You may be wondering — and rightfully so — what the hell's up with Bruce (err, sorry... Broooooooosssssss) lately? He's detoured off E Street and opted for some dusty old folk songs most of us had to learn back in grade school. "Old Dan Tucker"? "When The Saints Go Marching...
If Mavis Staples never uttered another note, her legacy as one of gospel's greatest voices would still be assured. A surviving member of the legendary Staples Singers, she helped carve a legacy that's revered in both sacred and secular circles. In recent years, Staples has made a comeback of sorts,...
Before I get to Broward Health (former North Broward Health District) CEO Alan Levine's email to the Pulp, let me share a couple of odds and ends. First, some former reporter is claiming that the Pulp is violating his copyright for the title "Notes From The Corporate Underground" for a...
Broward County sheriff's deputy Chris Reyka was killed while on duty in Pompano Beach early this morning. Reyka, father of four, was shot behind a Walgreens store when he went back there to check out a suspicious vehicle. It makes two deputies shot in the head in Broward County in...
It was a humid late-summer Saturday evening in South Florida in 1992, a few days before Hurricane Andrew barreled through. A group of teens gathered around a keg in a Coral Springs apartment. They played the drinking game Quarters and tried to hook up with the opposite sex. There were...
Hi Lee: Long time reader, first time writer. Any chance there is a good Korean Fried Chicken place in Miami? I hope you have a suggestion. Thanks and happy eating, Sarah in South Miami Sarah-- I called the three Korean places that I know of: Myung Ga Tofu and BBQ,...
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...
I knew there was something different about the jerk chicken served at Betty's Place (5601 Pembroke Rd., Hollywood, 954-226-3340), but I wasn't completely sure what. I was determined to find out. "I can't tell you, man," the guy behind the counter gasped with a wide smile. "She'll kill me!" Come...
You don't meet the book when you meet the writer," the novelist William Gibson has said. "You meet the place where it lives." A relatively uncontroversial remark about the people who vent their imaginations on the page — no one should expect Philip Roth to sound exactly like Nathan Zuckerman...
Pembroke Park seems too small for scandal. A south Broward County town with fewer than 6,000 inhabitants and a median income around $25,000, it has few things worth stealing. This tends to ward off corruption. At the monthly commission meetings — held in a Town Hall chamber that Pembroke Park...
Late at night, alone in the woods, a group of film students at work on a no-budget horror film called The Death of Death are interrupted by — the death of death. Reports of animated corpses feeding on human flesh come over the radio and are met with nervous skepticism;...
Examining the roots of Transformers: The Game is deep stuff: It's a videogame based on a movie based on a cartoon based on a toy. But unlike most laughably forced movie tie-in games (DaVinci Code for the PS2, anyone?), there's good sense in creating one devoted to giant robots beating...
Issac Delgado June 23, 2007 Knight Center An energetic and from-the-heart Cuban rumbón broke out Saturday night as a delirious and receptive crowd welcomed one of the island's grandest and most innovative musicians ever at the James L. Knight Center. As a result the man responsible for keeping close to...
The Abrahamic God may discriminate between the blessed and the damned, but the Steel Jackhammer Club and Video Lounge will be making no such distinction during its fifth anniversary celebration, dubbed “Saints and Sinners” (1951 NE Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale). The genesis story leading up to this celebration is as...
Laurent Garnier is one of the world’s most celebrated house and techno DJs, but also one of the most elusive. French by birth, it was in late-Eighties Manchester, England that Garnier first heard Chicago house. Instantly hooked, he soon became a DJ at the legendary Hacienda club, owned by Factory...
It's not like there's nothing going on at all around here (apartment buildings are exploding in fireballs, for one) but I thought I'd steer you over to an interesting civics test which the majority of college seniors in this country fail miserably. It's called the American Civic Literacy Test and...
J-Perk ¨Lauderdale¨ (Organized Confuzion) Sometimes, rappers borrow a beat from another producer, and it all turns out wrong. Either the hook isn´t right or the lyrical flow doesn´t match the bpm´s, and the result is almost never better than the original. But local rapper J-Perk and his Organized Confuzion affiliates...
You'd have to have steel cojones, or some mixture of naiveté and optimism, to name your first restaurant Nirvana. You'd be setting the bar in the stratosphere and opening yourself up to some expensive, cutting jokes if you failed to deliver. The word nirvana has a lot of meanings, including...
I have a confession. I've never followed Dashboard Confessional. Mea culpa. I recently attended the first gig in the national tour to support Dashboard's fifth album, at City Limits, a sold-out show for the national phenomenon that began in Boca. Promoters were even having trouble getting press and family into...
Steve Buscemi the director is nothing like the art-damaged auteur Buscemi the actor played in 1995's Living in Oblivion. No dry ice and dwarves for the victim of the cinema's most celebrated woodchipper massacre, who as a filmmaker inhabits tight spaces and trapped lives like a termite. Give him an...
I asked State Attorney spokesman Ron Ishoy about the last time an elected official went to trial on corruption charges in Broward County (John Lomelo, acquitted) and here's what he sent me. Interesting for historical perspective and surely will be a blast from the past for some of you old-time,...
Did John Waters sell out? Or did our ever-more-metrosexual age merely render him irrelevant? Certainly long before Hairspray took up residence on the Great White Way in 2002, Waters had abdicated his throne as America's elder statesman of underground smut in favor of a more lucrative career as a neutered...
