For the past three years, one of the most popular nights in roller-derby action has been the game between local bruisers the Gold Coast Derby Grrls versus the “Vets” — a team composed of the best roller-derby girls from around the world. Our local brawlers on wheels made the big…
In South Florida, we are lucky enough to experience summer weather throughout the year. So it’s a good thing the City of Fort Lauderdale is providing us with a truly epic reminder that the king of all seasons is finally on its way. It is doing it bigger than big…
While making the bar scene in downtown Fort Lauderdale is usually quite enough fun all on its own, every once in a while, it’s nice to spice things up. And as in the bedroom, sometimes a little costumed role-playing is just the ticket. In England, it’s known as Vicars and…
Stick and stones may break your bones, but whatever gets you off, baby. Whether you’re into leather or animal-friendly pleather, whips and chains, or just being told what a naughty, naughty boy you’ve been, there’s something for everyone at the Fetish Factory’s 18-Year Fetish Weekend in Fort Lauderdale. Fetishists are…
Memorial Day is supposed to be about remembering those who fell while serving our great country. Although some people actually do honor the occasion, most people use the day as an excuse to party. Either way, we’ve got you covered. • The City of Boca Raton is holding a Memorial…
The only thing better than one great food and wine pairing is multiple great food and wine pairings. On Thursday, May 30, at 5:30 p.m., the second-annual Pairings Food & Wine Event is coming to downtown West Palm Beach. For $25 in advance, $30 the day of the event, guests…
The ocean is a peaceful escape for many. It’s a place where surfers, divers, and swimmers feel one with nature and a place where people can relax just by being near it. Well, ocean lovers, beware. Because your opinion is about to change after you learn the history of our…
It’s the summer of 1926 in Delray Beach, Florida, and a brand-new two-story home at 170 Blackmer St. is the first in the area with indoor plumbing, a telephone, and electricity. The Mission Revival-style home features a stone foundation with stucco finish and a chimney with a capped bell tower…
“Who are you?” pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek Into Darkness. The answer is Khan. And that’s not a spoiler — it’s a selling point. A less secretive director (i.e., all save the ghost of Stanley Kubrick) would trumpet that his…
Responding to the uproar earlier this month over the passage—and President Obama’s signage—of the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” the gene-bending agri-giant Monsanto issued a press release dismissing any attendant conspiracy theories as “worthy of a B-grade movie script.” They got it half right. Immediate in its politics yet Shakespearean in…
“Can you speak up a little, man? I dove off a boat yesterday, and I now have an immense amount of water in my ear!” Brady Corbet, 24, is on the phone from the Republic of Panama, where he’s filming a new movie opposite Benicio del Toro and Josh Hutcherson…
“It was 1991. I fly into L.A. I take a cab to Compton. On the phone, Richard [Williams] said, ‘The only thing I guarantee you, you won’t get shot,’ ” says tennis coach Rick Macci. “I thought he was kidding.” Macci was meeting with Williams and his two young daughters,…
Until his arrest in 1986, most people believed Richard Kuklinski to be an all-American family man. In reality, this suburban New Jersey “banker” made his fortune working as a hit man for the Mafia, killing more than 100 people and often freezing and dismembering their bodies to obscure the time…
Recently, African-American-directed relationship movies have hewed toward either incongruous absurdity (Think Like a Man), overt sentimentality (Jumping the Broom), or, in Tyler Perry’s work, both. Long gone feel the days of complex films like Two Can Play That Game, Mark Brown’s modern screwball comedy that provided hilarity alongside a clear-eyed…
Writer-director Ramin Bahrani’s At Any Price finds tension between rapacious capitalism and the idealized fiction of rural life in farming communities, especially as they engage in decidedly unpastoral, commodity-based feeding frenzies. Here it’s not bad weather or greedy banks that places a large, third-generation family farm in jeopardy but the…
In the same way novels can be better and worse than journalism at processing history, so can movies be better and worse than novels: too unreal yet too specific. For the movie of Mohsin Hamid’s novel, director Mira Nair mounts a sensitive retrospective procedural of radicalization: Here’s how a bright…
Uwe Boll will no longer fight you — at least, not with his fists. Often lambasted by critics as the worst of the worst, Boll once literally got into the boxing ring with four film bloggers, but these days prefers to combat negative press with what he claims are more…
We don’t know if you believe in love, but we do know that drag queens love Cher. Starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, the lovely ladies of Lips will be performing a tribute show for the one and only Cher. The event benefits the Poverello Foundation. The cost is a $10…
Imagine, instead of ending up praying to the porcelain god at 3 a.m., by yourself, in a shabby hotel room, you could go back in time and end the evening with your redheaded drill-team-member prom date. Unless you have access to a real-life time-traveling DeLorean, that is an impossible dream,…
Get superfreaky this Friday night with two local bands that are not afraid to let their funk flags fly. Hvy Crm and Rundowntown love to show their admiration for the thumping rhythmic grooves of ’70s bands like Chic and Sly and the Family Stone in their gigs. We are sure…
Food has become a contentious issue. DIG Restaurant and Delray Wellness Village are hosting an organic food and winetasting event for Food Revolution Day, which is Friday, May 17. The free event will host food speakers and, of course, food. Call 561-279-1002, or visit http://activities.foodrevolutionday.com/gourmetwellness/organic_food_wine_tasting_dig_restaurant. Fri., May 17, 6 p.m.,…
San Diego has Comic-Con; now South Florida has Mini Con. The inaugural Florida Mini Con is more than just a comic-book and anime convention, however; it is a celebration of countless pop-culture art forms. Self-described as “an art-driven cultural experience for the whole family,” the daylong gathering will be featuring…
