Friday St. Patrick's Day Happy Hour Himmarshee Public House (201 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale) will offer their last day of green-themed two-for-one happy hours - until next year, that is. Visit PublicHouseFTL.com. Bacon and Bourbon Fest Swing by Old School Square (51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach) on...
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A blue thicket of braided, industrial nylon rope winds through the four-story atrium gallery at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) in the Design District. A foot wide at one end, the rope narrows and wraps around the museum's white support beams and columns like a giant cobra. By...
When we last left Que Lastima, the band was melting speakers with its debut album, Fever Dreams, inciting riots at music venues across South Florida. The album cracked like a whip, making it tough to guess how they might move forward without retreading former glories. But anyone who's followed Que Lastima's...
Thursday, May 19 There are a great many topics on which the U.S. citizenry cannot agree. But this week is a period to come together to celebrate the one thing 99.9 percent of us adore: beer. American Craft Beer Week is here. Celebrate at these South Florida spots: • Thursday...
Sixteen years ago, hanging chads sent the nation into a spiraling constitutional crisis. For a month after the November 7, 2000 election, America panicked. Would Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore become the new commander-in-chief? Election night ended in a virtual tie. Bush had the edge,...
Igor and the Red Elvises got the night off to a fun start with their hilarious lyrics, outrageous dancing, and rocky Russian surf music. If you aren’t familiar with them, just imagine an older, balding Russian man wearing a zebra print suit screaming “Bacon!” to a crowd, while his all-girl...
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As crowds stumble along South Beach's most iconic strip of art deco hotels and restaurants on a hot Saturday in July, the chipper sidewalk hostesses do a quick mental calculation, looking for a phrase that might lure passersby. "Table for two?" they hawk. "Happy hour!" "Two-for-one drinks!" It's 5:45 p.m...
Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Duncan) hellbent on annihilating a play before she’d even seen it. Birdman was joined in its release year by other unfair portraits of critics in Top...
It seems fitting that Jamaica's official motto, "Out of many, one people," serves equally well to describe the nation's melting-pot cuisine. This is one culture where you can truly taste the country's history in its food, from jerk chicken and curry goat to stew peas and rum cake. Today, the...
Edward Mercer, a bearded wildlife technician with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, cracked open a series of thick, black boxes, each made of plastic and filled with lumpy, dirty pillowcases. I stood in a crowd of 14 people who surrounded him in a semi-circle. Mercer grabbed one of the...
When most folks think diversity in Florida, Miami is usually the go-to city, After all, the 305 is a melting pot of Hispanic and Haitian cultures in a big way. But those folks would be wrong. Because, thanks to a recent study by WalletHub, turns out Fort Lauderdale is the...
The blinds are drawn in Murphy's Miami Beach bedroom as the 33-year-old pulls a white, silicone, four-inch conical contraption from his nightstand. Called a TLC Tugger, it was designed to stretch skin gradually, as earlobes are stretched for gauges. Except Murphy isn't stretching his earlobes. His project is much more...
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A Bronx Tour
Tax day is a mere two months away. And while some of us owe and some of us won't be satisfied with our return, now is a good time to remind ourselves that we've got it pretty good here in Florida when it comes to taxes. Most of us already...
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Jeb Bush Is Petty and Vindictive
For a city with the highest concentration of same-sex couples, Fort Lauderdale got a pretty substandard score in the Municipal Equality Index this year. The index, released annually by the gay-rights group Human Rights Campaign, grades how municipalities across the country treat lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents. And Fort...
The Sunshine State's largest employer, Publix Super Markets, will expand its spousal benefits to include married same-sex couples beginning on January 1, 2015-- just days before the lifting of a federal stay is expected to bring marriage equality to Florida. According to Equality Florida, one of the state's leading LGBT...
Most of us can't imagine having a disease that tugs and tears at the very threads of who we are. When we wake up in the middle of the night with outlandish fears, we strike reassuring bargains with ourselves: If I lose my sight, I'll still have music. If I...
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Conceived in 2009 as a fun way of helping in the fight against cancer, No Shave November is the spiritual cousin of the Movember movement. Founded in 2009 by Rebecca Hill and Bret Ringdahl, No Shave November has grown from an initial pool of about 50 Facebook supporters to a...
Spirit Airlines -- the cheap-airfare airline headquartered in Miramar -- has been widely known to piss off pretty much anyone who has even flown it. Be it on Twitter, Facebook, or the water cooler at work, people love to talk up how much Spirit has screwed them one way or...
) Most of us are aware that growing our own food is the idea way to eat, but with tiny apartments, busy schedules, and the convenience of Publix, how often do we really toe the locavore line? According to Randy Shore, author of Grow What You Eat, Eat What You...
The room was cluttered with a dizzying array of voices. Bodies crushed in together. Lights flashed. Cameras buzzed. The so-called post-debate Spin Room -- the designated area where politicians go and talk to the media about how their candidate won the debate -- was a steaming goulash of pant suits,...