Sure, we could follow the lead of nearly every story ever written on Weezer front-man Rivers Cuomo and spout off about what a weird guy he is. The heralds at Rolling Stone even said so on their cover just a few months ago. Yeah, we could pile it on, maybe...
Once upon a time, in a Big Apple on the verge of Disney-fication by Rudy Giuliani, Times Square was a sometimes seedy neighborhood where pre-Internet gay hustlers earned their rent the old-fashioned way, by selling sex in sleazy peep-show booths. In the early 1990s, when he wrote Trafficking in Broken...
THU 25 In any other business, when someone calls you a wanker with lots of problems, well... them's fightin' words. Of course, comedians take pride in such comments, especially when they come from Angus Young, AC/DC's legendary ax-wielder. Having played a construction worker in one of the band's music videos,...
Pity the daily-newspaper critic who must review The Aristocrats without using such phrases as "a longshoreman's arm up a little girl's ass," "then my wife goes down on my son while the dog's licking his balls," "my grandmother's covered in my come," and "is it shit before piss, or sucking...
With Bob Marley wailing from her speakers, Sue Gibbons cruised north on Pine Island Road in Sunrise, keeping in mind her New Year's resolution to drive the speed limit. It was Saturday evening, January 1, 2005, so the pledge the 32-year-old Trinidadian immigrant had made was fresh in her mind...
"So this guy comes up to me after a gig, grabs my shoulder, and says, 'Thanks Buddy!'" the humanitarian recalls from his barstool throne at Gumwrappers, a neon-lit Fort Lauderdale strip shack/rock venue. Dressed in a blue silk dinner jacket with black lapels, he flicks a long-acquired cigarette ash while...
"Hit me," says Mark Zupan -- begs, actually, like a kid clamoring for a new toy. "I'll hit you back." He means it too, and his ripped pecs, buzzed scalp, tattooed back and arms, and bushy gangster goatee promise just as much menace. The dude's bad and doesn't need to...
A certain degree of light-hearted good cheer is required among employees and visitors of Lice Source Services, Inc., a medical clinic in Plantation devoted to ridding its customers of pesky scalp-dwelling vermin. But in the reception room this morning, a young dad with his 7-year-old daughter in tow won't get...
Over the years, I've come to approach group exhibitions, especially juried group exhibitions, with a wary mixture of excitement and dread. On the one hand, there's always the possibility that such a show will yield unexpected treasures -- new artists just beginning to stake out their territory, more established artists...
When rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses was released in 2003, after years of bouncing around between stud ios afraid to put their name on a movie about a cartoonishly murderous family, it was anticipated as a hardcore gorefest. Instead, it was a plotless mess, with decent violence but...
America. B.D's Mongolian Barbecue. Big City Tavern. City Hall Bar and Grill. Dax. Pescatore. Rooney's Irish Pub. Samba Room. Sforza. Tommy Bahama's. Underground Coffee Works. You've just read an abridged list of restaurants that died expensive and miserable deaths in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach in the past...
A most immodest proposal FRI 7/15 Here's a dilemma you're unlikely to face in your lifetime: Your boss informs you that your job has been eliminated. But rather than making you redundant, he offers you a new position -- and quite a few positions for your spouse as well. Yes,...
Michael Ray Roberts was just nine miles out of West Palm Beach on August 1 when he spotted what no drug smuggler ever wants to see. Painted across the hull of a ship on the horizon was the Coast Guard's blood-red stripe, a terrifying sight for a man with 400...
Good punk is all about vintage. Squeeze the grape before it's ripe and the result is tart and shallow; let it stay on the vine too long and the fruit loses its freshness and vitality. The juice coming from the Wellington four-piece Odd Man Out is at its prime --...
Word to your bank account FRI 7/15 As Flavor Flav and Vanilla Ice can tell you, it's a shame to sell millions of records, then squander your fortune and end up on The Surreal Life. Better to play your cards like Russell Simmons, who made his money in hip-hop and...
There's a dizzying moment of sensory overload when you enter Gemini Fine Art. The collection is eclectic, filled with diverse styles and brilliant colors that are as distracting as they are intriguing. Works by more than 80 artists are displayed and sold at Gemini, with styles ranging from beautifully executed...
It's a hot afternoon on July 2 in Baghdad. Inside a silver van, two Iraqi insurgents sit at an intersection. Seventy-five yards away, Pfc. Stephen Tschiderer, a 20-year-old medic from upstate New York, stands guard next to a sand-colored Humvee. One of the Iraqi men points a video camera, the...
A word of caution to the 20 diehard Gorillaz fans who have held on since the "cartoon band" debuted four years ago: Blur's Damon Albarn is the only contributor to return for Demon Days. While the same fictional characters fill the liner notes, every real-life musician has been replaced, and...
If it's been a while since you've seen a great work of art, perhaps you've forgotten what it feels like: It feels euphoric. At least, that's the glorious, heel-kickin' boost that resulted after a screening of Look at Me, by French writer/director/actress/superhero Agnès Jaoui. There was euphoria -- and jubilation...
A decade ago, Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt blew the whistle on corrupt hiring practices at his agency. From 1990 to 1995, qualified candidates had consistently been passed over in favor of unsuitable ones, he said. Many of those given jobs were friends or relatives of high-ranking city cops. An...
If there's one thing in the world that doesn't make sense, it's how most offspring cringe at the discussion of mom and dad making sweet, sweet love. For most of us, revulsion ensues when the parental units lock the bedroom door to "turn in early." And menopause, high blood pressure,...
Smart-asses in more ways than one, Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian may not be the first to have read media critic Danny Schechter while playing Slayer and actually absorbed both. But on Mezmerize, System of a Down's third and most consistent album, the front men, now equally billed, revive a...
