I planted four pepper plants last weekend — serranos, poblanos, sweet reds, and pequins. But my Mexican next-door neighbor, Roberto, tells me to abandon all hope. "The soil is different in Mexico from here," he says. "No offense to you. But your chilies won't taste like they do in Puebla."...
"We need to tend the garden of Mother Earth," photographer Barry Haynes urges in commentary that accompanies his "Spiritual Places" exhibit, which literally offers a mountaintop experience. The environmentalist photographer's images of mountains, lakes, sea, and sky are lovely (although the pocked, stained white bulletin boards on which the framed...
What Would JP2 Do? About that big-hearted Egyptian humanitarian Hosni Mubarak: What would former Pope John Paul II think? I agree with Dr. Thompson Debord, who wrote a letter (September 7) chastising the Rev. O'Neal Dozier's letter indicating that "Islam is a very dangerous, evil religious cult" and emphasizing Dozier's...
There had been inexplicable magic between my co-worker's brother and me since the night we met at Respectables last March. So when Antti returned to Florida from Finland this September, I suggested we make a trip to Dada for the Wednesday-night magic show. "I want to get a close seat...
More so than any other high-profile traveling metal festival — Ozzfest, Blackest of the Black, Unholy Alliance, Contamination, etc. — Dave Mustaine's Gigantour arguably draws upon a more conscious sense of metal history. Another way to put it is that Mustaine (who has been unabashed about Gigantour as a showcase...
Conversation between Robby the Robot, the courtly and groundbreakingly human automaton from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, and Robot B-9, the barrel-chested mechanical Man Friday with the clear-plastic noggin from the 1960s television series Lost in Space, overheard by Tailpipe last week in Boca Raton: B-9: Warning! Warning! Starboard functionator...
After publishing Kelly Cramer's remarkable story "Daddy's Girl" two weeks ago, the most frequent question I've been asked about the tale of a Wall Street millionaire who married his own daughter is: How could Linda Schutt, a grown woman with a PhD in psychology, succumb to the seduction attempts of...
If you head over to the venerable All Music Guide online database and enter the name Electric Six, you'll find the following "themes" attributed to the Detroit sextet: "Cool & Cocky," "Guys Night Out," "TGIF," and, of course, "Party Time." Those are fitting topics for a group that blends cock...
Mom Rebuffs Kid Julia should have listened to her mother: There's a lot in Julia's account of our experience with Dr. Ghen and the stem cell transfusion that I don't agree with ("In Cord Blood," August 31, Julia Reischel). I don't think we had a "bad experience" with Dr. Ghen...
More than a view through children's eyes, the photographs on display as part of Palm Beach Photographic Centre's "Picture My World" program offer a look at our community — the people and the places. The exhibit is the result of the program's goal to use photography and digital imaging as...
Until about six months ago, Chico's Place (4819 N. Dixie Hwy., Deerfield Beach, 954-420-0088) was a Portuguese bar in the middle of Broward's Little Brazil. With the addition of Chef Daniel Menezes, some white tablecloths, and a new menu, he and the owners have turned that one room into a...
Looks like some reporters and photographers will soon be hit up with an unexpected phone bill from the Tribune Company -- and then fired if they don't get in line. Below is a memo sent out by the newspaper's controller, Darren Beevor, to all staffers with company-issued cell phones and/or...
Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell have been down the reinvention road before. Back when they were the core of the British shoegaze group Slowdive, the pair concluded that the noisy, swirling sound they'd helped advance was a creative dead end, and they'd better try something different. The result? 1995's much-maligned...
Sometimes, all it takes is a single, seemingly benign question to disturb the balance of a deeply complacent town. So it is in Sunrise, a community that from all its outward appearances is just another sprawling west Broward County suburb where nothing as interesting as political scandal ever seems to...
I was a little late coming to the party on the Sun-Sentinel re-design. I didn't realize when it was done last year that it would relegate reporters and their stories to third-rate status behind giant graphics and stupid little blurbs. I didn't know that it would turn national news stories...
The day after my column about Riviera Beach political activist Fane Lozman hit the streets, the city sent him an eviction letter. Coincidence? Maybe, but whether it was tied to my report doesn't change the fact that the City of Riviera Beach is engaging in a shameless game of retaliation...
The Boca Raton Museum of Art has a well-established, mostly noble tradition of showcasing art from local collections, usually in the gallery at the far northern end of the first floor — not prime real estate, as museum space goes, but certainly respectable. For "Masters of Latin America: Selections from...
Some listeners adore them, and some abhor them — but none can credibly deny that the Strokes have had a significant impact on this decade's popular-music scene. Is This It, the outfit's 2001 debut, arrived on a blast of hype powerful enough to blow open mainstream doors that had previously...
Six years after leading a charge for sex-positive electro punks to "fuck the pain away," Peaches has been slowly slumping into a one-shtick pony. Her 2000 debut, The Teaches of Peaches, was a much-needed jolt to affectations in dance music; while electroclash was concerned with keeping its veneer on ice,...
A reader (and college teacher) sent me this beautifully written e-mail -- and it pounds a little newspaper called the DeSoto Sun over the head with a stick. It can get real bad out there, people. Dear Bob, Please clone yourself and send the doppelganger over here to Florida's West...
