Arts & Culture

Publisher: Red Octane

Platform: PlayStation 2

Price: $69.99

ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)

Score: 7 (out of 10)

It may appear to be named after a Beatles song, but Huntington Beach, California,’s HelloGoodbye claims its name was lifted from an episode of the inexplicably popular kiddie-sitcom Saved by the Bell. That’s about as far off the Magical Mystery Tour as you can get. And it’s the sort of…

THU 24 According to hieroglyphics etched into the side of Plymouth Rock, people since the beginning of time (or 1620) have been known to spend Turkey Day at Calder Race Course (21001 NW 27th Ave., Miami) watching thoroughbreds hoof around the track and, of course, gambling. Leave Mom in peace…

American Dragon: Jake Long is a Disney cartoon about a 13-year-old who (along with friends Trixie and Spud) protects animals by using his skills in martial arts and skateboarding. Cuuuuute. It’s so popular that it airs in more than 35 countries. Hmm… how would parents in, say, the United Arab…

A week full of parties FRI 11/25 “I moved here on July 15, 1997, to work for the Versace family. Unfortunately, that was the day Gianni was murdered. It was heartbreaking,” statuesque queen Elaine Lancaster says. Eight years after her fateful arrival, it’s difficult to imagine South Beach without Lancaster…

Heat faces Mavericks and Knicks FRI 11/25 In much of the professional world, jumping from job to job while callously spurning your current employer and being openly courted by other organizations is frowned upon. For New York Knicks Coach Larry Brown, whose stop in New York marks his eighth NBA…

Is it that time of year again? SAT 11/26 Thanksgiving is upon us, and that means one thing — Christmas trees! Wait… already? Well, yes. And lots of ’em too, from the posh streets of Palm Beach to the artful avenues of Delray Beach. Yep, the season is here, and…

He’s trying his best, at least FRI 11/25 Judging from the play’s name, one might assume that a solo performance titled The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? is full of the revenge-seeking rantings of a disgruntled divorcée. But alas, the person behind said performance is a full-fledged carrier of the Y…

The Council Oak weathered Hurricane Wilma just fine. This tree, a historic meeting place for Seminole Indians dispersed after 19th-century Indian wars, is still standing broad at the southeast corner of Stirling Road and State Road 7, flanked by a bingo parlor and a discount cigarette shop and just south…

Pompano Beach is not the expected location for a hip little gallery showcasing emerging local artists, but there it is, in a typical South Florida strip mall. Uncommon Gallery, owned by Michael D. Colanero, changes exhibitions monthly to highlight the talent of a revolving stock of natives and, frequently, Colanero…

Publisher: Namco

Platform: PlayStation 2

Price: $49.99

ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)

Score: 6 (out of 10)

We have seen the dark spawn of Hello Kitty… and its name is Mr. DOB. Actually, the cartoon creation — sort of a bloated Mickey Mouse, sometimes depicted with two (or sometimes 25) unmatching eyeballs and a mouthful of sharp teeth — was born in the deliciously twisted, shamelessly commercial…

THU 17 The Las Vegas Comedy Festival is to standup comics what South by Southwest is to rock bands — that is, a really big freakin’ deal. As it turns out, there’s only one venue in Florida where aspiring comics can audition for the 2006 Las Vegas Comedy Festival —…

¨Worship Jeff Spicoli, not Chris Cornell/Get a pair of Vans or God´ll send you to hell.¨ No, this isn´t an advertisement for the DVD release of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, nor is it about the Warped Tour; it´s a lyric from ¨Vans Song,¨ from the Suicide Machines´ 1996 debut,…

And bring your autograph book THU 11/17 Rock stars have the MTV awards. Performance artists have the Burning Man Festival. Stupid people get together whenever FEMA hosts an employment open house, and smart people have the Miami Book Fair. We take that back. You don´t even need a high IQ…

Blazers and Sixers come to town FRI 11/18 With nicknames like ¨Flash¨ (Dwyane Wade), ¨The Diesel¨ (Shaquille O´Neal), ¨White Chocolate¨ (Jason Williams), and ¨The Glove¨ (Gary Payton), this year´s Heat team sounds more like a collection of comic-book heroes than basketball players. But with a sprained ankle sidelining the Big…

Artists make an impression on Beantown SAT 11/19 Before every piece of art in the world was made perusable on the World Wide Web, the best way for American artists to see what was going on across the pond was to, well, cross the pond. In the mid-19th Century, that´s…

Behold, the Dukes of Controversy SUN 11/20 The Sex Pistols might have scared many a God-fearing Brit in the late 1970s, but that doesn´t mean there weren´t more provocative bands around at the time — bands that wore pig masks and wrote songs raunchy enough to make even Johnny Rotten…