After a summer afternoon of baseball, who can say no to ice cream? Today the Florida Marlins host the Second Annual Ice Cream Festival. Edy’s Ice Cream will provide the good stuff, while Marlins players along with the team’s general manager, Larry Beinfest, and assistant general manager, Michael Hill, serve…
The 18th Annual Poverello Bowl-A-Thon rolls into Manor Lanes today (1517 26th St, Wilton Manors) to raise money for The Poverello Center, a food and clothing bank for people with HIV/AIDS. Registration has already come and gone, so if you’re not signed up you can’t bowl, but you can still…
When the bike-nic film Easy Rider first screened in 1969, it was met with heaps of praise from film critics, burgeoning rock ´n´ rollers, and motorcyclists alike. As the first great road-trip film, Rider represented a unique time in American history, before antiauthoritarianism became a slick advertisement and our naïveté…
What image appears in your head when you hear the words “comic book community”? Two costumed convention-goers, one squeezed into tight red-and-blue spandex with a homemade “S” splashed across his chest, the other an admitted Moon Knight fanatic in a stitched white cowl? Well, for lifelong comic and role-playing game…
Another installment of the Where-Are-They-Now Musical Odyssey Game, South Florida Edition, rears its not-so-ugly head this week. Thank god this version includes a healthy dose of quality rock and roll, courtesy of Charlie Pickett and his rotating, ragtag group of troubadours. This iteration of accompanying musicians (including local legend Johnny…
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…
After a summer afternoon of baseball, who can say no to ice cream? Today the Florida Marlins host the Second Annual Ice Cream Festival. Edy’s Ice Cream will provide the good stuff, while Marlins players along with the team’s general manager, Larry Beinfest, and assistant general manager, Michael Hill, serve…
As a kid you saw Monster Trucks as spectacular demons of destruction, turning boring automobiles into metal road kill with every brilliant ramp jump; you wished desperately to be the little man driving. As an adult, you still have that appetite for demolition mayhem (and now, beer!), but you realize…
Their styles are as different as their backgrounds, but today, Sole Estate (513 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) brings two of West Palm’s emerging street artists together. JET, a Dane descendant of Vikings, has made a name for herself on the image-hosting site Flickr. There she posts photos of bizarro…
Technically, South Florida has two seasons: wet and dry. If you’re a woman, you get two more: Girl Scout Cookie and Firefighter Calendar, each delicious in its own right. You’ll be trading in your secret stash of Samoas for beefcakes tonight when the South Florida Firefighters make a cameo at…
Any open mic comic worth their weight in complimentary drinks carries with them a difficult childhood experience that- – while not so funny at the time- – turns into joke fodder for years to come. For comedian Mike Epps, this meant revisiting a one-bedroom apartment he shared with nine brothers…
It’s one of the oldest adages of fame: once your big break hits, you’re destined to forget all the little people, without whose steadfast support you’d have never risen to the top. Somehow, South Florida’s own local-DJ-done-good, DJ Icey, didn’t get that memo. The Orlando spinster began his ascendancy to…
Jonathan Swift said it best: “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” Whether it’s their calcified exterior shells or their slimy interior bivalve design, there’s something dubious about a raw oyster. Admittedly, there’s also something exotic about the slippery little pseudo-aphrodesiacs that keeps you trolling the raw…
We’re at the tail end of the dog days of summer – that sweltering August sun sapping every last bit of our will like a chunk of Floridian kryptonite – which, if you listen to mom, means we should be cooling off indoors and drinking plenty of life sustaining fluids…
She was a beauty queen, international model, and runner-up in the Mrs. America pageant; Victoria Howard lived a charmed life. Her choice of men, however, was questionable. “When I didn’t win Mrs. America my [second] husband threatened to divorce me,” says Howard. That was when she knew she needed to…
A text panel early in “Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford” notes that the artist has been called “Audubon on Viagra.” It’s a clever line, and Ford could indeed be seen as the great painter of The Birds of America with a hard-on. But he could also just as…
Call it big pictures in a small exhibit that includes some big artists. “BIG Picture” offers a dozen of the Norton Museum’s latest large-scale photographic acquisitions. It’s an opportunity to see how size matters — that is, how scale informs the artist’s work. Some of the subjects are real people…
Bubba Ho-tep Limited Edition (MGM) Intentional camp is difficult to do well. It’s a contradiction that usually comes off cutesy and forced. The old Batman series pulled it off, and it’s been B-movie god Bruce Campbell’s livelihood. But in a long career of overacting and mugging, Campbell’s peak may be…
Stardust is less an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 1999 novel than of its dust-jacket synopsis. That will come as disconcerting news to fans of the author, who thus far has avoided the fate of fellow fantasy writers and comics creators who’ve had their works mangled by the studios’ clumsy assembly…
Chris Tucker still believes in Michael Jackson. You can tell, because in the very first scene of Rush Hour 3, the actor-comedian squeals melodically, grabs his crotch, and throws his arms up to the heavens. All that’s missing is a giant offstage fan to make Tucker’s shirt billow out behind…
Stupid videogame logic, rule number 154: When thousands of fugly, bloodthirsty aliens take over a spaceship, it’s best to send in a lone woman with a flamethrower. That’s the entire plot of Alien Syndrome, a pseudo sequel to Sega’s 1987 “run ‘n’ gun” arcade game of the same name. And…
We’ve all got our college classes to attend, our TPS reports to finish, and our kids to chauffeur around, but every once in a while we, as Floridians, need to be reminded of why we choose to stay here: the lazy Florida life, with its salty beach bars and Buffett-esque…
