SUN 11/16 The whole concept of extreme — sorry, X-treme — sports has gotten a bit tiresome. What ever happened to just skating your friend’s empty pool with a couple of pals? “Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom Huckjam” may be a bit more involved than your average city street or backyard,…
SUN 11/16 This was way back before Guttenberg had a brainstorm and invented the European printing press. (The Chinese, of course, had already invented it centuries before, but Western history likes to ignore such embarrassing facts. Please also continue to believe that Columbus discovered America and that Italians invented spaghetti.)…
WED 11/19 The Boca Raton Museum of Art (501 Plaza Real, Mizner Park, Boca Raton) decks the halls just in time for the holidays this week. Of course, as with any good museum, it’s not decking the walls with tinsel and popcorn strings. Three new exhibitions give the museum a…
WED 11/19 Before the floats and stilt walkers. Before the riot police. Before one Starbuck’s window is smashed with a brick. Before all the antiglobalization hoopla that will come with Miami’s FTAA meeting, the “Tell Us the Truth Tour” kicks things off Wednesday with a concert at the People’s Gala…
Editor’s Note: The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival winds down to an end Sunday. Here are reviews of some of the movies that will be shown this week: Ah, the quiet life of a small-town cop. Nothing to do but play a little street hockey, lunch at the hotdog stand,…
A not terribly long time ago in an uninhabitable galaxy called Burbank, a generally astute movie studio founded by four Polish siblings alienated a young hotshot filmmaker. The studio was Warner Bros., and the project was a cold, disturbing, highly stylized vision of a mechanized future called THX-1138. Not wholly…
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Part of a music journalist’s job is to find, or in some cases invent, that perfect descriptive word. Richmond, Virginia, four-piece Denali has been labeled “moody,” “atmospheric,” and even “glacial,” but guitarist Cam DiNunzio understands. “I used to be a writer for a paper in Richmond,” he says. “And I…
THU 11/6 Want to get your kids unwound from all the Halloween festivities? Then bring them to the Cornell Museum of Art and History at Old School Square (51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach) for a Meet the Masters series. Every month, the museum presents an educational event on a…
To some, a “nosh” means grabbing a leftover chicken wing or a hunk of salami, but for those who relish the tantalizing taste and splendiferous smell of garlic, the “Fifth Annual Garlic Festival” serves up unbelievable garlic-filled snacks and more. Two city blocks and Old School Square — where the…
THU 11/6 The majority of Carol Prusa’s work evokes chin-scratching, as performance art and installation pieces tend to do. Back in April, she created a hairball quilt for an event called Showtel at Hotel Biba in West Palm Beach, while her recent exhibit at ArtCenter in Fort Lauderdale, entitled “Out…
SAT 11/8 The Miami Arena’s (701 Arena Blvd., Miami) floor has been devoid of blue lines and a thin ice layer since Florida’s Panthers took their show on the road north to Sunrise in 1998. No slap shots, high sticks, or icing calls have resonated in the hallowed arena halls…
FRI 11/7 During this very special episode at the Puppetry Arts Center (1200 S. Congress Ave., West Palm Beach), puppets teach kids about life, love, and the triumph of the human, er, hand-puppet spirit. See, our protagonist, Doodles, is a clown, and to add to the cultural stigma already attached…
SAT 11/8 Imagine some of the most twisted and downright creepy people pop culture has to offer assembled under one roof. No, it’s not the Republican National Convention, but it is something equally as horrifying. It’s Screamfest 2003, a two-day celebration of all things horrible, and we mean that in…
FRI 11/7 A scruffy bald man chain-smoking. Booze. Swearing. A bespectacled man ranting, sweating. Veins and eyes bulging. Jokes about midgets, homosexuality, George W., and IHOP. Ladies and germs, it’s Dave Attell and Lewis Black, and they’re spewing a path of expletives out of the windows of their minivan on…
Wouldn’t you know it? I finally saw a selection from the “18th Annual Fort Lauderdale Film Festival” that really knocked me out, only to discover that it was too late to review before it played at the festival. Such are the vagaries of festival screenings. No matter. Since it appears…
Life certainly has its daily struggles, but these tend to distract from the really big issues that sooner or later we all must face: Why are we here? Why do we have to die? And what should we do with the time we’ve got? Playwright Michael McKeever addresses the Big…
Even when people were watching Will Ferrell on television every Saturday night, they weren’t seeing Will Ferrell. They saw no more than a glimpse of him, beneath wigs and behind glued-on beards and buried under characters who became almost better known than he during his seven years on Saturday Night…
When Poison infected music in 1986, heavy-metal bands ruled the earth, leaving us in a hairspray hangover. At the top of the metal heap stood Bret Michaels, lead singer of glam poster boys Poison, a band able to get every schoolgirl who pledged her allegiance to metal sent straight to…
THU 10/30 As if we didn’t have enough yachts in town already, the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show drops anchor at six locations in Fort Lauderdale today: Radisson Bahia Mar Yachting Center, Broward County Convention Center, Marriott Portside Marina, Hyatt Pier 66 Hotel and Marina, Hall of Fame Marina, and…
A friend recently compared Mates of State’s new album, Team Boo, to “getting a stomachache from swallowing too much sunshine.” After hearing this, Jason Hammel is quiet for a minute, then agrees: “Yeah, I actually like that comparison. Wait, did he mean it made him sick?” Not-so-eloquent statements aside, Mates…
SUN 11/2 Ah, nothing like a day at the track, be it horse or dog. Place a few bets, enjoy a few frantic moments of excitement. When an animal’s career is over, though, most people don’t give the retired beasts a second thought. For a successful racing horse, that end…
