“Nepotism: The Art of Friendship” — The Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale continues its slow, steady comeback with this small exhibition curated by Edouard Duval-Carrié, the museum’s first official artist in residence. The Haitian-born artist drew on the works of two dozen other artists he knows and/or admires for…
If you didn’t know better, you’d think tattoo conventions were sordid frenzies of “I’ll show you mine” pointing — one hand pulling at clothing, the other hand brushing along a section of skin. Peel clothing and point, move to the next person, peel clothing and point. But tattoo conventions aren’t…
THU 12 When Anthrax and Public Enemy got together to “Bring the Noise” some 13 years ago, metal bands began their rhythmic transition from straight-forward thrash to a funkier mosh. So it’s surprising to hear a new band like Hollywood’s Snatch Addicts, which sounds more like the thrash-core of M.O.D…
The sensitive lyrics. The artfully spiked hair. The squirrel cheeks. Using these ingredients, 23-year-old Howie Day transformed himself from an everyday boy with a guitar into a boy with a record deal and adoring groupies. So we conned him into spilling his secrets. To write a good song, he says,…
SAT 8/14 We don’t have an annual festival honoring all the dead in the U.S. (no, our Halloween Snickers-and-SweetTarts fest does not count), and it’s no wonder. Between cheap plastic surgery, biotechnologies that can deep freeze our heads, cyborg organ implants, and indefinitely expanded lifespans, why dwell on depressing stuff…
SAT 8/14 In a battle of wits, Debi DeHass of the Seminole Tribe Horse Club would slaughter PETA any day. About the ethics of rodeos, she says, “Everyone in this world has a job. If it wasn’t for them being bucking bulls, they’d be a hamburger.” About kids competing in…
FRI 8/13 The late Ray Charles was no doubt a great musician, and no one can dispute Aretha Franklin’s gifts as a soul singer; both fully earned the commercial success they received. But it’s no coincidence that both used the same producer — the great Tom Dowd. A musical genius…
FRI 8/13 Have you heard the one about the comedian who told some dirty jokes 20 years ago and was labeled a sex comic? That would be Robert Schimmel, whose candid talk of sex unfairly earned him a controversial reputation. But Schimmel’s not merely a sex comic. That’s like calling…
A good friend likes to say that there’s only one kind of great pop song — the song that someone had to create, as though the writer and performer had no choice. The song can be corny or cynical, upbeat or downhearted; it doesn’t matter. All that counts is that…
You may have already heard the stories about A Home at the End of the World. In what many viewers have deemed a big loss, Colin Farrell’s penis no longer appears in the film. The official line is that test audiences found it too distracting, though that seems unlikely, given…
An ambitious critique of America as the Great Imperialist Satan, In the Heart of America tracks two gay G.I.s stationed in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War of 1990 and also has to do with the ghost of a Vietnamese woman chasing the soul of Lt. William Calley, who led…
Only a year or so ago, the Museum of Art (MoA) in Fort Lauderdale seemed a lost cause. With dwindling revenues, a leadership crisis, and increasingly lackluster shows, the museum was beginning to seem at best troubled, at worst culturally marginalized — a white elephant in the middle of downtown…
The revitalization efforts in West Palm Beach’s historic Northwood neighborhood have been facilitated by the growth of its business district, and the opening of Expressive Vibes Art Gallery last fall is a stylish example of the area’s recent boom. The afrocentric art displayed in this swank gallery is as diverse…
Heaven Help Us! The Swingin’ New Rat Pack Musical: This toe-tapping world premiere about God sending the Rat Pack back to Vegas to help a suicidal lounge owner is stylishly presented, with the terrific cast belting out some great tunes — some 29 hits pop up in the show, ranging…
“Steve McCurry: Photographs of Asia” — McCurry is best known for his haunting portrait of an Afghan girl taken for National Geographic during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. This small, excellent show puts that picture front and center. It also includes another 50 or so color shots by McCurry, who,…
Admit it. You’re a technosexual. For you, nothing’s hotter than touching your sweetie’s gigasampler-style dimension keys. You think that watching TV without surround sound is like making love with a condom — all the sensation is lost. And when you see gadgets loaded with knobs and dials, you can’t help…
While the Bill O’Reillys and the Michael Moores of the world passionately illustrate the United States as a nation divided on issues of the war and the economy, comedian Dane Cook sees the country united on at least one issue — comedy. Despite what the big-ego conservative and the big-and-bearded…
SAT 8/7 Everybody knows that the worst part about going out for a long night of clubbing is the part where you have to come home. Never mind the suicidal drivers piloting death shuttles down I-95 at 4:30 in the morning; you’re an expert at dodging those by now. We’re…
FRI 8/6 Our friend, a fitness director, was talking about a hard-core female bodybuilder he’d seen. “She looks like one big catastrophic vein. She’s gotta be hard on some people’s eyes, you know?” We know. But one man’s idea of a catastrophic vein is another’s idea of hotness. And it’s…
THU 8/5 Way before Michael Moore was huffing and puffing and trying to blow George Bush out of the White House, little Chaille Stovall was stalking the prez (at that time, the wannabe prez). Yep, Stovall was just 11 years old when he hit the campaign trail, cameras a-blazin’ and…
SUN 8/8 “Little Dickie Evans” may seem an unlikely name for someone fronting a raunchy rock ‘n’ roll band called the Studdogs. But anyone who’s seen the four drunkards from Orlando knows they’re the city’s best defense against tourism; Mickey Mouse they’re not. The ‘Dogs would fit in better at…
As a reviewer, one can be tempted to want in on the ground floor of a phenomenon, to say you were there first when some low-budget feature with a nifty premise made its festival debut, only to be picked up by a big studio and become a national phenomenon. Whether…
