Misanthropy and activism don’t seem like they go hand in hand, yet they do. For instance, you might care passionately about the environment and yet find the concept of enforced contact with strangers repugnant. Well, let’s hope your passion for nature, and specifically for the oceans, is greater than your…
For J. Pierrpont Finch, life comes with an instruction manual. i>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying takes Finch from the newsroom to the conference room and beyond. At every turn, the magical tome tells Finch just how to manipulate each accident to his advantage, coerce every coincidence to…
There’s a reason Ryan Trecartin has been called the first YouTube art star. For one, you don’t even have to visit a museum to see his work. All you have to do is log online to check out many of his pulse-pounding flicks now screening at the Museum of Contemporary…
For some, beginning of summer causes a panicky clutch near the area of their wallet (we’re halfway back around to the holiday season!), while others get all nostalgic and plan Christmas-in-July parties. How about a little taste of Halloween in June? Undergrounds Coffeehaus is having a weekend filled with costume…
You’d think photographer Jeremiah Jenner had just won an Academy Award — he’s that excited, caught up in the peculiar blend of humility and disbelief, exhilaration and relief, that we see onstage during awards shows. And truth be told, he’s not that far off. His Galerie Jenner has just celebrated…
The Norton’s “Altered States” is a relatively small show that traffics in big art. There are just over two dozen works by four contemporary artists, but the scale of the pieces tends to be big and the themes even bigger. One temporary site-specific installation — Jose Alvarez’s Vibrating Strands of…
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a replica of an open-air venue that burned down in 1614, is sponsoring nationwide screenings of Shakespearean flicks, and venues across Florida are participating. It all starts on Monday with a screening of The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy reputed as the only play in which…
YES! YES! YES! The crowds have shouted. Triumph masks the stale beer air of 5 p.m. Effective immediately, Laser Wolf is now open for happy hour. You’ve seen it — on Facebook — Friend One was with Friend Two and ten other people at Laser Wolf. And you thought, what…
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams’ much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three weeks before July 4, this Steven Spielberg-produced, kidcentric, 21st-century disaster flick could well hang in at theaters till the tenth anniversary of 9/11 — an event that haunts Abrams’ surefire blockbuster nearly…
Call it the short end of the wishbone or a stereotype left over from June and Ward Cleaver days but for many families — while mom gets relegated to menstruation talks — dad still lays claim to the “big” talk about your first set of wheels. While this can be…
Since Bill Clinton decreed it so in 2000, June has been Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. And there are few places better to celebrate than Wilton Manors — with an LGBT population more than 1000 percent higher than the national average. Sunday, the town is holding its annual Stonewall Street…
The Undergrounds Coffeehaus is a rare local alternative to Starbucks and its soul-sucking corporate vibe. The gemütlich little haunt sports a jam station and piles of used books and board games. And on Saturday, it will be overrun by an immobile crowd of plaster-casted relief sculptures created by Hilda Vazquez,…
After suffering concussions and bloody heads on the world’s skate ramps for most of the ’90s, former pro skate boarder and current ANP Magazine editor and artist Ed Templeton may be off his wheels competitively, but he’s still on the road. He’s exhibited extensively abroad and as a southern Californian,…
So, you are still pining for the Lilith Fair. Every time a Sarah McLachlan song comes on in the car, you get nostalgic for the endless tables and booths touting feminist and pseudofeminist causes. You miss the swaying to acoustic womanly warblings; the Jewel sightings in the audience; the warm,…
New York-based contemporary artist and BMX bike enthusiast Ryan Humphrey is bringing his “Fast Forward” exhibit to the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (1650 Harrison St., Hollywood). It’s an installation of bike-inspired paintings and other works, such as a BMX-style rendition of Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel. Both Humphrey and…
Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas BBQ, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life bears a variety of forms — and invites as many reactions. You may feel amazed or muddled, softly spoken to or simply abandoned while watching it;…
Lebanon, PA begins as a tale about male, middle-aged self-discovery, but soon becomes something quite different: a clear-eyed if crassly manipulative take on the culture wars. Driving out to Rick Santorum country for his father’s funeral, slightly douchy Philadelphia ad exec Will (Josh Hopkins) discovers the pleasures and uglier aspects…
L’amour Fou opens with unbroken footage from designer Yves Saint-Laurent’s 2002 speech announcing his retirement from fashion, after 40-plus years at the helm of the massively important label bearing his name. It’s a stunning performance, flowing from naked confessional (“I have known the false friends of tranquilizers… and emerged dazzled…
Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas BBQ, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life bears a variety of forms — and invites as many reactions. You may feel amazed or muddled, softly spoken to or simply abandoned while watching it;…
If there is one thing Headliner Market Group is known for, it’s having parties packed with celebrities. And we’re not talking about reality-show rejects and D-listers (yes, you, Brooke Hogan); we’re referring to real celebrities: Kanye West, Amber Rose, Michael Jordan, Lil Wayne, Flo Rida, Dwyane Wade, Ludacris — a…
Once a traditional bottle-service club in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the space that now houses Green Room is far from its past life — the rebirth of this venue is directly influenced by its arguably cooler events and the defiantly more eclectic musicians who take its stage. The location is unique:…
Fire-breathing females? Check. Tattooed women? Check. Seductive (fake) blood play? Check. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to feast your eyes on the Reckless Dames. These sultry temptresses will titillate the senses and make your jaws drop with their sensual ways when they take over the Speakeasy Lounge in downtown Lake Worth…
