On June 22, 1968, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. It was the last straw for the gays, lesbian, and drag queens who had been put-upon for decades. This time, they fought back violently and won the first major victory for gay rights. Unless you count…
Sure, everyone’s heard of Oscar de La Renta, fashion designer extraordinaire, but they might not know that he’s from the Dominican Republic. Well, at the 2nd Annual Caribbean American Fashion Show, you’ll learn which other popular designers are from the Caribbean Islands (there will be some from America too) —…
The idea of the motorcycle has evolved over the past 100 years. What started out as a simple form of transport, a bicycle with a motor attached, was transformed into an outlaw symbol with the Hollister riot in 1947 — inspiring the 1953 Marlon Brando film The Wild One. The…
From the earliest cave paintings to Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters, Picasso’s Guernica, and Fairey’s Hope, art has been used to advocate a point of view. Since art has the ability to inspire change, it has proven a worthy avenue with which to communicate the humanity of issues. And what…
“This show contains adult content and partial nudity.” In the world of performing arts, there’s no better way to get audiences into seats than by warning them they may be exposed to some sin and skin. Of course, the show needs to have artistic significance, but turning up the heat…
Sure, everyone always assumed that Barbie liked Ken best — they had that dream house together, and Ken always was a spiffy dresser — not to mention that hair. But while Ken was upstairs perfecting his John Edwards coif — and probably fantasizing about Skipper — Babs was out in…
Oh, Marlins bullpen, you’re not satisfied with yourself, and that’s why you have finally called up your top prospect, Mike Stanton. Sure, he’s not a relief pitcher, but no matter. Because the best way to keep this bullpen from blowing a lead, which it has been doing too much of…
If you couldn’t afford the $100 price tag for floor seats the last time Bruce Springsteen came around back in September, you can catch about 170 minutes of him on the big screen at Cinema Paradiso on Friday or Saturday, when the indie theater plays London Calling: Live in Hyde…
Tracy Morgan, who needs no introduction as one of the stars of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, is bringing his act to West Palm Beach’s Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theatre, a frequent stopover for celebrity funnymen. Warning: Morgan is in the business of unalloyed crudity. Deformities, crabs, and…
WARNING: This Night + Day article will self-destruct upon completion. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to accrue autographs and uncomfortable photographs from the most random hodgepodge of C-list celebrities ever to share the same South Florida oxygen. Your targets are: Richard Roundtree (Shaft), the Soup Nazi…
A lot of post-hardcore and post-emo is removed from its origins — but when the two combine, it forms something else entirely (think screamo or crabcore). And thanks to the internet, these derivatives keep on coming. So in an era as saturated as this one, it’s noteworthy when a post-hardcore/emo…
Dear Reader: While you may be far too wet behind the ears to remember the first onslaught of swing dancing — the cultural phenomenon that grew out of juke joints in the 1920s and ’30s — you’re regrettably just old enough to remember its mainstream revival in the late ’90s…
Latin American art is more important over the long haul for the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale than even Princess Diana and King Tut. Those royal visitors were just that — guests from the outside world, invited in to stimulate publicity and generate big bucks. Latin American art is in the…
Like many historical dramas and biopics, John Rabe operates between the extremes of broad-stroked symbolism and selective detail, between poetic license and classroom exposition, between history and his story. The film recounts the true and largely overlooked actions of German businessman Rabe (a fine Ulrich Tukur), whose decision to remain…
It takes a big man to see two sides in a story — especially one about apartheid, and especially if you lived it. And if you’re a white fellow, like playwright Ian Bruce, it takes a certain roguish temperament to cast a knife-swinging, booze-swilling honky killer like Johan (Gregg Weiner)…
Directors Brian Koppelman and David Levien, frequent writing partners who scripted Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, have here created The Michael Douglas Experience; whether you respond to the material depends largely on how much you enjoy the actor lazily riffing on the oily creatures of his past. After a prologue…
Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature, Please Give, is a notable rebound from the self-absorption of her last movie, Friends With Money. It’s still not quite as good as Holofcener’s mordant Lovely & Amazing, but it is, for the most part, witty and engrossing. Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) are…
Q’orianka Kilcher’s first role since her stunning breakout as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s The New World finds her playing to type as the last princess of Hawaii, struggling against the American takeover of a then-sovereign republic. It’s her second indigenous-versus-white people role in a row, which suggests troubling things about…
Like its predecessor, 2010’s The Karate Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother are introduced in their Detroit apartment, now packed into boxes. Ralph Macchio shipped off to the Valley; Dre is going to China. A skate kid behind on his growth spurt, Dre…
Joe Carnahan’s big-screen adaptation of NBC’s 1983 midseason-replacement-turned-three-seasons-running-hit is convoluted, overstuffed, turned up to 11, and yet, somehow, deadly dull—in other words, white noise. Rather than a reinterpretation, it’s a soulless, sloppy, smirky rerun that makes those Charlie’s Angels movies seem positively nouvelle vague; at least Drew Barrymore and crew…
Photographs on the bar indicate George Michael has called it a “Fantastic Pub. Love the Toilets.” Kate Moss has supposedly said, “Loved the lettuce. But the Coke was a little flat.” And the celebrity trifecta wouldn’t be complete without Bono saying, “With food like that, U2 could be famous one…
In his work as writer/director, Rodrigo García has admirably distinguished himself through his commitment to creating intelligent, complex roles for his heavily distaff casts. Like his debut, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000), and Nine Lives (2005), Mother and Child is a compassionate, multi-threaded tale about…
