Arts & Culture

“Romance Man” might not have a symbol in the sky like Batman, and he might not have an alien birth father like Superman, but he’s got love, and that’s all you need, really. That and a bouquet of pink flowers. Romance Man is the creation of local artist Timothy Leistner…

Fort Lauderdale indie art space the Bubble has become a beacon of artistic expression, a gathering space for emerging artists to showcase their unique views and sounds. With its latest show this Saturday, a solo exhibition of more than 50 pieces by the Loveable Mad Hatter, the Bubble is bringing…

Americans call it soccer. The rest of the world calls it football. In 2009, the Wall Street Journal identified this word choice with American Exceptionalism. We’re stubborn and exceptional, damn it, and we’ll show it through arbitrary sport names! But what hasn’t been so exceptional is the size of soccer’s…

It could be the ultimate B-movie, but, alas, “Revenge of the Tiki” is a giant outdoor bash going down at the Monterey Club. In all, four bands are playing: the Kings of Hell, the Freakin Hott, the punkish No Class Action, and the Cadillac Bombers, with western swing and rockabilly…

At first, the South Florida Boat Show seems boring. But then you imagine cutting waves from the Caribbean to Key West in a cigarette boat loaded with a couple of kilos of kush. You’re trolling for swordfish and sharks at 100 mph. There’s a drunken mermaid on the bow and…

The whole notion of a Tweetup is going to sound unbearably nerdy to anyone who hasn’t yet gotten sucked into Twitter (which, far from a platform to discuss what you had for breakfast, is actually a steady injection of pure-grade internet directly into your frontal cortex), but here’s the deal…

Ladies, we still consider ourselves proud feminists, right? When talking shop on matters of childcare, housework, and paycheck inequities, our biting critiques would make Simone de Beauvoir smile. So why is it that, even with all of the gender studies under our collective garter belts, we still feel the tight…

You work hard, but you party hard-core. So it’s not entirely uncommon for your weekend to start 24 hours early with a testosterone- and tequila-soaked Thursday full of degenerate gambling, trash talk, and amateurishly applied guillotine chokes. One thing is guaranteed: There will be blood, broken bones, and battle scars…

“For trauma for which there are no words, there is art.” So goes the mantra of InSIDE/Out, Art as Healing Therapy, an exhibition of works created by adults and children in art therapy programs. “Art therapy” encourages people to express themselves when they can’t communicate properly through speech — particularly…

Of all the world’s sundry Tiki events, Fort Lauderdale’s Hukilau is one of the holiest. Tiki fanatics flock to it like pilgrims; it’s their biggest gathering on the East Coast. This year’s Hukilau will last for three days jam-packed with events. The gathering starts with a Tiki art show at…

Japan is indisputably quirky. To celebrate its culture in all its gorgeous kinks, the Morikami Museum, disappointingly, is currently not displaying room-sized canvases of manga tentacle porn. But it has unveiled the next best thing: a collection of kaiju. That word refers to the oversized monster suits that actors wore…

She’s voluptuous. She wants to make you scream. And — well, she’s a little bitchy. Glam kitten Misty Eyez wouldn’t be caught dead at your grandmother’s bingo match. Instead, she uses her superheroine drag powers to conjure a dash of sass (alright, it’s more of a hearty pour) to Fort…

It’s hard to imagine an exhibition that could even begin to compete with the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s current “Elvis at 21” photography show. The museum, smartly, doesn’t even try. Instead we get “Rememberingstanleyboxer: A Retrospective 1946-2000,” as bracing a contrast as one might reasonably expect in such a…

A new art gallery in the area is always cause for celebration, and the Painted Easel is no exception – even if it is on the far side of the known world, Broward County division. This spiffy mother-daughter operation opened with little fanfare in March in the Weston Town Center,…

Florida is a hard place to represent in drama. How does a stage production communicate Florida’s strangeness — the gangsters, the crackers, the queers, the yachtsmen? Some essential thing will be left out, and those who know the place will be left confronting the representation of a state they haven’t…

China is the world’s oldest civilization, and its art dates back all the way to 10,000 B.C. And it has never had to go to the lengths that Western art has: The Chinese haven’t signed urinals or splattered canvases with elephant dung. But they have produced masterpieces, a selection of…

If we were to think of our arts institutions here in South Florida as family members, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood might be characterized as a specific breed of aunt — a respectable, calm-on-the-surface type who likes to bake but who still has a streak of eccentricity that…