Ready for reportage: Why is it always a fear of something? Why not title Jeff Stratton's January 24 Bandwidth column "Disgust of a Black Chili Pepper?" Stratton is the one afraid to tell the truth. I suppose he worries about job security in times like these. Let me enlighten you...
Maybe this won't seem like such a big deal to you, since you don't watch The Education of Max Bickford--which is on CBS Sunday nights. Or maybe you're one of the 9 million who do, in which case, well, sorry about that. But stay tuned nonetheless, because this small tale...
If the anonymous author in The Quotable Cook is correct and it's true that "The hostess must be like the duck -- calm and unruffled on the surface, and paddling like hell underneath," then we need to turn the hostess at Gary Woo Asian Bistro upside down. As it stands...
Spiritual bankruptcy abounds: I happened to stumble on Chuck Strouse's column on the art debate in Hollywood ("Ax, Lies, & Audiotape," January 17). I think it was the word dullards that caught my eye. Once again... a liberal never fails to show his true colors. Granted, the Easter Bunny and...
The Beale Street Blues Boy comes to Pompano Beach this Saturday by way of Melbourne, and a road behind it that spans an average of 250 concerts a year for the past 55 years, beginning with a 1956 road trip that included a staggering 342 one-night stands. But it wasn't...
When I was living in Southern California, I worked in a seafood restaurant located at the end of a pier. During my shift, I occupied my time with waiting tables, doing sidework, and watching the fishermen bring in their catches of bottom-feeders: rays, crabs, the occasional soda can washed in...
It's a Friday-night hardcore show at Club Q in Davie, and the inevitable pit standoff is in full swing. Some newbie has taken exception to the teenage skinheads' penchant for Tae-Bo high kicks and is doing his best to start a brawl. "Enough!" yells Trust No One singer Chris Coach...
Norm Kent revisited: Upon reading the cover story regarding Gary Steinsmith ("Drug Holiday," Ashley Fantz, January 10), I was unclear as to what purposes the author was seeking to achieve. If she was seeking to reveal the limitations of the social service agencies about which she reported, her exposé seemed...
Appropriately, A Beautiful Mind does not offer a literal translation of the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., the mathematician whose work on game theory won him a Nobel Prize in 1994. The film leaves out significant events, people, and places; it amalgamates central figures, disguises prominent locations, and hides...
Rosa is crying.She is wearing a stretchy, blue-striped T-top, a stretchy skirt with blue stripes colliding in clashing patterns, and a wide, stretchy red headband. The jumble of stripes and the headband looked jaunty on the pretty 19-year-old when she answered the door on a late January afternoon, but now...
By the time Trans Am arrives in South Florida this weekend, it'll have a new paint job. Valves will have been adjusted. That sticky window vent will be fixed. Since 1993, the Washington, D.C.-based indie-rock trio has garnered a reputation as a purveyor of eccentric instrumentals that merge the cold...
A handful of artists can evoke distinct imagery and a tangible mood with no more than the dropping of their names. Alice Cooper is surely among the first generation of theatrical rockers to possess the ability to shock and horrify at the mere mention of his nom de rock. It's...
While American artists have tried to capture the British sound for many years, their attempts to appropriate the English essence are generally as successful as coaxing an authentic shepherd's pie from Stove Top mix. More than 200 years ago, Paul Revere warned that the British were coming, and we were...
Had The Royal Tenenbaums been made by a first-time filmmaker unburdened by acclaim or expectation, it could be heralded -- and then just as easily dismissed -- as a light, literary exercise in filmmaking that's as pleasant as it is frustrating. Its tale of a dysfunctional family of geniuses torn...
For his debut film as a producer-director, Fort Lauderdale resident Rob Goodman wanted something distinctive. So he borrowed a 1978 Checker Cab, decorated the interior with dozens of oddball knickknacks, and told a cameraman to hop inside and shoot. The resulting piece of cinema, titled 531, is among about 110...
You likely don't know about the federal investigation of WorldWide Security Associates, which screens passengers at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport and 11 other airports across the country. The Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald published short, vague stories last month about a December 19 FBI raid of the WorldWide office in...
If Sax on the Beach fails, the newly opened music bar will be just another Miami jazz dream deferred, like Arthur's (which featured big names in the 1980s) and the cozy, if empty, Champagnes on 79th Street that closed months ago. This gin joint in the lobby of Bay Parc...
The clock says 5. Above a dish rack stacked with black-and-white dinner plates, above a small sink and a window shaded with deep green vertical blinds, is an old-fashioned, schoolhouse-style clock, round with big numbers and circled in brown trim, moving through the minutes, the hours, the days, the months,...
It took five men to concoct the hackneyed plot and conceive the brainless jokes that constitute Not Another Teen Movie, meaning that right now, five men in Los Angeles are still trying to wash that stink off their soft, idle hands. Five men -- five men... the very thought boggles...
Snow, schmow. Here in the subtropics, we create a festive holiday feel by cranking up the wattage. We string lights on our palm trees, our pool decks, our pleasure boats. And then there are the flying dinosaurs, the unicorn, and a fire-breathing dragon. Of course, you probably won't see these...
By the sound of it, Migala considers music as much a visual experience as an aural one. Thank goodness, because the results are spectacular. The band's third full-length sets the scene for a lush, cinematic dream world to be seen with the ears, which makes for inspiring listening. The music...
Tim Zagat is an opinionated man.Perhaps that's not surprising, given the fact that in 1979, he and his wife, Nina, founded the Zagat New York Restaurant Survey. Started as an informal restaurant rating system, derived from detailed questionnaires distributed among a group of friends (including the Rubell family, of Studio...
