THU 17 With a name like Killer Beaz, you’d expect some kind of rap-metal band hoping to earn street cred through misspelling (incidentally, using three z’s is the correct way to do it). But not this Killer Beaz, which consists of only one man — one whose street cred exists…
Thursday is St. Patrick’s Day, and that means everything is greener than Ralph Nader picking shamrocks in an Irish pasture. But for each St. Patrick’s Day event, there is a different shade of green. Here are some of the goings-on that pay homage to the Emerald Isle — and the…
Celebrities, stars, and Sin FRI 3/18 Celebrities are just like you and me — they put their pants on one leg at a time. It’s just that once their pants are on, they make gold records, catch touchdown passes, and emit immeasurable cool. That’s why, when a chance to rub…
Round two for Shaq and Kobe THU 3/17 It’s an NBA tale of two cities. For Shaq in Miami, it’s the best of times. The team is comfortably ahead in the Eastern Conference standings — guaranteed a number-one seed for the playoffs barring some unforeseen collapse, and the Diesel is…
Eternal lighting of a sculpture line THU 3/17 Although they aren’t holding any more infamous ravey dances, it’s clear you can’t keep the good people of Lumonics down. They’re back with a retrospective exhibit, “The Art of Lumonics,” at the Coral Springs Museum of Art (2855 Coral Springs Dr., Coral…
Necessary Targets lands in Broward THU 3/17 Can well-meaning, unscathed Americans reasonably expect to heal another country in the wake of war? That question is being explored again as the Women’s Theatre Project revisits Necessary Targets, which made its South Florida debut last August in Miami. “Toward the end of…
The Ring, Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake of Hideo Nakata’s Ringu, offered sufficient closure that it didn’t exactly demand a sequel. The horror lay in wondering why a mysterious videotape kills viewers seven days after they watch it; to a lesser extent, there was the mystery of the creepy girl, face…
Everyone with a TV remembers President Bush in the flight suit, landing on that aircraft carrier, standing in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner, and triumphantly declaring that major combat operations in Iraq were over. Two years on, many feel like asking what exactly he meant by that. Gunner Palace…
Almost as wide as he is tall, with a round but unremarkable face, Schultze doesn’t look like a rebel. Truth to tell, he looks like Curly of Three Stooges fame or, less kindly, a mass murderer (well, he does bear a passing but disturbing resemblance to John Wayne Gacy). Schultze…
The Upside of Anger belongs to Joan Allen, who plays Terry Wolfmeyer, a wife abandoned by her husband and left to pick up the pieces and collect them in a giant bottle of vodka. Terry’s is the cold, composed visage of a woman struggling to keep it together; through her…
Edward Albee’s Seascape is, like most of his plays, all talk and almost no action. But what talk it is. The play, an extraordinary blend of light humor and philosophical profundity, features only four characters — an older couple entering their allegedly golden years and a younger couple of talking…
Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, in a new production by Pompano Beach-based Curtain Call Playhouse, pokes fun at the 19th century social high life that the playwright moved in and despised. Curtain Call, however, takes the play too seriously and misses opportunities to exploit the play’s wicked sarcasm, especially in…
How Pocock Fine Art & Antiques escaped Artbeat’s notice for so long is a mystery. Maybe it’s because this lovely gallery, which is nearing its 24th anniversary, just reopened in its third location on Las Olas Boulevard, in the new Himmarshee Landing complex. More likely, it’s because the fine-art component…
In David Alan Grier’s forthcoming book, Statistics and the Introduction of Digital Computers, he discusses the… wait — what the hell’s going on? A comedian writing about statistics? Where’s the punch line? Oh, whoops — wrong David Alan Grier. The one we’re all familiar with — the funk-tastically funny actor/comedian…
THU 10 If you think Anna Kournikova, David Beckham, or Ricky Williams are divas, you should meet the guys in the PGA. They don’t even have to commit to playing in a big tournament until less than a week before it starts. At press time, the humble stars who minded…
One day they didn’t exist. Then, after a single television season, they did. They were daisy dukes. Yeah, folks wore short shorts before the Dukes of Hazzard, but after that show debuted in the late ’70s, short shorts were forever renamed. And it takes a certain kind of figure –…
Who’s your paddy? SAT 3/12 We could go on at length about the 20-odd musical acts at this weekend’s Irish Fest in West Palm Beach. Or we could talk about the Irish dancers or the array of fresh-cooked Gaelic dishes — or even the prospect of dressing like a leprechaun…
To the Monster Abyss SAT 3/12 The wrestling world was shocked — shocked! — to hear that a dude named Monster Abyss left the TNA (Total Nonstop Action) wrestling league in January. Fans speculated that he was defecting for the big leagues of the WWE. “He’s the crazy/dark, sitting-in-the-rafters-type character,”…
The iconography of an icon THU 3/10 Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Another acid flashback? Not quite. It’s the art of Peter Max, which has come to define the generation of free love, flower power, and psychedelic expression. Though he might…
Donavon Frankenreiter rocks the surf-inspired tunes SUN 3/13 With his ’70s porn star ‘stache and his acoustic guitar, Donavon Frankenreiter is the latest in a long line of surfers turned rock stars. Frankenreiter, who started getting paid to surf when he was just 13 years old and is a featured…
Toward the end of Born into Brothels, a superb and piercing documentary by directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, a 12-year-old child examines a photograph. It’s beautiful, he says, because it shows us how its subjects live. Yes, they’re very poor, and the shot is hard to look at, because…
Being part of a popular, fantasy-based TV series is no guarantee of success on the big screen. When was the last time you heard the phrase “starring George Takei” or, for that matter, “featuring Gillian Anderson”? No slight to the talents of either, but the considerable cult following for anything…
