The price of gasoline is higher than you would like. Aside from the whole wallet-pinching aspect, you know that you’re also fueling poisonous emissions and political conflicts. Well, alternatives have been around for longer than we think: the diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil and electric…
Your dad likes polka music and lots of scotch. Your mom has “a thing” for Lorenzo Lamas – a fact she tells everyone whenever wine is served. Your sister left home at 16, pierced her septum and fashioned her hair into liberty spikes. Now she’s an investment banker, a Republican,…
Most of us came of age during our collegiate years. Our twiggy limbs and bony hips grew fleshier than we would have liked, and our tongues became magically untied when flirting with the opposite sex. But then, we didn’t have green skin. Or sorcery skills. Or flying monkeys to contend…
He was really a bit of a wanker, wasn’t he? Things just sorta fell into place for that arse, didn’t they? I mean, it isn’t like he wasn’t nice enough – although at times a spot of bother to hang out with in the pub, what with ´im being all…
Singles Bars have lost their luster. The nine-to-fivers just want to drone on about (a) their crummy bosses, (b) their crummy exes, or (c) how much better they are without their crummy exes and/or bosses. Trying to have fun in those places makes you wonder: When did people get so…
Five years ago, if you were scoring something at a meeting with Miami’s mixtape superstar Rick Ross, it wasn’t an exclusive interview. Since then, he’s jumped from rollin’ in on a rickety smoke-filled Toyota Tercel to a BMW with oversized wheels. This rise to fame was a long time in…
Many recognize Ben Stein as simply “that really smart, funny guy who pairs tennis shoes with suits on television,” without crediting his vehement work as a writer and analyst. A former speech writer for Nixon (Stein is quick to point out that he didn’t pen “I am not a crook.”),…
Lou Anne Colodny’s had her hands full of art for most of her adult life – that might be why they turned on her. In her new exhibit “442” at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (1650 Harrison St., Hollywood), Colodny’s hands star in a villainous role. She bends…
It’s tough being comedian Dom Irrera; people always want stuff from him. “I’ve been doing interviews all day,” he says over the phone from his California home. “The first guy’s call woke me up this morning; he wanted to know if I wished that I hadn’t broken up with my…
When Nicolas Roeg’s film Bad Timing was first released in 1980, its distributor Rank Films disowned it. Now, you don’t typically think of movies as orphans, especially one that opens as promising as this one: a lovely couple (Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell) examining a Klimt painting while Tom Waits…
You hate the way she looks at you when you leave: muzzle quivering, eyes begging, ears popped up like little camping tents. But what can you do? You’re hungry and your fridge is empty; if you stay home to appease her you’ll both be eating doggie biscuits for dinner. Well,…
Your week is stressful. Aside from your professional daytime gig, you spend your evenings taking care of everyone in your life (translation: Those cats don’t feed themselves). This can build up aggression that, if left unchecked, could reveal itself in unpleasant ways. You could, for example, eventually become so bitter…
Sado-masochist couples, dark satire, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: these things are hardly ever discussed in the same room. And if you were to find a foyer where all three collide, you will most likely be in the most uncomfortable emotional state of your life. So it’s interesting that the play “Dirty…
When Michelle Whitedove went on Lifetime’s reality competition America’s #1 Psychic, she swayed even the naysayers. Her accuracy in assessing situations – picking out a car in a car lot that had a man squirreled away in the trunk and giving eerily point-on readings to skeptics – won her the…
Francis Ford Coppola’s new opus Youth Without Youth has been getting panned unanimously by critics – the only thing they can’t seem to agree on is what constitutes the most offensive part of the film. Variety thinks that you “will be disappointed by the mishmash plotting and stilted script.” While…
Down at the Honeydripper Lounge locals aren’t keen on change. It’s the early 1950’s in Harmony, Alabama, and American music – like everything else — is in a state of flux. Something big is coming. If the good folks of Harmony squint their eyes and stand with their faces towards…
South Florida can be a torturous place to seek out music. After all, trying to pick a show based on flyers is a total crap shoot. (Remember that band you assumed was metal that turned out to only cover Canadian Top 20? Ouch.) Thank goodness we have the Honeycomb. Steve…
The only thing bigger than the hair in Armadillo Acres trailer park is the drama. The guys and gals of this mobile Mecca have more than Bisquick on their minds — at least that’s what you’ll learn this afternoon when you check out The Great American Trailer Park Musical at…
Susana LaCubana could dance you under the table, but she wouldn’t – she’s much too nice. She’s wearing a powder blue velour track suit with her hair pulled back in a braid that extends to her sacrum; her eyes light up when she talks about break, salsa, belly, and vertical…
Unknown Hinson has squeezed a lot of livin’ into his years as a psychobilly musician. Of course, being a vampire helps. All the good stuff happens at night. So far, he’s been thrown in the slammer for: three counts of murder, 19 paternity suits, vampirism, and some intermittent grave robbing…
In 1913 Stravinsky débuted his masterpiece work The Rite of Spring for a Parisian audience. What happened next was pandemonium: Fists connected with jaws and knees jabbed into spinal cords, while insults were lobbed like racket balls across the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This did not please Stravinsky; he fled the…
You want happy sexy time, you’re just unclear of the details. Don’t worry, we got your back. Get Lucky Nothing says “I love you” like a truly extravagant gift. The Mardi Gras Casino (831 N. Federal Hwy., Hallandale Beach) wants to extend the sentiment your way when it gives away…
