Arts & Culture

Publisher: Capcom

Platform: PlayStation 2, Game Cube

Price: $29.99

ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)

Score: 8 (out of 10)

When we asked basketball star Tim Hardaway if there are any players he’ll be scared to face during today’s ABA All-Star game, he straightened us out right quick. “First of all,” he said, “Tim Hardaway is not scared of nobody. Second, I’m the one who puts the fear in everyone…

Unless you let women make their own reproductive decisions @body no indent:The test, it seems, had been passed. Plan B, a form of emergency contraception manufactured by Barr Pharmaceuticals, had been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration. Scientists at the department’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research had done…

Ed McMahon is coming! Too bad it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve won the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes, or Star Search. A classic member of the so-called greatest generation, McMahon sold vegetable slicers on the New Jersey board walk as a teenager, flew combat missions as a fighter pilot during…

Steven Soderbergh’s independent film, Bubble, made headlines when it premiered in theaters January 27. But it wasn’t the film’s content that raised brows; it was Soderbergh’s three-pronged strategy to release the film on DVD and TV just days after it opened in theaters. Of course, such marketing stunts only concern…

“We love our audiences,” said Valerie Zach, cast member of the improv comedy troupe Laughing Gas. “Valentine’s Day is our chance to show just how much… with a card. Cards and love are the same thing, right?” All members of the audience who attend tonight’s Laughing Gas show, called “Valentine’s…

Pablo Francisco has called himself “a universal comic” who tries to appeal to all audiences, but if he’s offered extra work based on his Hispanic heritage, he’ll take it. Sure, he’ll host the Latino Laugh Festival for seven million viewers. Sure, he’ll get paired with Carlos Mencia for a Comedy…

Robert Schimmel is from the school of hard knocks. Lots of people claim to have started off there, but his schooling was extreme. Ten years ago, Schimmel got his start in comedy, when he went to L.A. to visit his sister and she dumped him onto stage at an open-mic…

Twenty years have passed since the Annual Outdoor Juried Art Festival debuted at Mizner Park (433 Plaza Real, Boca Raton). Needless to say, the event has grown considerably in the past two decades, thanks in no small part to its sponsor, the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Now boasting some…

At 6’9”, 240 lbs., the Detroit Pistons’ afro-sporting big man Ben Wallace looks like he should terrorizing NFL quarterbacks, rather than patrolling the paint for the best team in the NBA. Coming out of high school with a scholarship offer to play football at Auburn, that was almost the case…

The last place you’d expect to find a crew of low-tech beat artists is at the King’s Head Pub (2692 N University Dr., Plantation). It’s an old style English pub that highlights its darts and imported beer — not usually its rappers. But that’s what GLUE is all about. This…

MTV is up on it. Rolling Stone digs it, too. So when will South Florida finally get hip to garage rock? Screamo this, emo that… even noise bands have more of a scene than those reared on Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. So it’s not surprising to learn that when…

Forget Marilyn, Liz, or even Britney (especially Britney). The real sex symbol is and always will be Venus, the Roman goddess of love. She’s the quintessential muse, the woman who launched a thousand paintings (and sculptures, books, songs, etc.). And she’s once again in the spotlight, thanks to Rachel Hoffman…

The great thing is that more than 50 former major league ballplayers and celebrities will be playing in the 18th Annual Joe DiMaggio Legends Game and raise money to build a pediatric oncology wing at the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood. The curious thing is, how are they going…

Explosions, high-speed fight sequences, a veritable war between two mobbish families, a hero on hallucinogens, a cross-dressing sidekick, and somehow William Shakespeare all fit into the mix. Bombastic filmmaker Baz Luhrmann puts together a gorgeous, albeit a little campy, film in his modernized remake of Romeo + Juliet. While it…

When we see photos of comics posing with U.S. troops in Iraq, it’s tempting to think of it as crass opportunism – another attempt by American entertainers to cash in on 9/11. The reality, though, is that it takes real chutzpah to tour the Middle East. Forget the risk of…

Valentine’s, schmalentine’s. It’ s just another expenditure foisted upon us poor consumers, right? Chances are, you’ll probably end up doing the mandatory flowers-and-dinner thing, languishing on a date with whomever you could find, or writhing around your room like a lonely heart on prom night. Let’s face it – what…

There once was a couple named Mooring, Whose marriage had become rather boring, She was all tweed and khaki, He felt like a lackey, And in place of sex was just snoring. Mr. Mooring kept a secret locked trunk, To be used in an emotional funk, Inside, panties were lacy,…

According to legend, the blues was born along the Mississippi River Delta when Robert Johnson met the devil at the crossroads and sold him his soul. Five generations later, Fort Lauderdale’s New River is a far cry from the Mighty Mississippi. But this weekend, it’s ground zero for all things…

Jim Florentine can do more than just answer the phone on unsuspecting telemarketers and mess with them. But the formula has been so successful that he’s recorded four volumes of his comedy CD, Terrorizing Telemarketers, and landed gigs on Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers and The Howard Stern Show because of…