From a distance, the West Palm Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center sits there like a castle on a hill. Just west of I-95 on Blue Heron Road, the veterans hospital perches atop a man-made knoll anchored by a cavernous parking garage. A single, narrow drive curls up to the hospital's...
Kid's Xtreme ambition hits the screen SAT 5/22 "How can you mountain-bike in a land without mountains?" That's what everybody asked John Logan Pierson, a sophomore at St. Andrew's School in Boca Raton. He answered by filming a 60-minute movie featuring South Florida mountain bikers pulling tricks at Quiet Waters...
All hail irrationality! And Wayne Gretsky too (hold on a minute -- we'll get to that). Irrationality is the only explanation of why the Atlantis Playhouse's Gary Waldman decided against all logic to present The Life, a stark, gritty musical about pimps and prostitutes that's a 180-degree change from the...
College campuses are the perfect place for a concert: There's guaranteed to be a young crowd up for a good party. Sometimes you'll even find some good music brought in by a campus radio station. But more often than not, big events at So-and-So State are the result of someone...
You're digging through your closet or drawer, sifting through all the years of junk, and you find something. You thought that Bell Biv DeVoe "Poison" single was a goner, but there it is. You brush off the layer of dust and pop it in your car stereo later that day,...
Simone Gitman wants to help me find God. A petite brunet with ocean-blue eyes the size of half-dollar coins, Gitman sits cross-legged next to me on a brown sofa with oversized cushions in the canal-front home she rents in Victoria Park. Dressed in gray sweat pants and a blue tank...
If you're looking for a quick trip to a faraway place, Joseph Adler and GableStage can arrange a 90-minute journey to an entirely different planet courtesy of their latest production, 'Master Harold' ...and the boys. Athol Fugard's drama is not only set a half century ago but in apartheid South...
Has it already been a year since City Shorts was last in town? This festival of short plays (20 minutes max) has become a nationally recognized event in its nine-year history and something of a must-see/must-be-seen-there social event for South Florida cognoscenti. Shorts has its own cheerily subversive personality; this...
THU 13 Aphrodite Jones. Sounds like the name of a sexy crime reporter who pores over affidavits, logs hours in courtrooms, and scours grisly crime scenes for clues that others have missed, delicately flipping her raven-like hair the whole time. Well... it is. Jones is a real-life author (and Aphrodite...
Written and directed by David Mackenzie, based on the novel by Alexander Trocchi. Starring Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, and Emily Mortimer. Rated NC-17.
What becomes of Morgan Spurlock's body after a month of eating and drinking nothing but McDonald's assembly-line foodstuffs is not surprising. He bloats up, gaining nearly 30 pounds in 30 days. His sex drive peters out, among the myriad disappointments visited upon Spurlock's vegan-chef girlfriend, who's only too happy to...
The beat of rara drums and the swirl of compas music comes from the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. Have we stumbled onto a voodoo ceremony? No, people in elegant dress move lithely to the music, hold cocktails, and munch on curried goat as they peer at animated paintings...
Boners in the Culture Room THU 5/20 Whereas most people fear change, Fishbone hugs it, kisses it, lays it down on a merry-go-round, and makes sweet love to it. Embracing flux has had a mixed effect. The Boners' fan base shrinks and swells like the tides, and countless record store...
Those people who live in small towns, they're not like you and me. So naive, so innocent. And adorably quirky. Why, they've got so many lovable quirks, you just want to run up and hug 'em. Or if you're a filmmaker, perhaps you can make a movie about these simple...
No Exit, an engaging philosophical piece by John Paul Sartre, continues to make us think 60 years after it was written. Three strangers are escorted one by one into an overheated room that¹s much like the ³Hotel California.² Leaving is, well, more difficult than entering. In this hell, there is...
The laughing arrives first, echoing down the hallway. Then comes the commotion. Bodyguards and business associates enter the room, walking slowly backward so as not to lose sight of their smiling, boisterous, broad-shouldered boss. The cameras roll. The laughing continues. The man enters. And he sparkles. Literally. Overhead lights and...
Listen up, Jamaicans. There are approximately 5 million of you on the planet -- 2.6 million on the island and another 2.5 million living in Toronto, New York City, London, and especially here in South Florida. Parts of Miami-Dade County and especially the Broward enclaves of Lauderhill and Miramar are...
The four years that passed between Modest Mouse's 2000 album The Moon & Antarctica and its new opus, Good News for People Who Love Bad News, seemed like an eternity. Gone is the world-weary anxiety that girded The Moon... like a vicious, inescapable undertow; in its place is leader Isaac...
THU 3 Oh man. Last week's dinner with the relatives didn't go so well, eh? You had to open a can of worms with that asinine comment about Iraq, and now your WWII-vet grandfather has labeled half the family unpatriotic. Perhaps your extended family should attend today's poetry reading by...
Suicide made merry. Brotherly devotion tinged with carnal deceit. Personal tragedy transformed by malicious humor. These are some of the oil-and-water notions advanced by Lone Scherfig's Wilbur, a mood-switching meditation on love and death that goes out of its way to yank our chains. From the sly come-on of her...
Imagine this: You're an overworked waitress. You have your first night off in three weeks. You down a few drinks, end up a little tipsy, and next thing you know, you're on the psych ward at county general hospital for 26 hours. An inmate threatens to kill you, a nurse...
THU 27 God save South Florida -- the Creepy T's have added a second guitar to their already fuzzed-out garage-punk mix, in the form of one Dr. Steven Van Helsing. While that may sound like a heavy load, just try to recall the last time guitarist/vocalist Derek Hyde actually played...
