SUN 7/25 Learn how to operate Florida’s tricky voting machines during the Bank of America “Fiesta Puerto Rico Sunday” at the Las Olas Riverfront (300 SW First Ave., Fort Lauderdale). Or negotiate the spirit world with the help of a Weston woman with purported links to angels, archangels, and otherworldly…
MON 7/26 The Florida Marlins have had a great year so far. They led the NL East nearly every day during the first half. It took a really bad losing streak for the Fish (coupled with a fairly decent winning stretch for Philly) to finally relinquish the top spot just…
TUE 7/27 When the Olympic Games first took place, in 776 B.C., the grand prize awarded the top athlete had far less bling than today’s gold medal. In fact, after a few days, the prize would become rotten. Yep. Sure enough, ancient Olympians sweated their naked bodies off for a…
SAT 7/24 We’re looking at the picture of Mod 27, trying to figure out who’s who. “I’m the tall, beautiful one,” says 27-year-old Tom O’Donnell. That would make his partner, Dave Hyland, 32, the short, beautiful one and their other partner, Sergio Soltero, 25, the average-height but devastatingly gorgeous one…
There is nothing mysterious or subdued about Stacy Peralta’s enthusiasms. A product of Southern California’s vivid beach scene, he’s been a surfer since boyhood and was a professional skateboarder in the ’70s before he started making documentaries about the defining moments of those sports. The phenomenally successful Dogtown and Z-Boys…
If you’re wondering how Hollywood could possibly adapt Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, a collection of similarly themed short stories bound together by the slenderest of common threads, the answer is that it didn’t. The credits for I, Robot read “suggested by Isaac Asimov’s book,” but the canny sci-fi fan will…
Respect: A Musical Journey of Women is a high-energy, historical and hysterical look at women’s changes from 1900 to today as illustrated by popular song. Dorothy Marcic (writer/ narrator), who wrote a book on the subject, constructed this piece around her own experiences. Slide pictures sometimes add to the message,…
When the popular Hortt competition went on life support a few years ago, the Boca Raton Museum’s All Florida show was left pretty much as the area’s only regular, large-scale venue for artists wanting to compete among their peers for recognition. Fortunately, the museum has remained up to the challenge,…
Whew! Summer is here with a vengeance, a fierce season that is, in some ways, a little like winter up north. Most everyone starts spending more time indoors and plotting how to minimize the time spent walking in full sunlight between car and destination, while the spare room or the…
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris: The show brings to life the songs of a legendary songwriter, singer, actor, and filmmaker whose work spanned the 1950s and ’60s. Although Dutch-born, Brel’s career was born in Paris, and he wrote in English, French, and Dutch. This tribute…
“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, like…
Once upon a time, there was a king of Clubland, and his name was DJ Icey. One day, the mighty Orlando-based turntablist pushed one of his subjects behind the mixing boards, slipped some headphones on her ears, and commanded her to make a song. After that, as the legend goes,…
THU 15 Tarpon Bend (200 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale) is looking for “any lady who thinks she has what it takes to be the next Miss Hawaiian Tropic.” If you’re one of those, enter the contest that starts every Thursday at 10 p.m. The winner takes home $500, plus…
To mention Gallagher is to set up a word association that invariably ends at watermelon. There is perhaps no more easily identified signature act in physical comedy. Jeff Foxworthy may spew his “You might be a redneck if…” one-liners, but Gallagher projects a multidimensional flow in time and space of…
Local crews mop the floors — with style SAT 7/17 If one of the Eight Legged Freaks is going up against one of the Circus Runaways and there’s an overwhelming scent of body odor in the air, you must be at a b-boy battle — an underground breakdancing competition. On…
No gain SAT 7/17 When’s the last time you took in an old-fashioned, pile-driving, forehead-smashing wrestling match? How about the last time you and the kids headed out for all the action of a carnival? You might be able to kill two birds with one stone when Four Star Championship…
Maybe it’s the connection FRI 7/16 In South Florida, most strangers don’t make eye contact. And when they do, it’s awkward. So it can be hard to connect with someone who’s unfamiliar. This is hardly the stuff of a comedy, but it is the underlying theme in A Comedy, tonight’s…
And the woman’s on top FRI 7/16 Comedian Paula Poundstone has a hide of Teflon. Not only is she a self-described “totally asexual human being” (code for the l word in Entertainment Land — as if her trademark jackets and ties didn’t clue us in) but she’s still churning out…
It’s charming. It’s hilarious. It is perhaps the most beautifully crafted, lovingly rendered portrait of extreme geekitude ever to grace the screen. It’s Napoleon Dynamite — the first feature film from 24-year-old Brigham Young University student Jared Hess — and, if there is any justice, it’s going to be huge…
Anchorman, co-written by its star, Will Ferrell, plays like a series of outtakes strung together more or less in random sequence. There’s a vague plot, about the fall and rise of a San Diego newsman whose polyester suits are brighter than he is, but this doesn’t propel the movie forward…
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris brings to life the songs of this legendary French songwriter, singer, actor, and filmmaker, whose work spanned the 1950s and ’60s. Although Dutch-born, Brel’s career was born in Paris, and he wrote in English, French, and Dutch. This tribute begins…
There it is on a wall at the far end of the first floor of the Boca Raton Museum of Art — “the picture.” It has been described as one of the most memorable photographs ever made. In it, a faintly androgynous Afghan girl of perhaps 11 or 12, clad…
