Award-winning theatrical director and renowned science presenter Mik Jacobs will become Professor Whys the energy expert extraordinaire during his 30-minute traveling show Professor Whys’ Powerful Adventure. The show, complete with spark-spewing demonstrations about the generation of electricity, is a nice educational alternative to Lumonics. Sat., May 2, 2 & 3…
Come support your local film community during the FAT Village Art Walk, which will include venues between N.W. 4th St. and NW 6th St. and between Andrews Avenue and NW 1st ave. in Fort Lauderdale. The event, Girls on Film — no it’s not porn — will showcase videos made…
In the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, visitors to monasteries are blessed with a bop on the head from a wooden phallus. According to myth, a long-dead saint cockslapped evil spirits into submission, and ever since the penis has stood, as it were, as a divine symbol. Here in America,…
Cinco de Mayo hits Delray on the tres de Mayo this year, and as the moment draws nigh it is worth taking a look at the illustrious, though tragic, history of this little-understood holiday. It was the Fifth of May in the turbulent year of 1862 when handsome, bespectacled Ignacio…
Get your drink on this Cinco de Mayo at Uncle Julio’s in Boca. The brand new tex-mex restaurant will be setting up a margarita shack and distributing the frothy lime-and-tequila-filled beverages throughout the day. A mariachi band will get down with folksie Mex tunes, and a special plate – the…
Your usual run-ins with apparitions along Riverfront have to do with Ghosts of Drunken Nights Past – which are not really ghosts so much as pangs of guilt. For a much needed injection of honest-to-goodness ectoplasm in your life, check out the River House Ghost Tours, going down every Sunday…
The people portrayed in the paintings of Andrew Stevovich tend to be social creatures. They congregate in places like an internet café, a cocktail lounge, a casino. They line up to file into theaters or to place wagers at betting windows. They fill buses and trains and subway cars. Occasionally…
The Soloist opens with newspapers thudding onto lawns, a quaint sight that makes the movie practically a period piece, even though the events that inspired it took place within the past four years. An old-fashioned tale for a newfangled world, the movie turns on a series of columns begun in…
Earth Abig-screen, family-friendly (well… friendlier) version of the enthralling BBC/Discovery series Planet Earth, Earth follows three animal families — polar bears scavenging for food in the High Arctic, elephants trekking across the Kalahari Desert in search of water, a humpback whale and her young calf on their annual 4,000-mile migration…
Playwright Winter Miller’s In Darfur is a good-hearted and belated attempt to get the word out on the genocide in the play’s namesake region. It is based on a series of interviews conducted by Miller with refugees on the Darfur border of Sudan and Chad, where the Darfuris had gone…
The Palm Beach International Film Festival runs April 23 to May 3 and features 120-plus movies playing in five venues — plus parties, filmmaking and marketing seminars, and, for some reason, an appearance by the kindly-eyed human from Babe, film actor James Cromwell. To find out more, check out pbfilmfest.org…
When playwright and In Darfur creator Winter Miller traveled to the Sudan in 2006, she witnessed a humanitarian crisis that continues today despite the death of more than 200,000 people, millions of displaced citizens and more than 3 million dependent on international aid for survival. She slept in aid compounds,…
If you, A) like your pop music with a heavy pour of saccharine, and B) would listen to Lily Allen if she were a little less British, or C) enjoy going to shows populated by young girls wearing liberal applications of eye makeup, then you’re in luck. Katy Perry —…
Tips on making excellent ramen: 1) Bring the water to a boil first, lest you end up with soggy noodles. 2) Some people have said a little milk in the broth shores a weak soup right up. 3) Save the crunchy crumbs at the bottom of the package; they make…
We can’t bring the troops home just yet, but we can honor our servicemen with a tradition as American as apple pie, only tastier: the bikini contest. It makes sense that to spice up the fourth coming of Seminole Hard Rock’s annual Fleet Week celebration, Seminole Paradise organizers are calling…
Way back in the early ’90s, when MTV still actually played music, the network ran a series of sepia-toned, faux-infomercials featuring a fast-talking, wise-cracking, chain-smoking Beantown escapee named Denis Leary. Leary was pissed and he wanted you to know it – pissed about REM and the Save the World types;…
“With the first pick in the 2009 NFL Draft”… wait, the Dolphins didn’t suck last year?! In case you thought you were dreaming, an 11-5 record and the AFC East Championship mean the Dolphins aren’t looking at picking first overall this year. Instead, Bill Parcells and company are building their…
Many people can’t even spell “eleven” let alone drag their asses out of bed by that time on a Saturday morning But some smarty-pants Wheel of Fortune contestant wannabes will already be up at the mic spittin’ letters by that time today as part of the Big People Spelling Bee…
Time to bust out that fish eye lens and shred some pavement: the first ever Trik Flix Action Sports Film Festival is invading the Abacoa Town Center in Jupiter on Saturday. The festival is a celebration of the young, burgeoning action sports filmmakers of South Florida, folks who are looking…
The one-night-only, genre busting art event Showtel is back for its seventh year, transforming nearly half of West Palm Beach’s Hotel Biba into a multi-sensory exhibition. 22 Artists from all across the state of Florida have been tapped to pull a 180 on 16 rooms (do the math, it equals…
Fifty years ago, The Zoo Story premiered in West Germany. As per Theater of the Absurd, the action involved two characters sitting on a bench. One man is Peter, a publisher and bland, bourgeois type. Reading peaceably in Central Park, he’s accosted by a random bum, Jerry, who has just…
Pompano is one of the last areas in South Florida that hasn’t been completely overdeveloped. But don’t kid yourself: ugly, faux Mediterranean architecture is on the way. So enjoy the area while it still retains an old Florida feel and head to the Pompano Beach Seafood Festival Friday, Saturday, or…
