… would you celebrate Halloween? SAT 10/30 Could there be any more reasons to love Danny Howells? The man isn’t afraid to wear midnight-blue eyeshadow. His no-bullshit website includes just a short bio, booking information, and a forum where he personally answers questions. And despite being one of the world’s…
Hard Rock hosts big-time stars THU 10/28 Warrior’s Boxing Promotions and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood) are at it again, and this time they’ve teamed up with Oscar de la Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions to offer an incredible night of world-class boxing action. The…
Just ruff stuff SUN 10/31 Before you get too excited about bratwurst, Bavarian brass, and burly bier-sloshing waitresses, we better warn you that the 11th Annual Canine Oktoberfest is more about Rotts than brats. “It’s basically a fun day to raise pet awareness and educate people about different breeds,” Gulfstream…
Ministry wages war on the New World Order FRI 10/29 It’s been mentioned in several articles that Ministry’s Al Jourgensen seems to be at his best when a Republican’s in office. During Reagan, we had the landmark Land of Rape and Honey. During Bush Sr., we had the platinum-selling Psalm…
Editor’s note: The sprawling Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival continues through November 21. Here are reviews of some of the films that will be shown this week. Liberi Where have all the great Italian directors gone? And what’s happening with Italian cinema post-Fellini when the most notable film produced in…
Comedy tends to bubble up from deep anxiety or perhaps even worse. “The secret source of humor,” Mark Twain once remarked, “is not joy but sorrow.” Hence, Miklat, Joshua Ford’s 2002 comedy about… well, personal angst, moral confusion, poison gas attacks, and war in the Mideast. Despite — or perhaps…
Sandra (Sahn-dra!) Collins remembers exactly which records she brought to impress the cute DJ at the roller skating rink when she was 11. “‘Blue Monday’ by New Order and some Madonna 12-inches.” Years later, she started messing with her boyfriend’s turntables, and soon afterward, she was spinning in clubs around…
What you might call “an elderly woman’s breasts” Alix Olson calls “witch titties.” What you might describe as “breastfeeding” she considers “sticking baby boys’ lips on our nipples.” And what you might refer to as “vaginal fluid” Olson calls “cunt juice.” This is why she gets paid to run off…
Being for the benefit of Mr. Mutt THU 10/21 Benji. Lassie. Hootch. Besides being very popular Playgirl centerfold pseudonyms, these are, indeed, the furry icons of the silver screen. Acting can be a great gig for lucky dogs — but what about the unsung pups who perform less glamorous tasks…
FAU football undefeated SAT 10/23 Howard Schnellenberger is doing at Florida Atlantic University what he’s done in the past at Miami and Louisville — building a topnotch college football team that wins games. Just four seasons into his newest endeavor, the coach and his Owls are poised to make the…
And half-naked FRI 10/22 “I think the art scene in South Florida is in need of a battery-acid enema,” rants local artist Anthony Mangicapra. “There are so many talented artists here who are looking to show their work but no galleries willing to take a chance.” Humorous and outspoken, the…
SP brings the revolution to SF FRI 10/22 If you were anywhere in England in the early ’80s, from Handsworth to Brixton, you’d have heard the plangent, antiracist tunes of roots reggae band Steel Pulse wafting from passing cars, open tenement windows, and streetside boomboxes. Steel Pulse perfectly embodied its…
A parody of Gerry Anderson marionette shows (like Thunderbirds and Joe 90), Jerry Bruckheimer action movies, and the `80s cartoon/toy line M.A.S.K. , Team America: World Police boils all those ingredients down to their essences, starting with the theme song “Americaaa… Fuck yeah!” (imagine it scored like Kenny Loggins’ “Danger…
The Grudge bears the imprimatur of Sam Raimi, but alas, neither his sense of fun nor his smarts. The wunderkind director behind the Spider-Man and Evil Dead franchises has followed in the path of Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver with their Dark Castle releases, launching his own lucrative spook factory,…
There have been plenty of plays and films about boxing, but the intense mano-a-mano conflict of the sport makes it an enduring subject for drama. In the tradition of Golden Boy and Rocky comes the New Theatre’s latest project, Barrio Hollywood, a world premiere with considerable potential: it’s about not…
STAGEBEAT The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife mixes laugh-out-loud comedy, philosophical dialogue, and a modern-day midlife crisis. Marjorie (Charlotte Sherman) is having a breakdown following the death of her therapist. She’s given up her desperate search for fulfillment through writers like Kafka, Hesse, Sexton, and Plath, and spends her days…
Uruguayan artist Ignacio Iturria works with such a dramatically diminished palette that you could be forgiven for wondering if his local art supply store has run out of paints, forcing him to concoct his own pigments from dirt and ashes. His color scale ranges from dark, muddy browns, grays, and…
ARTBEAT You might expect to find an exhibition called “The Everglades: Recent Paintings” at a South Florida gallery. You’d be wrong, at least in the case of painter Elizabeth Thompson. While her subject matter is the Sunshine State’s greatest natural wonder and her home of 30 years is Ocean Ridge,…
THU 21 There’s a gang of young artists, writers, and musicians around here that sure knows how to create buzz about its events: by naming them creatively. On the first Tuesday of every month, this crew holds a concert called “Along Came a Spider,” featuring different bands each time. Not…
The day after Lena Pereira taught her Cardio Strip-Hop class, one of her students came up to her and said, “Thank you so much! Because of your class, I had the best sex of my life last night.” That’s one reason to enroll. But there are other incentives to try…
THU 14 When Eva Ayllón started out, she would sing in restaurants, dance with little folkloric groups, and jam with any ol’ dude blowing a pan pipe. This is how she captured the hearts and ears of all of Peru. Like all good divas, however, she had to go solo,…
South Florida would not be the same without DJ Le Spam and his relentless All-Star troupe. Sure, we can rely on indie hipster dalliance at Revolver, Pop Life, or Crush or revel in the glossy, overpriced clubs of South Beach. But the Spam Allstars are distinctive enough to transcend and…
