It’s always tough to write about music as “noise.” There is noise the ear can tolerate, and then there is noise that is legitimately terrible. There are endless combinations of words to describe the way noise invades the auditory canal and makes you either cringe or become slightly aroused or…
SUN 6/8 Aficionados of all things Jamaican have reason to lament as the Hollywood International Reggae Day and Jerk Festival, set to take place from noon to 10 p.m. at Young Circle Park this Sunday, has been thrown on the backburner. No roots, no dancehall, no lovers’ rock. No curry…
MON 6/9 A serious jolt of testosterone makes its way to Miami as World Wrestling Entertainment’s RAW invades AmericanAirlines Arena (601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) at 7:45 p.m. The WWE personalities scheduled to appear include Triple-H, Goldberg, and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. The wrestling organization’s edgy brand of entertainment focuses on…
THU 6/5 For all of you who thought that etiquette was deep in a grave along with chivalry and Elvis, let it be known that She has been unearthed thanks to the Miss Molly Manners Etiquette Class. No, your eyes do not deceive you. Miss Molly Manners offers a variety…
TUE 6/10 Sure, kites are fun to fly on a lazy summer afternoon or, if you’re quite mad, maybe during a thunderstorm. But did you know there is a “kite culture” in Japan? Kites aren’t just a way to pass time there; they’re works of art. And these works are…
TUE 6/10 If you’re unfamiliar with the town, perhaps you’ve already made your assumptions about the music of Athens, Georgia. Two of the most indelible marks in pop-rock music have been made by Athenians: R.E.M. and the B-52’s. Then again, college-rock fossil, a new era is upon us, and we…
When the El Paso-based band At the Drive-In broke up in 2001, indie-rock kids wept into their e-journals, wrenched their sweatband-clad hands, and had mini-nervous breakdowns, all because one of the most hyped bands of the past few years went on an “indefinite hiatus.” From independent record store clerks to…
THU 5/29 The Musician’s Exchange at One Night Stan’s (2333 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood) celebrates its 27th birthday through this weekend with performances by, well, exactly the sort of groups you expect — jazz and blues artists with lengthy résumés. Though Roomful of Blues and Toni Bishop concerts in the next…
Jim Hightower may have abandoned politics after two terms as Texas’ agriculture commissioner, but that doesn’t mean he abandoned hope. Instead, he gave up his political career for one in populist commentary. Though the political outlook for average Americans looks grim, the straight-talking Texan and best-selling author (If the Gods…
SUN 6/1 The SunTrust Sunday Jazz Brunch has become something of an institution on the Riverwalk (along the New River between Fifth Street and Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale). If golf is, as Mark Twain said, a good walk spoiled, then surely a few jazz performers doing their thing along…
SAT 5/31 It’s tough to share. Siblings go through that realization early in life. For only children, the rude awakening comes sometime between puberty and marriage. We need to mark our territory, scribbling our name on all the toys. And then there’s the domestic dynamic. It’s extremely difficult to smoothly…
FRI 5/30 Hey, kids, ever wish you could just get away from the ‘rents for a night and chill with your friends in a supportive yet entertaining environment? You know you have! OK, parents, don’t go calling the authorities just yet. McNicol’s First Annual Lock-In isn’t what it sounds like…
MON 6/2 Shout it from the rooftops! Something inordinately inventive and unique is going on right now in North Miami. The Museum of Contemporary Art (Joan Lehman Bldg., 770 NE 125th St., North Miami ) has once again outdone itself by bringing us the strange and beautiful world of creative…
SUN 6/1 It is quite a feat for an artist in the music industry to surpass the trappings of one-hit wonderland and endure. You will always have Gerardos and Milli Vanillis, but thank heavens for musical savants like Beck. Veering from quasi-folk minstrel (1994’s Mellow Gold) to sample specialist (1996’s…
Another week, another remake — summer, that season of air-conditioned originality, must be upon us. Only, unlike The In-Laws, which creaked into theaters last week, this latest updating of a decades-old action-comedy has two things going for it: Its forbear is a veddy British caper film little-seen in the United…
If you’re reading this paper, chances are you’re more literate than the average American. If you’re reading the film reviews, it’s also likely you’ve become familiar with words like bravura and eponymous, which seem to exist only in the vocabularies of professional movie assessors. But what if you were confronted…
Sometimes a few wrong turns can balance themselves out. That seems to be the happy circumstance with Palm Beach Dramaworks’ vivid revival of South African playwright Athol Fugard’s domestic drama The Road to Mecca. Although the script’s sociopolitical intentions might have been unintentionally stymied in this production, director William Hayes…
You’ve been warned: This is a column about politics wherein a popular-culture critic (dunno what that is either, but says so on my tax returns) interviews a former rock journalist-turned-publicist-turned-band-manager-turned-record-label-executive about how the Democratic Party alienated everyone under the age of death. You may take this with a grain of…
Any fan of mob flicks will know Dominic Chianese (that’s pronounced kay-a-NAY-see, not chi-an-ESE, ya half-baked meatball). Watching Corrado “Uncle Junior” Soprano, we have peered into his fictional life for four fun- and mayhem-filled seasons of The Sopranos. We laughed when he uttered the series’ most memorable line (“Federal marshals…
In his most recent album, Le Preguntaba a la Luna, salsa singing sensation Victor Manuelle names the moon as his accomplice. In other words, Manuelle’s musical style, which combines the pulsating beat of salsa with bolero-like romantic lyrics, is now more quixotic than ever. Besides lunar inspiration, Manuelle has also…
FRI 5/23 Yes, it’s spring. More hours of sunlight mean more hours to party. Whoo! And spring also means Cajun, in case you haven’t noticed. The Fort Lauderdale Cajun Zydeco Festival has come and gone, leaving many South Floridians hungry for more crawfish — more crawfish! And more gumbo –…
SAT 5/24 Do you like a good fight? I mean a real tooth-and-nail, knockdown, drag-out war. No, I’m not talking about any Jerry Springer theatrics — that stuff is for housewives. And no, I’m not referring to the Mike Tyson circus act — that stuff is for freaks. I’m talking…
