“When you see it,” says Danielle Lanteigne, “it all makes sense.” Lanteigne is the owner of Leche Vitrines, Fort Lauderdale’s newest and most event-happy fine-arts gallery (3038 N. Federal Highway, Times Square Design Plaza, Building F, 2nd Floor), and she should know. Seldom does a week go by when Vitrines…
It’s been five years since Gayla Harrington first heard about the Miami Fury, down south’s Independent Women’s Football League team; she never expected to become a co-owner. She tried out, made the team, fought valiantly alongside her fellow players, and had the time of her life. But when the owners…
The gays are rioting! They’re taking over the Guzman Center for the Performing Arts (174 E. Flagler St., Miami) tonight, where they are planning an uprising called “Queer Riot!” Such atrocities they have in store! Murder! Mayhem! Just kidding. It’s actually a comedy show, featuring notable comedians from the gay…
It’s been a year since her murder. While the rest of the cast and crew carried on with their lives, joined other productions, and made their worlds whole again, the deceased’s lover – and the show’s playwright – has not. And quite frankly, he’s not too happy about that. In…
Many 19 year-olds dream of the day they can legally drink, but Andrea Ollarvide had something more readily accessible on her mind: choreographing a modern dance performance. Yep, she’s the brains behind all four parts of the hour-long show “Sketches in Motion,” and she’ll even be performing the first quarter…
The biggest and baddest set of haunted houses, Fright Nights, has returned to South Florida just in time for Halloween, and this year’s incarnation is chock full of enough freely flowing innards and pant-wetting scares to keep you shivering under the covers until next October. Back are the classic haunts:…
Soul, funk, R ´n’ B, doo-wop musician Aaron Neville has been crankin’ out hits, both solo and with his three siblings under the name The Neville Brothers, for half a century. Songs like “Tell it Like it Is,” “Mardi Gras Mambo,” and a whole slew of lesser-known ´50s and ´60s…
There’s no doubt about it: Americans are weight obsessed. We spent all last month talking about Britney’s paunch, and yet anytime Nicole Richie or one of the other post-teen debutants drops a couple of sizes we start tossing out words like anorexia. The truth is, all this talk about who’s…
Seriously kids, the Dolphins aren’t giving you much to scream for this season, so this is a call to arms for sports fans: Redirect your cheering efforts to hockey. Our Panthers are lookin’ good, and their shortcomings (the boys have been a bit slow in the early periods) will hopefully…
Despite their convictions, vegetarians and vegans are tempted every day. Ever driven by a BBQ joint and smelled that delicious, meat-laden smoke drifting into your windows, or watched an inch-thick T-bone steak sizzle on the grill, its marbled flesh caramelizing against the heated grates? The point is: it’s a deliciously…
If you stumble onto your favorite familiar, well-trodden path of earth tonight, you won’t find your weekly drum circle bros. Nay, hand-percussion instruments and less portable toking tools will also be abandoned for the next 48 hours in honor of the two-day stint by jam-band-powerhouse Medeski, Martin & Wood. The…
Peel back the pages of the new coffee table book I Was Cuba, and discover everything from grape garnished models and ostrich plumed showgirls to rare studio portraits of Ernesto “Che” Guevara juxtaposing snapshots of sultry female impersonator Bobby de Castro. This collaborative effort by Kevin Kwan and Ramiro Fernandez…
Killer timing! Manda Bala (“Send a Bullet”), Jason Kohn’s vivid, lean-and-hungry documentary about São Paulo’s fatalistic food chain of extreme poverty, violence, unmitigated corruption, and overwhelming wealth arrives just as Vanity Fair’s “Viva Brazil!!” issue hits the stands. Can’t we find a new country to fetishize? Trading once again on…
Billiards is one of the few sports that’s as taxing on a computer screen as it is in real life. It’s played in pubs, after all, and its legendary star was named “Fats.” Unfortunately, most virtual billiard games are behind the eight ball in terms of quality, with poor physics…
If ever an exhibition needed a map of some sort, “Craig Kucia: many sundays were spent talking of rockets,” the small one-man show now at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, is it. Unfortunately, no directions are forthcoming, just a postcard handout with this meager description: “Craig Kucia creates…
Caligula: Imperial Edition (Penthouse) (Spoiler alert: fisting!) One day back in the swingin’ ’70s, somebody mentioned how “absolute power corrupts absolutely,” and then Bob Guccione, Gore Vidal, Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, and Peter O’Toole said, “Let’s make a big-budget movie about that, with come shots.” And Caligula was born. Actually,…
To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, a 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992, will never be anything more than a case of a spoiled bourgeois brat with half-cocked survivalist fantasies (and possibly suicidal tendencies) who ran away…
An FAU parking cop told me he’d save me the trip to “2007 Biennial Art Faculty Exhibit” with his own review: “It’s a good reason not to send your kids to study art here.” He harrumphed something about conceptual art as I walked toward the humanities building. I’d heard it…
The Audrey Hepburn DVD Collection (Paramount) Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Collector’s Edition (Sony) Christmas Television Favorites (Warner Bros.) The Comedians of Comedy: Live at the Troubadour (Image) Criminal Minds: The Second Season (Paramount) Day Night Day Night (IFC) Entourage: Season Three, Part 2 (HBO) Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer…
Looking at the past three months for the Heat, it’s hard to tell whether the team took the off-season off or merely had an off off-season. In one of the deepest drafts in memory, the Heat came away with all of Daequan Cook, who played fewer than 20 minutes per…
Some mornings you just need to play hooky, buy a fancy coffee drink, and lose a spindle’s worth of moments inside an art gallery. It’s just good for the soul. Lucky for you the Fine Arts Gallery at Broward Community College (Central Campus, 3501 SW Davie Rd., Davie) has you…
The Bible is as much a guide to sex as the Kama Sutra is a guide to satellite repair. But fundamentalist Christians have extracted two statements from its pages and used them to rule out tolerance of homosexuality – other than the “love the sinner” sort. For The Bible Tells…
