You may fancy yourself something of a hero for making it through yet another sweltering South Florida summer, but it’s time to put your delusions of grandeur aside to honor some true-blue American heroes at the first Fort Lauderdale Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers 5K Run. Held annually in New…
For more than a decade, the converted house known as Dada has become one of Delray’s premier locations for seeing live bands, partaking in cultural events, and of course schmoozing over delectable food and mouthwatering mojitos. From the tales of a haunted attic to an array of wild theme parties,…
Philanthropy is such hard work. You want to be a hero, a Good Samaritan, a saint — not for yourself, of course! No, no. You just have this desperate urge to help people. But, ya know, you’re just, like, so busy and junk. You work almost every day. Plus, ya…
The world has come to an end, and nobody knows what will be happening next. Will zombies begin crawling the Earth? Will asteroids crash into our homes? Do we need to go into survivor mode? Instead of worrying about such mundane problems, our friends at the Fetish Factory have a…
South Florida has an active indie art scene. Born out of the rabid success of the annual Stitch Rock fair in Delray Beach, a new indie craft show seems to pop up every other weekend. The idea of buying locally and supporting local small-business people in these tough economic times…
Is anyone else feeling freaked out by East Coast earthquakes and Europe-size hurricanes that reach all the way to Canada? Not to be alarmists or anything, but we think maybe it’s time to stuff our belongings into our hybrids, pack a year’s supply of organic trail mix, and navigate through…
Sometimes the best move to make is not making a move at all. Apparently, that’s what the Miami Dolphins feel about bringing in a new quarterback, even though the position has been a gaping black hole of incompetence in recent years. After pooping himself repeatedly during a host of crappy…
“Listen up, all you hepcats, jet setters, and boo daddies: Get ready to take a flavor journey through that righteous little hole in your face. That’s right, Marge, I’m talkin’ to you. Because Tastemakers — a slick, two-night, food- and beverage-sampling brouhaha — is hittin’ Mizner Park this Thursday and…
Roger Daltrey is reviving a rock opera from his days as lead singer of the Who. Tommy is the epic tale of a “deaf, dumb, and blind boy who becomes the leader of a messianic movement” — you know, sort of like the story of Glenn Beck but not evil…
A daughter does some household chores and prepares to give her mother a manicure when she suddenly and indifferently notifies Mom that she’s going to kill herself in a few hours. It might sound like an obscure B-side ’90s Springsteen song, but it’s actually the plot to ‘Night Mother. Alliance…
Ten years ago this Sunday, Americans woke up to the terror of a World Trade Center in flames and a smoking Pentagon. A decade later, the Wolfsonian examines how disaster and tragedy have been interpreted by art and technology. “Reflections on Loss and Commemoration,” an exhibit of material culture that…
From Cain and Abel to the dudes from Oasis, brothers have a long history of fighting and generally acting like pricks with each other. Sometimes it’s jealousy. Other times it’s because they simply have nothing in common. In the play The Brothers Size, two brothers living in the Louisiana bayou…
Forget strawberry fizz, orange sherbet, and piña colada. This Jelly Belly comes in flavors such as asphalt, gun smoke, and cocaine. Presented by the African American Performing Arts Community Theatre (AAPACT), this gritty play, written by Charles Smith and first produced in 1985, centers on a newly released ex-con named…
Evan Wyler is a young gay writer struggling in New York. Like every starving artist, he has dreamed of a rich patron sweeping in to bankroll his work, à la a Renaissance court. And now he thinks he has found one in Alexa Vere de Vere, a socialite who claims…
Next time your art school nemesis gives you grief for staying put in your hometown while they rack up student loans at Pratt, force them to do a Google search on Miami-based artist Jillian Mayer. In her short career, the FIU grad has given birth to herself on film, made…
A group of 30-somethings trapped in the amber of their high school years attempts to bone its way into adulthood in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, an ensemble sex comedy written and directed by Larry Sanders Show writers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. Technically the orgy of the title is…
Point Blank, a French action film that has nothing to do with the 1967 (and highly Frenchified) John Boorman flick of the same name, opens with a bang: an apparent burglar (Roschdy Zem) running from the scene of an office break-in gone wrong. Zem is chased by a pair of…
Song of the Living Dead is set in an apocalyptic world overrun by the walking dead, but it couldn’t feel more alive. The zombies aren’t one-note automatons, snailing across the blood-spattered stage at the Promethean Theatre with arms outstretched in one direction. These are not your grandmother’s zombies, and they’re…
A true-life outlaw tale as stirring as it is tragic, the story of the Earth Liberation Front offers a DeLillo-flavored draft of high-proof righteous excitement. You can hear the pitch — young, fiery 21st-century hipsters living double lives, burning down corporate buildings to protest environmental exploitation, leading to their own…
He once called Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life” a “classic,” his Twitter account relies heavily on God talk, and he is rumored to date only freakishly beautiful girls who look like his ex, Kim Kardashian, but even with these revelations, Miami Dolphin’s running back Reggie Bush can still bring the…
Long before “going green” became a ubiquitous buzz term in American culture, the Earth Liberation Front was doing its part to protect the planet’s ecosystem, one arson attack at a time. Directors Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman’s new documentary, If a Tree Falls, charts the rise and capture of a…
Haute cuisine continues its long colonialization of American peasant food this week. First it was lobster. Then shrimp. More recently, the burger. Now, it is the truck. Formerly roach motels with wheels, the food truck has, in recent years, established itself as a respectable source of cuisine. The food truck…
