There are teapots and there are teapots. There are the sleek stainless steel teapots designed for Italian manufacturer Alessi by architect Michael Graves and popularized by Target -- teapots that are both beautiful and functional. Then there are porcelain teapots that inspire the devotion of collectors, ranging from classic British...
Fort Lauderdale Beach During Fleet WeekAccording to the dream dictionary on www.hyperdictionary.com, “Dreaming that you meet a person wearing epaulets means unwise attachments that may result in scandal.” Hmm… sounds fun! There’s something about stripes on a uniform that’ll make you ask an otherwise regular guy to dock his boat in your slip! Willing accomplices can be found at any […]
Café del RioHere’s a little story about the fajita that could. One day, the fajita looked at his peers with their white, flaky tortillas, boring veggie mixes, and dry, flavorless meats and said, “There’s got to be more than this.” So he left his tiny taco stand in Nowhere, Idaho, and headed for Florida, Land of the […]
Café del RioHere’s a little story about the fajita that could. One day, the fajita looked at his peers with their white, flaky tortillas, boring veggie mixes, and dry, flavorless meats and said, “There’s got to be more than this.” So he left his tiny taco stand in Nowhere, Idaho, and headed for Florida, Land of the […]
Fort Lauderdale Beach During Fleet WeekAccording to the dream dictionary on www.hyperdictionary.com, “Dreaming that you meet a person wearing epaulets means unwise attachments that may result in scandal.” Hmm… sounds fun! There’s something about stripes on a uniform that’ll make you ask an otherwise regular guy to dock his boat in your slip! Willing accomplices can be found at any […]
Robert Rodriguez just keeps cranking 'em out. This hasn't always been a good thing -- Spy Kids 2 and 3 felt rushed in a way that the first one didn't, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico looked cheap compared to its cinematic predecessor, Desperado. But the more Rodriguez keeps...
What is all the bleeping commotion about? FRI 6/3 For every cynic who saw the film What the Bleep Do We Know? and called it "a sea of new agey horse crap," there were three fanatics who saw it and gushed, "It changed my life." While some viewers went home...
The bicoastal Boston/Berkeley MC Mr. Lif makes the sort of politically charged Bolshevik boom-bap that warms the coffee of both old-school hip-hop fans and MoveOn.org activists. Which -- despite what that demographic might indicate -- doesn't mean that Lif can't get down and party. On Black Dialogue, his new group...
In the cluttered, money-mad landscape of modern R&B and soul music, the figures who stand tallest stand alone. Prima donnas like Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill have the creative vision and iron-fisted drive necessary to elevate themselves among their peers; Usher and R. Kelly work their mack-daddy game as lone...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a flawed movie born of a flawed novel, but let this be clear: Girls will eat it up with a spoon. It features three young stars, indulges in rampant romantic fantasy, drips with teary-eyed sentimentality, and pays a heapload of lip service to...
If you were ever in doubt about theater's ability to provoke, check out Aunt Dan & Lemon, a creepily ambivalent play about sex, fascism, and the malevolent power of ideas, now at the Sol Theatre in Fort Lauderdale. But be warned: While the show asks some troubling questions, it's up...
As a globetrotting DJ from Hastings, U.K., Danny Howells hasn't seen much of Miami beyond a handful of days spent here spinning records. Still, he creates a vision of the city with his new CD, Global Underground: Miami, released last month. With pockets of support for trance and lounge, Miami's...
Fish Wrap Neighborhood newsletters are generally innocuous throwaways that put lost cats and recent home sales on the front page. Tailpipe likes to keep one around just to wrap his leftover soot in. But Steve Kelley's monthly rags are different. The Fort Lauderdale entrepreneur publishes 13 neighborhood or civic association...
THU 16 You might recognize comedian Billy Gardell from his recurring role on the CBS TV show Yes, Dear or from his stints on Quintuplets, The Practice, and Monk or from his role as a security guard in Bad Santa. But small parts don't do the big guy justice; he...
Layer Cake, a new British crime drama from first-time director Matthew Vaughn, is a block of granite struggling to liberate the statue inside it. Vaughn (producer of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) has plenty of dark threat and compelling visual style, but his ambitious trip into the...
Any production of a Shakespeare play, no matter how flawed, can uncover unexpected layers of meaning. Take Hollywood Boulevard Theatre's threadbare Comedy of Errors, now at the Hollywood Playhouse. Director Paul Waxman utterly fails to get the most basic staging right; his direction sometimes consists of actors wandering pointlessly back...
We're 30,000 feet over the Atlantic, going down fast, about to crash, and Keith Michaud of Summer Blanket has just gotten me slammed in the balls by an attractive young blond of surprisingly muscular build. That's how he suggests this article start, punning off a scene from Almost Famous, with...
Marriage of convenience is not a new subject. In films, in novels, and in countless television shows, we have been invited to witness both the drama and the comedy of the setup: Two people who barely know each other enter into what must appear to be a devoutly serious emotional...
Free Weekly Sarcastic? Cop Unhappy. But read the files, baby. It's good stuff: I read the May 19 Tailpipe as well as Wyatt Olson's May 5 story "Love & Loathing." and I felt the story was flawed and that Tailpipe was sarcastic, to say the least. I was hired by...
The Sun-Sentinel Responds Don't do it, kids: Chuck Strouse's June 9 column about wayward high school journalist Nazish Ahmad ("Steal This Prose") should serve as a cautionary tale for big-league newsrooms, mine included, but he stopped me in my tracks when he wrote, "The young woman was pushed too hard,...
On a sweltering Saturday, Donald Tobkin suns himself poolside behind the pinky-peach monolith that is the Ramada Inn on Hollywood Beach. Children scamper and catapult themselves into the turquoise pool. Shore birds honk overhead. From this spot, perhaps a couple of hundred yards from the surf, the sea is smelled...
Night falls, a group of people -- a family, a clan, a tribe -- gathers around a campfire. The flames crackle, the wind whispers, and under the starry sky, one person begins to tell a story. As the tale unwinds, the tale teller shifts from third-person narrative to performance, using...
