If anyone doubts that basketball can be a brutish game — or that Shawn Marion is something of a space cadet — consider that he didn’t realize until after the game that he broke his nose in the Heat’s Nov. 1 loss to Charlotte. That the Matrix has a busted…
Ray Charles had it. So did James Brown — they don’t call him the Godfather for nothing. But having soul doesn’t stop and start with music, let alone soul music. It’s a spiritual, artistic drive present in all good art — at least according to local DJ Haviken Hayes. He’s…
How does one describe a Cirque du Soleil show to a person who’s never seen one? Close your eyes. Imagine a spectacle unfolding before you — acrobats twisting and contorting their bodies into surreal poses, trapeze artists swooping and drifting on delicate wires, clowns pratfalling, tumbling, and mugging to uproarious…
The Miami International Book Fair is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the first ten months of the year, you already know that the literary luminaries are coming out in droves. Many of the fair’s celebrities have been visiting our shores for the…
The Who weren’t always quite as good as people think. From 1964 ’til 1971, they suffered from a tinny sound and a vocalist, Roger Daltrey, who yelped more than he sang. Then came Who’s Next, and Daltrey’s voice metamorphosed into a hyper-masculine growl: the sound of the blues, if blues…
The Genitorturers emerged from Orlando in 1993: an S&M band in the shadow of Disneyworld. It’s hard to confirm rumors that “audience participants” at Genitorturer shows get their scrotums nailed to wooden boards. But such activity would be true to their name. In their 15 years, the Genitorturers have prowled…
Guys never got it. They scoff at our dusty paperback copies of Valley of the Dolls, and doubly so at our coveted DVD collector reissues of the famous flick and its sequel. Sure, they don’t complain when we dress the part — lacy pinafores, beehives jacked higher than our Mary…
The late ’70s were an interesting time for pop music. Punk, new wave, and rock grappled each other in a sweaty, lust-fueled, ménage à trois that resulted in blessed offspring like Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe. Often forgotten in this dinner jacket savvy, ivory tickling, falsetto friendly era…
Traditionally happy hour starts at 5 p.m., which is fine if you possess a great deal of restraint, but sometimes you need to shake the workweek off early. Say, around 2 p.m. early. Fridays like those require proper planning: A late lunch followed by a vague “ailment” that keeps you…
With their golden-age comic book costumes, silly supervillains, and absurd song titles, the Aquabats are punk rawk’s answer to GWAR. Only, instead of promising the destruction of the known universe through copious bodily fluids, the ’Bats are out to protect it. The superhero rock brigade got its start in Huntington…
Twenty bucks barely gets you a drink and an appetizer at a nice restaurant these days, but tonight, $20 is enough for you to get your complete glutton on at Riverwalk Get Downtown. That’s right: for a measly Jackson, you’ll get access to a three-hour celebration of downtown culture in…
Each election year, young voters promise to engage in the political process far beyond the next four years. It comes just after the ballots are cast, and just before the contact high of enthusiasm wears off. But, like promises of pledging to NPR and avoiding drive-through food (damn you, egg…
What if you awoke one morning and your world had changed? The horizon, instead of holding its steady blue tinge, had become unpredictable. Colorful. Illuminated with fluorescent reds, yellows, and greens. You would discuss the situation with strangers to determine that it wasn’t simply your perception. The glitter paint job…
If you believe PRL Euro Café (1904A Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood) owner Jay Rottermund, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa is just a “sexy, communist name for Poland.” Actually, it means People’s Republic of Poland, which as any respectable drinker knows, is another way of saying beer, delicious beer. But PRL’s award-winning beer selection…
The last time you saw Kevin Kearney, he was on Fort Lauderdale Beach. A split second later he was flying – across A1A before colliding with the side of a condo tower. Yep, he’s that kiteboarder. At 9 p.m. tonight the Fort Lauderdale man appears on the cable television network…
Good news, Francophiles: Cooking Light, the nation’s largest food and healthy living magazine, is holding an event in Fort Lauderdale aimed squarely at your chèvre-loving stomachs. Today at 6 p.m., filets will be seared, pears caramelized, and blue cheese … er, cheesed. Cooking Light resident chef Billy Strynkowski will host…
Under the Influence” is nothing if not ambitious: more than 60 artists, some represented by more than one work; three curators, all artists in their own right; and two separate venues, one of which will display its portion of the show for nearly a full year. The exhibition is a…
These reviews are part of New Times’ continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Fling — Formerly called Lie To Me, this is one of those loathsome movies full of improbably beautiful young people in improbably beautiful apartments having improbable amounts of sex with other improbably beautiful young…
Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín — This relatively small but extremely powerful exhibition includes not quite 50 paintings and prints and more than two dozen drawings by the great but underexposed Ecuadorian artist Guayasamín, who died in 1999 at age 79. The introduction to the show…
If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he’s left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high note. Soul Men, a comedy completed shortly before Mac’s untimely death in August, is no classic, but the comedian,…
Gospel music often pigeonholes itself as a genre only to be enjoyed by Christians. But two artists are having success making sure secular ears hear their songs, and they’re gaining fame in the process. Long-time gospel veteran Kirk Franklin was one of the first to make Christian-themed music that crossed…
Residents of Coconut Creek and environmentalists will host a benefit concert Sunday, November 9th, to raise money for their legal battle against a strip mall slated for Atlantic Blvd. Rock for the Wetlands will be at The Inner Circle (2232 N. University Drive) in Coral Springs, staring at 2pm. $5…
