Arts & Culture

The Reverend Jeff Mosier and his merry band of bluegrass brethren are taking the stage with an all-new bag of tricks. They’re calling their sound psychedelic hick-hop bluesgrass and their band BlueGround UnderGrass. It’s music laced with sudden shifts in an attempt to “urbanize the rural and ruralize the urban,”…

Growing up, Lothar Berfelde’s biggest fashion influence was his cross-dressing aunt. Through her, the young tranny in training learned of Magnus Hirschfeld, the physician and sexologist who championed gay rights. Not surprisingly, familial support of Lothar’s transvestism ended with his aunt. His father, well, he was a Nazi – and…

The best way to describe Steven Wright’s brand of comedy is to imagine Steve-O of MTV’s Wild Boyz being pushed over the Grand Canyon inside a flaming Porta Potty while a blind, one-armed midget with epilepsy tattoos his forehead. Now if you can picture the complete opposite of that, it…

As the Florida Panthers struggle to attain mediocrity, the New Jersey Devils are already there. Sorry. Hockey always makes us mean. In reality, the teams are on either side of .500 (Devils up, Panthers down), making this week’s stickfest attractive for its competitiveness. If you didn’t know that, you’re probably…

It’s not even 7 a.m. The sun is barely up. Yet you’re at dead stop, stuck in traffic, still two miles from C.B. Smith Park (900 N. Flamingo Rd., Pembroke Pines). But life could be worse. You could not be surrounded by pickup trucks full of cute girls in cowboy…

Let’s be optimistic and say that it’s a promising sign that Miami Heat players are getting banged up now, halfway through the season. In the loss to the Lakers the other night, Jason Williams and Dwyane Wade both came up lame, especially bothersome to fans because these two have evolved…

Part of responsible parenting means not playing favorites with your kids. Though, when one of ´em is the result of a romantic side project, there’s little chance of equal treatment. In the Chinese film Beauty Remains, Fei and Ying are two sisters whose recently deceased and incredibly wealthy father has…

Just what is the elusive quality we call the soul? More important, if we could see it, what would it look like? That’s one of the questions tackled in the exhibit “Introsp3ctives.” Now, you’ re probably wondering about that 3. But don’t worry about that. The only three you need…

The name Juanes may not carry the same weight in the United States as, say, Ricky Martin. But that’s changing. Sure, Juanes hasn’t had his “La Vida Loca”-type breakthrough hit. But then again, that’s not really his style. Though Juanes’ first solo album, Fijate Bien, came out a year after…

The Canadians are coming, and we’re not talking about Rush’s 30th Anniversary tour. We’re talking snowbirds… French Canadian snowbirds, to be exact, the ones who’ve become so numerous in South Florida that portions of Broward County have earned the nicknamed p’ tit Quebec. Canadafest is South Florida’s premier French Canadian…

“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody whose life gives them vodka, and have a party!” That’s a typical gem from Ron White, a.k.a. Tater Salad, the big, loveable guy who got famous as one fourth of the successful Blue…

It’s fair to say that Charles Manson maneuvered his followers like a puppeteer handles his creations. The details of Manson’s megalomania are all laid out in Vincent Bugliosi’s book Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. But what if, say, it’s the year 3069 – in a post-apocalyptic…

Actress Nia Long has a sister – Sommore, a straight talking, no-nonsense, ball of thunder who cuts into men like a hot knife through butter. And this week, Sommore is in town to cut everyone up. Be prepared, for the Trenton, New Jersey, native armed with an onslaught of smarmy…

Back in the days of fauvist painter Henri Matisse — the early 20th Century – the problem of attention deficit disorder hadn’t yet reared its head. It wasn’t like Matisse to suffer burnout and lose interest in a subject. He was actually remarkable for his perseverance, and the results are…

In J.A.P.: Princesses of Comedy, four of the hottest Jewish comediennes of current years combine with the miracle of modern technology (a.k.a., videotape) to perform a hybrid of hilarity. Starring Cory Kahaney, Cathy Ladman, Jackie Hoffman, and Jessica Kirson, the show mixes live comedy with screenings of archival footage from…

The last time I wrote about the work of Aric Frons, it was in the context of Frons/Martin Dynasties, the art/home furnishings gallery he and longtime business partner Joan Martin opened in the late 1990s. They specialized in country Chinese antiques, although the furniture, ceramics, and Buddhas and Buddha heads…

As far as permanent collections go, the Norton Museum of Art has some impressive acquisitions. Most are paintings: American and European masterpieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. But the small collection of pre-Columbian and ancient Mexican ceramics and sculptures currently on display is just as aesthetically magnificent and historically…

Publisher: UbiSoft

Platform: PlayStation 2, PSP, Game Cube, Xbox, Xbox 360

Price: $49.99

ESRB Rating: T for Teen

Score: 8 (out of 10)