hanging out with someone who’s sonically conservative — parents who yell at you to “turn that crap off,” a boyfriend who’s way too into jam bands, that prissy coworker who couldn’t let her hair down if her life depended…

Pistols. Swallows. Brass Knuckles. While they’re all iconic clipart and endless fodder for regrettable tattoos — they still can’t hold a rusty Bic lighter’s flame to the always-appropriate human skull. Think about it. That thing will never go out of style. Whether it’s a reminder of death’s inevitability, an image…

Socialized medicine. Prescription drugs from Canada. Government-subsidized healthcare for children. If these don’t scare the living hell out of you, then we recommend that you head directly to Tradewinds Park and experience the Doctor’s Sanitarium. Produced by those sick — yet lovable — bastards Muncheez Entertainment, the Sanitarium is an…

You don’t have a sweet tooth; you have a mouthful of sweet teeth (and hopefully, a dexterous dentist). And like any proper snack junkie, the promise of unlimited sugar-based snacks gives you an uncontrollable case of the DTs. Take control of your saccharine obsession – or at least channel it…

Dennis Rodman is having a Halloween party at Gulfstream Casino (901 South Federal Hwy, Hallandale Beach), and y’all are invited! Of course, since ’tis the season, it’s a costume party, which poses the question: What is he going to wear? With Rodman, that’s always the question; never mind the fact…

For confirmation of the idea that bigger is not necessarily better, look no further than the Boca Raton Museum of Art, where two exhibitions that vary dramatically in scale vie for visitors’ attention. The main first-floor galleries are taken up by a splashy crowd-pleaser, “Conflicting Currents: Aspects of American Art…

The Promethean Theatre’s premiere production of Red Tide opens with three actors in a vaguely unnerving tableau, stretching across the Mailman Theatre’s small stage. Mathew Chapman is sitting to your left, waving a baseball bat around his scummy little apartment, freaking out about some dream he just had. Is there…