In high schools, vicious rumors are passed around quicker than intricately-folded notes – and that’s just inside the teachers’ lounge. The profession boasts a turnover rate rivaling the fast food industry, with 50% of educators quitting within their first three years of employment. The new film Chalk explores why teachers…

Your pup has been cooped up all summer. He’s panting to go outside and sniff every tree in the neighborhood, but he’s just too fury to handle the punishing sunlight for long. Plus, he’s been itching for a chance to wear that fancy tux hanging in his teeny tiny closet…

Your local police force has endured years of rigorous training workshops so that it can respond efficiently when someone is mugged, a teetering jumper is threatening suicide, or some punk kid in his daddy’s Mercedes side-swipes you in a Publix parking lot (you’ll get yours, you whipper-snappers!). But I think…

In today’s trademarked world, independently-owned businesses have become an endangered species. So when a joint is able to not only thrive and flourish, but also act as a needed haven for locals – word gets around. In Lake Worth, that word is Jetsetter. Drinking at the Jetsetter Lounge (1132 N…

In today’s trademarked world, independently-owned businesses have become an endangered species. So when a joint is able to not only thrive and flourish, but also act as a needed haven for locals – word gets around. In Lake Worth, that word is Jetsetter. Drinking at the Jetsetter Lounge (1132 N…

In today’s trademarked world, independently-owned businesses have become an endangered species. So when a joint is able to not only thrive and flourish, but also act as a needed haven for locals – word gets around. In Lake Worth, that word is Jetsetter. Drinking at the Jetsetter Lounge (1132 N…

Everyone makes capricious decisions when they’re young. For some, those choices will remain buried like a time capsule only to emerge years later when they run for political office or, in the case of The Bravery, land a major label deal and start touring the world. What led to its…

There’s really no point in listening to the oldies station while driving; seatbelt laws inhibit your Twist and bucket seats make it impossible to do the Pony. It’s an atrocity that so much of the danceable music from the ´50s through the ´70s has been confined to either the car…

You’re not getting out of an AC/DC concert for less than a half a grand. Two tickets near the stage? $300. Parking? $20. T-shirts for you and your about-to-rock date? $80 to $100. Add snacks, stadium cocktails, and bribes to the people ahead of you in the bathroom line? Easily…

Einstein had hormones and meiosis can result from frisky mattress conquests. While we rarely discuss the overlap between sex and science, the two are intimately linked, a fact proven repeatedly during science-rich ´80s teen films. Thanks to cinematic gems like Real Genius, Revenge of the Nerds, and Weird Science, we…

There are a lot of values that are associated with being an American; respect for your community is one, pride in family is another. Maybe the most important trait that we all share is a love of buying things in bulk. For that reason, Imax (and its corporate sponsor Amex)…

You’ve been dreaming about this moment all week, the way the diligent student secretly pines for recess. It’s Friday. Your boss has unhinged your cubicle’s shackles. For the next 64 hours, you’re free to do whatever you want. And what you want is a cocktail. Or better yet, a free…

She was a beauty queen, international model, and runner-up in the Mrs. America pageant; Victoria Howard lived a charmed life. Her choice of men, however, was questionable. “When I didn’t win Mrs. America my [second] husband threatened to divorce me,” says Howard. That was when she knew she needed to…

Jonathan Swift said it best: “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” Whether it’s their calcified exterior shells or their slimy interior bivalve design, there’s something dubious about a raw oyster. Admittedly, there’s also something exotic about the slippery little pseudo-aphrodesiacs that keeps you trolling the raw…

Technically, South Florida has two seasons: wet and dry. If you’re a woman, you get two more: Girl Scout Cookie and Firefighter Calendar, each delicious in its own right. You’ll be trading in your secret stash of Samoas for beefcakes tonight when the South Florida Firefighters make a cameo at…

As a kid you saw Monster Trucks as spectacular demons of destruction, turning boring automobiles into metal road kill with every brilliant ramp jump; you wished desperately to be the little man driving. As an adult, you still have that appetite for demolition mayhem (and now, beer!), but you realize…

For the gun show neophyte, the sales floor can be a scary place, especially since so many venders appear deranged and have enough weapons with them to supply a small country at war. These shows can also be the ultimate in people-watching, so we suggest you go. Here’s a few…

For the gun show neophyte, the sales floor can be a scary place, especially since so many venders appear deranged and have enough weapons with them to supply a small country at war. These shows can also be the ultimate in people-watching, so we suggest you go. Here’s a few…

Did the gal on your tattoo break your heart? Sounds like it’s time for a cover-up. Change your “Sally Forever” into “Ally Fever” — with a sick tribal running through the middle — this weekend at the 12th Annual South Florida Tattoo Expo. The three-day needlefest is packed full of…

The next Yoshitomo Nara is living in Boca Raton. But she’s a pixie-faced girl with a tiny, high-pitched voice. Helena Garcia paints the world as we want to see it: a brightly colored cartoon playground where plants, animals, and snacks are all personified and given their proper storylines. She’s displayed…

“When we started out in Denton in the late ´90s, we were all still in school,” says Mike Wiebe, lead singer of the Texas band Riverboat Gamblers. We catch Wiebe at a vulnerable moment. He’s on his way out of a dentist’s office in Austin. “There was never any kind…