Thank you, Maracas, for settling yourself right off US1, right before Oakland Park Boulevard (3001 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale) earlier this year. Because US1, home also to the neighboring “B’s” — Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Best Buy — was a tad boring. And the opposite…
Hipsterism is a devilishly tricky game. It’s all about transforming your day-to-day life into an almost unmanageable mountain of MP3 mixtapes, limited-edition T-shirts, social networking, and 24/7 self-promotion. And besides your cherished laptop, the best portal to this kind of advanced 21st-century living is the über-hipster club night Misfit Fridays…
There’s not much middle ground with op art. Either you’re exhilarated by the mathematical precision of its lines and shapes and the illusion of movement generated by its juxtapositions of forms and bright colors or your mind and eye find those same ingredients taxing. As a proud member of the…
Coral Springs has a museum?!” I have heard that refrain almost every time I’ve mentioned the Coral Springs Museum of Art over the course of at least a dozen years, and it resurfaced again before my most recent visit. It seems that no matter how often I sing the praises…
In Cyrus, a freakishly engrossing black comedy about excessively mothered men and the women who enable them, the excellent John C. Reilly plays John, a middle-aged editor who lives like a stalled graduate student in his cluttered Los Angeles cottage. That’s where his former wife and close friend, Jamie (Catherine…
Watered-down Jungian analysis meets a GLAAD-approved weepie in Peter Bratt’s second feature, starring brother Benjamin (who also produces) as a neck-tattooed macho who will finally realize the damage his rock-hard masculinity has caused during a funeral for a teenaged gangbanger, his tears mixing with the rain. As subtle as a…
Coco Chanel. Igor Stravinsky. Two iconoclasts whose contributions to their respective artistic fields left an indelible mark on the 20th Century. Did you know they used to bone? After a lengthy staging of the disastrous 1913 premiere of “The Rite of Spring” (the sole sympathetic set of ears in the…
This grim and bloody adaptation of the second volume of the late Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millennium trilogy — featuring journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) — moves the story into a very different register from the stand-alone murder mystery of The Girl With the…
This Robert Rodriguez–produced sequel goes back into the bush to follow 1987’s Predator—a sci-fi horror that put the multi-megaton American stud-soldiers of Reagan-era action in the infra-red, stalking POV of a higher-tech galactic Superpower. This time, U.S. black ops turned soldier-of-fortune Royce (Adrien Brody, knotty with new muscle) literally plummets…
If given the chance to dress themselves (assuming opposable thumbs are no longer an issue), would your canine companion choose cowboy fringe, superhero chic, naughty nurse, or rugged pirate? Trick question: The answer is most always none of the above, which is why to fulfill man’s great desire to see…
Sometimes you want music to work out all the stress and angst that built up throughout your day. And, sometimes, you just want to zouk. And party you will, when internationally famous French-Caribbean band Kassav celebrates 30 years of making zouk music by performing at 8 p.m. Saturday at the…
I think it’s time we get to know each other a bit better. No, I mean really get to know each other. What do I have in mind? Oh, I don’t know. Maybe I could tie you up and suspend you from custom steel bondage equipment and whip you for…
To artist Kerry Phillips, a pack rat’s personal effects are the ultimate expression of art. As cataloged in her Sun-Sentinel profile last year, these include netted fruit bags and buttons. Phillips is the winner of Best in Show for Chairs Found and Fixed at the “59th Annual All Florida Juried…
The clothes you wear, the type of rebellion you engage in, what you choose to furnish your house with, all represent ways in which you express yourself. Ways in which you yourself are a piece of art. In turn, everything you do works — or hopefully should work — on…
Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach is a play about an unabashedly fey talk-show host on a public access channel and his macho, meathead assistant. In 1998, it nearly induced an orgasm for a New York Times reviewer, who called playwright Paul Rudnick a “zinger-meister” and warned folks that Rudnick’s…
Straight outta the mean streets of LBS (Lauderdale-by-the-Sea) comes the locally flavored hip-hop trio Kawabungaliztikz (pronounced kou-uh-buhng-guh-lis-tiks). The group’s aesthetic, a puff-puff-pass cocktail of smart-alecky rhymes and nerd-boy swagger, offers insider perspective on local beach culture in between the bong rips and Commercial Pier surf sessions — think a crunk-style…
Not that it’s actually difficult to offend people, but there must be some unwritten rule that you’re not a true comic until you’ve stirred up some headline-worthy controversy. D.L. Hughley, one of the founding Kings of Comedy, was probably aware of this theory when he recently agreed to join the…
Say adieu to solely watching the muscle-loving junkies break sweats at the gym, because the annual NPC Southern States Fitness, Figure, Bikini, and Bodybuilding Championships are back. Now, the competition of physique poses, pushups, and pull-ups will fill the War Memorial. Watch the bodybuilders — guys and gals, from teens…
With the improved U.S. Team, this year more Americans followed the FIFA World Cup than ever before, and while Americans might be new to soccer obsession, the rest of the world eats, sleeps, and breathes the sport. The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is offering a primer course in…
Here’s a test: Sing all the words to the national anthem. Stuck already? Well, it is a documented fact that most Americans don’t know the words. Now sing the first verse of “You’re the One That I Want” from Grease. Yes, you got chills, they’re multiplying, and you’re losing control…..
What if there were an island where dinosaurs still roamed? Where they evolved intelligence and the ability to speak? Illustrator and author James Gurney answered this question when he created the fantasy island Dinotopia in 1992 with the publication of Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time. It was the first…
When the Vagabond’s Thursday-night party, Money Shot, went kaput a couple of years ago and left a void in the venue’s lineup, a group of misfits put together a little party called Shake that’s been an immense success. Now its creators are ready to delve deeper into clubland. They’ve launched…
