The Club at the resplendent Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is layin’ down La Ley — as in “the law” — as in Latin America’s melody-slinging, opinion-spewing, massively popular band. La Ley’s tour brings a serious and much-needed dose of rock en español to North America, reminding us narcissistic…
THU 1 After graduating from college, comedian Richard Jeni soon took what he thought was his dream job, working for a public relations firm. But Jeni’s quick descent into a lethargic slumber (quite reminiscent of Homer Simpson’s on-the-job dawdling) got him fired after only six months. Just think, if Jeni…
Thankfully, you live in Florida. You can buy alcohol even when the Fourth of July falls on a Sunday and pick up bottle rockets and jumping jacks on the side of the road. But when it comes to serious ammo, you need the government. Thankfully, you live in America. Even…
The gay hot spot of the future SAT 7/3 Let’s put the old question to rest, OK? Life does imitate art. At least, if the art happens to be the successful — and sexplicit — Showtime series Queer as Folk, now in its fourth season of letting it all hang…
Red, white, and blue on the greens SUN 7/4 We Americans love our golf. Putters or drivers… walk or ride… overlapping or interlocking… fade or draw… slice or hook… birdie or bogey. We can’t get enough. Now, it’s not exactly ours. The Scottish hold the patent on the great game,…
Practicing freedom THU 7/1 Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the coloring book notion of patriotism swept the nation as Americans slapped “God Bless America” bumper stickers on their cars in an effort to let everyone know they’re the good guys. But the freedoms our flag represent seem to elude…
What a grate idea! WED 7/7 As metal in the nu millennium increasingly phases out the traditional rock sounds of its distant ancestors, no sacred stone is left unturned. Even the cornerstone of rock — the electric guitar — is slowly losing its long-held monopoly as the one, true heavy…
Cole: The Music and Life of Cole Porter is an evening of more than 35 hits from this classic tunesmith, whose popular melodies such as “Night and Day,” “You Do Something to Me,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Love for Sale,” and more were heard in countless musicals…
Take Me Out: This Tony Award winner takes on an ambitious range of subjects – homophobia, tolerance, and the lure of baseball chief among them. The play offers two stories — one, a dark drama about a major league slugger who is revealed to be gay, pitting him against a…
“Othoniel: Crystal Palace” — Despite a name shimmering with possibilities, this exhibition of 30 or so glass-based pieces by celebrated young French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel is a mixed bag. It’s essentially a museum-sized installation that takes up almost all of North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and it has been…
Leave it to Island Water Sports of Deerfield Beach to find something cool for the kids — and adults who act like kids — to do. Fresh from sponsoring a Mohawk Day on June 12, when anyone who traded in their old head of hair for a mohawk walked away…
THU 24 You gotta admire a comic with real range — someone who can impersonate Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joan Rivers. Pablo Francisco knows full well how to turn his gifts into laughs. The comedic machine gun delivers more laughs per minute than most standup comics, morphing in and out of…
You know the story: Man walks into a bar. He makes a risky business move and buys the joint. The man works till the wee hours of the morning to make a go of it. The first couple of years, he barely breaks even. Wife leaves for Junior’s soccer coach,…
WED 6/30 If you’re one of those people who thinks rock music can be only about sex and drugs, then you need to check out Anti-Sessions. Sponsored by TheHoneycomb.com, the monthly event puts into practice the music with a message aesthetic, aiming to generate discussion and educate people about the…
SAT 6/26 As our country’s 228th anniversary of independence draws near, all proud citizens will revel in the freedom we enjoy every waking moment. While the rest of us run to the supermarket to stock up on burgers, dogs, beer, and more beer, the Fort Lauderdale Road Runners will do…
SAT 6/26 The notion of the tortured artist has gradually been reduced to a cliché by the scores of crybaby rock stars whining about how they spent all their money on cars, mansions, and all the unnecessary bling they bought to show off on MTV Cribs. It’s especially hard to…
FRI 6/25 Bluegrass music originated in the southern United States. So it may seem surprising that two of today’s most popular bluegrass musicians are named Natasha and Sergei. Sounds more Bullwinkle than Bubba. Still, Natasha Borzilova and Sergei “Spooky” Olkhovsky are the lead singer and bassist of the six-member Bering…
A strong toxin requires a strong antidote. In the case of the Bush administration, the cure is being served in significant part by Michael Moore, he of the Peter Jackson Diet (and similar pop culture ambition), who previously delivered the rousing documentaries Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine. This…
Everyone loves tigers, save perhaps for those actually being mauled to death by them. Men like ’em because they’re wild beasts; women like ’em cuz they’re big kitty-cats. So whatever your point of interest, Two Brothers, starring a pair of tigers named Kumal and Sangha, is the perfect date movie…
Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, now in its Florida premiere at the Caldwell Theatre, is nothing if not ambitious. Its subjects are wide-ranging — among them, major league baseball, gay identity, prejudice, and tolerance — and so are its genres. The play wants to be both a pressure-cooker drama and…
Last summer, Art Link International first featured an exhibit by Florida’s famed Highwaymen, a group of 26 African-American artists who in the late ’50s began selling oil paintings from the trunks of their cars (hence the name). The current exhibit, featuring a retrospective of Roy McLendon, the oldest original surviving…
Summer Shorts: City Theatre’s annual festival of short plays, a highlight of the South Florida stage scene, is back with mini comedies and dramas in all styles and sizes. Twenty playlets from one to 20 minutes long are presented in two programs, which can be taken in on separate nights…
