The Dalai Lama has tremendous faith in human kind, but while watching the new film Dalai Lama Renaissance you can’t help but wonder: “Why?” The documentary focuses its lens on a group of Western scholars and brainstormers called the Synthesis Group, a hand-selected think tank attempting to better the world…
There are some things that just go great together: hugs and kisses, French fries and milkshakes, and of course, pizza and porn. True, bubbling cheese and big screen bare-alls can be difficult to find commingled, but tonight at the Upper East Side Garden (7244 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami) you can kick…
Want to get lit and do battle against Alzheimer’s? Head to the Naked Grape (2039 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors) Wednesday at 6 p.m. for their Wine Guerrilla tasting night, a sampling of the Sonoma winemaker’s entire line of bold Zinfandels. Ten bucks (in advance, $15 at the door) gets you…
Today, the 7th annual Perrier French Film Festival descends on Fort Lauderdale, kicking off with two of France’s top exports: Comedies. Pop into Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale) at 6 p.m. for the fest’s first showing, Deux Vies Plus Une (Two Lives Plus One), a romantic comedy…
The wind whistles and howls to announce the entrance of buckets and buckets of faux snow, forcing you to realize that you’re not in Kansas anymore, sweetie. An orchestra erupts in sound and a deranged looking clown fitted in a burnished yellow jumpsuit and intentionally droopy makeup comes trouncing onto…
You’ve been trying to beat “Through the Fire and Flames” on expert mode in Guitar Hero III for months now, but to no avail. The riffs, they’re just too wicked. The speed, too uncompromising. You’ve watched the YouTube videos of 12-year-old kids matching every arpeggiated note flawlessly, but you can’t…
It’s hard to say when America’s love affair with the caveman began. The image of the affable brute hoisting a spear and frocked in animal furs has become so ubiquitous it’s practically our national mascot (move over bald eagle, Ugg is here to smash!). The running gag seems to be…
More than perhaps any other Marlins opponent, the New York Mets have a way of turning visits to Dolphin Stadium into de facto home games. You wonder why people refer to Boca Raton as the sixth borough of New York, until you see the line of guys with double chins,…
Even though every episode of his self-titled television sitcom started and ended with Jerry Seinfeld doing what he’s always loved best, it’s still a little disconcerting to see him in a purely stand-up setting. You know in the back of your mind the sitcom’s theme song is burbling every time…
Life as a reanimated corpse has its ups and downs. On the positive side, you never have to worry about rent, complicated cell phone plans, or mailing out holiday cards. In the negative column you have a complete lack of free will, sleeping on a pile of your brethren, like…
You’ve been so good all year — stashing your mad money away for a truly special day — and now, it’s finally arrived. Jezebel, your favorite boutique for all-things-dreamy, is helping you make your pennies stretch further during its Sixth Annual Summer Blow-Out Sale! On this sacred retail holiday, the…
Gaming systems are sort of like sports teams: Each has a dedicated fan base which, at every opportunity, shamelessly exalts its system of choice while bashing the other ones. You can tell Nintendo fans because they wear T-shirts with cheesecake shots of Princess Peach, and they hate having to push…
Famed coloratura soprano Florence Foster Jenkins was 44 years old when her singing career began. It started with small recitals for her friends and carefully selected music lovers, and she likely attempted to cover up her budding celebrity from her disapproving mother. It was only with the old lady dead…
“Paintings Beneath the Sea by Jason Mathias” lets museumgoers catch a school of fish by the South Florida artist who has been featured at the International Game Fish Association museum hall of fame. Presenting his aquatic subjects realistically, the artist often renders their environments impressionistically. For instance, Wide Open, which…
What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City — if “pleasure” is the right word for a movie that gazes so deeply and sometimes despairingly into the souls of restless men. In The Dark Knight, the continuation of Nolan’s superb 2005 reboot of the Batman…
I’ve always enjoyed ABBA — not in that post-hoc, so-bad-it’s-good hip way but innocently, the way I like Phil Spector. To this day, howling along in my car to that echoing, cascading, multiply overdubbed wall of sound makes me feel like a member of some dippy but joyous cathedral choir…
When VH1 decided to stop playing Michael Bolton videos due to lack of interest, it needed something to fill the programming gaps. At first, it attempted to remain a music channel with shows like Behind the Music and Pop-up Video, but over the years the station mutated into a domain…
If your sweet chariot ain’t swingin’ low on this glorious Sunday, head over to the Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach). That’s where the renowned Ebony Chorale of the Palm Beaches, directed by Dr. Orville Lawton, will sing to the heavens today as “In the…
It’s hard to imagine, but even within a group whose emblem is an all-encompassing rainbow flag, more diversity is needed. If some of this summer’s Pride events looked more like Abercrombie & Fitch ads to you than a true showing of the populace, head to Miami Beach Bruthaz weekend. Known…
There’s no denying that our earth is in peril. We’ve gotten used to easing through our daily routines — regardless of the strain placed on our natural resources. Yet we’re flabbergasted when wildfires race through the Everglades, hyperactive hurricane seasons dismantle our roofs, and the most searing of yard enemies,…
Chipper Jones’ season-long flirtation with the most hallowed of numbers in a sport full of them — that would be a batting average of .400, a figure rounder and more solid than even the ball itself — should make a nice side note as the Marlins cream the visiting Braves…
Director Tarsem Singh is probably most famous for vivisecting a horse. You remember the moment: it happened in the Jennifer Lopez shitfest known as The Cell, just as the Lopez character descended into the mind of a serial killer. The horse was sliced and diced by huge panels of glass…
