New Orleans has always been a bit of a melting pot. From language to food to culture, it's a place where combination and commingling are the rule rather than the exception. This fact is as true of New Orleans' musical history as of anything else, and few bands encapsulate the spirit of the Crescent ... Full Story »
If you’re in Homestead and catch a whiff of barbeque and charcoal wafting through the air, chances are you’re at Ribfest . This Saturday and Sunday, local grilling experts will take to the outdoors for two days of ribs, motorcycles, grills and entertainment while the country side of ... Full Story »
The Paris-born Sleepless Night seems tailor-made for a town like Miami Beach, where hotel rooms are just a secure place to store your bags. This Saturday, the all-night celebration is back with 150 free cultural events from Mid Beach down to the Pointe. Trying to hit them all is futile, so he... Full Story »
The Lilith Fair has officially announced 18 dates for 2010, none of which include South Florida. But for the last three years, we've had our own all-women's music fest. FemmeFest has hosted xx-staples like Zombies! Organize!!, Astari Nite, and The State Of in the past. This year the two-day fest wil... Full Story »
Few people can boast the success Joan Rivers has achieved during her half-century on the stage. Since reaching stardom on The Tonight Show in the Sixties, the raspy-voiced fossil has gone on to become a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion pictu... Full Story »
If you grew up in a family of eaters whose concept of sharing samples was snagging all the best bites right off your plate while they polished off their own food (without even sharing a tiny morsel), it’s no wonder your forearms stay snug around your dish when you eat today. Of course, the thou... Full Story »
Tonight marks the official final night of the 2009 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival at Cinema Paradiso. Technically, November 8 was the closing night and wrap party, but it was also the night the jury got together, fiercely debated in the way only true film aficionados (read film geeks) c... Full Story »
You have two choices this Monday. Stay home and listen to Ron Jaworski vocally fellate mediocre Denver Broncos QB Kyle Orton and his horrendous neck-beard, or brave the 85-degree weather and venture out to Miami-Dade College (300 NE 2nd Ave.) for one of the greatest author combinations the Miami ... Full Story »
Dwyane Wade and Co. need to send the guy who came up with the 2009-10 NBA schedule a Christmas card as the Heat play eight of its first 10 games at home. Tuesday, November 10, the Wizards visit American Airlines Arena (601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami). The Wizards have underachieved the past... Full Story »
Enjoy being serenaded by sorority sisters and surrounded by bubblegum-colored accoutrements without getting entirely sick to your stomach at Legally Blonde, The Musical, premiering tonight. Becky Gulsvig, the star of the show, claims, “People will think that it’s going to be ... Full Story »
In a hilarious New Yorker cartoon sent out via newsletter earlier this month, a woman and her dog sit across from one another enjoying dinner at an upscale restaurant. Both sip wine as a vague city outline peeks through a window, providing a swanky background touch to an evening out. The woma... Full Story »
In what may have been the most prescient theatrical adaptation in years, playwright David Mamet revived the 1905 work The Voysey Inheritance in 2005, four years before Bernie Madoff pled guilty to 11 federal offenses including securities fraud and money laundering. The play, a fusion o... Full Story »
Summer is tough on Floridians. Months of sprinting from one pocket of air conditioning to another can crush your soul. Fortunately, one festival is set to revive it: Today’s Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival packs in enough slow-cooked love to shift your EKG reading from sluggish to Soca. Full Story »
South African contemporary artist William Kentridge made Time’s list of “100 Most Influential People” this year. However, being listed among such heavy hitters as Hillary Clinton, The Twitter Guys, and Paul Krugman wasn’t the most impressive part. The person who wrote the ... Full Story »
You adore the feeling of having your feet planted firmly on the wax, riding a surfboard, and allowing a wave to cradle you as you slide toward the shore. It’s a feeling akin to flying. That is, flying with water spraying in your face and the threat of falling off of the 9-foot piece of fibergla... Full Story »
The reality of Catholic high school tarnishes the dream of Catholic high school. The reality is that priests and nuns are sober, restrained elders with stern humors. If you were spanked, you didn’t enjoy the chastisement. If a nun was nasty, it wasn’t referring to the ... Full Story »
Michael Israel, a strapping Yanni lookalike, is what you might call a speed painter. To songs like “Pump it Up,” he jumps around on stage, splattering a spinning canvas with paints. For the first few minutes his brushstrokes don’t seem to add up, but by the fifth minute a pop-art port... Full Story »
It sounds like a Kit Kat commercial: A group of construction workers, bored at work, one by one begin to dance before breaking out in a flurry of footwork. But suppose these “workers” are Australian, and their form of dance is tap. In that case, there’s obviously no chocolate snacks b... Full Story »
I was in the Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport, getting ready to board a flight to Lome, Togo, when my heart stopped beating. Or maybe it didn't stop entirely. It certainly sputtered. I've been told I collapsed at the Air France boarding gate. The suitcase I was carrying, cram... Full Story »
A ratty blue tarp is wrapped tightly around a huge sphere in a Lauderhill driveway. It takes up a full parking space and is nearly as tall as the simple white house behind it. It looks like a captured UFO. As Joel Waul throws aside cinder blocks to remove the tarp, he appears otherworldly... Full Story »
When an artist is utterly outspoken about herself, it's hard to resist trying to goad her into saying a little bit more. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Or sometimes it doesn't work before it works. Take, for example, Peaches. The Canadian electroclash superstar and all-ar... Full Story »
If websites like Hipster Runoff have taught us anything, it's that when the alt community comes together for a "meaningful" experience, it can be a beautiful thing. It seemed like all of hipsterdom, both local and foreign, was at one of two related places Halloween night: OHWOW, or Our House West of... Full Story »
New Orleans has always been a bit of a melting pot. From language to food to culture, it's a place where combination and commingling are the rule rather than the exception. This fact is as true of New Orleans' musical history as of anything else, and few bands encapsulate the spirit of the Cresce... Full Story »
Hailing from Leeds, England, 2020 Soundsystem is a quartet that puts the "disco" in disconnected . The combined effort of Danny "Dubble D" Ward, Ralph Lawson, Fernando Pulichino, and Julian Sanza, the group produces tracks that are diffused with dub but still punctuated with physical trigge... Full Story »
You already know Sander Kleinenberg's music, although you may not be aware of that fact. You probably first heard it at a certain Park West nightclub at 8 a.m. while rolling so hard that you actually thought you were in Ibiza. But you weren't in Ibiza — Kleinenberg's track came on to save t... Full Story »
A morning moonset peeks through the autumn foliage near Bradfordton, Ill. AP Photo/Seth Perlman
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