It wasn't until David Tory failed his second breathalyzer test of the day that he started to beg. Flunking the first test after his arrest had been bad enough. Tory believed he was well under the legal limit, yet he'd somehow ended up sitting in the Palm Beach County jail...
Lenny Kravitz 5 (Virgin) Even the casual Lenny Kravitz fan knows that Lisa Bonet's old flame is, to put it nicely, a popular-music historian. His detractors, of course, would call him a rip-off artist. OK, so the riff from his hit "Are You Gonna Go My Way" sounds suspiciously like...
On an ominous night in May, as thunder grumbled and growled outside, the Devil of Davie arrived wearing turquoise. Into the council chambers she strode, plopping down third row from the back, in front of the rodeo posters and between the portraits of the bucking bulls, one with the cowboy...
A traveler asks directions to Riviera Beach. The clerk at an Exxon station responds: "Go up I-95 till you hit Blue Heron Boulevard. Then put on some body armor." Wedged in between the bigger and better-known towns of West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, the port city of Riviera...
This electronica stuff might be simpler than it sounds. Andre Frazier, a.k.a. DJ Andre, has figured out how to put together his own electronic music using some pretty basic equipment. "I'm telling you, this is low tech," says Frazier, gesturing toward a few outdated instruments tucked in a corner of...
This is the story of a clever, calculating, music-marketing machine. To date, it's resulted in no platinum-selling album, no hit single, and no sold-out stadium show. So far, so good. It's all part of one band's plan to make it to the top -- really, really slowly. The aptly named...
Of all the theatrical hams that have wandered across the stage of American pop culture -- from the late-career John Barrymore to, say, Joan Rivers and Jim Belushi -- none have endeared themselves as much as the tiny shank bone that wanders home atop the legs of Scout Finch near...
The "Size Does Matter" marketing campaign for Godzilla is far more ingenious than the actual movie. It's also highly annoying and has spawned a spinoff: The ads for a new film called Plump Fiction inform us that "Width Matters, Too." Perhaps the best thing about the much-ballyhooed arrival of Godzilla...
Machines are made by men for man's benefit and progress, but when man ceases to control the products of his ingenuity and imagination, he risks losing the benefits. -- Rod Serling The creator of TV's Twilight Zone didn't live to see the advent of sampling technology, but with typical prescience...
The animosity had been steeping for a decade. Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle finally let it loose recently when his colleagues on the City Commission opted to hire the engineering firm of Hazen and Sawyer to oversee the city's drinking water plant. At the mere mention of the firm, Naugle's...
There's nothing like a loud bang at the end of Act One to make you impatient for the end of the intermission so that you can scurry back to your seat and find out what happens next. Especially if that bang shreds every notion you had about the play up...
It's a clear, sunny summer morning in a cul-de-sac in a middle-class section of Pompano Beach. Kids are quiet. Everybody is quiet, except the hired workers who trim trees and cut grass. Shiny cars sit in driveways. Suburban perfection -- nothing out of place... except that black, heavily tinted pickup...
Anyone who scribbles a note on a napkin with an ink marker ends up watching helplessly as the ink soaks into the paper and the words bloat into an illegible mess. While the technique used in Oriental brush painting is similar, the results are far less messy. Those hazy-edged lines...
Sex and the Sun-Sentinel Co.: While the paper may lack passion in its pages, there's more scandal on the staff. At City Link, Managing Editor Stuart Purdy, after writing a column about "another hell-raising year" inside "the City Link free-fire zone," was himself fired last week. The apparent reason, according...
Coughing, hacking, and snorting back phlegm, David Yow is half asleep and trying to sound coherent. It's 12:30 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, and Yow is in a Montreal hotel room, resting between concerts while on tour with his infamously aggressive band, the Jesus Lizard. He has no idea he...
Propellerheads Decksandrumsandrockandroll (DreamWorks) The music biz has been buzzing about Propellerheads' debut album for almost half a year now. Part of the excitement surrounding this British drum 'n' bass duo comes from its hyperactive live shows, during which Alex Gifford switches between Hammond organ and bass guitar, while Will White...
Bonnie Raitt Fundamental (Capitol Records) Bonnie Raitt, bless her soul, didn't go the Eric Clapton/Robbie Robertson/Madonna route and "update" her latest album with '90s electronica influences. What she did do was shun the smooth sound of her last four recordings in favor of a more natural, almost live feel. On...
Thursday May 21 The fish are living high on the hog at the Sailfish Marina and Resort. At the marina's "Feed the Fish" Seawall Aquarium, visitors buy fish food for 50 cents a bag and toss the pellets into the drink along the docks and seawall. Even if they aren't...
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Walking Into Clarksdale (Atlantic) Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have produced some of the best rock albums of all time. Walking Into Clarksdale isn't one of them. Twenty years ago, during the heyday of Led Zeppelin, Page was a lot slimmer, and Plant had a...
On my way over to the Gallery Center in Boca Raton, I expected to find a row of quaint little shops side by side in some trendy shopping mall. With any luck one gallery might have some art worth getting excited about. What I found instead was a sprawling, 30,000-square-foot...
Buddy Crawford can usually be found in the back of Dad's Donuts, the shop he opened in Margate almost two years ago, frying up globs of white dough. Buddy, whose bushy, graying beard befits his nickname -- "Dad" -- usually starts work at 11 p.m. and bakes until well past...
In director Barbara Kopple's new documentary, Wild Man Blues, we follow Woody Allen around Europe as he takes part in a whirlwind concert tour with the New Orleans-style jazz band with which he plays. He kvetches from the get-go. "I would rather be bitten by a dog than fly to...
