Although this band of Limey distorto-demons has made quite a name in the UK recording for Creation, the label that birthed My Bloody Valentine and Oasis, they're hardly known Stateside. This compilation collects most of their stunning legacy in one place, and for those unfamiliar with the group's sound, which...
"It's always something," Poison the Well guitarist Derek Miller laughs through his dying cell phone from Cleveland. "Every time we release a record, it's always, 'What the fuck happened?'" Such is life for the world's most-beloved and hated hardcore band. If you listen only to the first 40 seconds of...
For almost a year, the Broward State Attorney's Office investigated Broward County Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant for violating the statutes that govern her office. Late last month, investigators concluded that there had been misconduct: not by Oliphant but by the Broward County Commission. Oliphant may have been guilty of...
WED 9/10 In the history of modern architecture, no name looms as large as Frank Lloyd Wright. One of several prominent architects to come out of Chicago in the late 19th Century -- after that whole city burned down in 1871, it had a sudden use for lots of architects...
When Pompano Beach water plant operator George Mitchell walked into work at 7:30 a.m. recently, fellow employees were waiting for him with a fresh copy of the Sun-Sentinel. "You're not going to believe this," one said to Mitchell, a 25-year city veteran who makes $65,000 a year. They directed him...
If plays were drinks, the New Theatre's Twelfth Night or As You Will would certainly be a New Age smoothie. Rafael de Acha and company have whipped up a colorful froth of a show that's a decided departure from their sober Othello, the first half of the company's two-play Shakespeare...
The conventional wisdom about Ziggy Marley is that as he gets older, his voice more resembles that of his daddy, Robert Nesta Marley, and his music sounds less and less like that of his father. This maxim has been stated so many times by music critics who feign knowledge of...
Colin Meloy, the singer-songwriter at the heart of the Decemberists, spent his musically formative years in Missoula, Montana, but you couldn't prove it by Castaways and Cutouts. The first full-length by his band, which is currently based in Portland, Oregon, sounds like the work of a hyperliterate Brit. "Leslie Anne...
Something unusual happened on Monday, September 9, 2002. Keith Gross was late for work. A 24-year-old with tanned white skin and brown hair cropped short on the sides, Gross was known around Kitchens to Go in Fort Lauderdale as a firebrand who spoke his mind. But during the five years...
One of the intriguing aspects of the South Florida stage scene is the "branding" of the many resident companies here. Instead of cherry-picking specific plays from various theaters, audiences tend to stick with certain troupes, regardless of what programming they offer. And theaters that thrive here do so in part...
The Broward County Health Department is on the case, but I wonder if officials will find the obvious: Pompano Beach city officials falsified a report and hid serious chlorination problems from both residents and regulators. Broward County environmental czar Howard Rosen has begun an investigation based on a March 13...
THU 8/14 Are you tired of all those potty-mouth comics dragging their filth and verbal depravity across this great state of ours? As we all know, South Florida doesn't take kindly to that tone. We're upstanding citizens, you know. Well, thank goodness for Carlos Oscar. He's been described as a...
So much for those crackpot theories about flighty teenagers and their short attention spans. For four long years now, bland pop star Mandy Moore has stuck in the brain pan of white adolescent America like a wad of bubblegum, and there's no sign that she will loosen her grip anytime...
THU 7/24 A leftist adage posits that if voting changed anything, it would be illegal. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell as long as everyone stays home on Election Day. Even before the 2000 presidential election debacle tarnished the notion of the popular election, most Americans' belief in the importance...
Upon first encountering the art of Carol Prusa, I wondered if I'd stumbled across work by the deranged offspring of a botanist and a biologist -- the artist's paintings are simultaneously floral and anatomical, if that makes any sense. In one painting, for instance, a cascade of flowers flows from...
During the season most of us love to hate, it helps to set the hellacious days and stifling nights to music. A poor substitute in lieu of air conditioning, perhaps, though these recommendations are designed to distract you to the point that you forget about the pool of sweat collecting...
SAT 7/5 Though the hype that arises from Cannes tends to ripple briefly Stateside, most of these works are hit or miss. Regardless, there is something unique about last year's Grand Jury Prize winner. Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention might prove it deserves its overwhelmingly positive response. Based on the opera...
The sun had just peeked over the slash pines in Loxahatchee early on a recent Monday as Terry Wolf got ready for the dirtiest job around. He looked the part of a man who oversees the care of 1,100 animals at Lion Country Safari, the drive-through zoo in this western...
So many ideas spring forth from Deep Dish that it's hard to categorize the Iranian-born, Maryland-based duo. DJ/producers Ali Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi raid every shelf in the trance-progressive-house pantry, usually brewing up excellent results. Tedious double-length sets like the Yoshiesque series seem to exist for the benefit of the...
The days when popular, famous restaurants kept their recipes secret are thankfully over. Case in point: The New Legal Sea Foods Cookbook! Now, we no longer have to trek to the Sawgrass Mills location of the Legal Sea Foods chain, scavenge for a parking spot, linger in line for a...
The statement that one thing or another puts the fun in dysfunctional is now far beyond cliché, but for Christopher Titus, it may be apropos nonetheless. For three seasons, the comedian's show Titus, which was canceled earlier this year, took the conventions of the family sitcom, a form that was...
While R&B has moved on, blending hip-hop into the genre for a harder edge, there are those who insist on harking back to the days of yore, when rhythm and blues developed the Quiet Storm genre as a sort of response to soft rock. Named for the similarly titled 1975...
