Arts & Culture

“The All-American Genderfuck Cabaret” at Empire Stage: Sometimes Even a God Has to Come Down and Make Out With Someone

The Glass Gallery in Pembroke Pines is hosting its eighth-annual art competition. It’s an equal-opportunity art event; no matter what your medium is (watercolors, oils, photography, sculpture, mixed media, bicurious media, whichever — there’s no discrimination here!), you can submit your work for a chance to win the monetary prizes…

Your friend says she’s a marathon runner? Puh-leeze! She may run 26.2 miles once a year, but has she ever walked a marathon in stilettos? Tell her to leave her New Balance at home and to strap on a pair of her favorite Manolo Blahniks this month for the Glam…

A bit of New Orleans flair and voodoo magic comes to life Saturday at Cajun eatery Rosey Baby. In full force, the annual Hoodoo Voodoo Halloween Blues Ball is back for its 13th year, celebrating blues music with Halloween fun. Blues musical acts on the bill include Albert Castiglia, Joel…

Attention, parents: If you’re tired of spending every Friday night locked up with those annoying, er, lovely children of yours then (a) Why on earth did you have kids? And (b) Listen up. Yes, there are upsides to having kids, like tax breaks and making them live out your failed…

Save the gas money and catch top-shelf South Beach beats simultaneously with the uncanny techno groove of renowned DJ Alej Varez. This Friday presents a rare opportunity to bump and grind close to home, to the sounds of this premier South Beach maestro, who has made a name for himself…

If you don’t cringe when you hear the term smooth jazz — with its connotations of elevator Muzak and Kenny G’s polenta sax noodling — then this publication might not be for you. But if the genre needs a savior, it might be the lovely Keiko Matsui, a Japanese child…

The retro-tiki haven Five Points Lounge is gearing up for Halloween by welcoming all Fort Lauderdale ghastly ghouls and sideshow freaks to the “Kreepy Circus.” On hand will be the live music of Lonewolf and erotic burlesque enchantresses the Reckless Dames. Entertainment continues with fire dancers, snake charmers, and tattooed…

More than a dozen of the region’s top-rated chefs are coming together for the Signature Chef Auction, to benefit the March of Dimes, on Friday, October 12. Chefs such as Mike Saperstein, Jim Leiken, and Chris Miracolo will lend their talents to the event, which lasts from 7:30 to 10…

Not many comedians can pull off impersonations of Liza Minnelli and Bruce Springsteen, but such is the range of Mario Cantone. A Tony-winning Sex and the City alum who brings Broadway panache to his standup comedy routines, Cantone’s versatility is without peer — as evidenced by his dead-on skewering of…

The cocoa bean may be the most universally accepted vice. Tell a friend you’re powerless in the face of chocolate and she won’t try to stage an intervention. Hell, she’ll probably want to join you in fueling the addiction at Saturday’s Festival of Chocolate. The two-day event includes a vendor…

What if Stephen King were hunted down by a rabid dog or a crazy car? Or if Anne Rice were suddenly bitten by vampires? In the “be careful what you write” category, the award-winning 1981 play In a Talent for Murder follows a best-selling mystery novelist who finds herself at…

In the middle of the great modern musical The Drowsy Chaperone, audiences are treated to a show-within-a-show parody of a much older musical, in which an American lady duets with a pidgin-English-speaking emperor in imperial China. Everyone is dressed in ridiculous “Oriental” garb and singing politically incorrect rhymes like “What…

It’s the lord of lederhosen. The duchess of dirndl. The granddaddy of German debauchery. The American-German Club of the Palm Beaches’ 39th Annual Oktoberfest fires up on Friday for two weekends of over-the-top, fall-down-drunk good times. As the longest-running and largest Oktoberfest in the region, this is a well-oiled machine…

Nothing signifies the start of the holiday season like having the pants scared off you by a blood-encrusted, brain-munching zombie. Flesh-eating goons can be as comforting as a warm glass of eggnog in that regard. As such, families fueled with fall-time ghoulish zeal will go out in droves to “Fright…

Tales of workplace woes are, perhaps, a common complaint in today’s society. Salary raises are a thing of the past, and the struggle of gender pay equality persists. In a timely fashion, the Tony Award-winning musical The Pajama Game comes to Tamarac Theatre of Performing Arts, opening Saturday. The comedy-drama,…