Arts & Culture

We see you in your car, thrusting your imaginary gun in the air, rapping furiously to Tupac’s “All Eyez On Me.” Yeah, on the surface we point and giggle at you, but deep down we relate. In our private spheres, on the regular, we all become Lil’ Kim, Ghostface Killa…

The “struggling actress” is an old, anemic, American myth. David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive transmogrified the cliché into a multi-faceted mindfuck. Hollywood Dreams (2006), an independent film by Henry Jaglom now playing in South Florida, trots it out as a parody of the movie industry. A gawky Iowan girl packs her…

You’re not getting out of an AC/DC concert for less than a half a grand. Two tickets near the stage? $300. Parking? $20. T-shirts for you and your about-to-rock date? $80 to $100. Add snacks, stadium cocktails, and bribes to the people ahead of you in the bathroom line? Easily…

There’s really no point in listening to the oldies station while driving; seatbelt laws inhibit your Twist and bucket seats make it impossible to do the Pony. It’s an atrocity that so much of the danceable music from the ´50s through the ´70s has been confined to either the car…

Everyone makes capricious decisions when they’re young. For some, those choices will remain buried like a time capsule only to emerge years later when they run for political office or, in the case of The Bravery, land a major label deal and start touring the world. What led to its…

It was kind of cute when the Braves went all-in to bring hard-swinging righty Mark Teixeira to Atlanta before the trading deadline, only to go 6-5 over their next 11 games with their new first baseman. At the end of that stretch, though, to be fair, the Braves were in…

That frisson of terror you feel when you see clowns has a fancy name: coulrophobia. Perhaps it stems from meeting a drunken clown as a child, or reading It, or attending a circus where clowns cavorted creepily amid fresh elephant dung. Perhaps Emmet Kelly once sucker-punched your grandpa, or John…

It’s easy to take for granted what comes easily. But the thing about a showing of local or regional art: It gives you perspective on the pool of talent you’re swimming in. The “2007 All Florida Juried Show” offers 70 works by 59 artists in diverse media including watercolor, oil,…

Ask a random person five years ago what Sudoku was and you’d be lucky if he mumbled something about Japanese ritual suicide. But go down any supermarket’s magazine aisle today and you’ll find whole racks stuffed with cheapie newsprint books full of the addictive puzzles. People can’t get enough. They…

The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a lighthearted political satire that features four murders, two toenail-pullings, one near-miss nipple amputation, the brains of two cats, six punctured eyeballs, many severed limbs, and something like nine gallons of blood. It’s a Grand Guignol explosion of death, violence, and body fluids that fuses…

While the tourists on Hollywood’s Broadwalk spend their Sundays hunting for tacky T-shirts, locals in the know are busy shooting fresh wheat grass shots and squeezing gold zucchini at Josh’s Organic Garden. Forget about Whole Foods — this market has a varied selection of certified organic veggies as well as…

If you’ve ever spent time in Spain you know that drinking wine – whether it’s quaffing bottles of cava at Madrilleño nightclubs, ducking inside a dusty Salamanca tapas bar for a glass of Rioja, or slow-sipping sangria on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas strip – is as integral a part of Spanish…

Existential gripes are the hallmark whimsies that the late director Ingmar Bergman adored and honed to perfection. The prolific Swedish virtuoso crafted countless cinematic gems under the Janus Films distributor label, including his gold-standard of radical arthouse, a little cerebral banquet called The Seventh Seal. This ol´ “chess game with…

While the tourists on Hollywood’s Broadwalk spend their Sundays hunting for tacky T-shirts, locals in the know are busy shooting fresh wheat grass shots and squeezing gold zucchini at Josh’s Organic Garden. Forget about Whole Foods — this market has a selection of certified organic items that you never even…

For the gun show neophyte, the sales floor can be a scary place, especially since so many venders appear deranged and have enough weapons with them to supply a small country at war. These shows can also be the ultimate in people-watching, so we suggest you go. Here’s a few…