Arts & Culture

Never mind the 11 Grammy nominations and seven trophies. Everybody knows that Grammy means “endorsement by a bunch of conservative old farts” in Japanese. For musicians, the ultimate compliment is to have your music chosen in conjunction with a Mars Rover project. So Béla Fleck and the Flecktones must have…

SUN 4/4 Brunch. An excuse to catch a buzz in the middle of the day. Toss in some scenery and live entertainment and quaffing mimosas at noon reaches a whole new level! The SunTrust Sunday Jazz Brunch kicks off spring with the Omar Mesa Trio appearing outside the Broward Center…

Pro volleyball hits the beach FRI 4/2 Maverick and Goose versus Iceman and… who was that other guy? Oh yeah, Slider. It’s hard not to link beach volleyball with either Top Gun’s cold war fighter jocks or the forever young Coppertoned pros who have no body fat and look like…

SAT 4/3 When Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung spoke of the collective unconscious, he hadn’t experienced the trance-inducing multimedia displays at Lumonics Light Museum (3017 NW 60th St., Fort Lauderdale). If he had, Jung would have a new entry in his lexicon of psychobabble: Konscious Kollective, Lumonics’ electronic dance music event…

Full disclosure: I like precisely one and a half Kevin Smith movies. There’s the one everyone else hates, the John Hughes homage Mallrats, and the first hour of the one everyone else loves, Chasing Amy, which dries up around the time Ben Affleck dumps Jason Lee for Joey Lauren Adams…

But do try the Patty FRI 4/2 “Don’t even get me started on the state of American radio,” Patty Larkin says from her home on Cape Cod, acknowledging that the Clear Channel brainwash machine (i.e., the company that controls most U.S. radio stations and concert venues) has not included much…

If the traditional Broadway musical is your cup of tea, your cup runneth over with Fiddler on the Roof, now at the Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables. The beloved, well-known classic about a tradition-bound Jewish community caught up in the turbulent changes of prerevolutionary Russia is a huge undertaking, but…

This satire on life in America’s heartland may be suggestive of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, but it’s a sure bet its authors weren’t thinking of the poet when they created it. Greater Tuna began in 1982 as an impromptu party skit but ended up being one of the most…

NOW SHOWING Blind Date: Last year the New Theatre scored an incredible coup when it commissioned Nilo Cruz’s surprise Pulitzer winner Anna in the Tropics. This year lightning may have struck a second time as the New Theatre has delivered another masterpiece of a play. Mario Diament’s stunning, brilliant world…

Now on Display “Enrique Martínez Celaya: The October Cycle 2000-2002” — There are only about two dozen pieces by the Cuban-born MartMartineznez Celaya in this one-man show, now at Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art. Those pieces, however, are monumental, both in scale and in impact. MartMartineznez Celaya uses jet-black tar…

A city girl, Ms. Pussy DeLicker, comes to the country to obtain a divorce. Here, she is utterly shocked by the naughty things the local cowgirl, Shane, wants to do to her… but she finds herself willing to oblige! Can these women be saved by heterosexuality? Or are they forever…

THU 25 SEEKING EMPLOYMENT:World’s most powerful industrialized nation seeks jobs so its president can cut taxes for the corporations that outsourced those jobs in the first place. It’s bad enough that the unemployment rate is up again after the short dip it took a few months ago. What’s even more…

This year’s Battle of the Bands rages from 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 28, at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center (5850 Pine Island Rd., Davie). Come and you’ll hear local bands like Freemartin, Into the Moat, and Breathing Chemistry. Admission is $10, with all proceeds split between Dafenix Foundation and the JCC’s teen programs. Call 954-434-0499, or visit www.dafenix.org.

… and Beachside Blues FRI 3/26 In what is fast becoming the Newport Jazz Festival of the South, the fourth-annual “Riviera Beach Jazz and Blues Festival” is expected to draw 20,000 guests over a two-day period. The festival features more than 15 performances that should excite jazz enthusiasts and music…

SAT 3/27 In case you’re not a puckhead and haven’t noticed, the Florida Panthers are in a playoff race. The team is jockeying with the Islanders, Hurricanes, and Thrashers for the eighth spot in the East, and the season will come down to the wire. Every game from here on…

If you can’t live in a pineapple under the sea… SAT 3/27 “You drill holes in two machetes. You light them on fire. You put them on your feet. You dance, you throw them, you eat the fire. You know?” Tossing fiery machetes around is all in a day’s work…

SAT 3/27 If there are two things punk bands sang about en masse in the 1980s, it was Ronald Reagan and beer. With many of these bands now reuniting, it’s obvious which subject has stood the test of time. Fortunately, Gainesville’s Roach Motel had the foresight to stick with the…

Poet Louise Bogan writes, “True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.” The same could be said for the theater of ideas. Thomas Gibbons’ most recent stage examination of the great American race divide, Permanent Collection, promises to resuscitate audiences who have become catatonically content with theater whose fiction…