A secret sexual relationship with his daughter was not enough. There had to be a wedding. And it had to be a grand celebration befitting a Fisher Island multimillionaire who controls billions from Wall Street to Bermuda, from London to Dubai. So on a sunny June day two years ago,...
Jamie Lidell is, as he sang on last year's Multiply, a "walking, talking question mark." And on the more recent Multiply Additions, he seems even dottier and loopier. The ten-track album of redos and remixes finds Lidell straddling his most pronounced personas — the electronic enthusiast of his 2000 IDM-slanted...
I was standing about 20 feet from the entrance when he walked in. The guy looked and smelled like he was on some sort of Olympic dumpster-diving team, a cross between a construction worker and a beach bum — dude obviously wasn't here for the live music. That's not why...
When Nirvana released Nevermind in 1991, hair-metal bands like Poison seemed hopelessly irrelevant. "The pendulum swung," Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille recalls. "The backlash was strong, instant, and venomous. But time changes things." That it does. Nirvana is long gone, along with most of the bands that followed in its flannel-flying...
Think of it as the kind of porn you can enjoy with the whole family. "Botanical Angels" captures 30 sexy orchids, their petals spread, lips inviting fertilization — you'll even find one that is bearded. Wowza! Whereas you might feel like a debauchee studying the beautifully rendered anatomy in an...
Fort Lauderdale's club-lined Himmarshee area can be an exciting backdrop for a night of cocktails and cockteases. Staggering around the scantily clad females and bustling specimens of masculinity, one soon finds that there's really one thing on everyone's mind: sex. And what better day than Hump Day to let your...
Okay, so I told you I was going to be on Steve Kane Show this morning and you still managed to miss it. I forgive you. Instead of giving a play-by-play, the transcript is as follows. Do with it what you will. I have nothing to hide. On the show,...
How did Diplo, a dinosaur-loving, crunk-spinning white kid from Florida, become the hottest party DJ in Philadelphia (if not the world)? It sure as hell isn't through answering questions with complete sentences. You can't blame the superstar producer/remixer/label head/indie music darling for being busy, especially during his current tour with...
It's been a while since the feel-good pop-rockers and American Idols took the caged animal known as arena rock captive. And listening to a band like Big City Rock, it's obvious they're aware of this fact. Sure, the Los Angeles-based five-piece chose a name straight out of the Monsters of...
Perhaps no one can pinpoint the exact moment vaudeville died, but there's a moment early in Strangers With Candy where you'd swear you had just witnessed the death of visual comedy. En route to her first day of high school, a tarty middle-aged jailbird — this is not a Disney...
Like a flashback, "Elliot Landy's Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation" captures photographic images of a rock 'n' roll era before the profession was a commercially viable one, let alone a glamorous one. As a result, Landy's work reflects virtually unlimited photographic access to many musical icons of the...
Manufacturing #17, Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, 2005 is not, as far as titles go, a memorable or creative one. But it is apropos for the image, which depicts hundreds, possibly thousands, of nearly identically clad, masked workers in pink scrubs and blue aprons as they do...
It's no secret that Pink has a beef with the pop tarts whose genre she inhabits — Britney Spears is practically her arch-nemesis — but on the first single, "Stupid Girls," from her latest album, I'm Not Dead, she threw punches at every other "porno paparazzi girl" you've read about...
The most thankless tasks for any reporter, next to covering weekend festivals featuring various vegetables, is localizing. You take a national or international story and go out to find a local angle or, worse, just run to the mall and get people to talk about it. The worth of those...
Over the past 30 years or so, Alan Parsons has created a reliable musical brand by recruiting the talents of high-profile contributors and presiding over the proceedings with his name on the marquee. Valid Path follows the same formula, even as it marks Parsons' continued transition from old school to...
The Sun-Sentinel's front page was dominated by a Jeb Bush presidential campaign ad. Or was it a news story? It had to do with FCAT scores. The huge headline over the picture of jubilant teachers: "Lots of A's, No F's." The deck: "Grades for Broward County schools rise sharply; governor...
There's been a lot of controversy lately regarding the New Times' takeover of the Village Voice and the resulting carnage at the legendary weekly in New York. Blood has been spilled, great reporters have left or been fired, a lot of people are concerned. I don't pretend to understand what's...
Hell hath no fury like a politician spurned. Barbara Aubel, a Lake Worth volunteer who lost a race for the District 4 City Commission slot in March, strode into the office of the city's chief lifeguard a few weeks ago and, she says, found the dude asleep. Out cold, she...
Just east of downtown Delray Beach, a yard-wide pipe runs beneath the beach, dipping under the sandy floor where the Atlantic laps against the shore. About a mile out, 95 feet under water, the other end of the tube opens up. Out of its barnacle-encrusted mouth spews partially treated sewage...
Let's be honest: Despite the perceived sensitivity injection (courtesy of tear-stained emo and indie artists), radio is no more welcoming to female musicians now than it was during the days of frat-mook nü-metal — well, not to female musicians of substance, at least. Save for Kelly Clarkson and KT Tunstall,...
Despite the current state of affairs in the Holy Land, "Treasures From the Cornell Museum: Voices of Israel" is not an explosive exhibit nor one with its voice raised in battle cries. In fact, if anything, the 30 exhibited works of Judaica — paintings, drawings, etchings, and mixed media by...
