Arts & Culture

You consider yourself a green avenger: You’re eco-conscious, always brake for puppies, and you keep a stockpile of extra hugs for nearly all animals you encounter, great and small. But while it kills you to admit it, there are some little fellas in the animal kingdom that you can’t imagine…

Before Dylan got the Beatles stoned, recorded country songs with Johnny Cash, crashed his motorcycle, was born-again, or became a satellite radio DJ, he was just a skinny kid from Duluth. Seeing little Bobby in photographs from the early ’60s, it’s hard to believe how that nice looking boy became…

Guitar Hero may have started as a harmless hobby, but when Rock Band was released last year… well, things got complicated. Instead of jamming quietly on tiny plastic guitars with your friends, drums and vocals were suddenly added to the mix. Screaming “Say It Ain’t So” while your drummer banged…

Boxing remains a mere shadow of its former self — looking as though the sweet science could use a few more lab credits, perhaps — so the rise of mixed martial arts to a respectable athletic art form has been a real boon for men and women who still yearn…

Chuck Klosterman, an inane and deeply self-involved pop-culture critic, once (once!) had a good point. That was in Chapter 13 of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, where he said that “the only relevant question available for contemporary filmmakers” is this: What is reality? And what is reality? It’s not a…

While I’m not sure if I can claim complete objectivity, “Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art” is much too important an exhibition to let go unaddressed. So let me make full disclosure before I offer some commentary. A couple of years ago, when “Unbroken Ties” was still in its infancy,…

“The True Nature of Mind” has its roots in Buddhism. In the hands of artist Maria Karki, the philosophy blossoms as a modern twist on spiritual tradition. Within the collection of mixed-media works, flowers abound, frequently as part of a mandala — an intricate geometric design, symbolic of the universe,…

If you read reviews the way I do, you’ve already started by checking out the score, and now you’re back here to see what the hell my problem is. Peace, brother. Grand Theft Auto IV is a fine game, with tons of content and all the great moments you’ve come…

Deep in the thicket of Wilton Manors, there lies a drinking hole full of ladies with an axe to grind. Or rather, several axes. If you’ve managed to hold on to outdated conventions about video game playing being genetically linked to Y chromosomes, you should swing into New Moon Bar…

If you were to walk down a dark alley late at night, you wouldn’t do it alone, right? You’d probably have a buddy close by to watch your back and try to dissuade you from doing this and similarly stupid things. But you’d also want your buddy to remind you…

After winning the World Series in 2001, then wandering the desert for a few years, the Arizona Diamondbacks have gradually rebuilt themselves into perhaps the best team in baseball by following a formula that the Marlins tried, and abandoned. Specifically, the Diamondbacks will throw a nigh-unbeatable pitcher at you in…

Growing up in a highly religious family blows: you have to spend your weekends at wacky revivals, you can’t even unwrap a Fruit Roll-up without getting that sticky feeling of eternal damnation, and you never, ever get to watch Dirty Dancing at sleepovers. It seriously sucks. Will Proudfoot is bound…

Supporting the arts doesn’t have to be stuffy, at least not if you choose BAM events. The onomatopoeic organization is loaded with young movers and shakers, all of whom take time out of their professional lives to party for good causes. Take today for instance: During BAMBash, the Boca Raton…

Here’s a lesser-known story about those tyrannical, no-good Nazis: In the late 1930s, they planned to bankrupt the English economy by flooding the market with counterfeit cash. Their mastermind? Well, in director Stefan Ruzowitzky’s Oscar-winning The Counterfeiters, it’s a wormy, boney-cheeked criminal who just happens to be Jewish. Funny money…

You’ve got to hand it to the folks behind the Art of Moving Butts: The hip-hop party lasted a helluva long time at the Poorhouse, of all places, and it brought some respectability to Broward’s dismal hip-hop scene in the process. But nothing good lasts forever, and after expanding to…

Sinbad, fresh from a virtual death on Wikipedia, performs today at the Parker Playhouse (707 NE 8th St., Fort Lauderdale). Perhaps you heard: The actor/comedian was in the news again recently. For weeks, the media debated whether Hillary Clinton had actually come under sniper fire on a visit to Bosnia,…

Motorcycle fellas are hulking, intimidating dudes. When you see them pass by in herds — leather tassels whipping, bandanas flapping, mischievous eyes gleaming — it’s tough to imagine them exploring their softer sides. Try as you might, you can’t envision them weeping through a romantic comedy, soaking daily stress away…

Back in the time of George Frideric Handel — the great, German composer of the opera Julius Caesar — vocalists were superstars. Much in the same way that today’s athletes are revered for their rare skills on the field, opera singers with incredible vocal ability achieved a notable celebrity. Such…

That do-it-yourself acrylic art doll Munny is back in action, this time landing at toy shop/gallery space Pink Ghost (21 W. Las Olas Blvd., Ste. B, Fort Lauderdale). “Giant Skills, Mini Munny” opens Saturday at 7 p.m. and will feature over 50 of the little buggers, each handcrafted by pop…

This doesn’t seem to be the same place the Eagles sang about, but Neil Simon’s California Suite takes the audience into another version of a peculiar Golden State hotel. In four episodes, hotel guests encounter all sorts of oddities, best friends become anything but by the end of their vacation,…