For all of the heteronormative hooey and gender stereotyping that the über-popular 1992 best-selling book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus offers, we can distill one piece of wisdom out of this relationship guide that works for folks of all sexual orientations and genders: If you are nice…
Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez began making music in Nashville, where they met, began writing songs together, and fell in love. Together, the husband-and-wife duo has captivated audiences with its music as Johnnyswim. The singer/songwriters’ first full-length album, Diamonds, was released after several EPs and singles. It features a folk-bluesy…
Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez began making music in Nashville, where they met, began writing songs together, and fell in love. Together, the husband-and-wife duo has captivated audiences with its music as Johnnyswim. The singer/songwriters’ first full-length album, Diamonds, was released after several EPs and singles. It features a folk-bluesy…
Summer has tons of food items to appreciate: watermelons, pie, barbecue, burgers, hot dogs, tomatoes (depending on where you live). But the most exciting summer food item of them all is also the most decadent — and expensive. From casual lobster rolls to laid-back lobster bakes to comforting lobster bisque…
Summer has tons of food items to appreciate: watermelons, pie, barbecue, burgers, hot dogs, tomatoes (depending on where you live). But the most exciting summer food item of them all is also the most decadent — and expensive. From casual lobster rolls to laid-back lobster bakes to comforting lobster bisque…
If the Broward art world is a chaotic circus brimming with volatile and eccentric personalities, Byron Swart is the even-keeled ringmaster. He’s the kind of guy who adeptly brings artists together without all the drama that often occurs behind the scenes. In 2002 the South African native arrived in Fort…
Sirens blare and an eerie voice announces it’s best to remain indoors if you don’t plan to participate. While others make safety arrangements and some sharpen their knives, one man loads his steel-armored black car with plenty of guns and begins cruising. Fires erupt along the street, and gunshots and…
Plays adapted into movies always feel naked by the time they make it to the screen, their theatrical bones showing through in a most awkward and unbecoming way. That’s more or less true of Roman Polanski’s screen version of David Ives’ Venus in Fur, in which a playwright and first-time…
Marco Bellocchio is one of the great filmmakers of Italian cinema, and, still working at 74, he may be the greatest of those living. But his movies, when they’re released in the States at all, come and go like zephyrs. Even filmgoers who take all kinds of cinema seriously had…
It turns out the cars and planes of Cars and Planes can kiss. Deep into Planes: Fire & Rescue, a time-killing kid flick whose title is an exact summary of its plot, the filmmakers introduce us to two creaky old Winnebagos, a husband and wife in their sunset years, revisiting…
Wish I Was Here, the movie that actor and second-time director Zach Braff partially funded with money raised through Kickstarter, isn’t nearly terrible enough to satisfy all the grumblers who are hoping to see it fail. When Braff couldn’t secure traditional financing for the film, he appealed to the fan…
“I forget that people think that I’m the girl with a ponytail and a briefcase,” says Anna Kendrick, perched on a couch in a T-shirt and jeans. Her career-launching role as a prim go-getter in Up in the Air is so far removed from her actual self that she’s still…
It turns out that the cars and planes of Cars and Planes can kiss. Deep into Planes: Fire & Rescue, a time-killing kid-flick whose title is an exact summary of its plot, the filmmakers introduce us to two creaky old Winnebagos, a husband and wife in their sunset years, revisiting…
Wish I Was Here, the movie that actor and second-time director Zach Braff partially funded with money raised through Kickstarter, isn’t nearly terrible enough to satisfy all the grumblers who are hoping to see it fail. When Braff couldn’t secure traditional financing for the film, he appealed to the fan…
A defiantly R-rated farce seemingly commissioned to plug the We’re the Millers-shaped hole in the summer lineup, Sex Tape is warmer and more amusing than its ads would lead one to believe. In fact, it’s almost good enough, leaning a little too hard on the innate likability of stars Cameron…
Young professionals everywhere know there’s nothing better than a solid YP event. The location is normally killer, the first couple of drinks are free, and it’s always easy to start a conversation with anyone to your right or left. (Name tags for the win!) The Young Professionals for Covenant House…
Over the course of several years, California-based photographer Robert Weingarten reached out to two dozen householdnames in show business, politics, sports, science, and religion, with a request to make a faceless portrait of each. Homing in on notables such as Don Shula, Buzz Aldrin, Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Itzhak Perlman,…
Truth: With the promise of a couple of beers and good grub at the end of a particularly sweaty task, you can get most ordinary folks to stretch beyond their comfort (and fitness) level and agree to just about anything. Helping you move a couch up three flights of stairs?…
Could this be fur real? Cats have taken over the internet, and they are no longer satisfied with simple keyboard-playing videos. Cats are here to be a welcome part of our party life. The smart staff at Stache has taken note of the cute and fluffy trend and is bringing…
At the height of American Idol’s ratings heyday, the televised talent show responsible for launching myriad opportunities, from Jennifer Hudson’s acting career and subsequent Weight Watchers deal to Clay Aiken’s political career, scooped up a coveted 30 million viewers — a triumph that has yet to be duplicated. This season’s…
“Drinks, appetizers, and trolleys!” Those three words succinctly sum up the five-hour festival of art, food, and booze facilitated by Delray Beach’s trolleys. Acting as the most benevolent of designated drivers, the trolleys will connect east and west with a route bookended by Delray Marketplace and downtown Delray. With proceeds…
When is a toy no longer a toy? When a middle-aged man pays a week’s wages for it and refuses to remove it from its packaging. Toys are for children; these are collectibles. And this weekend, collectors will descend upon the Broward County Convention Center for UltraCon of South Florida…
