If Renaissance festivals need a mascot, there’s no better choice than Petrarch. A 14th-century Italian poet who invented the sonnet, Petrarch also had the world’s most well-documented and horrific case of blue balls. Over the course of 21 years, P-diddy wrote more than 300 odes to Laura, a woman he…
Favoring a pounding prog-house sound as shiny and at times as sleazy as the city he now calls home, Paris-to-Miami transplant Cedric Gervais has a reputation as a DJ who plays it both uplifting and up-thrusting. Building his following since 2003, this big-room fixture favors blissfully breezy Ibiza-style tracks buoyed…
This Fort Lauderdale-based act usually plays small Broward and Palm Beach County venues like the Bubble and Propaganda, so this outing below the Miami-Dade County line is rare. Although the band is technically a three-piece, Sweet Bronco’s driving force is curly-haired Chris Horgan, who still plays often, under the same…
We don’t stereotype here, OK? We think the world is a beautiful place full of people who shouldn’t be pigeonholed. But, alas, sometimes it does appear that gay men do, in fact, take better care of themselves than straight ones. So, we wondered, what motivation do they have? What gets…
After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did not. The most expensive movie ever produced in the country and also the biggest, Woo’s Red Cliff is a third-century battle royal with phalanxes of horsemen and armadas of battleships…
In a Dallas strip mall, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a bright and fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday night in December, is populated by maybe a handful of customers — high schoolers grabbing a game, a middle-aged mom checking to see if Julie…
On the eve of the Super Bowl, Fort Lauderdale beach will be alive with music and fireworks as the National Football League hosts Super Bowl Saturday Night. The event will feature live bands and a fireworks finale that will light up the sky (like the Dolphins used to light up…
It took us quite a few trips to downtown Fort Lauderdale before we found the coffee shop Brew’s Urban Cafe. And… this gem is tucked away behind Tarpon Bend — and lo and behold, besides coffee, it also serves microbrews and wine! So Friday night at 7:30, go to downtown…
In the state where it’s still illegal to adopt a child if you’re gay and where the hateful, chicken-shit Amendment 2 that defines marriage as the legal union between one man and one woman passed just 14 months ago, it’s safe to say that the LGBT community around here occasionally…
Leave it to someone named Jeff Wack to make art you’ll want to reach out and stroke until you sprout hair on those palms. The California-based artist uses a camera and digital airbrush painting to create fetching imagery of nubile nymphs in exotic poses that leave little to the imagination…
Holiday soirees take their toll. Sure, it’s fun to put new twists on tradition, but there are only so many goth Santas, games of Hannukah pong, and New Year’s Eve raves you can take before your lifeforce starts to wane. That easy-peasy fantasy world in which your parents grew up…
There’s an old Haitian proverb: Ignorance doesn’t kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot. So get culturally enlightened via the new Around the World in 80 Nights program at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6 St., Fort Lauderdale). This Tuesday, the first stop on this armchair world tour is…
We’re still not used to the idea that the FedEx Orange Bowl is played at Land Shark Stadium (2269 Dan Marino Blvd., Miami Gardens). There’s just too many concrete nouns in there — orange, shark, land — that make no sense together. But we are excited about this year’s matchup…
More than 2500 years ago, dedicated (and flexible) members of China’s working class developed a new art form: acrobatics. They took discarded wheel wells, decorative pottery, and emblematic tapestries, then reclaimed and resurrected them as performer’s props while entertaining the masses. Emperors soon noticed the energetic spectacle taking shape within…
The Miami Heat’s season motto “Good Enough Ain’t Enough” is hard to miss on radio ads, but so far “good enough” is all the Heat fan is going to get. Still, watching Dwyane Wade play live for $10 (upper level tickets) should be reason enough to over to American Airlines…
Before Robert Louis Stevenson penned one of his most famous works, we were supposed to know right from wrong by way of two voices. There was the little demon on the left shoulder or the little angel on the right. With this logic, we were always in control of our…
When the 2009 Miami Dolphins schedule came out last spring, it was widely assumed that the Fins would be playing for their season against a Pittsburgh Steelers team that would have already clinched homefield and would be resting their starters on the last game of the regular season. Instead, both…
We have a great suggestion regarding how you can walk off those Christmas cookies or spend all of your Hanukkah gelt: This weekend, take a stroll down downtown Fort Lauderdale’s main drag to check out the 22nd Annual Las Olas Art Fair, showcasing the works of more than 300 talented…
Jam bands are invading South Florida this week (see Phish, Particle, EOTO, the Heavy Pets), and their minions are outnumbering our native scenesters as they swarm in bearing hula hoops, patchouli oil, hemp garb, and epic amounts of glow sticks. These, they throw aimlessly at one another during the Phish…
The phrase “All You Can Drink” can either be approached (a) with caution or (b) as a challenge — depending on your personal school of thought. For ladies on a budget, the correct answer is (b). You pinch pennies all week, squirreling your funds away for necessary items (fun tights…
The disco inferno burned out long ago. But if there’s ever a time to relive the all-night parties when disco balls acted as the sun and people were not too cool to dance, it’s in these final hours of the Gregorian calendar. You want to start the year out right,…
The Seminole Casino’s swank Pangaea Lounge and Gryphon Nightclub is ringing in the new year with “One Night in Bangkok,” an Oriental bash named after that soaring ABBA-style anthem by Murray Head. It’s safe to assume that Pangaea’s party won’t include any Ping-Pong shows or underaged lady boys. But it…
