Battle-scarred Hospital A mother speaks: I just finished reading "The Hospital on the Hill" (Wyatt Olson, September 9). It's enough to bring tears to my eyes. Is there anyone at the upper levels of government to whom I can write? What needs to be done to ensure that Edward Seiler...
It gives me no great pleasure to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes, especially when he's traipsing through the galleries of one of my favorite South Florida venues (the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood) at the invitation of one of my favorite curators (Samantha Salzinger). The...
There are several good reasons why South Florida playgoers may want to trek out to Plantation to take in Amadeus, now playing at the Mosaic Theatre. First and foremost is Peter Shaffer's grand potboiler of a script about the life and death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Because of its formidable...
Maurice Denis wore a look of profound irritation as he stood on a Port Everglades pier September 24. Portly and balding but dapper in a beige suit, the 60-year-old Haitian-American looked out of place among the shipping containers. Two gun-toting U.S. marshals stood before him, blocking the way to the...
In her native South Africa, 29-year-old folk-rock singer Karma-Ann Swanepoel was a smashing success. At age 21, she soared to the top of her country's charts with her band Henry Ate, winning numerous awards, giving concerts to crowds of 45,000, and touring with other South African pop stars like Johnny...
THU 28 The edgy Sol Theatre specializes in productions that are sexy, controversial, or just plain weird. So it doesn't really need Halloween. Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is the type of play it might stage on any old Thursday, or on Christmas Eve, or during Ramadan, or for Grandma's birthday...
Editor's note: The three-county, monthlong Florida International Film Festival continues this week with an array of foreign films and an American potboiler. Beat the Drum Earnest and obvious in the manner of a made-for-TV movie, this first feature from South African director David Hickson at least means well. It's about...
When George W. Bush wanted to connect with the Almighty during his recent campaign stop at the Office Depot Center in Sunrise, he called upon firebrand O'Neal Dozier, of course. Dozier is the black preacher from Broward County whose homophobic vitriol actually waves and shimmers like heat rising off a...
It's 2 p.m. on August 10, the first day of fall practice for the Glades Central Community High School football team. Summer heat is draped over the field like a wet blanket. On the far side of a chainlink fence are a dozen onlookers, their outlines shimmering in the sun...
If there's an award for great theatrical moments, this year's prize will undoubtebly go to Nilo Cruz and his Anna in the Tropics, now playing at the Coconut Grove Playhouse: In the play's final image, a half-crazed Cuban girl dressed in a Russian costume staggers toward a huge palm tree...
This California quintet hasn't released an album since 2002's What It Is to Burn, but that doesn't mean the band has been sitting on its ass. Last summer, Finch skipped the festival circuit -- including a prominent invitation from Warped -- to continue touring on the strength of Burn's ongoing...
Frank Cabadiana is a short, pit bull of a man who, as a 41-year-old National Guard sergeant, used to awe the younger soldiers in his unit by doing 20 one-handed pushups with each hand while delivering a lecture on the virtues of keeping fit. But he has lost a lot...
How long should a new restaurant be open before it can be reviewed fairly? If the Gypsy’s Tambourine is any sort of yardstick, two months is way too soon. Much like Colors, the Tambourine promises uniqueness. To bolster this claim, the restaurant offers live entertainment, jewelry and boutique items for...
If you happen to have a 1940 Cadillac gathering dust, you ought to call Funkmaster Flex. Football legend John Madden has recruited Flex to shop for just such a ride, then pimp it out. Way before MTV started transforming rusted-out dorkmobiles into space-age bachelor chariots, Flex was customizing wheels for...
By the time you read this, you might know the identity of the next president. Or perhaps lawyers reign and the world's fate is hanging, like so much chad, in the balance. Either way, Broward County is screwed. It's stuck with a dysfunctional elections office that was plagued by technological...
The very best thing about A Dirty Shame, a giddy sex farce from John Waters, is the credits. What's not to love about a list of characters that includes "Sylvia Stickles," "Marge the Neuter," "Fat Fuck Frank," "Cow Patty," and "Tire Lick Boy"? The soundtrack, too, bears comic fruit, with...
For 15 years, David Silverburg couldn't shake loose his secret identity. Eventually, it just took over. "I was so fuckin' normal," he says after stubbing out a cigarette in a crowded ashtray, clearly relieved not to be hawking home insurance, as he did for nearly two decades. With a business...
John McCurdy knew riding his bicycle down Delray Beach's scenic stretch of A1A could be treacherous. Sharing the road with cars meant he ran the risk of getting cursed out, being swerved at, becoming a target for beer cans, or enduring much worse. But on a sun-drenched late September morning...
Lunch can really hang you up the most. Especially when the outside air is the texture of angora. When you're hungry and have a 30-minute lunch "hour." When you can't stand the thought of another desk-side scoop of chicken salad. Cheer up. Chin up. In downtown Fort Lauderdale, we now...
The new, enormous, retro South Beach-import club thumped as a crowd of 1,200 partiers kicked it to EMF's "Unbelievable." Four female bartenders in micro-skirts and scanty tanks hopped onto the bar top, danced in Coyote Ugly-inspired routines -- yikes! -- and poured shots down the necks of crisp-shirted partiers. Two...
It's nearing 5 p.m. on Thursday, September 30. Drumbeats can be heard for miles down South Dixie Highway near the University of Miami as demonstrators and campaign workers stump for their presidential candidate. In a few hours, George W. Bush and John Kerry will clash nearby in their first debate...
ShizenDiss the oncoming condo parades if you must, but if saturating downtown with monied, sushi-hungry aristocracy allows more restaurants like Shizen to open, then sunsets be damned. Bring on the noblesse and their concomitant garish high-rises. How else are you going to find a proper rainbow roll ($9) at 1:30 a.m. served in a stylish […]
