Dishwalla's new album, their second, is entitled And You Think You Know What Life's About. The title is a sarcastic one, because after releasing what would become Billboard Magazine's Rock Song of the Year in 1996, the band toured for two and a half years and realized how little they...
Thursday October 29 When it's bill-paying time, boat owners tend to see their boats as holes in the water into which they throw all their money. With that in mind, anyone visiting the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show today through Monday can see some of the biggest holes in the...
A friend told me about a woman who had a tumor removed from her ovary (or something in that area), and the tumor had hair and teeth. She was young and I think a virgin, so this couldn't have been the beginnings of a baby. Have you heard of this...
Nobody who's seen the off-Broadway version of The Fantasticks at New York City's Sullivan Street Playhouse will recognize the set of the appealing new production at the Hollywood Playhouse. (That's a lot of us, given the 15,000 or so performances the show has racked up since it opened on May...
Thursday October 15 At the Anything Goes Open Mic -- you guessed it -- anything goes. Starting tonight Warehaus 57 owner Lauren Tellman will open her storefront-window stage to artists every Thursday. Writers, musicians, comedians, and actors will be invited to do their thing for crowds both in the coffee...
The boy stands in his father's kitchen, dark eyes flashing, arguing his case for a red motorcycle. Not far from where the youth stands, a neighbor in this middle-class suburb is throwing a garage sale like no other seen in Coral Springs. Among the household pickings: the red motorcycle, offered...
Barbecue is about absolutes. It's either some of the best you've ever had or some of the worst. When it comes to the grill in the South, even in South Florida, there is no middle ground. Unfortunately, more often than not, the barbecue I've sampled 'round these parts has fallen...
Digging Trenches For Log Cabin The new political action PAC (PAC-PAC), discussed in a recent issue of New Times, is a healthy change from the usual status quo ("The Brat PAC," Michael Freedman, September 3). The competition [between these local political groups] turned into an educational tool for me and,...
Ever heard of dot Fash? If you haven't, good. That's what the Fort Lauderdale-based rock quartet is counting on. A few years ago, Russ Rogers (vocals, guitar), James Coyle (guitar), Jarrett S. (bass), and Phil T. (drums) were known as the Pheromones. Then they discovered another band was already using...
As it enters its 13th season, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival continues to evolve far beyond its humble origins in the mid-'80s. Is that good or bad? A little of both, perhaps. The Greater Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, as it was called once upon a time, was primarily a...
For the most part, hurricanes are dangerous. They wreak havoc on homes, possessions, lives. But at least one hurricane has had a positive effect on the Broward dining scene. Thanks in no small part to Hurricane Andrew, which brutalized Miami-Dade County in 1992, Broward is finally diversifying. When folks down...
ZAN(Z)BAR: Out and Proud! I was angered by the article published in your July 30 issue ("Removing the Unity From the Gay Community," Michael Freedman). While it is clear that Mr. Freedman conducted extensive research in a sincere attempt to write a fair and balanced story, he omitted pertinent facts,...
More than 100 people showed up for the first-ever candidates' forum sponsored by PAC-PAC, Broward County's new gay political force. The guest list for the August 11 forum included Democrats, Republicans, and city, county, and state government politicos, incumbents, and would-be government officials. All were there ostensibly to talk about...
Creating theater frequently involves assembling miracles in small spaces -- extremely small spaces, if you happen to be the Florida Playwrights' Theater (FPT), which is mounting its Fifth Annual Shakespeare Festival in its postage-stamp Hollywood storefront venue. Getting Hamlet and The Tempest -- Shakespeare's most popular play and his most...
Thursday September 24 It's a foreign concept to youth-obsessed Americans, but in much of the rest of the world, older folks are revered for their wizened world views. This is especially true in the Orient, where, hundreds of years ago, the Chinese applied their older-is-better belief to trees. By 1400...
In a small cabinet in the Pediatric Dental Clinic of the Children's Diagnostic & Treatment Center, several rolls of brightly colored stickers sit ready to bring smiles to young and hurting faces. An elephant with a drooping trunk groans, "Watch Me! My Lips and Cheeks Are Numb!" Fred Flintstone's favorite...
The Figgs Couldn't Get High... (Absolute A Go Go) The Figgs are rock 'n' roll graybeards by any measure; they've toughed it out on the bar and college circuit for 11 years, been signed and dropped by a major label, and come within spitting distance of fame as Graham Parker's...
Neil Townsend waited in Nassau, Bahamas, for the call from a woman he knew only as "Viola." Townsend, a young Jamaican man, didn't know her, but he'd paid her $2500 and was counting on the mystery woman to make it possible for him to start a new life in the...
Although a year has passed, the infamous magazine spread still lingers in the consciousness of the Broward County yacht crews. Readers who opened up the first issue of Dockwalk, a periodical aimed at yacht crews, were greeted by the headline "Infidelity and Yachting" over an advice column that advised a...
Of all the things your mother specifically told you not to do -- talk with your mouth full, go out with married men -- chances are she didn't mention the following: Running off into the snow in your wedding dress. But if you did happen to desert your fiance at...
Housed in a nondescript storefront among the Fountains Shoppes of Distinction in Plantation, the Bock Gallery is the sort of unassuming little place you might easily pass. Don't. Inside the narrow, cluttered space is a quirky array of art, ranging from the works of artist and owner William Bock to...
Elliott Smith XO (Dreamworks) When singer-songwriter Elliott Smith performed his Oscar-nominated tune, "Miss Misery," on the glitzy award-show telecast last spring, it was a scene worthy of A Star Is Born. Alone at center stage, and looking out of place with his untamed hair and simple white suit, he proceeded...
