The studio is crammed in the back corner of Tootsie's Cabaret, a sprawling strip club near the Broward/Miami-Dade county line. The walls are painted pitch black. Leopard-print pillows cover two couches. Computers, microphones, web cameras, and cables are strewn throughout the small room. Windows allow club visitors to watch the...
Edward Albee's Seascape is, like most of his plays, all talk and almost no action. But what talk it is. The play, an extraordinary blend of light humor and philosophical profundity, features only four characters -- an older couple entering their allegedly golden years and a younger couple of talking...
Almost as wide as he is tall, with a round but unremarkable face, Schultze doesn't look like a rebel. Truth to tell, he looks like Curly of Three Stooges fame or, less kindly, a mass murderer (well, he does bear a passing but disturbing resemblance to John Wayne Gacy). Schultze...
Don't let the name throw you. Project Earth Design isn't a cooperative of environmentalists, nor is it a clever moniker for a home landscaping service. It's a 3-month-old gallery of sorts on the eastern fringe of Fort Lauderdale's Gateway shopping district. And while not everything the shop sells is organic,...
Legendary photographer Ansel Adams once said, "I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would...
The Ring, Gore Verbinski's 2002 remake of Hideo Nakata's Ringu, offered sufficient closure that it didn't exactly demand a sequel. The horror lay in wondering why a mysterious videotape kills viewers seven days after they watch it; to a lesser extent, there was the mystery of the creepy girl, face...
Every year, the Broward County-based, nonprofit, all-volunteer group ArtsUnited organizes two exhibitions to showcase local gay and lesbian artists: "United & Proud" and "ArtExplosion." The latest edition of the latter, "ArtsUnited Presents ArtExplosion 2005," is now on display in the JM Enterprises Family Gallery at ArtServe, and it's a textbook...
Toward the end of Born into Brothels, a superb and piercing documentary by directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, a 12-year-old child examines a photograph. It's beautiful, he says, because it shows us how its subjects live. Yes, they're very poor, and the shot is hard to look at, because...
Pop Dispute My daddy done told me...: In connection with her February 24 story "Rock the Vote," Deirdra Funcheon spoke with my dad regarding my involvement in the Lake Worth mayoral race. He mentioned something about not supporting my efforts because I would try to make people live in trees,...
Seabees Are Battle-ready Barton's probably not: First allow me to congratulate Eric Alan Barton on a well-written and touching portrait of the realities of war ("The Deadliest Day," December 30). However, I feel that he has failed to do his homework, and as a result, has done a great discredit...
The youngest MTV viewers know Xzibit primarily as the host of Pimp My Ride, in which he comes across as the benign, good-humored benefactor of shitbox autos. Musically, though, his grin turns to grim on a regular basis. Weapons is characteristic of his work: a spare, stern hip-hop foray that...
The iconography of an icon THU 3/10 Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Another acid flashback? Not quite. It's the art of Peter Max, which has come to define the generation of free love, flower power, and psychedelic expression. Though he might...
To many, modern art is all about provocation. That was the case with gonzo journalist and novelist Hunter S. Thompson, whose booze- and drug-fueled rants were the stuff of popular legend for decades before he committed suicide last week. Trailing along in Thompson's wake is Eric Bogosian, a theatrical provocateur...
It's all there -- the sooty buildings, the sunless streets, the cockney rabble, and the little boy who committed the cardinal sin of asking his orphanage turnkeys for some more gruel ("Please, sir, I want some more"). It's all there in the traveling production of Lionel Bart's 45-year-old musical Oliver!,...
Yeah, meat is murder. Which is one way to describe San Diego-based death-metal band Cattle Decapitation. If some Broadway producer decides to base a musical on the hard-core lives of roadies for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Cattle Decapitation will probably get the nod to write the score...
Eight days, 150 films, you know the drill. It's the tenth year for the Palm Beach International Film Festival, with movies from Boca to Belle Glade and Lake Worth to Jupiter. The festival opens with When Do We Eat? -- a Sabbath meal, a tough father, and a son perhaps...
Gotten that call yet from FPL? Or the letter in the mail? They're asking you to do your part and tack on an extra $9.75 to your monthly payment. It's for "renewable energy." Who in good conscience could say no? The pitch is this: Florida Power & Light promises that...
You want me to do what? WED 2/2 So the legendary Second City comedy troupe chose to sit out this year's Miami Improv Festival. A loss, no doubt, but hardly a deterrent; with six more troupes than last year's festival (including the Groundlings, the alma mater of megastars like Will...
Beautiful Boxer, the true story of a Thai transgender kickboxer, is a well-intentioned film with a heart of gold. Unfortunately, it also has a brain of lead, a stomach of iron, and legs of jelly. A student at the beat-you-over-the-head school of moviemaking, its sensibilities are crude, its sentiments super-sweet,...
Wyeth keeps it real THU 1/27 When Andrew Wyeth's parents pulled him from public school in the middle of the third grade (due to his whooping cough), the boy might have become one of those home-schooled weirdos who think the devil lurks around every corner of our flat Earth. Fortunately,...
First, the good news. Uncharacteristically for a February release targeting African-American viewers, Diary of a Mad Black Woman is not a yuppie romantic comedy featuring Gabrielle Union and Morris Chestnut. Anthony Anderson and Eddie Griffin are nowhere to be seen, and despite the fact that the most memorable character is...
THU 3 Hate your day job? Maybe you should put on a wig, cross-dress, and start singing songs like "When You're Good to Dubya" or "Baby Dyke." Hey, it worked for Ben Schatz, a Harvard grad and civil rights lawyer who wrote President Clinton's HIV policy. And it worked for...
