Chefs have become the new heartthrobs of America. And let’s be honest: It’s a much smarter crush than actors or musicians. We all need to eat, and as much as we might enjoy them, we don’t need movies or music to survive. Just sayin’. On Friday, your chance is here…
Earlier this month, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission effectively OK’d a law banning the storage of private property in public spaces. On a skim read, it may sound that the law would be targeting “stuff” and not necessarily people, but a closer examination by those with excellent bullshit detectors —…
Fashion is an interesting being. It’s not just shoes or clothes or even an attitude. It’s a spectacle, so much so that it’s not a sale that will do it justice but a show. Fashion shows seem almost outer-worldly in our South Florida speck, but the Midtown Art Gallery is…
Watch out, Wynwood. There is another art walk in South Florida that is starting to give you a run for your money. Honoring the plentiful local creative businesses and artists that reside in and around downtown Fort Lauderdale, FAT Village is hosting its monthly art walk to feature new and…
Altered Fest, a celebration of squiggly beats and animated high jinks, returns for its second year in Fort Lauderdale. And although this nascent media and music event touts itself as an animation and EDM festival, it’s much more than that. On top of more than a dozen DJs, live acts,…
No matter what age or type, birthdays tend to be celebrated much the same, with beer. We’re not saying a 1-year-old should be drinking on the day that commemorates his first year of life. But the grownups are probably going to throw back a brew or two, at least —…
“Put down the Snapchat, throw out the videogame console, and actually build something.” That’s the motto of Albert Jeffers, a tattoo artist and metal fabricator. “We are raising a generation of pencil pushers,” he laments. This Saturday, Jeffers will join his cohorts from Makers Square — a membership-based tool shop…
America’s sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence truly can do anything. In the course of three months, she’s graciously lost an Oscar (her third nomination in four years), swanned above the mansplaining condescension of a male pundit who tsk-tsked her for getting drunk in public, and burst into the summer blockbuster X-Men: Days…
How much can you take away and still have a movie? Steven Knight’s Locke is an experiment in reducing contemporary scree storytelling to its irreducible essentials, which isn’t quite the same thing as being an “experimental” film, despite the ravishing early reviews from England. It shows us just one actor,…
Cannes, on festival weekends, is wild: Every night is busy on the Croisette, the long boulevard that winds along the shore and past the Palais des Festivals, the large complex where most of the festival action — including screenings, premieres, and red-carpet walking — take place. But the crowds swell…
If all of Cannes isn’t it love with Channing Tatum right now, it should be. During the photo-call for Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher on Monday afternoon Tatum — relaxed, affable, light on his feet despite being seriously built — turned toward the press and took a few photographs of the corps…
It’s been a few days since I saw David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, screening here in competition, and I’m still not completely sure what I think of this sometimes-smart, sometimes-arch ultra-black comedy about shallow Hollywood types. But one thing’s for sure: Julianne Moore is a knockout in it. Moore…
#492425863 / gettyimages.com Marion Cotillard, the star of the Dardenne Brothers’ competition film Two Days, One Night, showed up for the photo call on Tuesday in a mini-dress encrusted with a riot of buttons, a whimsical and rather adorable choice for an actress who, on-screen just a few minutes earlier,…
A romance ripped from the pages of Deuteronomy, Frank Coraci’s Blended posits that the best reason for a woman with sons and a man with daughters to get married is that they can take care of each other’s kids. Quel pragmatisme! In the world of this sitcom love story, men…
What’s better than walking into a room of eligible bachelors on your night out on the town? It’s the jackpot and is exactly the type of environment that Valerie Fiordilino has worked so hard to perfect over the past five years. Fiordilino lost her father to leukemia in 2009 and…
Being an adult is stressful business. You work (if not, we’re not talking to you). You cook (ramen, at the very least). You clean (hopefully). You pay bills. You maintain an active dating and social life. Though it may not sound like that much, it’s all-consuming and can be a…
It’s almost halfway through the year; time to follow through with your New Year’s resolution of finally classing it up. It’s easy to fall into the pattern of cracking cans of Bud Heavies and going to your favorite spot every Thursday night, but you know what’s even more fun? Switching…
I haven’t looked forward to a new Godard movie since…never. The first Godard movie I saw upon its release in a movie theater was First Name: Carmen, in 1983, which overwhelmed me: I didn’t yet understand that it’s OK not to completely comprehend everything a filmmaker puts in front of…
There’s nothing like a good beef to heat things up a bit — not that we need any help in the rising-temperature department right now. No matter the situation, everyone likes a bit of friendly competition; it’ll keep you on your toes, you never know what’s going to happen, and…
Instead of heading down to South Beach this Memorial Day weekend and dealing with all the hip-hop brouhaha, why not keep it local and let soca be your remedy? Spice up the weekend with a Caribbean flair at the aptly titled Remedy… More Soca event at Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium…
Born out of a protest against the atrocities of World War I, the Dada art movement used performance, sound poetry, masks, and costumes as a way to shake citizens awake to the absurdities of everyday life and bring art into the fight for a new ethic. If you look to…
About five years ago, the local indie craft scene blew up in South Florida. The craft world’s equivalent of punk rock — populated largely by edgy grrls with neck tattoos and Rosie the Riveter-era hairstyles — has created a craft scene that would have shocked the grandmas of yesterday’s craft…
