OK, so those cheap-o surgical masks won’t keep you from catching the “swine flu,” but they’re not totally useless. Just ask the more than 20 artists taking part in the South Florida Graffiti Expo at Kevro’s Art Bar. Hosted by noted poet/promoter Renda Writer and sponsored by WeMerge magazine, the…
No matter if you wear them of not, you have got to appreciate the Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star sneaker. Also known as Chucks or One Stars, these canvas and rubber icons have been around since 1917, and remained, essentially, the same design for the past 40 years, racking up sales…
Just in case you haven’t taken note of spring’s official coming out party, little reminders are beginning to sprout up everywhere. From the first few buds in the backyard recession gardens to the stepped up mating habits of single friends, to the germination of wickedly creative community projects, spring has…
Bad things happen to the Promethean Theatre, the resident theater company of Nova Southeastern University. It’s an awesome company, no question — headed by the brave and foxy Deborah Sherman, it has done soul-searing work on budgets so small they are literally invisible to the unaided eye — but in…
Back in the day, when gamers wanted to play together they would grab a roll of quarters and head to the nearest arcade. But that was before home video game consoles became so powerful they could best anything in a cabinet, all while offering the convenience of your couch. These…
A twelve-year-old murderess, men missing vital organs wandering the countryside with said woman in tow, scores of little people so overjoyed by the death of a despot that they take to the streets singing, and a slew of hallucinogen induced images come together in what many feel is the greatest…
Ever since MMA superstar Gina Carano made her national television debut on Elite XC last year, female fighters have garnered a bit more attention. But women have had a place in MMA much longer than that, according to Elite Promotions’ Jeff Gibson, a South Florida fighting organizer. “I’ve been working…
If the Rick Warrens and Ted Haggards of the world had their way, they’d round up every last gay boy and girl and haul them to hetero camp for conversion into God fearing straights (well, maybe not Haggard; he’d just round up the boys and leave it at that). But…
Voices of Pride, the Gay Men’s chorus of the Palm Beaches, will be celebrating its fifth anniversary with Forever Let Our Spirits Sing. While you may associate a chorus with a boring church sermon, Voices of Pride will have you dancing and laughing with their special brand of humor, all…
Join New Times columnist Bob Norman for the Broward premier of Outrage, a film about the rampant hypocrisy among politicians who support anti-gay legislature, yet are closeted gays themselves. The film, from Academy Award nominated documentarian, Kirby Dick, explores the secret lives of such political figures as Charlie Crist and…
Budda seems like a pretty lucky guy: he’s always cheery and smiling; he’s got a ton of nifty piercings; and, apparently, his devotees bathe him regularly. Well, at least once a year they do. On Budda’s Birthday, members of the International Buddhist Progress Society Temple (9341 NW 57 St., Tamarac)…
Although the old venue, Laffing Matterz, where Chrystal Hartigan’s held her event Songwriter’s Showcase, has shut its doors, the monthly event lives on at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Tuesday’s event will include country artist Vickie Raye, singer-songwriter Julie Forester, Mark Stephen Jones (who’s been dubbed the “Carolina…
Promoting the release of their new comic, Power Girl, comic power-duo Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner will appear at TATE’s Comics Saturday. The first issue of Power Girl, which came out May 6, presents the protagonist starting a new life in secret when a villain from the past forces her…
Despite the slump in the real estate market, the price of studio space is still out of reach for many artists. The Flamingo Clay Studio, a non-profit made up of clay, glass, metal, stone and fiber artists and which was started to find affordable cooperative spaces in which these artists…
While home ownership may be nothing more than an artificial symbol of success for some, the absence of a stable home environment can have major consequences on children. In addition to a host of other factors that affect childhood prospects for success, living in a home has a significant impact…
Sift through some trashy fine art today at “Greener…,” an exhibition of innovative sculptures, collages, photographs and more, some made from objects the uninspired would deem garbage: auto parts, scrap metal, soda cans, matches, and even a television. The artists represented are mostly locals, except Nancy Asbell from Jacksonville and…
Movies about boxers are a dime a dozen. Raging Bull transcends the genre — it’s one of the best movies ever made. Robert De Niro stars as a ring fighter with a heinous attitude problem. He has a teenage girlfriend, a waifish platinum blond whom he could easily snap apart…
Looks like the Dodgers have picked up where they left off last year, when Joe Torre — who’s chill even by the high standards of reanimated corpses — Left Coasted his new team past the World Series favorite Chicago Cubs in the first round of the playoffs. Granted, it helps…
People are constantly reading and using cultural symbols to make judgments about places at which they eat or sleep or how they interact with one another. In turn, symbols communicate a lot about a society’s set of values by reinforcing whether certain behaviors are seen as having a positive, neutral,…
There’s something about the soul-wrenching sounds of the blues that just necessitates a stiff drink or two. There’s also something about a stiff drink or two that just necessitates good barbecue. Good barbecue – shoot, that just makes you pine for blues all over again. If it sounds like circular…
(To be read in the voice of famed narrator, David Attenborough) After decades of study, what scientists understand about the illusive Parrothead is still quite limited. Darwin once posited that due to the Parrothead’s affection for leisure, it would become extinct within three generations and be replaced with more “aggressive…
What impulse compels people to buy art and hang it on the walls of their homes? What drives them to share that art — or some of it, anyway — with museums so that others can enjoy it? These are among the provocative questions posed by “With You I Want…
