It’s impossible to hyperbolize here: the Brit DJ titan John Digweed — along with longtime partner Sasha — is progressive house. Digweed started DJing as a young teen in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but it was in the early ’90s that he finally got his big break, spinning…
There are lots of Barbies walking around in South Florida. Blond, beach-tanned, with huge knockers. But like my friend aptly put it, “Not many Kens.” Well all lookalikes are invited to the Barbie & Ken Look-Alike Contest on Friday to promote the Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture’s current…
There are lots of Barbies walking around in South Florida. Blond, beach-tanned, with huge knockers. But like my friend aptly put it, “Not many Kens.” Well all lookalikes are invited to the Barbie & Ken Look-Alike Contest on Friday to promote the Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture’s current…
It’s said that heterosexuals can’t understand camp because everything they do is camp. Such, more or less, is the method of the new Sacha Baron Cohen extravaganza, Brüno. Directed by guerrilla filmmaker Larry Charles, Brüno is often hilarious. Is it a minstrel show? Co-opting gay culture? Evidence of new tolerance?…
The stately Japanese movie Departures comes into theaters trailing some justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Israel’s Waltz With Bashir, for Best Foreign Film at last year’s Academy Awards. It’s not hard to fathom what academy voters, who skew mature, saw in Departures, an earnest appeal for…
Moon, directed by British advert tyro Duncan Jones, is a modest science-fiction film with major aspirations. Jones’ debut is pleased to engage genre behemoths — 2001, Solaris, Blade Runner— as well as B-movie classics like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The tale of a lonely spaceman might have made an…
Adoration Atom Egoyan’s 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the aftermath of tragedy. It’s closer in form and tone to the Canadian auteur’s early work (particularly his 1987 masterpiece Family Viewing) than to his erratic recent literary adaptations (Felicia’s…
Has it ever occurred to you that, several thousand years from now, 99% of what we consider “culture” will be lost forever? And what if, by sheer circumstantial luck, one of those very few surviving works of art is a VHS cassette of Wrestlemania III? Might our descendants rationally conclude…
Jesus, they’re still here. How? In the last dozen years, the salty boys of Aerosmith have endured a string of mishaps so consistent and awful that any more perceptive band would have long ago decided that some wrathful cosmic force was telling them to retire. Consider these grim events, in…
While America celebrates the Fourth of July, France commemorates its own independence on July 14: Bastille Day. That’s when, in 1789, the French people revolted against monarchy and established a National Assembly to draw up a constitution. (The Americans had passed theirs two years earlier.) The first Bastille Day party…
The concept of synchronized swimming takes on a whole new meaning this Saturday, and you can be a part of it — but not your swim trunks. That’s right, the Seminole Nudist Resort in Davie is joining other resorts and nude beaches across the continent in an attempt to set…
There was a time that it was considered sexier to leave some things to the imagination than to splay yourself open for all to see. It was around the same time that Vaudeville was hot and a nickel would get you into a theater filled with fire-eaters, dancers, magicians, and…
Art and collectible fans alike will find something to geek out over at “Chaos Amongst Allies,” a new art show at Pink Ghost, opening tonight. Three artists from three different areas of the will country come together to showcase their paintings, drawings, and custom collectibles. The artists are Bil Betsovic,…
Promoter Paul Gnu has been putting on concerts and club nights in the area, covering hip-hop and beyond, for almost 20 years. In the early ΄80s, when Gnu was 15-years-old, he was heavy into the skateboard scene, and even had his own skateboarding mag’ called Grinnd Life Sk8 Zine and…
Cupcakes are everywhere these days. Shops selling the little rounds of heaven have sprung up all over South Florida, from Miami to Jupiter. The only trouble is, a lot of them sell a sub-par snack. Some are too dry, others too heavy. But House of Sweets, the Cupcake Bakery and…
It takes guts to say “Fuck Jesse Jackson,” even if it’s just part of a movie script. But that is just what Cedric the Entertainer did as the Barbershop character Eddie during a scene discussing Rosa Parks’ status as a civil rights icon. When Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton heard…
It’s easy to pigeonhole Japanese cinema into three categories: anime, samurai films, and horror. Everyone knows Spirited Away, Godzilla, and Ringu (later remade as The Ring in the United States). And everyone has at least heard of Seven Samurai. But in January, it was a Japanese drama, Departures, directed by…
Comedian Jamie Kennedy wasn’t born to fame. He didn’t arrive in Tinseltown with prestigious managerial representation, a fly bachelor pad, or a flock of top-heavy starlets to giggle at his jokes. His arsenal, however, was tricked out with a secret weapon: a chameleon-like adaptation gene. This ability to channel personas…
If you’ve been crushing hard for a time before Pro Tools and Auto-Tune were the great equalizers of pop music, responsible for the T-Pains of this world, then it’s time to revisit the 1950s greatness of the guy group. With street corner harmonies, each member played an essential part in…
Is Arnold Schwarzenegger circa 1969 a work of art? When you think of the curve of his muscles, his ice-tray stomach, and his itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie bikini bottom, are you thinking, “That’s perfection!”? Probably not – such superhuman form is pretty horrifying. Our ideas of beauty and how they relate to…
Some people are comfortable being naked. They sleep naked, watch TV naked, walk around the house naked. For them, getting dressed is a chore. If you’re comfortable in nothing but your own skin, Seminole Nudist Resort, the clothing-optional naturist park in Davie, wants you to help set a skinny-dipping Guinness…
Have you run out of beginner’s luck at the casino? Those few fateful hours, sometimes days — when it seems you can’t do wrong despite not having a clue as to what you’re doing — are long gone. Well, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino wants to keep you around,…
