For a holiday such as Valentine’s Day, don’t let marketing agencies one-up you. By this, we mean, if you stop at buying chocolate-covered strawberries, a scented candle, the handful of flowers, and/or oysters, they win. That’s where their plan ends and yours should just be beginning. And maybe, just maybe,…

The blowing will start Thursday evening, and it won’t stop until Friday afternoon. Only with this type of consistency does Waterfront Commons have the chance for a snowy finish. The snowboarding contingent in South Florida should get really excited — this space will hold a snowboarding competition Friday. Set designers…

Give everything Barbie the attention, the honor, and the intensity it deserves at “Barbie®: History, Fashions & More” at the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History at the Boynton Beach Mall (801 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach). Why now? Well, because Barbie’s 50. And she’ll turn 51 in March. And…

A group of white-clad rapists, one very quick-witted, hang around the corner. Dr. Strangelove is present. Female twins block your path in the hallway on the way to the restroom. But — good news — Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman won’t be having uncomfortable sex with each other on the…

Oh, to remember a night that happened nine months ago is tough. The explicit details, the likes and dislikes. The Night + Day section loves previewing events for you, and every so often when we’ve attended the event previously, we can give you more of a review. Last February, Chillounge…

Arrrghhh, mateys, to celebrate Shark Weekend at South Florida Science Museum, it’s “Pirates Night at the Museum.” On Friday, toss on your pirate garb (all ages welcome) and win some booty and pillage the museum’s dig pit (loot will be hidden). Sure, pirates face many brain teasers at sea, but…

To be a well-rounded — plump — cinephile, big cinema screens and Blockbuster adventures must be complemented with indie venues and art- flick experiences. And let’s take this once step further: Both those must further be complemented with finding yourself in not-a-theater but hip digs, watching subcultural documentaries that are…

You can feel experimental activity inside the walls of the Bubble — on every occasion, creative types are encouraging music, art, dance; they’re thinking creatively inside its warehouse walls as well as outside in the back, on the gravel, grass, and dirt. At one gathering, Trav of Travalonia serenaded his…

At the new World and Eye Arts Center in FAT Village, a night out at the theater is not your traditional, theatrical soiree. First, this venue is a gallery, so no giant stage and the formal atmosphere that can come with that. At the inaugural World and Eye Coffee House,…

Two New Year’s shindigs exist at the opposite ends of the Earth; think a Party South Pole and a Party North Pole. One dedicates two-thirds of its news release to talking about bottle service. The venue will be swanky and ultrachic in a safari-themed kind of way. Pangaea Lounge is…

The holidays make us stray, splurge, and sin — and why wouldn’t we, with the new year right around the corner? (New Year = fresh start; note there’s one week left.) But, hell, we got a conscience too, so today starting at 8 p.m. and running through Friday, we offer…

A Broward County bar tucked away in downtown Fort Lauderdale — as close to the jailhouse as it can be without stomping on the Downtowner’s turf — hosts a gothic dance party called Revel inside its walls the last Saturday of every month. Fortunately for those who crave something darker…

Imagine Fort Lauderdale at Christmas. The weather being cold but incredibly tolerable compared to what our Northern states are facing. For our Santacon, we get to strut through the unsnowed streets. We get to ride on a water taxi because our waters aren’t frozen. Are we going to spread holiday…

You anime dance-off freaks, dare New Times. Go outright and say it: If you’re into cosplay, you’re into competition — like, really into competition. You J-Pop-star-loving peeps, when’s the last time you’ve even run with the herd that doesn’t know what cosplay stands for? Yes, some folks out there still…

Saturday, Gold Coast Skating Rink will be full of hot female bodies tackling one another on roller skates. The sport of roller derby is a fast, dangerous one: When the scoring player laps members of the opposing team, points get awarded, so from both ends, lots of blocking and tackling…

The massive, glorious mall on Sunrise Boulevard is an institution of panache. Even though New Times might enter the Coral Ridge Mall more, it’s hard to argue for the underdog in terms of which venue is the greater beast of fashion: The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale is Broward County’s stylish…

Never have 15-minute intervals been more important than the day after Thanksgiving. At 5:30 p.m., Santa arrives (yes, he’s available for pictures). At 5:45, Red Bull Air Force performs a skydiving exhibition. At 6, Fort Lauderdale’s mayor, Jack Seiler, will flip the switch and officially turn on Christmas in way…

A city’s opening centennial ceremony sounds like a drab, sober ribbon-cutting or an historian-orchestrated parade, full of crying babies and hot-dog eating. But for Fort Lauderdale’s Opening Centennial Ceremony, our city decided to sanction a pub crawl along Fort Lauderdale Beach, and it threw in a red-and-yellow Sun Trolley to…