In a lawsuit filed against the South Florida Business Journal in May, a former reporter alleges the publication, part of a national 41-newspaper chain, has drastically inflated circulation numbers to increase advertising revenues. If true, the significance of such a revelation won't be lost on those who have watched the...
Hall Pass was Lorrie Tennant's last poem. She read it aloud on the night of August 25 at Hollywood's Ginger Bay Cafe, one of a string of venues in South Florida that hosts a weekly open-mic poetry event. Memories vary about Tennant's delivery that night, but the poem itself has...
Artbeat dawdled about going way out west to see "Joan Brechin Sonnenberg: Images Transcending the Mediums" at the Coral Springs Museum of Art. Don't make the same mistake. The show, which includes more than three dozen pieces, is uneven, but when Sonnenberg is good, she's really good. The South Florida-based...
Although I slept through my freshman micro-economics course far more than I attended, and thus am hardly an expert in such matters, I believe a band may safely be deemed "efficient" if it can make an entire album for $6 (no matter how long it takes) or in five days...
Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, now in its Florida premiere at the Caldwell Theatre, is nothing if not ambitious. Its subjects are wide-ranging -- among them, major league baseball, gay identity, prejudice, and tolerance -- and so are its genres. The play wants to be both a pressure-cooker drama and...
Florida StageAs the quality of South Florida theater continues to rise, several companies merit high praise but none more than Florida Stage for its challenging, high-quality productions, outstanding mix of local and national talent, and 100 percent dedication to new scripts. Instead of relying on star vehicles or recent New York hits, the Manalapan company, headed […]
Florida StageAs the quality of South Florida theater continues to rise, several companies merit high praise but none more than Florida Stage for its challenging, high-quality productions, outstanding mix of local and national talent, and 100 percent dedication to new scripts. Instead of relying on star vehicles or recent New York hits, the Manalapan company, headed […]
Corruption and conflicts of interest have already sullied the City of Hollywood's multimillion-dollar sewage deal. Now it appears the March vote to choose a company with financial ties to Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom was based on false claims. The City Commission decided to hire Schwing Bioset to treat and haul tons...
The Dining Room: A.R. Gurney's dissection of upper-crust WASP life is given a fine production by director Bruce Lecure and a nimble acting ensemble of six playing 57 roles in a series of interconnected playlets. The production is graced by gentle humor and poignancy, but the energy tends to drag at times, and Gurney's writing, as proper and refined as his characters, seems to avoid deep emotions, which, when they do crop up, are quickly passed over. The result is something like the furniture that dominates the set -- stately, refined, but a bit faded.
Blowing Rocks PreserveRocks? In South Florida? Yep. Only 30 miles from downtown West Palm is the only outcropping along the southern Atlantic Coast, in fact. When big-ass waves break along the base of these massive chunks of Anastacia limestone, the salty spray is channeled up through narrow holes leading to the surface. During the highest tides and […]
It's a bit difficult to get through the shield Nuyorican pop superstar Robi Dräco Rosa uses to protect himself from questions about his public persona. But he lays it all on the line for us. "Who knows? Who cares?" Rosa spits. "Between perception and my reality, there are seven seas...
Two DJs methodically hack and mix behind the decks. Whenever the audience and the music reach a boiling point, they mix in a dark, brooding record and let the crowd catch its collective breath. Then, before anyone gets too relaxed, the BPMs build up to another frenzied crescendo. The process...
Melody Ridgley Fortunato was the type of woman young girls are taught to admire. She overcame early hardship, living modestly but with big ambitions in Americus, Georgia. After moving to South Florida, Fortunato took on a sexist boys' club in the Hollywood Police Department and won. Then she divorced a...
Blowing Rocks PreserveRocks? In South Florida? Yep. Only 30 miles from downtown West Palm is the only outcropping along the southern Atlantic Coast, in fact. When big-ass waves break along the base of these massive chunks of Anastacia limestone, the salty spray is channeled up through narrow holes leading to the surface. During the highest tides and […]
The last year has been good for the mash-up, that DIY form of culture-mulching in which anyone with an Internet connection can download two songs plus the software to splat them together and come up with a trendy dance-floor hit in a matter of minutes. In addition to the scores...
WED 6/30 If you're one of those people who thinks rock music can be only about sex and drugs, then you need to check out Anti-Sessions. Sponsored by TheHoneycomb.com, the monthly event puts into practice the music with a message aesthetic, aiming to generate discussion and educate people about the...
European Deli & RestaurantResults from a recent government survey on diet and health show that the average person gained three pounds from just perusing the menu at European Deli & Restaurant. A breakdown of the numbers reveals that those who read only the menu sections regarding Friday and Saturday specials put on only a pound; these include Wiener […]
European Deli & RestaurantResults from a recent government survey on diet and health show that the average person gained three pounds from just perusing the menu at European Deli & Restaurant. A breakdown of the numbers reveals that those who read only the menu sections regarding Friday and Saturday specials put on only a pound; these include Wiener […]
Rock dudes who make minimalist electronic music on the side ought to be lined up, bent over, and savagely molested with a 12-disc Philip Glass box set until they bawl like Michael Jackson's paperboy. Thankfully, Omaha's indie-dance outfit the Faint isn't exactly a rock band, and the group's bassist, Joel...
Three years ago, Jerry Mathers took part in The Tonight Show's "Celebrity Survivor" contest, and won -- proving that the icon of wholesome 1950s All-Americanism can hang with the best of 'em. But Mathers (you remember -- the Beav!) won only after eating a worm, which resulted in a trip...
In the early evening of Tuesday, November 11, 2003, Stephen Jordi parked his 1988 Ford Aerostar van in a lot south of the Sunset Harbor Marina in Miami Beach. With him was a friend he'd made in August, Stewart Welch. The two looked almost identical: middle-aged white men with flabby...
The Dining Room: A.R. Gurney's dissection of upper-crust WASP life is given a fine production by director Bruce Lecure and a nimble acting ensemble of six playing 57 roles in a series of interconnected playlets. The production is graced by gentle humor and poignancy, but the energy tends to drag...
