It’s October, so it’s time to get schnitzel-faced on German beer while dressed like a Bavarian villager and listening to accordion music. And Oakland Park is your place, your little Munich. The town’s Oktober Fest is the largest in SoFla, claim the organizers, who also insist, “Everything about our event…
Art is like fossils. The fossil left behind is a wonder to those who discover it, but for the dinosaur, it’s really sort of after the fact. And for the artist, the result — whether it be a film, a painting, or a poem — is merely proof that art…
Do yourself a favor and spend your Tuesday evenings from 6 to 7:45 p.m. on the sixth floor of the Main Library (100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale). That is where a volunteer Spanish-speaking teacher leads El Club. Sure, immersion is the best way to learn a new language, but…
Tra-la-la! You need whimsy in your life. Everyone does. At the 1310 Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, they’ve got you covered with a new exhibit of playful art pieces — like, for example, a five-foot-tall hamburger. But be warned: A few of the pieces are about as whimsical as tattered, blood-stained…
The Alien franchise got its distinctive aesthetic from a Swiss surrealist artist, H.R. Giger. His paintings gave the alien its drooling, multijawed, angry-lobster look, and Giger later won an Academy Award for his work on visual effects. Art inspired a scary movie. Now scary movies are inspiring art at the…
Of this year’s corny family heartwarmers based on true aquatic stories of coping with the loss of appendages, director Charles Martin Smith’s boy-and-his-dolphin melodrama at least earns your empathy — unlike the disingenuous Christploitation of Soul Surfer. Off the Florida coast, skittish grade-schooler Nelson (Nathan Gamble) strikes an immediate bond…
At the time of this writing, the Oakland Athletics sit at a distant third in the American League West, 18 games behind the Texas Rangers, managed by Ron Washington, once the first-base coach under A’s wonderboy Billy Beane. The A’s have not had a winning season since making the playoffs…
Wholly unrelated to the 1975 Sam Peckinpah film of the same name, Killer Elite is distinguished by one no-mercy, eye-gouging, testicle-punching brawl and one whoppingly indifferent screenplay. After a collateral-damage close call awakens his conscience — the first of many perfunctorily recycled bits to come — hit man Danny Bryce…
Celebrity airplane wizzer Gérard Depardieu, playing massive dimwit Germain in this syrupy tale of intergenerational friendship, looks aghast when a bar buddy, in a state of pickled despair, takes a leak on his own front steps. No PR materials I’ve received for My Afternoons With Margueritte, based on a novel…
Thursday, the music inside the Hard Rock Seminole Casino could become so gay as to open a rupture at the quantum level. Three of the biggest names in ’70s music are all going to be at there for Disco Night, performing live. Who are they? The Village People. Gloria Gaynor…
John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, and Jimmy Connors are coming to the BankAtlantic Center. In their younger days, they were the best players in the world. Now, they’re competing against one another in a national tournament, the 2011 Champions Series, that’s moving from city to city and that’s almost…
Stop being polite and start getting real — newspapers were the original social networks. Sure, Mark Zuckerberg (and possibly those Winklevoss twins) thought he was coming up with something original, but the truth is that newspapers have been connecting human beings since the very first printing presses were built. Articles,…
South Florida is arguably one of the funnest times to be had anywhere. From the hot sandy beaches to the cool nightclubs and back to the sweaty dive bars dotting the shoreline, you don’t have to look far to find a good party. But partying responsibly can be difficult in…
Back in 2005, Chris Tucker got pulled over by the no-good fuzz for driving 109 miles per hour down a Georgia highway in his Bentley Continental. Supposedly, he told the cops he was in a rush because he was late for church. He still got arrested. And then the next…
Steampunk — just as popular as ’70s-, ’80s, ’90s-themed parties. ‘Tis true. How has it become so damned trendy? Because it is not just a costume party — a zombie prom is a costume party. It’s a mind trip. When you go to an ’80s party, you take on the…
The best compliment I can offer Kevin Smith’s new movie, Red State, is that it feels nothing like a Kevin Smith movie — which is to say it’s targeted, finally, to a postpubescent audience. Try as he might have on Chasing Amy and Dogma, Smith has never been a fount…
Silent auctions, fancy galas, and golf outings, all in the name of charity. Can you say yawn? We should have a good time doing events that support good causes. Well, it seems the queens over at Lips have the right idea, since they’ve decided to team up for an exclusive…
It sucks when we get sick, but when the little rugrat falls ill, damn, that’s a total disaster. They need to remain healthy for your sake — they need to start creating healthy habits on their own. Don’t even try to teach them. They’re not going to listen to you…
Never trust anybody who doesn’t like dogs — but be even more leery of dopes that say they’re better than people. Sure, they’re your best friend and all, provide unconditional love and whatnot, but they’ll as soon take a dump in your living room as lick themselves inappropriately in front…
“Modify, as needed,” the new group show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, corrals 11 international artists who mischievously transgress conventions in the construction and dissemination of products, exhibiting a sophisticated shift from the act of creating into new roles as editors of existing material. The provocative exhibition showcases their…
The “Robotics” exhibit at the South Florida Science Museum brings humans right up-close to their future overlords. You can play hide-and-seek with robots, “fool a robot sensor,” and race them in completing complex tasks — all skills that will be necessary in the rebellion against the coming robot dictatorship. There’s…
As stripped down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most “American” movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The film, for which Refn was named best director last May in Cannes, is a sleek, tense piece of work that, as a vehicle for Ryan Gosling,…
