It’s sometimes baffling that anyone falls in love anymore: modern “must be met” lists for PSCs (potential suitor characteristics) are lengthier than Santa’s scroll of “naughtys.” It’s unclear when it happened, but we’ve become a demanding bunch that wants it all. In Jeff (Curb Your Enthusiasm) Garlin’s new film, he…
Thanksgiving Weekend is prime partying time for South Florida gays: it’s the White Party, a series of events where young hairless things bop around on the dance floor until the wee hours of the morning. But tonight the real men will skip all that pretty-boy nonsense and head over to…
You just can’t pigeon-hole Miami-based group Cleaveland Jones – doing so would be like trying to corral a roller-skating hippo who’s tripping on peyote – but you can try to connect the stray bits of sound and see if it all makes sense. Squealing, whammy fueled guitar licks that cascade…
You’re tired of canned cranberries, listless about dry turkey, and getting more and more nauseous over the thought of sitting next to your creepy Aunt Beatrix at the family table (she’s wheezing into the mashed potato bowl, for Pete’s sake). Fear not, friend. You don’t have to spend another miserable…
UFO Crash Site in Roswell, New Mexico. Beer Can House in Houston, Texas. The Big Chicken, Marietta Georgia. There are some roadside oddities that demand you pull out of traffic, loop back, and then simply stare. In Florida we have one that is accessible for only two, glorious months: Santa’s…
Nothing turns friends into frienemies quicker than acts of subterfuge, like one hoodwinking the other into a “dinner party” when the real goal is to show slideshows of a vacation, bridal shower, or birthing process. Yikes, indeed. It isn’t as much the subject matter (except for with birthing pics –…
In order for a music venue to be qualified as truly “kick-ass, dude,” it’s got to have a combination of characteristics that resemble Goldilocks’ porridge: Not so big that it loses intimacy, not so small that you’re unintentionally swapping body fluids with the person next to you. A sound system…
Sure, your momma seems proud of that stupid, lumpy bowl you made at summer camp (fyi, she’s convinced it’s an ashtray), but it’s time you saw what a bona fide potter can do with a mound of clay at Armory Art Center’s newest exhibit, “Sphere of Influence.” Head over to…
Shortly after the point at which the Miami Heat honed losing into a true art – that would be with a second loss in the young season to the Charlotte Bobcats on Nov. 13 – Heat president and coach Pat Riley was ready to school Shaq, Jason Williams, and whatever…
It must be exceedingly hard for teens to grasp Bob Dylan. Problem is, if you haven’t followed his Proustian output since those early ´60s proto-hippie days, where do you start? Complicating matters is that Dylan, now 66, has never rested on his laurels. Dylan has gone through numerous incarnations in…
Query: Why did Roman soldiers eschew the mammoth greatswords of early Viking combatants in favor of small, thrusting shortswords like the gladius? (It certainly wasn’t sword envy.) Don’t know the answer? That’s OK, because Larry Rabin, a.k.a. Sir Alaric of Hopeless Romantics Entertainment does. Rabin is a professional stage combatant,…
There’s something so fascinating about matter’s phase changes. As a liquid, H2O is pretty mundane – after all we see it every day. As it vaporizes it creates steam, which has a much more mysterious (and spa-friendly) quality. But by far the coolest of its forms is snow. That one…
It’s not easy to make sense of the artwork of Sandro Chia. For instance, in 1979, he painted this idyllic, inscrutable scene: a goat grazes in a garden while a figure in black leather sits behind the animal with an arm stuck way into its anus. Another from around the…
The spirit of Barbera Streisand lingers over every well-intentioned Funny Girl revival. It must. After all, that dynamite crooner culled many a golden statuette for channeling comedienne Fanny Brice. Several FG stage incarnations and one film adaptation later (we won’t mention that clunker sequel, shudder), it’s still hard finding a…
In 1977, the Misfits set out to start a new kind of punk rock band. Not satisfied with simple thrashing guitars and typical angst-ridden lyrics, lead singer Glenn Danzig and bassist Jerry Only started penning tunes that sounded like the undead offspring of The Ramones, Black Sabbath, and the Drifters…
Gosh, French writers can get tiresome. They’re so smart, so interested in harrumphing endlessly about all the things they see and you don’t. I mean, where else but in France could this become a popular slogan: “People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life,…
The Addams Family: The Complete Series (MGM) Amazing Grace (Fox) Annie Duke’s Texas Hold’em Supercourse (Big Vision) Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Criterion Collection (Criterion)Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition (Sony) Gilmore Girls: The Complete Seventh Season (Warner Bros.) It’s a Wonderful Life: 2-Disc Collector’s Set (Paramount) Man…
Mulry Fine Art offers brain teasers for art lovers. Half the fun of its exhibits is figuring out how the works relate to the show titles. A photograph of a massacred pigeon, a giant embroidered pillow, an abstract sculpture that pays homage to Duchamp: It’s puzzling how these fit into…
The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition (MGM) As far as anniversary-edition DVDs go, The Princess Bride is crushingly disappointing: no Rob Reiner commentary track, no outtakes, no making-of doc, no nothing, save for a lousy game and a few short interviews with Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Guest, and…
“Hold still” — it’s what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men. The first time we hear it, it’s out-of-work Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) whispering optimistically to the antelope he spies through his rifle sight while perched on the crest…
Midway through the amiable children’s movie Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, there comes a speech that I’ll wager writer/director Zach Helm has been saving for use ever since he discovered the Bard. As pop philosophy goes, it’s bracing stuff: Paraphrasing King Lear, Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman), a 243-year-old “toy impresario” in…
Show of hands: Has anyone not heard of Guitar Hero at this point? You sir, in the back row clutching the Ratt cassette — you’re the only one? All right, pal, here’s your recap: Guitar Hero is the most popular music-based game ever made. It comes with a plastic guitar…
