There was a time when Carl Sagan was the James Bond of public science intellectuals: Women wanted him, and men wanted to be him. How cool is a job that lets you study and explore and pontificate on the outer reaches of the universe? By the time of his death…
The Monterey Club is a venue loved by music junkies, and now it’s scoring the fashionistas when it hosts its second Pin-Up Fashion Show. New Times has described this bar aplenty: It’s rockabilly/retro-themed. There are cushy couches and animal-print rugs; hot rods sit out front. But, on Friday, the Monterey…
It’s not every professional sport that you can just pony up some cash to play alongside some of the best in the world — in an actual competition. Actually, we can’t think of any sport. But pool is different. The names Corey Deuel, Alison Fisher, and Johnny Archer might not…
Beach Bash 2010 claims to be “Fort Lauderdale’s sexiest party of the year.” We can’t really vouch for that. After all, this is South Florida. If you don’t have a sunburn on your ass, then you’re wearing too much clothing. But let’s look at the situation objectively. What makes something…
As a young boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, Ruedi Beglinger watched in awe as his father returned home from climbing expeditions and mountain rescue missions. Stephen Grynberg’s documentary, A Life Ascending, captured how the 51-year-old Swiss-Canadian mountaineer not only followed his father’s footsteps but took it further by…
Dwyane Wade has long been known ’round these parts as “Flash.” It was a moniker bestowed upon him by Shaquille O’Neal when “The Big Diesel” signed with the Miami Heat in 2004. At the time, it seemed an appropriate nickname for D-Wade. He was a young, up-and-coming, star with lightning…
Seems like a new festival pops up about every two weeks in our parts. This recent phenomenon isn’t so awful, though; it never hurts to try to up one’s cultural pursuits. The inaugural Palm Beach Art and Music Festival intends to do just that. The festival’s sponsor, West Palm Beach’s…
The Boys in the Band is the catty gay version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The 1968 off-Broadway play (which ran for 1,001 shows) takes place in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where a motley group of gay men is holding a birthday party for…
Even the antichrist loves Santa’s Enchanted Forest (7900 Bird Road, Miami) — hey, switch a couple of letters in the fat man’s name and you’re talking about the lord of the underworld anyway. Twenty-eight years into Tropical Park’s festival of a million lights, “Let’s go to Santa’s” is still a…
Does it matter that a young Israeli filmmaker’s imaginative reconstruction of an abandoned Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto is not, strictly speaking, a documentary? Not if it sets a crucial historical record straight. Discovered by East German archivists after World War II and accepted for decades as one…
Tarik Saleh’s Metropia paints a dismal and dejected picture of Western civilization 14 years from now — a society in crisis, nearly depleted of resources, leaving its citizens with shrinking motivations and aspirations. The animated movie accentuates scenes of dark and polluted skies, dilapidated buildings, and message boards with propaganda…
Beyond fans of Mélanie Laurent—who furiously fingers a fiddle and wears flashback wigs—The Concert may appeal to those who delight in stereotypes (Jews like money!). Andrei Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) pushes a broom at the Bolshoi, where he lost his status as star conductor 30 years ago under Brezhnev for refusing…
When we first see bi computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the final adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy, she is being transported to a hospital in Gothenburg, bloodied almost beyond recognition, the result of a bullet put in her brain by…
Road, Movie is an expression of director Dev Benegal’s adulation for film. The inspiration was a personal experience he had watching people travel across vacant landscape to watch a movie. In Road, Movie the lead character, Vishnu (Abhay Deol), is a discontented salesman who jumps at an opportunity to escape…
There are no rules on Halloween: If it’s on a Sunday, you are still doing it up. But don’t commit any crimes — unless they are ones that follow the protocol of what is expected at Zombie Prom. See, for Halloween, our friendly neighborhood joint on U.S. 1 south of…
Scary Mary claims she can call on the dead in photos. She says she has photos of orbs, ghosts, and vortexes. Don’t believe ghosts are real? She’ll prove you wrong during her undead art show. On Halloween, she’ll reveal more than 200 ghost pictures at the Spider Web (607 E…
The holiday of sexiness includes none of that lovey-dovey sex of patron Saint Valentine. Halloween is slutty, which makes it the perfect day for a Fetish Factory gala. This year’s Halloween Fetish Ball is from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Saturday, October 30, at Exit 66 Nightclub. The masquerade/fetish…
Sexy sailors? Check. Naughty nautical double entendres? Of course. A street full of uninhibited gaytastic gay-ety? This is Wilton Manors, people. Wilton Drive will be taken over for Wicked Weekend 2010, “FantaSea Island.” Events include drink specials, dance parties, the Annual Bear Appreciation Party at Bill’s, a dozen human costume…
Believe it or not, Halloween originated from a religious holiday — which is interesting considering that over the years Halloween’s turned every city into a whorehouse. Luckily some cultures do better at keeping traditions intact, such as the Mexican Dia de los Muertos, or So before the streets of downtown…
If you aim to dress up like Gene Vincent for Halloween, head over to the Kreepy Tiki Tattoos and Rockabilly Lounge to stock up on wingtip shoes, vintage hats, and pomade. The retro accouterments, for both men and women, are being sold from a new section of the shop that…
The biggest story heading into the Miami Heat preseason was the realization of finally seeing the Three Kings on the court, in action, in Heat uniforms, obliterating the competition. Then, three minutes into the trio’s debut as a team, Dwyane Wade strained his hamstring, and he was forced to sit…
If you’ve seen Steven Tyler from Aerosmith anytime in the last decade you’ve surely thought, “That man was dashing when he was young but now his face could scare a blind woman.” Well, now that observation could make you money, $25,000 to be exact. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and…
