When Hurricane Ike threatened South Florida in early September, event organizers acted fast to reschedule the highly-anticipated World Extreme Cagefighting match between Featherweight champion Urijah Faber and number-one contender Mike Brown. It was a damn shame — not only because Ike ended up skirting by Florida completely, but also because…
There’s a slow burning under your skin. It started as a small, manageable distraction and soon spread into a full-blown rash. It’s official: You’ve got Election Fever. The only known remedy for this disorder is complete surrender and submersion into all things Wonk. Start your morning with a trip to…
The St. Lawrence River on the Canadian border is the bleak setting for Frozen River, the critically acclaimed debut film of director Courtney Hunt. The multiple award-winning film — including Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize – goes deep into the lives of two single mothers. They’re in dire need of cash…
Aside from Harriet Miers and bodybag manufacturers, probably no one else in America has seen their fortunes rise faster with Dubya’s reign than comedian Frank Caliendo, who does a ripping impression of the Prez. When Caliendo spoofed Bush on David Letterman, the host asked him whether it bothered him that…
Your leather/latex evil pixie costume is entirely too ornate to be shelved after Halloween night. It deserves resurrection. Febreze that sucker and yank it back on, because tonight things are getting lusty. Electrolusty. Labeled as a “kinky vampire fetish rave,” Electrolust is the best place to be if you’re looking…
You haven’t heard of them, they are not rich, and they may even have day jobs. Nevertheless, there are honest-to-god filmmakers right here in Florida, and this is your chance to meet them. Today at 9:30 p.m. at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6 Street, Fort Lauderdale), the Fort Lauderdale International…
In a world that pulsates with connectivity, you can email photos of unidentified plants to botanists in Brazil, and then check back moments later to find detailed information of their history. Curious about bowerbirds and their elaborately romantic mating rituals? Type the species into YouTube, then relax while David Attenborough…
Composure is key for responsible, grown women. Rarely do they get shaken, miffed, or rattled, but when certain situations transpire, even the strong fall prey to fandom, eliciting high-pitched squeals that summon nearby canines. One such event happened in May on NBC’s Today Show with the surprise announcement that, after…
You’ve waited patiently for months, perfecting your Voltron costume and collecting every Space Ghost Coast to Coast DVD in order to get them signed. And now, Anime Supercon is finally here: three full days of absolute, balls-out fandom beginning Friday at the Miami Downtown Hilton (1601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami). Yes,…
When Halloween falls on a weekend night, the only logical option is to party hop. We’ve got the scoop on where to go to flaunt your rockin’ ensemble and/or shake your booty. Pasty Dorks Unite! Why deal with all of the drunken crowds? Real horror fans enjoy Halloween at Cinema…
Good news, rock fans! This week, South Florida will be graced by the presence of not one, but two guitar gods: Mr. Joe “Satch” Satriani and Yngwie “Don’t Call Me Yngwie” Malmsteen. Naturally, you’re going to want to see both epic axe grinders as they speed across their fret boards…
Iron Chef is a rare breed of television program. The stylized Japanese cooking competition made its debut in 1993, and has since revolutionized food preparation. C’mon, you know when you’re slicing and dicing in the privacy of your kitchen, you’re envisioning a panel of rapt judges and a soundtrack of…
When a heart attack strikes the most hateful, money-hoarding harpie in a Brooklyn neighborhood, three rival street gangs hatch a plan to crack her legendary safe. Too bad all three schedule their heist for the same night. Caper makes its world debut tonight at 6 p.m, at Cinema Paradiso for…
As intensely as I admire “Pablo Picasso Ceramics/Carlos Luna Paintings,” the splashy new exhibition at the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale, I can’t help but wonder whether a lot of people will exit puzzled. It’s not so much that Luna is “difficult” — he can be — but rather a matter…
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown, or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, a period drama based on a 1928 Los Angeles missing-child case, would come off as faintly geezerish noir lite. As LAPD scandals go, the case…
These reviews are part of New Times’ continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.The New Twenty — First-time feature filmmaker Chris Mason Johnson couldn’t have possibly anticipated the current goings-on in the financial world, so don’t hold it against him that two of his main characters in this…
Pride and Glory doesn’t make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie ever made, save, perhaps, Turner & Hooch. It serves up clichés bound together by a flimsy, bored-out-of-its-own-skull story about bad cops, black sheep, good sons, and…
One of the oft-repeated historical curiosities about the Maya is that they conceived the wheel yet never found a practical application for it. Maya kids had wheeled toys and Maya calendars were imagined as wheels… yet when it came to hauling something, your average Maya just heaped his shit on…
Eugene O’Neill, born in 1888 and dead by the end of 1953, carried around a lot of angst. He had an absentee father and a morphine-addicted mother. He drank too much and suffered from severe depression. He divorced his first two wives, and his third was hopelessly addicted to sedatives…
When Bay area avant-garde funkateer Mike Silverman, AKA That 1 Guy, hits the stage, even the most jaded music fan needs a double take to discern what in the hell is going on. Just when you’ve recovered from the visual freak-out of Silverman’s invention, the Magic Pipe — a two-stringed,…
Some photos aren’t meant for display, like the ones Mom took of you sitting on a tricycle wearing nothing but your birthday suit. But other photos, those taken by professionals who steer clear of silliness and focus on beauty instead, for example, are definitely meant to be shared. Thankfully Baroness…
October means pumpkins, hot apple cider, fall leaves, and sweaters. Since South Florida is hardly the setting of the typical Norman Rockwell autumn, we locals must make a stretch for that classic fall experience. Chef Michael Wagner, owner of the award-winning restaurant, Lola’s on Harrison, wants to help. From 6…
