“Acey Sickly woke up one day and found he was living the American nightmare: an interminable cycle of work, sleep, and monotony with nary a white picket fence or Stepford wife in sight.” This may not be the most groundbreaking storyline in the world; but the way that the story…
Not all bands reared on ´90s pop-punk grew up to become smarmy alt-rock pretty-boys like Yellowcard. Many went in the opposite direction, embracing a more roots-oriented style of punk. When Miami’s Getback released its first EP in 2003, the band had finally come into its own, combining the bluesy guitar…
Tonight’s game against the Atlanta Thrashers at will be the Florida Panthers last at home before the NHL splits for the Winter Olympics, and it’s a safe bet that no one is happier about that than Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo. Luongo, who will represent his native Canada, leads the league…
Winter is over. Okay, winter isn’t officially over, but those three days in January when you can wear a leather jacket without looking like a Joey Ramone wannabe have already passed. That means it’s time for spring, or at least, The Rite of Spring. If you have even a layperson’s…
Pun alert: the Palm Beach Zoo (1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach) is “dragon” your ass in – just in time for Dragonfest, the zoo’s seventh annual cultural celebration of the Chinese New Year. All right, so the zoo’s six days late, but the holiday never does jive with our…
It’s hard to imagine a time when MTV played metal videos only once a week (Headbangers’ Ball). But that’s how things were in the late ´80s. And while the PMRC (remember them?) were after mainstream bands like Twisted Sister, newer, more underground groups like Deicide were taking metal to its…
It’s been philosophized by coaches and analysts that the best offense is a good defense, but apparently no one’s forwarded this memo to the Miami Heat. Miami’s high-flying offense has placed the team near the top of the league in points per game, with Dwyane Wade among the league’s scoring…
The best thing about Michael Haneke’s Caché (Hidden) is the way it draws on contemporary fears without ever mentioning them. The War on Terror era has given us all new things to be afraid of; some fear being prey for terrorists, while others fear the government’s response, but both have…
With the release of The White Countess, the much-honored Merchant Ivory canon is complete. Bombay-born producer Ismail Merchant died in May 2005 at age 68, and whatever direction his longtime collaborator and life companion, director James Ivory, now chooses, the working partnership that gave us a dozen elegantly furnished period…
There is evidently no limit to the sacrifices actors will make for their art. If you thought beautiful Charlize Theron went the distance by transforming herself into a bloated, scowling murderess for Monster, just wait till you and the kids get a load of Emma Thompson in the darkly amusing…
No one has ever mistaken Rocky Balboa for an officer and a gentleman, but that’s just about what we get in the numbingly predictable and none-too-stirring Annapolis, an underdog-makes-good boxing movie stuffed inside what amounts to a U.S. Navy recruiting pitch, with a dash of Good Will Hunting tossed in…
Barefoot Boy With Shoes On, which opened last week at the Public Theatre of South Florida, is more a dance than a play. It’s all emotion all the time, in a dance of anger and frustration about being a young Hispanic man with no options in urban America. It’s as…
Abstraction and figuration coexist uneasily, often within the same painting, in the output of Matthew Carone, whose recent work is now on view at Lurie Fine Art Galleries in Boca Raton. The New Jersey-born artist has been a South Florida force since 1959, when he opened the Fort Lauderdale gallery…
The Aristocrats (Lions Gate) The single joke around which Paul Provenza’s documentary revolves has a standard beginning and ending, like pieces of bread that make a sandwich stuffed with excrement, incest, and whatever other foulness the teller can come up with. Provenza and Penn Jillette recorded more than 100 comedians…
Publisher: Atari
Platform: PS2 and Xbox
Price: $49.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 5 (out of 10)
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Before Che Guevara became a rock-star-esque rebel figure whose likeness graced T-shirts from Urban Outfitters, he was a revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro overthrow a regime in Cuba. But even before that, in 1952, he was a 23-year-old medical student who traveled through South America on his motorcycle on his…
Comedian/musician Amy Steinberg performs her hilarious one-woman act about God and sex. Sun., Jan. 29…
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Do you love extreme sports but have trouble finding the sport that suits you? NASCAR looks attractive, but your attention span is too short to follow it. Skateboarding is aggro – too bad it’s for snotty young kids with silly haircuts and no respect for “Our President.” Where are you…
There is no style of art quite as forgiving or complimentary as the impressionist painting. Slight imperfections blur into colorful renderings that sometimes give the same effects as waking up without your contacts in. Like admiring someone from afar, you get the essence of their beauty without getting up close…
