With unclogged toilets and an ornate backlit bar display, the Dive Bar doesn’t live up to its name. The kitschy fishing décor, bargain well drinks, and first-name rapport — on the other hand — very much do. Boasting local live music performances four days a week, the joint has seen…
Being a small-business owner is never easy. That goes double for restaurant owners and triple for food truck operators. Not only might your restaurant fail but it could literally run off the road. Robb Muise of Friar Tuck’s knows all about the trials and tribulations of food truck ownership. He’s…
The judges didn’t discover you on America’s Got Talent. And you missed the audition for The Voice. Stop acting like a wounded diva and get over it before you miss your next opportunity to be discovered. Now you can showcase your music with All Together Now (ATN) on the Peck…
Whether you’re already a film buff with a love for the classics or someone who’s kind of into film but feels your education is lacking, this is the film festival for you. Although the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival — October 18 to November 11 at Cinema Paradiso — is a world-renowned event…
Miss the days of heading down to the local bar for some tunes, food, and spirits? If so, dig through the spiny branches of the gooseberry bush to the sweet fruit that is the band Gooseberry Ranch. It’s time for some classic rock at the Sample Road Tavern, thanks to…
Whether you are into “pass the passion on” or just looking at some fine specimens of man candy,this Friday, join our Fort Lauderdale Strikers for their second fall home game against the Carolina Railhawks. As part of the North American Soccer League, professional stadium soccer has come to Fort Lauderdale,…
Dumpstaphunk is going to dump tha Big Easy funk by closing out the B.E. Easy Music and Arts Festival this Saturday. As the headlining performer of the event, the quintet will bring songs from the 2013 release Dirty Word to the swaying palms of Fort Lauderdale Beach. The event is being…
The U.S. isn’t exactly known as a nation of the physically fit. More than one-third of the population is obese. Heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, and certain kinds of cancers, all of which are related to being overweight, are some of the leading causes of preventable death. With those numbers,…
Some families camp together, some go to the movies, some go on vacations. And then there are those who band together to find fame by giving an outrageous performance for a TV weatherman they’ve accidentally mistaken for Frank Capra. Such is the case for the Hay family in the play…
Cheese tastes good in everything — cake, donuts, bagels, sandwiches, pizza, whatever — the more the better. On Wednesday, September 4, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., New York Grilled Cheese is hosting Cheese-A-Rama to benefit the Smart Ride. Hosted by drag queens Daisy Deadpetals and Nicole Halliwell, the event will…
After Jimmy Savile, Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan, and that Christian puppeteer who wanted to kidnap, kill, and eat little boys, it’s hard not to imagine the children’s entertainment industry as a fount of unimaginable filth and degeneracy. But for those who’d prefer to remember their childhoods happily, Mathew Klickstein offers…
If adolescent rebellion is, for most kids, just a developmental phase, for Stephanie McMillan it was more like a political awakening. Even as a middle-schooler, this Broward County native dreamed of joining a commune and resented missing the ’60s. But as an adult, she had to make a living. She…
Valyn Calhoun co-owned a gallery, Rasa Productions, in 2006 and took up photography seriously in 2009. But in December 2012, he had to put down his camera and head to the hospital to fight for his life. Now, he’s back to show a collection of his best pieces in “Retrospective,”…
The laddish pleasures of The World’s End, Edgar Wright’s comedy about a group of middle-aged guys drinking beer and facing mortality, come with a bittersweet edge. In the old days, the lead character, Gary King, used to be the coolest kid in school, at least in the outlaw sense: He’d…
On September 17, 2011, 1,000 protesters set up tents in Manhattan’s financial district and dubbed themselves Occupy Wall Street. Four days later, Lionsgate purchased You’re Next — a home-invasion slasher that slices up a family of 1 percenters — and should have released it immediately. Instead, the studio sat on…
Despite what romantic comedies and sitcoms starring savvy singles in the city might want us to think, dating is not fun. It’s awkward and scary. Jerry Seinfeld once compared it to a job interview that lasts for hours at the end of which you might end up naked. It’s kind…
There are people who drink wine, people who like wine, and people who freaking love it — all of whom enjoy getting drunk. While you may not be able to taste the difference between the notes of boxed wine and a bottle of the most expensive Bordeaux, sommeliers can, and…
As much as we enjoyed Edward Norton and Brad Pitt’s sweaty bods punching each other in the clandestine Fight Club, this is one ring you can definitely talk about. We promise. Friday night, Fight Time Promotion’s Fight Time 16 will bring 22 scantily clad professional boxers to the cage stage…
Newsflash for all the youngsters out there: Snapchat is not art! OK, we admit it is great. Taking and posting pictures in the vast social media universe has turned into a form of credibility and validation in the current technology-based social landscape. Ever thought that sunset you Instagrammed was frame-worthy?…
Think you are a tough girl? Take a seat in the stands at a derby girl match and you will either reconsider that notion or grab a helmet and kneepads and roll right in. Derby has become the ultimate badge of badassedness for girls who have the guts to leave…
Firefighters are used to being in hot places, but the firefighters are turning up the heat when they invade the Hard Rock for the 2014 calendar unveiling party. The longest-running firefighter calendar of the world this year features 15 glossy prints of South Florida’s finest. The calendar also shows off…
Break out your saddle shoes and leather jackets; it’s time to twist again. The Green Room is inviting you to go back to the 1950s at its Back to the Happy Days Future Party. A shindig that Marty McFly, the Fonz, and the Pink Ladies would be proud to attend…
