First thing to go wrong was the patriotic opening. The flag-waving DVD wouldn't fire up on the projection screen above the arena; then the Hollywood Police Department's Honor Guard came in too soon, plodding in through the wrong gate. Of course, it wasn't like anyone would notice among the folks...
Maria Jackson and Helen Chervin happily give tours of their Hollywood neighborhood. It's not a tour you'll find in a promotional pamphlet. In fact, city officials admit that they "surrendered" this neighborhood a long time ago. But Jackson and Chervin haven't. On a recent weekday afternoon, Jackson and Chervin, notebooks...
This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy, combined with a touch of felonious assault. It has evidently not occurred to Steve Martin that, just as there is only one Eiffel Tower, there is...
BROWARD/PALM BEACH CLUBS Alligator Alley: If you want to keep it cheap this New Year's Eve and avoid people hurling and acting insane, you might want to head over to Alligator Alley's "No Hype, No High Prices" nonextravaganza. $10 gets you the buffet and the band, Way of the Groove...
Joe Rodriguez was racing upriver in an aluminum skiff when he began to grasp the folly of hunting wild pig by moonlight in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest packing the fishing camp's only .12-gauge shotgun shell. Joe is a fishing guide by trade, accustomed to handling sharks and rays in...
Most casual classic-rock fans are familiar with the bizarre world of the Grateful Dead. But only the seriously Dead-icated care enough to follow the explosion of side projects that has fallen out after the demise of head Deadhead Jerry Garcia. RatDog is one of the more popular spinoffs, the former-side-turned-full-time...
Listen up, kiddies. Next time you want to buy a copy of Grand Theft Auto or Stubbs the Zombie, you might need Mom's permission. State Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla sponsored a bill in the Senate two weeks ago that would prohibit minors from buying or renting video games...
When Outtakes heard the exciting news that the New York Dolls were playing Fort Lauderdale, we decided to dig up the proto-punk glam-band's local history. After all, this is the group, led by David Johansen (a.k.a. Buster Poindexter, he of "Hot Hot Hot" infamy) that helped usher in the punk...
Max Caulfield didn't know why he'd been pulled over, but he knew it was deadly serious. He couldn't see the police in his rearview mirror, but he knew they were there, hidden in the darkness behind a glaring wall of white light. He couldn't hear them on the elevated stretch...
Five weeks after the Miami Herald canned columnist Jim DeFede, his spot in the newsroom appeared, well, rather strange. A crash dummy in a baseball cap, jeans, and Nikes sat in his chair. Its left hand rested on the desk next to a bottle of Australian Chardonnay. Nearby was a...
With Bob Marley wailing from her speakers, Sue Gibbons cruised north on Pine Island Road in Sunrise, keeping in mind her New Year's resolution to drive the speed limit. It was Saturday evening, January 1, 2005, so the pledge the 32-year-old Trinidadian immigrant had made was fresh in her mind...
There's nothing like a feisty group exhibition to usher in another long, hot South Florida summer, and so the "Hollywood All-Media Juried Biennial" is as welcome as a tall, tart glass of ice-cold lemonade. The competition was established just two years ago by the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood's...
Johnny VThirty years from now, when you’re a full-blown diabetic jabbing your beleaguered index finger to test your blood sugar for the fourth time in a day, bemoaning your descent into infirmity and disease, you will think back. You will remember, with morning-after regret, the diminishing returns of those Pepsi refills, the cheap half-thrill of real […]
Johnny VThirty years from now, when you’re a full-blown diabetic jabbing your beleaguered index finger to test your blood sugar for the fourth time in a day, bemoaning your descent into infirmity and disease, you will think back. You will remember, with morning-after regret, the diminishing returns of those Pepsi refills, the cheap half-thrill of real […]
$569. That's what you, as an average Fort Lauderdale resident, paid in property taxes in 2003. You shelled out $116 more than residents of Miami and Jacksonville, $187 more than citizens of Tampa and Orlando, and $321 more than inhabitants of St. Petersburg. And that was before city commissioners slammed...
Back in 1997, the world was thirsty for Thievery Corporation. European acts like Kruder and Dorfmeister and Fila Brazillia were ranking high on the IHI (International Hipster Index), and as Rob Garza and Eric Hilton rose from the D.C. underground with their late-night brand of smoky, dub-inflected beatscapes, downtempo coalesced...
Quiet Waters Park gets medieval on your ass SAT 2/12 Native south Floridians are accustomed to determining the seasons by the migration patterns of tourists. For example, when we see cars with their headlights on during the daytime, we know it's the December arrival of the Canadian snowbirds. When Las...
Ming Ng's first contest was a snap. On the first day of the Women's Professional Billiard Association Classic Tour at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino last month, Ng coolly dispatched a middle-aged woman newly returned to pool after many years of absence to raise her kids. The woman...
This ten-song compilation from Latino-loving producer Chris Allison's Sonic360 label offers a full-body rubdown of slick Argentine electronica. Allison is responsible for bringing edgy Mexican outfits like Kinky and the Nortec Collective north of the border, and though most tracks here fit neatly into the standard funky house niche (which...
Donald Baker takes a drag from a cigarette as he sits in front of a laptop computer at his mother's mobile home near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. A lanky 52-year-old with light-brown hair that flows down to his shoulders but thins at the top, Baker...
Tailpipe thought about jumping on the conspiracy-theory bandwagon to explain the Dubya's unexpectedly breezy victory in Florida. But then the 'Pipe learned about that core of conservative Christian suburbanites up around Orlando. Nuts. Let the liberal bloggers wail about miscounts and computer foul-ups, the 'Pipe reasoned; there just wasn't any...
Hey, kids! You wanna look cool at the club, with a style that just screams "Look at me!"? Well, nothing will get you there quicker than downing one of the many trendy hip-hop-flavored energy drinks on the market right now. At least, that's what Nelly, Ice-T, Russell Simmons, and Lil'...
