You’ve dabbled in homemade gifts. Remember the year everyone received your handcrafted popsicle stick coaster sets (they don’t use them because they “treasure them too much”)? And the Valentine’s Day when you massacred those chocolate cupcakes (sugar and salt only look similar). They all shared a bond. You spent hours…
September 11 affected everyone differently. Some, after experiencing overwhelming loss, found solace in supporting our current political administration and our country’s involvement overseas. Others sought comfort in friends, family, or their community. Still others withdrew completely. Photo journalist Scott McKiernan turned his feelings of sorrow into inspiration: “I walked the…
Broken Ribs. Two-headed guitar players. Shark attacks. What is it about the powerpop/punk outfit Pots ´n’ Pans that incites so much mayhem? They look like ordinary boys – regular showers, fun with skateboards — but they ain’t. They’re beautifully twisted. By taking vintage pop sounds (like lead singer Jason Budjinski’s…
SoFla is star-struck. Our heads snap collectively towards every blinged-out entourage in hope of catching a glimpse of whoever’s at its nucleus. So when one of the stars that’s struck us the hardest – Gary Sinise – comes to town, expect everyone you know to flock. Friday night the Fort…
The days of the single cinematic plot line are over. Babel, Crash, and the television series Heroes have successfully tapped into our deep-running human desire to multitask. Midnight Clear is constructed in the same vein. Taking place on Christmas Eve, five very different characters weave and shoulder rub through one…
It’s about to happen: holiday cards arrive, ruining your routine of junk mail and bills (both of which you currently discard). This annual mailbox barrage perplexes you: the professionally-rendered photos of distant relatives in matching sweaters, clutching their children’s shoulders should make you smile. You know this. Instead, you just…
The great thing about art is that you can make up your own stories. Take the new exhibit “Connecting the Dots: The Union Series” by James Goodwill. The intricate detail on Goodwill’s acrylic lines and pinpoints unite to form circular spheres, some with tiny bursts and vine-like ruptures, others more…
Well, hockey fans, there’s good news and there’s bad news. Let’s start with the bad: Remember Niklas Hagan? We traded him two seasons ago? Well, he’s scored nearly as many points for his current team, the Dallas Stars, as our entire roster put together. Ouch. Here’s some more: Tonight, the…
When “Bodies” wanted to roost in the Museum of Discovery and Science last year, it was rebuffed. The museum distanced itself from the exhibit’s controversy. The cadavers in “Bodies” are unclaimed and unidentified, a fact that appalled some but had no effect on the hundreds of thousands of others, who…
Some children’s stories made you giddy, others made you tuck into a ball and burrow your eyes behind your knees. The Wizard of Oz films probably had both effects. A girl, separated from her family is swept up in a tornado, dropped on a witch, and finds herself surrounded by…
Certain events just kick off the holiday season: the tree-lighting in Rockefeller Center, clearance sales on strappy sandals at your favorite secret shoe spot, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring the Rockettes. Sure, as a girl you wanted to be a Rockette. Now as an adult you’re still tempted…
BBQ’s fridge is empty. He’s multitasking at home in Montreal: hacking up smoke from a night of partying, talking with us on the phone, and mixing a batch of Kraft macaroni and cheese with all butter, ´cause he’s outta milk. He’s also trying to prioritize an alarmingly lengthy to-do list…
“My goddaughter called me up last year and said that her girlfriends couldn’t believe that I was Duke the Dog in Barnyard,” says Dom Irrera. He’s chatting with us during a short break from his new television series, the Supreme Court of Comedy out in L.A. “She said ‘Could you…
Ladies, let’s chat about a scenario that’s happened to all of us. It starts like this: You and your boyfriend break up because he lives on some dude’s couch and can’t hold a job – you grew weary of picking up both the check and his dirty laundry. A week…
We often forget that roots grow in Florida’s sandy soil. Buildings are demolished, progress is made, people move away and return – but at the base of it all is a historical underpinning of stories, music, and relationships that tells the underlying tale of what’s currently visible at the surface…
You come from a family whose cooking vocabulary consists of only two words: boil and defrost. Thanksgiving at your house is a day of partially-frozen HoneyBaked ham, Stove Top Stuffing that never touched a stove top, and limp, boil-in-the-bag noodles with Alfredo sauce. That’s okay, it’s a humorous part of…
You don’t have a sweet tooth; you have a mouthful of sweet teeth (and hopefully, a dexterous dentist). And like any proper snack junkie, the promise of unlimited sugar-based snacks gives you an uncontrollable case of the DTs. Take control of your saccharine obsession – or at least channel it…
Without costumes, Halloween would just be a bunch of people running around, talking about ghosts and demanding candy. (Lame.) Thankfully we do masquerade as someone else, and who we pick says a lot about what parties we should go to. Latex Devil, Feathery Angel Saturday’s Halloween party at Duck Soup…
There are certain things that can only be said aloud if you’re Sarah Silverman. It’s a phenomenon that’s been demonstrated repeatedly since her one-woman show/musical, Jesus is Magic, hit the video store shelves and her appearance on The Aristocrats became urban party legend and her new series, The Sarah Silverman…
Question: What do chili, hunky firefighter calendars, and the fiery 1977 plane crash of Lynyrd Skynyrd have in common? Answer: All three are shown great reverence at the 11th Annual Firefighter and Paramedics Chili Cook-Off. See, true Skynyrd fans (here’s where you scream “Skeeenarrd!) know that Saturday marks the 30…
Question: What do chili, hunky firefighter calendars, and the fiery 1977 plane crash of Lynyrd Skynyrd have in common? Answer: All three are shown great reverence at the 11th Annual Firefighter and Paramedics Chili Cook-Off. See, true Skynyrd fans (here’s where you scream “Skeeenarrd!) know that Saturday marks the 30…
While banks still remain bastions of maturity, a few in Weston are changing the way you view the stoic institutions – or at least the way you view the art inside them. In a rather progressive move, SunTrust (2575 Glades Cir., Ste. 1, Weston), Regions (1501 Bonaventure Blvd., Weston), and…
