According to modern tradition — or perhaps it’s just a cliché? — persons of the Jewish persuasion usually hit up movie theaters and Chinese food restaurants on Christmas Day. Super fun. But if you happen to be young, single, and Jewish, maybe standing in the world’s longest Chinese food buffet…
Marvin Dixon is a standup comedian with promising entrepreneurial ideas. “I’m gonna have a club for just wheelchair people. It’s gonna be called Club Ramp… You all laughing. I’m gonna blow it up.” Dixon has been on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. So has Marcus Combs, who will be performing with…
A Broward County bar tucked away in downtown Fort Lauderdale — as close to the jailhouse as it can be without stomping on the Downtowner’s turf — hosts a gothic dance party called Revel inside its walls the last Saturday of every month. Fortunately for those who crave something darker…
The holidays make us stray, splurge, and sin — and why wouldn’t we, with the new year right around the corner? (New Year = fresh start; note there’s one week left.) But, hell, we got a conscience too, so today starting at 8 p.m. and running through Friday, we offer…
It has taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach theaters. In the interim, we’ve bided our time with big-screen depictions of man-man love such as Brüno and Colin Firth’s suicidal fusspot in A Single Man. Save it, Mary:…
Just in time for the whole family to file into the multiplex on a silent Christmas night when there’s nowhere else to go: a return to the magnified dysfunction of the Focker household, and the cozy holiday glow of some paychecking celebrities. After a temporary truce, Ben Stiller’s mensch male…
Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture is a comedy of youthful confusion that gets its kick not only for evoking a world of unromantic hookups, casual BJs, and iPhone porn, but for satirizing New York’s bourgeois bohemia. Newly graduated from an artsy Midwestern college, Aura arrives at mother Siri’s immaculate white-on-white Tribeca…
A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza, The King’s Speech is a well-wrought, enjoyably amusing inspirational drama that successfully humanizes, even as it pokes fun at, the House of Windsor. The story is a good one: shy, young prince helped by irascible wizard to break an…
There’s nothing better than watching the Miami Heat wreck all the other basketball teams, right? WRONG. You’ve been missing out on an opportunity to take your watching skills to a whole other level. To truly enjoy watching the Miami Heat slaughter the New York Knicks on Tuesday, December 28, you…
As a newspaper, on occasion we offer our opinion. At other times it is incumbent upon us to provide the reader with pure, unbiased information. We shall now attempt the latter. (Anyone with PETA sympathies or coulrophobia should look away.) In recent years, the circus has become controversial, but for…
It’s the ultimate intellectual showdown. Freud’s Last Session, a new play at Palm Beach Dramaworks, pits the Christian apologist and Narnia chronicler, C.S. Lewis, against the cancer-ridden, cigar-smoking father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, in an imagined bull session at Freud’s office in London on the day England enters WWII. The…
The Coen brothers’ True Grit is well-wrought, if overly talkative, and seriously ambitious. Opening with a strategically abbreviated Old Testament proverb (“The wicked flee when none pursueth”), the film returns the Coens to the all-American sagebrush and gun-smoke landscape that has best nourished their wise-guy sensibility. This perverse buddy tale,…
Calling an exhibition “Best of the Best” is all but asking for trouble, but a new show by that name, now at Rossetti Fine Art in Pompano Beach, delivers what it promises. Gallery owner Tom Rossetti, an artist himself and a veteran judge of art shows around town, hit on…
A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual camp — at the very least, it’s the most risible and riotous backstage movie since Showgirls. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake has had a spooky quality at least since Tod Browning appropriated a few bars of…
An odd duck of a romantic comedy, How Do You Know strays as far from a barrel of laughs as it can get without losing his grip altogether. The movie’s rhythms are loose, disjointed, and peppered with strategic silences or half-finished thoughts. The punchlines are few, and there’s not much…
Jeff Bridges is God and, as digitally captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in the megamillion-dollar reboot Tron: Legacy. The notion of a tragically split persona might have been scripted to give the new movie a measure of emotional gravitas, but why bother with writing when…
The Fighter is based on the true story of light-welterweight champ “Irish” Micky Ward from Lowell, Massachusetts. But starring Boston working-class hero Mark Wahlberg, it plays as a Rocky-fied fairy tale for our time: Consigned to Palookaville, a sweet, unassuming boxer with more heart than brains steps up — all…
When you walk into the jam-packed room on Wednesday, be careful not to step on anyone’s toes, but be especially careful not to accidentally bump into one of the burlesque dancer’s artfully covered nipples. Once you’ve gotten in the door, check out the tables of more than 20 artists and…
As temperatures drop in South Florida, there is certainly no lack of discussions on heat — both the infrequently used HVAC system and the basketball team. Come game day, an abundance of local sports fans crowds into the many watering holes around South Florida, so pull up a barstool at…
Crafts never really go out of style. In dark times, the craft industry lurks at the edges of our social awareness as being the sole province of grannies and Girls Scouts. But the truth is, the crafties are true artists, seamstresses, painters, haberdashers, sculptors, and knitters. And nowadays they’re often…
This is not information for people who like football. If you like football, the Dolphins play the Bills at 1 p.m. Sunday. There, look away now, because this is for the poor, non-sports-loving friends and significant others who are forced to endure endless hours of men running around a field…
New Times admits it: When we say that “the holidays are a time for giving,”what we’re really referring to most of the time is the practice of giving our livers all they can handle. See, there is nothing wrong with boozing till we’re as tipsy as a dreidel, our noses…
