22nd Annual Labor Day Police Challenge

Bragging rights mean an awful lot. To earn them, you might train vigorously in your spare time, shooting as many free throws as your arms can handle, running hundreds of laps around the track, and stuffing your belly with meatballs nearly to the point of rupture. Wait a second… Stuffing…

Play Wii with Mii

Those Olympic athletes may have earned medals for their superhuman feats, but let me ask you this: Can they beat Cashetta, South Florida’s most prolific drag magician and entertainer, in a game of Wii Bowling? And with one hand tied up with a cocktail? Unlikely! But you, my friend… you…

Poets Do It In Iambic Pentameter

You spent most of your youth collecting a mental bank of dirty limericks. You knew about the man from Nantucket and his rather large member, the girl from Madras who loved her donkey a bit too much, and a fishmonger named Babs who had one nasty genital ailment. You spent…

Music, Beer, and Meat!

If Sunday is to be considered God’s Day, and God smiles upon all those creatures of His who haveth soul, especially when their soul allows them to sing up to the heavens, then the Sunday BBQ at Alligator Alley (1321 E. Commercial Blvd., Oakland Park) is truly doing God’s work…

We All Love the ΄80s

This Saturday, America’s Backyard (200 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) is throwing one hell of a Totally ΄80’s Party, which means it’s time for you to bust out the spandex, crop your hair into a mullet, and play dress-up. But how do you make sure your super original Punky Brewster…

Hanging Chads

With four (semi) capable quarterbacks on the roster, the Dolphins are headed into their third preseason game with a bit of a quarterback controversy brewing. Only, the surprise here is that it doesn’t involve John Beck, the Fin’s 2007 second-round pick, who’s progressing as if his feet were encased in…

Tales From the Serial Bowl

TV shows weren’t always continuous — the ever-evolving narratives about McDreamy or Tony Soprano or Jack and Kate getting off the island were pretty rare until ensemble shows like St. Elsewhere and Dallas came along. But the forefathers of continuity, movie serials, actually hailed from long before that. These dramatic…

Wrap up: Purple Pie Launch Party at Pink Ghost

If you weren’t at Pink Ghost Saturday night you missed one hell of treat: Not only was it the premier of the Ghostie’s Eight-by-Eight art show, but it was also the launch party for the Purple Pie Company, a very DIY-style operation run by Miami gal, Alex Van Clief. There…

Monday Morning Question: Sending it Back

I know everyone is probably scrambling this morning to get ready for Fay, but you still need something to take your mind off the impending doom, right? Well here’s a burning MMQ to bring those thoughts back to happier places. Well not so much happy as disgusted. Last week I…

A Piece on the Wall

By now, dear reader, we know you so well: You are an outgoing sort who craves variety and spontaneity in your events. You also have an insatiable yen for all things cute, quirky, artsy, and edible. Which is why we simply have to tell you about the Eight by Eight…

The Story So Far…

You think the WWE has drama? Those weekly grappling-soaps have nothing on Division 1 Pro Wrestling, South Florida’s very own league. For nearly two years, D1PW has been delivering the goods via mat and mouth, and tonight’s wrestling throwdown, Hollywood Havoc, will be no exception. With nearly a dozen bouts…

Extreme

Perhaps no other ballad was ever so cleverly designed to get into women’s panties than the early-΄90s hit “More Than Words.” The acoustic foot-tapper had Gary Cherone beautifully serenading his ladyfriend, telling her in a very subtle and charming way: “Baby, words cannot express how strongly I feel for you…

Is This Going to Hurt?

Remember when you got your first tattoo? Everyone told you a picture of a burlesque girl on your left butt cheek was going to hurt like hell (cool, she wiggles when you do!), but you’re made of tougher stuff than most. You relished the clarifying pain as that needle dug…

You Can Never Go Home

Some people can’t wait to leave home. They constantly annoy their friends with comments on how much “it sucks so bad here, man,” and they dream of the day where they can venture off into the great unknown. Others can’t dodge their birthplace. Maybe something terrible happened there, or maybe…

Christine’s Stag’s Leap Wine Tasting and Prix Fixe Menu

The secret to eating out lately? Maybe it’s to save your bucks on the small trips to restaurants and then splurge on one great meal, a la the Stag’s Leap Dinner on Thursday, August 21 at Christine’s Restaurant? You could think of it as your personal last supper, if that…

Monday Morning Question: Terrible Restaurant Names

This morning I got started wondering about the worst restaurant names I’ve ever encountered. I guess the whole thing had its roots in Thai restaurants — for some reason, this one type of cuisine seems to employ more bad puns and lazy wording than Carlos Mencia. I mean, the first…

Weekly Purge #5

This week’s regurgitations: Who knew Gail’s sis could make such a mean pot of fish stew? Yum! Eating in Downtown Hollywood on a budget can be fun. Mmm, I dream of cancha. We showed you where to catch lobster that won’t kill you (at least, it’s far less probable). South…

Dirty, Sexy, Fins

Say what you will about the Miami Dolphins, but these guys know how to entertain. What other team in professional sports – especially one so abysmally bad – could consistently provide such thrilling offseasons full of violence, mystery, intrigue, backstabbing, and scandal? Since Bill Parcells has come in to shake…

Monogamy is For Suckers, Man

So you’ve been in a long-term relationship for a while, and things are starting to get stale. The romance is fleeting. The sex is formulaic. And now, you’re starting to get that wandering eye. You’re beginning to wonder if you’re cut out for this monogamy thing. You keep telling yourself:…

The Great Gong Sees All

A giant, gold gong that you could smack to shut people up would be useful. Say your boss is asking you to work the weekend – apparently there have been staff shortages and problems with the supply chai…GOOOOOOONNNGGGGG! Problem solved. Oh what’s that? Your friend from college who’s too busy…

Soaked to the Creative Bone

Creating art doesn’t have to be a solo affair; at least not at Wet Paint, the new weekly art night kicking off at the Lounge (517 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) Wednesday night. An extension of ArtRx – the quarterly gallery show that acts as a restorative salve for the…