To get your artwork shown at the Gallery of the Unknown Artists, you don’t need no fancy résumé or college degree. You don’t even need a portfolio. You just need to stop by and let the owners, Ceci Weaver and John Grove (wife and husband), have a look-see. If they…
The annual Perrier French Film Festival is the antithesis of the blockbuster American summer movie season. Its nose-thumbing, post-Bastille Day assertion goes something like this: “Take this, you silly, special-effects Fantastic Four-loving, Bewitched-retreading, Herbie the Love Bug-revving American Tom Cruise-worshipers, because we’re going to open a can of Truffaut on…
THU 21 At first glance, comedian Andrew Kennedy looks whiter than the most suburban-bred WASP. But that’s just his British half. The Colombian-born comic spent a good deal of his childhood scuttling across the globe with his nomadic parents. He’s got plenty of experience flying on planes and passing through…
Thor, baby! Where have you been? “In Vancouver, British Columbia,” the mighty icon of rock says via telephone. “It is great to be amongst the trees and the owls. Very much like Norway.” And what have you been doing since you unleashed the anthem “Thunder on the Tundra” in ’84?…
Local authors inspire you to get your pens a-pumpin’ TUE 7/26 Sometimes, a short conversation or a little quote will inspire you to get off your bum and pursue your dreams. Fort Lauderdale-based novelist Christine Kling, who writes about the adventures of a female tugboat captain, has said, “I’ve spent…
To host the Pirates… and the ladies TUE 7/26 After losing three straight at home to the Cubs and then being on the road for two consecutive weeks, the Marlins return home to battle the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates Tuesday through Thursday. Before Wednesday’s game, the Marlins will hold a Ladies’…
Pickin’ and paintin’ at the Hard Rock THU 7/21 Not all rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia is destined for “do not touch” status on the walls of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood); some of it’s there for you to pick up and — if you…
Adolescents bring in the kids FRI 7/22 Orange County, California, punk veterans the Adolescents were gearing up to record a new album last year, O.C. Confidential, when guitarist Rikk Agnew’s penchant for tossin’ ’em back got him tossed from the band. Meanwhile, Frank Agnew — Rikk’s brother and the band’s…
MTV Films made a wise purchase in picking up Hustle & Flow at Sundance: The soundtrack is killer. Rapping over music composed by Three 6 Mafia and Al Kapone, star Terrence Howard has the skills. The rest of the songs heard onscreen, most of which fall into the uniquely Southern…
It should come as no surprise that the hero and heroine of the new Michael Bay action extravaganza are clones. Exact copies of other people. You don’t get to be a Hollywood hitmeister like Bay — 200 Zillion Tickets Sold! — without indulging in formulas, and the characters Star Wars…
Going to the theater this summer has been like stepping into a time machine where your fondest childhood memories are retooled by cynics and sadists. Bewitched, Herbie: Fully Loaded, last week’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and now Bad News Bears are meant to be gobbled like comfort food by…
When rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses was released in 2003, after years of bouncing around between stud ios afraid to put their name on a movie about a cartoonishly murderous family, it was anticipated as a hardcore gorefest. Instead, it was a plotless mess, with decent violence but…
Once upon a time, in a Big Apple on the verge of Disney-fication by Rudy Giuliani, Times Square was a sometimes seedy neighborhood where pre-Internet gay hustlers earned their rent the old-fashioned way, by selling sex in sleazy peep-show booths. In the early 1990s, when he wrote Trafficking in Broken…
Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers’ off-Broadway hit Matt & Ben is having its Florida premiere in a Mad Cat Theatre production at the Light Box that’s directed by Paul Tei. It’s cute. It’s a loopy fantasy about talent, male bonding, and fame, based on the real-life story of Matt Damon…
Sometimes art turns up in the most unexpected places. Take, for example, “Into the Light: A Group Showing.” This miniature exhibit of sorts — the word exhibition seems too grand — features works by a baker’s dozen photographers, and it’s on display at a photo lab in Oakland Park. A…
So there’s a new pair of rock DJs coming to town. Great, like we really need more so-called hipsters playing Duran Duran and looking like something out of a John Hughes film. Wait a second… the Jacques Chirock DJs — aren’t these the same guys who used to do Real…
Those of us who go to the dentist more often than we get to the theater should thank Cameron Harris for Brief Encounters: A One-Act Festival. Harris reads scripts like other people devour novels, and she’s chosen six easy-to-digest short plays for the fest. The great thing about watching a…
Word to your bank account FRI 7/15 As Flavor Flav and Vanilla Ice can tell you, it’s a shame to sell millions of records, then squander your fortune and end up on The Surreal Life. Better to play your cards like Russell Simmons, who made his money in hip-hop and…
ZSG brings out the stars THU 7/14 Despite what you may have heard from disgruntled basketball fans in New Jersey and Toronto, the Heat’s Alonzo Mourning is one of the NBA’s most selfless players. Besides donating his salary this year to charity, he runs Zo’s Summer Groove, a community staple…
A most immodest proposal FRI 7/15 Here’s a dilemma you’re unlikely to face in your lifetime: Your boss informs you that your job has been eliminated. But rather than making you redundant, he offers you a new position — and quite a few positions for your spouse as well. Yes,…
Wormhole turns 2 WED 7/20 It’s hard to imagine that ten years ago, downtown West Palm Beach wasn’t full of torn-up sidewalks and half-built condos. Even stranger is that alternative culture existed east of the train tracks — that live music, poetry, and philosophical discussions were as common to Olive…
Vince Vaughn probably has to check the bags under his eyes at the airport, and he’s about as in-shape as a toddler’s fistful of Play-Doh. This is no doubt why audiences dig him; he is us, dude, and we am him. Onscreen, he looks like any other buddy who’d loan…
