Arts & Culture

Most fundraising affairs require something from you: training for a charity marathon, owning kicks with proper arch support for a walk-a-thon, or gently nodding off unnoticed while a monotone voice yammers on about “infectious plague this” and “genocide that.” Isn’t it time that a benefit gave something back to the…

Your relationship with your closet is on the rocks. Your relaxed-fit jeans have been laundered so many times they’ve actually become skinny jeans (but sadly, a couple seasons too late). All of your shirts are bright coral – except for the ones you tried dying darker for fall (funny how…

If there was a single cuisine that represented all that is fashionable, hip, and trendy, it would have to be sushi. Check the facts: It’s neatly wrapped and self-contained; you can eat it and not worry about dripping on your expensive Izod shirt; and it actually looks as good as…

For NFL fans, the opening day of the football season is the most fabled day of the year — and Thursday night’s game featuring the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts should house enough storylines for a whole season’s worth of sports columns. What will win out: America’s affection…

U-N-I-T-Y In addition to just being a great bar, New Moon’s (2440 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors) distinguishing characteristic is that you can pull up a stool, watch sports, and carry on a conversation that’s evolved beyond grunting (and, co-requisite, crotch scratching). On Sundays, this Wilton Manors establishment houses both the…

OK, let’s pretend that this is an advice column for guys who want to make a good impression on the ladies. Nice clothes, a decent ride, and good hygiene are all no-brainers. What about if she actually comes over to your place? (Score!) A wall-sized plasma TV is always helpful,…

History buffs and flower-power vets of the ´60s remember America’s all-consuming fascination with the space race and its mad scramble to monopolize the world’s nuclear warheads — that is, until a different fixation oozed into public consciousness: biological warfare. Michael Crichton’s 1969 sci-fi techno-thriller novel The Andromeda Strain is more…

“I control emotion – my medium is art,” said Miami colorist Keith Smith about his unusual method of paint application. His finished products look unique because they are: Smith uses the paint’s fluidity in his favor, letting it roll and glide across the canvas in a controlled fashion. The end…

Last year, the seminal American progressive-house duo Deep Dish put the brakes on their collective work to pursue solo projects – leaving fans to wonder how the heck they’d manage to pop it and lock it to both Dubfire and Sharam’s divergent beats at the same time. (It’s tricky…) While…

Time was, this stuff was known generically as ultimate fighting, and it looked like a cross between boxing and a bar brawl. The main difference being that if this wiry Brazilian guy were to pin a barfly and issue a series of uppercuts to the poor bastard’s groin, it would…

Art-o-philes in the FTL can finally exhale – the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) has reopened! The Museum, which had shut its doors in June for maintenance and aesthetic enhancements, will start fresh on Friday with the arrival of the acclaimed “Quilts of…

There’s something admirable about having intense pride for the city you live in. Still, that type of dedication is a rare commodity here in Fort Lauderdale, a city full of people that hail from elsewhere. But for Jadis Mercado and the crew working at (954) Food Not Bombs, commitment to…

One of the beauties of livin’-la-vida-SoFla is being able to walk into any ramshackle beachside bar and see an artist’s airbrushed wall mural of tropical fish. Of course, this cartoonish interpretation isn’t the only way to appreciate sea life. In the works of Helter Skeletons, it’s what is underneath the…

He’s invited you to “Pop that Coochie” and directed you in which positions to place both “your face” and “your ass.” But now, on the First Friday of each month you’re invited to spend a couple hours on a Sea Escape cruise with Luther Campbell and, according to his MySpace…

You only run (1) when chased, or (2) towards snacks. That’s OK. Nobody ever said that you have to be a marathon winner to be a productive member of society. In fact, this evening you can swig back beers, win awesome prizes, and just enjoy your natural squishiness as others…

Emo and hardcore are like Itchy and Scratchy: one smiles dejectedly as the other saws it in half. Whether the two get along or not, Sugar Paradise (4221 N. State Road 7, Hollywood), a restaurant-turned-nightclub, is rolling the dice and hoping to score on tonight’s venture: a hardcore-meets-pop punk showcase…

Visit the world of Karen Kilimnik and you’ll find a gothic landscape cloaked in a gossamer web of memory. Her trove of imagery flits from ballet, childhood, pop music, film and fashion icons, romantic painting, witchcraft, murder, melodrama and even time travel in scenes that upend the historic and recent…

There is a thing that occasionally happens in this job, when you run into a production that does more than entertain you or stimulate conversation or make you cry, and those productions are almost worth the whole paycheck. These are the rare productions that actually orient you, in relation to…

As robustly enthusiastic and straightforward as their show’s title, the works in “Eat Up” are about as complicated as the cupcake in the show’s namesake painting. When you learn that the artist, Helena Garcia, once worked for Hello Kitty, a smiling, animé-style cat, extending a single serving dessert just makes…