As you read this review, it is worth bearing in mind that Bud Light is the world’s most beloved beer, clobbering its nearest rival by 12.7 million barrels a year. (The second-placer? Budweiser.) Consider too that the world’s most beloved eatery is McDonald’s, its favorite purveyor of Italian food the…
The Rising Action Theatre has moved to a new venue, the Sunshine Cathedral, but left its essential character as a gay hothouse unchanged. And things don’t get much gayer than in its latest play, Fit to Be Tied, about a rich guy, Arloc, with mother issues; his kidnapped and hogtied…
Where would we be, exactly, without the most disgusting among our animal friends? Vultures and maggots get a bad rap, true, but those rotting roadkill corpses aren’t going to eat themselves. Nature is full of toe-curling nastiness, and on Saturday, the South Florida Science Museum kicks off a 20-week run…
There really is no better way to show someone you care than by dry-humping them on the dance floor. But it wasn’t always this way. Once upon a time, men had to make like a peacock and bust out the fanciest moves they could to woo a lady. People, it’s…
Caliente is probably the best place to sample the wide world of tequila outside of certain areas of Mexico or Disney’s Epcot Center. It’s also a good place to get a good taco (in a red tortilla) at all hours of the day or night — the taco window is…
Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, Ben Affleck models a full line of warm-up suits to play Doug MacRay, a second-generation blue-collar stick-up man, the brains of his four-man bank crew. The setting is Charlestown, the square-mile majority-Irish Boston neighborhood that’s half-gentrified…
As far as teen comedies informed by tenth-grade English syllabi go, Easy A, partly inspired by The Scarlet Letter, is remedial ed compared with Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You. High-schooler Olive (Emma Stone, confirming the talent shown in supporting roles in Superbad and The House Bunny) convinces…
We at the New Times love a nice drink — or 40. That’s why we’re setting up more than 40 winetasting stations, with pairings from Florida’s finest restaurants, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale). The New Times’ Third-Annual Food and Wine Pairing…
Comedian Sommore says she loves all men, even if they aren’t, um, well-endowed. “But if the dick ain’t big, don’t talk with a big-dick voice,” the comedian says in one of her bits. She explains how a man who is packin’ can demand to know why she’s been out all…
How do adults play Rock, Paper, Scissors and look cool while doing it? On Thursday, ArtServe, South Florida’s premier arts service organization, takes over the nostalgic kid’s game and redefines it for its own purpose. The event, named after the hand game, will blend the music of local musicians, the…
How craptastic of a season has it been for your Florida Marlins? For starters, there was Roy Halladay’s perfect game against the Fish back in May. But apparently having the 20th perfect game in major-league history thrown against them wasn’t disconcerting enough, so the organization decided to sell all unused…
We have been up all night, Miami and I, burning with the fury of a river full of fire and derailing dawn’s offensive, pondering about the Wolfsonian’s new exhibition, “Speed Limits.” It’s on the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, and while the futurist movement might celebrate speed, tonight ain’t over…
Among the complaints that we hear every day, rarely do we get something like this: “I spend my days in a wire cage just bigger than my body. I’m full of scabs and sores, and I’m standing with cut feet… in my own shit.” It would really be a drag…
A lot can happen in a year. Fads come and go. “True love” is found and lost… and found again. And in South Florida, venues often open and close before their first birthday. Thankfully, Stage 84 has bucked that trend, largely because of its events calendar, which is chock-full of…
Behold! The Panda-Platypus! Is this fearsome creature the latest genetic hallucination from the twisted minds that brought you the ManBearPig? Sadly, no. But you can still check out this very human collective of local slam poets as one of the showcase acts at the South Florida Artists Extravaganza on Saturday…
The L-Dub Film Festival is a noble little experiment in its inaugural year, put on for the benefit of local filmmakers. Under the submission rules, all films — from music videos to documentaries — were shot in just one week. From 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, the festival first opens…
Rat-a-tat-tat! Crash! Boom! No, it’s not a ten-car pileup on I-95; it’s the latest ear-candy extravaganza. The LFO (Lost and Found Orchestra) uses tubes, bottles, whirly toys, and traffic cones to create music for your ears. See, the creators of Stomp put together shows using regular objects to create rhythms,…
Someday they’ll make an animated movie in which carnivorous animals actually kill and eat their prey; until then, we’re stuck with the likes of Alpha and Omega, where the big lion-versus-dinner encounter involves felines dodging a caribou stampede. That scene is shamelessly stolen from The Lion King and written by…
Having moved to the U.S. this past May, Cuban-born artist Rafael Carrillo Alejandro Domenech is still in a transitional period of sorts. Though he has always used his paintings to interpret the world around him, right now that world is in a state of flux, and it’s this cultural no-man’s…
Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals safety who enlisted in the Army Rangers eight months after September 11, read Emerson, Chomsky, and, though an atheist, the Bible. Resembling a beefier Seann William Scott, he shunned cell phones, cars, and professional-athlete megalomania. A fiercely private (and principled) person, his death in Afghanistan…
Discretely drawn and elegantly photographed, Mademoiselle Chambon gives a French, working-class love triangle the brief-encounter treatment. With long, steadfast takes and portraiture framing, director Stéphane Brizé creates an atmosphere that cradles the delicate connection that develops between her main characters, a bricklayer named Jean (Vincent Lindon) and his young son’s…
Elegant opening credits, written as if calligraphy on a wedding invitation, yield to a couple in blunt close-up — unhappy, interracial, tearfully celebrating their anniversary in a shopping-mall restaurant. After an unfathomable exchange, he presents her with an antique bowl found on eBay and, after reciting a guffaw-worthy litany of…
