O Glorious Democracy! Roughly five percent of voters — enough to swing a presidential election — haven’t the foggiest clue whom they’re going to vote for until they step into the booth and tap that screen. And even then, these fence-sitters can be pushed in either direction by random factors…
17 THU It’s hard to imagine that Norway’s black metal scene looks down on American death metal bands as posers. Why? Is it the lack of black robes and corpse paint on our metal bands? Or maybe it’s their comparatively short rap sheets? Whereas an American band like Deicide caused…
Back in the day, encountering the Dalai Lama might have involved a long climb up a Himalayan peak with the help of a couple of sherpas. Now, it simply requires clicking on the Ticketmaster website. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso never wanted to be an internationally touring,…
Sending out an S.O.S. SUN 9/19 With a band name that stands for “Sounds of Success,” S.O.S. better be able to toot its own horn. And though years have passed since the whirlwind of said success, S.O.S. is coming to town for the City of Lauderhill’s Blazz-fest 2004 (a mix…
…and kneeing is allowed SAT 9/18 “Think of boxing,” says John Morrison, organizer of the USA Extreme Challenge Kickboxing and Karate Fights. “And imagine fighters being allowed to kick the legs, the body, and the head.” Also imagine those fighters wearing shin guards and you have his sport. Extreme Challenge…
SAT 9/18 This item was erroneously included in last week’s See/Be Seen section. Feeling apathetic about voting in the next election? Consider the story of Fannie Lou Hamer. A sharecropper’s daughter from Mississippi, youngest of 20 children, Hamer joined the civil rights movement in the early ’60s, when she first…
And loving every minute TUE 9/21 So, it’s no longer good enough to be just a plain old voter. Both political parties are scrambling to get the attention of the Latino voter, the female voter, and the retired veteran voter. And now the punk voter? Yes, that’s right. The group…
Silver City is being marketed as a biting, bitter send-up of George W. Bush. Hence the copious use of trailer footage in which Chris Cooper, as Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dickie Pilager, stumbles over simple sentences, dodges reporters’ questions with mindless macho explications (“My message to the criminals is this: You…
Essayist. Playwright. Radio personality. Librettist. Actor. Novelist. Now, with Bright Young Things, inimitable British wit Stephen Fry debuts as feature screenwriter and director. Best-known here in the colonies either as Jeeves (opposite Hugh Laurie) in Jeeves and Wooster or as Peter in Peter’s Friends or possibly as Oscar Wilde in…
With hurricane season most decidedly upon us, questions of probability and fate are on the minds of many. How is it that some people suffer when disaster strikes while others walk away unscathed? Is survival a matter of chance, will, or preordination? Such thoughts are at the fore of Michael…
The real Moms Mabley was a trip. The woman recalled in Jackie “Moms” Mabley Live at the Shores Theater deserves our respect, and her old routines can still get more than a laugh or two. But not even Latrice Bruno’s delicious impersonation can gloss over how little the late T…
Once a year, the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale puts together a show featuring the work of some of its instructors. This year, the show had some competition in the form of Hurricane Frances, whose impending arrival forced the cancellation of the scheduled September 3 opening. But like the rest…
More and more in movies and in television — with each new teen romance flick and South Park episode — irreverence is increasingly becoming the hallmark of comedy. But irreverence works only in the proper context — and with the right execution. When Bobcat Goldthwait burst onto the comedy scene…
They might speak softly, but they carry really big sticks… which they then use to make really big cash. The ladies of the Women’s Professional Billiards Association will be shooting for $110,000 in prize money during the Cuetec Cues Florida Classic this weekend. The showdown is one of eight events…
Rhymes worth rising for SAT 9/11 At one point, we might have scoffed at the idea of waking up early on a Saturday to hucklebuck down to the library to listen to poetry. But that was before Russell Simmons bumped spoken word up to an urban art form with his…
The art of fan management SUN 9/12 After four preseason exhibition games, the Dolphins begin the regular season with a match against the Tennessee Titans, the first of the Miami team’s eight home games. Lately, however, hasn’t been the smoothest time for the Fins… and it’s only September. First there…
Suffrage in the city SAT 9/13 Feeling apathetic about voting in the next election? Consider the story of Fannie Lou Hamer. A sharecropper’s daughter from Mississippi, youngest of 20 children, Hamer joined the civil rights movement in the early ’60s, when she first learned she actually had the right to…
Who do voodoo? BY JASON BUDJINSKI THU 9/9 The four new exhibits on display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art (Mizner Park, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton) are equal parts multicultural and multimedia explorations. From Haiti come the exhibits “Sequined Surfaces: Haitian Vodou Flags” and “Haitian Painting from the…
Although most people in the moviegoing universe by now know the differences between an “Alien” and a “Predator,” putting the two critters together in one movie really ought to necessitate more specific species names for each, since both are technically aliens and predators (they’re from outer space, and they hunt…
Rare is the film that caters to fans of rabbits, motorcycles, Gordon Lightfoot, and fellatio, but now, thanks entirely to Vincent Gallo, we’ve got that demographic nailed. With The Brown Bunny, the cinematic enfant terrible who gave us the awful pleasures of Buffalo ’66 returns, but don’t expect a retread…
Frieze may be tiny — as in perhaps 600 square feet — but what it lacks in space it more than makes up for in atmosphere. Stepping into this combination gallery/home furnishings shop in the eastern reaches of Fort Lauderdale’s Gateway area is a multisensory experience. The subtle fragrance that…
As seen on TV,” the print ads proclaimed. I had not seen these enticing television spots, which made it all the more imperative that I check out the Art Marketplace in person. How could I not visit the home of “Framed Original Oil Paintings From $24.95”? One branch is in…
