Here’s what an R rating gets you these days: a few splattery headshots, some glimpses of cable TV-style background nudity, a couple kids and families popped by assassins, a brace of fucks, in dialogue, and one un-bracing fuck, in bed, mostly clothed. During its longueurs, this engagingly grim spy-versus-spymasters time-passer…
In an effort to protect one of South Florida’s most beloved sea creatures, the Loggerhead Marinelife Center has teamed up with the Gardens Mall and PNC Bank to host its inaugural Fash Bash. Located in one of Palm Beach County’s most luxurious malls, the Fash Bash will mix high-end fashion…
After enduring a two-month permitting battle with the City of Boynton Beach, the Boynton Beach Art District’s monthly art walk returns this Thursday enlivened and reenergized. With its city ban now lifted, BBAD’s Art Walk celebrates its four-year anniversary this week. Sprouting from a nearly abandoned warehouse lot, this event…
You know what nobody wants to hear? Your newfound love for footie, the football, fútbol, the king sport, the most beautiful yadda yadda yadda… Nobody cares unless you’ve been a fixture at Lockhart. Back in the ’70s, when someone tried to capitalize on the sport on these shores, your Fort…
Although the sport of MMA has seen its fair share of headlines lately, they have not been the kind that an industry would strive for. With the arrest last week of MMA fighter Jonathan “War Machine” Koppenhaver making international news for an alleged brutal attack on his ex-girlfriend, the sport…
As a grown woman with a critical eye on society’s (sometimes ridiculous) cultural norms, do you ever wonder who in the ever-living eff started the moratorium on white clothing after Labor Day? And why — season after season — you witness store employees banish the verboten whites to the clearance…
Don’t be passé and get caught wearing white after Labor Day; get it all out of your system this weekend at the End of Summer White Party at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. This posh summer sendoff gives revelers a chance to dress to impress in their summertime white…
Ever wonder what all those colorful, weird-shaped, cartoon-looking Japanese snack foods taste like? If you’re feeling adventurous, you can try them all for free at Tate’s Comics. This week, the comic-book shop in Lauderhill is hosting its annual Summertime Japanese Snack Tasting and offering more than a dozen specialty Japanese…
Although it feels nice that we have progressed technologically, the nostalgia of the good old days when you had to rewind VHS tapes and record onto cassette tapes still lingers for some of us. An open house for a juried artwork exhibition, by the Council of Palm Beach County and…
When was the last time you checked your local Craigslist personals? The sad messages, often written in broken English, present a bleak, pervy view of singles culture. So 27-year-old Marilyn Rondón had an idea. Why not post a Craigslist personal ad titled “Latina Seeks Thug,” explaining she wanted said thug…
Sin City, population unknown but dropping every minute, is a gorgeous place, but you wouldn’t want to live there. Even the shadows and broken glass are beautiful in this black-and-white world. Only the women — all gorgeous — give the streets a pop of color. That is, only the women…
In a year full of film adaptations of fantastical young-adult novels (Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars, Vampire Academy, The Giver), If I Stay confronts the audience with stark reality. Adapted from a book by Gayle Forman, the film finds its main character, Mia Hall, in a coma after a…
Should grownups be spending their time reading young-adult novels, at the risk of missing the supposed riches of fiction written for actual grownups? A recent essay in Slate groused about the legions of adults who long ago graduated from the 12th grade but still devour YA fiction at the expense…
Jennifer M. Kroot’s To Be Takei is an affectionate portrait of the hardest-working member of the original cast of Star Trek, George Takei. That’s pronounced tuh-KAY, not tuh-KAI, as so many have misspoken it over the years, including but not limited to William Shatner, whose strained nonrelationship with Takei —…
Equally seductive as it is inert, Terry Miles’ Cinemanovels manages to cast an alluring spell, despite not amounting to much. It sticks in the memory, mostly due to the playful lead performance by Lauren Lee Smith, a slinky blond with both the angular gravitas of Chloë Sevigny and the goofy,…
According to inspirational sports movies, winning demands you train hard, play with heart, be a team, and not care about winning. So it goes in the sturdy, crowd-pleasing When the Game Stands Tall, a profile in saintliness puffed up from a true story: the Northern California Catholic school whose football…
How do you spend your Thursday nights? If it’s scouting out the cheapest PBR, then we hate to say it, but you’re doing it wrong. If you spend Thursday nights lounging on your beaten-up couch, saving up your social contacts for the weekend, you too, we are afraid, are doing…
Don’t get us started… don’t even get us started on the stale and sad stereotypes of female improv comedians out there. (For anyone who got the vintage Molly Shannon reference — high-fives forever.) Because as much as that old trope exists of the permanently-stuck-in-the-’80s, shoulder-pads-to-the-earlobes-wearing woman who is a Cathy…
Ready to take shots and drink cocktails with Boca’s local celebs? In an effort to benefit the mission of the Best Foot Forward Foundation, Boca Chamber Festival Days are hosting local celebs Troy McLellan, president and CEO of the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce; Randy Nobles, 2014 chair of the…
It’s a tale as old as a bad E! reality-TV script: Entitled rich woman’s plans for remarriage foiled when hardheaded but passionate ex-husband shows up days before the wedding with a posse of tabloid reporters and forces her to rethink everything she thought she knew about love and [insert dramatic…
With Robert Plant’s epic yawps, Jimmy Page’s masterful, bewitching guitar strokes, and John Bonham’s monstrous snare-drum rolls, Led Zeppelin rose to become one of the ’70s’ seminal acts. Arguably, its sound defined a generation and will go down in the annals of classic rock for generations to come. Most of…
Although walking into a tattoo parlor is an art show in itself, Ink and Pistons Tattoo is showcasing the artwork of nautical-themed tattoo designs in its own group art show, “Mermaids & Mysteries of the Deep.” To see the talent of more than 30 local artists, people can stop by…
