Just because you’re a starving artist doesn’t mean you have to hang in your garret all the time. Come on over to Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Boulevard on Saturday and make art a communal experience at the Quick Draw Las Olas art event. You’ll have two hours to create a…
You might wonder how seriously you should take a gallery that got started on Craigslist. But that’s sort of the point: Gallery owner Peter Meyerhoefer thinks art should be as accessible as an online posting. The “Second Look” show at his Meyerhoefer Gallery offers a hodgepodge of art from emerging…
The Lives of Others (Sony) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film, easily the best of last year, exists on many levels: as tragedy, dark comedy, and love story — not between a man and a woman, but between two seemingly opposite men bound by the same damnation. On the one hand…
Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie and television director who told me I’d be handling a mix of personal and professional responsibilities. Not long after, I was put to work maintaining the good humor of the tenants at…
Resurrecting the Champ is a great movie about journalism — maybe the best there ever was — because Resurrecting the Champ is mind-erasingly boring. It’s a solid story about the newspaper business — specifically, about how a well-intentioned writer occasionally makes a mistake totally by accident, a mistake that is…
The first worthwhile online-compatible game for the Wii has finally arrived. And in at least one way, Mario Strikers Charged is just like real soccer: Sometimes it scores, and sometimes it’s just a kick in the balls. The sequel to Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged continues the Nintendo tradition…
Broken English (Magnolia)The Ex (Weinstein)Exorcism: Special Edition (BCI)The Far Side of Jericho (First Look)The Films of Michael Haneke (Kino)House of Games: The Criterion Collection (Criterion)House: Season Three (Universal)JAG: The Fourth Season (Paramount)Man About the House: The Complete First and Second Series (BCI)A New Wave (THINKfilm)Perfect Stranger (Sony)Rob Zombie: 3 Disc…
It really was like déjà vu all over again. Stepping into Art Expressions Gallery, I mean. The gallery, once crammed into a cramped space in a tiny strip mall on NE Fourth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, reopened on June 1 in a space more than twice as large. And while…
Party people, there’s something we need to address: organized dance moves have hit an all-time peak of laziness. Moves like the “Shoulder Lean” and “Walk It Out” are making us sound like extras from the Sit and Be Fit geriatric aerobics show instead of young and agile clubgoers. Perhaps it’s…
There’s absolutely nothing embarrassing about being a 26-year-old man who rides waterslides. There may, however, be something embarrassing about screaming louder than that girl who was in line before you for Pirate’s Plunge. But you’re not afraid of monsters in your closet, and you eat all your broccoli – what’s…
You’ve been dreaming about this moment all week, the way the diligent student secretly pines for recess. It’s Friday. Your boss has unhinged your cubicle’s shackles. For the next 64 hours, you’re free to do whatever you want. And what you want is a cocktail. Or better yet, a free…
At Boca’s debauched dueling piano bar, FunKey Nutz (303 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton), patrons are usually the ones who shed their clothing. During naughty renditions of classic rock and pop tunes, guys at tightly packed, stage-side tables whoop and holler as inebriated women do their best Motley Crüe groupie…
What do you get when you grab the Au Pairs, ´80s-era King Crimson, Mungo Jerry, and the guy who mixes the harmonies for The Scissor Sisters, stick them in a blender, and hit “frappe”? Goo. You get goo. It’s disgusting. Never try it. But! If you take those same ingredients,…
People love tragedy as long as they’re not on the receiving end. It’s an artistic premise that’s not likely to be shelved anytime soon thanks to our sickly little addiction to sadism, and a willingness to stuff unwholesome urges deep in our guts. But hey, it works for us; and…
There are a lot of values that are associated with being an American; respect for your community is one, pride in family is another. Maybe the most important trait that we all share is a love of buying things in bulk. For that reason, Imax (and its corporate sponsor Amex)…
L.A. nightlife meets Hindu mythology on Saturday when the California-based Shakti Dance Company dolls up and dances for deities. You’re invited to push back on an audience seat in the Broward Center of Performing Arts (201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale) and be hypnotized for a solid two-and-a-half hours (7…
T-shirt designers Laki Politis and Marc Edgar are still in college, but that hasn’t hampered their clothing-biz careers. Up in their hometown of Wellington, you might even call them made men. That’s where Politis first started hocking tees emblazoned with the words “561 – Wellington Mafia” to kids at his…
Have you been naughty? Do you need to be punished? Are you sitting around thinking, “I’m in the mood to get spanked by a large hairy man dressed in leather. But where do I do it?” Today is your lucky day! Get thee to Steel Nightclub (1951 N.W. 9th Ave…
Einstein had hormones and meiosis can result from frisky mattress conquests. While we rarely discuss the overlap between sex and science, the two are intimately linked, a fact proven repeatedly during science-rich ´80s teen films. Thanks to cinematic gems like Real Genius, Revenge of the Nerds, and Weird Science, we…
If last year’s Miami Dolphins team was a cast member on CSI: Miami, it’d have to be David Caruso – the poor bastards were trying sooooo hard to get all those lines right; and still, they came out laughably bad. This year, with the team’s demons banished to Alabama, the…
So you’re the next Rembrandt, but you know absolutely squat about pimping your magnum opus to the kingpins of the world? That’s a quandary which, if left untreated, could pigeonhole even the most brilliant artisans of acrylic in a dead-end beat like (shudder) comic book inker. Conveniently, art consultant Ed…
“The blues died when they took the ‘fuck’ out of it, ” says Rocco DeLuca, the front man of California rock outfit the Burden, in his bio. “To get [the blues] back we need to stick the real soul, that punk element back into it.” DeLuca would know; his father…
