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| Portugal. The Man Culture Room | Thu., July 24, 9:00pm | Fort Lauderdale | |
Portugal. The Man likes spontaneity. The band also likes random punctuation in the middle of its name. You could even say the Alaska-based quartet has a knack for doing things ass-backwards. For example: even though the band writes music while on the road and works out the parameters of some... More >> |
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| Art of Expression Zero Ping |
Second Thursday of every month, 10:00pm more dates/times |
Fort Lauderdale | |
These days, there aren't a lot of venues left in Broward County to catch live hip-hop. Most of the clubs where the genre used to thrive have either shutdown or no longer cater to that type of music. So it forces hip-hop heads to get creative when it comes to finding a venue. As a result, two... More >> |
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| Perrier French Film Festival Cinema Paradiso | Daily from Thu., July 24 until Sun., July 27 | Fort Lauderdale | |
Today, the 7th annual Perrier French Film Festival descends on Fort Lauderdale, kicking off with two of Frances top exports: Comedies. Pop into Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale) at 6 p.m. for the fests first showing, Deux Vies Plus Une (Two Lives Plus One), a... More >> |
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| 80 Cent Oyster Night Blacktip Reef | Every week Thursday | South Palm | |
Jonathan Swift said it best: He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. Whether its their calcified exterior shells or their slimy interior bivalve design, theres something dubious about a raw oyster. Admittedly, theres also something exotic about the slippery... More >> |
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| The Art of the Brick Art and Culture Center of Hollywood | Daily from Fri., June 6 until Sun., August 10 | Southeast Broward | |
New York artist Nathan Sawaya is an idyllic example of following ones bliss. Four years ago he had LEGO on the brain, so he did what anyone else would: Quit his law career to earn a living snapping plastic bricks together. But dont muddle mental images of your kiddie construction... More >> |
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| Childs Play Art and Culture Center of Hollywood | Daily from Wed., June 18 until Wed., August 6 | Southeast Broward | |
Guerra de la Paz is a two-man artistic team in Miamis Design District. Their specialty is fashioning dolls out of masses of old, colorful clothing and posing them in eerie family portraits. Their work is exhibiting alongside that of five other abstract artists in Childs... More >> |
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| Vanessa Tomchick Greenscreen Series, Recent Paintings Art and Culture Center of Hollywood | Daily from Fri., July 11 until Sun., August 10 | Southeast Broward | |
One of the many utilities of art (aside from looking all purdy-like), is its ability to capture the past, and provide permanence to fleeting thoughts and memories. This is the point of Vanessa Tomchicks Greenscreen Series, Recent Paintings, the latest exhibit to set up shop in... More >> |
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| Avant Garde Improv Workshop and Jam Session Alligator Alley | Every week Thursday | Fort Lauderdale | |
Native Floridian joint Alligator Alley (1321 E. Commercial Blvd., Oakland Park) is known for a couple of things: (1) Its gladesman-style take on Cajun cooking and its bitchin selection of microbrews; and (2) a nearly endless stream of mind-expanding jazz, blues, and fusion music that... More >> |
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| Board Game Night at Undergrounds Coffeehouse Undergrounds Coffeehaus | Every week Thursday | Fort Lauderdale | |
Inside Undergrounds Coffeehaus (2743 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale), Aileen Liptak, one of the shops two proprietors, is giggling with some regulars. The crowd is familiar and its faces are relaxed, but then they should be Aileen has been toting this cast of mug-swigging... More >> |
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| I Shot Warhol" Boca Raton Museum of Art | Daily from Wed., July 2 until Sun., September 7 | South Palm | |
Today, check out I Shot Warhol, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and Indiana: Photographs by Bob Adelman and William John Kennedy, the exhibition with more names attached to it than that winning beagle at the 2008 Westminster Dog Show. Its a collection of more than 60... More >> |
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| Cardio Strip & Pole Dancing Class World Fitness Association | Every week Thursday | Fort Lauderdale | |
If beauty comes from within, exactly how deep do you need to search to reach the layer that says: I am so beautiful I should be a stripper! For some people, no problem, its right on top. For the slightly more inhibited, that layer is very deep, deep down in there and -- damn... More >> |
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| American Spirit: American Folk Art Coral Springs Museum of Art | Daily from Sun., June 8 until Fri., August 15 | Northwest Broward | |
Boy, modern hunters have it tough. Those patsies have camouflaged gear, attractive scents made of animal urine, and custom tree lofts they can sit in to wait out their prey in comfort. Our forefathers had to use carved, wooden decoys just to scrounge up grub for the table! Think about that next... More >> |
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| Aquatic Life for Landlubbers Cornell Museum of Art and History | Daily from Thu., July 17 until Thu., August 21 | South Palm | |
You have an unbreakable bond with the sea, which is precisely why you contend with the often unnerving frustrations created by coastal living, like expensive real estate and billowing homeowners insurance premiums. Only to make matters more baffling, those financial pitfalls are keeping... More >> |
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| Crush Thursdays Sugar Lounge | Every week Thursday, 10:00pm | Fort Lauderdale | |
Crush, the reanimated zombie of the indie dance party world, is back in action, baby. That's not to say this is a corpse that should've died long ago. No, Crush is the sort of undying party we need more of -- a friendly sort of gathering where art and music collide, where great tunes are spun... More >> |
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| The Dark Knight on IMAX Museum of Discovery and Science | Daily from Fri., July 18 until Thu., August 28 | Fort Lauderdale | |
So youve seen Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, slogged through The Happening, and had a chuckle at Wall-E. And if you could say anything about this summers blockbusters movie season, its that it actually had some meat on its usually gaunt bones (well, except The Happening;... More >> |
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| Falcon Open Mic Ye Olde Falcon Pub | Every week Thursday, 10:00pm | Fort Lauderdale | |
So you can make your friends crack up with your impressions of Golda Meir and youre working on a gag that involves flatulation and the phrase Not on my watch! Obviously, thats comic genius but have you tested it live yet? Its one thing to be a funny guy in... More >> |
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| Got Gas Giveaway Georgie's Alibi | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Mon., June 9 until Mon., September 1 | Fort Lauderdale | |
With the price of gas careening over $4 per gallon all across South Florida, everyone is feeling the petrol pinch. A night on the town with friends no longer just includes the cost of the bar tab and the inevitable stop at Taco Bell afterwards. And forget about being the designated driver... More >> |
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| Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical Lake Worth Playhouse | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., July 18 until Sat., August 9 | Central Palm | |
Sodomy, Fellatio, Cunnilingus, Pederasty
This may sound like a list of crimes, but theyre lyrics from a musical. Clearly, were not talking Oklahoma! The Lake Worth Playhouse (713 Lake Ave., Lake Worth) invites all to their $100,000 Gala, a fundraiser with a... More >> |
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| Lunch Specials at Chocolada Chocolada Bakery & Cafe | Daily | Southeast Broward | |
Usually, when youre sniffing out cheap lunch deals you tend to be a little less discriminating than you ordinarily would. Youll ignore the sticky film on the tables at your typical dive because the foods decent (Now more edible!) and the price is right (All... More >> |
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| Sympathy for the Devil Museum of Contemporary Art | Daily from Thu., May 29 until Sun., September 7 | North Dade | |
Anyone with framed records hanging on their walls gets it. So do concert goers who secretly attend shows with Exacto knives in their handbags. (Wha-at? Tape is tough to remove from posters!) Rock n roll has forever been arts ultimate muse, and in many cases, the opposite is... More >> |
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| The Sisters Rosensweig Rising Action Theatre | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 27 until Sun., August 3 | Fort Lauderdale | |
Wendy Wasserstein is dead, which is a damned shame now, theres hardly anybody left in the theater community willing to explore chick-ish issues like togetherness and transcending obstacles through mutual respect and zzzzzzzzzzz
What? Oh! Wasserstein! Yes: the... More >> |
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| Slavas Snowshow Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County | Daily from Thu., July 24 until Sun., August 17 | Miami/Central Dade | |
The wind whistles and howls to announce the entrance of buckets and buckets of faux snow, forcing you to realize that youre not in Kansas anymore, sweetie. An orchestra erupts in sound and a deranged looking clown fitted in a burnished yellow jumpsuit and intentionally droopy makeup comes... More >> |
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| Souvenir Palm Beach Dramaworks | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., July 16 until Sat., August 16 | Central Palm | |
If the auditions for American Idol have taught us anything, its that friends can be cruel beyond words. At some point in each of those painfully bad singers lives, their buddies must have encouraged them to become the next Robert Goulet despite the fact their singing sounds... More >> |
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| Anita Baker Hard Rock Live | Thu., July 24 | Fort Lauderdale | |
| Battle of the Bands Museum of Contemporary Art | Thu., July 24, 8:00pm | North Dade | |