Save the jokes about freedom fries and white flags for another time; today is Bastille Day, the annual commemoration of the storming of the Bastille and the de facto kickoff to the French Revolution. Raise a glass to the people’s resolve at Pistache French Bistro’s annual Bastille Day fete, which…
On Saturday, break out your best whips and suit up in your favorite latex skivvies — Fetish Factory’s monthly Alter Ego event returns with the “Chasing the Dragon” party. Think Chinese New Year gone awry with kinky ninjas and rubber geishas. Held at Karu Nightclub, the “feshtivities” begin at 10…
Cultural watchdogs like to wag their fingers and warn everyone that too much stimulation will somehow dull the senses. The organizers of Red Eye 2012, a hyperimmersive multimedia exhibition, aren’t trying to hear that mess. The event, which goes down tonight at ArtServe, is a self-proclaimed ball of energy, with…
The Unitarian Fellowship of South Florida will bring the spirits together, reading auras and seeing into the past, present, and future with runes and tarot cards from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday for the Summer Psychic Faire. There will be several divinations to choose from, making the psychic experience easy…
Clear your vocal cords and lower those inhibitions for the fifth-annual Zimmerman Karaokethon this Wednesday at Deerfield Beach’s All Stars Sports Bar and Grill. Experience the thrill of hours upon hours of beer-induced, out-of-tune renditions of karaoke classics such as Don McLean’s “American Pie,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” or current…
Much like the conception of people, the birth of plays can begin in unexpected ways. Playwright and actress Kim Ehly first knew she was on to something back in 2001, when she was assigned to write a two-page monologue for a Strasberg scene study class in New York City and…
Two of the most famous works of Western art involving sharks can be found in the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale’s epic-scale look at the shark in art, although not as originals. Winslow Homer’s The Gulf Stream, painted in 1899 after the artist made two trips to the Bahamas, greets you…
The Amazing Spider-Man, an inexcusably good reboot from director Marc Webb, celebrates the heartwarming arachno-genetic bar mitzvah in which a boy becomes a spider and a spider becomes a man, a rite of passage last observed in Sam Raimi’s uneven but often pretty great trilogy in the ’00s. And there’s…
Welcome to the recession, boys,” says John Travolta’s DEA-double-agent profiteer in Oliver Stone’s Savages, based on Don Winslow’s novel. Savages is a movie of its moment, though both its good guys and bad guys (if there’s really even a difference) are unquestionably the 1 percent of their industry — that…
That mango tree in the backyard seemed like a rad idea a few years ago, but now that you’re knee-deep in the suckers, the bounty is bearing down on you like some sort of tropical weight on your shoulders. You may be able to get some ideas of how to…
There is a long-running debate over whether graffiti is a legit form of art or defacement of public and private property. Whether you’re in the pro-piece camp or hanging on the tagged fence, tonight’s North Beach Art District Artwalk will give you a chance to catch the art movement in…
Life ain’t all puppies and rainbows, but it can be* on Saturday at the Yappy Yard Sale, which raises money for local dog rescues. The 50-percent-off yard sale at the Bow-Wow Resort store not only benefits Shepherd Help and Rescue Effort (SHARE) and the Be Kind to Animals Rescue but…
Help bring awareness to the importance of keeping our beaches and oceans clean by taking part in the Jellyfish Drift Project on Saturday. A unique brushed-aluminum jellyfish sculpture, created by Palm Beach eco-artist Paulo, has been engraved with messages promoting ocean preservation. The sculpture will be released into the Gulfstream,…
In this tight economic time, there’s pressure to DIY, but after gathering your needles, thread, hammers, clasps, paint, and everything else crafty, you might find the result isn’t worth the effort. Although it’s certainly admirable to take on these projects, it’s just as admirable to realize you are significantly less…
Following the death of weekly party Digital Love, the Green Room — arguably the epicenter for nightlife happenings and dance-floor action in Fort Lauderdale — introduced Brown Bag Wednesdays, a solution to the sadly lacking local hip-hop scene. Critics may have been skeptical at first, but in just a few…
Described by artistic director Louis Tyrrell as “the Daily Show of its time,” cabaret shows in Weimer-era Berlin roasted Adolf Hitler, excoriated anti-Semitism, and injected a progressive ideology into the issues of the day. This is more than apparent in Cabaret Verboten, Tyrrell’s latest production at Delray Beach’s Arts Garage…
Divorce is generally a sad and messy business, so much so that it’s easy to forget that the finalizing of a divorce also means the end of an unhappy situation. Divorce Party the Musical is returning to the Kravis Center to help remind audiences of this very salient and cathartic…
“This is like children’s theater for 40-year-old gay people.” So says a malicious Olympian muse as she slinks into the shadows of a roller disco, ready to watch her demigoddess companion unseat their leader, a spirited blond in Barbie-pink skates and leg warmers. This is one of the many winks…
When Channing Tatum stood up and revealed his bare ass to the camera a minute or two into Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike — which the actor conceived of and produced based on his own experience as a teenaged dancer in an all-male exotic revue — the audience in my screening…
Arguably the strangest of the many recent Scandinavian movies to rifle through modern American-indie tropes and then cash in by getting bought up for an American remake (see: Let the Right One In), Morten Tyldum’s ironic-violent farce focuses on the spirit of the Coen brothers’ catalog, from Blood Simple to…
People Like Us is a certifiable adult drama built atop sturdy thematic supports, a rare enough item these days. Sam (Chris Pine), a career-obsessed New York wheeler-dealer, is reeled back to hometown L.A. upon the death of his father, who had a multiplatinum record as a ’70s music producer/AR man…
My candidate for understatement of the year comes from the juror of the “61st All Florida” show at the Boca Museum, Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. In her intro, she comes out with, “Admittedly, open call juried exhibitions are challenging.” This, mind you, is…
