Necessity, so it goes, is the mother of invention. In the case of the Coral Springs Museum of Art, the need is to fill about 8,000 square feet of display space on a regular basis. Amazingly, director Barbara K. O'Keefe does it and does it well, continuing to work with...
$569. That's what you, as an average Fort Lauderdale resident, paid in property taxes in 2003. You shelled out $116 more than residents of Miami and Jacksonville, $187 more than citizens of Tampa and Orlando, and $321 more than inhabitants of St. Petersburg. And that was before city commissioners slammed...
The following letter, regarding Damon Wayans' sitcom My Wife and Kids, was posted on PetitionOnline.com, where it received 140 signatures: "To: Touchstone Television "Re: My Wife and Kids on DVD/VHS "My Wife and Kids is a show with moral values that covers relevant issues for young people today. It displays...
Genesis Fine Art, a small gallery on Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas Boulevard shopping district, specializes in original paintings, emphasis on original. That may not sound like such a significant distinction -- until you consider how prevalent limited-edition prints and giclées are in today's art market. Genesis currently stocks works by...
"I'm not here to talk about the past. I'm here to be positive about this subject. " -- Superhuman baseball-obliterating home run machine Mark McGwire, in a March 17 congressional hearing on the use of illegal steroids in baseball On this sunburnt Friday in March, as the Orioles of Baltimore...
Held over by popular demand SUN 12/26 I am matron -- hear me roar! Madison Avenue, take note: 55 to 70 is the new 18 to 30. Metrosexual is out; menopausal is in. And FYI, the only baking today's Sweet Potato Queens are doing is in the tanning bed. When...
From the outside, Jimmy Eat World's studio in Tempe, Arizona, looks just like another sterile office space in a quiet, out-of-the-way business complex. But walk through the nondescript entrance and the place is a surprisingly cozy rock 'n' roll den. As guitarist Tom Linton and bassist Rick Burch join front-man...
Gold Chains (Topher LaFata) teams up with good friend Sue Cie (Sue Costabile) for the lighthearted When the World Was Our Friend. Here, the duo inject dance cheekiness into punk, resulting in music that often borders on novelty but mostly rocks a tough groove. "California Nites" blends guitar riffs that...
Art students eager to shed the confines of convention don't always understand that skewed perspectives and mutated forms work only after mastering traditional form. According to Florida Atlantic University art professors Walter Hnatysh and John McCoy, many of their colleagues not only encourage such thinking but actively promote it. In...
Not to be confused with Plaza Suite, Neil Simon's California Suite is a series of four vignettes that take place in the same hotel room. The play starts off slowly with a scene between anal intellectual New York editor Hannah (Merry Jo Pitasi) and her ex-husband, Polo-shirt-wearing Billy (James Cichewicz)...
THU 13 The Punk Rock Class of '94 graduated many an aggressive young band into the ranks of indie label stardom (due in no small part to the windfall from Green Day's major label success). Some were opportunists and quickly vanished once the money dried up. Others, like Southern California's...
Tailpipe thought about jumping on the conspiracy-theory bandwagon to explain the Dubya's unexpectedly breezy victory in Florida. But then the 'Pipe learned about that core of conservative Christian suburbanites up around Orlando. Nuts. Let the liberal bloggers wail about miscounts and computer foul-ups, the 'Pipe reasoned; there just wasn't any...
Beware the prestige project, a creative endeavor in which entertainment values come freighted with "artistic importance." Such is the lineage of Parade of the Athletes, an album of material that Dutch DJ Tijs Verwest, a.k.a. Tiësto, created for the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Although the...
Editor's Note:The first part in the series told of the growing feud between millionaire Bobby Gordon and his wife Barbara's friends, Rick Weed and Jane Gosnell. All four lived in Bobby's home in Coral Springs until Barbara discovered the corpses of Rick and Jane in their bedroom. As Barbara Gordon...
Hanukkah and Christmas don't directly overlap, but when it comes to celebrating the season, any hopes for hearing Hanukkah music are pretty much crushed by the Jewish holiday's steroid-inflated cousin's complete domination of December. Hanukkah doesn't have a chance. The Jewish folk music band the Klezmatics is trying to change...
Several questions are raised in Florida Stage's Ice Glen, but not ones the theater likely intends. The first is why this underrealized world premiere was pushed into production before its time. Veteran playwright Joan Ackermann's work offers poetic sensibilities, but it trickles its watery way to a tepid conclusion, and...
A Very Long Engagement, the new film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (most famously of Amélie), will have its fans. For one thing, there's no denying its beauty, an onslaught of gorgeous tableaux, painstakingly arranged and shot through filters to exclude colors that don't suit (i.e., anything other than sepia...
The critic who takes notes during The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou will ultimately fill a notepad only with scribbled details: "All the crewmen wear red stocking caps with their tuxedos," "some names of Zissou's movies: The Battling Eels of Antibes, Shadow Creatures of the Lurisia Archipelago, Island Cats!," "one...
For its Speed of Surround tour this past October, Perpetual Groove decided to push sound technology further than it had been pushed before. At concert halls up and down the East Coast, the band staged the first completely 5.1 Surround Sound tour in history. Wielding a stylus and digital input...
THU 6 Think back to what you did on New Year's Eve, down to the last detail. Assuming you have any recollection at all, it exists as a series of fragments, at best. But that's OK -- it's the normal way we perceive things, or so says local photographer Hester...
As he had for about 25 years, Herb Zebuth strolled into work at the district headquarters of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in West Palm Beach on February 5, 2004. A staff environmental consultant, Zebuth had spent many years studying the water drainage basin for the Loxahatchee River...
Ennio can best be described as laugh-out-loud hilarious. Italian performance artist Ennio Marchetto engages the audience with side-splitting parody, physical comedy, and origami skill. With presto-changeos of his self-made paper attire, he transforms from one pop icon to another. Lip syncing to some of the catchiest tunes from the '20's...
