You yellow-bellied chicken THU 10/14 “All attractions are designed to scare, frighten, shock, startle, cause excessive perspiration, nervousness and panic.” Fraternity meth party? Sunday supper at Dick Cheney’s house? Nay and nay. Tonight begins the third Halloween season of Fright Nights at the South Florida Fairgrounds (9067 Southern Blvd., West…
Don’t row back SAT 10/16 What is the proper attire for paddling on a river? What’s the difference between a kayak and a canoe? And when should you use a sit-on-top model, and when to go with a cockpitted version? Oh, and what about paddles and life jackets — do…
Show us your scooters! SAT 10/16 Ah, to be young and mod in England during the 1960s — attending all-night dance parties, beating up rockers, and, of course, rounding up the crew for a scooter ride. But if you think watching Quadrophenia is your only link to the mod scene,…
For 19 years now, the “Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival” has been giving South Florida movie enthusiasts such a cornucopia of choices, it’s downright daunting. With upward of 150 films spread over five weeks and three counties, there’s more sprawl to the event than a west Broward suburb. You can…
There are several good reasons why South Florida playgoers may want to trek out to Plantation to take in Amadeus, now playing at the Mosaic Theatre. First and foremost is Peter Shaffer’s grand potboiler of a script about the life and death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Because of its formidable…
Stagebeat Last Night of Ballyhoo brilliantly mixes Southern and Jewish gentility and bigotry in a slice-of-life presentation. When Eastern European Jew Joe Farkas (Jeff Silver) pays a visit to his boss Adolph’s (Rusty Allison) family (the “right kind of Jews” from Germany), romance and drama ensue. It’s December 1939; Atlanta…
Is it too late to juice up the Museum of Art’s underwhelming show “Diana, A Celebration,” which opened Sunday? We could bring in the tabloid boys to try to cut the stifling atmosphere of reverence for a glamour icon. Give us, say, some of those hot love letters she sent…
ARTBEAT Somewhere along the way from Haiti to Hollywood, vodou became voodoo, and the island nation’s rich religious stew of Roman Catholic, West African, Carib, and Freemason traditions was boiled down to B-movie zombies and not much else. “Sequined Surfaces: Haitian Vodou Flags,” now at the Boca Museum, goes a…
Hangin’ Ten Commandments FRI 10/15 Long ago, surfers accessorized with bongs and puka shell necklaces. These days, however, they’re often packing a weightier object: the Bible. And why not? Verses like Psalms 104:25 — “the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea” — resound…
Long ago, there were two boys named George who joined the military to fly airplanes. However, neither George was really up on that whole discipline thing and had issues reporting for duty. But while George B. had the safety net of a big-shot father in Congress, George C. — whose…
THU 7 If the Happy Times Hotel is rockin’, don’t come knockin’. Problem is, the “hotel” never even starts to jiggle — despite the fact that it’s a pimped-out bus specially designed for Chinese couples who want to get some privacy from their 4,999,999,998 fellow countrymen. The hotel’s owner –…
The International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships have as much to do with aquatics as the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has to do with swimsuits. As much as the Miss America pageant has to do with America. As much as the war in Iraq has to do with weapons of…
Carnival spirit spreads to Broward FRI 10/8 When 25,000 people came to last year’s inaugural Broward Carnival, it was clear the county’s Caribbean community had grown large enough to support its own annual fete, away from Miami’s Carnival in Homestead. This year, 23 bands (clubs whose members wear matching costumes…
Water you waiting for? FRI 10/8 Think boats are best used for fishing? Then this weekend’s festivities might not be for you. But if your idea of a seaworthy vessel means that it can hit speeds in excess of 100 mph, you need to be at the eighth-annual Deerfield Beach…
Clothes make the men FRI 10/8 Consider: That gravy-stained tank top, the unhip hot pants, and the balloon dress you never should have bought in the first place might be the stuff of art. At least, that’s how Guerra de la Paz looks at it. Guerra de la Paz, which…
V.O.T.E. in the USA FRI 10/8 You’d think that serving in Vietnam would have given John Kerry a little more backbone in dealing with the bogus attack ads of the supposedly independent 527 groups like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (did they throw mud at the Viet Cong too?)…
There are at least three movies contained within the covers of H.G. Bissinger’s best-selling 1990 nonfiction book, Friday Night Lights. One is concerned with the socioeconomic life of a small West Texas town built on the wobbly foundations of oil and racism and the out-of-whack worship of a high school…
Tweener fave Hilary Duff effortlessly maintains her wholesome image in Raise Your Voice, a coming-of-age drama (what else would you expect when the star is all of 16?) that is being marketed as a kind of updated Fame. Whereas director Alan Parker’s popular 1980 musical was set at Manhattan’s prestigious…
Singin’ in the Rain, a lighthearted film, has been translated into a Broadway musical. It is 1927, and talkies have come into vogue. Diva Lina Lamont’s voice is so dreadful that they dub in the angelic chanteuse Kathy Selden’s (Margot de la Barre). Things get sticky when Lina (Laura Summerhill)…
If there’s an award for great theatrical moments, this year’s prize will undoubtebly go to Nilo Cruz and his Anna in the Tropics, now playing at the Coconut Grove Playhouse: In the play’s final image, a half-crazed Cuban girl dressed in a Russian costume staggers toward a huge palm tree…
The just-opened Studio 19 is in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it location. The little gallery has just 420 square feet right in the middle of the strip of shops around the block from the Gateway area’s namesake theater. That also makes it an ideal spot for passing a few extra minutes before a…
Nothing here but strip malls FRI 10/1 It’s understandable if all you high-brow, metropolitan types are less than excited by the landscape exhibit opening today at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (601 Lake Ave., Lake Worth). Misguided, to be sure, but understandable. Come on, it’s PBICA! You really…
