Report from Lake Worth -- there's no shortage of noise up here! Or at least there wasn't Friday night when I drove to the quaint hamlet to see 13-year-old Nick Klein (or Prodigy, as he dubbed himself for the evening) and his infamous local cohorts. As promised the eclectic and...
At first glance T's Lounge in West Palm Beach doesn't look like a dump. The waitresses are friendly, the bouncer smiles, and the bathroom is scrubbed and well lit; there's even a guy in there who squirts soap in your hands and produces a warm towel whether or not you...
There's a myth that the right person saw the right starlet slinging hash at the local diner, and poof! Metro Goldwyn Mayer and 20th Century Fox popped up out of nowhere. Derek Elley's 1998 documentary, Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies, and the American Dream, debunks this myth by revealing a more fascinating...
The waitress at Moon Thai & Japanese, a month-old restaurant in Coral Springs, approached us as we were still getting settled in our bistro-style seats. "We don't have white tuna tonight," she informed us, looking directly at my father-in-law. My husband and I laughed -- his father, Joel, is addicted...
How good is Tim Easton? Let's put it this way: Wilco is his backing band. On his second solo offering, the Ohio-reared songwriter offers a delicious buffet of roots-rock that includes elements of country, folk, bluegrass, and gospel. Easton is best known for his work with the Haynes Boys, a...
About three months ago, the Fine Arts Gallery at Broward Community College's Central Campus in Davie showcased an eclectic retrospective of works by five full-time faculty members. Now the gallery weighs in with the fourth annual "Adjunct Faculty Exhibit," an even quirkier and more ambitious show featuring the works of...
The strife between the lead characters inCaldwell Theatre's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane goes way beyond the typical mother-daughter friction. Early in the play, while Maureen Folan (Cary Anne Spear) slams cabinet doors and slings pans around the kitchen of their little cottage, her aged mother, Mag (Virginia...
With In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai solidifies his stature as the subtlest and most idiosyncratic of Hong Kong directors. In an industry best known for its accessible, crowd-pleasing comedies and action films, Wong has turned out a series of increasingly risky dramas that make little or no concession...
What do you think Al would do with the sugar? Huh, sugar? Thank you so much for the wonderful story on Al Goldstein ("Screwed," Bob Whitby, February 22). I am a transplanted New Yorker who loved Midnight Blue, and I really miss seeing it. I met one of his neighbors...
Rita Lipoff, eyes closed, willpower amped up, is preparing to cast a spell. The flame from a lavender-scented candle flickers over a blank sheet of white paper sprinkled with lavender, hibiscus, and cloves. Lipoff kneels before a glass table in the living room of her tidy, open-loft townhouse in Hollywood,...
The five artists represented in "Faculty 2000: A Retrospective," now at the Fine Arts Gallery on Broward Community College's Davie campus, are all full-time faculty members at BCC. As the subtitle indicates, this show has sent them rummaging through their pasts; as with most such expeditions, the results are highly...
Whew! Florida musicians are pumping out product faster than Bandwidth Labs' techs can take 'em for test runs. Blame it on the rock-bottom prices on CD burners -- even small pets and most stuffed animals can make an album nowadays. Here's the latest assortment to come through my transom, compiled...
On November 16, 2000, Apollo Middle School principal Aimee Zekofsky summoned Ofcr. Bryan Roussell of the Hollywood Police Department to her office. The principal handed him what resembled a Rorschach test, then asked him to fold it and hold it up to the light. Roussell, Apollo's school resource officer, followed...
Sam Hamm is, relatively speaking, a successful Hollywood screenwriter, meaning he earns his keep penning screenplays without having to subsidize his income by tending bar or waiting tables. He has to his credit a handful of films, some little known (1983's Never Cry Wolf, his debut), some enormously profitable (1989's...
There's a fine line between preciously twee and just plain dorky, and Kindercore Records from Athens, Georgia, has spent considerable resources blurring this distinction. The label's protagonists scoured their fair hamlet for nonthreatening indie-pop in April 1996, resulting in the following epiphany: "There are a lot of good bands in...
Outside avant-garde or experimental showcases, short dramatic films used to be little more than a means to an end -- a risky route to an uncertain mainstream future. Getting one made was usually easy enough, as those things go. The hard part was getting it shown -- especially if you...
Ridley Scott's Hannibal, with a screenplay by David Mamet and Steven Zaillian, is being released ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, the film that established Hannibal Lecter as an iconic villain in our culture, right up there with A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger, Friday the 13th's...
In 102 Dalmatians, a new brood of puppies is born, one of which, Oddball, doesn't develop spots. The resulting feelings of inadequacy are such that the poor thing runs away from home and hides in a cave, gets bitten by a bat, and turns into a slavering mad dog. Cruella...
You did not grow up in the world over which the Backstreet Boys presently reign: Your treacly pop songs didn't feature cell phones with batteries cutting out, for example, and your teen idols usually included only one "thanks to the fans" number on their albums, not three. One-hit wonders were...
In the wee hours of February 27, 1999, John Holland and Carl Wald decided to end their night of bar-hopping. Holland, who felt he was too drunk to drive, handed his keys to his rugby buddy and agreed to go to Wald's Palm Beach Gardens home for some breakfast. They...
If you need tangible evidence of the plunging economy, take a drive along Pines Boulevard and stop where it intersects North University Drive. Of the four shopping centers that sentry the corners, at least three are half empty. I haven't seen so many "available" signs since touring the red light...
Nova Southeastern University is a school that time forgot. The school has no gay-straight alliance. Take Back the Night, the antiviolence group that is standard fare on most college campuses, is absent. The Fort Lauderdale college even lacks a vibrant underground culture of hemp pants wearing, sweatshop-protesting kids. Instead most...
