The African American Research Library wraps up its month-long Negro League Baseball Showcase on Saturday with appearances by more than a dozen players who gained fame in the Negro League — or at least, the little fame there was to gain. The one thing mainstream America seems to know about…
SAT 4/26 Since Browardites refuse to venture into 305 territory, Miami-Dade decided to pick itself up and come north. Film is about illusion, so maybe it’s not so strange for the marquee at Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale, to read “Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.” With…
FRI 4/25 When last we visited MarlinLand, we maintained the upbeat attitude that haunts nearly every baseball fan at the beginning of the season. Even Cubs and Red Sox fans will rant on and on about the team’s prospects at the beginning of the year, though any sane person knows…
SUN 4/27 Charles Schulz created a world where peculiar things were possible. Dog houses magically transformed into airplanes, blankets became best friends, and children set up psychiatric booths. The simplest objects took on lives of their own, and kids ran the show. Who can forget Snoopy pounding away at his…
SAT 4/26 In true post-modernist spirit, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Joan Lehman Bldg., 770 NE 125th St., North Miami) wants to bring the flavor of the Far East right to your doorstep. Enter the East/West Fusion Festival. The event features a blend of Eastern-influenced art and poetry workshops, along…
SAT 4/26 When you’re in the mood for some choice 1960s tunes, oldies radio typically is the most convenient way to revive those soothing sounds of yesteryear. But if you want more than just one or two of your favorite band’s top hits, it’s sometimes necessary to consult your turntable…
In Confidence, Edward Burns plays Jake Vig, a con artist whose body temperature runs a few degrees below normal. Even when things seem to go bad, when a would-be partner betrays him with a phone call or a seedy-greedy Dustin Hoffman lays maybe-gay and grubby paws all over him, Burns…
Can we please, for the love of God, declare a moratorium on the use of Wild Cherry’s “Play that Funky Music” on the soundtrack of any and all movies? At the very least, if the plot of the movie in question features an uncool white guy who undergoes a quest…
They were loud once, deafeningly so–and dumbingly so, if such a thing is possible. They wore skins of leather stuffed with cucumbers of foil, towered over dwarves who danced around a Stonehenge made of pebbles, sang about women who fit like flesh tuxedos and explored the majesty of rock and…
Like larger human communities, theater companies have their collective strengths and limitations, their insights and their prejudices. And it’s entirely possible that those theaters that survive more than a few seasons often do so because they come to mirror their audiences’ characteristics. The Caldwell Theatre Company, long ensconced in Boca…
A recent quintessential Fort Lauderdale experience — squiring visitors from out of town down Las Olas Boulevard — yielded an unexpected dividend, in the form of a reminder that I hadn’t checked out New River Fine Art, formerly New River Gallery, in more than a year. What caught my eye…
Palm Beach County cares about the arts, it really does. And in order to encourage more artistic expression in local photography, the Palm Beach County Film and Television Commission presents its first annual Exposure Fotofestival. Besides featuring local still photographers, the festival has also dedicated much of its time to…
Thursday, April 17 A little late with your taxes? Well, if you’re willing to brave Boca Raton on Passover evening, Billy Boloby might be able to help you. The boys have taken time out of their busy schedules to play a set at Oh! Martini (131 Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton)…
“I think it’s important to work on yourself,” Ellen DeGeneres states on the eve of a new standup comedy tour that culminates in New York City with a live taping for HBO. “There’s a method to standup, and the trick is to make it look like it’s off the cuff…
SAT 4/19 Due to the scheduling of a concert by Ratdog, ex-Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir’s band today, Secret Woods Nature Center postponed its annual Earth Day hippie jam fest, “Have a Grateful Day for the Earth,” to May 3. Connoisseurs of jam-band music can be hard to come by…
THU 4/17 With several new players this year, the A-league Jupiter Hammerheads are looking to improve upon last year, when they clinched the second half title. What the team really needs is a great rivalry. There isn’t the same sort of feverish hatred for other clubs that many major league…
THU 4/17 Peter Cottontail’s back and, watch out, he’s got more than eggs and chocolate bunnies. Whether you prefer the traditional Easter or something a little more eggs-travagant, South Florida has something for everyone. Of course, there’s the excitement of the hunt, which begins at Westgate Park on April 17…
SAT 4/19 “I wanted to succeed at something I felt passionate about,” says Jay Blakesberg. “I worked really, really hard. I was a starving artist in my first years as a professional photographer — shooting whatever I could to make a buck, living in a big house with six roommates,…
THU 4/17 Mitch Hedberg is not a stoner comic. Yes, he has a predilection for snack food — “A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap” — and cute animals — “I have a koala infestation. It’s much cuter than a cockroach infestation. When I turn on the…
Imagine a large, dead Saint Bernard with its bones removed. Then visualize a hefty bellows inserted into it from behind, with a gorilla hopping up and down on it, causing the huge dog’s bag-like corpse to twitch spasmodically, wheeze and croak. Voila, this is today’s Nick Nolte. What’s amazing is…
Among Anger Management’s copious flaws is the fact that its premise doesn’t wash. Adam Sandler’s Dave Buznik, a designer of catalogs for overweight-cats clothing, isn’t really angry at all; he’s just a self-loathing, introverted mess whose insecurities date back to a crowded street party in Brooklyn circa 1978, when he…
It has been a few weeks since it hit the headlines. If you haven’t been paying attention, Nilo Cruz, the Cuban-born, Miami-raised, New York-based playwright, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his lyrical Anna in the Tropics, a play that received its world premiere last fall at the teeny…
