Midway through Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, there’s a scene in which several exotic fish offer a critique of the film thus far. They praise the preceding scene — called “Find the Fish” — but complain that, fun as it all is, nobody’s said much about “the meaning of…
The industrial age isn’t all ugly. “Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster” turns industrial subjects into visual poetry. A common grain elevator, for instance, takes on the symbolic significance of a great pyramid in the 1927 oil-and-graphite painting My Egypt — the painting that launched his last…
Remember the scene from Jim Carrey’s The Mask where Carrey escapes the police by donning a frilled shirt and singing, “They call me Cuban Pete / I’m the King of the Rumba Beat / When I play my maracas I go chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky-boom?” Well, Desi Arnaz popularized the Latin rumba…
You can find anything on the Internet these days. If you’re looking to throw an Italian-American wedding, Ehow.com can guide the process. It has nine pointers for wedding planners: among them, that you shower the couple with sugar-coated almonds (instead of rice), serve a luscious Italian meal, and shatter a…
“Farmin’ life ain’t easy, folks – it takes mountains of energy to corral livestock and maintain barns and whatnots. An’ big energy means a big breakfast, yes sir. Lots of starches for quick bursts, heaps of meaty sausage for buildin’ muscles, and, yep, healthful fruits to keep your mind right…
Rock stars like opening nightclubs. It’s a natural fit — after all, they’ve spent their best head-of-hair years partying professionally. So really, when it comes time to make the tough decisions, like which type of tile floor is the most soothing to pass out on? Or what varieties of liquor…
So many comedians get tagged with the “hardest-working” trope; but if it ever applied to anyone, then you have to include Bill Bellamy in there. The dude has been pinballing around the comedy and entertainment world for some 20 years now – just recalling his early days at MTV; his…
Reminiscent of what happens when you combine one unhealthy childhood obsession with ballet, one contorted, plastic My Little Pony that you were determined to make dance, and one immeasurable love of nobility brought on by Cinderella — The World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions are all of these things come to life…
These are the perfect days. The ones that soften you, make you appreciate everything you have at this precise moment – especially when you’re watching the national weather report (ha ha, Connecticut!). So what are you doing, sitting there on your couch? Go out and enjoy them! Today, you even…
There’s nothing quite as sneaky and vile as when your friends invite you over for a seemingly harmless get-together, only to unveil their true motives once you walk in the door: forcing you to watch their mind-numbing slide shows. Suddenly, pics from their cheery vacation in Yellowstone become snuff film-caliber…
“To be perfectly honest, I like the Cubans. I don’t like Cuban men, because they try to fuck my wife in front of me. They’re filthy animals that way.” That was the first thing out of comedian Ralphie May’s mouth when I asked him if he was looking forward to…
Art lovers know that a roguish magician equals trouble (the daredevil gleam in his sandbagged eyes only compounds problems). And yet, try as they might, those artphiles cannot resist his baroquely-inspired outfit and clever sleight-of-hand, which is why Jack Maxwell of the Wizard’s Apprentice Magic Shop will be performing for…
Martin Luther King Jr. weekend is a time to reflect and use our knowledge of the past to pave a better future. Or it could be a time for gay video porn stars like Benjamin Bradley to do the dirty dirty at Boardwalk (1721 N. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale). The…
We’re totally convinced that everything looks more impressive blasted across a 40-foot-tall IMAX screen. So what happens when images that would awe you on your 13” Crapavox – like the vast, lush stretches of marshland and islands that make up the Okavango Delta in Botswana – make their way to…
Other scripts have followed this storyline: two long-time buddies share a hooker only to find out that the results weren’t as sexually rewarding as originally hoped. In them, one of three things typically happens: (1) the hooker dies; (2) the hooker dies, leading one friend to kill the other because…
After the Heat’s Jan. 8 loss to NBA-worst Minnesota, Pat Riley said that he might quit as coach to focus on his other job as team president. He felt compelled to add: “But that’s after this season. That’s not now.” The natural follow-up question from the press gallery could have…
Allan Bowron – better known throughout South Florida as DJ GG – has been organizing everything from Goth shows to the Disco Prom for two-and-a-half years now, but his latest gig at Respectable Street (518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) will be the closest to his heart. That’s because proceeds…
The All New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One (Turner) American Carny: True Tales From the Circus Sideshow (Koch Vision) Cary Grant: 4-Disc Collector’s Set (Republic) Casablanca (Warner Bros.) Death Sentence (Fox) Eagle vs. Shark (Miramax) Evil Roy Slade (TMG) Golden Door (Miramax) Happy Tree Friends: Complete Season One…
Joshua (Fox) George Ratliff’s movie, a sort of satirical take on Rosemary’s Baby, came and went upon its release; seems no one got the joke about how parents (Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga, in this case) are scared shitless of their own children — especially the titular Joshua, played by…
Having a child destroys your immune system to horror, real or imagined. Before the blessed event, you could laugh off The Exorcist, The Omen, or any of a thousand gory shockers with some wide-eyed tyke as either the prey or the spawn of Beelzebub. Afterward, you can’t even see the…
Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed return to the fray, is a curious project — well-crafted, personal, and movie-movie old-fashioned even in its vanguard aspirations. Simply put, it’s a Faustian romance about the reversal of time and transmigration of souls that, shot mainly in Romania, adds a soupçon of…
When I was 12, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway totally screwed me over. After visiting the famed Brickyard and eagerly paying 10 bucks to take “a lap around the track,” I was placed in a golf cart that putted around the asphalt at a not-entirely-death-defying 9 mph. This was not the…
