Artsy interns show what they’re made of THU 8/4 For many high school students, the transition from sheltered teen to frat-ready adult usually involves the switch from home-cooked meals and freshly scented laundry to dining on cold cereal and wearing boxers so stiff they could stand up and walk to…
Oakerson’s no Winnie the Pooh comic THU 8/4 When “Big” Jay Oakerson dropped out of college to pursue a career in standup comedy, his mom’s response couldn’t have been harsher than if he’d taken a job bouncing for strippers at bachelor parties; she kicked him out of the house until…
The questing hero of Hans Petter Moland’s The Beautiful Country is a slender, big-eyed young man named Binh (California-educated Damien Nguyen), who has little going for him but his obsession. Ostracized in his homeland because he’s the offspring of a Vietnamese mother and an American G.I. father — bui doi,…
“Hit me,” says Mark Zupan — begs, actually, like a kid clamoring for a new toy. “I’ll hit you back.” He means it too, and his ripped pecs, buzzed scalp, tattooed back and arms, and bushy gangster goatee promise just as much menace. The dude’s bad and doesn’t need to…
And so, once more, the googolplex emits the stink of the network rerun, this week offering yet another worthless big-screen take on small-screen detritus. As Hollywood wonders — cries, actually, over spilt spoiled milk — why audiences are staying away from theaters, offering theories ranging from the absence of such…
Talley’s Folly, now at Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs, might just qualify as audience abuse. OK, so it’s not like they took your money, sat you down, whacked you upside the head with a blunt instrument, and then sent you whimpering back to your car. But, all things considered,…
Because Broward County’s architectural gems are spread around — unlike Miami’s famous Art Deco neighborhoods, where they tend to show up in clusters — visitors rarely get a sense of the scope of Broward’s midcentury modern designs. “Going, Going, Gone? Mid-Century Modern Architecture in South Florida,” now at the Museum…
THU 28 It’s been a while since comic Tracy Morgan has had a steady gig. After ending an eight-year stint as a regular on Saturday Night Live, Morgan has starred in a failed sitcom (The Tracy Morgan Show), lent his voice to a prank-calling puppet (Crank Yankers), and, most recently,…
Before he exchanges his platinum records for bingo cards, trades groupie-filled after-parties for potluck mixers, and ditches the chrome-wheeled, pimped-out rides for a four-wheeled mobility scooter, rap’s all-time leader in record sales — Eminem — is bringing his Anger Management Tour to South Florida. If you believe the rumors, Slim…
And have some java too THU 7/28 Getting your drink on around Fort Lauderdale’s Himmarshee Village doesn’t necessarily mean downing Jack and Cokes all night and dancing to booty music (though that is loads of fun). Sometimes that drink is nothing more than a latte at Brew Urban Café (209…
Marlins pressured to perform in the season’s second half FRI 7/29 At the beginning of this baseball season, the Marlins were predicted to take the top spot in the NL East. It was supposed to be as easy as stealing candy from a baby. But at presstime, the Fish were…
Filmmakers FLEX their creative muscles WED 8/3 If you think David Lynch’s films are strange, check out Rob Tyler’s Magic Hostess: The Electric Can Opener. The four-minute flick — which extols the virtues of said household appliance — contains enough subtle humor and surprises (Mr. T makes chili?) to leave…
Respectable Street hits the big 1-8 SAT 7/30 Local promoter and Closer magazine co-founder Steve Rullman has been drifting around Clematis Street for more than a decade, stirring up bands to play at club-king Rodney Mayo’s many venues, which include Respectable Street (518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach). Rullman has…
Since George Romero’s long-awaited Land of the Dead turned out to be a letdown, we’ll have to find our zombie-movie solace elsewhere. Thankfully, Romero’s been making movies for so long that not only has he inspired others to follow in his footsteps but those others have begotten others still. Sam…
Gregg Araki likes to shock. That’s no secret to anyone who has followed the director’s career, but a cartoonish layer of unreality has usually kept the polymorphous sexual pairings and graphic violence somewhat at a distance. There’s a little bit of that in Mysterious Skin, but mostly it stays grounded…
Must Love Dogs, it should be clearly stated, is not the greatest romantic comedy ever made about a quirky couple who meet at a dog park. That honor goes to Dog Park, the oddball 1998 flick starring Luke Wilson and Natasha Henstridge, written and directed by former Kids in the…
If the Navy is looking for splashy recruiting tools, it could do worse than Stealth, a zillion-dollar action movie stuffed with futuristic jet fighters, glamorous carrier pilots, and an overload of explosive, mostly digital derring-do. Here is Top Gun revised and updated, complete with a new array of enemies –…
Remember the scene in X2 where Wolverine grabs a Dr. Pepper and enlists the aid of Iceman to make it cold? Take the tone of that scene and stretch it out to feature length and you get Sky High, a less angsty, more kid-friendly movie about teenagers attending a school…
The British indie filmmaker Sally Potter, a former dancer, lyricist, and performance artist, clearly has a taste for adventure. In 1992 that led her to Orlando, a screen adaptation of the experimental Virginia Woolf novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who hangs around for 400 years, eventually morphing into a hip…
As Rick and Ilsa moonily agreed at the end of Casablanca, “We’ll always have Paris.” The rest of us will as well, as long as there are exhibitions like “Brassaï’s Paris” and “Robert Doisneau’s Paris,” a pair of evocative photography shows running concurrently at the Boca Raton Museum of Art…
Now Showing Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers’ off-Broadway hit Matt & Ben is having its Florida premiere in a Mad Cat Theatre production at the Light Box, directed by Paul Tei. It’s cute. It’s a loopy fantasy about talent, male bonding, and fame, based on the real-life story of Matt…
What makes a Highwaymen painting a Highwaymen painting? That’s one of several questions posed by the provocative if prosaically titled “2005 Florida Highwaymen Exhibition” at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale. Like the Haitian art that preceded it, this show is full of art, some of…
