Arts & Culture

A miracle in midnight-movie finery; a spot-on analysis of adolescent ambition, gender struggles and xenophobia; an eternal pop-culture time capsule; Richard O’Brien’s madcap musical, adapted with and directed by Jim Sharman, offers participation-primed audiences — who aren’t sounding their smartest these days — the secret (“To life?”)to life (“Itself?”) itself!…

For the past couple of months, your Mondays have been moody, miserable, and muddled. More than once you’ve wondered, Where have my sexy vibes and happy feelings gone? You’ve even found yourself in the midtown area, looking for the cool kids who used to run to the District for a…

Following their six-week skinny-dip into skull-staving retro-kitsch, the TM Sisters will unleash their highly anticipated Hilger Artist Project Award exhibition at Miami’s vaunted alt space, Locust Projects. Over the summer, the talented homegrown collaborative, comprising Monica and Tasha Lopez De Victoria, has been busy decking out Locust in a kooky…

Despite what the fitness industry tells you, transportation is still the best workout, provided you leave the automobile in the garage and use your feet. And what if every time you jogged to the grocery store, former Miami Heat point guard Tim Hardaway trotted beside you? Well, you’d be participating…

Yes, your favorite ’70s reggae flick has been adapted for the stage and will land at the Adrienne Arsht Center this Saturday. The Harder They Come tells the story of a young Kingstonian whose climb to the top of the musical charts lands him a spot as Jamaica’s most notorious…

Carol Prusa’s celestial Aporia is a two-foot-wide acrylic hemisphere housing a matrix of fiber optics currently casting twinkling star patterns upon the walls of the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. The Boca Raton artist’s enchanting globe is covered in gorgeous undulating abstract patterns created from a labor-intensive process. Prusa sandblasts her surfaces…

For years, whenever anybody said the words Caldwell Theatre, I thought of money, dancing girls, big production numbers, jukebox musicals, innocuous social commentary, musty classics, occasional glimmers of inspiration, screeching hearing aids, and old people. It hadn’t always been thus. When Caldwell opened under the leadership of Executive Artistic Director…

In February, local graffiti artists — particularly Hox, Five, Enve, and Gere — painted a vibrant sea world on the walls of Delray Beach’s Tennis Center. In blazing colors, the walls of the center’s inside perimeter are now covered with a variety of local fish and a sea anemone, complete…

Here is something we can’t understand. If you were born in Long Island but have lived in Boynton Beach since the late ’70s, you are not a New Yorker. You are a Floridian. So by all means, wear your ugly New York Mets jersey to Land Shark Stadium (2267 Dan…

Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s alarming Tony Manero is named not for its protagonist but rather his ego-ideal, John Travolta’s character in Saturday Night Fever. The film, set in the dark days of the Pinochet regime, is a study of a solitary daydreamer in which an unsmiling 50-ish madman nurtures fanatical…

There’s something unsettling about stretching and curving and lifting your body in unnatural, demanding ways. At least that’s what you tell yourself when you don’t want to hit the gym. Well, local contortionist Jade Goddess shapes her body in all sorts of unpleasant but jaw-dropping positions for performances across South…

Iggy Pop might have said “boo-hoo” to turning 22. But for Respectable Street, it’s party time. As it does every year, the longstanding West Palm Beach nightclub hosts a party this Saturday on the 500 block of Clematis Street. In addition to stages inside the club and on the street,…

Remember when the Miami Dolphins were the laughingstock of the NFL? When opposing teams penciled them in as an automatic win every season and it was excruciatingly embarrassing to admit you were a fan? Yeah, neither do we. Well, maybe a little. But knowing the Fins are entering this season…

Years ago, those kind folks at The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum got together and figured out that we need a festival to celebrate our Southern style, and thus, Living Heritage Day was born. If you just luuurve to chow down on collard greens and fried cornbread while listening to stories…

To knock cannibalism when you’ve never been in a cannibalist’s shoes would be a tsk tsk. Who would say you wouldn’t eat human flesh if you were stranded without food during a snowstorm in the Rockies in the 1880s? Can you prove it? I don’t think so. Rather, in Cannibal!…

Tommy Femia never figured he’d spend his career doing Judy Garland. It started back in 1991, when a friend asked him if he’d impersonate Garland in a cabaret show. “It pretty much began on a dare,” says Femia. But there was something about Garland that Femia just picked up naturally…

How’s this for funny? Comedian Nathaniel Stoman, better known as Earthquake, admitted on the Howard Stern Show that during his stint in the U.S. Air Force, he nearly wiped Louisiana off the map. Earthquake said he nearly dropped a live nuclear weapon while daydreaming. What was so tantalizing as to…

You’re biting your fingernails. “It’s Raining Men” vibrates from the DJ booth. You finish your martini as a drag queen strolls by and asks if you need another. “Hallelujah! It’s raining men! Amen!” Yes, you tell the waitress, but only one more. Before it arrives, the DJ calls out “A7”…

If all firefighters were as hot as the ones in South Florida, pussycats and cougars nationwide would have a great time finding a reason to get stuck high in the branches of their local foliage. Don’t try that in a Royal Palm, local kittens, because Sunday at Sawgrass Mills Mall…

If you look at the average age of your typical Crosby, Stills, and Nash fan, there is a high chance that they would qualify for AARP discounts. Not only has the group been together for more than 40 years, they are pretty much the last touring hippie band around. It…