Search for jokes on the Vancouver Canucks and you’ll find the usual stuff, like, “What do you call 30 millionaires sitting around watching the Stanley Cup on TV? The Vancouver Canucks.” Or: “What do the Canucks and an opossum have in common? They both play dead at home and get…
There’s nothing like a quality theatrical performance to make one forget about one’s troubles, right? Not true for Richard Hannay, the lead character in The 39 Steps, a production based on the 1935 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock. While enjoying a night out at the theater,…
“Everything’s already happened to me,” admits Harry Caine, the blind, middle-aged filmmaker in i>Broken Embraces. “All that’s left is to enjoy life.” ¡Sí! His own sights set low these days in his latest movie, reformed bad boy Pedro Almodóvar has at least hit on a vivid metaphor for his diminished…
For better or worse, there isn’t a human experience that French director André Téchiné can resist lathering into a tone poem. Tackling a 2004 incident whose sociopolitical ramifications can hardly be ignored — a young Gentile woman set off a media storm by falsely claiming to be the victim of…
Oh, the wisecracks we could make about a singles’ lock and key party, where women get locks, guys get keys, and you mingle from stranger to stranger to try to find your perfect match. We could say that one man has the key to your heart this Saturday at Passion…
“Ladies, it’s all about beauty, beauty, beauty. I spit on education. A man will never slide his hand up your skirt searching for a library card.” — Joan Rivers. When other female comics were wearing bad vests and filling their stage time with topics like cats, how hard it is…
Grab those wine-stained skinny jeans that have been crumpled on the floor since Sunday morning. Pull that stanky plaid shirt out of the hamper. Stretch your office-cramped boogie legs. It’s indie night in Deerfield Beach! Every Wednesday, the American Rock Bar (1600 E. Hillsboro Blvd., Deerfield) is taken over by…
While the bars up the street offer free booze to ladies and therefore drunken ladies to guys (tellin’ it like it is, right?), South Florida’s premiere venue for independent arts will host a different sort of ladies night. On Saturday, the Bubble (810 NE Fourth Ave., Fort Lauderdale) will be…
Oliver McCall’s greatest moment as a fighter may have come 16 years ago, but anyone who can beat Lennox Lewis in his prime — send him sprawling onto the floor and into a daze with a hard one-two combo — deserves a look, even at age 44. McCall, who tops…
If you were a slightly disturbed kid with a hyperactive imagination, then you’ve had that nightmare about a toy chest full of suddenly evil playthings that rise at midnight under a full moon on Friday the 13th to play with, meaning murder, their owner, meaning you. Now, you’re an adult…
After a four-year hiatus, the Riverwalk Blues Festival returns to the New River with a couple of intriguing headliners: Sugar Blue and Otis Taylor. Sugar Blue is best-known for his contributions to late-’70s/early-’80s Rolling Stone albums, most notably on the hit “Miss You,” from 1978’s Some Girls. But the harmonica…
Try as he might to perfect his aim, sometimes Cupid misses. But Saturday, Cinema Paradiso nailed the bull’s-eye by hosting two killer events. Although this weekend’s V-Day expression will focus heavily on love of the human, romantic type, there is a place for those whose true love lies in art,…
For a holiday such as Valentine’s Day, don’t let marketing agencies one-up you. By this, we mean, if you stop at buying chocolate-covered strawberries, a scented candle, the handful of flowers, and/or oysters, they win. That’s where their plan ends and yours should just be beginning. And maybe, just maybe,…
As personal assistant to the U.S. ambassador to France, Richard Stevens (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his terrific-looking kittenish girlfriend (Kasia Smutniak) in a nice Paris apartment. This is the basis for director Pierre Morel’s delicate study in transatlantic manners, From Paris With Love…
This year’s Miami International Film Festival, which runs March 5 to 14, features as many quality films as are humanly possible to screen, plus workshops and at least nine award categories. It kicks off with the Opening Night Celebration at 9 Friday night at Miami-Dade College’s Freedom Tower (600 Biscayne…
The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has always seemed a bit like New Jersey. With its tough guys in the poker room, hoochie mamas at the club, middle-aged divorcees plugging away at the slots, and chongas standing in for guidettes, it’s a veritable Jersey shore in Florida. Perhaps, then,…
How inconsistent has this season been for the Miami Heat? It’s managed to win games on consecutive nights only twice this season. The team looks utterly unstoppable one night, completely craptastic the next. It can take down a perennial powerhouse like the Magic only to get laid out by a…
It’s difficult to comprehend that only 55 years ago, women of color were not allowed, or at best not recruited, to grace the pages of fashion staple Harper’s Bazaar. Richard Avedon changed all that. Reaching for beauty across cultural spectrums and past traditional subjects, the famed photographer used his clout…
The Super Bowl is the most American of all our holidays. True, the day isn’t marked on calendars or designated by Congress (yet), but what people do on Super Bowl Sunday is much more American than eating cranberry sauce or sitting around a lake, lighting foreign-made fireworks. On this great…
You know how there’s never quite enough salsa at the party? How, after a while, people take the crushed, stale tortillas that lie scattered around the cute bowl and try their damnedest to pick up the little salsa remains. That will not happen at this party, amigos. Here’s the scoop:…
How should you celebrate Anti-Pigskin Day? There’s no better way than at Lips — “The Ultimate in Drag Dining.” The lovely divas will celebrate tonight at 7 during “Retro Rewind.” Hosted by the one-and-only Diva herself, this drag show will be complete with a three-course dinner (salad, choice of entrée,…
Dane Cook has been, without a doubt, the most popular comedian of the past decade. No one else has the platinum records, the Hollywood roles, or the consistently sold-out arenas. His rowdy shows, filled with passionate, screaming fans, make him some cross between a rock star and a professional wrestler…
