Low-rent musical bioplays — or “celebrations,” as they’re called — are an unavoidable part of regional theater, and I’m glad. They are pleasant, aggressively brainless wastes of time, and I don’t mind their invasion of otherwise vibrant playhouses every four or five months. Why the hell should I? Music is…
The Archie Show: The Complete Series (Genius) Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (Warner Bros.)The Best of the Kids in the Hall: Volume 2 (A&E)Bloodlines (THINKfilm)Creature (MGM)A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (Docurama)Dallas: The Complete Seventh Season (Warner Bros.)Film Noir Classic Collection: Vol. 4 (Warner Bros.)Firehouse Dog (Fox)Hawaii Five-O: The Second…
While American women prepared to discard their bras, five fabled lassies in the United Kingdom were celebrating their liberation via groovy music, makeup, and miniskirts. Watch these birds sing their story at Shout! The Mod Musical, a revue spectacular told within the framework of ´60s musical magazine features (advice columns,…
Society at large generally recognizes three designated meals per day – breakfast, lunch, and dinner – each categorized by the time in which they take place and the type of food ingested. Granted, there are exceptions (eggs for dinner, cold pizza for breakfast), but we think these rigid gastronomic definitions…
Fans of piano-rock singer/songwriter Ben Folds are not too thrilled about his latest tour with soft-rocker John Mayer. For proof, just look at Folds’ Myspace site; it’s littered with comments from fans decrying Mayer, like, “Hope to see you again soon, without Mayer,” and (our favorite) “John Mayer isn’t worthy…
Open mic comedy can be a real mixed bag (you never really know what to expect on stage). But no matter how terrible or talented one open mic performance might be, the right unfiltered, raw vibe can transform an otherwise awkward room into Showtime at the Apollo. And that’s the…
It was of one of man’s first utterances, a cry for father. It began its professional career in 1916 as the beloved sobriquet and rallying shriek of a cabaret act in Zurich; and in 1999, it entered retirement in South Florida as a restaurant: “Dada.” Hip and artsy as it…
Looked at your things-to-do-before-I-die list lately? It’s not getting any shorter. Learn a new language: no check yet. Learn a musical instrument: nope. Perform in front of an audience: uh-uh. Well, here’s your chance. Antonio Adolfo, a celebrated Brazilian musician/composer has extended his Rio de Janeiro Centro Musical school to…
For actor-comedian Charlie Murphy, life after the unbelievable success of Chappelle’s Show is a beautiful thing. After all, it was his “True Hollywood Stories” sketches featuring retellings of his classic run-ins with Prince and Rick James that helped launch Chappelle’s Show from cable sketch series to comic cannon. His newest…
“The average person would have looked at it and seen a disaster zone,” Mikey Ramirez says from inside the record shop formerly known as CD Collector(1930 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). “We saw an opportunity we had to jump on.” You see, until six months ago, it was business as…
That hip, boutique coffee shop, Undergrounds Coffeehaus (2743 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale), is back in the art game this Saturday with their latest gallery show, “Coma Girl: The Artwork of Lisa Parrot.” Parrot’s art, images of cute but slightly devious little ladies lounging around slightly off-kilter flora and…
Sunday nights can be a drag. With Monday morning looming, party options are limited. After all, tomorrow you have to get up early, make a living, pay the rent, and all that other grown-up stuff. That’s exactly what Boca Raton DJ Ellegitimate thought when she envisioned her new mid-evening indie-music…
In hurricane season, the American Red Cross and you are the tightest BFFs. If need be, they bring you bottled water, surprisingly “OK-tasting” emergency meal packs, lend an ear for your bitch session about your blowhard neighbors’ generator, and, if your story is extra compelling, maybe you can even count…
For 20 years, Craig Biggio has manned second base for the Houston Astros — the longest such stint in the majors. So the club was seen as justified in letting Biggio fight through injuries (and their concomitant impediments to Biggio’s skills) to try to reach a Cooperstown-ready 3,000 career hits…
You need a musical retrospective about a beloved song-and-dance man from the 1940s! It’ll be great! Just like all those other musical retrospectives about song-and-dance men from the 1940s! Ginger Rogers got one! So did Gene Kelly! They were great! This one’s about Danny Kaye! It’s called The Kid From…
“There are some adventurous librarians out there,” reports Josh Malerman from his Motor City home; he’s the giddy frontman of Detroit’s The High Strung. The three-piece of storytelling rockers has been leading an unlikely crusade – not to expand drinking laws or revise public noise violation guidelines, but to topple…
God bless the fetish community. Their unwavering support of the scene and their steadfast, fanatical determination to dress up in skin tight latex dotted with holes for various body parts to slip out of are proof positive that following your passions wholeheartedly is a beautiful fucking thing. (If only we…
When plans by Susan Stanton (formerly Steve Stanton) to undergo gender reassignment surgery were leaked to the press, she was shocked at the backlash. In addition to being removed from her position as City Manager of Largo Florida, local message boards lit up with inflammatory, hateful comments. But those experiences…
The honeybees are vanishing. You know it, I know it, and, clearly, the honeybees have a hunch that something odd is going on (“Hey, has anyone seen Vinny? I swear he was just here…”). While we aren’t sure exactly what’s causing the pollinator genocide – be it build-up of pesticides…
When the Zombies didn’t make Florida’s leg of Little Steven’s Garage Rock Showcase last summer, it was the twenty-somethings who were crestfallen. There’s an odd affinity between the group and its fans. Maybe it’s because its lyrics never fit peacefully into the happy-go-lucky stereotypes of the free-love era – they…
It’s been tackled in film and on television, in memoirs, diaries, novels, and nonfiction. And despite all of those words and perspectives, there’s still plenty to be said about the war in Vietnam and its riveting effect on American society. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel adds to the discourse…
A teenaged Ugandan girl stares solemnly at the camera, the lower third of her face a mangled mess. Her crime? Refusing to have sex with a rebel soldier. Her punishment? Having her lips cut off. A young American, his face a crumpled mask of pain, holds the equally crumpled helmet…
