The BeachBash is 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday and includes tastings from local restaurants and caterers like Tap 42 and Rice & Dough. The festivities — which include an open bar — will be held at Hyatt Pier Sixty-Six http://www.voiceplaces.com/tap-42-broward-palm-beach-4422768-l. Tickets cost $50 in advance or $65 at the door…
Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is the world’s largest funeral party… and South Florida is not one to miss out on the fun. Fat Village will host its third-annual Day of the Dead Celebration on Friday, with art exhibitions, music, shopping, performance art, face painting, and…
The newest exhibition at Girls’ Club is all about lines: straight ones, curvy ones, squiggly ones, colorful ones, elaborate ones, simple ones. Some create abstract arrangements, and others build recognizable shapes, sizes, and phantasmagoric visions. All form the basis of “Following the Line,” a show intended to advance audiences’ understanding…
The alarm didn’t sound. You’re late for work. And now you have a flat tire. Bad day, huh? Well, your worst day is probably a good day for families who have a child or parent living with a serious illness. But their days are about to become a bit brighter,…
One of the great things about Pineapple Grove’s Arts Garage is that it suffers from cultural schizophrenia: A classical-music performance one night could yield an underground hip-hop show the next; divas in drag could pave the floor for a scorching blues act. The one-night fundraiser Grunge & Glamour celebrates the…
When cancer survivors are asked how they fought for their lives against the odds of cancer, you’ll often hear the word hope. Hope as a sentiment, as a desire for a better tomorrow, is a powerful means not to be underestimated. That’s why the American Cancer Society launched its worldwide…
“I’m fair puckled!” That’s Scottish slang for being short of breath, which is how the audience will be at Fort Lauderdale Comedy Club from the effects of the extreme hilarity of Scottish standup comedian Luke Francis. This Glasgow native throws nonstop jokes for endless guffaws that will leave the audience…
Ever been watching a mixed martial arts match and seen a foot sweep so impressive that you have said to yourself, “Dang, that should get an award”? Well, fist of fury follower, that time has come with the inaugural 2012 Florida MMA Awards. This red-carpet, black-tie affair rolls into Miramar…
Want to do the Time Warp straight to after the election? Don’t we all. Luckily Dr. Frank N. Furter is here to pass the time with a tube of red lipstick and a cast of characters who have become unforgettable. Even if an S&M-dressed tranny isn’t your thing (but how…
If Twin Peaks morphed into a jukebox musical staged inside Davie’s Round Up, the result might be something like Della’s Diner: Blue Plate Special, the first sequel in a popular soap-opera parody series by Tom Edwards. On Christmas Eve in a diner atop a mountain that houses a secret nuclear-waste…
Years before New York City indie troupe Vampire Weekend had kids bopping to African pop and jostling for Sperry Top-Siders, there was Pittsburgh’s Rusted Root. Back in 1995, this percussive six-piece had college kids swaying with such Afro-pop hits as “Send Me on My Way” and “Ecstasy.” Although they disbanded…
Sip and swirl at the “Pleasures of Port” tasting from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, November 8, at Store Wine Storage, 11010 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens. The cost is $45 in advance or $50 at the door. Call 561-627-8444. Thu., Nov. 8, 2012…
The third-annual Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival is set for Friday, November 9, through Sunday, November 11. More than 70 chefs are expected to participate in the grand tasting from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, November 10. The cost for that is $100 per person. http://www.voiceplaces.com/boca-raton-wine-and-food-festival-broward-palm-beach-2878148-l/ Fri., Nov. 9,…
Get an intimate look into the lives of four legends and the birth of rock ‘n’ roll — and jam out while you’re at it — this month at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Million Dollar Quartet, the latest breakout Broadway musical, opens Tuesday night and runs through…
The big house isn’t for everyone, but in the play Delval Divas, it certainly suits four well-to-do women who are living luxuriously at a correctional facility. But just as they are enjoying their incarcerations, one of them gets released early, and someone who had the nerve to be sentenced to…
The paintings and collages of artist Helga Wolfenstein King are fascinating pieces on their own. They blur the line between abstract and figural, capturing the essences of people and places with a rough-hewn grace. But the work is even more impressive when you know the artist’s backstory: From 1941 to…
Tweenaged visitors at Miami’s House of Horror Amusement Park in Doral were having a rough time last weekend. It was long before they plunged into claustrophobic darkness of a cemetery littered with chainsaw-wielding psycho killers. The curtain was just rising on the 25-room haunted mansion, and already, a girl clutched…
Need an illustration of just how global the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival has become? Just check out the opener for the fest’s 27th-annual edition: The Sapphires is an Australian film about indigenous women who formed a singing group in the late 1960s to travel to Vietnam to sing to…
The Sapphires Muvico Pompano, 2315 N. Federal Highway, Pompano Beach. Saturday, October 20, 7 p.m. Sunday, October 21, 3:30 p.m. 1968 was the year the planet went haywire. All around the globe, there were riots and revolution in the streets. There were hard drugs, soft drugs, free love, and psychedelic…
When Ruby (played by the stunning Emayatzy Corinealdi) tells the new man in her life she likes “indie” movies, it’s both a declaration of identity and a dare. The man, Brian (David Oyelowo), a bus driver who has politely but persistently pursued Ruby after driving her home from her overnight…
Delray Beach’s latest installment of On the Ave will get political with “Spin the Vote” this Thursday. Billed as a “voter registration project for the EDM community,” “Spin the Vote” has been popping in at random events all over the country to motivate young people to be more patriotic, one…
If the concept of an ice cream bar — that is, a bar erected for the sole purpose of selling ice cream — doesn’t sound like the perfect end to a night out, then I question your patriotism. An ice cream bar is just one of the highlights of the…
