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Bill Muter Is Here to Show the World That Tubas Are Cool

Experimental tuba: Two words you don't see side-by-side very often. The big bulky brass instrument conjures up images of lockstep marching bands, or smoky New Orleans jazz joints, but never anything remotely new or avant-garde. Set all you preconceived notions about the tuba aside, and get ready for Boca Raton...
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Molly’s Theory: A Head-Scratcher

Best known as a 40-year veteran of the indie distribution scene, Jeff Lipsky has latterly carved out a sideline as one of New York's most idiosyncratic indie filmmakers — a purveyor of confessional, sexually frank relationship dramas clearly indebted to his acknowledged masters: Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes. The best...
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Top Five Deep Thoughts on Merengue-Pop Star Elvis Crespo

Born in New York City and reared in Puerto Rico, Elvis Crespo will forever be known as the baby-faced merengue-pop crooner behind the 1998 international smash hit "Suavemente." At that burgeoning time of serious powerhouse Latin male vocalists, Crespo suffered from the fading memory of one-hit wonder Gerardo's "Rico Suave"...
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Chef Steven Acosta Makes Us Some Mozzarella

Ahh. Cheese. That miracle food group that has saved numerous cocktail receptions and parties. It's the one dish that any culinarily challenged host can throw together. While most of us love to eat it--minus, of course, those with lactose intolerance--few know how to partake in its glorious coagulation process. As...
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Whose Line Is It?

Improv comedy is back, seriously. In today's rapidly changing world, you need to be flexible, adaptable, nimble. Improv brings these very skills to the stage and turns them into entertainment. It also incorporates our growing obsession with needing everything to be personalized to our likes and wanting to have input...
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A Lesson in Anger Management From a Chicken

Inevitably, there are things in our lives that bring us stress and we often carry this stress around with us until we explode on someone or something or, maybe worse, we harbor it 'til we get sick. Long term stress can cause degenerative diseases. Stress plays a big role in...
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Miami Heat Chokes Away Game One Against Bulls

Well now. That was a bit rough. A depleted Chicago Bulls came into the American Airlines Arena for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, saw fans clad in white, watched LeBron James receive his MVP trophy, and then went on to systematically bludgeon the world champs by having Joakim...
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Rick Scott’s Cuts Dilute Water Laws

News of the bizarre crisis began in the spring. TV reports flashed footage of manatees — the docile emblems of Florida's waterways — dead and marooned on the shore of the Indian River Lagoon in Brevard County. Some reports blamed fertilizer runoff, which can cause algal blooms and choke a...
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FAU President’s Collision With Student: Witnesses Dispute Police Report

The latest developments in the ongoing fiasco that is the FAU/GEO Group naming rights deal have opened broad new vistas of potential embarrassment for the university and its president, Mary Jane Saunders -- depending on whom you believe.See also:-Students Claim FAU President Saunders Hit Student Protester With Car-FAU Students Vow...