Earth Day is like New Year’s Eve — you make all sorts of resolutions you never plan on keeping. This year marks the 40th Earth Day, but we have a hunch, South Florida, that you never really took it seriously. You continue to slip in green city rankings. But in…
Florida isn’t far from the Caribbean, but that’s easy to forget when the temperature drops to a frigid 55 degrees. The 2010 Reggae Fest is a happy reminder that we’re really in the tropics and that spring is here to replace a sleet-spurting winter. The two-day festival is also a…
In an age when modernity is a loaded philosophical concept, a journey back to a time when modernity meant a toaster sounds like a relaxing escape. Take a trip to Pinkghost (1888 Polk St., Hollywood) at 7 p.m. on Saturday for the kitschy ’50s-inspired event “At the Sock Hop.” The…
It’s “Bitter Sweet” night at Propaganda (6 S. J St., Lake Worth). At 8 p.m., the Reckless Dames Burlesque Troupe will turn this indie-music venue into a big candy land. As bands Viva Le Vox, Kill Now?!, and a Hunter’s Pace perform, the Dames will show off their goodies on…
Sure, downtown Fort Lauderdale transforms into a fun drunk fest for major holidays such as St. Patty’s and Halloween, for any weekend, for post-Wednesday’s kickball practice. But at only one special juncture every year does the land of liquor and ladies turn into a smorgasbord of top-quality domestic and imported…
With an acting résumé that stretches from Gablestage and New Theatre to a featured role alongside Paris Hilton in the 2006 straight-to-video sorority romp National Lampoon’s Pledge This!, Miriam Kulick has proven her propensity to mix it up. She does stage and screen, drama and comedy, serious theater and unabashed…
Rum, buggery, and the lash: The real traditions of the British navy, according to Winston Churchill, all must also be considered perks of high-seas piracy. Even before Navy snipers were ventilating their skulls at 40 yards on rolling seas, pirates’ lives were best romanticized from afar, away from the lice,…
If you would like to help out troubled teens without interrupting your busy drinking schedule, come out Saturday to Seminole Hard Rock’s First Pub Crawl. A small donation of $15 in advance or $20 at the door benefits Covenant House of Florida, a nonprofit that helps at-risk young people under…
For a ball club that fails to make any serious offseason acquisitions, has done virtually nothing to upgrade last season’s craptacular bullpen, and has a manager that may or may not suffer from narcolepsy during games, the Florida Marlins’ front office is sure talking a shitload of trash these days…
Poor Craig. For the deceased military man in Christopher Shinn’s play Dying City, it was out of the frying pan and into the (friendly) fire. On the eve of his deployment to Iraq, Craig and his wife, Kelly, are helpless to repair their decaying marriage. It’s a bad situation made…
The gulf between South Florida’s rich and poor will shrink an inch or two this week. Starting Monday, select SoFla spas will offer $50 treatments as part of Spa Week. Show up to the Dessange Paris Salon & Spa (1845 Cordova Road, Ste. 210, in Fort Lauderdale) in your Payless…
The debate between Elvis fans and Beatles fans over which rock god/gods were more important or influential has been waging for half a century. “Paul is still making music!” “Elvis died a has-been on a toilet!” “Elvis shook the establishment!” “Elvis was the hillbilly cat, and the Beatles were a…
For any musician, being compared to Bob Dylan is an honor. Unless they’re referring to his hair. But the artistic comparison puts the artist side by side with arguably one of the greatest and most incisive songwriters of our time. It’s a lot to live up to, and yet, Brazil’s…
Rising Action Theatre is a stage in a strip mall. But it’s got pizzazz. Off Oakland Park Boulevard, the little joint’s most recent production is a tripped-out remake of Reefer Madness, complete with baby-selling and bloody murder and hazy-green lighting. And last year, it staged Flora the Red Menace, which…
Somewhere in Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s awkward debut feature is a macabre and almost quaint gothic mystery begging to be left alone. After blowing up at her boyfriend (Justin Long) over dinner, Anna (Christina Ricci) drives off and suffers a disastrous crash — then gets chatty on the mortuary slab. The funeral…
“We are not these people! We are a boring couple from New Jersey!” complains Claire Foster (Tina Fey) to her husband, Phil (Steve Carell), in Date Night. Phil and Claire are middle-class, suburban parents whose plans for a night on the town are thwarted when they’re pulled into a web…
The social-networking site Gay.com presents a triple bill of same-sexer-themed movies. In descending order, from middling to empirically bad: Watercolors — the most professional job, and the only one that takes a stab at Eros — is a My First Time jock-on-nerd love affair done with chiaroscuro cinematography and awful…
Essentially a locked-room mystery with lashings of gore and sexual brutality, Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo disguised the simplicity of its narrative by embedding it within an almost Balzacian depiction of Swedish society, warts and all (but mainly warts). Niels Arden Oplev’s adaptation relies more on…
According to Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere, Mussolini was nearly as much of a bully in the bedroom as he was in office. Il Duce would eventually get busy with the pope, but in the mid-1910s, he screwed — and screwed over — one Ida Dalser, who becomes this epic melodrama’s nobly…
“Louie Louie,” as recorded by the Kingsmen, is a great rock record, and nobody with any sense would disagree. Never mind that the chords are basically identical to those of “La Bamba,” “Wild Thing,” and even “Shake It Up, Baby.” Who cares? G, C, and D — that’s all the…
There’s an obvious stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely legal Kristen Stewart and a still underage, barely dressed Dakota Fanning begging for street cred by playing dress-up as, respectively, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, front girls of the oversexed ’70s-era teen proto-punk sensation the Runaways…
Luis Gonzalez Palma is a myth weaver whose sumptuous, gilded photographs echo inexorably across time. The Guatemalan artist creates baroque imagery of mysterious characters in opulent theatrical garb shanghaied from a faraway place and delivered unexpectedly to tenebrous shores. His subjects often appear trapped in small, ornate, antique cases exuding…
