All of you poor South Florida grinches, it’s time to stop giving IOUs and leftover candy canes for Christmas presents. Well, that is, if you win at Seminole Gaming’s Super Jackpot Million Dollar Bingo Sunday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood). From 2 to…
Unlike most massive weekend-long smorgasbords of tuneage, the three-day Miami Music Festival is almost entirely focused on the local scene. With the exception of a few bands, such as Greenpoint and New York’s Big Suga, the festival will present 600 performances by South Florida artists repping every permutation of music…
In a world of Facebook, Skype, and text-messaging, old technology fades and new innovations emerge before you can say XBox. We write e-mails instead of letters, our exchanges as impermanent as the technology we use. (Except for, say, that unfortunate picture of you from Mardi Gras — it was one…
Burlesque, that recently-revived art form, may not involve the nudity on display at your local Solid Gold strip club, but there’s still fancy lingerie and beautiful women prancing around a stage. The Boudoir Beauties is a burlesque troupe made up of locals and led by the infamous New Yorker Miss…
Do snow angels, cookie dough, and snuggle time remind you of a certain Elf? Are you unable to hear the words “San Diego” without an inner voice giggling “the whale’s vagina!”? And when Blue Oyster Cult comes on the radio, do you find yourself longing for a little more cowbell?…
Lost in Yonkers swept the Tony awards in 1991 and that year also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Neil Simon play is a coming-of-age story set in New York. It’s a comedy, but it comes with serious drama and plenty of weighty characters. The main characters, Arty and…
Figuring out where to eat dinner can be a major pain in the ass, even if the best restaurants weren’t scattered haphazardly across South Florida. These days it’s stressful to gamble your hard-earned scratch on an unknown restaurant in hopes of discovering the next great joint to hit on a…
If you sometimes feel like a motherless child, try the following. This Friday, skip the after-work happy hour. Go home, make yourself a decent meal, then head over to the Knight Concert Hall for Sweet Honey in the Rock. If you know your Ketuvim, you’ll know that the name comes…
You remember the space shuttle Columbia exploding upon reentry; 80s hair metal band Great White starting a fire that killed 100 people in a Rhode Island nightclub; Operation Iraqi Freedom beginning, and then “ending” one month later when a certain President pronounced, “Mission Accomplished.” And the list goes on: Martha…
Thank you, Maracas, for settling yourself right off US1, right before Oakland Park Boulevard (3001 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale) earlier this year. Because US1, home also to the neighboring “B’s” — Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Best Buy — was a tad boring. And the opposite…
In most ways, Sam Borkson had a typical American childhood. Growing up in the suburbs of western Broward County during the ’80s and ’90s, he watched Saturday-morning cartoons, read comic books, and played videogames. Like most kids from his generation, a ceaseless stream of pop-culture images seeped slowly into his…
There is something oddly familiar about Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, in which George Clooney plays a commitment-phobic business traveler with no use for meaningful human interaction. Could have sworn we’ve been here before. When was it? And where? Oh, yes, of course: Joel and Ethan Coen’s Intolerable Cruelty,…
Don’t be misled by the cheesy, generic poster for Kirk Jones’ Everybody’s Fine, in which a grinning Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, and Kate Beckinsale pose with Robert De Niro (airbrushed almost to the point of being unrecognizable) for a family photo in front of a Christmas tree. It’s a marketing…
Jim Sheridan’s remake of Danish director Susanne Bier’s 2005 original on the familial and psychic trauma caused by Operation Enduring Freedom feels like Operation Endurance. Marine captain and stalwart head-of-household Sam (Tobey Maguire), married to his high school sweetheart, Grace (Natalie Portman), and proud pop of two adorable daughters, returns…
In 1947 British-occupied Jerusalem, a precocious patriot faces conflicting expectations of loyalty in this terminally mild, ill-structured adaptation of Amos Oz’s novel Panther in the Basement. Barely squeaking by the citywide curfews, 11-year-old Proffy (Ido Port) strikes up a friendship with one would-be enforcer, Sergeant Dunlop (Alfred Molina), an amateur…
Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), that peculiar cultural institution known as the Walt Disney Co. has made a symbolic reparation by creating its first African-American princess—and plunking her down in the middle of Jim Crow-era Louisiana! For most of The Princess and the…
Do booze and creativity go hand in hand? We don’t know if it’s been scientifically proven, but we do know of some pretty bad-ass bibulous artists. Van Gogh, for example, drank absinthe and created Starry Night. OK, so you might think that’s a bad example because he cut off his…
South Florida of late seems to be a haven for jam bands. Hot new acts such as the Heavy Pets are making their mark, the Jam Cruise announced its biggest lineup yet, and when Langerado dropped the jam, the festival folded. The Perpetual Groove people are coming to cash in…
The twelve-hour music festival, the Buzz Bake Sale, presented by 103.1, The Buzz, will take place over three stages starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. The US Army Main Stage will include Say Anything, Sick Puppies, Our Lady Peace, Panic at the Disco, The Used, Matisyahu, Chevelle, and 30 Seconds To…
South Florida of late seems to be a haven for jam bands. Hot new acts such as the Heavy Pets are making their mark, the Jam Cruise announced its biggest lineup yet, and when Langerado dropped the jam, the festival folded. The Perpetual Groove people are coming to cash in…
The elegance of the kimono is matched only by its historical significance as a symbol of Japanese culture. The material, made of fine silks, and the colors, bright and vibrant, may seem really exotic to Westerners, but the kimono serves a very practical purpose: comfort. The garment was a staple…
Yes, the New England Patriots are the class act of the division. But, as Joey Porter likes to continuously remind everyone, the Miami Dolphins are still the defending AFC East champs. And even though Porter had as many tackles as your sister could have pulled off when New England beat…
