Arts & Culture

You have multiple reasons for going to tonight’s benefit for Pet Project. First and foremost, the cause is just plain good – the organization provides pet food and pet services to people with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses. Furthermore, you get a three-course meal at Bellissimo (1670 E. Oakland Park…

Be a witness as Texas old school collides with Motor City throwbacks at 9 p.m. at the Bamboo Room (25 South J St, Lake Worth). Kim Wilson, former frontman for Austin, Texas’s own Fabulous Thunderbirds, joins Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones for a night of blues grooves and note-bending…

You know those paper place mats you always see on the table at the neighborhood Chinese restaurant – the ones with little illustrations of animals and a list of birth years they correspond to? Well, they represent the Chinese Zodiac, and there’s a lot more to it than stir-fry and…

Oil painting is as an instantaneous art form – it’s as immediate as the stroke of a brush. Maybe that’s why so many Western artists prefer it to the more drawn-out process of printmaking. But in Japan, artists like Katsunori Hamanishi, Susumu Endo, and Yoshikatsu Tamekane embrace printmaking’s Zen-like methods…

“With my company, even though we might do a jazz turn, the way we do it is a hip-hop way. If we do a ballet leap, it’s more street-related.” So says Pablo Malco, founder of Pfuzion Entertainment, a company of 11 high-energy dancers. “We mix trendy hip-hop, like the stuff…

A little goal here. An important save there. A massive body-check everywhere. These days, every move that the Florida Panthers make carries heavy consequences. Today is the fifth-to-last game of the Cats’ regular season, and at press time, they were still in contention to land the eighth and last slot…

It seems like the Miami Heat have had the second seed in the Eastern Conference locked up since all the way back when Katie Holmes was still Joey, and Tom Cruise was still normal. Staring down the final six games of the regular season, including four straight at home, the…

Being a straight girl and getting turned on to the works of Bubba Clicks is kind of like… punishment. First, you go “Oh, Bubba Clicks! What a cute name!” Then, you hear that he’s a photographer – “How cool!” Then, you see the guys in his photographs – “Yum-tastic!” And…

Jeff Corwin is parched from his latest exploration through the sweltering jungles of Thailand, where he successfully rescued some Particolored Flying Squirrels. He is exhausted from his recent excursion to the Galapagos Islands, where he played matchmaker to turtles desperately needing to find love in the sands lest their species…

Does beer make you smarter? Of Coors it does. It made Bud wiser! It also makes you look Yuengling-er. So hurry down to the New Times Beerfest, the most beer-tastic, beer-licious event ever. It starts at beer-thirty (7 p.m.), but if you get there Pabst that, don’t worry, as it…

The psycho ward. The loony bin. The wacky shack. Whatever you call it, it’s not where most people want to rent a room, let alone be committed to by their loved ones. And for Veta, the well-intentioned woman in Mary Chase’s Harvey, showing concern for brother Elwood has unintended consequences…

Ballet is a calculated mix of form, grace, car commercials, and guys wearing Uncle Sam hats. OK, maybe not all ballet. But that is what you can expect at Broward Community College’s 2006 Spring Dance Concert. In her choreographed piece State of a Union, BCC dance faculty member Elana Lanczi…

Poor Frankenstein. The original creature from Mary Shelley’s novel may be a victim of his own success. The story became so popular after its publication in 1818 that Ol’ ´Stein has been imitated, adopted, and parodied — so much that his original story has been lost. These days, we’re more…

Fans of multi-genre, musical hybrids, pay attention — the MPE Band is headed this way. Never heard of ´em? Well, you just might want to write that name down because the music critics familiar with the MPE Band are likin’ what they hear. But even so, this Philadelphia-based trio is…

He may not be as big a star as his former In Living Color castmates Jamie Foxx and Jim Carey, but Detroit native David Alan Grier is one of the most indefatigable funnymen on the scene, a comic cut-up who seems to be in a movie, TV show, or on…

Surely there has to be something worse than a weekend visit from the in-laws. Well, there is, but it’s not death or taxes. It ’s a permanent visit from the in-laws. And in his play Squabbles, Marshall Karp has dreamt up the worst-case scenario. It’s quite enough that Alice’s grump…

Face it, there’s no way to get back the brain cells you lost watching Bubble Boy, the 2001 comedic bust starring a pre-Brokeback Mountain Jake Gyllenhaal. However, while your soul is forever tainted, you can make good with your brain at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival at Cinema…

In the evil galaxy of schadenfreude where theater resides, nothing’s better than a darkly funny play about hopeless wankers full of big talk and even bigger dreams that you know will never be realized because of their cycles of obsession and addiction, whether it’s drugs, sex, or, in the case…