Arts & Culture

If you’re looking to improve your nutrition or hold up the aging process, the second-annual Green, Health, and Wellness Expo at the South Florida Science Museum is a necessary stop. It’s not giving away Botox, but it is teaching people how to live, and age, healthfully. Sponsored by Whole Foods,…

The Florida Marlins entered the All-Star break at 42-46 — and the ownership still wants you to believe this team is a playoff contender. But the reality is, the Marlins will start to trade players in the coming weeks. It’s predictable and sad. But mostly, it’s sad. As it is…

If the spirit of Ziggy Stardust were dead, it would be reincarnated as the interplanetary glam-fab superstar Travulous. Word is, he’s just arrived on the scene from a world populated with David Bowie-styled androgynous types, but already he’s sprinkling his charm all over DIY art space the Bubble. Lucky for…

This past year, South Florida’s museums exhibited ancient Italian tapestries, even more ancient Chinese textiles, Norman Rockwell — OK, what we’re getting at is that none of this art came with a party, and we noticed. These exhibits failed to showcase lowbrow and radical art, local indie-rock bands, and avant-garde…

Every day, pets are euthanized — 150 dogs at Miami Animal Services alone — because no one takes them home from a shelter. But a local organization called Save a Death Row Dog, founded by activist Diane Peters and run by volunteers, gives dogs a second lease on life. They’re…

French for “new art,” art nouveau — drolly mispronounced by Ali G as “now-voo or now-voh or whatevuh” — was an art movement that aimed to make art a part of everyday life. So it’s apt that an art-events company by the same name would host an exhibition dedicated to…

For a second there, Dwyane Wade was in free-agency limbo, having gone past flirting with the Chicago Bulls to taking them home and leaving Pat Riley sitting at the bar alone, staring at his phone, and pretending to text someone. But the gravitational pull of Biscayne Bay proved too strong…

Ditch the goth, punk, or metal attire for the night and add white powder and red blood to your face. Wear a bikini or a banana hammock. Would a foaming mouth be too much? No, not Saturday night. Not at this show: It’s “zombie at the beach”-themed. Enough said… but…

It’s odd that Ron White was one of the original members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, considering the persona he projects on stage: cigar in hand, swirling and swilling scotch, a block-jawed Texan with shiny white teeth and a dark suit coat. A born storyteller who projects oil tycoon,…

Two issues the average American struggles with are going green and staying lean. And although our addiction to cars and carbs has made those goals difficult to attain, it certainly can’t hurt to start bike riding. But what kind of bike? And what about maintenance? Bike clubs? Bueller? Fret not…

With the exception of The Jetsons, the future pretty much always gets a bum rap. Sci-fi books and films usually prophesy our doom in a dystopian wasteland that lies ahead with foreign, maybe alien invaders, plagues, zombies, or, even better, zombie plagues. Meanwhile, the past, even in its more traumatic…

The Washington Nationals’ Stephen Strasburg has burst unto the MLB scene with all the pomp and circumstance reserved for special sure-fire future Hall of Famers. And the hype is well-deserved. Strasburg features a fastball that averages 98 mph and throws a filthy 92-mph changeup. He has also shown that he…

Life is like a box of chocolates? Oh, hell no. If anything, it’s a game of cards — gin rummy, to be exact. That much is clear in D.L. Coburn’s The Gin Game, which pits two residents of a nursing home to verbally duke it out over a deck of…

The first ’80s-themed party probably took place sometime in early 1990. Maybe it was the Rubik’s Cubes, the neon colors, or the slatted plastic sunglasses that did nothing to keep the sun out — or maybe it’s because the ’90s were so lame in comparison. Whatever the reason, brat pack…

The Cold War’s over, but there are still 23,000 nuclear warheads on Earth and perhaps just as many real-life Dr. Strangeloves. In fact, for the first time, a nuclear power, Pakistan, is being threatened to the core in a civil war with Islamic terrorists, who have unabashed hard-ons for the…

Thursday night, Revolution will be full of hot bodies and cold blood. It’s going to be the adult version of Clue when the Fort Lauderdale-based burlesque troupe the Reckless Dames perform their “Death Becomes Her” murder mystery show. Here’s the setup: Each dame was killed, and her murder will be…

It’s your choice. You could either elbow your way through the crowds at Sawgrass to get your loved ones T-shirts from Old Navy, or you could come to the Indie Craft Bazaar at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale), a historic movie house, and pick up one-of-a-kind pieces…

Think of the new Miami Art Museum (101 W. Flagler St., Miami) exhibit, “New Work Miami 2010”, as CliffsNotes to the local contemporary art scene. Curator Ren calls it a complex show that represents a complex art community; if pressed to summarize, he says that a lot of the pieces…

“Tuesdays at Monterey Club” should not be kept a secret. South Floridians, it would be hard to stumble upon another joint that offers such great tunes every week. Location: The Monterey Club is deserted in the middle of nowhere — AKA South Federal Highway on the way to the Fort…