Arts & Culture

For a band as integral to music’s history as the Clash, it seems odd that few fans know much about it; a revelation that doesn’t strike until you’re watching Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. The new documentary follows the famous Strummer (a name/persona he created in his twenties –…

As the spandex-clad darlings of the Miami-based freestyle movement, Exposé had all of the accolades and backstage drama that bespeaks any successful girl group. From 1984 to 1996 career highlights and lowlights went like this: (1) Broke a record held by the Supremes for having ten hits off of one…

The Nutcracker is a holiday ritual as familiar and comforting as the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, the Andy Williams Christmas Special, eggnog with Grandpa, and Bill O’Reilly’s feigned indignation over what he’d have us believe is a secular war to do away with Christmas. You want a war, O’Reilly?…

The holidays are a time for catching up with old friends, lettin’ ´em know how much you appreciate them and then getting wasted together. Since New Times considers you part of its O.G. crew, it’s only right that you’re invited to, like, the biggest party in Fort Lauderdale’s history: the…

Ferrets are the perpetual children of the animal world – give one an old cereal box and an excised pant leg to crawl through, and she’ll imagine it into a beautiful castle with long hallways fit for a regal procession. There, Queen Snickers will reign over her all her miniature…

Do you remember when punk rock used to mean something? (Aside from spiky hair-dos and three minutes of whining about your parents, like some power-chord hungry version of the Fresh Prince.) Thank the gods that Rise Against does. The Chicago four-piece fuses the political musings of Bad Religion with hard-driving…

The Culture Vultures are circling. Why, you ask? They’d hate to miss the beginning of feeding season, that’s why. Adding to the frenzy is the first production of the new season by The Alliance Theatre Lab, John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. The tale, a modern take…

These days, there aren’t many superstars in the Pro Billiards arena – especially since pool lost perhaps its brightest star last year, Steve “the Miz” Mizerak. The Miz was a dominating player – he won his first tourney at 13, topped the U.S. Open Championships four times, and was inducted…

Who has time to read the collected works of Shakespeare, especially when you can click a mouse and get the abridged gist on Wikipedia? Why spend your lifetime working for one company when you can be a soldier of fortune? Why research consumer goods when commercial jingles tell you exactly…

Remember eighth grade English class, when you sat in the back of the room, doodling D&D characters into your notebook, only marginally paying attention to the teacher? You were an angst-ridden little guy, defiant to a fault, but when it came time to discuss Beowulf you perked right up and…

The unsettling tone is established early in Call of Duty 4, when the president of a Middle Eastern nation is publicly executed on the world stage, and you, the player, experience the deposed leader’s final minutes through his own eyes. Bound and unable to escape, all you can do is…

In her catalog introduction to the quirky group exhibition “Delicatessen,” now at the Schmidt Center Gallery on Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus, the show’s guest curator, Latvian-born Diana Shpungin, an adjunct professor at FAU, declares the title “a peculiar word.” She then goes on to ask, “How can a…

I’m getting old. This is the first thing I learned during Cosi Fan Tutte at the Carnival Center last week. When I saw Samson et Delila at the Broward Center a few months back, I could very easily read the translation of the libretto projected onto the screen above the…

While Whitman could sing the body electric, Vincent Lardieri composes its score. What the poet did in free verse, the painter accomplishes in abstract paintings. Acknowledging the music within his work, Lardieri refers to his own work as “staccato,” since the thick applications of acrylic paint and polymer are cut…

Even people who hate Yoko Ono come around eventually. This seems odd since by all rights, anybody believed to have “broken up the Beatles” should be marked for life — but between then and now, stirring evidence of John and Yoko’s almost creepily profound love has come floating into the…

Despite being saddled with a crappy name, the FAU Owls (wouldn’t Raging Hooters have been so much better?) are in control of their own destiny entering the final two games of the season. The Owls have improved dramatically under Head Coach Howard Schnellenberger since entering Division 1-A in 2005, and…

You were mesmerized by Laser Floyd (there was something comforting and hypnotic about the dancing tennis shoes). You smuggled contraband (ding dongs, ho hos, and other ingredient-heavy no-no’s) into Laser Zeppelin. But can you handle the trippiest spectacle this side of the North Pole? Recline and find out when Santa…

You don’t view shopping as a contact sport, but you do love the thrill of the hunt. Because of this conundrum you’re conflicted each time Black Friday rolls around. Jezebel (1980 E. Sunrise Blvd., Gateway Plaza, Fort Lauderdale) understands. The store – a 20-plus year staple in Fort Lauderdale –…