It is suddenly hip to be a Jew. From the marketing of “yarmuclaus” — the pate covering of choice for celebrating Chrismukkah with your friends, as seen on The OC — to hilarious T-shirts featuring the silhouette of two Hasidic Jews holding a bottle of Tanqueray above the phrase “Gin…
As they leap across the stage, executing perfect pirouettes and high kicks, it is impossible not to be in awe of these leggy dancers. Exuding grace and strength, the “World Famous” Lipizzaner Stallions are marching into town to celebrate their 36th anniversary season. You may remember the Lipizzaners from the…
His CD, Retaliation, was the first comedy CD to bust into the Top 5 on the Billboard charts since Steve Martin’s A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978; his MySpace page has more than 700,000 friends; and he kissed Charlize Theron’s ass on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. If…
We hear that you keep your family in stitches. No, not from beating them, you nut. You are always cracking them up with your silly puns and animated storytelling. Since none of your other grand schemes is paying the bills, maybe you should consider making people laugh for a living…
He began writing short stories as a teenager, perfected his craft at Yale, and then founded The Paris Review with Harold L. Humes and George Plimpton in 1953. Peter Matthiessen, the National Book Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed trilogy Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone,…
Where can a damsel get a decent mug of mead around here? At the Florida Keys Medieval Festival, of course. Grab your knight and prepare ye for the usual medieval revelry: living chessmen, archery, jousting and equestrian showcases, and giant turkey legs. Master falconer Ray Pena and his birds of…
Raise your hand if you were ever embarrassed that your mother shopped at Goodwill and garage sales for your back-to-school clothes. Now go call your mother and thank her for teaching you the strategy for finding vintage and designer duds at bargain prices. “The real secret is that you have…
They can be wooden or plastic. Or maybe you prefer one of the fancy Lucite varieties embedded with playful bubbles, delicate seashells, or shiny pennies. Once your artistic streak rears its head, you can get funky with a brush and hot glue to create your own throne fit for a…
If you are the only one on your block who has not been to a winetasting, you can jump in and start swilling tonight when AV Grill and Wine Bar, in conjunction with National Distributing Company, presents A Taste of Spain wine and tapas event. At press time Chef Alex…
We love a man with a large organ. Find us one who, with only a few fast flicks of his magical fingers, is internationally known for sensational, thundering sounds that can send pulsating waves throughout our bodies, and we will be entertained for hours. Oh, yes, we’re talking about Don…
Have you ever been sitting on the couch, smoking out with your buddies while watching Cops, Law & Order, or any of the dozens of CSI shows, and thought, “Dude, I wonder what it would be like to be a cop?” Well, now is your chance to learn the inner…
When strolling around Miami Beach on a Saturday afternoon, admiring the giant fur hats of black-cloaked men walking with their families, one finds it difficult to imagine that Jews have been allowed to live in the state of Florida since only 1763. The first Jews settled in Pensacola and slowly…
The best (and cheapest) gift you can give your family this year is time, so call up your mom and bring her to see Pedro Almodvar’s Academy Award-winning movie All About My Mother. Presented by the Classic/Foreign Film Discussion Group, the film traces a mother’s journey to Barcelona to work…
At six feet six inches tall, Olympic gold medalist Gary Hall Jr. is difficult not to notice. Whether he’s donning hipster black-rimmed glasses or mirrored goggles, the record-breaking freestyler commands attention both on the starting blocks and behind a podium. Since being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1999, Hall…
A big room full of activity, money changing hands, and hordes of snakes, lizards, and other creepy-crawlies. Where are you? No, not city hall. You’re at Repticon, a good place to be whether you’re an aficionado of the scaled set or a neophyte who still thinks snakes are slimy. Get…
Between shooting a Shakira video, posing for print ads, and volunteering at Baptist Hospital, how does a stud find the time for sniffing butts? “I’m a Starbucks fiend, so we spend a lot of time there,” says Mark DeCaterino. No, Mark isn’t the stud — well, he is a cool…
THU 8 Female empowerment groups aren’t just about breastfeeding in public and Heidi Klum Birkenstocks. Feisty femmes who use their time to create something awesome are cool. Case in point: the incredibly talented ladies known as The Beader Bunch. These four women make funky, distinctive jewelry together, and unlike the…
THU 1 Ask a woman who loves a man in uniform, and she’ll tell you a sooty, sweaty firefighter is the ultimate “working man” fantasy. But there’s no better way to ruin the illusion than to reveal a thick pelt of nasty back hair under the flame-proof garb. Pay homage…
Like a scruffy old pirate, glass master Dale Chihuly sports a black eye patch (the result of a near-fatal car accident, not a sword fight), puffy shirts, and the jowls of a French mastiff. Chihuly has the swashbuckling swagger and feistiness down too: He’s currently fighting a copyright lawsuit he’s…
THU 24 Before schlepping to your parents’ house for turkey, talking, and the Detroit Lions/Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys/Denver Broncos games, you should roll a fatty to adjust your attitude and head to the 31st annual WinterNational Thanksgiving Day Parade. Strutting to the theme “Celebrate Music — The Universal Language,”…
Joan Didion’s essays about the culture of the Sixties in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album helped define what’s now widely known as literary journalism. She also showed how the personal and political can be wed in ways that transcend the famous feminist platitude. Her latest effort, however, is…
THU 17 Here’s a fun fact about In Her Shoes, the recent bittersweet flick starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Colette: In a pivotal scene at the Italian Market, Colette is being followed by her character’s creator. Jennifer Weiner, the novel’s author, makes a silent surprise cameo. The way her career’s…
