You need to go to fashion’s roots to find your wardrobe’s missing link. Fashion forward thinkers know that mixing vintage and modern to cultivate their own style is a lot more interesting than looking like a walking, talking, mannequin from the Express. The problem is that vintage styles and sizes…
Has competitive gaming finally become a sport unto itself? Let’s look at the facts: The World Series of Video Games is now being broadcast on CBS Sports; “Frag” has entered Webster’s Dictionary as slang for killing your opponent in Quake; and the competition to find the best Madden NFL gamer,…
She had to borrow the truck from Miami Animal Rescue to deliver one wounded dog to a foster home, but when she pulled back into the parking lot, Jacquelyn Johnston realized that she had to save another one. “I heard Wooo-oo-ooo!” howled Johnston, mimicking Penny the 98-pound bloodhound’s introductory statement…
Nerds, like Goonies, never say die. That’s why geek numero uno, Lisa Corrao, is bringing her ragtag band of pocket protector sporting funnyfolk back to the Palm Beach Improv (550 S. Rosemary Ave. Suite 250, West Palm Beach) for a second helping of her show, Revenge of the Nerd Comics…
Regardless of whether the Miami Dolphins can surmount their dismal ΄06 season, let alone beat the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday, there’s one thing we will never lose: the joy of tailgating. Yup, there’s nothing like setting up camp in a concrete lot, hours before the actual game, with the sole…
Comedy may not necessarily be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of whiskey. Wild nights, rock ´n’ roll, and sleeping in the next day are more like it, right? Maybe, but the folks at the company that makes Jameson Irish Whiskey disagree. You see, they’re from…
If you were part of the 1980’s working class, you no doubt had a soundtrack for punching the clock. Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, and the like helped finesse the monotony of being a blue-color drone by glamorizing the art of barely scraping by. But lately, it seems no one besides…
In the paintings of Guillermo Trujillo, everyone is tall. NBA tall. The Panama-born painter stretches the heights of his subjects to represent the nurturing effects of the nucho, a ritualistic symbol of the uniting life force. Trujillo’s modern take on folk art channels the spirit of this ceremonial tool into…
After a long workweek, what better way to welcome the weekend than a little – OK, a lot – of brewski? Go straight to the experts. BX Beer Depot (2964 Second Ave. N., Lake Worth) isn’t just a place to find hard-to-get microbrews like Boulder and Hazed & Infused, it…
Back in the early ´90s, the biggest musical movement from the eyes of a middle-schooler was Miami Bass. Yup, instead of sneaking a listen at some foul-mouthed rock band, you’d slink out to your parent’s car, Return of the Bass That Ate Miami CD in hand, and crank the volume…
Put on your dancing shoes, boys and girls! Care Resource, South Florida’s largest HIV/AIDS organization, is hosting the first (and theoretically not last, if all goes well) G.I.R.L. AID fundraiser: a 32-hour long dance party at Uncle’s (1000 State Road 84, Fort Lauderdale). Starting at 7 p.m. on Friday, G.I.R.L…
If you are one of those folks who believe the adage, “Those who can’t do, teach,” the 2007-2008 Armory Art Center visual arts instructors are about to prove you wrong. (Silly cynic.) They’ve worked tirelessly to create ceramic items, sculptures, jewelry pieces, prints, photographs, drawings, and all kinds of innovative…
What’s the difference between good corn and bad corn? And anyway, what’s corn? Is it, like pornography, a thing you know only when you see it? One suspects that to declare something “corny” is to say it appeals to a set of desires that need no mediating reason or logic…
Sundance signals, for better or worse, the state of American independent filmmaking. Cannes keeps faith, for those who still believe, with the cinema d’auteur. And Toronto? The largest and most important film festival in North America seems to do nearly as many things as there are movies to see —…
Take 59 pages from a book on modern Colombian architecture and reproduce them as posters and you’ve got “Architecture in Colombia: A Sense of Place,” or so it seems (the book was under glass). Be prepared to read a lot of small print, search for itty-bitty superscript, and sift through…
The Office: Season Three (Universal) After a shaky first season and a better-with-every-episode second, The Office proved itself one of the most consistent comedies in the history of the medium. The show has long since escaped the shadow of its BBC forebear and boasts an ensemble from which you could…
Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a 50-year-old Western with the semblance of life. Mangold’s remake of 3:10 to Yuma isn’t as startling a resurrection job as his Johnny Cash biopic, but it does send a saddlebag full of Western tropes skittering into…
There have already been critical rumblings about the extreme violence in Shoot ‘Em Up, but it’s hard to get too worked up about a film whose very title announces its maker’s intent and that opens by raking the New Line Cinema corporate logo with machine-gun fire (a gesture long overdue)…
Funny how gaming’s most epic genre — the role-playing game — often feels the most limited in scope. After all, how many ways can we traverse a medieval land, defeat the orcs, rescue the girl, save the world, and level up along the way? Never enough times would be the…
The Black Donnellys: The Complete Series (Universal) Chill Out Scooby-Doo! (Warner Bros.)City of Violence (Weinstein)Delta Farce (Lionsgate)Desperate Housewives: The Complete Third Season (Buena Vista)Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (Disney)Georgia Rule (Universal)Gumby Essentials (Classic Media)It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1 & 2 (Fox)Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (Classic Media)Nip/Tuck:…
Our “post-modern” world is taking on the ambience of a cattle farm: ads are on the air now for Mirapex, a pill to treat restless-leg syndrome; “possible side-effects” include a gambling or sex addiction. Meanwhile, the antibiotics fed to today’s actual cows keep them calm. When’s the last time you’ve…
C’mon, let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learnin’ how, come to the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival with me … In spite of our beachfront proximity, hardcore surf fiends are quick to tell you South Florida waves don’t cut it – this part of the Atlantic is more tranquil than hang…
