Bits

Published on July 1st, 2018

How many times have the British invaded America? From Beatlemania and the Stones,  on through Bowie, Elton John, the Spice Girls and Oasis, the Brits »

Published on June 27th, 2018

Poison is a band whose members’ work in reality television may surpass their musical output in silliness, but only by a hair. Yet the legend »

Published on June 3rd, 2018

“You in a band?” is a question just about every eccentric over 20 fields while navigating the supposedly real world on any given weekday. It’s »

Published on June 3rd, 2018

Guava: a tasty fruit staple of many tropical diets. “Tron,” a 1982 Disney foray into sci-fi action-adventure and imminent human-computer conflict. Guavatron: a West Palm »

Published on June 3rd, 2018

A funny thing about perseverance is how powerful it looks in hindsight. For Erasure, two Brits navigating a chaotic mid-’80s scene that was part punk »

Published on June 2nd, 2018

By the end of the ’70s people knew they were living in a moment. Its   markers in New York were the Ramones, Blondie, Talking »

Published on June 1st, 2018

The film industry barely exists in South Florida. Crews drop in and shoot lots of sunny exterior B-roll, but it’s a tiny subset that puts »

Published on June 1st, 2018

Oscar Wilde is famously misquoted as saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery … ” Because he added, “ … that mediocrity can pay »

Published on May 29th, 2018

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that too much of a good thing is bad. Peter Hook and The Light are a perfect example. For »

Published on May 29th, 2018

Full disclosure: I was a kid in the 1980s. I’m young enough today to remember some of the decade’s output fondly, and old enough to »

Published on May 23rd, 2018

June in Florida used to mean Spring Break had just ended and Summer Break had begun. Kegs and party favors were simply replenished during the »

Published on May 3rd, 2018

The importance of blues and jazz to genres that came after was never lost on Ray Carbone, the man behind the legendary, scene-building Ray’s Downtown »