Sensing that his message had been lost in the din of modernity, God decided it was time for a little self-promotion. Churches weren't full, the flock was straying, people were slacking, sin was spreading like Miracle Whip, and he needed something to stem the tide. Something to get folks back...
Mother Nature must need some help expressing her feelings for Sky Father, so Dennis Oppenheim lends the goddess a helping hand in "Salutations to the Sky." The series of aerial photographs are fictive proposals to redirect the flow of the Sacramento River so that it spells out such messages as...
That Curious George existed at all — much less as a franchise, an icon enduring some 65 years — was a result of "happy circumstance," wrote Houghton Mifflin publisher Anita Silvey with some understatement in 1991, upon the 50th-anniversary publication of The Complete Adventures of Curious George. Silvey and critic...
Bold Girls
Written by Rona Munro. Directed by Genie Croft. With Deanna Henson, Kathy Ryan, Tania Tesh, and Jennifer Gomez. Through March 19 at the Women's Theatre Project, 640 N. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-462-2334.
When Billy Bragg sang, “Revolution is just a T-shirt away, ” the guys at Sub City Records surely took his words to heart. The label’s mission is to raise social awareness for progressive causes, and maybe donate a few bucks at the same time. Royalties for each Sub City release...
It's the big day. On a recent June afternoon, Jon Jacobs is rushing around his office inside his Spanish-style house in Miami's Design District. A 39-year-old with a British accent, Jacobs is checking the settings on four computers in the front room of his home. They are all connected to...
Dune: Extended Edition (Universal) On paper it sounds insane: A mammoth sci-fi epic directed by David Lynch, based on an intensely weird Frank Herbert novel about ecology and giant worms. What resulted was a flop that has yet to be remedied by multiple edits through the years. This disc includes...
Last fall, when many Floridians were thinking more about hurricane debris than gubernatorial elections, a series of ads touting Tom Gallagher began airing on conservative talk radio stations around the state. After laboring faithfully for years in the shadow of Jeb Bush, the ads suggested, the chief financial officer was...
Back in the days of fauvist painter Henri Matisse -- the early 20th Century – the problem of attention deficit disorder hadn’t yet reared its head. It wasn’t like Matisse to suffer burnout and lose interest in a subject. He was actually remarkable for his perseverance, and the results are...
Part of responsible parenting means not playing favorites with your kids. Though, when one of ´em is the result of a romantic side project, there’s little chance of equal treatment. In the Chinese film Beauty Remains, Fei and Ying are two sisters whose recently deceased and incredibly wealthy father has...
Political animal Doug Guetzloe measures his success on the Internet. In Google search hits, to be precise. "You Google me and I'm up to the 700 or 800 category," says the Orlando conservative radio show host and Bill O'Reilly acolyte. "If I'm not up to 700, I'm not doing my...
If you're craving an antidote to the sanctity of repressed gay cowboys, you could do worse than Adam & Steve. This good-natured comedy from writer-director Craig Chester uses gently sly wit to poke fun at neurotic gay singles, coming of age in the 1980s, and dating in the era of...
Drug smugglers go to Mexico to pick up dope. Cost-cutting business owners go there to pick up cheap labor. But for Ivan Thompson, the self-proclaimed "Cowboy Cupid," it's all about the love, baby -- not his, yours. In her documentary, Cowboy del Amor, filmmaker Michèle Ohayon follows Thompson on his...
Tailpipe is happy to confirm that there really is a functioning racetrack in southeastern Broward County now, complete with occasionally predictable nags, a splendid oval-shaped dirt-and-turf running track, and an elegant new lemon-colored clubhouse. Gulfstream Park, in the midst of a $171 million renovation, has escaped from the wilderness of...
"Stick around too much and people won't miss you," Brendan O'Hara muses over drinks on Hollywood Beach, where the 24-year-old singer/songwriter/activist has settled down for close to two years. That's after a case of wanderlust had taken him to cities on both coasts since he left New Jersey in 1998...
Once every year or two, I stray outside my assigned territory and venture deep into the heart of Miami to write about an exhibition that promises to transcend its physical location. Last year, the Robert Rauschenberg show at the Miami Art Museum (MAM) fit the bill, but I dallied and...
Editor's note: At press time, we learned that Pretty Ricky's April 15 concert at Revolution has been rescheduled for June 2. Last year around this time, Pretty Ricky was blowing up. Four brothers named Spectacular, Pleasure, Diamond (AKA Baby Blue), and Slick 'em locked up the airwaves with "Grind on...
Point by Point The rent-a-cop alternative: The March 16 Tailpipe column addressed the important issues of anti-rape measures at FAU ("In the Clouds"). I suggest that nighttime campus lighting be improved; otherwise, the daytime rapes will simply shift to nighttime. Nor is a wellness program needed. Better that students seek...
Singer Billy Corgan is alt-rock's Barry Bonds, a star whose outspoken awareness of his own singular gifts make him unpopular and somewhat undervalued. Last year, with Bonds nursing injuries, the San Francisco Giants trotted out younger replacements who couldn't come close to matching his performance. Similarly, with the Smashing Pumpkins...
It can't be easy making films about war. It's so inherently dramatic that, as a setting for art, it's overdetermined; it drips with meaning even before the first scenes are set. And so much has been said already: War is hell. War is noble. War is surreal. War is absurd,...
