We would like to take this opportunity to clear something up. Standup comedy and improv comedy are different. It’s OK to be embarrassed. It happens to the best of us. With most of West Palm Beach’s standup comedy pumping out of a place called the Improv, it’s an easy error…
Ray Duffy worked in the film industry for nearly 15 years. Then the salt-and-pepper-haired Irish native and producer felt it was time for a career change. “Back in ’97 when I moved to Hollywood [California] from Orlando, most of the biz was out there, but nowadays you have to travel…
There’s still one kind of dread that today’s genre filmmakers can reliably stir up: that fear that everything we’ve been watching onscreen is going to be upended by some last-minute twist, that all the clues and portents we’ve puzzled over will be swept away in favor of some revelation so…
If you ever have days when you prefer animals to human beings, How to Train Your Dragon 2 is your kind of movie. In some ways, the second entry in this animated franchise is inferior to the first, released in 2010: The plot is needlessly busy, and much of the…
Remarkable as it seems, there’s still poetry to be found in the idea of kids tooling around with nothing much to do. Whether you grew up in a small town or a midsize-to-large city, in 1962, 1982, or 2002, you probably remember getting into a car, unwisely, with the first…
Surely, at some point, they thought of casting Michael Cera. Richard Ayoade’s often marvelous The Double, an existential jest set in a bureaucratic dystopia so familiar and lightly comic it may as well be Kafka Fantasy Camp, stars Jessie Eisenberg, the Oscar winner and future Lex Luthor, as a beleaguered…
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’s Venus in Fur, in which a playwright and first-time…
Grab your jersey, your friends, and your spirit and join the Pub Pembroke Pines for the World’s Finest Football Party. Bring an appetite and some amiable rivalry as you meet fellow soccer aficionados and cheer on your favorite teams while keeping score — not only of their goals but of…
Comic book fans are in for a rare treat this weekend when Tate’s Comics brings in up-and-coming graphic comic book artist Vanesa Del Rey for an in-store signing session. Del Rey first raised eyebrows in the comics community with her poignant and darkly hued work on the crime drama series…
Using C.S. Lewis’ acclaimed children’s novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which is the first book among The Chronicles of Narnia series, Expressions of Joy dance ministry is hosting its own rendition of this classic story. Here is where you’ll meet all the infamous characters of Narnia as…
If your dad is anything like many other salty yet lovable South Florida dads out there, he prefers his food fast and — when possible — out of a food truck, his comedy with a healthy dose of stereotypes, and his music uncomplicated, island-themed beach jams. This is why he…
Although they make for a fun set of friends, the spoken-word crowd could stand to come with a warning. That’s because, chances are any little interaction you have with them — however private, heartbreaking, comical, or even inane — tends to end up as fodder for the stage. Want to…
What’s your sign? How many times has a friend questioned your zodiac symbol to simply read a matching paragraph out loud in the back of Cosmopolitan magazine? How often are you Googling your horoscope during boring afternoon meetings? Are you learning or just reading for a laugh? Your astrological positioning…
He may have scared your boyfriends or forced you to dig a ditch in the backyard when you were an asshole teenager, but Dad has been there for you when you need him (hopefully). Sunday is Father’s Day; it’s time to show the guy some appreciation for all your BS…
How boring is your plan for Father’s Day? Cigars, power ties, and booze are played out. Not only are these ideas unoriginal but the traditional view of Father’s Day is still distinctly lacking in options for modern gay families. Pride South Florida is solving this problem by presenting Little House…
If you want to extend Father’s Day a bit, why not treat the father figure in your life to a food and beer dinner based on the oldest pairing known to beer, nuts? The Funky Buddha Brewery in Oakland Park is hosting a beer-and-nuts-inspired culinary exploration with the guys from…
Chances are you get up in the morning, run from the front door to your car, then from the car straight to the office, and back again. Maybe, in that process, you’re getting about ten minutes of outdoor time. Face it: Most of our lives are spent indoors, probably under…
The Seminole Hard Rock’s Improv in Fort Lauderdale is welcoming local talent to showcase their skills in front of a live audience. If you enjoy making people laugh and have yearned to be onstage at a comedy club, then take advantage of signing up to the “Fresh New Faces Nights”…
A young woman stands in front of an enormous TV screen, waving her hands over a small sensor in what looks like a fit of Saint Vitus’ Dance. A closer look shows she’s using Leap Motion to throw a virtual pot. She’ll eventually draw her design on Google’s SketchUp and…
It’s easy to forget, in our enlightened and accepting times, that until just 40 years ago, homosexuality was treated as a sexual disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the guidebook for mental health professionals. Back in 1974, the decision to remove it from the DSM was so controversial…
Today it’s hard for us to fathom why preachers used to rail so vehemently against jitterbugging. Even with cultural context — black music infiltrating white America, the revolution of rhythm over melody — the athletic, whirligig, swing-time boogie craze of the ’30s and ’40s now looks as wholesome as the…
In 1986, peaceniks were mad at Tom Cruise. That year, the Navy thanked Top Gun for boosting enlistment another 20,000 recruits. Since then, he’s made more critiques of military than advertisements, most of which (Lions for Lambs, Born on the Fourth of July, The Last Samurai, Valkyrie) j’accuse bad leadership…
