Say adieu to the candy-corn nightmare before Christmas because Halloween’s over. Now, the season of magical trees, potential eggnog overdoses, and whimsical dreams of dancing sugar plums approaches, and this season waits for no one. It’s time to turn dough into holiday cookies, evergreen conifers into Christmas trees, and weird…
During an off-season that the Cavaliers added Shaq and Vince Carter was traded to Orlando, the Miami Heat stood pat, thinking it could build on last year’s 43-win season by asking Dwyane Wade to, once again, play the role of Atlas. With an inconsistent supporting cast, D-Wade still managed to…
A little park in Wilton Manors is hosting a feast fit for a king — maybe several or dozens of kings. For the 4th annual “Taste of the Island” event, 48 restaurants and drinking establishments are setting up stalls and samples of their food and beverages at the Richardson Historic…
I’m writing this letter on behalf of humankind to thank you for defining our lives. You showed us all, via the greatest movie of all time, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that it’s not only okay to fake sickness and skip school, but it’s only by performing these acts that we…
If you think that your hair’s jaunty curl is avant garde, the creations you’ll witness at Glynn Jackson’s Hairtopia will make you reconsider. Because unless you’ve ever had a toy helicopter launch from a crevice in your beehive, your hair is blahzay, basic, and b-b-boring. Jackson has been producing spectacles…
Yes, this Saturday’s Captain Morgan’s Fantasy Fest Parade on Duval Street in Key West is a healthy distance from Broward or Palm Beach, but is a few hours really so far to drive for hordes of shirtless women with butterflies painted on their boobs? We think not. Especially when the…
If you were born in the late ’80s, your exposure to Styx may only consist of a snippet of “Mr. Roboto” on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the ’80s. Basically, the band broke out in 1975 with the single “Lady,” which introduced the soaring harmonies for which the band is…
Here’s a spooky, tragic story. In 1940, on the way to a fire, firefighter Robert Leeland Knight jumped off the fire truck and landed in a charged puddle of water. A power line was down, and Knight wasn’t wearing protective boots. He died immediately. Legend has it that this fallen…
Pagans, you live by the cycles of the moon. You celebrate the sun. And while most folks participate only in trick-or-treat matters, you know today is Samhain, the greatest sun celebration of the year. It’s the day the veil between the human and spirit worlds is the thinnest. The day…
On Halloween, female Willy Wonkas are sexy. So are women dressed up as clownfish, and hell, even female Ghostbusters are provocative. Guys can dress up as a smoldering pirate, a charming vampire, a cool Fred Flintstone. But costumes don’t guarantee a wicked good time — or role play. If you…
“A Nightmare on J Street” gives us another awesome event to celebrate Halloween. For the occasion, Propaganda (6 South J. Street, Lake Worth) will host sexy-indie favorites The Freakin’ Hott, raw-rock Yeah Yeah Yeahs-influenced Bonnie Riot, and bluesy Boca-based rockers Stonefox. Yet the acts that most evidently embody the spirit…
This Halloween, indie space the Bubble will be a hub for local art, rawkin’ local bands, and DIY attitude. Some of the bands/acts include: Sweet Bronco: Largely the solo project of Chris Horgan, Sweet Bronco delivers the kind of lyric-centric, expressive folk reminiscent of early ’90s indie. Literate, authentic, and…
The perennial free street party Moonfest will feature eight bands including Astari Night, Leading the Heroes, Nothing Rhymes with Orange, Mission Veo, and Surfer Blood, the last of which — if you haven’t been following South Florida music — seems positioned as our next rock heroes, receiving favorable reviews from…
Try as you might, you can’t be in two places at once, and you probably won’t get enough use out of your Halloween costume if you’re only using it for one night. Area 7 Music and Ale (3809 N. Powerline Road, Oakland Park) is letting you do a dry run…
If you’re anything like the jaded throngs of movie-goers who flock to the latest Saw films, it’s almost impossible to pick out a costume, much less get scared by haunted houses or ghost tours this Halloween. You can’t be blamed for your insensitivity to decapitated heads, peeled grape eyeballs, and…
Ask any group of self-respecting Star Wars geeks where they think the “galaxy, far, far away” is heading, and the consensus is bound to be grimmer then the conclusion of The Empire Strikes Back. After the initial excitement of the prequel trilogy wore thin, fans have been subjected to George…
Zombified Amy Winehouse with a moldy weave. Members of Insane Clown Posse during a post-hurricane Faygo shortage. A leather-vest-wearing Pat Boone, from his 1997 cover album, In a Metal Mood. These are just a few terrifying takes on rock and roll icons. If you plan on snaking tonight’s $5,000 grand…
Pauly Shore is not dead, buuuh-dy. Well, for film maybe, but for us, he has just been burrowing underground for the past 15 years. After weaseling his way to fame in the ’90s via MTV and a few hit movies (hit-the-bong movies, like Encino Man), Shore seemed to go the…
You would love to see a person walk on a bed of bare nails. Or having knives hurtled at them. See how one can eat fire, walk on glass. Witness someone whose job description contains the phrase “human cutting board,” and who is subject to being hit with whips and…
Cody Unser became paralyzed in 1999 when her immune system attacked her spinal cord. She developed an intense headache, and numbness crept up from her legs to her hips and finally to her chest, all in under an hour. The symptoms were part of an uncommon neurological disorder called transverse…
Chess hasn’t been this sexy or subversive since The Thomas Crown Affair. A French film directed by Caroline Bottaro, Queen to Play follows a middle-aged hotel maid Hellene (Sandrine Bonnaire) who, after seeing a couple engage in some seriously, sexually tense chess on their hotel balcony, decides to take up…
Poet Muriel Rukeseyer once asked “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” If the opening-weekend audience at Naked Women Fully Clothed is any indicator, the world would share a hearty laugh. This production by the Women’s Theatre Project is a series of shorts that, at…
