In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in the kind of cocktail dress a screen heroine wears when a slow-building love plot is coming to a head; it is the perfect costume for, say, leaving one suitor to run across Manhattan to another. Which McAdams’ Becky ultimately…
In Unstoppable, an unmanned runaway freight train, laden with toxic waste, is careening across Pennsylvania! There’s another train with innocent schoolchildren on the same tracks! Who will save them? Denzel Washington and Star Trek’s Chris Pine — that’s who — under the direction of hectic-action auteur Tony Scott. We expect…
For a catch phrase to make it past the 15-minute mark, it has to be succinct and easy to remember and have the right person deliver it. That’s why even though it’s been more than 30 years since the final Good Times episode, Jimmie Walker is still known for those…
The Miami Dolphins have been road warriors this season, going into places like Green Bay, Minnesota, Buffalo, and Cincinnati and emerging victorious. Their home games, however, are quite a different story. In the three games the Fins have played at the supposedly friendly confines of Sun Life Stadium (2269 Dan…
Vintage, handmade goods and records! Oh my! The mini Odd Duck Bazaar will be the perfect one-stop shop for crafty and geeky delights when the lovely ladies from the Hollywood Craft Mafia team up with local favorites Jezebel Vintage Clothing and Radio-Active Records on Saturday for the Retro/Geek Show. The…
The venue of choice in which to party these days is the warehouse. Because, sure, bars can add features like an art show, and we’ll dig it, but at a warehouse — Swarm Warehouse, to be exact — it’s a night at the indie circus. Swarm Warehouse happens to be…
The Miami Heat opened the 2010 NBA season against the Eastern Conference Champion Boston Celtics two weeks ago. It did not go well. The Heat were hit by a lack of cohesion and a rabid playoff-like Boston crowd. It was like a storm of deficiency and doucheyness. Dwyane Wade was…
Miss Vicky Keller has given much of her life to the local gay community. The straight mother of three — and surrogate mother to many gay men cast out by their families — founded a lesbian choir and an ’80s anti-AIDS organization. She notarized the first domestic partnership in Broward…
There’s a strange fundraiser sponsored by the Lighthouse Center for the Arts in Tequesta. Every guest goes home with a piece of art. But they have to run for it — specifically, sprint through the gallery like crazed shoppers on a Black Friday. At this year’s Fourth Annual D’art for…
Americans like pets. And when Americans like something, they really like to get together and like it in large gatherings. Welcome to the Happy Paws Pet Expo, on Saturday and Sunday, where you can indulge your every pet-related whim, be it furry, feathered, scaled, or otherwise. Traditional dog lovers will…
Chances are if you logged time in the teenaged punk-rock contingent, works by artist Raymond Pettibon hung with enough double-sided Scotch tape to keep them from vibrating off your walls as the Circle Jerks’ “World Up My Ass” blasted through your speakers. Serving as visual accompaniment to the soundtrack of…
All right, so you managed to learn a few salsa moves by watching dance tutorials on YouTube. That’s fine at first, but in the end, you’re still just dancing with a computer. If you really want to experience salsa dancing, you’ll need a partner. And Wednesday’s Latin Night at Stage…
Maybe health consciousness has finally gone too far. “Powerful You!” is a new interactive exhibit presented by Broward Health that opens Friday at the Museum of Discovery and Science (401 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale). It’s aimed at teaching families about the complex biological machine that is the human body,…
Sure, it’s satisfying when a local venue gets a crack at, say, a major Picasso show. But one of the great pleasures of going to museums is getting exposed to artists we know little or even nothing about. Case in point: The Boca Raton Museum of Art has done justice…
In Due Date, a skinny, scowly, and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach Galifianakis boarding a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles. Downey Jr. plays Peter, a Bluetoothed architect with a very pregnant wife (Michelle Monaghan) waiting at home for him; Galifianakis’ Ethan is a…
Adapted from Valerie Plame and Joseph C. Wilson’s memoirs, the unsurprisingly validating Fair Game begins as a timeline-hopping international thriller of the countdown months to the second Iraq War. Covert CIA operative Plame (Naomi Watts) and ex-ambassador husband Wilson (Sean Penn) are proverbial ships passing in the night, shuttling from…
It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, California, where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf in December 1974 to Atlanta’s Tyler Perry Studios, where the impresario filmed much of this calamitous adaptation. Though striving…
On matters animated and three-dimensional, I take my cue from the 7-year-old sitting at my right, who got megafidgety about ten minutes into Megamind, a 3-D superhero story about the villain who — shockingly — turns into the good guy. (“Same story as Despicable Me,” said the wee one.) To…
There was a city living in the head of George Bernard Shaw. More than any playwright since, he had the ability to let his characters see the world from their own angles and report back on their views. Shaw’s plays have a particular verbal crackle, inspired by the playwright’s love…
The fastest way to make the poseur list in skateboarding is to ride mongo — kicking with your front foot. But anyone with hopes of winning Saturday’s Adrenalina Skateboard Marathon will have to alternate feet to give each leg a rest. There’s nothing short about this race, from the boards…
If you grew up watching Saturday Night Live (and who didn’t?), you’re familiar with the period of time when the show’s popularity declined. But right when SNL’s viewer ratings were scraping the bottom of the barrel, new comedians — and characters — swooped in. All of a sudden, you were…
They say you can never truly understand another person until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes. In that case, who can be more uniquely qualified to support “Women in Distress” than the ladies of Lips? Diva and her fellow queens have done a marathons’ worth of walking in their…
