They Did It For the Nookie, the Nookie

American Pie. Directed by Paul Weitz. Screenplay by Adam Herz. Starring Jason Biggs, Jennifer Coolidge, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Eugene Levy, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Chris Owen, Tara Reid, SeannW. Scott, Mena Suvari, and Eddie Kaye Thomas.

Elevator Music

Leave it to a reggae musician to calm a rowdy concert crowd — even a decidedly non-reggae crowd. For six years the six-and-a-half-foot-tall, dreadlocked, surname-less Kevens was frontman for the peace-loving reggae band Le Coup. But in 1997, while playing the role of emcee at ZenFest, an annual Central Florida…

Perspiration as Inspiration

By day he’s a personal trainer. By night he’s a… musical composer? Yep. David Sexton is co-owner of the South Beach gym IronWorks, and his first musical comedy, Nothing Less Than Love, opens this week at the Hollywood Playhouse. The show is patterned after traditional Broadway hits from the ’50s…

Pair of Witless Queens

The Sisters Grimm. Written and performed by JamesDoyle and Madison Tyler. Directed by GinaMontet. Ongoing. EDGE/Theatre, 405 Espanola Way, Miami Beach, 3055316083.

The Abbreviated Tour

“A View of the Contemporary: Latin American Artists” is on display through July 18 at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, 1650 Harrison St., Hollywood,9549213274.

Ernest Appraisals

Three Views begins at 7p.m. Thursday, July22, at the Broward County Main Library, 100 S.Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Admission is free. Call 9543577404 for information.

Chintz Rules!

“Design 2000 Exhibit — Blueprint For the Future” begins at 10a.m. (Buatta will speak at 11:30a.m.) Saturday, July17, in the Design Center of the Americas, 1855 Griffin Rd., A282, Dania Beach. Admission is $10. The exhibit remains on view weekdays (when admission is free) through July29. For more information call9549207997.

Fear and Desire

Eyes Wide Shut. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, from a screenplay by Kubrick and Frederic Raphael, inspired by a novella by Arthur Schnitzler. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

St. Eazy-E’s Fire

The Wood. Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. Starring Omar Epps, RichardT. Jones, Taye Diggs, Sean Nelson, Duane Finley, Trent Cameron, Malinda Williams, and De’AundreBonds.

A Plague on Your Upper Houses

One Flea Spare. Written by NaomiWallace. Directed by Rafaelde Acha. Starring DavidAlt, Ursula Freundlich, Israel Garcia, and Lisa Morgan. Through July25. New Theatre, 65Almeria Ave, Coral Gables, 3054435909.

Ernest Appraisals

Like those of us weaned on The Jetsons and subjected to the landscapes featured in Flash Gordon and Metropolis, renowned interior designer Mario Buatta finds the end of the millennium to be a bit of a disappointment. “I thought we were going to be living in geodesic domes by now,…

Chintz Rules!

The whore with a heart of gold will always be a fixture in pop culture, but in an Ernest Hemingway novel, the archetype is like an ink spill on an immaculate sheet of paper. His women — dream nurse Catherine from A Farewell to Arms and Georgette the prostitute in…

Fear and Desire

Eyes Wide Shut. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, from a screenplay by Kubrick and Frederic Raphael, inspired by a novella by Arthur Schnitzler. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

St. Eazy-E’s Fire

The Wood. Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. Starring Omar Epps, RichardT. Jones, Taye Diggs, Sean Nelson, Duane Finley, Trent Cameron, Malinda Williams, and De’AundreBonds.

A Plague on Your Upper Houses

One Flea Spare. Written by NaomiWallace. Directed by Rafaelde Acha. Starring DavidAlt, Ursula Freundlich, Israel Garcia, and Lisa Morgan. Through July25. New Theatre, 65Almeria Ave, Coral Gables, 3054435909.

They Did It For the Nookie, the Nookie

It’s about time we had a talk. Yeah, you know, that talk. The one about how uncomfortable and strange it is to be a young human male, how raging and unforgiving the hormones, how fragile the ego, how mysterious the female form. You see, well, how do I say this?…

The Enemy Is Us

Do you feel snug and secure in your cozy suburban life? Are you happy in your picture-perfect home, with your carefully manicured lawn, your kids, your soccer games, and your barbecues? Do you feel safe? Well, the creators of Arlington Road, the ponderous new thriller starring Jeff Bridges and Tim…

Night & Day

Thursday July 8 You don’t have to be a wine snob to know that red wines go best with meat, whites with fish and poultry. The Italians, who consume more wine per capita than anyone on the planet, live by these dicta. In Italy, regional recipes are based on the…

Elevator Music

Leave it to a reggae musician to calm a rowdy concert crowd — even a decidedly non-reggae crowd. For six years the six-and-a-half-foot-tall, dreadlocked, surname-less Kevens was frontman for the peace-loving reggae band Le Coup. But in 1997, while playing the role of emcee at ZenFest, an annual Central Florida…

Perspiration as Inspiration

By day he’s a personal trainer. By night he’s a… musical composer? Yep. David Sexton is co-owner of the South Beach gym IronWorks, and his first musical comedy, Nothing Less Than Love, opens this week at the Hollywood Playhouse. The show is patterned after traditional Broadway hits from the ’50s…

Pair of Witless Queens

Cross-dressing is almost always funnier when men dress up as women rather than the other way around. Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli are drag standbys in theaters and cabarets around the world. Elizabeth Dole and Hillary Clinton are routinely skewered by male performers on Saturday Night Live and in improv…

The Abbreviated Tour

The title of one of the exhibitions on view at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is oddly grand, vague, and somewhat misleading, all at the same time. “A View of the Contemporary: Latin American Artists” features more than three dozen highly diverse works by 25 artists from eight…