If you’ve ever gone line dancing with a gaggle of amputees on crank and hallucinogens, you know something of the feeling engendered by viewing Alexander. This broad, bold, and ambitious film by Oliver Stone presents itself as a fairly straightforward endeavor, but its rhythms quickly go strange while its participants…
It’s pretty near impossible not to be impressed with the Actors’ Playhouse’s gangbuster production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (yes, the corporate moniker is part of the official title). This should come as no surprise; the Coral Gables troupe has become the undisputed king of musical theater in South…
Tampa Bay metal fans are probably a bit p.o.’ed right now — not the way Hessians are normally angry but because their city was dropped from the Jägermeister Music Tour. It turns out Slayer’s Tom Araya developed “vocal fatigue” and is under doctor’s orders to rest his vocal cords every…
This year’s lineup for the 18th Annual Fort Lauderdale Riverwalk Blues & Music Festival is so spectacular, we hardly know who to highlight first. From Chicago to Texas, from trad blues to non-, performances in all flavors of legendary blues will be on display. We’re talking about folks like the…
THU 18 Taking the stage in front of a crowd of drunken strangers is a harrowing experience for anyone. It’s even tougher when you’re supposed to make them laugh. But having your jokes judged on national television — with the odds stacked firmly against you — is worse than being…
What did you think of Detroit before Eminem blew up? What was Virginia Beach like before Pharrell and Missy Elliott came out? Just boring, soulless, asphalt-covered cities, right? A lot like the place you call home? While you might see Fort Lauderdale as a cultural wasteland, 23-year-old Jasper Delaini sees…
As the dancehall world turns SUN 11/21 What do you love most about the Caribbean music scene? The infectious beats? The hilarious lyrics? Or the cartoon drama? All of it abounds at the Seventh Annual Caribbean Reggae Fest this Sunday at Bicentennial Park (1075 Biscayne Blvd., Miami). The lineup may…
Gators and ‘Noles tangle in Tally SAT 11/20 So the Florida State Seminoles have the Miami Hurricanes and other various ACC foes, and the Florida Gators count the Georgia Bulldogs and Tennessee Volunteers among their biggest SEC rivals, but there’s no bigger adversary for either school than each other. The…
Gone bad THU 11/18 If your husband (wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever) won’t even bring you a stinking cup of soup when you’re feeling all pukey, I wonder what he (or she) would make of a guy who was inspired to sculpt when his wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Like,…
Or die waiting FRI 11/19 OK, so there’s a drag queen, an AIDS-infected S&M nightclub dancer, and a songwriter living in the East Village… No, it’s not an episode of MTV’s Real World. It’s Rent, the famed musical set to rock Fort Lauderdale this weekend. The award-winning play is based…
Editor’s note: The Florida International Film Festival finally comes to an end Sunday at Cinema Paradiso, with a screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s latest lively exercise in dramatic flippancy. Bad Education, the new film by flamboyant Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, opens with a man sitting at a table, poring over the…
When shot with verve and skill, so that we can feel the heat and passion of the moment, a concert film is the next best thing to being there. That’s the way it is with Lightning in a Bottle, a Martin Scorsese-produced documentary that captures an extraordinary evening in February…
Charles Busch’s Sleeping Beauty, set in swinging mod England, includes full-frontal nudity, transvestites, three-way orgies, LSD, rock ‘n’ roll, and go-go dancers. Not for the kiddies. The craziness begins with Enid Wetwhistle (Erynn Dalton), whose wild dancing and miniskirt shock fashion mogul Sebastian Lorre (Jim Gibbons) and his sidekick, the…
The Schmidt Center Gallery at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton has to be one of the most underappreciated display spaces in South Florida. It’s not nearly as spacious as the similarly unsung Coral Springs Museum of Art, which at least has the advantage of all that square footage. In…
What do you call a show featuring items associated with an artist who gave his paintings titles like Dal, at the Age of Six When He Believed Himself to Be a Young Girl, Lifting the Skin of the Water to Observe a Dog Sleeping in the Shadow of the Sea?…
“Wah! They hate me!” we’ve all cried at one time or another. But no matter how witty, fabulous, and good-looking we are, no matter how many times we’ve had our cars keyed or been called a bad word, let’s face it — we’ve never experienced anything nearly as nasty as…
THU 11 Ever since the despair behind Vincent Van Gogh’s unsettling Self Portrait was explained by his kind donation to a local brothel (“Let me lend an ear!”), the true art of self-portraiture has been as much about psychological exploration as capturing one’s physical likeness. That much is evident in…
How else on a Saturday afternoon in November can you walk around Hollywood with a sword in one hand and a bag of kettle corn in the other, except under the auspices of something called Camelot Days Medieval Festival? Like many other fairs, or faires, with the words renaissance or…
It’s about the garlic, man FRI 11/12 You heard it here first: Garlic pills are for pansies. And for hypocrites too — those who’d give up a good meal to avoid bad breath but won’t brush after a cigarette or a cup of joe. If you’d rather not have your…
FAU football is clicking SAT 11/13 Howard Schnellenberger’s FAU Owls have just two blemishes on their 2004 docket. The team stands at 6-2 following a setback to Division I-A upstart Troy last Saturday in Alabama that broke the team’s 11-game road winning streak. It was their first game without star…
ArtsUnited decks the halls with waxed chests and penises MON 11/15 It may require more intellectual energy than staying in and watching Edward Penishands on DVD, but there is something exhilarating about viewing a six-foot, blue, ceramic penis while enjoying a pig in a blanket and a cocktail. Of course,…
Corsten puts you in a trance FRI 11/12 An entrepreneur since childhood, he washed cars and sold mixtapes to neighborhood kids to make money and buy his first keyboard. He became friends with the staff of a local recording studio and released his first record at age 16. Nowadays, he…
