If you live in Fort Lauderdale, you may have gotten coffee or free internet access at one of artisan coffee shop Brew’s two locations: Victoria Park or Himmarshee — bikes piled outside, warm conversation inside. And you may have heard of the Himmarshee spot’s art/music show, Dialect, which happens one…
The world’s first sound artist was an Italian futurist, Luigi Russola. In his 1913 manifesto, The Art of Noises, he established six categories of sounds, from roars and explosions to shouts and “death rattles.” Russola believed that the Industrial Revolution rendered melodies irrelevant; modern man would seek out dissonant sounds…
Next year is the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s ascent to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, where he painted the world’s most celebrated fresco. It’s also the anniversary of the Catholic Church’s establishment of the papal Swiss Guard, the Vatican Museums, and St. Peter’s Basilica. To commemorate the occasion of…
Every Friday the masterminds of our favorite Polynesian joint bring a surf band in to perform in the Molokai bar during and beyond the happy hour time frame. (Tonight, you’ll hang ten with Cutback.) And now they’ve made Fridays even sweeter (and drunker) to the fairer sex by offering specials…
Though we hate to employ hackneyed superlatives and exhortations, there’s no other way to say that “Romanticism to Modernism” is a once-in-a-lifetime, must-see exhibit. When else are you going to see fine prints by Giovanni Piranesi, Francisco de Goya, James McNeil Whistler, and Pablo Picasso together at one location? The…
This flat-roofed building with the large A-frame on top (the better to hold the Hurricanes and Steelers mural) seems to change names on a regular basis (River Rock Café, Durty Nellie’s, Shuck’s, Darryl’s, et al.). For now, it’s settled on Boo Rileys. The décor has changed slightly, but the setting…
We at New Times don’t usually endorse ladies’ nights — the concept usually screams watered-down fruit martinis and purse-clutching group dances to Beyonce — but it’s worth heading over to Kill Your Idol for the bar’s weekly Wednesday human jukeboxes, especially if your chromosomes are of the xx variety. The…
If you think you have contemporary watercolor painting pegged — it’s a nice medium, for nice Sunday-afternoon painters who make nice, safe, boring art — then you’ll find Miles Batt’s retrospective as bracing as a slap in the face. Fort Lauderdale-based Batt doesn’t exactly reinvent watercolor, but he’s so alive…
The 11 artists in this noteworthy group exhibition have one thing in common: All have completed a four-week course offered by the Artist as Entrepreneur Institute, a training program that teaches artists to think of and present themselves as small businesses. Eight are graduates of the most recent program, chosen…
Nothing in Empire Stage’s production of Sex and Violence is as provocative or outlandish as the image on the playbill: a naked man in fishnets and stilettos, blood streaking down his chest, a chain saw covering his presumed member. Ronnie Larsen’s play, which is enjoying its world premiere at the…
Dissolute action-movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), first seen doing laps in his black Ferrari, has no destination in Somewhere, Sofia Coppola’s mood ring of celebrity lassitude. Coppola’s fourth feature is at times similarly aimless and empty. But those who groan that the writer/director has made another indulgent film about…
Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate, The Company Men is transparent in its ambition to capture The Way We Live Now from a sensitive, equitable — rather than a withering and satiric — point of view. Writer/director…
For every celebrity, there are hundreds of stalkers, starfuckers, and maniacal fame chasers. Renda Writer, a local poet who has been reaching out to Ellen DeGeneres in letters and videos since 2007, is none of these things, though he is unconventional and really, really driven. Writer, who uses this name…
There’s a disagreement among people who bother to form opinions on such hokum about exactly what ancient civilizations predicted would occur in 2012. Forget the present-day Maya who insist that the long calendar expiring in 2012 doesn’t foretell the end of the world any more than our having a December…
Just when you thought the endless football season was coming to an end, basketball kicks into high gear. Now, not only do you have to watch another sport you don’t care about but your Law & Order reruns are getting preempted on TNT. Oh, the humanity! Luckily, the Humane Society…
Ham-sa. Breathe in. Breath out. Slowly. You’re doing good. Now continue to chant your meditation phrase, because you’ll need it. On Saturday, the pudgy man himself, Buddha (not Santa), will smile down upon you as you purposefully contort your body into pretzel-like positions that the Indian Kama Sutra originally intended…
The Hollywood-based nonprofit Underdog Foundation was established to raise money for the rescue and adoption community and — to quote cofounder Adam Greenberg — to “bring awareness about what’s going on in our backyard, support low-cost spay and neuter, educate well- intentioned pet owners, and rescue special cases utilizing foster…
An American in Paris, pedaling ahead of a peloton and coming back from a life-threatening ailment to win the Tour de France. Who else? Has to be Lance Armstrong, right? Pas si vite. (That means “Not so fast.”) Actually, before Lance there was Greg LeMond — the first American to…
Fighting an air war was much different in the first half of the past century than it is today. Not that war has gotten much nicer for anyone involved, but now we’ve got pilots sitting on the ground, in front of computers, flying unmanned planes hundreds of miles away. Back…
To be a well-rounded — plump — cinephile, big cinema screens and Blockbuster adventures must be complemented with indie venues and art- flick experiences. And let’s take this once step further: Both those must further be complemented with finding yourself in not-a-theater but hip digs, watching subcultural documentaries that are…
The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is running a magical sort of raffle, one in which everybody wins. “Abracadabra: The Fourth Annual Fund-raising Art Exhibition and Raffle” requires only that you buy a $345 raffle ticket to go home with one of 100 pieces of art donated by invited…
So maybe you think the best thing about state fairs is funnel cake. Since funnel cake is a foodgasmic taste sensation, you could be right about that. Still, there’s more to the fair than fried foods, carnies, and the Gravitron. With the South Florida Fair sharing its ground with the…
