When the Tricky Beans formed in 1996, the Finnish outfit was as far from heavy metal as the Spin Doctors. That’s no simple analogy – the Beans covered Spin Doctors songs. But the band also covered Megadeth and by 1999 had embraced a heavier sound, as well as a new…
It wasn’t that Charles Ludlam didn’t understand Shakespeare or Wuthering Heights; it’s just that he found the whole world of Victorian and Gothic literature a tad too pretentious for his tastes. So he threw in a few dirty jokes, a whole lot of cross-dressing, and a werewolf. Ludlam, known and…
Listening to early recordings of No Use For a Name, you’d think it was a totally different band from the one that’s currently (reluctantly?) going by that moniker. Lineup changes aside, NUFN has come a long way since its more metal-inspired days in the late ´80s. While many of the…
Zagat gave Bistro Zenith (3011 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton) an “excellent” rating for its “eclectic American” food, but has anyone paid attention to the bar in this place? Manager Brian Kirk says that they have a healthy 58-bottle-long wine list, sake and champagne, “more vodkas than I can count, a…
What goes through Lance Armstrong’s head while he’s chugging up the French Pyrenees on two wheels? Does he think about how much his thighs are burning? Does he ponder his favorite color of spandex? Does he sing to himself, “Every Day Is a Winding Road?”? You may soon have a…
Why do Americans fight wars anyway? Because we want to capture baddies like Saddam and Osama? Or because Dick Cheney likes watching his stock ticker and seeing the price of Halliburton shares go up, up, and away? In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower – the only five-star general to…
According to Black Issues in Higher Education, Nova Southeastern University (3301 College Ave., Fort Lauderdale) is the number-one producer of African-American doctorates – and that’s among both traditionally white and historically black colleges. Take that, Howard University! So it’s no wonder that NSU has whipped up a month-long agenda of…
We’ve all been there – fiddling with iTunes for hours, trying to get the playlist juuuust right. But the perfect mix remains elusive. So we asked Mr. Tall, Dark, and Yummy himself – the Miami-based DJ named Cue – to share his secrets for creating a flawless flow. “It’s like…
Willie Barcena’s act is rich with stories about his humble beginnings in East LA., his Latino heritage, and his blue-collar background. His past jobs include security guard, plumber, roofer, and limo driver. In addition to being able to snake your drain, re-shingle your house, and perform stand-up comedy, he has…
She might be hotter than a parked car in August, but Mischa Barton gossip isn’t the only buzz coming out of the OC these days. The ABA’s Orange County Buzz, who face the Florida Pit Bulls Friday, might not be lighting up gossip columns, but let’s see Mischa dunk. The…
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that while watching Cold Case Files might technically qualify as a murder mystery, yelling at the TV does not qualify as audience participation. Sorry. But if a Lean Cuisine casserole and CSI Miami don’t quite live up to the evening…
There’s nothing particularly disturbing about Disturbed. In fact, the music industry is anything but disturbed by the multi-platinum success of these four metal mavens from the south side of Chicago. Disturbed’s latest slab of forged steel, Ten Thousand Fists, plays like the mutant child of Pantera and the X-Men –modern…
For all the clever comments and raunchy anecdotes a standup comic may have prepared, nothing tests his true skills like a disruptive audience member. So while Sean Kent has no shortage of sharply written material on his CD Sex, Drugs, and Politics, it’s his verbal beat-down of a loud, attention-seeking…
This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy, combined with a touch of felonious assault. It has evidently not occurred to Steve Martin that, just as there is only one Eiffel Tower, there is…
That Curious George existed at all — much less as a franchise, an icon enduring some 65 years — was a result of “happy circumstance,” wrote Houghton Mifflin publisher Anita Silvey with some understatement in 1991, upon the 50th-anniversary publication of The Complete Adventures of Curious George. Silvey and critic…
Let’s get right to the point: If you are the type of person who enjoys seeing attractive naked girls meet a hideously graphic demise, there’s a scene in Final Destination 3 that will wear out the pause and rewind buttons on your DVD remote a few months from now. Mega-stereotype…
It is often written of Harrison Ford that he’s the most profitable movie star in history, to the tune of some $3.8 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. Of course, once one subtracts from that total the first three Star Wars movies, the Indiana Jones trilogy, and two outings as C.I.A…
It happens so often these days. A comedy opens with clever jokes, endearing characters, and an enjoyably brisk pace, all of which put you at ease. This’ll be fun, you think, settling into your chair. Someone trustworthy is driving, so let’s enjoy the ride. And then, just when you thought…
Almost 40 years after M Ensemble’s latest show premiered off-Broadway, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men still offers a powerfully rich portrayal of a disenfranchised African-American family in crisis. But Lonne Elder III’s classic tale also projects such a clichéd, outdated, and stereotypical image of black men that it begs the…
Back in December, New Times called the Museum of Art’s King Tut exhibit — “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” — beautiful but stingy. But we didn’t have evidence about the things that happen around the show. Now, two months in, what is the experience all about, its…
Burton Gallery sits amid multiplying restaurants that are quickly overtaking Atlantic Avenue in downtown Delray Beach. Right now, in the gallery’s large storefront windows, the colorful paintings of William DeBilzan and the bold photography of Mitchell Parnes seem to call to passersby. Burton’s space is stark, allowing the powerful artwork…
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks) Not since Finding Nemo has there been a movie so easy to recommend for all ages and tastes. But despite having crafted a near-perfect film, directors Nick Park and Steve Box second-guess themselves constantly on their audio commentary, as well as…
