The four secretaries who are the characters in Hold Please, the Women’s Theatre Project’s current comedy, work in drearily uninspiring confines. We see their paltry break room and its minifridge, their small desks littered with stuffed animals and figurines. We see them hoard half-and-half and steal one another’s Nutter Butters…
What do you get when you cross the flora and fauna of Florida with a room full of paper? If the person doing the crossing is an artist, you might get something along the lines of “FLorigami: Folded Images of Florida’s Hidden Nature by Michael LaFosse,” now at the Morikami…
If Artbeat were handing out an award for Unsung Exhibition of the Season, it would surely go to “Painters of Cap Hatien: Haiti’s First 200 Years,” now at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale. This magnificent collection of more than 80 oil and acrylic paintings is…
In August, comedian John Heffron won Last Comic Standing 2, for which the Detroit native received a half-hour Comedy Central special and a growing number of quizzical do I know you? looks from people on the street. Since then, Heffron’s been on a perpetual tour, with only a day or…
THU 16 You might recognize comedian Billy Gardell from his recurring role on the CBS TV show Yes, Dear or from his stints on Quintuplets, The Practice, and Monk or from his role as a security guard in Bad Santa. But small parts don’t do the big guy justice; he…
It’s a rock ‘n’ roll double standard: a band like My Chemical Romance can dress up like the bastard sons of Dracula, write eerily death-obsessed “love” songs, and be taken seriously. But when a group like the Aquabats dresses like villains from a Batman movie and puts on a real…
Say “I do” to partying FRI 6/17 Lots of competing special-interest groups have been battling to claim the month of June as their own. It’s International Men’s Month! It’s Turkey Lovers Month! It’s Potty Training Awareness Month! Really. Separate sponsors have declared it both Dairy Month and No Dairy Month…
Warriors Boxing is back with another top card THU 6/16 Just when we wondered where Warriors Boxing Promotions had gone, the local company is back with a fury. This Thursday, at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino (5550 NW 40th St., Coconut Creek), WBP and Golden Boy Promotions present “Thunder Storm…
AIFL teacher maps out an exhibit THU 6/16 When Mimi Botscheller took her first job at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale — working as a clerk at the student store — the school wasn’t much more than a few rooms in a Holiday Inn. That was 1974. By the…
Get “Down and Dirty” in Boca FRI 6/17 You know you’re not in Kansas anymore when Thea Vidale takes the stage. And God help you if you’re a “bony bitch” — you’ll be the target of Vidale’s merciless ridicule. The plus-sized comedian (whose breasts alone could comfortably house the Olsen…
DC Comics has kept its superheroes locked in a fortress of solitude for almost a decade, forcing the likes of Superman and Batman to warm the bench while long-time rival Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man and the Hulk and the X-Men and Blade galloped up and down the playing field. Not counting…
For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki, the revered animator who has bewitched Japanese audiences since the late 1970s and bewildered American ones since 1999, when Princess Mononoke was among the first of his movies to receive significant stateside release. There…
You’re a talented young resident at a New York hospital, first-generation Chinese, and you happen to be gay. In fact, you’re dating a new and exciting woman, a dancer with the city ballet, and she wants you to share the relationship with the world — and your family. But can…
Berkeley… Kent State… Amherst… It’s no wonder that America’s conservative right sees universities as breeding grounds for liberals. Their fear is understandable, since a typical university exposes young, idealistic minds to a cornucopia of cultures and ideas — which can lead to free thinking. Terrifying! This brings us to the…
THU 9 In the political Ping-Pong game that gay rights have become, it’s up to activists and organizations to keep gay culture from being marginalized — organizations like ArtsUnited, which celebrates Gay Pride Month with its “United and Proud” exhibit at the main branch of the Broward County Library (100…
Jose Jimenez bought the Showtime Boxing Gym (along with two partners) partly because he’s sick of repossessing cars. A former pro boxer himself, he’s never had to fistfight anyone when reclaiming a vehicle, but, he says, “I’m a black belt with my mouth. These guys come out with guns, and…
Talk trash — and pick some up too SAT 6/11 What would you do if Shamu busted into your house and dumped raw sewage in your living room? Or if SpongeBob SquarePants got drunk, scattered a case of empty beer cans in your front yard, and started doing donuts on…
Strike out for a good cause SUN 6/12 Many people see tow truck drivers as swarming vultures just waiting for you to commit a violation so that they can strap your car to a flatbed and charge you hundreds of bucks to get it back. Yet others see the drivers…
Variety’s key at CSMART THU 6/9 If you venture into the Coral Springs Museum of Art (2855 Coral Springs Dr., Coral Springs), don’t be frightened by the coven of witches staring back at you — they’re as safe as paper tigers. Or is that paper roosters? This is, after all,…
Swamp soul slithers into the Alley SAT 6/11 Did you use all your vacation time anticipating, watching, and debating Star Wars Episode III and now find yourself stranded in South Florida? Don’t let your light saber go limp, young Jedi! Kilmo and the crew down at Alligator Alley (1321 E…
Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a thoroughly professional, frequently spectacular piece of muckraking. But any American who hopes to watch this portrait of unfettered corporate greed, cynical power lust, and outrageous deception without going postal about an hour into the thing would do well to…
The consequences of marital discord in Mr. & Mrs. Smith go way beyond sleeping on the couch or maintaining icy silence at the breakfast table. Thanks to a cartoonish premise by British screenwriter Simon Kinberg — and the dictates of the summer-movie marketplace — the battling Smiths of the title…
