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Misael Soto Brings Giant Beach Towel Installation to Fort Lauderdale, Sunday

My first encounter with Misael Soto’s work was indirect: I saw photographs a friend had taken of his piece, I can’t see you, but I can feel you, in which Misael and several participants stood — on bustling Wynwood sidewalks during Art Walk — facing walls or lampposts, eyes closed, as if oblivious to the [...]

Q&A: John Waters, Performing ‘This Filthy World’ Saturday at Parker Playhouse

When I spoke with John Waters, he was on his way to Los Angeles to pick up an award at Outfest and to do two performances of This Filthy World, which he brings to Fort Lauderdale’s Parker Playhouse Saturday night. This is a big summer for This Filthy World. Not really. I’ve been doing this for [...]

What We Talk About When We Talk About Voyager 1

The biggest news last week had nothing to do with presidential elections, overseas financial crises, or fiddly football coaches. The really big news, the only news that will be popularly remembered 500 years hence, was that a human artifact was, for the first time, on the verge of departing our solar system, en-route to who-knows-what [...]

Build a Better Block Plans Pedestrian-Friendly Makeover for FAT Village’s First Avenue

Between Fifth and Sixth streets, downtown Fort Lauderdale’s Northwest First Avenue is a relatively sidewalk-less hunk of warehouses and skimpy grass, flanked by apartments on one end and train tracks on the other. On Saturday, June 16, it will be abuzz with local businesses’ pop-up spaces, cleaner landscaping, more sidewalks, colorful murals, and cleverly shaded seating constructed [...]

Endangered Manatees Make Adorable Appearance in Fort Lauderdale

At first it looks like an amateur sex tape – not that high-quality National Geographic porn. The huge 1,500-pound creatures flop around as beach goers watch, and are shockingly fleet-flippered when chasing down one particular manatee. A kid yells, “they’re mating!” while a man observes it as more of a “gang bang.” But instead of [...]

Review: SunFest, or My Kid’s First Concert

There are two kinds of first concerts, and both are often equally embarrassing. There’s the first concert your folks took you to see, and then there’s the first concert you went to sans parents. The first usually takes the form of some ridiculously dated legacy band from your parents’ glory days, and the second is [...]

Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Is a Thing

Arm wrestling — formerly a machismo-tastic test of brute strength — has been reborn as the latest in lady-on-lady empowerment sports. The Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLAW) was conceived in Charlottesville, Va., in 2008, and has since caught on in 10 cities. It works like this: The female competitors, who are vamped out in [...]

Q&A: James Randi Reflects on Saturday’s Reason Rally in D.C.

The nation’s largest-ever gathering of irreligious people, the Reason Rally, took place in Washington D.C. over the weekend, and it very nearly escaped popular notice. An unscientific survey of the media landscape suggests the Rally commanded only slightly more of the national attention span than Miami’s concurrent Ultra Music Festival, which is put on every [...]

Ovarian Gang Signs Are a Whole Lot of Awesome

Vaginal ultrasounds, talk of “getting rid of Planned Parenthood,” protection for lying doctors, slut-shaming, birth control debates instead of mandates, March is shaping up to be the shittiest women’s history month ever. And, well, we’re pissed about it. All this anger, properly channeled, can be good, though, allowing for something productive to come out of [...]

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