Somebody spank me. I've been a bad girl. Instead of waiting three weeks for the brand-new La Palma Grill, a nouvelle Mexican restaurant onClematis Street in West Palm Beach, to get its act together, I reviewed the narrow, high-ceilinged eatery only seven days after it opened. I usually like to...
Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged is a movie of enthralling visual poetry. Set almost entirely inside a ravishing Roman villa, it is a love story played out in furtive glances and stolen looks by characters on opposite sides of the ethnic divide. Culturally, Mr. Kinsky (David Thewlis) and Shandurai (Thandie Newton) couldn't...
Thursday July 1 Vaudeville acts -- the lousy ones -- used to be rousted off the stage with rotten tomatoes. But during the stage version of The Rocky Horror Show, the audience is expected to hurl objects and verbal insults at the actors. So bring along some rice for the...
Nestled in an antique wicker chair, Russell Hibbard sips from a martini glass and leafs through his favorite book, the 1930 edition of The Savoy Hotel Cocktail Guide, as the mournful wailing of blues-harp legend Blind Mississippi Morse floats through the air. Hibbard's passions for blues music, antique furniture, and...
Off Miramar Parkway, in a community studded with pricey identical houses, Trick Daddy sits in his living room watching the Lifetime channel. Trick (his given name is Maurice Young) is a rapper whose latest album, www.thug.com, is a national hit. Although the past six months have been a succession of...
Fort Lauderdale resident Stephen Zebrowski, Sr. died in excruciating pain in a Jamaican jail cell. He was 47 years old. How he became imprisoned and what his family is doing about his untimely death create one of those strange and mysterious tales that seem to flourish in the South Floridasun...
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (Warner Bros.) Apparently, reports of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' creative demise were premature. The band's new album, Californication, is a dark, hypnotic masterwork that reminds us that alternapop needn't be a bad word. Like most good albums, Californication is an ambitious, overreaching mess with...
One Flea Spare. Written by NaomiWallace. Directed by Rafaelde Acha. Starring DavidAlt, Ursula Freundlich, Israel Garcia, and Lisa Morgan. Through July25. New Theatre, 65Almeria Ave, Coral Gables, 3054435909.
One Flea Spare. Written by NaomiWallace. Directed by Rafaelde Acha. Starring DavidAlt, Ursula Freundlich, Israel Garcia, and Lisa Morgan. Through July25. New Theatre, 65Almeria Ave, Coral Gables, 3054435909.
It's about time we had a talk. Yeah, you know, that talk. The one about how uncomfortable and strange it is to be a young human male, how raging and unforgiving the hormones, how fragile the ego, how mysterious the female form. You see, well, how do I say this?...
Goal! Paul Demko's article on the Miami Fusion soccer team was the most insightful piece of journalism I have read regarding a sports franchise ("Total ConFusion," June 24). How could the club go from a sellout of their first game to the abysmal performance of the 1999 season? Through chronic...
Here's some advice: Never tell Russ Rector, director of the Dolphin Freedom Foundation, that you can't see how swimming with dolphins could be as dangerous as, say, swimming withsharks. "Don't get me started on the shark thing, goddammit!" an already started Rector thunders in response. "Don't even go there! Everybody's...
Rod MacDonald is setting up shop on what constitutes a stage at the Coffee Gallery Café in Lake Worth. Dressed in sandals, black shorts, and a red striped shirt with the top few buttons open, he tunes his guitar and fiddles with his beer-stained soundboard. Hair is his most arresting...
Thursday July 8 You don't have to be a wine snob to know that red wines go best with meat, whites with fish and poultry. The Italians, who consume more wine per capita than anyone on the planet, live by these dicta. In Italy, regional recipes are based on the...
Playwright John Patrick Shanley once told the New York Times that he bought a copy of Baron Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 19th-century textbook Psychopathia Sexualis because "I have an unhealthy interest in sex and eccentric German people." (Well, who doesn't?) It might stand to reason then that he named his 1997...
Seven years ago, when Percy Campbell was still running the streets of Fort Lauderdale as the notorious Crime Boy, he stole a car when he needed transportation. The skinny youth piled up an astonishing 57 criminal charges by age 12, including armed robbery. In 1993 he was tagged "Crime Boy"...
Here's some advice: Never tell Russ Rector, director of the Dolphin Freedom Foundation, that you can't see how swimming with dolphins could be as dangerous as, say, swimming with sharks. "Don't get me started on the shark thing, goddammit!" an already started Rector thunders in response. "Don't even go there!...
Smash Mouth Astro Lounge (Interscope) In the world according to Smash Mouth, the '70s never happened. The group's infuriatingly uneven 1997 debut album, Fush Yu Mang, was a blend of '80s-style postpunk, new wave, and reggae informed by a curious '60s lounge sensibility. Displaying an impressive talent for reconciling disparate...
Several years ago a fellow writer approached me at a party and said, "I read your column, but I don't go to any of the restaurants you recommend." I'm used to backhanded compliments, even downright insults. So I just shrugged and said, "Why not?" "I'm lactose intolerant," he admitted. When...
For a man who was invited to offer spiritual advice to local Roman Catholic attorneys, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave a speech in Fort Lauderdale last week that was surprisingly full of bile and self-pity. His talk followed a special mass organized by the St. Thomas More Society of...
The Boneshakers Shake the Planet (Pointblank/Virgin) The quality of a college is reflected in the quality of its graduates. With that analogy in mind, Was (Not Was) surely must have been in the Ivy League of rock 'n' roll, considering the caliber of its alumni. Setting aside the presence of...
On an overcast Saturday afternoon in Davie, about 50 kids and parents emerge from Buehler Planetarium, where they've just watched a show called The Little Star That Could. In the animated program, a star searches the galaxy for a family of planets and along the way teaches kids the basics...
