You really ought to catch Cuban musician Israel Lopez -- a.k.a. Cachao – right now. Homeboy is 87. Then again, one critic who saw his show wrote, “Cachao on tour amazes in many ways, one being how a seemingly frail older gentleman can become a suddenly energized musician on top...
Mr. Insider You listenin', Broward State Attorney Satz? Bob Norman's "For Sale: Keys to the City" (June 1) might have been called "A Mayor Unmasked." Norman's exhaustive research on the dealings of the mayor of Deerfield Beach has brought citizens an undeniable conclusion of corruption and collusion in their city...
On the last Wednesday in May, during the monthly convergence of the South Florida hip-hop scene at the Poor House (a night also known as "The Art of Moving Butts"), the Night Rider was given a title of distinction. "This is my homegirl, Marya," said Darin, one of the event...
"George and Martha. Sad, sad, sad." For lovers of the Woolf, those six little words will induce Pavlovian joy. Such a cruel play. Such total destruction. Such delight. Even though Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf opened just last week at Palm Beach Dramaworks, overheard weeks ago at another...
Bring Out the Goodness That down-home religion makes things worse: Nice story ("The God Fossil," Julia Reischel, March 9). My question: If God is a result of evolution, how come so many people are murdered in his name? Seems like lately, belief in God means early death. The most rabid...
Natalie MacMaster prefers her fiddle Celtic-style… or is it bluegrass? It’s hard to tell, really. And besides, the way this clever Canadian makes music, trying to pigeonhole her sound becomes a moot point. With roots firmly planted in Celtic tradition, MacMaster’s love of bluegrass has resulted in collaborations with the...
What follows is the full transcript of last night's gubernatorial debate between Charlie Crist, Jim Davis, and Max Linn. It's, um, really long. CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC HOST: Florida, the state that carried George W. Bush into the White House and elected Jeb Bush twice for governor. A state on the...
I have to thank the Sun-Sentinel this morning for finally allowing me to achieve my lifelong dream of winning $25 from the Columbia Journalism Review. The money is for that back-page thing, "Lower Case," where they run headline gaffes. And mine came from the Sentinel. Okay, I haven't actually received...
In his column on Saturday, Buddy Nevins simply informed readers in the final paragraphs that it was his last. "It's been a great run, but the time has come to meet new challenges." Maucker The explanation didn't come until the next day -- from his Sun-Sentinel Editor Earl Maucker. In...
Fabulation
Written by Lynn Nottage. Directed by Michael Yawney. With Crystal Murphy, Edgar Caraballo, Viviene Dawson, Andre L. Gainey, Jeanne Lynn Gray, Carolyn Johnson, and Earlington Taylor. Presented through June 4 by the Public Theatre of South Florida, 6501 W. Sunrise Blvd., Plantation. Call 954-537-3648.
The Hush Sound's guitarist and co-lead vocalist, Bob Morris, has his hands full. His band is set to perform with Panic! At the Disco, his mother won't stop ringing him (she's in line outside, confused by how to collect her ticket), and, oh yeah, there's this interview to contend with...
On the warm Sunday morning of February 22, 2004, a chubby-faced man named Dwight Johnson flagged down a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy near an apartment complex in unincorporated Fort Lauderdale south of Sunrise Boulevard. He told the deputy he'd just gone up to a second-floor apartment and found Tondelaya McKenzie...
Guess you had to be there, at Town Hall in New York City last July, though from the sounds of it, not so much. Thomas Bartlett, writing last summer on Salon, sent his own postcard lamenting how his beloved band went "all chamber/acoustic refined/wimpy," resulting in music that came off...
Deetjen (far left) with Jeb Bush In light of Deerfield Beach City Manager Larry Deetjen's racist blowup at the Palm Beach County Airport, I feel it is incumbent upon the Pulp to allow Deetjen a full airing of his defense. It comes in the form of a memo he wrote...
South Floridians have a natural facility for many things: elevating flip-flops into fashion items, marketing sunshine to French Canadian tourists, subsisting on chicken wings and light beer. One area we haven't mastered, though, is this crazy Internet thing. Somehow, South Florida — flush with an emerging cultural identity, numerous media...
Need Viagra? There are more spammers waiting in the wings: As a veteran of the "spam wars" since 1997, I've participated in and read hundreds of articles about unsolicited e-mail marketing. Trevor Aaronson's May 11 article about James McCalla and other spammers in Florida ("The $11 Billion Man") is one...
When you get down to the nitty-gritty, even Nobel laureate physicists, despite their high-minded ambition to uncover the mysteries of the universe, end up working for food and sex — and eventually to grab some kind of love that will steady them into retirement. Or so it goes in Jamie...
Since rapper Timothy "Gift of Gab" Parker and Xavier "DJ Chief Xcel" Mosely formed Blackalicious in 1987 while attending high school in Sacramento, California, the duo has persevered through one hip-hop generation to another. The two have seen musical tastes change from the trendy youth culture of the late '80s...
Hipsters looking for disagreeable, hard-to-digest music will presumably turn toward the new Liars record, Drum's Not Dead, for a hearty dose of parent-scaring noise. It's a reasonable assumption, as their last album, in spite of its weirdness and witch-loving themes, won out the noise-rock crowd by pulling off near-poppy magic...
On Saturday night, my friend Kim suggested we venture to Fitzy's Lounge in Delray Beach, a spot she frequents but that was new to me. She sold me on the place by saying it frequently had jazz bands, and tonight, a chill and funky vibe was just about right. See,...
Ejiofor plays Simon, AKA Lola, a flamboyant drag queen who gets to sing showtunes, issue snappy putdowns, and look fabulous. (He is not, he explains, a transvestite, because while drag queens look good in a dress, trannies "look like Boris Yeltsin in lipstick.") Lola is also nursing some deep personal...
All right, so maybe Dennis Miller pads his jokes with obscure references that only half the audience will get. And, sure, Miller’s political rants don’t fall too far from the Rush Limbaugh tree (get the Arabs… and the Clintons too!). But for all the hot air he blows, Miller is...
