If you don’t think body image affects men, I urge you to take one look at the bodybuilders competing in this years NPC Southern States Championships. What else could drive someone to work out that much? Come stare at the superhumans that live among us Friday and Saturday when men…
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, the smack-talkin’, party-startin’ Philadelphia duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince provided millions of young American suburbanites their first introduction to the joys of hip-hop. With multiplatinum-selling status and unforgettable songs like “Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble,” “Parents Just Don’t Understand” (which…
Robert Schimmel is from the school of hard knocks. Lots of people claim to have started off there, but his schooling was extreme. Ten years ago, Schimmel got his start in comedy, when he went to L.A. to visit his sister and she dumped him onto stage at an open-mic…
Wow. Do we like this new look for the Postmarks? They were always pretty low-key in the hair/make-up/costume department before, but their new makeover is sharp. They look like mod assassins! Actually, frontwoman Tim looks more than a bit like a brunette Francoise Hardy here. It’s appropriate, since the bandmates…
Creating gritty pop art in the spirit of Andy Warhol — if Warhol wandered the desert and came across rusty gas station signs — Cuban artist Kadir Lopez Nieves is internationally recognized for transforming symbols from a bygone era into iconic images and vintage art. Bacardi USA and Altima International…
For fans of the movie So You Think You Can Dance, Vices: A Love Story explores human relationships through various styles of dance like modern ballet, contemporary and ballroom as well as music by artists like Celine Dion, Manhattan Transfer, and Journey. Genres like disco and music from 1930s musicals…
Men, never classify a lady boozer at a ladies’ night event – like Girls Will Be Girls tonight at YOLO’s O Lounge – as a cheap date. This hypothesis is faulty. Because who turns down free well liquor, beer, and house wine? Both types of women (the Grey Gooses and…
With a group exhibition, as with a party, so much depends on both the guest list and the host. In the case of the “58th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition,” now at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the guests are about four dozen artists from all over…
As Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger surveys the clientele of a chic Chicago eatery in a key scene from Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, he declares: “They’re all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody’s going.” And much like its subject, Mann’s exhilarating movie exists in a state…
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Though hardly landmarks of narrative or animation art, the first two Ice Ages were warm, goofy, and appealing; John Leguizamo’s adorably sibilant Sid the Sloth remains a much-quoted guy in our household. But as with Shrek and countless other overextended studio franchises, the well…
For anyone who has been inside the tiny display space that is Artist’s Eye Fine Art Gallery in Dania Beach, a continuing source of amazement is the amount of art that owner Timothy Leistner is able to pack into the place — and he invariably does it without making the…
The local, non-Scandinavian band Ex Norwegian will bring its power-pop to Propaganda Saturday along with Orlando band Mike Dunn & The Kings of New England and Boca’s Alexander. Citing that the band names Badfinger as an influence, New Times music editor Arielle Castillo wrote in February, “Ex-Norwegian has absorbed that…
Remember the movie Honeymoon in Vegas? No? The one in which Nicolas Cage dived out of a plane to stop Sarah Jessica Parker from marrying the man he lost her to in a bet? Still nothing? Ok sure, the movie’s not very memorable, but the people with whom Cage skydived…
Next Wednesday, LIV is hosting the 10,000-LB Hamburger Tour featuring A-Trak, Rye Rye and Treasure Fingers. But before everyone shakes it to the ground at Dirty Hairy, we’ve been told that Rye Rye will be making an appearance at Just Add Water Sunday at Blade at the Fontainebleau. The party…
It’s easy to blame your shitty life on all sorts of things: having overbearing or unresponsive parents, slacking off in school, spending too much money on the ponies, or just having a tragic lack of luck in the gene lottery. The good people at Tsunami’s Tiki Bar are throwing a…
What is a collar? It’s a part of the figurative work shirt, a socio-economic idiom used to show class status: blue or white. It works as a device to control your pet, represents a place to grab your misbehaving child, or signifies cornering someone in conversation. It’s also a fashion…
Indie film buffs may want to check out Julia, a 2008 flick in town for the week. Directed by French filmmaker Ericka Zonca, it stars Tilda Swinton, the Oscar-winning redhead actress, as Julia, a catastrophic alcoholic who racks up blackouts every night. At an AA meeting, she runs into a…
With mercury rising to record-breaking temps lately, clubs pushing cramped and sweaty parties may have met their match in a mass of tired, weary, and downright dehydrated club goers. While the cover charge will get you little more than sweat stains and runny makeup elsewhere, there is one place heeding…
Before the straw-haired singer-songwriter Jim Camacho was one of South Florida’s acoustic darlings, he fronted one of the most exciting South Florida bands, the Goods, during one of the most exciting eras of South Florida music, the early ’90s. Delivering melody-driven garage rock, the band developed a rabid fanbase almost…
When you’re applying to become a member of a group as exclusive as industrial-metal act Nine Inch Nails, there has to be a “No Showboating” disclaimer somewhere on the contract. No matter how amazing you are, this is still Trent Reznor’s band, and you will always be his guest. Breaking…
You know what sounds better than a whole string of Black Cats popping off? The nearly epileptic frequency at which hip-hop superstar Lil’ Jon repeats his infamous catch phrase, “YEAAAHHH!!” Join him for an Independence Day gig at Opium at the Seminole Hard Rock (5729 Seminole Way, Hollywood) where, assuredly,…
The snap-crackle-pop of fireworks jibes great with another American pastime, the crack-a-lackin’ of bats, at Roger Dean Stadium, where the Palm Beach Cardinals take on the Jupiter Hammerheads tonight at 6 (4751 Main St., Jupiter). Following the game at 9, a massive fireworks display will demand your attendance — at…
