When you think of a Key West-style tiki bar, you instantly think of the abolition of slavery, amirite? Well, after this you will. On behalf of the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach, the Crane’s BeachHouse Hotel & Tiki Bar will host a Juneteenth Celebration Thursday honoring the oldest-known…
Floridians are already enduring the sticky heat of summer. Instead of crying yourself to sleep because you don’t live closer to a daiquiri bar, celebrate all that summer has to offer. The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach is hosting a Summer SOULstice Honky-Tonk from 5 p.m. to…
It might come as a surprise that the “Second Annual Amazing Mom and Son Challenge” is back this year in June and not in May, to coincide with Mother’s Day weekend. In this event, teams of moms and sons race to designated locations around Delray Beach where they are tasked…
From early cave drawings to the modern use of spray paint, styles and the culture surrounding graffiti are constantly changing and evolving. And yet the question remains: Is graffiti art or vandalism? C&I Studios (541 NW First Ave. in Fort Lauderdale) will attempt to answer the question with an affirmative…
South Florida musician Dan Hosker was in a highway accident in May, leaving him in critical condition. His bandmates, friends, and local scene supporters are working to give Hosker the support he needs with several benefit shows. On Saturday, there’s a special benefit hosted by Lori O’Quinn, of Boise Bob…
Summer is the season to get together for peace, love, and music. In South Florida, it is also the season when the electric bill zips way past $100 and all your white shirts are stained yellow in the underarm area due to incessant perspiration. Look at it this way: What…
A generation ago, three-quarters of American kids played outdoors on a daily basis, according to the National Wildlife Federation. With the advent of ultrarealistic Sony PlayStations, that number has dwindled to just 25 percent. In hopes of getting American children off couches and putting down those slices of pizza, the…
Tom and Jerry cartoons have given bulldogs a bad rap. Bulldogs aren’t a bunch of macho cat tormentors; they’re just big-boned softies with zero tolerance for bullying. From 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, organic, eco-friendly DIG restaurant in Delray Beach will team up with Bullies Against Bullying for DIG n’…
If you felt so inclined, you could leave your wallet at home for Suga Wack’s performance at Thursday night’s Boynton Beach Art Walk. You may, however, consider bringing along some furniture (preferably a folding lawn chair) for the endeavor, because it’s going to be a long night, according to Rolando…
South Florida has more than its fair share of curvaceous gals donning nipple pasties and wiggling their assets for all to see. That’s why it feels so apropos for the men to finally have their chance to play risque. What could be more seductive than ten hairy, tattooed men in…
With Glee and Smash off the air right now, many South Floridians are missing their fix of all things musical. Luckily, the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus is here to satisfy your wanton Broadway needs. Celebrate diversity through music, laughter, and some adult-themed humor in their “Comedy Tonight” show. Be…
Building a progressive community takes a strong, tight-knit group of people who care deeply to transform a drab neighborhood and spruce it up into something magical. The organizers of the inaugural Night Owl Market have this very vision — to gather locals for an evening of art, food, and music…
Everyone knows the importance of a good education, and unless you want to grow up to be Bill or Ted without the excellent adventures, reading is superimportant. It’s the first step in critical thinking, understanding, and growing up to read great works of literature like Twilight or Fifty Shades of…
For most Americans, cricket will forever remain an anomaly. Two guys are batting while the other team is “bowling,” and somebody is taking aim at the wicket. Huh? For those under the reign of the Queen Mum, however, the bat-and-ball game sits behind only footie in popularity. Accordingly, we suspect…
The 1980 film Xanadu — you know, the one with Olivia Newton-John as an Olympian muse who roller-skates out of a mural/portal and saves art as we know it — was considered so bad that an entire bad-movie awards show was created because of it. The candy-colored, ELO-scored fantasy ended…
It’s 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp, absconding with a couple of bedrolls and an air rifle and leaving behind…
With her high cheekbones, feline brown eyes, and heart-shaped mouth, actress Aubrey Plaza is bombshell-hot. But in an unusual twist for a 20-something performer at the beginning of her career, Plaza’s natural foxiness is a resource that has gone largely unexploited. Even when given a love-interest role (as in Judd…
What’s missing from first-time director Lorene Scafaria’s Steve Carell–vehicle misfire is the one element any apocalypse narrative suffocates without — urgency. Scafaria, screenwriter of the chipper, inexplicably lauded Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, has created an end-times comedy that’s by turns bizarrely affectless and prattlingly manic, much like its dual…
Being a geek is cool again. But no, busty girls with lensless glasses all over Instagram, you all don’t count. We’ll define a real geek, lovingly, as someone who knows almost everything — maybe way too much — about his or her subject of choice. And you don’t really earn…
Remember the days when every windowsill in America was host to a homemade pie cooling in the breeze? Yeah, neither does anyone else. But the Fourth of July celebrations throughout downtown Lake Worth today tap into the idealized notion of the Leave It to Beaver-esque, all-American dream, complete with the…
Ringling Bros. isn’t the only three-ring extravaganza that graces Miami with acrobatic and comedic wonders. Circo Hermanos Vazquez, the only 100 percent Hispanic circus to travel the U.S., is a colorful blend of circus art and street entertainment with pure Mexican flair. The Vazquez family has been in the clown…
William Shakespeare never lived in postwar Key West. He never wrote his masterpieces on gum-speckled tables in boisterous Duval Street bars, wearing T-shirts printed with phrases like “At Wherefore Art the Ladies?” But if Bill Shakespeare did populate Key West dives, his early comedy Love’s Labours Lost might look something…
