Parade Productions, South Florida's newest theater company, premiered its first show in Mizner Park last weekend, but signs indicated that even members of the team weren't entirely happy with the result. During the intermission of Brooklyn Boy, a 2004 dramedy from Donald Margulies, an usher made a point to tell...
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You couldn't live in or around Deerfield Beach in the fall of 2009 without hearing about the horrific attack on 15-year-old Michael Brewer. The middle-school student was allegedly doused in rubbing alcohol and set ablaze by four of his classmates, reportedly because of an unpaid loan for a $40 videogame...
One by one, horses strut into the stadium for the second race of the day. Each is a sleek machine shining under the sweltering midday sun. Their sinewy legs sway under muscular torsos rippling with veins like river deltas. Portly Jamaicans and aging sailors with faded forearm tattoos stand in...
The Growlers, Jane Jane Pollock, Honey TrainPropaganda, Lake WorthMay 14, 2012Better Than: Sitting in your room on a Monday night, waiting for school, waiting for work, waiting to die. A light pre-summer rain set the scene outside of Propaganda, Lake Worth, last night for the Growlers show, presented by TheHoneyComb and...
Coral reefs have taken a beating in recent decades. Ask someone who dove off the Florida coast in the '70s and he'll tell you the reefs today are a shadow of what they once were.Overfishing, reckless coastal development, pollution, careless boaters, and human plundering have all had a perilous effect on the increasingly...
The man who oversees much of the state's job-creation effort submitted his resignation late last week for "personal reasons."It's not clear why Department of Economic Opportunity Director Doug Darling, who was hired for the gig last July, is calling it quits, but it probably isn't for a lack of results: The...
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Bottle-blond bangs swept over one eye — this, the other boys whispered, was not a man's haircut. One of them — a popular, handsome specimen — grew particularly incensed at his classmate's new look. He formed a posse and found a pair of scissors. After locating the blond boy, the...
To a complete outsider, the name of the upcoming tour by locals Holly Hunt and Scraping Teeth, which begins Tuesday, April 10, at Churchill's, doesn't bode well. Billed as the "Worst Band in America Tour," it's a reference to a dubious nod the latter group earned from Spin magazine in...
Misfit Home Brewers have been prepping for New Times Beerfest, where they'll offer 105 gallons of home brew at their tents this Saturday. George Garcia started it all, brewing in college as a means of drinking cheap beer five years ago. Last year, he gathered Piero Rodriguez, and Robert Tejon...
7 Seas is a band that claims to have "no limitations." Musically, that is. Their worldly name indicates their exploratory nature. Drummer Andrew Nicholson says that the diversity of sounds, people, and cultures living around the world's seven seas influenced their moniker and that you can hear the versatility of styles in the writing...
Update: We've suspended voting here after some serious ballot-stuffing. Click here for the hack-proof version. Here's your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers' Poll 2012 for your favorite hairstylist. The results will appear in our annual Best Of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click here for...
More than one in five South Florida residents said their employers were firing workers in 2011, according a Gallup poll released this morning.In a Gallup ranking of the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas, the "Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach" area ranked 44th out of 50 for job creation last year -- the worst...
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Planners and lawyers at the Corrections Corporation of America are going to show up for work this morning with a significant task ahead of them: figuring out how to provide water, sewer, and emergency services to the ICE detention facility they want to build in Southwest Ranches. They were counting...
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The beginning of 2011 started off auspiciously for local electronic favorite Panic Bomber. He enjoyed increasing fans on the circuit for his performances that combined live instrumentation -- brass, vocals, and more -- with technology and ooh-aah stuff like light-up suits.He played Ultra Music Festival and other similar events around...
If there was one big winner from Saturday night's Beerfest, it was the small brewer. The home brewers and the upstarts took home a couple of the biggest prizes from our Clean Plate Charlie awards, a remarkable feat considering the megabrewers that were present. Here, then, are our winners from...
Update: We've suspended voting here after some serious ballot-stuffing. Click here for the hack-proof version. Here's your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers Poll 2011 for your favorite local artist. The results will appear in our annual Best of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click here...
A federal inmate who has served 11 years on drug charges he says he didn't commit has convinced prosecutors to let him out of prison. Elroy Phillips refused to accept his fate after being sentenced to 30 years on charges of selling drugs to an undercover cop. He conducted records...
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Born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper on June 22, 1953, Cyndi Lauper is best known as the kooky, squeaky-voiced singer with the multi-colored hair and a giddy onstage persona. Yet despite that flighty attitude, she made some serious impressions on the pop charts early on. In the mid '80s she dominated...
Born May 14, 1952, David Byrne would have made a totally significant mark in the world of music even if he'd only remained at the helm of Talking Heads. As singer and songwriter for one of the most innovative outfits involved in New York's punk/new wave scene from the mid...
Dance music fans likely know Gary Richards for Hard. That rapidly exploding brand of parties and shows includes local events like Holy Ship, the all-electronic music cruise that departs again from Fort Lauderdale next January, as well as a two-night stand at Grand Central in Miami that starts tonight. But...
You may know Ariyah Okamoto as Ravelstein, the Japanese Jew, former member of Shuttle Lounge, and South Florida music legend. A year ago, the musician found himself in Sendai, the city the closest to the epicenter of one of the most violent and devastating earthquakes that has ever affected Japan...