Tax write-off! FRI 2/24 Ever have that dream in which you’re trapped in a smoky room when suddenly the door is kicked open and you feel your limp body being lifted to safety by strong, sweaty arms? If you haven’t, you should. It’s hot — firefighter hot! Turn that fantasy…
Does that sound familiar? SAT 2/26 The thing about war is that it’s always been hell. That was clear to Aristophanes way back in the B.C., when old-school soldiers wore togas and sandals. But we must not hear so well, because playwright David Rabe has to tell us again in…
First, the good news. Uncharacteristically for a February release targeting African-American viewers, Diary of a Mad Black Woman is not a yuppie romantic comedy featuring Gabrielle Union and Morris Chestnut. Anthony Anderson and Eddie Griffin are nowhere to be seen, and despite the fact that the most memorable character is…
To many, modern art is all about provocation. That was the case with gonzo journalist and novelist Hunter S. Thompson, whose booze- and drug-fueled rants were the stuff of popular legend for decades before he committed suicide last week. Trailing along in Thompson’s wake is Eric Bogosian, a theatrical provocateur…
A promised romp of libidinous nudity packs the audience in, all right, yet playwright Ronnie Larsen’s wit and timing keeps it real and personal in a story that’s short on plot and character development but long on laughter. Set in very gay West Hollywood, 10 Naked Men is an entertaining…
When an art gallery decides to feature a sculpture created with fettuccini noodles drying on a wooden rack, it hardly ever combines it with a warren of artistically rendered rabbits gleaming in the back of the space. Whichever way you see the impressive “southXeast,” spread over two gallery spaces at…
When Winston Anderson, a Jamaican immigrant and owner of the beautysensation.com cosmetics website, wanted to promote his business, he thought, “Everybody and their cousin is having a concert. Why don’t I have a fashion show? I looked at all the top cosmetics companies and saw what they were doing. Why…
THU 17 Donald Lee is a tight end for the Miami Dolphins. And if you think the six-foot, three-inch 24-year-old has a tight end, then bid on a date with him during the Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction benefiting the Reach for the Stars Foundation, which helps people who suffer from cystic fibrosis…
Now that the ’90s Ecstasy craze is mostly behind us (with a few glowstick-waving exceptions), the cultural ugliness of the 1980s still lingers like the white powder on the upper lip of a harried Wall Street broker. To be sure, the cultural equilibrium of the Clinton years is but a…
No Problem! FRI 2/18 For all intents and purposes, Sunsport Gardens (14125 North Rd., Loxahatchee) is a typical family resort. It has a heated pool, a spa, a sauna, and plenty of sports and activities. The only difference is the attire — or lack thereof. As one of south Florida’s…
Future Hall-of-Famer comes to town MON 2/21 Howard Dean’s presidential run was ruined by The Scream, but Sammy Sosa’s career was sidetracked by The Sneeze. Last season, while playing for the Chicago Cubs, the slugger missed a month of ball games because he strained a back ligament while sneezing. Still,…
Create their own scene FRI 2/18 The Miami International Film Festival may be gone, though not before having whetted our appetite for experimental, independently produced flicks. But you can still catch plenty of the indie spirit in the two-dozen-plus student films shown at Friday’s Palm Beach Youth Cinematography Club Charity…
Underwood likes Bush THU 2/17 Statistically speaking, a black female Republican is a rarity. Even more so, a funny black Republican woman sounds impossible. Think Condoleezza Rice, with her creepy frown-like smile. But funny black Republican woman is exactly how most describe comedienne Sheryl Underwood, who has been making the…
Beautiful Boxer, the true story of a Thai transgender kickboxer, is a well-intentioned film with a heart of gold. Unfortunately, it also has a brain of lead, a stomach of iron, and legs of jelly. A student at the beat-you-over-the-head school of moviemaking, its sensibilities are crude, its sentiments super-sweet,…
At first (and second and maybe even third) glance, it’s all so familiar: Keanu Reeves shrouded in a black trench coat that flaps behind him like a superhero’s wings, moving between a real world used as a battleground, breeding ground, and playground for higher beings amused and appalled by the…
It’s hard to know what to expect from Wayne Wang. The Hong Kong-raised director has made one gorgeous mood movie (Chinese Box ) and two intelligent literary adaptations (Smoke and Anywhere But Here); he was also responsible, in his early days, for the overwrought sobfest Joy Luck Club. Then, in…
With plays, as with people, old does not necessarily mean stale. Such is decidedly the case with The Constant Wife, now at the Coconut Grove Playhouse. This drawing-room comedy from 1926 comes across with a lot more bite than most of the trendy but empty fare that’s dragged across South…
It’s all there — the sooty buildings, the sunless streets, the cockney rabble, and the little boy who committed the cardinal sin of asking his orphanage turnkeys for some more gruel (“Please, sir, I want some more”). It’s all there in the traveling production of Lionel Bart’s 45-year-old musical Oliver!,…
The 18 works that make up “Alan Dayton: Portraits,” now at the Broward County Main Library’s Gallery Six, can stand on their own merits. They’re best appreciated, however, as behind-the-scenes glimpses of other artists. Most of Dayton’s subjects are active in the visual arts in South Florida — either as…
When’s the last time you saw dancers share the stage with an alligator wrestler? Probably around the same time you viewed an art exhibit outside a rodeo ring. And if you’re familiar with the annual Seminole Tribal Fair and Rodeo, chances are you’ll be experiencing it all again this week…
Quiet Waters Park gets medieval on your ass SAT 2/12 Native south Floridians are accustomed to determining the seasons by the migration patterns of tourists. For example, when we see cars with their headlights on during the daytime, we know it’s the December arrival of the Canadian snowbirds. When Las…
Shaq vs. Duncan marquee matchup SUN 2/13 Tim Duncan and Shaquille O’ Neal are the two most dominant players in the NBA, with apologies to Minnesota’s Kevin Garnett. The pair has claimed three of the past four MVP awards, and four of the last five NBA titles. They’ll battle this…
