Every other month or so, bulldozers and other earth-moving equipment haul tons of local CDs to Bandwidth's basement bunker. We sift through the rubble and pluck out a handful of platters for review. As a public service, we present our findings to you. Caution: Your results may vary. Prophets of...
Much has changed for urban gays in the 20 years since William Friedkin's Cruising. That controversial serial-killer thriller -- set in the leather bars and after-hours sex clubs of New York's West Village -- was derided by gay-rights activists as a piece of cheapjack sensationalism, seemingly designed to exacerbate the...
Works that penetrate the façade of normalcy in marriage are nothing new to American theater audiences. In the 1938 classic Our Town, Thornton Wilder pioneered what we now call "relationship drama" when he placed a young couple at the altar and allowed the audience to listen in on their innermost...
If South Florida were like other major metropolitan areas around the country, we who live here would enjoy our live music in a renovated old movie house with velvet curtains, cushy seats, an in-house sound board, and so on. But alas, we're not, and we don't. So, spoiled nonnatives (yes,...
Thank God for old Jews with shaky hands and the inability to tell this word (G-O-R-E) from this one (B-U-C-H-A-N-A-N). Without them--and Survivor Richard Hatch, that self-proclaimed "fat naked fag" who, as is turns out, is just a really concerned parent and not at all, uh, abusive--it would have been...
Dubya gets down and hypocritical: In New Times' November 23 issue, letter writer Lucy Keller, a native Texan, says Vice President Al Gore is "... setting an example for our young people that, if you do not like the rules, you can break them." That statement should refer to George...
Contained within a care package sent by C.D. Payne is a self-penned press release introducing the author as "the Rodney Dangerfield of comic novelists," complete with a picture of the bug-eyed comedian and his shopworn catchphrase "I can't get no respect." As it turns out, this is the letter Payne...
Note to Mojave 3: For the love of all that's holy, free Rachel Goswell! Let her sing! And while we're at it, how about plugging in those guitars for a few numbers? The amps may not go to 11, but they must go past 4, people. Anyone who enjoyed this...
The juxtapositions are sometimes jarring: Two Andy Warhols are propped on the floor a few feet from a vintage Norman Rockwell. A quartet of pieces by actor turned painter Anthony Quinn give way to a Red Skelton self-portrait, followed by a pair of Ertés. A cluster of Picassos shares space...
Meet Skot Foreman, a 36-year-old Boca Raton native who once was a successful corporate banker with a stable (and sizable) income but gave it all up. These days he can make $100,000 in a single day. Or he can earn nothing in weeks. He owns an art gallery and deals...
Gerlyn Cadet is a driver in the ground war, and he has the feeling his side is going to win. It is Election Day, and the word in Broward County is that people are coming out in record numbers to vote for Vice President Al Gore. Not all the news...
Pinback's eponymous 1999 debut found two ex-members of Heavy Vegetable and Three Mile Pilot dicking around with a four-track, making studiously and intentionally low-fidelity recordings and playing cut-and-paste with the results. Some Voices, the group's new four-song EP, is heavy on the noise gates, looping software, and ProTools wizardry, which...
You've finished your record, designed some sweet cover art, and thanked all your friends and supporters in the liner notes. Now it's time to throw together a package with a photo and a bio and perhaps some press clips and send it off to some third-rate, penny-ante, frustrated musician with...
As the sun rose on Monday, cops in Kevlar vests patrolled cordoned-off streets around downtown Miami's federal courthouse. Shaded by the building where judges have deliberated the fates of Manuel Noriega and Elián González, 12 video cameras stood ready, and a few bleary-eyed newscasters blathered to their early-bird viewership. Inside,...
Christmastime is here, but for the first time, Charlie Brown's father will not be around to watch his depressed, round-headed child celebrate the holiday. He will not be in front of the television next week to watch his little boy seek psychiatric help from a nickel-grubbing girl who diagnoses her...
Beethoven's Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68, "Pastorale," has five movements. The first, allegro ma non troppo, describes the awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the countryside. But Tina Raimondi's pale yellow house is in Oakland Park, not the countryside, and despite a neatly trimmed lawn, it's...
In a dingy sixth-floor room, two lonely souls join hands to escape their solitude and isolation through the medium of dance. They shuffle across the floor, clumsily performing a waltz as they banter about the drama of their lives. If this scenario sounds as though it were penned by romance...
It's not easy being Death Becomes You. The shock-rock troupe from Coral Springs has a tough time earning respect in South Florida, where its antics are often viewed as subMarilyn Manson silliness. As if that weren't bad enough, a long-running dispute with a local club owner recently culminated in a...
Depending on how you look at it, the 15th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival is more than halfway over or just about to begin: "Officially" the festival opens November 3, although there have been screenings all over South Florida for more than two weeks now. Such incoherence may be...
We enjoy a classic whodunit in the same way we enjoy Christmas carolers -- with a certain amused detachment. We are not seeking new insight into the human condition but instead are indulging in a bit of nostalgic escapism. Thus, if the revival of a genre piece like Ira Levin's...
Dorothy Roberts carefully sets one slipper-clad foot in front of the other. She cradles both ends of what looks like a large, white, plastic wishbone in her palms, and as she covers the asphalt of a Boca Raton parking lot, the instrument begins to dip. She nudges a fallen sapodilla...
In just a little more than a year since its inception, See Venus has generated more buzz than most local bands do in their entire careers -- and thanks to the Internet, the band has done it without performing a single live show. Thirty-year-old founder and guitarist Christopher Moll has...
