The Jackhammer is a gay bar (attached to a “video lounge”/dance club called Steel), and it caters more to the leather than the chiffon crowd. It is a fun, unpretentious, self-assuredly non-descript place, dark and unburdened by the will of any flamboyant interior decorator. What atmosphere it possesses has always…
Fifi’s closet is better endowed than your own. This isn’t your fault; dog clothes are simply cuter than their human counterparts’. Yellow galoshes? Much more charming in sets of four. And that teeny, tiny corduroy jacket? Oh, how it beckons. Yep, it’s official: Your pooch is the most adorably dressable…
Everybody loves the King of Miami Pop, Jose el Rey — there’s something about his affable nature, roguish good looks, and wicked tight rhymes that people just die for. But tonight, Jose himself will be the one doing the dying. Yes, the man who makes his business off of lady…
No one is as good as alt-rocker Ben Folds at taking heartfelt, contemporary music and infusing it with enough punk ethos that it practically grows a Mohawk and vomits on the crowd. See, Folds is a truly gifted pianist. But he doesn’t exactly tickle the ivories — he thrashes the…
Most Miami Heat fans were hoping that in his quest to land a proven veteran post presence, Pat Riley wouldn’t sacrifice the future before the recent trade deadline. There were reports flying everywhere of Riley’s infatuation with Suns forward Amar’e Stoudemire and his desire to land him at all costs…
These are very important times for the Florida Panthers. Seven teams have a realistic shot of finishing the season in the final four spots of the playoffs. At the time of this writing, the Cats are tied for the seventh spot in the conference, but only four points out of…
The people’s nightclub, Cafe Iguana Pembroke Pines, is the sort of place where anyone can show up and have a good time. Come down on a Saturday night for Fiesta Latina, and you may catch feisty abuelitas boogying down next to blinged-out clubheads and everyone in between. There’s something in…
For four years now, PRL Euro Bar has been serving SoFla’s biggest beer fanatics a taste of old world Europe. Their selection of Eastern European, Euro imports, and rare craft beers are almost unmatched in these parts. It’s a testament to their commitment to the brew that they’re celebrating their…
Comedian Steve Hofstetter got his start by giving insights into college life. So it’s somewhat fitting he’ll be playing a free show at Florida Atlantic University tonight at 8 p.m. These days, Hofstetter is sort of a goofy version of a mans man, hosting the National Lampoons’ sports radio program…
“Wait. Do you want to know a secret? About what goes on? It won’t be long. Ask me why. I want to tell you: Beatlemania! A rock n’ roll musical. A magical mystery tour. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Strawberry Fields Forever. Yellow Submarine. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…
Giacomo Puccini’s most enduring opera, La Boheme, revolves around four bohemian-type artists in 1830s Paris. To update the piece, the producers at the American Opera Music Theatre Company moved the setting to beatnik-era Greenwich Village, but the characters and story line remain the same. In the opening scene, Marcello, a…
“Becoming a standup comedian is pretty much the ultimate revenge,” explains Doug Benson. “Most standup comedians are nerds, they’re unappreciated, ignored, maybe even beat up in their early years. So once you make it then it’s payback time.” You could say Benson is getting his payback now. The comedian is…
Though D.L. Hughley wasn’t chosen to replace Craig (“How’s my hair?”) Kilborn as host of CBS’ Late Late Show, he made enough of an impression to ink a pilot deal for his own show on Comedy Central. Hughley’s varied résumé ranges from network TV (The Hughleys) to Hollywood (Original Kings…
There are a great many things that you shouldn’t trust to amateurs, and one of them is this: dancing and singing doo-woppy show tunes while tending to a 2,000-pound carnivorous plant from outer space. But the folks at the Hollywood Playhouse love their leafy danger — they live for it…
There’s no kind of wonderful in Mary Stuart Masterson’s directorial debut, The Cake Eaters. Yet however slight her ensemble drama — about two distressed families in the Rockwellian framings of time-forgotten rural America — it’s at least convincing in its genuine sweetness. When wandering musician Guy Kimbrough (screenwriter Jayce Bartok)…
At the end of 2008, DreamWorks Animation bossman Jeffrey Katzenberg embarked on a cross-country tour, toting 20 minutes’ worth of Monsters vs. Aliens. The reason for his trek? To persuade critics that 3-D movies are no longer the snake-oil salesman’s hustle but the future of filmmaking — if not the…
The Haunting in Connecticut There’s no rest for the dead — or the living — in this laughably hokey haunted-house hand-wringer based on yet another Amityville-style “true story” peddled by an enterprising family eager to turn a bum real estate deal into a pop-culture gold mine. The trouble begins when…
A famous anecdote has it that Abraham Lincoln, asked for his reaction to a book, responded with what must be one of the most succinct reviews in the history of literature: “People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.” That’s also…
With a physical style of comedy bordering on gymnastic, it’s no wonder people often refer to Arnez J as the “Black Jerry Lewis.” His on stage gyrations are matched only by the speed of his lip – it’s no wonder, too, because Arnez was once a Harlem Globetrotter, before an…
Finding cool local art, music, and film in South Florida is sort of like scrounging through vinyl at the local record store — the rare, soulful shit is definitely out there, provided you know which dusty bin to look in. Well, thanks to Auteur Explosion, a new monthly rocking the…
Florida Table magazine and Downtown Delray Beach are teaming up to create Savor the Avenue, a mammoth, five-block-long dining table incorporating 13 Delray restaurants. The table, stretching from Swinton Ave. to E. Fifth Ave. will host over 900 people all told in what organizers are calling Florida’s largest dining table…
Composer Mike Viola isn’t exactly a household name, as his imagined pop darlings The Wonders were in the 1996 film That Thing You Do. Viola penned the Oscar-nominated title track for that film before going on to write the soundtrack for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story — proving his…
