Street food has come a long way from the dirty-water hot dogs and greasy tacos you used to gobble down outside of clubs at 2 a.m. These days, gourmet food trucks rule the streets, rolling en masse to distribute custom-built grub to intrepid foodies. Now there are trucks specializing in…
Once upon a time, an unusual German boy named Hansel fell in love with a U.S. soldier. However, East Germany’s Communist shackles kept them apart. In order to flee, the two would have to marry as man and woman, so Hansel underwent surgery and took over his mother Hedwig’s identity…
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is an Irish play set in a cramped, drab kitchen, where an aging mother and her spinster daughter are destroying each other in a deranged, deteriorating, codependent relationship. Funny, right? Though profoundly bleak, the play is leavened by the peculiar dark comedy special to playwright…
This one perfect moment.” “That soul-crushing mistress.” “Our forever night.” These and other understated definitions are obsessively applied to a certain dreaded/anticipated ritual throughout Prom, a timely pop product set in a suburban high school during the last weeks before summer break and destined for the immortality of Vitamin C’s…
One of the more depressing, desensitizing experiences I’ve had in a theater, Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil feels as computer-generated as its creepy, talking-ceramic-toy style of animation. The sequel to the Weinstein Co.’s 2005 animation gambit, the movie is a fairy-tale pastiche that drops stale references to films like Goodfellas…
If The King’s Speech was a comfy middlebrow choice for Best Picture of 2010, how much more depressing was the academy’s squandering of Best Foreign Language Film on Susanne Bier’s In a Better World? Displaced tykes and bullies both macro and micro abound in this relentlessly pandering drama about a…
As agreeable as it is insidious, Morgan Spurlock’s latest exposé of corporate control via immersive humiliation is his best, most formally inventive project yet. The premise is initially fuzzy — Spurlock proposes to fund a documentary about product placement solely with product placements — and The Greatest Movie Ever Sold…
What happens when everything a filmmaker tells us about his characters is suddenly turned on its head? This is the dilemma that viewers of Abbas Kiarostami’s confounding Certified Copy will face late into this movie. It is at this point when the two main characters, William Schmiell’s pompous author and…
The wildlife is tough for a real party animal. One time, our friend the zebra walked into a bar and asked, “Can I get a red stripe?” The bartender looked up and said, “We don’t serve Jamaicans here.” We got a llama to spit in his face. So far, we’ve…
The Bubble has really outdone itself for its second birthday. Back two years ago, when this new venue popped up, for most it was a place like no other. In Fort Lauderdale, the bar scene had been the indie art scene — it was typical to see a place transform,…
We’ve always dreamt about being a princess and living in a castle. Well, now we’re pretty much screwed. Kate Middleton is stealing the spotlight (and the prince) this Friday, but don’t put away your makeshift tiara just yet. The Atlantic Resort & Spa has put together a package fit for…
OK, let’s break it down, because a ticket to anything costing 100 bucks seems like too much at this point — but, somehow, paying that to go to a street festival dealing in nothing but food and booze at least tempts us to consider going. Well, actually, we will be…
If your home furnishings mimic your favorite local pub or an IKEA clearance, that’s not your fault — you decorate what you know. But this doesn’t mean you don’t secretly daydream for extravagance. Friday, the Museum of Art’s All Together Now group of 20- and 30-somethings with an interest in…
Presented by James Brown’s Sweat, the dance party at the Mai-Kai is back: That means funk and soul and punk wafting through a tiki bar, and you feeling punchy after dipping into the Rum Barrel. Back for one night only, Sensitive Side, Mikey Ramirez, and the man himself — James…
The Beautiful Villains Fashion Show won’t be one for a starving audience. Rather, fashion designer Lorie Lester will be using her friends and family, people of all shapes and sizes, to showcase her 2011 summer line. The crowd will be able to fully enjoy her ’70s-inspired fabrics and silhouettes on…
The fifth installment in The Fast and the Furious franchise picks up where the fourth left off: Lunkhead street racer/noble criminal antihero Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) is in a bus en route to prison; his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) and her paramour/sometimes FBI agent Brian (Paul Walker) are en route…
What happens when everything a filmmaker tells us about his characters is suddenly turned on its head? This is the dilemma that viewers of Abbas Kiarostami’s confounding Certified Copy will face late into this movie. It is at this point when the two main characters, William Schmiell’s pompous author and…
A lot can happen in one day, especially if the morning begins by getting wasted on a bottle of scotch. The three roommates in Theresa Rebeck’s Sunday on the Rocks do just that, and it’s no surprise when things don’t go down as smoothly as the liquor. All three have…
Ladies, you might not have realized it back when you were toddling around in cartoon-character underwear, but fairy tales were originally written to scare you. They were warnings and cautionary tales, and unfortunately, most of them still carried with them the fears and prejudices of an earlier age. Think about…
A shadow army of mercenaries is waging the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They outnumber U.S. troops on many battlefields, and they’re paid far more. Their profession is about as savory as killing people for profit can be. Xe Services, the impossible-to-pronounce kingpin mercenary clan formerly known as Blackwater, has…
If you’re going to hang an exhibition on a gimmick, make it a really good one. Fortunately, that’s the case with “A to Z: 26 Great Photographs From the Norton Collection,” a terrific little show now on view. The idea is to take a whirlwind tour of the Norton Museum…
One of the ideas behind “Cultural Collisions,” now at Broward College in downtown Fort Lauderdale, was to bring together four artists from different cultural backgrounds and see what kind of cross-pollination might result. The artists — American Timothy Leistner, Venezuelan Francisco Sheuat, Honduran Julio Green, and Dominican Carmen Cordero —…
