Professional wrestling has a figure-four leg-lock on Frank Munguia’s heart. He’s spent his entire adult life – or at least the last 17 years of it – involved in all aspects of the table-smashing, spine-thrashing, spandex-ripping sport. He’s acted, promoted, filmed, toured, and, yes, even wrestled to keep crowds engaged…
Streetball tour remains the hoops version of reality TV – the appeal is in wondering how you would fare out there – and a decade after AND1 tied its fortunes to showboating amateurs, here now comes along Ball4Real (bypassing numerical possibilities such as Hoops2Live, BBall3D and Porou5Defen5e). The AND1 Mixtape…
If you’re like most South Floridians, you probably take the fact that we live moments from one of the best strips of beaches in the world for granted. It’s not that we don’t love the ocean; we do – it’s just that the last time many of us visited the…
Everybody who’s anybody loves The Promethean Theatre. Their last two plays were Two Rooms, Lee Blessing’s emotionally exhausting examination of lives shattered by terrorism, and A Number, Caryl Churchill’s improbably touching play about bad parents and cloning. These were not productions designed to suck in big audiences: They were for…
Look out, South Florida. Tonight is when the year’s biggest, hairiest event rolls its rolls into town — and its attendees are lookin’ for some lovin’. It’s “Chubs in Paradise: A Gathering for Larger Gay Men and their Admirers,” a three-day party co-hosted by the Cheston House (520 North Birch…
The world needed a new Jewish dirty glam rapper, so Yeshe Perl rolled off the couch, shook the needle from his arm, wiped the sticky blood and blow from his nose, licked his night’s companion goodbye, and renamed himself Mickey Avalon. Now he’s a sensation. Blending salacious first-hand accounts of…
In the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, visitors to monasteries are blessed with a bop on the head from a wooden phallus. According to myth, a long-dead saint cockslapped evil spirits into submission, and ever since the penis has stood, as it were, as a divine symbol. Here in America,…
It was just two months ago that former Saturday Night Live star Tracy Morgan had a bit of blowout here in South Florida. Don’t remember? That was when a drunken Morgan stumbled into the Mega 94.9 studios to plug his upcoming Improv performances and wound up stumbling out with a…
Punk rock has slackened on both the “punk” and “rock” fronts as of late: eye-lined prissiness has usurped punk attitude and the rock has turned into silly-putty. But Boys Night Out is no shrill megaphone for emo-boy distress. Guitarist Jim Davis puts straight-from-the-heart music before moneymaking and a marketing strategy:…
The magic has returned to the Harry Potter franchise — albeit magic of the old, black variety. The darkest and most threatening by far of the five Potter films, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is also the only series entry outside of the third, Alfonso Cuarón´s Harry…
Whenever a dinosaur of a production like Side by Side by Sondheim bumps its way across a stage, all who see it are forced to make a decision. Should they judge it on its charms — on its music, its singing, its fun factor? Or should they judge it on…
(Palm) A hit at the South by Southwest Film Festival two years ago, Keven McAlester’s doc about the Papa of Psychedelia, Roky Erickson, at long last gets its proper release. But time has done McAlester a tremendous favor: Had he shot the film too soon, he would have been forced…
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Wii
Price: $49.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
After the Wedding (IFC) The Astronaut Farmer (Warner Bros.) Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (Funimation) Brutal (Lionsgate) The Comedy Collection (Lionsgate) Elizabeth Taylor Collection (St. Clair) Extras: The Complete Second Season (HBO) Fat Burning Hip Hop Dance Party: Urban Style (Shami) Fred Astaire Collection (St. Clair) Frankie & Annette: MGM Movie…
If there are two things that the rest of the free world unanimously disdains about America, the first would be, of course, our foreign policy, followed close behind by our beer. Not that you can equate shoot-first-ask-no-questions-later statesmanship to insipid, ultra-mass produced toilet water, but, come on now… it takes…
Racking up debt is one of the most All-American things one can do. These days we associate a person’s patriotism based on his credit score – and that’s really got to change. Libraries are an excellent resource for cheap fun, proven this evening when the Weston Library (4205 Bonaventure Blvd.,…
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, what race box you check off on your SAT’s, or what class you belong to, everyone has a friend who is obsessed with 311. And, like it or not, that friend will try incessantly to wave their domineering reggae-funk-rock-rap politics in…
With a giant Dalmatian puppy over its entry and silhouettes of a different breed in each of its windows, ¨For the Love of Dogs¨ begs for attention before visitors even make it through the door. It´s sure to be an effective method of getting kids to hound their parents into…
Transformers twiddles its big, fat, stupid robotic thumbs for the better part of two hours before jabbing them into your eye socket and finger-fucking your brain in the last 20 minutes. Yes! It´s torture enough waiting for the iPhone and the second coming of Jesus without wondering when, exactly, this…
Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.¨ So goes the personal mantra of the late celebrity chef Auguste Gusteau, whose disembodied spirit materializes — Jiminy Cricket-style — to guide the rodent hero of Brad Bird´s Ratatouille toward his goal of gastronomic excellence. He also seems to be…
Hello. I´m Brandon, and I am a scared little animal. So are you. Our sales department tells the advertisers otherwise — that you are all Hip, Sophisticated, and Upwardly Mobile; that we are Intelligent, Professional, and Highly Principled. And that might even be true, as far as it goes. But…
Surfing has a barrier to entry that’s a lot more difficult to surmount than other sports. First, there’s the equipment – are you really going to buy a board if you don’t know how to use it? Then, there’s the problem of training – you can’t really teach yourself to…
