In the world of superheroes, the Caped Taco’s accomplishments have been forgotten. Sure, he successfully legislated for equality between the two, warring salsa factions: red and verde. He even lowered teenaged promiscuity statistics with his PSA campaign: “Keep Your Taco Closed” — but nobody remembers those things. Not since what…
God Bless Florida — land where bikini-clad women stroll throughout bars. Sure, these glorious beings are typically found in bars near the beach, but that’s not a fashion show; that’s a dress code. For fashion, Chris Michael’s Boca, a new restaurant and lounge, will host from 8 to 10 p.m…
You’re a popular dominatrix with ten years of experience in torture play. You’ve got an extensive collection of rubber cudgels and leather whips. You’re a very, very naughty girl. Well, not really. Compared to European freaks of the 16th and 17th centuries, you are a total amateur. Back then, a…
The new musical The 12 at the Broward Center of the Performing Arts will tell the story of Jesus’ roadies through the music of the devil: Hellelujah! After their leader is bogusly slain, they’ll create more buzz than a backstage bag of coke. Each of the 12 apostles will spread…
When we look back on ’60s comedy, we think foremost of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, stand-ups who did yeoman’s work railing against the venality of the establishment (roughly: moneyed white men). More quietly, Bill Cosby actually reached the targets of those comics’ scorn, and made them his audience. Once…
You think your life sucks? Listen to Celie, the lead character in The Color Purple. This gal will sing about surviving some of life’s most horrible tragedies — while she has a smile on her face. Perhaps, the hope in her heart will help you walk out feeling a bit…
If by chance you find yourself lost in Fort Lauderdale around 9 p.m. this Tuesday, seek out the nearby not-so-castle-like saloon J’s Bar (2780 Davie Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). Because, inside, some strange cats will be holding something akin to an Annual Transylvanian Convention. This Tuesday’s showing of Scary-O-Kee is themed:…
In the ’50s, the Tupperware party types were the ones who celebrated the dawning of suburbia and plastic. And saleswoman Brownie Wise was the party’s pioneer. After she appeared on the cover of Business Week, Earl Tupper, the inventor of Tupperware, got jealous of her fame. He cut her out…
Starting with Wednesday’s 7:30 p.m. match against the Philadelphia 76ers, the Heat’s path to the playoffs looks pretty easy. There will be three games at home, including this Friday night’s game against the Pistons and then the season-ender against the NBA’s worst squad, the Nets, on April 14. The only…
Although there may be thousands of amateur jugglers, only a few are talented enough to do it for a living. The Passing Zone is those guys. Jon Wee and Owen Morse have been throwing shit at each other since the mid-’80s. Bowling balls, knives, torches, even people — you name…
Lost boy John Hughes was inducted into the pantheon this month, when the Academy devoted a moving Oscar-night tribute to the departed writer/director. But do you actually remember being a teenage moviegoer in the 1980s? It wasn’t all some kind of wonderful. Hughes movies came out twice a year, if…
Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Greenberg is the sort of mordant character study that people imagine were common in the ’70s. Greenberg is unafraid to project a downbeat worldview or feature an impossible protagonist. Loser Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is also painfully poignant. Noah Baumbach’s sixth feature is his first…
Chloe is posh, cool, and never less than obvious. The movie was adapted by Erin Cressida Wilson from Anne Fontaine’s marital thriller Nathalie…, and it’s a sophisticated Gallic shrug-fest hailed by some for featuring an adulterous triangle unimaginable in an American movie. Successful gynecologist Catherine (Julianne Moore) suspects, not without…
It would take more than three dimensions to craft something special out of this adequate but unremarkable animated tale of a skinny Viking nerd-boy (voiced by Jay Baruchel) named Hiccup who befriends fire-breathing dragons hoping to impress his father (Gerard Butler), a beefy Norseman with a Glasgow accent and triceps…
Animals and people are all jumbled up in this hyperactive Belgian puppet animation — as in A Town Called Panic’s central ménage of Cowboy, Indian, and Horse. The filmmakers, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, show little regard for scale and less for convention. Cowboy (Aubier) is a screeching hysteric, and…
It wasn’t that long ago when South Florida got shafted: This area was left out of almost every music tour that didn’t involve the swamp or a fairground. But then entered the era of the small emo-metal and pop punk tours like Taste of Chaos. The next moderately-sized tour of…
Sure, any reasonable person with a subscription to Juxtapoz Magazine and a penchant for complimentary wine and cheese can call themselves an art lover. But, if you’re looking for art you can spoon, it’s best not to turn to your framed, limited edition Hope poster (that Shepard Fairey has sharp…
Who’s Lang Lang? Oh, just a child-prodigy Chinese pianist. Now 27 years old, he has played for kings and queens, helped score Hollywood films like The Painted Veil, and performed at the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony as well as with some the world’s top orchestras. Items you can purchase at…
Maybe the Winter Olympics should be played every year — or maybe every February the National Hockey League should just take a two-and-a-half week break — because since the Olympics, the Panthers have looked like a different team. Forget those guys who couldn’t close out opponents: This Panthers squad plays…
The Miami Heat teeters between the eighth and ninth playoff seed in the east — as they try to stay consistent against the likes of the lowly 76ers and craptastical Clippers. While Miami has a healthy Dwyane Wade denting asses on a nightly basis, the rest of the rotation has…
Helping celebrate all things Latino is Maroone. Did you know that, besides providing cars, they put on the longest running Hispanic festival in Broward? This year’s Hispanic Fest will celebrate the big 2-2 from noon to 9 p.m. Sunday at Pines Recreation Center (7400 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines). The festival…
Puerto Rican-American salsa singer Victor Manuelle has long been called “El Sonero de la Juventud,” or “the Sonero of the Youth.” There isn’t a clear translation for the word sonero, but it suffices to say it is salsa’s version of a freestyler. Manuelle has earned the title for his abilities…
