THU 6 As far as a way to meet your future spouse goes, this method falls somewhere between finding him/her through an escort service and meeting on an Internet message board where you talk about your N’Sync action-figure collections. Here, at least you’ll get away from the seductive glow of…
Papa Grows Funk performs Friday, May 7, at the Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 day of show. Call 954-564-1074.
Louisiana meets Lauderdale FRI 5/7 Pinch tail and suck head this Mother’s Day weekend! It’s tradition for fans of the Cajun/Zydeco Crawfish Festival who want to experience a bit of the bayou in Fort Lauderdale. Thirty-five thousand pounds of mudbugs will be boiled during the 12th-annual event, as swamp-stopping performers…
Wilton Manors cuts the cake SAT 5/8 Why can’t every city be as cool as Wilton Manors? Tucked cozily into 1.9 square miles between two forks of the Middle River, the Island City (as it is known) has an intimate population of 13,000 or so, averages only one murder per…
A growing gallery SAT 5/8 The RaZoo Gallery is popping open the top and expanding. Home to typically outsider art, RaZoo will now have two locations. Along with several international art galleries, RaZoo is moving on up and into the Las Olas Arts Center (600 SE Second Ct., Fort Lauderdale)…
Cypress Hill continues to light it up SUN 5/9 Contrary to popular belief, rap music was once free of marijuana references, and Carmen Electra’s body was once free of silicon. That was before Cypress Hill. Seven albums, 13 years, and thousands of brain cells later, lyrics filled with terms like…
We must keep the atmosphere electrified!” creepy Igor announces in reference to an abominable experiment in Van Helsing, but he could be appraising the entirety of this enormous event movie. Breathless cutting, nonstop special effects, and a pummeling soundtrack camouflage very silly plotting and mediocre-to-sappy dialogue — and yet, the…
Laws of Attraction is the kind of film you might mistake for “cute” or “charming” at first glance. Maybe you will open the paper and spot the ad with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore canoodling and think to yourself how nice it would be to see James Bond defrosting indie…
By the time you read this, The Spirit of Vietnam may well have fully morphed into its next incarnation, The Spirit of Asia, the new name for this lovely shop on Las Olas Boulevard. It¹s in the process of changing hands from original owner Jonathan Rick to Thad and Lisa Hooker, who formerly ran the Art & Animals Import Collection in Pompano Beach. The Hookers may not yet have realized their dream of visiting Vietnam, but they¹ve landed a shop that specializes in a wide variety of impressive high-end merchandise from that country, including arts and crafts. They intend to keep the store¹s current inventory (and atmosphere) and to add items from other Southeast Asian countries they¹ve visited, such as Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos. There are a few pieces of furniture here and there, including a beautifully weathered yellow armoire with lots of drawers and compartments and sliding doors, but the bulk of the shop¹s space is devoted to such things as urns, baskets, handbags, pillows, chopsticks, incense burners, and boxes. Lamps with silk shades sit on tables and hang from the ceiling and walls throughout the gallery, and just about everywhere there are Buddhas and Buddha heads fashioned from various materials. Two medium-size bronze horses stand side by side near the front of the shop, echoed by a smaller pair farther back, and three-panel folding screens are especially elegant. But easily the most impressive items here are trays, bowls, and coasters hand-glazed with traditional Vietnamese glazes that give them the most exquisite surfaces. Some of them have even been coated with, of all things, tiny fragments of crushed eggshells before the glaze is applied. The Spirit of Vietnam is at 1515 E. Las Olas Blvd. Call 954-763-7590. — Michael Mills
If you’re looking for a quick trip to a faraway place, Joseph Adler and GableStage can arrange a 90-minute journey to an entirely different planet courtesy of their latest production, ‘Master Harold’ …and the boys. Athol Fugard’s drama is not only set a half century ago but in apartheid South…
The Dining Room: A.R. Gurney’s dissection of upper-crust WASP life is given a fine production by director Bruce Lecure and a nimble acting ensemble of six playing 57 roles in a series of interconnected playlets. The production is graced by gentle humor and poignancy, but the energy tends to drag at times, and Gurney’s writing, as proper and refined as his characters, seems to avoid deep emotions, which, when they do crop up, are quickly passed over. The result is something like the furniture that dominates the set — stately, refined, but a bit faded.
NOW ON DISPLAY “Michael Joo” — Stripped of all art-babble the artist likes to surround his art with, Joo’s work, though essentially conceptual, often has an amazing visceral impact. That’s “visceral” both in terms of the viewer’s reaction to it and in terms of the subject matter — and sometimes…
NOW SHOWING A Picasso: Picture this: Bearlike Pablo Picasso sits in a dark stone cellar amid stacks of paintings, staring intently at his beautiful female model, who happens to be a Nazi official. As the woman begins to disrobe, Picasso sketches furiously, and despite the dank, dark surroundings, you can…
The beat of rara drums and the swirl of compas music comes from the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. Have we stumbled onto a voodoo ceremony? No, people in elegant dress move lithely to the music, hold cocktails, and munch on curried goat as they peer at animated paintings…
THU 29 It’s Thursday night, and you’re probably thinking, “Only one more day till the weekend… But I can’t wait that long!” Well, there’s nothing like a little rhythm and blues to soothe your soul, which, at this point in the workweek, probably is a bit agitated. Maybe you should…
For nearly two and a half decades, “Weird Al” Yankovic has served as pop music’s foremost yukster, ready at all times to lampoon the latest offerings of music’s major players. From pop stars like Michael Jackson and Madonna to rock bands like Dire Straits and R.E.M., no one is safe…
A picture is worth a thousand THU 4/29 If art truly mirrors history, we can thank New York artist Steve Mumford for emulating Civil War painter Winslow Homer and showing us the other side of shell shock. Mumford has traveled to Iraq three times since April 2003, most recently to…
Absolute bouts SAT 5/1 Even with a trusted Internet search engine, the Absolute Fighting Championships are tough to find. (The first rule of Absolute Fighting is you do not Google Absolute Fighting. The second rule of Absolute Fighting is you DO NOT Google Absolute Fighting. ) Although sale videos abound,…
… to party like this SUN 5/2 Can’t make it to Africa this week? Try the Anne Kolb Nature Center (751 Sheridan St., Hollywood) instead. Ndakhte Ndiaye, who bounces between her native Senegal and the U.S., organizes a “Village Gathering” on the first Sunday of every other month from 5…
Changing latitudes for Buffett SAT 5/1 Come Saturday, flocks of fans awash in Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts, zany hats, and margaritas will point their fins toward the Jimmy Buffett concert at the Office Depot Center (1 Panthers Pkwy., Sunrise). Boynton Beach musician David Soreff, who formed a Coral Reef Revue…
One thing few may mention about Mean Girls is that it could have been unrelentingly terrible. It isn’t — it’s actually pretty fabulous on its own terms — but consider: a rush-job comedy, constructed around a high-concept title with built-in ka-ching and endless potential as talk-show fodder. Produced by Lorne…
Every once in a while, you encounter a person who seems to have been born under an urgent, righteous star — a person who is both a fiery activist lit with the passion of his convictions and a dramatic storyteller who naturally occupies a place in the public eye. When…
