Once, in the ’80s, we starred in a DIY inspirational video where making waffles was a metaphor for career success. We thought the death of the VHS format meant the evidence would eventually disintegrate in some faraway Salvation Army thrift store. Yet there’s a group of seven friends who search…
Wallpaper. They’re the new Michael Jacksons: Keeping their noses to the grindstone, Bay Area dudes Eric Frederic and beat-keeper Arjun Singh produced and recorded the wonderwall of danceable sonic rubbish unfortunately called “Doodoo Face” (Eeenie Meenie). This is a very funny thang, greasy glittery funk liberally drizzled with monster beats,…
We’re going to help dress you for the Steampunk’d party at Club X-it. OK, tap into your science-fiction mindset. We’ll break it down simply: Using the aesthetics of Victorian romance, steampunks take modern technology and then interpret it 1800s style. So, take a gown, corset, coat, petticoat, suit with vest,…
Some have said Florida Marlins outfielder Mike Stanton could give Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg a run for his money for NL Rookie of the Year. Mainly because Stanton is just a mountain of five-tool awesomeness that can hit 500-foot home runs and throw out runners like a heat-seeking missile. However,…
Waiting for vaudevillian swamp rock band Viva Le Vox’s homecoming after two months of touring is analogous to the idea of a crack addict preparing to receive a dime bag after 48 hours of excessive tweaking. Overly dramatic? Nope. Not for a band that’s warned city after city via hilarious…
Family, work, or a tight-knit group of overly enthusiastic mommy friends could be blamed for us women having a stranglehold on our ovaries. Although you’ll find feminist works both on disputing and applauding the importance of becoming a mother, a new art show helps to broaden the scope of what…
Five college kids of drinking age are vacationing in the woods, AKA the outskirts of South Federal Highway, near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The cabin, called the Monterey Club, where they had been enjoying beer, cider, and wine, has now become possessed. Creepy things lurk around the cushy couches,…
Kathy Griffin’s played a kooky nurse in an Eminem music video, been a celebrity interviewer on the red carpet, played Brooke Shields’ bitter colleague on Suddenly Susan, and been on endless reality shows. So we weren’t that surprised when she made the D-list. But the surgically enhanced, rapid-fire-witted comedian has…
The last name of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician and astrologer, is the root of the word mesmerize. His method and theory of animal magnetism, a convoluted absurdity based loosely on alchemy, was taken seriously enough in 1784 that King Louis XVI commissioned a panel of experts to…
Waiting for vaudevillian swamp rock band Viva Le Vox’s homecoming after two months of touring is analogous to the idea of a crack addict preparing to receive a dime bag after 48 hours of excessive tweaking. Overly dramatic? Nope. Not for a band that’s warned city after city via hilarious…
Bear and Bird Gallery, perched atop Tate’s Comics in Lauderhill, has long explored the connection between fine art and toys. Past events have included a munny doll extravaganza (the plastic toys that serve as blank canvases), getting as close as you can to making a silk purse out of a…
For every happy-hour diva who’s a musical legend in her own mind, there’s a buzzed barfly who finds nothing so entertaining as a tone-deaf drunk with delusions of grandeur. But still, the scene can get a bit stale. Try the Monterey Club: On Sundays, the rockabilly bar takes a break…
The dance battles that structure the Step Up films are all about “the move” — the one unexpected, mind-blowing, totally impossible move that ends a competition and raises the game. The franchise itself has attempted such a maneuver with its third installment, Step Up 3D. Meant to take the scrappy…
Mondays, well, they’re called “manic” for a reason. That’s why Jazid Lounge every week provides a tonic called Open Mind Monday to the pleasure-starved masses. Like us, you probably get paid Friday, and you can’t be blowing that minimum wage right away. Good thing Jazid has drink and food specials…
“Never ask for what ought to be offered,” 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) tells her little brother in Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik’s dark and flinty Ozark fairy tale. Those are words to live by for Ree and her people, scattered across the hardscrabble crooks and hollers of the southern Missouri…
In a go-nowhere Pacific Northwest town, dreamy high school sailor Charlie (played mostly by Zac Efron’s abs and piercing gaze) puts his Stanford scholarship plans on indefinite hold after he momentarily flatlines in a car accident, which also takes his little brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan). Half a decade later, Charlie…
In Steve Carell’s first few episodes of the American version of The Office, the series hewed closely to the template created by the series’ British mastermind, Ricky Gervais. But in the United States, audiences didn’t take to so bleak a comic vision, and soon, the tone of the series evolved…
Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass has plenty of fans — it copped an award at Cannes in 2009 — but I don’t see what they see. The 87-year-old filmmaker’s latest is an insufferable exercise in cutie-pie modernism, painfully unfunny and precious to a fault. Georges (Resnais regular André Dussollier) finds a…
Florida Stage has completed its move to the Rinker Playhouse, an inelegant, forgotten-looking corner of the Kravis Center. And it’s the perfect venue for Low Down Dirty Blues, a jukebox musical I intend to forget the moment this screed is off to print. Low Down is allegedly a celebration of…
Congratulations to the Caldwell Theatre, which has pulled off that rarest of all theatrical feats: the production of an intelligent summertime show. Usually, summer shows are half-assed and cynical, a money grab to make the subscribers pay full price for a show that cost almost nothing. Well, that’s not how…
About as unremarkable as a film about talking animals organized into competing intelligence agencies can be, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore overcompensates for its preschool premise (I don’t know if you’ve heard, but these house pets — they don’t like each other) with a steroidal story line…
On your bedside table, there’s a fat stack of auto porn — Hot Rod, Lowrider, Super Street, etc. — and a half-used bottle of motor oil because you are a gearhead, a car junkie, a donk devotee. Out in the garage, there are several modern-day muscle cars stripped and laid…
