From the low-budget runway shows you put on for mom and dad as a kid to the way you now stare longingly into boutique windows – it’s safe to say that you’ve always had a bit of a thread lust. As an adult your tastes have matured with you. While…

For those unfamiliar with the Starting Line, you might want some basic background material to help you get acquainted before attending Monday’s show at Revolution. First, if you fill your closet with surfery, skatery-inspired apparel from Pac-Sun, you’ll probably like it. Second, if you like oddly perky and upbeat songs…

Science is under attack. From wide-release films like What the Bleep Do We Know!? to a public force-feeding of Intelligent Design prattle, popular culture and religious groups ache to chip away at its fundamental principles. What science needs now more than ever is a cheerleader, an academic so intricately familiar…

Coming of age films have shaped our lives. From the tortured soles of the Brat Packers to the cooler-than-they-first-appear dudes from Revenge of the Nerds, we’ve all found characters that seem to understand our troubled adolescence and managed to prevail through it. But what about the ultimate in disenfranchised youth,…

Even denim baffles you: high-waisted, skinny, ultra-mega-distressed – these choices keep you up at night. If you’re that hung up on the basics, how will you ever be able to make the big decisions, like about your office wardrobe or – gulp – evening wear? Thanks to the students of…

Roller derby is a bit like jai-alai: it’s fast, dangerous, and casual spectators don’t really understand the rules. Of course, that’s where the similarities end, because everything that’s intrinsically cool about the sport is precisely what makes derby so unique. Where else can you see legions of fearless gals on…

I think we can all agree that Willow was the unsung hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sure, Buffy had the whole buxom, blonde, superpower thing going on, but when she needed gray matter to defeat a villain, it was always Willow, her optimistic sidekick, who hacked into a national…

Men by the thousands are dazzled when they wink coyly into news cameras. Football players share their coveted Gatorade with them like prehistoric man shared fire. And if there is a nuclear threat, you can be sure that politicians have made a special underground bunker large enough to hold only…

In current times we lavish fame on the least deserving. Socialites, pop stars, and basically any child of privilege who can scribble her name on a perfume bottle fill our newspapers and magazines with fluff. It wasn’t always this way. Our founding fathers (and their extremely patient wives) actually did…

Groupies come in all shapes and sizes. There’s the I-haven’t-eaten-since-the-´80s-so-that-I-can-still-stuff-myself-into-my-acid-washed-jeans type; they want desperately to become lip-locked with rock idols. Professional athletes also get the star treatment: Sports groupies are usually girls who were in Flag Team in high school but then got really hot later in college. For them,…

There’s a trick to surviving Winter Music Conference — a little thing we like to call Home Base. To be a godsend, Home Base has to have the right mix of lounging areas, fabulous friends that you haven’t yet met, cocktails, and, of course, great music. You have to be…

It’s impossible to understand women: They get irrationally angry at the silliest minutia. Like in the new Simon Pegg, Michael Ian Black vehicle Run Fatboy Run, Dennis Doyle’s character, Pegg, has a love interest who’s still holding a grudge against him for a mistake he made years before. Granted, his…

Even an otherwise peaceful city like Lake Worth needs the occasional socially active hoopla. Luckily this Saturday and Sunday are just that. Pridefest of the Palm Beaches is now in its 15th year, and the two-day soirée has grown into a monster event of recording artists, DJs, celeb sightings, and,…

Growing up in mid-century New York, Elliot Tiber was just another struggling artist. Then, Woodstock happened. Throughout the ´60s, Elliot had been struggling to keep his family’s farm/hotel in White Lake afloat by organizing small music festivals with his revolving cadre of fellow out-of-work entertainers. The efforts, although admirable, were…

It’s a question that’s haunted us since the dawn of time: What would happen if Dancing With the Stars and American Idol merged? Holy shit. Would Earth implode? Would the time/space continuum rip, creating an interplanetary vortex that transports us all to another world where people’s heads are replaced by…

New York is a city known for its diversity, so it seems fitting that its artists will have unique perspectives on storytelling. That concept is explored in “Representing 718 and 212: New York City Artists,” the newest exhibit at local modern art Mecca Lèche-Vitrines Art Alliance (3038 N. Federal Hwy.,…

The Jackson Five. The Osmonds. The Culkins. While those are all fine Hollywood clans in their own rights, we would simply scoff if they released new works under the moniker “The Talent Family.” That title is reserved exclusively for Amy and David Sedaris. Aside from their other, more lucrative efforts,…

When South Beach’s glitterati saunter around this evening, they might want to wear uncomplicated shoes – after all, the punks are swarming. A local group of activists have organized an Alley Cat Race for Take Back the Land on Saturday (meet-up is at Lincoln and Washington, South Beach), and folks…

You’d love them if they weren’t so scaly… and didn’t hatch from eggs. But that’s the life of a misunderstood reptile. Not blessed with petting fur, the cold-blooded tetrapods receive only scorn and fear from their human counterparts. The Museum of Discovery and Science (401 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale)…

You’ve never been to a polo match – but you have spent a lot of time at the racetrack. Well, the two are pretty similar. At the manicured polo grounds, the upper crusts mingle with mint juleps in hand, dressed to the nines in their sherbet-colored sweaters, lightweight and breezy…

All of the problems you typically associate with charity events can be boiled down to one key issue: They’re freakin’ boring. Fortunately for you, Future Point understands your woes. The non-profit partners with schools, universities, and other organizations to provide programs and mentorship for at-risk youth. And while doin’ the…

Don’t ever try eating your books and magazines; they have no nutritional value and the binding gets stuck between your molars. Besides, there are better ways to celebrate the Broward County Library’s Literary Feast than with Faulkner puree or a Sedaris smoothie – like attending programs, forums, and lectures with…