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KRATOM MADNESSAmerica’s next big drug scare comes to Florida. Don’t panic. BY CHRIS SWEENEY

T he busty clerk at Grate-ful J’s head shop in Boca Raton holds out a small brown vial. The label

reads “Lucky,” and she promises the stuff packs a punch.

“You’ll want to throw it to the back of your throat,” she suggests. “I’d say drink the whole thing. Maybe drink half, wait a little bit, and see how you feel.”

The potion is kratom, and it’s taking cen-ter stage in America’s next big drug scare. In recent months, MSNBC reported that kratom has sent users to the ER, the Daily called it a “hallucinogenic drug” with “potentially fatal side effects,” Forbes asked if it was the next bath salts, and ABC Action News in Tampa claimed that “it can be more difficult to get off than heroin.” Kratom is legal and supported by a vocal community touting its health bene-fits, but in the wake of bath salts and synthetic pot — drugs tied to scores of gruesome crimes this year, including (probably erroneously) the “Miami Zombie” attack — lawmakers are eager to ban the next big thing.

“It’s not a safe high by any means,” Frank LoVecchio, director of Phoenix’s Banner Good Samaritan Poison and Drug Informa-tion Center, says. “If you take enough of it, it has opiate-like activities. It makes people high kind of the same way morphine or her-oin would make them high.”

But is kratom actually a youth-menacing brain-destroyer or merely another victim of Reefer Madness-like hysteria? That question has become important as the drug finds its way to South Florida and lawmakers debate whether to prohibit it. New bans, after all, cost taxpayers, prosecutors, and cops thou-sands of dollars and countless hours.

“Every time a new drug is criminalized, it puts more pressure on law enforcement, the courts, our jails, and it criminalizes more peo-ple,” says Grant Smith, federal policy coordina-tor for the Drug Policy Alliance. “Asking law enforcement to add this to the long list of things they have to deal with... could be wasteful.”

To figure out whether kratom is a danger-ous threat, a medical miracle, or just a fun way to get stoned, I forked over $45 for one vial of “Lucky” liquid kratom and one packet of capsules called “Floories Exotics Jacka-cock” and prepared to experiment.

Before ingesting the stuff, though, I re-searched its background. Kratom products are made from the leaves of Mitragyna speci-osa, a tree that grows in Southeast Asia. Until a few decades ago, it was used mostly in re-mote places such as rural Malaysia and Thai-land, where locals prescribed it for pain relief, sometimes substituting it for opium.

Indeed, scientists have found that kratom leaves contain naturally occurring chemicals

that stimulate opioid receptors in the brain, similar to the effects of prescription painkill-ers. Researchers have studied the plant’s po-tential to alleviate a variety of ailments, from arthritis and diabetes to depression and alco-holism. In 2010, scientists from Malaysia’s Center for Drug Research wrote in the Inter-national Journal on Drug Policy that kratom “merits serious scientific investigation” as a therapy for heroin withdrawal.

As word of kratom’s potential benefits has spread, a worldwide kratom community has blossomed over internet messageboards. Fans talk up both its medicinal uses — includ-ing its ability to curb anxiety and reduce pain — and its recreational highs.

Take Daniel, a 23-year-old kratom enthu-siast from the Tampa area who asked that his last name not be used. He first tried kratom two years ago as an alternative to pharmaceu-tical painkillers while suffering through pain-ful kidney stones. Now he buys bulk orders of the crushed leaf and brews a lemon tea he drinks every day. Even though the pain from his kidney stones is long gone, he says the drink helps with depression.

“It can be mildly addictive,” he concedes. “It does cause dependence when you take it daily. But it’s more like coffee. I don’t miss work or go out and commit crimes to get more of it.”

Others, such as Kelly Lay, have switched from addictive opiates to kratom without ex-periencing the nasty effects of withdrawal. “Three years ago, I gave up the daily use of opiates and switched myself to kratom effort-lessly, without withdrawal... I was extremely depressed while taking opiates, and I was not obtaining them legally,” the 50-year-old or-ganic farmer from Sarasota says in an email. “I have absolutely no shame in using an herb to deal with what would otherwise be a debil-itating case of degenerative disc disease. I am missing two discs in my spine.”

And some people use the plant purely for enjoyment. Adam, a 22-year-old personal trainer from Lake Worth who asked to use a pseudonym, says he used to abuse Roxico-done — a powerful narcotic — weed, and booze before discovering kratom.

“You get nice, pleasurable effects — physi-cal and mental,” he says. “I’ve pushed the lim-its with some very large doses, like 50 grams or something. I’d liken it to a waking dream state. My head got fuzzy, and I nodded off. But it’s not a hallucinogen or deliriant.”

Yet as both medical and recreational inter-est have picked up in recent years, law en-forcement has taken notice. A few countries have already outlawed kratom, including Australia in 2003 and Denmark in 2009. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has classified it as a “drug of concern,” the first step toward prohibiting it.

In Florida, Pinellas County tried to outlaw kratom earlier this year while crafting laws to

ban bath salts and synthetic cannabinoids. The move stoked uproar among advocates like Lay, though, and that version of the bill was shot down.

And while news outlets are sounding the alarm and churning out scare stories, LoVec-chio, the poison control expert, doesn’t think we’ll be seeing an onslaught of kratom catas-trophes anytime soon. He points out that there hasn’t been a single death linked to kra-tom and that people around the world use it every day without ending up in the emer-gency room. “It’s not the kind of drug that ap-pears to be getting people in a lot of trouble. I’m not saying that to encourage use or any-thing like that, and any time you buy some-thing from a head shop, any time you buy these herbal products, you need to be very cautious,” he says. “But it doesn’t seem to be something like bath salts, where people are extremely agitated and extremely altered and getting themselves into lots of trouble.”

The controversy over kratom is poised to break into the mainstream, as distributors have begun packaging it in shiny aluminum cases with names like “Pissed-Off Elephant” and “Slothapuss.” With bong shops suddenly pitching the plant as the next great legal high and news stories sparking blowback, advo-cates worry legal action might be inevitable.

“Once the bath salts and all that synthetic stuff started getting banned, vendors had to move onto something new, and apparently they chose kratom,” Daniel says. “They’re ob-viously trying to give the impression that it’s like a synthetic drug, which it is completely not. The packaging seems to target kids. I wouldn’t be surprised with all the misinfor-mation out there if places start banning it.”

All of this debate darts through my mind and tickles the nerves in the pit of my stom-

ach on a recent Friday night as I gulp the en-tire vial of the copper-colored tincture to try kratom for myself. It tastes like soil from a potted plant mixed with decomposing orange peels. My tongue tingles a bit, the only imme-diate discernible effect.

About an hour after ingesting the liquid, my muscles are relaxed and my hands feel weak, as if I’m incapable of clenching a fist. My face is warm, and a fluttery feeling passes over me when I stand to get some water. It’s enjoyable — albeit relatively boring — similar to the feeling one might get from a combina-tion of Vicodin and Valium.

By the second hour, I laugh while thinking about the overwrought claims that this stuff is a potentially fatal hallucinogenic drug. My mental faculties are well intact, neither signif-icantly diminished nor enhanced. A sense of ease pulses through my body. After five hours, the effects seem to be gone. I sleep well and have no hangover Saturday morning.

Throughout the weekend, I give the pow-dered capsules a try, just in case the powerful effects didn’t come through in liquid form. I swallow a double dose and head out for a Sunday-night showing of Cloud Atlas. Though I think for a moment that I’m hallu-cinating, it turns out Tom Hanks really does play a multitude of roles, including a one-eyed futuristic shepherd.

In the end, my own anecdotal evidence makes it easy to understand why so many people have embraced this plant, whether to treat pain, escape day-to-day anxieties, or simply get a body-tingling buzz.

It’s anyone’s guess how long kratom will re-main legal in Florida, but it seems certain this plant isn’t worth the hysteria likely to follow it.

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DJ Laz perches on a black stool deep inside a massive building near in-

dustrial Medley. It’s Sunday, Sep-tember 10, and Laz has arrived

unusually early at the studio where he beams his radio show to thousands

of listeners from Florida to Los Angeles. This morning, he knows, won’t be the usual casually

mixed Spanish and English wisecracking that made “the Pimp With the Limp” famous.

This morning, Laz has something different planned. He checks his diamond-encrusted wristwatch, which

matches a bracelet thick with glinting stones. Right on time, the call comes in: “The next person you hear on the line will be the president of the United States,” a man says.

Barack Obama’s voice soon crackles through the speaker. “What’s going on, man?” the president asks.

“It is an absolute pleasure and honor to have the president of the United States on my phone right now,” Laz gushes. “I am humbled right now, sir.”

Obama shoots back. “I am the one who should be humbled. You got Pitbull and Flo Rida beating a path to your door. I am hop-ing I can get a little of that magic from you in this interview.”

Not many among Laz’s legion of fans would have predicted he’d hook the president two months before a bitter Election Day fight for Florida. Then again, eight months earlier no one had predicted Laz’s shocking de-parture after 22 years at Power 96, the station where three generations of Dade teens grew up on the booty music he’d helped pioneer.

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But maybe that’s because few in Mi-ami have ever really known Lazaro Men-dez, the tough-willed, crazily ambitious musician behind the smooth voice.

Not many people know about his bone-crunching struggle just to walk. Few are privy to his soul-baring battle to find a niche in Miami’s machismo-soaked hip-hop scene. Even fewer know about the dark times: the divorce, the frantic race to Mexico to reclaim a boat stolen by human traffickers, the an-guish over a friend who murdered his own wife and her mom with Laz’s own gun.

Today, Laz might have set himself up for his toughest challenge yet. By decamping Power 96 for a bicoastal gig at Miami’s DJ 106.7 and L.A.’s 96.3 (both owned by Spanish Broad-casting System [SBS], the largest Hispanic-owned radio company in the U.S.) and turning toward more serious fare like his Obama interview, Laz has put his name on the line.

If the gamble fails — and already, Laz badly trails his old station in ratings — his career might just be relegated to Florida’s musical history bins. But if it succeeds? Laz wants to be the Latin Howard Stern, America’s first truly national bilingual radio star.

“Laz is in a great position right now,” says Miami filmmaker Billy Corben, who grew up listening to Laz’s show. “He has the personality to go national and increase his audience beyond South Florida.”

Not that Laz is sweating the risk. “When I was born, the doctors told my mom that I would lay flat on my back for the rest of my life,” he recalls. “I have already ac-complished everything by walking. Ev-erything else I’ve done is just a bonus.”

On a cool January afternoon in 1984, a 13-year-old boy with floppy black hair on his head and peach fuzz on his

upper lip fiddles with his Numark mixer. His right hand twirls dials while his left scratches vinyl records on his Technics 1200 turntables. Booming bass rattles photos off the wall in his cramped Hollywood bedroom. The teenager’s mom, Benita Mendez, pounds on his door.

“Lazarito!” Benita screams. “Stop with the chiki-chiki. You’re going to ruin the record!”

But Laz can’t hear her over the thump-ing beats in his headphones. He keeps at it, zoning out as he blends two 45s, honing his scratching skills. Bound to a wheel-chair, his lower extremities wrapped in a half-body cast, he has found the one thing

that makes him forget what he can’t do. “While all the kids were outside hav-

ing fun, I was stuck at home,” Laz says. “So for Christmas, I asked my dad to get me a set of turntables, mixer, micro-phone, and speakers. It’s all I wanted.”

Ever since he was a kid who was never supposed to walk, Laz has been fighting the odds. Instead of giving in, he found a place in the hip-hop industry by embracing the dis-ability that could have stunted his ambitions.

When he was born December 2, 1971, at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, doctors had grim news for his parents and older siblings, 17-year-old Ana and 7-year-old Rey. Because of a muscular disorder, the baby’s legs were severely deformed.

“The diagnosis was that he would never walk,” remembers Orestes Mendez, Laz’s father, now an 82-year-old with a raspy voice. “They told us he would have to lie in bed for his entire life and we would have to feed him and change him.”

Orestes says his wife (who is now 77 and unable to give an interview due to Alz-heimer’s disease) had an unwavering faith. “She made a promise to San Lazaro that if our son walked, she would wear clothes made of burlap for a year,” Orestes says.

From the time he was 3 months old until he was 12, Lazaro’s team of eight doctors per-formed 17 surgeries at Jackson Memorial and Miami Children’s hospitals. Benita stayed at home to take care of Laz, while Orestes worked three jobs. In the morning, he drove his own lunch truck; in the afternoon, he prepared food for Host Marriott, which sold in-flight airline meals; and at night, he worked as a bartender.

The Mendezes lived in a small rustic

house near Branch Street and North 71st Avenue that Laz’s parents had bought for $17,500 six months before he was born. Benita and Orestes still live there today.

Laz was 3 when he first stood. When he was 7, he finally walked on his own, says his brother, Rey. Benita cried seeing her son walking and then kept her sacred promise. “She put away all her clothes,” Rey says. “She sewed her own outfits made of burlap that she wore for a year.”

Throughout his childhood, Laz either used a walker or a wheelchair and spent most of the school year at home with a tu-tor. When he did make it to class, he put up with bullying over his leg braces.

“I was the original Forrest Gump,” Laz says. “You could hear me coming down the hallway: Clank, clank!” Because he couldn’t run away, Laz’s pugnacious side emerged early. The way to shut someone up is with a punch to the face, he says.

When Laz was 11, his brother worked part-time for Bob Rosenberg, then a mixer for Hot 105 FM and a party DJ. Whenever Rosenberg couldn’t make a gig, Rey would replace him and Laz would come along to help set up equipment. While Rey saw playing at parties as a way to make bread, Laz was mesmerized.

Even as a kid, Laz’s precocity and gregari-ousness stood out. “He was a very mature yet funny, happy-go-lucky kid,” Rosenberg says. “He used to do this dead-on impersonation of Eddie Murphy that made everyone laugh.”

Laz’s course was set after his last surgery, at the age of 12. That’s when his dad gave him the DJ set for Christmas. For the next year, he obsessively learned the machines and even added a few tricks of his own, like scratching a record with his nose and tongue.

Musically, he concentrated on a new genre of heavy-bass hip-hop. In Miami, natives called it booty music. When Laz turned 14, he was allowed to hang out with Rosenberg at Hot 105, where he learned to work the engineering equipment. When Rosenberg stopped mixing to focus on his band, Hot 105 replaced him with Laz.

“No one knew he was just a kid,” Rosenberg says. “He drove the Hot 105 van without having a license.”

Through Hot 105, the underage DJ landed a night at Strawberry’s, a Hialeah club owned by former 2 Live Crew frontman Luther Campbell. Laz was so nervous that the man-ager gave him a shot of whiskey to calm him.

“I ended up downing three shots to get through the night,” Laz says. “I pretended I was alone in my room to tune out the crowd.”

Hot 105 didn’t pay at all, but Laz quickly realized there was money in party music. “In-stead of $25 an event, I could ask for $200,” Laz says. “I was doing four to five gigs a week.”

In 1987, he became tour manager for Rosenberg’s band, Will to Power. “He was 16, but he could be trusted as an adult,” Rosenberg says. “He also didn’t give a fuck and said whatever was on his mind.”

That’s also when Laz dropped out of high school, partly out of necessity. After 30 years of marriage, Laz’s parents had split up, and his older siblings had moved out on their own. “When our parents divorced, Laz wanted to be the man of the house,” his sister Ana says. “He would do whatever to help our mother. She is his idol.” (His parents remar-ried and moved back in together in 1994.)

As his mom put in 12-hour shifts six days a week as a housekeeper, Laz yearned to help pay the bills. Even as a teenager, he had the work ethic and personal-ity to become a star, Rosenberg avers.

“He could have been the Latin ver-sion of Will Smith,” Rosenberg says. “That’s how much drive Laz has.”

It was a chilly night in December 1991, and Laz stared out at a packed crowd at a Dallas concert. His rapper buddy

Danny D and buxom dancers flanked him on either side as he limped up to the mike. The crowd greeted him with utter silence.

“They were like, ‘Oh fuck, there’s a handi-capped kid onstage,’ ” Laz remembers. “I was definitely out of my comfort zone.”

Laz nervously surveyed the crowd and then dropped the needle on “Mami el Ne-gro.” “As soon as my song came on, I got over

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it,” he says. “The people did too. The music took over, they started hollering and danc-ing, and my limp went out the window.”

Laz sold 500,000 copies of the track and played to sold-out clubs around the South, the first triumph of a career that saw him initially fighting and eventually embrac-ing the disability that set him apart from hyperkinetic hip-hop stars on the budding booty-bass scene. By the end of the decade, Laz would conquer Miami’s airwaves too.

“Laz was the right guy on the right sta-tion at the right time,” filmmaker Billy Corben says. “He connected with young Cuban-Americans and non-Cubans because he spoke the Miami vernacular. Laz rep-resents the generation that used to write ‘305 till I die’ on their MySpace profiles.”

Laz’s career at Power 96 started with the same gig he had at Hot 105: mix-ing party songs. One evening at home, he mixed Miami rapper Clay D’s “Boot the Booty” with Wilfrido Vargas’s “El Afri-cano.” It was Laz’s first stroke of genius.

“I got really excited about it, so I played it during my Power 96 mix,” he recalls. “The phone lines started blowing up.” Buoyed by the positive reaction, Laz linked up with Danny D, added bass lines and his signature scratching, plus a few lines from Cuban comic Álvarez Guedes. He named the track “Mami el Negro.”

“Once we finished it, I couldn’t get anyone to sign me,” Laz says. “I went to New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles trying to find a label.”

In 1991, after months of disappointments, he signed with Miami-based Pandisc Re-cords, whose owner, Bo Crane, knew Laz from Power. “He was a smart-alecky guy brimming with confidence,” the 64-year-old music producer says. “I knew there was something special about him, so I gave him a shot. The single was a hit. It launched his career and put Pandisc on the map.”

Two years later, in 1993, Laz married his girl-friend, Desiree, whom he’d been dating since he was a teenager. Those days were about enjoying the ride and just making people dance, Laz says.

“Back then, it was all about big butts bouncing to the bass,” he affirms. “To this day, I still have dudes coming up to me, thanking me for getting them laid.”

When “Mami el Negro” sold 500,000 cop-ies, Crane pushed Laz to make a full-length album. He collaborated with Danny D to make the self-titled DJ Laz and then followed with five more records on Pandisc between 1994 and 2004. In 1996, he launched his own imprint, Limp-A-Lot Records. Luther Campbell also recruited Laz to produce a few songs for his solo albums. “He was the Cuban guy making hot bass songs,” Campbell says. “Laz got big before any other Latin rapper came along, including Big Pun and Fat Joe.”

His musical success dovetailed with his radio career. In 1998, Power 96 made him the DJ on the morning rush-hour show, during which he mixed party songs for commut-ers stuck in traffic; within two years, he was hosting the afternoon rush-hour show.

In a few years, Laz went from a teenager making $200 a gig to commanding an annual six-figure income in his late 20s with his re-cording career and Power job. He traded in his Celica for a Corvette. And he bought a four-bedroom house in Weston, adding a state-of-the-art studio and storage for 15,000 albums.

“I bought my mom a brand-new Nissan

Altima in 1996,” Laz says. “I found the big-gest bow I could find, put it on, and drove it to her house. I paid for it in cash.”

More hit singles followed, including “Jour-ney Into Bass,” “Hump All Night,” and “Esa Morena.” Listeners tuned in to his afternoon show to hear him crack jokes while mixing booty music and hip-hop. It was the perfect recipe for teens on the way home from school.

“Laz spoke the universal language of kids growing up in Miami,” Corben says. “Booty music is one of the few things that unite us as a community.”

In 2001, Laz helped Campbell introduce South Florida to another Cuban-American rapper, who has since become one of the most famous pop stars in the world.

“He’s telling me he has this white Cu-ban chico with light eyes who is super-

sharp,” Laz says. “So Luke brings him by the station. This was when Pitbull had gold teeth and cornrows. After spending a few minutes talking to him, I could tell he had that it factor. He lit up the room.”

Laz formed a bond with Pitbull, who ap-peared on several songs on Laz’s most recent al-bum, Category 6. Laz is still Pitbull’s touring DJ.

In February 2005, Power gave Laz hosting duties for the coveted morning rush-hour slot. During his seven-year tenure hosting The DJ Laz Morning Pimp Show, he interviewed celebrities, engaged in lowbrow high jinks, and made the show one of the top-rated pro-grams in South Florida. He titillated listeners with fake prank calls between cheating lovers and set up a hotline so uninterested women could give the number to men asking for their digits. Laz would then broadcast the embar-

rassing messages from desperate suitors. Sometimes his gags didn’t go over so

well. In 2009, to poke fun at the Colorado “balloon boy” hoax, Laz told listeners he wanted to see how many helium balloons it would take to lift a cat. For two hours, he pretended a cat had accidentally floated away. Animal activists were outraged.

“I punked everybody, from my bosses to thousands of listeners,” Laz says glee-fully. “We had 4,000 emails demanding my resignation. You can only pull off that kind of prank when you have the credibility of being on the radio for as long as I have.”

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Laz had offered him a place to stay after the 26-year-old aspiring rapper was arrested for hurling a cell phone at his wife’s head and opening a gash that required stitches. When she obtained a restraining order to force him out of their townhouse in Sunrise, Laz gave Trotman the benefit of the doubt. He’d known Trotman for years, after all, mentor-ing him as a rapper and even serving as best man at his April 2010 wedding to his wife, Danielle Lorenzo. Trotman was volatile but talented, and Laz thought he could groom him and eventually sign him to his label.

Before leaving for California the week before, Laz had offered Trotman some advice: Accept Lorenzo’s decision to end their relationship. It was over.

“Marcus was like a member of my fam-ily,” Laz says. “I was his Cuban dad.”

So when Laz landed in Miami and flipped on his radio, he almost swerved off the road: Trotman had shot and killed his estranged wife, the reporter announced, plus her mom, Linda Scudera, before killing himself.

Laz sped home and went straight to the room where Trotman had been stay-ing. He found scraps of paper near the bed. Laz’s face went pale as he read verses contemplating suicide; then he ran to his private study around the corner.

His gun safe was wide open. As Laz pulled out a small black case, his heart pounded like an 808 bass drum. His fully loaded Walther PPK .380-caliber pistol was gone.

“If you would have bet me beforehand that something like that was going to happen with Marcus, I would have lost money,” Laz says. “I would have said, ‘Hell no. No way.’ ”

That horrific crime is one of several dark moments that belie Laz’s radio party-boy im-age. His rise to the top has been marked by some eye-popping risks that make it remark-able how clean the DJ’s record has remained.

“Laz is one of the most likable guys in radio,” says Mike Reyes, a former producer for SBS-owned El Zol 95.7. “He’s kept his nose clean. You’ve never read about him get-ting busted for driving under the influence or being sent to rehab for drug addiction.”

But Laz is no Boy Scout either. He admits he smoked weed and dropped MDMA, or Ecstasy, during his days as a club DJ. “When I was 27 or 28, I did Ecstasy for about a six-week period,” Laz says. “Those six weeks were awesome until I got the next batch.”

After taking four pills, Laz recalls, he slept for about an hour and woke up with unbearable chest pain. He drove himself to Memorial Regional Hospital’s emergency room. “I was so embarrassed I lied, say-ing someone spiked my drink,” he says. “The doctors told me I was lucky my heart didn’t explode. I never did Ecstasy again.”

At the same time, Laz’s marriage to Desiree was falling apart. They’d got-ten married too young, and the relation-ship had been crumbling for years.

“I was booking gigs just to get out of the house because I was having so many prob-lems with my wife,” Laz says. During one of his DJ parties in Tallahassee, he met a young woman named Joette, who’d grown up in the

same Hollywood neighborhood as he had. Three months later, she called into Power

96. After taking her out to dinner that evening, Laz never looked back. He divorced Desiree (who declined an interview with New Times) in December 1999. (Attempts to review the couple’s divorce file were unsuccessful — the Broward County Clerk of Court’s office could not locate the 13-year-old documents.)

Two years later, Laz married Joette. They’ve been together since and have two children. In 2006, they paid $990,000 for the Plantation estate. He also owns a home in Pembroke Pines that he purchased in 2001 for $210,000 and a 42-foot sportfish-ing boat, which is docked at his Key Largo vacation home. “I love the ocean,” Laz says. “It’s where I disconnect from the world.”

His love of boating also compelled him to take one of the craziest gambles of his life. On a summer night in 2008, thieves broke into his Key Largo pad to get the keys to a 33-foot fishing boat he owned. They didn’t know that Laz had installed a state-of-the-art tracking device on it after eight boats in his neighborhood had been stolen.

When he went to the cops, they told him there was nothing they could do unless the boat was in American waters. The Coast Guard also blew him off. “Every time the boat was on the move, I’d get an alert,” Laz says.

So he tracked the boat himself, watching on his computer as it docked in Pinar del Río, Cuba, and then motored back out into the Gulf. “Once that boat made a beeline for Mex-ico, I jumped on the next plane,” he recalls.

Laz came to believe that the thieves were human traffickers smuggling Cubans to Cancún on his boat. So he flew to the re-sort town with wads of cash in his pocket. He arrived at the docks just as the two smugglers were tying his boat to a moor.

“One of the guys walked past me wear-ing my hat and sunglasses,” Laz recounts. “Once I confirmed it was my boat, the cops surrounded them with M16 machine guns.”

Infuriated, Laz approached the hijacker wearing his hat and sunglasses. “It is piece-of-shit Cubans like you that make good Cu-bans look bad,” Laz remembers growling.

Looking back, Laz says he would never again do something so bold. “Fuck no,” he says. “No thanks, you can keep it. But at that moment, I felt so violated that I had to do something about it.”

Three years later, though, he took an even bigger risk by letting Trotman stay at his house.

According to a Sunrise police report, this is what happened while Laz was flying home: On September 25, 2011, Trotman showed up at his ex-wife’s house, supposedly to return her car and retrieve his clothes. When Lo-renzo let him in, he pulled out Laz’s gun and shot her twice. He then gunned down her mother before shooting himself in the head.

The murders were witnessed by Lo-renzo’s 5-year-old daughter, who then ran to a neighbor’s house. In a chilling 911 call, the girl told the operator she fled out of fear that Trotman would kill her too.

When Laz returned home and confirmed Trotman had stolen his pistol, he called the Sunrise police. Shortly after midnight on Sep-tember 26, he met with two homicide detec-tives. He told them about the missing gun and gave them the suicide verses Trotman had writ-ten, according to the police report.


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As news broke that Laz’s gun was the murder weapon, the Internet blew up with speculation and scathing criticism. “[Trot-man’s] previous court-ordered treatments for violent domestic abuse of his wife were Alcoholics Anonymous and an anger man-agement program,” one commenter wrote about a news story. “Then his dumbass friend DJ Laz lets him get a hold of his gun.”

Another commenter wrote, “What I don’t get is why DJ Laz opens his door to a rapper who has a domestic violence history against his wife. And to top it off leaves his guns unse-cure where anyone can gain access to them.”

More than a year after the tragedy, Laz still finds himself asking how it hap-pened, but he doesn’t believe the criticism is fair. The safe was locked, he says.

“What do you do when a person breaks into your safe when you’re not home?” Laz says. “If Marcus didn’t steal it from me, he was going to steal it from somebody else.”

And though Laz doesn’t regret letting Trot-man stay at his house, he’s been tormented by what-ifs. “Maybe if I had been home that week leading up to what happened, he would have talked to me about what he was going through,” Laz says. “I asked myself, Why, why, why?”

Laz pauses, then adds, “Whatever demons he was battling took him away. It sucks all the way around, especially for the two boys and the little girl who were left without their mom and their grandmom.”

Seven months after the tragedy, Laz was in Toronto opening for Pitbull when he realized with crushing certainty that he needed a change. “I had been very loyal and very comfortable at Power,” he says. “Pitbull’s advice was to take a chance and leave. He said I had nothing to lose.”

On April 6, he resigned from his job at Power 96. The news sent shock waves through South Florida’s radio scene. On New Times’ music blog, Crossfade, readers reacted as if there had been a death in the family. “I will miss DJ Laz,” Afi Keita James wrote. “He was Power 96.” Another fan, Frances Chan, remarked, “It’s tragic DJ Laz is gone.”

Yet Laz wasn’t hanging up his mike for good. Almost two months later, SBS an-nounced that Laz would be the company’s flag-ship voice in Miami and Los Angeles. Power 96 fans, feeling betrayed, reacted poisonously. “Good riddance to bad rubbish,” wrote one anonymous hater. Juan Quesada, AKA DJ Luv, added, “Good luck in L.A., even though

L.A. radio sucks just as bad as Miami radio.”Laz understands the bitterness but chalks it

up to ignorance. “They don’t understand I am splitting my time between both cities,” he says. “When I tell them I am still in Miami, they’ll ask me if I am still at Power. I’m like, ‘No, moth-erfucker, I’m running my own station now.’ ”

It’s Wednesday afternoon, about an hour after his morning broadcast on L.A.’s 96.3, and Laz is busy mixing his

next morning’s big segment. This time, presi-dential politics have nothing to do with it.

He listens as a man named John explains his predicament: His wife, Karla, has just

been promoted and is getting ever more friendly with her boss. John just found a text message on her phone dedicating a song on Laz’s show to the guy. John wants revenge, and Laz has just the thing: He’ll call Karla, pretend to give her a gift card, and see if she sends it to her boss or to John.

“That’s when I go off on her, right?” John asks.

“Yes,” Laz replies. “Just remember this is playing in L.A. too. Los Angeles is a little more conservative, so be care-ful not to use fuck, shit, and bitch.”

As Laz shifts from Miami party legend to bicoastal radio personality, he has hardly

abandoned the cheesy staged skits like John and Karla’s tiff. He has simply supple-mented them with serious interviews such as Obama’s call-in and breaking gossip news like a Justin Bieber 911 call he aired before TMZ publicized it a few months ago.

It’s a move that Laz hopes will pay off with a new, broader fan base, but so far that’s only a hope. As of November 6, Arbitron ranked DJ 106.7 FM 21st among South Florida’s 35 AM and FM stations — 14 spots below Power 96, which is rated seventh. In Los Angeles, 96.3 is the 25th most listened-to station of 50 in the market.

“Laz was with Power 96 for so long he’s been typecast,” Rosenberg says. “It’s going to be hard for people not to associate him with Power 96.”

Still, even if ratings haven’t immediately followed Laz to his new perch, he’s made waves. Landing the president, in fact, scored the DJ more press than any move since his booty-bass days. Conservative pundits went bananas over the commander in chief grant-ing an interview to a man dubbed “the Pimp With the Limp.” Right-wing columnist Clar-ence McKee, for one, opined that Obama “cheapened the office of the president of the United States” by appearing on Laz’s show.

“You had Fox News making fun of Obama because he didn’t make time to meet with Is-raeli leaders but had time to go on the air with Laz,” Corben says. “That’s moving the needle.”

It’s an open question how long Laz’s new two-coast experiment will last. If listen-ers don’t start turning the dial toward his shows, it might be a short-term deal. Mike Reyes, the former producer at El Zol, ques-tions whether Laz’s new employer has the patience to stick with him. “I doubt he will stay there long-term,” Reyes concludes.

But Laz disagrees, insisting his bosses at SBS understand he has to rebuild his brand name. “When you are fighting a 22-year career at another radio station, it is going to take a lot of word of mouth and advertising for people to realize Laz is back,” he says. “I think 80 percent of the people in Miami don’t know this station exists or that I am here.”

Either way, Laz just looks at his past for inspiration. He was too stubborn not to walk, too stubborn to give up on crowds that mocked him, too stubborn to let tragedy slow him down.

“In my son’s room, there’s a hand-painted quote on his wall that reads ‘You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take,’ ” Laz says. “That’s always stuck with me. In life, there is no reward for not taking a risk.”

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THU 11/29 ▼ HOLIDAY

HOLIDAY TRADITION RETURNS IN A BIG WAYChristmas is probably the most ubiquitously celebrated holiday in the world — it definitely is in the U.S. That probably has a lot to do with the fact that — religious aspects aside — Christmas is about brotherhood, peace on earth, goodwill toward men — ya know, all that heartwarming crap. Heartwarming tra-ditions are what make the holidays for most people, but if you are a Floridian, good wintry traditions can be hard to come by.

One of the best Christmas traditions to be found around these parts is the lighting of the 100-foot Christmas tree in downtown Delray Beach. This Thursday will be the

20th-annual lighting of the enormous tree in Old School Square (51 N. Swinton Ave.). Santa Claus will be flown in by the CBS 12 helicopter all the way from the North Pole to personally flip the switch. Santa touches down at 7 p.m., the lights go on at 7:15, and you can enjoy art and performances along the entire avenue from 6 to 10 p.m.

The event is free, though donations are welcome. Call 561-279-1380, or visit 100ftchristmastree.com. REBECCA DITTMAR

▼ FOOD + DRINK

SCREW HOME COOKINGThe Thanksgiving leftovers officially jumped the shark when you tried to incorporate tur-key into your morning protein smoothie. Shake that off and head to the What the Truck?!? Food Truck Party on Thursday to mix things up with dinner from one — or more — of the 11 food trucks scheduled to attend. On the roster this week are Che Grill, Daddy’s Grill, Dolce Gourmet Cupcakes, Grill Master

Café, HipPOPs Handcrafted Gelato Bars, Mobile Culinary Kitchen, Out of Many, the Rolling Stove, Taco Heat, Top Fries, and Waf-fle Gourmet.

The What the Truck?!? Food Truck Party is 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of Seminole Casino of Hollywood, located at 4150 N. State Road 7 in Hollywood. There is no cost to attend, and parking is free, but bring cash for the trucks. This is a 21-and-older event. Call 954-961-3220, or visit miam-ifoodtrucks.com. TRICIA WOOLFENDEN

▼ THEATER

GAY APPARELLike holiday cutlery, It’s a Fabulous Life is the kind of show that’s brought out once a year, polished, and probably best enjoyed with spiked eggnog. A gay-themed redux of It’s a Wonderful Life, it premiered as a shoestring sketch from the 60-voice South Beach Gay

Men’s Chorus back in 2001, graduated into a full-fledged musical production in 2003, and continues to undergo cosmetic improve-ments in its casting and pop-culture refer-ences. This being a gay-themed play, the story is set — where else? — in the musical theater business, where the writer of Ran-dolph the Rainbow Reindeer begins to wish he had never been born… gay. He’s visited by

an angel, who shows him how things would be different if he had been born straight. Ex-pect to hear familiar and unfamiliar show tunes and to see beefcake, camp, and a drag

diva. The show runs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Sat-urday, and 1 and 6 p.m. Sunday at Broward Center for the Performing Arts,

located at 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauder-dale. Tickets cost $35. Call 954-462-0222, or visit browardcenter.org. JOHN THOMASON

FRI 11/30 ▼ CIRCUS

FLASHBACK TO BEIJINGIt’s common knowledge that the 2008 Olym-pic Opening Ceremonies in Beijing totally trumped the spectacle we witnessed in Lon-don in August. But what do you get when you combine the badass 2008 opening ceremo-nies with, say, the 2012 men’s Chinese Olym-pic gymnastics team (which won gold, in case you don’t remember)? Why, you get Cirque Chinois, a dazzling display of visual splendor, acrobatics, and gravity-defying feats. This in-ternationally acclaimed show will roll through the Miramar Cultural Center|ArtsPark at 8 p.m. Friday.

Whereas the Olympics is pretty straight-forward, Cirque Chinois will take things to another level of showmanship, illusion, and entertainment. The National Circus of the People’s Republic of China will fly from tra-pezes, juggle more things than you can count at once, and engage in “group contortionism,” all in a visually breathtaking setting.

The show is part of the Cultural Explorer Series at the Miramar Cultural Center|ArtsPark (2400 Civic Center Place, Miramar). Tickets cost $35, $40, and $45. Call 954-602-4500, or visit miramarcultural-center.org. GRACE STAINBACK

▼ MUSIC

VOP SERENADES THE ARTS GARAGEGay men are known for many things: style, great hair, an affinity for Liza Minnelli that no straight man could ever understand. But a gorgeous blending of melodies, harmonies, and tailored suits? In South Florida, they are

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known for that too. The gay men’s chorus of the Palm Beaches, known as Voices of Pride, will return to the Arts Garage to perform tra-ditional and modern holiday songs that are beloved by anyone whose heart isn’t three sizes too small.

Voices of Pride have been around since 2003, singing their way across South Florida and gaining quite a following. Don’t miss your chance to see them this Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. The Arts Garage is lo-cated at 180 NE First St. in Delray Beach. Tickets cost $35 to $50 in advance, $25 to $35 at the door. Call 561-450-6357, or visit artsga-rage.org. TANA VELEN

SAT 12/1 ▼ FESTIVAL

SHOP HYPER-LOCAL SATURDAYEveryone knows old things mean class: aged Scotch, antique cars, classic artwork, vintage wines, Hugh Hefner in his awesome smoking jacket. While the entire country is out stock-piling the most advanced Blu-ray players, electronics, and useless stocking stuffers, you have the perfect opportunity to stay classy. And no, this does not require suiting up and drinking $750-a-bottle whiskey. The City Wide Market is making its first appearance at Fort Lauderdale’s War Memorial Auditorium (800 NE Eighth St.). The market will feature 300 to 400 vendors selling all sorts of vintage, midcentury modern, and antique wares. Ev-erything from furniture and housewares to jewelry and clothes to records and electron-ics will be available. If old is not your thing, the market, which is brought to you by the same people who put together the Indy Craft Bazaar, will also feature about 20 vendors from the craft bazaar. The market takes place from 9 to 5 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday. Parking and admission are free. SARA VENTIERA

▼ ART

OFF THE IPHONE AND ONTO THE GALLERY WALLThe next time someone gets huffy with you be-cause you won’t stop fooling around with your phone during dinner, remind them that you’re

an artist and you have to follow your Instagram muse when it strikes. If that doesn’t convince them, make a date for Saturday’s InstaGallery, featuring more than 85 participants and 600-plus Insta-images by local artists.

The InstaGallery is 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday and will be hosted in Ink and Pistons Tattoo Shop and Slushbox Art Gallery, located at 2716 S. Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach. There’s no cost to attend, but you can pur-chase photos right off the wall for $5, and other goodies will be for sale. Call 561-832-4655, or visit inkandpistonstattoo.com. TRICIA WOOLFENDEN

▼ ROMANCE

SPEED DATING IS SOOOO GAYIf I’ve learned anything from the totally accu-rate and no way inflated-for-ratings televi-sion series Queer as Folk, it’s that speed dating is the only kind of dating gay men do. But there are actual speed-dating events for gay men looking to get to know someone in 60 seconds or less, and one of them is taking place on Saturday.

Heart Tango, one of the better-known speed-dating services around town, is orga-nizing an event in Wilton Manors (really, could it be anywhere else?) at the hot-spot the Manor, located at 2345 Wilton Drive. It’s all happening at 7 p.m. and is open to men ages 25 to 45 only. The cost is $25. Call 305-809-6377, or visit hearttango.com. TANA VELEN

▼ NIGHTLIFE

THE SWEETEST TREATSMore sugary than homemade icing and richer than red velvet, the ladies of Cupcake Bur-lesque know how to satisfy a sweet tooth. Catch their tastefully risqué A Winter Wonder-land Burlesque Revue on Saturday night in West Palm Beach. Founded in 2010, the show is performed in classic burlesque style with a naughty little twist. As an additional tempta-tion, Jodi’s Cupcakes will be at the event sell-ing holiday-themed treats.

The revue is Saturday night at Respectable Street, located at 518 Clematis St. in West Palm Beach. Doors open at 9 p.m., and the show starts at 10. Advance tickets cost $7, plus fees, via brownpapertickets.com or $10 at the door. Call 561-235-2253, or visit cupcakebur-lesque.com. TRICIA WOOLFENDEN

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A COMIC CALLED WANDALike Bob Saget and Gilbert Gottfried before her, Wanda Sykes walks the comedic tight-rope between family films and foul-mouthed filth. Her high-pitched, instantly recogniz-able voice has led to jobs on such animated trifles as Over the Hedge and Barnyard, but her faithful fans prefer the unhinged Sykes, where she hurls improvised insults at Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, jokes about cannibalizing annoying boys on airplanes in her HBO special Sick & Tired, or suggests Rush Limbaugh be waterboarded at the 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner. Be-lieve it or not, this outspoken, occasionally controversial comedian used to work for the National Security Agency, presumably before all that warrantless wiretapping created an unseemly Orwellian behemoth. She was still working for the government in 1987, when she performed her first standup act; she made the right career choice, and America continues to thank her for it. She performs at 8 p.m. Sunday at Broward Center for the Per-forming Arts, located at 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $45 to $115. Call 954-462-0222, or visit browardcenter.org. JOHN THOMASON

MON 12/3▼ MUSIC

CLASSICS TO CUTTING EDGEFrom the keyboard to the classroom, pianist Jade Simmons is wowing audiences and fans young and old. Simmons, former Miss Illinois and first runner-up at the 2000 Miss America Pageant, was also recently selected as the New Music/New Places Fellow for the Con-cert Artist Guild. Sharing her eclectic reper-toire of classics to cutting edge, she has performed in more than 15 states, with her

most noted recitals taking place at the Na-tional Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas.

Simmons, an advocate for education in the arts, has also made several appearances in schools throughout the country, offering pro-grams she has created such as “Mozart on the Move” and “Where Do You Stand?!”

Don’t miss this talented musician’s next performance as she opens the Young Artists Series at the Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center, located at 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach, on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $30. Call 561-832-7469, or visit kravis.org. CHRISSIE FERGUSON

TUE 12/4 ▼ ART

HIT THE ROADLeave your car keys at home and get ready for an art lover’s utopia as you are chauffeured, Palm Beach style, to art galleries and studios throughout Palm Beach County. Enjoy “Art on the Road,” hosted by the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, as you take an exclusive bus tour to meet collectors, artists, and own-ers of some of the best-known venues in town. Stops include a tour of the Jaffe collec-tion, Studio 1608, and Habatat Gallery.

The tour takes place Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Board the bus at the Cultural Council at 601 Lake Ave. in downtown Lake Worth. A reservation is required, and the cost to participate is $50 for nonmembers and $40 for members. Extend your stay in Lake Worth by picking up your Restaurant Club Card and using it for same-day offers and discounts from local restaurants. Call 561-472-3342, or visit palmbeachculture.com. CHRISSIE FERGUSON

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Jon Stewart’s PosseThree staffers from The Daily Show perform live in Coral Springs.

BY JOHN THOMASON

I n a May 2012 study that likely surprised no one under 50, researchers at New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson University found that television viewers who watched only Fox News Channel were

the least informed news consumers in the country — faring much worse than respon-dents who watched no news at all. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, a late-night comedy series whose viewers have been denigrated by Fox’s Bill O’Reilly as “stoned slackers” and “dopey kids,” enjoyed the third-best-informed ranking in the study, behind only NPR and the Sunday-morning talk-show fans.

It was nice to have our suspicions verified with scientific data. The Daily Show’s viewers are some of the most knowledgeable media consumers in America because, like the best sociopolitical satirists, Jon Stewart and his team of writers offer comedy laced with truth, cutting through the mainstream media’s dense thickets of partisan bullshit and finding nug-gets of clarity in a morass of talking points. The show’s deconstruction of the real meaning be-hind Clint Eastwood’s schizophrenic halluci-nation at the Republican National Convention — that the Republicans are attacking an Obama that “only they can see” — deserved an Emmy in itself (the show has won 16 of them so far).

In many cases, The Daily Show’s comedy writers and producers do more actual report-ing — usually in pursuit of political hypocrisy — than their lazier counterparts in the cable-news feedback loop. They find new angles in the same old stories or uncover new stories altogether. Yet the crew typically deflects praise for the journalism it commits in pur-suit of laughs, saying it’s just a comedy series.

“We’re never thinking, ‘We have a mission or we have a purpose, to inform people,’” says co-executive producer Adam Lowitt, one of three Daily Show staffers who will take the stage in a standup special this Saturday night at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts in an event billed as The Daily Show Live. “Jon’s con-

cern is putting out a great product and being really funny. I don’t think his concern is, ‘I want people to take my message and do something with it, or I want to be listened to in a political arena.’ ”

Launched in 1996, when Comedy Central was a largely uncharted blip on cable televi-sion, The Daily Show did not begin as a seri-ous influence in the political world. Under Craig Kilborn’s stewardship, the format more resembled a nightly “Weekend Update” rou-tine paired with bizarre human-interest sto-ries. That began to change when Stewart came aboard in 1999.

“Back in the day, if you look at these old shows, we were doing stories about someone who would make false teeth out of pebbles they would find in their driveway, and we’d go interview him and make him feel bad about himself,” Lowitt says. “That is so far from

what the show does now. Jon came in and started to pursue things he found much more interesting. He’d much rather see the harm in what’s going on politically than someone who wants to drive across the country naked.”

These days, The Daily Show is a major player. Its correspondents are invited to politi-cal conventions, it broadcasts live on election nights, and presidents make a point to appear on the show (well, the Democratic ones, any-way). The show’s staff has nearly doubled since the early years, now with about 100 em-ployees in writing, production, graphic design, on-air talent, field reporting, and research.

“We operate very much like a newspaper, where Jon is the editor in chief,” Lowitt says. “We have people watching the news and reading blogs and reading newspapers. Jon is involved way more than people realize. He’s involved in every step, every facet.”

Standard protocol begins with a morning meeting to hash out ideas and shape the tone and content of the evening’s show. Then the writers, graphic designers, producers, and field reporters scurry off into their cubby-holes, each working on his piece of the fluid and attractive broadcast that beams from TV land at 11 p.m. Monday to Thursday. The show is recorded at 6 p.m. each day; after-ward, many of its stars moonlight at New York’s comedy clubs.

Saturday’s show in Coral Springs represents the convergence of these two worlds: standup and The Daily Show. The evening will begin with a video montage of Daily Show election coverage and a special taped introduction from Stewart. Then Lowitt will perform some of his material, focusing less on politics than dating, relationships, his anxieties, and his upbringing — “your evergreen Jew topics,” as he calls them. He’ll be followed by standup acts from cerebral Daily Show contributors John Hodg-man and Al Madrigal, and a Q&A with the three performers will round out the night.

Perhaps somebody will ask the entertain-ers if they view themselves as simply, well, entertainers — or if they see a higher calling in their resurrection of a shiftless and mori-bund fourth estate. Lowitt will no doubt have an answer for them.

“People want to make [Jon] and the show into something more than it is, and people can do that,” he says. “We don’t have those conversations, like, ‘I wonder if our show should be saying this, or what’s the reaction going to be to that?’ It’s just like, ‘This really makes us laugh. We really agree with this point. Let’s just put it on TV and go home and eat dinner.’ ”

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The Play of the Movie of the BookAnna Karenina: A shopworn experiment.

BY NICK PINKERTON

Joe Wright’s dust-blowing new adap-tation of Anna Karenina faces a tow-ering mountain of precedent: not only the greatest novel by the man Nabokov called “the greatest Rus-

sian writer of prose fiction” but the whole checkered history of Leo Tolstoy at the movies.

A visit to Tolstoy’s imdb.com page gives the count a “writer” credit on 162 titles, in-cluding the first of a score of Anna adapta-tions in 1911, the year after the author’s death. (The Kreutzer Sonata is particularly popular, probably because it contains a juicy murder.) The only work of the lot I’ve seen that achieves greatness — Robert Bresson’s 1983 L’Argent — comes from a lesser story, “The Forged Coupon,” and evinces the rare case of a filmmaker whose vision is powerful enough to overwhelm Tolstoy’s. Because master-pieces of literature do not automatically make masterpieces of the screen, form-ob-sessed cinephiles rarely find common ground with fans of the British costume drama. (And, Slavic source aside, this Anna Karenina essen-

tially is a British costume drama.)

Tolstoy’s family epic has been smartly contoured to fit just more than two hours of screen time by Sir Tom Stoppard. Although principally a man of the theater, Stop-pard is responsible for “literate” movies like Shakespeare in Love as well as the screenplay to R.W.

Fassbinder’s clumsy adaptation of Nabokov’s Despair, a film that proves the difficulty of moving great art from page to screen. As Nabo-kov says, “A tinge of poshlost” — the Russian phrase translates roughly as “kitsch” — “is of-ten given by the cinema to the novel it distorts and coarsens in its crooked glass.”

Unlike, say, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Stop-pard has retained the structure of Tolstoy’s novel, which parallels two contrasting court-ships — though the film, of course, favors the one with more sensational action and stars the title character. A wife and young mother, Anna — perhaps most famously played by Garbo, here by Keira Knightley — falls madly for a Russian officer, Vronsky (powder-puffed Aaron Taylor-Johnson, resembling the off-spring of a nutcracker and Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince.) The first of this match’s tragic consequences is Vronsky’s jilting of Princess Kitty (Alicia Vikander) who, in the B story, is courted by the surly, shy, and awkward Levin (Domhnall Gleeson). Levin is the bosom friend of Anna’s philandering brother, Oblon-

sky (Matthew Macfadyen) — prey to the same governing passions as his sister and to none of the same social and legal reproach.

It is not Stoppard but director Wright (Knightley’s collaborator on Pride & Prejudice and Atonement) who is responsible for the most immediately striking aspect of this Anna, the self-conscious “theatricality” of its stag-ing. The film begins in Oblonsky’s study — but this study is located in the proscenium arch of an empty theater, while an invisible orchestra is heard to tune. Wright misses few opportu-nities to emphasize the artifice: Painted back-drops lower into place; a toy train becomes

the fateful, fatal express to St. Petersburg; the daily routine in Oblonsky’s office is a choreo-graphed dance; when the disgraced Anna is shunned by society at the Petersburg theater and she’s hit with a spotlight.

Away from those stage spaces where society goes to see and be seen, the scenery is a dingy backstage or the catwalks between the fly gal-leries, populated by the gray and downtrodden — Onstage, Backstage instead of Upstairs, Downstairs. Wright’s gambit should be refresh-ing, but in action, it often feels like a pricier, self-amused version of a shopworn “experi-ment” made for East German television in the

’80s. It’s all in the service of such a common ar-gument that it cannot be received as a simple pleasure. The movie’s big idea: that life among the aristocratic class of the 19th Century was entirely a matter of histrionics, of stagecraft, if you will. This understanding is, however, in-trinsic to our collective presupposition of the period by now — to say anything else might be truly revolutionary — while the attempted con-trast between Anna and Levin’s worlds is mud-dled by the exceedingly picturesque and painterly out-of-doors photography.

Thankfully, the men and women populat-ing Wright’s little theater are something more than cutouts. Once deprived of the at-mosphere of society to which she’s accli-mated, glamorous Knightley’s emotions come through with a gasping immediacy, and the handling of Anna and Vronsky’s in-exorable slide into mutual resentment strikes the right note of walls-closing-in claustrophobia. Jude Law deserves special notice as Anna’s cuckolded husband, Kare-nin; his stillness is commanding, curtly con-veying both Karenin’s fineness as a man and impossibility as a mate. Just as the characters created by Tolstoy the artist got the advan-tage of Tolstoy the polemicist, so these con-foundingly good performances gradually win the movie from Wright’s puerile conceit, giv-ing us an Anna Karenina if not for the ages, then at least for an evening.

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The Loneliest PlanetThe Loneliest Planet begins with a close-up shot of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It’s not what it sounds like. Nica (Hani Furstenberg), on a premarriage honeymoon with fiancé Alex (Gael García Bernal) in rural Georgia, is in the midst of a makeshift shower. As Nica pogoes up and down to keep warm, her slim, androgynous body, doused in milky white soap suds, becomes a blur of motion. It takes a moment for the eyes to adjust, to register what we’re seeing: Is this body male or female? Is this a mundane act or some strange, exotic ritual? With this, writer/di-rector Julia Loktev sets up her extraordinary sec-ond fiction feature: She announces an intention to explore sex and gender murkiness and warns that this is a film that demands distraction-free contemplation. Loktev takes a painterly ap-proach, crafting a study in colors — the vibrant green landscape, entire campfire-lit scenes reg-

istering as dances of shadow and warm flashes of skin — as she also charts the variable shades and tones of a single relationship. Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil. In a good relation-ship, you feel like you can survive anything the world throws at you. Loktev expertly trains her camera through a fissure in such a bond and re-veals an unshakable vision of the terror of facing the unknown without a guide. KARINA LONGWORTH

StarletAn empathic, absorbing tale of the old and the beautiful, Starlet tracks an unlikely intergenera-tional friendship in the San Fernando Valley. Flor-ida transplant Jane (Dree Hemingway) is employed by one of the area’s main engines of commerce, breaking into the XXX industry and cheerfully working adult-movie trade shows. When not gently advising her roommate and co-

worker Melissa (Stella Maeve) about the dangers posed by snorting oxy or by her equally tooted-up boyfriend, the ascendant 21-year-old porn ac-tress, with her Chihuahua of the title in tow, amasses bric-a-brac found at yard sales. A ther-mos purchased from crotchety, long-widowed Sadie (Besedka Johnson) turns out to have $10,000 stashed inside it; keeping the loot, Jane relentlessly pursues companionship with the oc-togenarian, out of guilt, loneliness, or a more emotionally complex motive. Hemingway, daugh-ter of Mariel, who also memorably played a worker in the skin trade in Star 80 (1983), and Johnson, an 86-year-old first-time performer dis-covered at a local YMCA, both bring the right amount of aggression and obstinacy for this bi-zarre push-pull dynamic to work. Director Sean Baker, cowriting his fourth feature with Chris Ber-goch, does some deft balancing of his own: His genuine admiration for these two women extends to their idiosyncrasies, yet they never become fools, whores, saints, or coots. MELISSA ANDERSON

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O P E N I N GKilling Them Softly — An adaptation of George V. Higgins’s 1974 novel

Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy of junkies, killers, and admin-istrators to indict a present-day mainstream world by suggesting that the criminal satellite economy and the “straight” superstructure are functionally the same. It’s a movie that shows, and then tells, tells, and tells again, its vibrant conjuring of contemporary cynicism felled by Dominik’s lack of faith in his audience’s ability to connect thematic dots. The film is set in 2008, giving hit man Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt, on killer-cool autopilot) the chance to scoff at a Barack Obama speech evoking the American dream: “America isn’t a country; it’s just a business,” Cogan declares. Other than deliver that, Pitt doesn’t have a whole lot to do. Cogan enters half an hour in, after ex-con Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and his junkie prison buddy Russell (Ben Mendelsohn) have held up a poker game managed by Markie (Ray Liotta). Cogan is hired by a Mob administrator, played by Richard Jenkins, to orchestrate the killings necessary to restore confidence in the underground gambling economy. Cogan tries not to kill anyone he knows face to face (the resemblance of his policy of “killing them softly, from a distance” to drone warfare is among the film’s few subtle allusions), so he insists on subcontracting a gunman from New York, Mickey (James Gandolfini). Gan-dolfini only appears in two scenes, but he gives the film’s best performance as a man drowning in masculine/midlife crisis, mooning over a “piece of ass” from his past. This talk is strange, florid, disgusting . . . and really not all that different from the gender stuff dredged up by the just-concluded election cycle. (K.L.)

O N G O I N GHello I Must Be Going — We knew from Heavenly Creatures that Kate

Winslet had a bright career ahead, but in that film, Melanie Lynskey was the one to watch. Is it possible that no director since Peter Jack-son has quite known what to do with her? Todd Louiso’s Hello I Must Be Going affirms Lynskey as a lead mostly by letting us marvel at the depth she brings to his wife’s—Sarah Koskoff—programmatic script about a sad-sack antihero, female for a change. Amy, a 35-year-old photography hobbyist, enacts her post-divorce regression by moving back in with her aloof Westport parents (Blythe Danner, John Rubinstein) and actually hooking up with a teenager. That’s family friend Jeremy (Girls’ Christopher Abbott), an aspiring actor who seems reasonably perceptive about human behavior but hasn’t bothered to correct his own mother (Julie White) for presuming he’s gay. Fecklessness being of the essence here, some protective drollery is applied. Summing up its protagonist’s stance on return-ing to the nest, the movie’s title obviously also alludes to the Marx Brothers, whose antics Amy watches for distraction, but the comic inheritance seems so diluted that it might as well be a Phil Collins reference. With a digital sheen exacerbating the aura of slightness, Hello vamps along in its low indie-rom-com key toward a climactic mother-daughter moment not nearly as harrowing as the one in Lynskey’s debut, but moving nonetheless. (J.K.)

Hitchcock — Early in Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck) walks the red carpet at the premiere of his 1959 chase film, North by Northwest. “You’re 60 years old!” shouts a reporter. The scene is an announcement that Hitchcock will be the kind of Hollywood movie in which veterans on the verge of obsolescence figure out how to beat the industry’s system of cycling out the old in favor of the new by changing with the times on their own terms. For Hitchcock’s Hitchcock, this means breaking away from starry “baubles” like North by Northwest, and exploring riskier territory. “What if someone really good made a horror picture?” he wonders. Hopkins’s imitation of Hitchcock’s distinctive vocal cadence — the accent and heaviness of delivery, as if each word was rolled in bacon on its way out — is initially disarming, but the performance seems less convincingly human as the film wears on, failing to build on its first impression. Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh looks like Scarlett Johansson, and distractingly so. More painful are the attempts to transform Helen Mirren, the international gold standard of GILFs, into a dowdy woman-behind-the-man; her wig could not be shittier. Unfortunately, Hitchcock is a movie about bygone Hollywood that’s distinctly a product of Hollywood circa now. It bears the influence of the kind of reality TV in which the subject’s career is the excuse for the show, but in terms of screen time what they actually do for a living is relevant only in that it puts them in glamorous locales and

in contact with potential catalysts for stock, soapy side drama. (K.L.)A Late Quartet — Woody Allen has been known to suggest that, in

directing a good movie, much of the battle lies in casting. Were that entirely true, the Philip Seymour Hoffman — , Catherine Keener — , and Christopher Walken — starring A Late Quartet would be phenomenal. As it is, the film about a New York City string quartet whose future is thrown into question after the cellist (Walken) is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and the two married members’ relationship (Keener and Hoffman) begins to unravel is a mixed bag. Always stately, occasionally stuffy, co-writer/director Yaron Zilberman’s chamber drama expresses every real-world problem via musical metaphors and is prone to occasional bouts of grandiosity not quite befitting its stripped-down scale. This tonal back-and-forth is in some ways reflective of the group’s music but impedes us from getting a meaningful hold on what these people are feeling and why we should care. Zilberman is often too tasteful to dig into the scandal and melo-drama that eventually mires A Late Quartet’s plot, but an exceptional finale bucks this trend by acting more as a catharsis than a climax, making up for prior shortcomings and fulfilling much of the film’s promise. It’s something of a relief that little is actually resolved in A Late Quartet; Zilberman is at his best when leaving narrative threads hanging rather than trying to tie them together. (M.N.)

Lincoln — Much has already been written about Daniel Day-Lewis’s interpretation of the 16th U.S. president in Spielberg’s Lincoln, and spe-cifically about the reedy Midwestern tenor he adopts, derived from the often-mocking historical documentation of Lincoln’s contemporaries. A sharp contrast with the stentorian elocution actors tend to adopt for the great emancipator, it’s the most superficial and immediately apparent facet of this somehow almost 4-D character made flesh by Day-Lewis: a vivid evocation of a man no living person ever knew, and what amounts to the best guess of arguably the best actor of his generation. So that’s one of the challenges Spielberg confronts: squaring the Georgia white marble of the Lincoln Memorial with the

flesh-and-blood reality we can never really know — evoking the man without diminishing the leader. The director’s other challenges include relating the complications and subtleties of po-litical maneuvering, and the inherent suckiness of the biopic form. Spielberg

solves that by lensing the portrait through a single event: the fight to pass the 13th Amendment through the house of representatives. The film is studied and often somber, but it is also hugely entertaining, a bitchingly fun story of political gamesmanship, influence trading, patronage, cronyism, and outright bribery. This Lincoln is quietly ironic, an indulgent storyteller, a hugely charismatic leader. A politician by turns charmingly persuasive and iron-fisted. A father who sprawls on the floor with his young son, and a husband whose wife’s madness is no match for his affection. Day-Lewis is just crazy good. (C.P.)

Rise of the Guardians — If you completely unpack the plot of Peter Ramsey’s sweet, fun Rise of the Guardians, it’s a hierarchical set of nested lies: A bunch of sprite-like beings who, in real life, we’ve fabricated to trick children, are, for movie purposes, actually real. But they will vanish in puffs of rationality if children stop believing in them. So the self-reinforcing work of these mythical beings is to kindle widespread belief in their own existence (i.e., lies). Jack Frost (Chris Pine), the hoodie-wearing hero, has the terrifying ability to accelerate entropy and therefore hasten the heat death of the universe—or, in the comforting parlance of children’s stories, he nips noses with frosty mischief. Jack coexists in the same world as Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy, and the old sleepy-time sandman, collectively known as the Guardians, a coalition of powerful beings kind of like the Avengers or Damn Yankees. Happily, the film skews away from the established templates for these archetypes. (Santa Claus apparently isn’t in the business of rendering Manichean judg-ments on the behavior of children.) The film continues the migration of Dreamworks Animation away from broad jokes and obvious pop-culture references in favor of something more enduring. (C.P.)

Skyfall — If Hollywood’s rut du jour is the origin story as bid for franchise immortality, you can’t say that Skyfall — the 23rd “official” James Bond film in 50 years — isn’t on-trend. Skyfall, Daniel Craig’s third Bond film, aims to flesh out the backstory of the spy, with the globe-trotting ter-rorist hunt this time literally revisiting the site of the childhood trauma that apparently pushed Bond to seek out that license to kill. Bopping from Shanghai to Macao, Bond gets up to the usual daring escapes and zipless nightcaps. The greatest gift director Sam Mendes brings to the material is staging and imagery that artfully amplify the film’s ideas about the world in which all of this is happening. And there are ideas, despite the fetishism and improbability native to the franchise. Bond’s world is undeniably modeled after a real one engaged in debates about transparency and obfuscation, in which established institutions find themselves crippled (and, perhaps worse, rendered foolish) by stateless entities who show their power through violent interruptions of both the physical and virtual worlds. A bureaucrat played by Ralph Fiennes, trying to drag MI6 kicking and screaming into the age of Anonymous, contends that the agency “can’t keep working in the shadows — there are no shadows.” It’s a POV contested by the film’s most visually stunning action scene, a relatively simple duel in a darkened Shanghai skyscraper, with Bond and the bad guy silhouetted against the neon lights and building-enveloping video billboards outside. The shadows might have changed shape, location, and method of generation, but the conflicts seem to be as binary as they’ve ever been. (K.L.)

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Casa Sardelli It feels like home — but it’ll cost you.

BY ZACHARY FAGENSON

The Sardelli family spent five years and their life savings to buy an empty lot and build a four-story building just east of Federal High-way and steps from Hollywood

Beach. From the outside, the $1.6 million Sardelli Italian Steakhouse looks like an Italian villa plucked from the countryside and dropped on the beach, complete with sunset-orange stucco walls and Greek-style columns.

Despite its opulence, we nearly drove by it at night, squinting and straining to see any sign that would indicate we were in the right place, just as you might on the way to visit a cousin. Aside from a valet sitting out front, there wasn’t one. The restaurant is unmarked.

“Do I look like a restaurant or a home?” Fulvio Sardelli Jr. challenged me to answer when we spoke later by phone.

Easy question. The homestyle feeling be-gan as soon as we pulled open an ornate, heavy wooden door and walked into a dimly lit, 35-seat dining room, the smells of garlic and the sound of sizzling steak emanating from the open kitchen on the far wall. A square bar jut-ted out from the side. Worn copper pots and pans hung above the serving window and on walls. The second floor has a wine cellar, the third has a private kitchen, and the top floor has a bar and outdoor seating for events.

Blue window curtains and small glass chandeliers help light the main room. Votive candles on each table provide just enough glow to read the menu. Two large, silver-framed mirrors help open the dining room

while keeping it cozy. The Sardelli fam-

ily — Fulvio Sr., Car-men, and Fulvio Jr. — have been feeding South Florida for de-cades, ever since the elder Fulvio opened Franco’s Pizzeria in Davie in the mid-1980s. The name was

later changed to Fulvio’s, and then the family moved it to downtown Hollywood as Fulvio’s 1900. Fulvio Sr. runs his namesake restaurant. This second, more-intimate restaurant opened in January.

Today, Carmen Sardelli serves as the host-ess and Junior runs the kitchen and chats with guests. The younger Fulvio, 35, has been work-ing in his family’s restaurants as long as he can remember. “My first job was dishwashing, then rolling garlic rolls in the kitchen,” he says. “Then I found my passion in the kitchen.”

The homestyle feeling, however, was de-railed when we looked at the portions and prices. All of the steaks are more than $40. One large, pale-white sea scallop cost $15. It arrived perfectly crisped in butter with a pleasant bite and creamy texture, the lone

mollusk atop an emerald-green almond and parsley pesto sauce and a velvety parsnip pu-rée. But a server even joked at the price by asking us with a wink if we wanted another as he cleared the plates from our table. We were tempted but resisted.

A savory raviolo ($15) came as one large flying-saucer-shaped ravioli to pped with brown butter sauce and minuscule cubes of pancetta. If you come here and order only one thing, order this. Folded inside house-made pasta were ricotta cheese, spinach, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and Parmesan. The kicker was the soft-cooked egg tucked inside. When cut into, the yolk mixed with the brown butter sauce to create a rich, decadent bite.

Sardelli’s does a fine job of living up to the steak house in its name, yet many of the Ital-ian classics, like the raviolo, overshadow the meat. A 22-ounce bone-in rib-eye steak ($49) was cooked precisely to medium rare and ar-rived succulent with crisp grill marks. A vari-ety of house-made steak sauces was offered for $4 apiece. Among the choices were Barolo red wine, the classic Italian tomato sauce Piz-zaiola, and a green peppercorn.

Sides run about $10, including rapini with Italian sausage. This broccoli, also called broccoli rabe, is more bitter than the tradi-tional spears. It was chopped into small cylin-ders, sautéed with olive oil and garlic and crumbled sausage on top.

Fulvio Jr. stresses the care his family puts

into the food, beginning with season-con-scious sourcing. “Everything depends on the time of the year,” he says. “We use stone crab; we use Key West snapper. My parents still drive down to Homestead and have relation-ships with farmers.”

One off-menu item he bragged about (but we didn’t try) was his smoked potato gnocchi. “We boil the potatoes and then smoke them,” Sardelli says, “and serve it with sea scallops, lo-cal shrimp, and calamari with [a sauce of ] gar-lic, extra virgin olive oil, and roasted tomatoes.”

Sardelli’s makes more than a half-dozen pastas, from black tagliatelle to emerald-green papardelle, in-house. A half order (all pastas are available as such) of veal agnolotti ($14) brought four rounds of tender-looking pasta topped with sliced sautéed mushrooms. Yet what we found on one of two visits were hard, half-cooked pastas with a lukewarm filling that should have been the highlight of the meal.

Also a letdown was the duck breast ($32), served with sautéed spinach and a black-cherry sauce. The sauce hit the perfect bal-ance of savory and sweet, bumped up by fresh cherries on the plate, but the duck was undercooked.

When the younger Sardelli was in the house, dishes were spectacular. An eggplant stack ($14) showed off the skill of the kitchen through perfectly crisp disks of fried eggplant. Those were stacked with creamy mozzarella cheese and sweet, bright-red tomatoes. It was

a classic Italian move: allowing the ingredi-ents to shine nearly on their own.

Although service here is fast and courte-ous — water was always refilled before re-quested — the kitchen seemed slow, particularly when Fulvio Jr. was not around. On both visits, my guest and I waited more than 20 minutes between some courses.

The long wait was intended, Sardelli said later. “We’re not trying to turn and burn,” he explained. “It is supposed to be an experience that may last an hour or two.”

Sardelli Jr. said regulars make up about 80 percent of his business, and most of them don’t even bother to look at the menu any-more. “They come in and say, ‘Fulvio, cook for me,’ ” he says, “and I cook them four-, five-, six-, and seven-course meals.”

Sigh. If only our wallets would allow us to become some of those regulars.

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WILL SUNRISE BAN FOOD TRUCKS?On December 11, the Sunrise City Commis-sion will discuss the fate of food trucks. On the table is a proposal that food trucks be al-lowed in Sunrise only from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The commission might also regulate where trucks may operate and require the rolling eateries to obtain city permits.

One commissioner wants to put the kibosh on food trucks altogether. Commissioner Joey Scuotto told the Sun Sentinel, “Why would I want to allow a rolling restaurant in my city when we have restaurants here al-ready that struggle every day?” Scuotto, by the way, owns a pizzeria.

Commissioner Don Rosen, however, has said that he prefers the city require permits and set regulations rather than ban food trucks from the city altogether. LAINE DOSS

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ROBERT IRVINE COMING TO PALM BEACH FOOD & WINE FESTRobert Irvine is the hunky host of Food Net-work’s Restaurant: Impossible, where he’s tasked with turning around a failing restaurant armed with just $10,000 and military efficiency.

If Irvine seems authentic in barking or-ders, he should. His career started in the Brit-ish Royal Navy, where he served as a chef. Irvine also cooked on the royal yacht Britan-nia and at the White House as part of the U.S. Navy “guest chefs” program before his televi-sion career kicked into high gear. He also owns Robert Irvine’s Eat! on Hilton Head Is-land in South Carolina.

Irvine will be cohosting several events at the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, which runs from December 7 to 11. We caught up with him by phone before his arrival.

New Times: What do you have planned at the festival?

Robert Irvine: I’ve got Burgers by the Beach, the golf tournament with Food Truck:

Impossible, and Food 4 Thought scheduled, and I’m sure I’ll do more when I’m there. There are always surprises.

You’re known for surprises and doing some rather unusual events that involve challenges. Anything up your sleeve?

This is Robert Irvine. I like surprises. It keeps people off-guard. When people pay to go to an event, you’ve got to give them their money’s worth. You’ve got to be the chef, and you’ve also got to put on a good show... It’s my first time in Palm Beach, and I’m very pleased that they asked me. I want to make sure that when people leave, they say, “Oh my God, what an amazing time!” I want to make sure they got their money’s worth, because mon-ey’s not easy to come by these days.

What are you looking forward to the most at the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival?

I like meeting people. Our chef world is a very small world. I really love the camarade-rie of the chefs. I really love that we’ll proba-bly go out to dinner somewhere. I love that I’ll meet people I’ve never met before. We may do business there. I know we’re going to have great food, I’ll meet some wonderful fans, and we’ll have an amazing time.

Any strategies on how to cook for the holi-days?

Don’t leave everything for the “day of.” Treat your home kitchen like a professional kitchen. That means work your mise en place. The night before, we can prep all the vegeta-bles, cut them up, leave them overnight in the refrigerator in ice water with lemon to keep it fresh. We can make our stuffing the day be-fore. It’s much better anyway. I personally don’t want to be so stressed out cooking all day that I’m too tired to eat. You have to time your day so you can spend time with your family, have a glass of wine. There are things you can do way ahead of time. So you can have a glass of wine, a beer, talk to Granny. Write the plan down, and work the plan.

You’re British, but you live in the States now. What does Thanksgiving mean to you?

Next year, I want to do more charity stuff, and I want to try to get a movie. I want to do more acting. I want to go into producing tele-vision. I have a new book I’m working on. There are so many things that I literally stack my deck to work harder at everything I do. I’m more than the guy who screams at people. It’s funny. I still consider myself a military man. I’m trained to start with a mission in mind to

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get things accomplished. It’s just interesting the perception of television, and when you meet me, you get a completely different per-spective. I love my life, and if you follow me on Twitter [@Robertirvine1], you’ll know.

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▼ $10 LUNCH

BAY BAY’S CHICKEN AND WAFFLES IN WEST PALM BEACH: FIRST LOOKSome say the origin of chicken and waffles dates back to the 1790s, when Thomas Jeffer-son brought a waffle iron to the U.S. from France, after which the recipe began appear-ing in period cookbooks. Another theory says the dish was invented in 1930s Harlem, where late-night eateries started serving it to hungry customers looking for one part din-ner, one part breakfast.

Today, the idea of chicken and waffles is something of a soul-food-style dish — espe-cially at newly opened Bay Bay’s Chicken and Waffles in West Palm Beach, an “urban” bar and grill that is one of the only establishments in Palm Beach or Broward counties specializ-ing in the classic combination. Starting at $6.95, Bay Bay’s serves the dish in its simplest incarnation: a few pieces of fresh-fried chicken atop a giant, house-made Belgian waffle.

Since opening in mid-September, the 2,000-square-foot red stucco building at 2400 Okeechobee Blvd., a mile west of I-95, has garnered a unique and devoted crowd, people crammed into the tiny space, seated at one of several high-top tables, or perched along the u-shaped bar that runs the perime-ter of the restaurant’s exposed prep area.

Owner and founder Israel Johnson tells New Times that he opened Bay Bay’s after his day job led him to a startling realization.

“There’s just no place that serves chicken and waffles in West Palm Beach — or the area, for that matter,” Johnson says. “So I did the research and opened my own restaurant.”

Since he opened Bay Bay’s six weeks ago, Johnson said it has been a challenge keeping up with the demand for the restaurant’s sig-nature dish. He makes 800 to 1,000 pieces of chicken each day.

No stranger to the industry, Johnson — who also owned and operated a Jamaican res-taurant in his hometown of Vero Beach in the early ’90s — has spent much of the past de-cade teaching others how to operate restau-rants as a college professor for several online universities, including DeVry, Strayer, and the University of Phoenix.

It wasn’t until recently, however, that Johnson decided to open Bay Bay’s, named for his favorite skit by comedian Robin Harris.

“This entire operation has been a well-thought-out process,” said Johnson, who has a 12-step plan for preparing the restaurant’s fried chicken. “The recipe is based off a fam-ily recipe, yes, but it’s also the result of testing done over the course of several months. I wanted it to appeal to a wide range of cultures and ethnicities and for the flavors to be some-thing everyone can enjoy.”

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well as unique pasta dishes that include lobster fettuccine and roasted pepper shrimp pasta.

For dessert: Why not more waffles? An offbeat choice of lemon or red-velvet-cake versions come topped with white and choco-late sauces, both served with strawberries, pecans, bananas, and vanilla ice cream.

Bay Bay’s is open Monday through Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to midnight. Visit baybays.com, or call 561-429-3796. NICOLE DANNA

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THREE TASTY FALL COCKTAILS: HOT MAPLE CROWN ROYAL AND MOREWith the breeze and the cold front that recently passed through, fall is definitely in the air. OK, so it may not be the same sort of crisp weather you find up north — but hey, it’s something.

Whether you’re feeling nostalgic for the change of season or you just want to try a new holiday party concoction, we have some fall-inspired cocktails to check out from mixologist Iliya Dimitrov of Valentino’s Cucina Italiana (620 S. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale).

Hot Maplellula4 or 5 cloves1/2 stick of cinnamon2 hibiscus leaves2 oz. Maple Crown RoyalA dash of spiced orange bitters (Dimitrov

makes his own.)Strips of buddha hand zestCombine the cloves, cinnamon, hibiscus,

and strips of buddha hand with hot water in a glass. Combine the Crown Royal and the bitters in another glass and set over the top of the hot mixture, allowing it to steep for a few minutes.

Here comes the fun part: Ignite the Crown mixture with a lighter. Carefully pour the hot-clove mixture into the flaming Crown. Add a fresh strip of buddha hand for a gar-nish. And enjoy.

Nina1 1/2 oz. Absolut Oriental Apple1/10 oz. fresh lemon juice3/4 oz. hydrated hibiscus with aloe vera

(Dimitrov makes a cold fusion by combining hibiscus leaves with aloe vera water.)

1/4 oz. lemon grass syrupSplash of vanilla simple syrup (Another

Dimitrov creation; he adds vanilla into his homemade simple syrup.)

Splash of proseccoCombine all of the ingredients in a cocktail

shaker with some ice and shake. Add a dried hi-biscus leaf and a strip of apple peel to garnish.

TinochkaRose petals1/4 oz. lemon ginger syrup1 oz. Nolet’s Gin1 oz. Grey Goose Pear1/10 oz. Amarena cherry syrup1 1/2 oz. Moscato D’Asti infused with jas-

mine rice and lavender (another of Dimitrov’s infusions)

Muddle the rose petals with the lemon ginger syrup in a cocktail shaker. Add some ice and the rest of the ingredients. Shake pro-fusely. Pour into a highball, or strain into a martini glass. Garnish with rose petals and tarragon. SARA VENTIERA

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FIVE TOP VODKAS, PER BARTENDER AT RUSSIA HOUSERussians like their vodka plain and simple, with no fruity mixers or funny business. Zoya Harms, the bartender at 3-month-old Russia House Restaurant and Vodka Bar (99 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton) — where there are 86 kinds of vodka served — wouldn’t have it any other way.

“These vodkas really shouldn’t be dis-guised as drinks,” she says.

Originally from St. Petersburg, Harms says that in her homeland, vodka is usually served with a side of cranberry juice to sip on with the spirit. Or if you’re looking for hard-core tradition, a side of zakuskis works too. There are savory hors d’oeuvres, like pickles or small sandwiches, to bite into after a swig.

Harms says the key to a good vodka de-pends on how it’s filtered and what type of water is used. Most of these are made with rye or potato, unlike some American vodkas, which are mostly made from grain. Harms says these selections should be downed like water — no juices, no chasers.

Here are Harms’ picks of Russian holy water.5. Stolichnaya: A recognizable Russian brand

for the unadventurous drinker. This vodka is distilled four times and reaches a strength of 96.4 percent ABV. Although it’s bottled in Lat-via, the vodka is purely Russian-made with wheat and artisan well waters. Comparable to Russian Standard in taste and price, Harms thinks it’s overpriced for what it is.

4. Russian Standard (Original, Gold, Plati-num, and Imperial): Harms recommends any one of these four varieties as good-quality vodka often compared with its competitor Stolichnaya but not overly expensive. Made from wheat and glacial waters, it costs $65 per bottle at Russia House.

3. Imperial Collection: Harms says this Rus-sian-made vodka knocks out classics like Stol-ichnaya, American, and French vodkas. “Some people look for vodka that goes down like wa-ter or has a different taste,” she says. “This one is completely smooth.” Imperial has hints of berry and raisin and a peppery kick. It’s made with rectified grain and distilled five times.

2. Beluga: Beluga is one of her favorites and the bar’s top seller. It has flavors of honey, oat extract, and malt. It’s made with artesian wa-ters in the Siberian springs and takes a month to distill. Harms uses this one in Russia House’s signature cocktail, the Beluga Passion Fruit Martini, made with passion fruit purée and fruit “caviar” that bursts once you reach the bottom of your glass. “They pop in your mouth, and it’s an explosion of passion fruit flavor,” Harms says. Beluga is $95 per bottle.

1. Ultimat: Harms loves the fancy blue crys-tal design and what’s inside it. “The bottle is just stunning,” she says. “It looks beautiful at the bar as well as in someone’s home bar.” Ulti-mat is a triple-distilled potato, wheat, and rye vodka made in Poland that costs $75 per bottle.

At Russia House, Beluga and Stolichnaya martinis cost $18 and $15 for mixed or on the rocks. The rest are $14 for martinis and $12 for mixed or on the rocks. REGINA KAZA

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Call of DutyHated for Trying’s Cadence to Valor punk comp honors Corporal Linnabary.

BY JACOB KATEL

C helsea Linnabary recently lost her beloved husband, Daniel — the father of her young daugh-ter, Rosalie — to the war in Afghanistan.

Though gone, the U.S. Marine will never be forgotten. His loss inspired the creation of Hated for Trying Records, established by Tony Flores of Die Trying and Johnny Love of To Be Hated.

South Florida has mad love for Chelsea,

who literally grew up in the punk scene, go-ing to shows from a young age, often with her punk-rock mom, Debbie, and rockabilly dad, Joe. They were the people behind SceneMom Productions, which booked hundreds of shows in South Florida over the years.

“We’re just working-class street kids,” Flores says. “We can’t give her the world. But every band gave a piece of themselves. Basi-cally, we’re saying we give a fuck, that we care.”

For the first run of the first release, Hated for Trying produced 100 numbered copies of its Cadence to Valor compilation featuring 27 South Florida ska, punk, hardcore, country, and Americana tracks. All songs were do-nated by the 25 bands who participated, and all proceeds generated from its $5 price tag go straight to mom and baby.

Included on the comp are Charlie Pickett, Los Bastardos Magnificos, Severe Disap-

pointments, Askultura, and Pool Party. “Shoutout to every band on there,” says Flores. “It’s been an honor. I came up with the name Cadence to Valor because it’s like all one song, one tribute, one ballad for a Marine, his wife, and daughter. And the cover art is done by Chelsea herself.”

The compilation was released at a fund-raiser for the family in November at Five Points Lounge in Fort Lauderdale. “I have a feeling that just from the amount of bands that are on the comp and all the people who know Chelsea, Joe, and Debbie, we’re gonna sell em’ all the first night and have to make more,” says Love. “If you have been involved in music here for any amount of time, you know them.”

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Uke Can Do ItTen instruments Eddie Vedder should play besides the ukulele.

BY MATT PREIRA

Y ou probably know Eddie Vedder for things like singing and playing guitar in Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog,

stage-diving, feuding with Kurt Cobain, feud-ing with Ticketmaster, and campaigning for the Democrats.

What you might not know about the ’90s rock icon is that he is a bona fide ukulele en-thusiast. And this week, he’s bringing some of that Parrothead flavor to South Florida when he performs at the Broward Center for the Per-forming Arts.

All right, Vedder’s ukulele isn’t especially Jimmy Buffettesque. It’s more akin to the uke-rock fusion of Hawaiian shred sensation Jake Shimabukuro, whom the grungeman cites as a major inspiration for his first picking up the teeny-tiny, adorable guitar.

Personally, we couldn’t be more pleased with Eddie’s decision to stare death in the face and take a plunge down the ukulele wormhole. Here are ten more whimsical instruments we think he should consider playing.

10. Kazoo — These days, the kids are crazy about their favorite bands playing classic al-bums from start to finish. And about hyper-commemorative reissues of records you can still find for like a dollar at Goodwill. We think Eddie Vedder should convince Pearl Jam to be-come a kazoo-based ensemble and rerecord its landmark debut album and grunge milestone, Ten, with kazoos.

9. Vocoder — Yeah, everybody loves that song “Jeremy.” But imagine how much more they would love it if Vedder’s signature gurgle had a bit more T-Pain in the mix. And, hey, Neil

Young embraced robo-sensual Auto-Tune on Trans. Doesn’t Pearl Jam hang out with that guy?

8. Vuvuzuela — We were surprised to see that you could buy tickets to this grunge-ulele extravaganza through Ticketmaster. In the ’90s, Pearl Jam made the fee vulture its number-one target in a vaguely political crusade for con-sumer rights within the music industry. If Eddie Vedder had really wanted his campaign against the corporatization of the concert experience to succeed, he should have rallied his long-haired, unwashed, reefer-burning fan base to “Occupy” every box office in the country. And they should have all been armed with vuvuzuelas.

7. Harp — Honestly, the harp would be less ri-diculous than a freaking ukulele.

6. Finger Piano — It’s a little-known fact that the guys in Pearl Jam antecedent Mother Love Bone were tremendous finger-piano enthusiasts. And we hear that Soundgarden frontman and fellow Temple of the Dog crooner Chris Cornell has a whole finger-piano concept album his label won’t let him release. In conclusion, Eddie Ved-der should play the finger piano.

5. Didgeridoo — If Eddie Vedder came out onstage and started blowin’ a mean, soulful

didgeri-tune, you know his audience would eat it up like hungry little piggies frothing at the trough.

4. Maracas — OK, fine. He can’t play just ma-racas. It looks like Eddie is gonna have to learn how to play the ukulele with his feet.

3. Musical Glasses — Yo, isn’t this dude sup-posed to be some kinda high-minded book reader? We’re pretty sure he performs at cam-paign events and stuff too. How do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you play the goddamned ukulele? Vedder needs to get classy. Or maybe glassy.

2. Handbells — Kazoos, handbells... This list is turning into an Arcade Fire record.

1. Washtub Bass — Like we were saying, for-get this Ticketmaster shit! Eddie Vedder needs to embrace American roots music, hop trains like a hobo, and spend his nights busking on street corners.

Eddie Vedder“Ukulele Songs Tour,” with Glen Hansard.

7:30 p.m. Friday, November 30, and Saturday, December 1, at the Broward Center for the

Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $79.50, plus fees. Visit

browardcenter.org, or call 954-462-0222.

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EverclearWITH EVE 6 AND NAMESAKE. 7:30 P.M . THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, AT CULTURE ROOM, 3045 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY, FORT LAUDERDALE. TICKETS COST $25, PLUS FEES. AGE 18 AND UP. VISIT CULTUREROOM.NET, OR CALL 954-564-1074.In I-can’t-believe-he’s-that-old news, Ever-clear’s Art Alexakis celebrated his 50th birth-day this year. Fifty. That sort of blew our mind at New Times and made us feel, well, inspired. This year alone, Everclear released its eighth studio record, Invisible Stars, in June, and spent the better part of summer touring alongside Sugar Ray, Lit, Gin Blossoms, and Marcy Playground on the “Summerland Tour.” “I’ve been through a lot,” Alexakis re-cently said in an interview with New Times sister publication Dallas Observer. “There is more of a sense of humor on the album... I’ve been on a roller coaster for a while now, and that gives you a different perspective.” Now the band’s back on the road, proving that 50 is the new 20 and that even those eligible for AARP benefits can still rock the tits off inti-mate rock ’n’ roll venues. VICTOR GONZALEZ

Zach Deputy9 P.M. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, AT FUNKY BUDDHA LOUNGE AND BREWERY, 2621 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY, BOCA RATON. TICKETS COST $12. VISIT THEFUNKYBUDDHA.COM, OR CALL 561-368-4643.Dexterity. Without it, guitar solos would sound like crap. And as for one-man bands, forget it. A solo artist tackling every element of a song without dexterity is as reliable as an iPad sans 3G capabilities on a road trip. And few people understand the importance of musical dexterity better than South Carolin-ian jam-funk man Zach Deputy. He’ll be at Funky Buddha Lounge in Boca Raton on No-vember 29. “It’s pretty much like an eight-piece band as one guy,” Deputy recently said in an interview with Erie, Pennsylvania,’s Times-News. “Simply put, I do live looping,

which is playing each instrument individu-ally. But once I play it, it’s recorded into a looping machine, which plays it back and al-lows me to play on top of it — mostly guitar and percussion. My guitar is a synth guitar, so it can sound like anything you want, from a choir to a saxophone to a big bass.” Influ-enced by “Motown, country music, R&B, a lot of gospel, and a lot of island — calypso, salsa, merengue,” Deputy’s sets are as diverse as his taste in music, effortlessly blending elements from each aforementioned genre. Don’t miss out. VICTOR GONZALEZ

Beatdown 2012 WITH FLO RIDA, WAKA FLOCKA FLAME, DMX, FAT JOE, TRAVIS PORTER, AND FABOLOUS. MUSIC STARTS AT 9 P.M., BOXING AT 5 P.M. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, AT BB&T CENTER, 1 PANTHER PARKWAY, SUNRISE. TICKETS COST $21.25 TO 180.75 PLUS FEES. VIP TABLES ARE AVAILABLE. VISIT FACEBOOK.COM/BEATDOWN2012PAGE, OR CALL 954-835-8000.Both the immortal words of Ol’ Dirty Bastard, “I’ll beat your ass,” and L.L. Cool J’s signature saying, “Momma said ‘Knock you out’ ” are fitting themes for the upcoming Beatdown 2012. WBA fighters and hip-hop heavy-weights take center stage at the BB&T Center, presumably to cheer up Panther fans still pissed off over this year’s NHL lockout. Fea-turing several title bouts, Beatdown culmi-nates in the headlining fight between Joan “Little Tyson” Guzman and Khabib “The Hawk” Allakhverdiev for the vacant WBA light-welterweight belt. If that’s not enough to get to you gorging on bloody slabs of steak while swigging Scotch and puffing your fa-vorite Dominican cigar, Flo Rida, Waka Flocka Flame, Fat Joe, Travis Porter, Fabo-lous, and the Mike Tyson of hip-hop, DMX, will be performing to fuel the blood lust. We don’t know about you, but we’re doing lines of coke while brooding at our shirtless reflec-tion in the bathroom mirror in preparation for this fucked-up fiasco. ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

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Zach Deputy: $12. Funky Buddha Lounge, 2621 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, 561-368-4643, thefunkybuddha.com.

Everclear: With Eve 6 and Namesake, 7:30 p.m., $25. Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-564-1074, cultureroom.net.

Xperimento: With Flow Tribe, 10 p.m., Free. The Stage, 170 NE 38th St., Miami, 305-576-9577, thestagemiami.com.

F R I DAY, N OV. 3 0

Beatdown 2012: With Flo Rida, Young Jeezy, Travis Porter, DMX, and Fat Joe, 4 p.m., $55.75-$180.75. BB&T Center, 1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise, 954-835-8000, thebbtcenter.com.

Ruthie Foster: With Graham Wood Drout, 9 p.m., $32/$37. Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Lake Worth, 561-585-2583, bambooroomblues.com.

Gaza: With Code Orange Kids, Full of Hell, Centuries, and Super Mutant, 6:30 p.m., $12/$13. The Talent Farm Studios, 20911 Johnson St. Ste 111, Pembroke Pines, 954-438-3488, thetalentfarm.com.

The Happy Medium: With Mylo Ranger and Funk’N Cover, 9 p.m., $5. Funky Buddha Lounge, 2621 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, 561-368-4643, thefunkybuddha.com.

The Holstered and Blue Sky Drive: $5. Five Points Lounge & Kreepy Tiki Tattoos, 2606 S. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-3290, kreepytikitattoos.com.

Idina Menzel: 8 p.m., $39-$125. Knight Concert Hall, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-949-6722, arshtcenter.org.

October Rage: With Loaded Guns and They Might Be Zombies, 8 p.m., Free. The Speakeasy Lounge, 129 N. Federal Highway, Lake Worth, 561-540-6328, speakeasylakeworth.com.

Perpetual Groove: With Lingo, 9 p.m., $15. Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-564-1074, cultureroom.net.

Bobby Lee Rodgers: 9 p.m., $7/$10. The Funky Biscuit, 303 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton, 561-395-2929, funkybiscuit.com.

Eddie Vedder: With Glen Hansard, 7:30 p.m., $96. Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-0222, browardcenter.org.

Voices of Pride: $25-$40. Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach, 561-450-6357, artsgarage.org.

SAT U R DAY, D E C . 1

Lee Fields and the Expressions: With Ketchy Shuby and DJ Action Pat, 8 p.m., $10. The Stage, 170 NE 38th St., Miami, 305-576-9577, thestagemiami.com.

Hilda Vazquez and Joel DaSilva and the Midnight Howl: 9 p.m., Free. The Bubble, 810 NE Fourth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-562-3804.

Human Nature: 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., $34-$54. Hard Rock Live, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, 954-797-5531, hardrocklivehol-lywoodfl.com.

Alan Jackson: $13-$159. Cruzan Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansbury’s Way 7, West Palm Beach, 561-795-8883.

Little River Band: With Bad Company and Brian Howe, 8 p.m., $20-$500. Magic City Casino, 450 NW 37th Ave., Miami, 305-649-3000, magiccitycasino.com.

Sevendust: With Urban Rebel, 8 p.m., $25. Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-564-1074, cultureroom.net.

Uproot Hootenanny: 9 p.m., $10. Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Lake Worth, 561-585-2583, bambooroomblues.com.

Voices of Pride: $25-$40. Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st St., Delray Beach, 561-450-6357, artsgarage.org.

Eddie Vedder: With Glen Hansard, 7:30 p.m., $96. Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-0222, browardcenter.org.

Wiz Khalifa: With Taylor Gang, $35-$48. BankUnited Center, 1245 Dauer Drive, Coral Gables, 305-284-8686, bankunitedcenter.com.

WRMF No Snow Ball: With Gavin DeGraw, Tristan Prettyman, Phillip Phillips, and Hedley, 7 p.m., $10-$20. Mizner Park Amphitheatre, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, 561-544-8600, mizneramphitheater.com.

S U N DAY, D E C . 2

Napalm Death: With Municipal Waste, Hellwitch, Thrash or Die, Serpentis, and Masticator, $16-$20. Grand Central, 697 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-377-2277, grandcentralmiami.com.

The Shimmy Shake Revue: With the Necrophiles and Blackhawk and the Night Drivers, 9 p.m., $10. Five Points Lounge & Kreepy Tiki Tattoos, 2606 S. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-3290, kreepytikitattoos.com.

M O N DAY, D E C . 3

Jade Simmons: 7:30 p.m., $30. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, 561-832-7469, kravis.org.

T U E S DAY, D E C . 4

Michael Bolton: 8 p.m., $39-$69. Hard Rock Live, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, 954-797-5531, hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com.

Harvest: With Losin’ It, Homestretch, Direct Effect, and Aversion, 7 p.m., $10/$11. The Talent Farm Studios, 20911 Johnson St. Ste 111, Pembroke Pines, 954-438-3488, thetalentfarm.com.

W E D N E S DAY, D E C . 5

The MMG Tour: With Rock Ross, Wale, and Meek Mill, 8 p.m., $99-$133. The Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-673-7300, fillmoremb.com.

Mochila en Miami: With Georgia Anne Muldrow, Thee Satisfaction, Zynzelay, and Mr. Brown, 8 p.m., $15/$20. The Stage, 170 NE 38th St., Miami, 305-576-9577, thestagemiami.com.

RedMouth: 9 p.m., $5. Five Points Lounge & Kreepy Tiki Tattoos, 2606 S. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-3290, kreepytikitattoos.com.

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Cannibal Corpse: With Misery Index, Hour of Penance, and Abiotic, Thu., Dec. 6, 10 p.m., $19-$23. Grand Central, 697 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-377-2277, grandcentralmiami.com.

Florida Grand Opera Presents: La Boheme: Thu., Dec. 6; Sat., Dec. 8, $60-$200. Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-0222, browardcenter.org.

JJ Grey: Thu., Dec. 6, 9 p.m., $20/$25. Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Lake Worth, 561-585-2583, bambooroomblues.com.

Radioboxer: With Kill Mama, the Von, and the Sexual Side Effects, Thu., Dec. 6, 9 p.m., $5. Churchill’s Pub, 5501 NE 2nd Ave., Miami, 305-757-1807, churchillspub.com.Chromatics: Fri., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., $20. Gusman Center for the Performing

Arts, 174 E. Flagler St., Miami, 305-372-0925, gusmancenter.org.The Irish Tenors: Fri., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., $25-$100. Kravis Center for

the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, 561-832-7469, kravis.org.

JJ Grey: Fri., Dec. 7, 9 p.m., $20/$25. Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Lake Worth, 561-585-2583, bambooroomblues.com.

John Gacy EP show: With John Gacy, Rebuild the Architect, Beacons, Rosewood, and the Fiction We Live, Fri., Dec. 7, 6 p.m., $10. The Talent Farm Studios, 20911 Johnson St. Ste 111, Pembroke Pines, 954-438-3488, thetalentfarm.com.

Kimberley Locke: Fri., Dec. 7, 8 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 8, 8 p.m., $34.50. Aventura Arts and Cultural Center, 3385 NE 188th St., Aventura, 305-446-8002, aventuracenter.org.

Papadosio: With Greenhouse Lounge, Fri., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., $12. Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-564-1074, cultureroom.net.

Rakim: With the Problem Kids and Artofficial, Fri., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., $30/$35. The Stage, 170 NE 38th St., Miami, 305-576-9577, thestagemiami.com.

UR1 Festival: With Kanye West, Lou Reed, the Offspring, Keane, Fun, Santigold, Animal Collective, Flying Lotus, Slash, Jane’s Ad-diction, Peter Murphy, Dead Can Dance, Zola Jesus, Iggy Azalea, Holy Ghost!, Wild Nothing, Glass Candy, Tanlines, Ghostland Observatory, Pete Tong, Erick Morillo, Sven Vath, Luciano, Arty, Armand Van Helden, Bob Sinclar, Reboot, Kevens, Dubfire, Carl Craig, Guy Gerber, Stacey Pullen, Onur Ozer, Tobi Neumann, Seth Troxler, Damian Lazarus, David Squillace, the Martinez Brothers, Cassy, Matthia Tanzmann, Dyed Soundorom, Dan Ghenacia, Luna City Express, Victor Calderone, Boris, Chus + Ceballos, Norman Doray, David Tort, LA Riots, Louis Puig, Patrick M, and Cocodrills, Sat., Dec. 8; Sun., Dec. 9, $149, ur1festival.com/. Bayfront Park, 301 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-358-7550, bayfrontparkmiami.com.

Blue Sky Drive, the Holstered , and the No. 13’s: Sat., Dec. 8, 8 p.m., $5. Native Florida Tap Room and Music Hall, 2006 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, 954-399-9302, nativeflorida.net.

The Frozen Throne Fest: CANCELED With Blowtorch Sodomy, Moirae, And the Kingdom Fell, Echoes of a Nightmare, As the World Weeps, the Continuum Shift, Spectrum, and Shadowheart, Sat., Dec. 8, 5 p.m., Canceled. The Talent Farm Studios, 20911 Johnson St. Ste 111, Pembroke Pines, 954-438-3488, thetalentfarm.com.

John Brown’s Body: With Wraps & Kush, Sat., Dec. 8, 8 p.m., $13. Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-564-1074, cultureroom.net.

Pat Travers Band: Sat., Dec. 8, 9 p.m., $22/$25. Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Lake Worth, 561-585-2583, bambooroomblues.com.

The Riot Act: With the Casey Hopkins Duo and the Violet West, Sat., Dec. 8, 9 p.m., Free. Respectable Street, 518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach, 561-832-9999, respectablestreet.com/rst/.

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A1A Dive Bar: 3233 N. Ocean Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-565-9264, thedivebarfl.com. Paper Play, Thu., Nov. 29, 9 p.m., Free. CeCe Te-neal, Sat., Dec. 1, 9 p.m., Free. Teri Catlin, Wed., Dec. 5, 9 p.m., Free.

The Backyard Bar: 213 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach, 561-339-2444, facebook.com/pages/the-backyard-bar/179280375496742?sk=info. Brian Bolen, Thu., Nov. 29, 2 p.m., Free; Bungled and Botched, Thu., Nov. 29, 6 p.m., Free. Mike Mineo, Fri., Nov. 30, 11 a.m., Free; Solid Brass, Fri., Nov. 30, 3 p.m., Free; Blues Brother’s Soul Band, Fri., Nov. 30, 8 p.m., Free. Bobby V., Sat., Dec. 1, 11 a.m., Free; the Porch Dogs, Sat., Dec. 1, 8 p.m., Free. Bungled and Botched, Sun., Dec. 2, 1 p.m., Free. Mike Mineo Duo, Tue., Dec. 4, 6 p.m., Free.

Bamboo Room: 25 S. J St., Lake Worth, 561-585-2583, bambooroom-blues.com. Ben Prestage, Thu., Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m., $7/$10. Uproot Hootenanny, Sat., Dec. 1, 9 p.m., $10.

Bardot: 3456 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-576-7750, bardotmiami.com. Black Taxi, with Artime, Fri., Nov. 30, 10 p.m., $10.

The Big Easy: 1925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, 954-924-3006, thebig-easybarandgrille.com. Wainwright, Fri., Nov. 30, 8 p.m., Free.

Boston’s on the Beach: 40 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, 561-278-3364, bostonsonthebeach.com. Mark Pisarri and Daniel Lombardi, Fridays, 5 p.m., Free; Samantha Russell, Fri., Nov. 30, 9 p.m., Free. Amber Leigh Band, Saturdays, Free; Shakedown, Sat., Dec. 1, 9 p.m., Free.

Brogues Downunder: 621 Lake Ave., Lake Worth, 561-585-1885, bmnllc.wix.com/brogues. The Fog, Thu., Nov. 29, 9 p.m., Free. Dirty South, Fri., Nov. 30, 9 p.m., Free. 3 Sixty, Sat., Dec. 1, 9 p.m., Free.

Buzz’s Bar: 8931 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise, 954-749-1337. Players Band, Fri., Nov. 30, 10 p.m., Free. Official Business, Sat., Dec. 1, 10 p.m., Free.

Cheers Food and Spirits: 941 E. Cypress Creek Rd, Fort Lauderdale, 954-771-6337, cheersfoodandspirits.com. Raine, Fri., Nov. 30, Free. Stereotomy, Sat., Dec. 1, Free.

Five Points Lounge & Kreepy Tiki Tattoos: 2606 S. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-3290, kreepytikitattoos.com. The Holstered and Blue Sky Drive, Fri., Nov. 30, $5. The Shimmy Shake Revue, with the Necrophiles and Blackhawk and the Night Drivers, Sun., Dec. 2, 9 p.m., $10. RedMouth, Wed., Dec. 5, 9 p.m., $5.

The Funky Biscuit: 303 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton, 561-395-2929, funkybiscuit.com. Acoustic Tuesdays, with Rosco Martinez, Tuesdays, 8 p.m., $5. Classic Rock Wednesdays, with Breeze, Wednesdays, 8 p.m., $5.

Funky Buddha Lounge: 2621 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, 561-368-4643, thefunkybuddha.com. Zach Deputy, Thu., Nov. 29, $12. The Happy Medium, with Mylo Ranger and Funk’N Cover, Fri., Nov. 30, 9 p.m., $5. Dr. Fameus, with Sir Charles and Beat Thief, Sat., Dec. 1, $12. Flow Tribe, Mon., Dec. 3, $5.

Guanabanas: 960 N. AIA, Jupiter, 561-747-8878, guanabanas.com. Ernie Southern and the Deltaholics, Sat., Dec. 1, 3 p.m., Free. Pasadena, Wed., Dec. 5, 9 p.m., Free.

The Hurricane Bar & Lounge: 640-7 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561-278-0282, hurricanelounge.com. Franscene, Thu., Nov. 29, 9 p.m., Free. Cover Up Band, Fri., Nov. 30, 9:30 p.m., Free.

Johnnie Brown’s: 301 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561-243-9911, johnniebrowns.com. The Jason Colannino Band, Fri., Nov. 30, 9 p.m., Free. The Rob Arenth Experience, Sat., Dec. 1, 9 p.m., Free. Jason Colannino, Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Free. Flyers, Wednesdays, Free.

Kevro’s Art Bar: 166 SE Second Ave., Delray Beach, 561-278-9675, kevroart.com. Two Can Blue, Thu., Nov. 29, Free. Taller Cotton, Fri., Nov. 30, Free.

King’s Head Pub and Restaurant: 2692 N. University Drive, Plantation, 954-572-5933, kingsheadpubsunrise.com. Artie B., Fri., Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m., Free. Russell P. and Friends, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., Free.

Mai-Kai: 3599 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-563-3272, maikai.com. Joel DaSilva and the Midnight Howl, Fri., Nov. 30, 6 p.m., Free. Ty Olopai and Andrew Cornwall, Wednesdays, 6 p.m., Free.

Murphy’s Law Irish Pub: 1 Seminole Way, Fort Lauderdale, 954-791-4782, themurphyslaw.com. High Tolerance, Thursdays, Free. Funkette, Fridays, Free. Blue Audio, Sundays, Free. Panic Disorder, Mondays, Free.

NYY Steak at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek: 5550 NW 40th St., Coconut Creek. Riverdown, Thu., Nov. 29, 8 p.m., Free. Sarah Packiam, Fridays, 8 p.m. Continues through Nov. 30, Free.

Original Fat Cat’s: 320 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-467-5867, facebook.com/originalfatcats. Panic Disorder, Sat., Dec. 1, 11:30 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 15, 11:30 p.m.; Mon., Dec. 31, 10 p.m., Free. Blue Audio, Tue., Dec. 4, 11:30 p.m., Free.

South Shores Tavern and Patio Bar: 502 Lucerne Ave., Lake Worth,

561-547-7656, southshorestavern.com. Short Straws, Thu., Nov. 29, 7 p.m., Free.

The Speakeasy Lounge: 129 N. Federal Highway, Lake Worth, 561-540-6328, speakeasylakeworth.com. October Rage, with Loaded Guns and They Might Be Zombies, Fri., Nov. 30, 8 p.m., Free.

The Talent Farm Studios: 20911 Johnson St. Ste 111, Pembroke Pines, 954-438-3488, thetalentfarm.com. Gaza, with Code Orange Kids, Full of Hell, Centuries, and Super Mutant, Fri., Nov. 30, 6:30 p.m., $12/$13. Harvest, with Losin’ It, Homestretch, Direct Effect, and Aversion, Tue., Dec. 4, 7 p.m., $10/$11.

Whiskey Tango All American Bar and Grill: 1903 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, 954-925-2555, whiskeytangofl.com. Boombox, Fri., Nov. 30, 10 p.m., Free. Sound Junkies, Sat., Dec. 1, 10 p.m., Free.

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Boca Muse: 7136 Beracasa Way, Boca Raton, 561-367-1133, boca-musecafe.com. Jesse Young and Shauna Sweeney, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Free.

Cheers Food and Spirits: 941 E. Cypress Creek Rd, Fort Lauderdale, 954-771-6337, cheersfoodandspirits.com. Aldo Marchant and Marc Claus, Sundays, Free.

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Bardot: 3456 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-576-7750, bardotmiami.com. Brazilian Girls, Thu., Nov. 29, 10 p.m., $20-$30.

Blue Martini Boca Raton: 6000 Glades Road Ste. C-1380, Boca Raton, 954-439-5102, bluemartinilounge.com. Los Mompirris, DJ JC Garcia, and DJ Sergio V, Saturdays, Free.Blue Martini Fort Lauderdale: 2432 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-653-2583, bluemartinilounge.com. La Linea III, Thu., Nov. 29, 8:30

p.m., Free. Higher Ground, Fri., Nov. 30, 8:30 p.m., Free. Remix, Sat., Dec. 1, 8 p.m., Free. Sekond Nature and DNA, Tuesdays, 8 p.m., Free.

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Boston’s on the Beach: 40 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, 561-278-3364, bostonsonthebeach.com. Lance-O, Mondays, 9 p.m., $5; DJ Freemon, Mondays, 9 p.m., Free.

Cheers Food and Spirits: 941 E. Cypress Creek Rd, Fort Lauderdale, 954-771-6337, cheersfoodandspirits.com. DJ Lexx and DJ Scoobz, first Tuesday of every month, Free.

The Downtowner Saloon: 408 S. New River Drive E., Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-9800, downtownersaloon.com. DJ Booney Tunes, Wednesdays, 5 p.m.; Fridays, 4 p.m., Free.

Green Room: 109 SW 3rd Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-449-1030, greenroomlive.com. Renegades of Funk, Lazer Wolf, and Big Boy, Thu., Nov. 29, 10 p.m., Free. Black Friday, with KAOS and LinderSMASH, Fridays, 10 p.m., Free.

Gryphon: 5711 Seminole Way, Hollywood, 954-581-5454, gryphon-club.com. Sex Panther, Fri., Nov. 30, 11 p.m., $20. Insomnia Wednesday, with Mister Gray, Jon Owen, and Garfield, Wednes-days, 11 p.m., $20.

Lucky’s Tavern: 214 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-356-8140. DJ Gio, Tuesdays; Wednesdays; Thursdays; Saturdays, Free. DJ Rockstar and Davee G, Sundays, Free.

The Manor Complex: 2345 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, 954-626-0082, themanorcomplex.com. Bubble Gum Fridays, with DJ JPS and DJ Miik, Fridays, 10 p.m., Free. Noche Latina Saturdays, with DJ Larry Larr, first Saturday of every month, 10 p.m., Free.

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Vibe: 333 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-713-7313, vibelasolas.com. DJ A-Train, Thu., Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m., Free. DJ Derek Walin, Fri., Nov. 30, 8:30 p.m., Free.

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Dear Dan: I’m a straight man at that age when the general public still considers me young. Al-though I’ve attended many weddings, I have no interest in marrying or even being in a relation-ship. I never have.

I’m not asexual. I’ve had and enjoyed sex. I just don’t feel the need to be with anyone. As long as I’ve got music and friends, I’m satisfied. Unfortu-nately, I seem to be the only one. My parents want grandkids. My friends want to set me up. My television set only ever shows people in or pursu-ing relationships. My government wants me to fa-ther and raise future dead soldiers. I try not to internalize these views, but sometimes I wonder what’s going to happen if I change my mind somewhere down the road. What the hell’s wrong with me? Or not wrong with me? What do I tell people who insist that something’s wrong or that I’ll change my mind? And what should I do if I ac-tually do change my mind?

I Don’t Give a Fuck

Honestly, IDGAF, yours is one of those letters that I have a hard time giving much of a fuck about. Don’t get me wrong: You sound like a nice guy, articulate and pithy, and I typically like people who know what they do and don’t want.

But cowards annoy me.Forgive me for working my own sexuality into

this, but I have to say: When I was at that age the general public unanimously considers young — still a teenager — I walked into my mother’s bed-room and informed her that I was a faggot. (Begging my parents for tickets to the national tour of A Chorus Line for my 13th birthday some-how didn’t do the job; five years later, I had to come out to them all over again.) If I could work up the nerve to come out to my very Catholic parents about putting dicks in my mouth — at the beginning of the AIDS crisis, at that — you can find the courage to come out to your parents and friends as not asexual, not unhappy, and not plan-ning to date, cohabit, wed, or reproduce.

But while I’m not sympathetic to your plight, IDGAF, I found someone who is.

“Few young adults say they’re not interested in sex or relationships, but IDGAF’s preference for going solo is hardly unique,” says Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University and author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone. “Today an unprecedented number of people are opting to live alone. One-person households represent 28 percent of all households in the U.S., and in cities the numbers are higher.”

Your coupled-up friends and grandchild-starved parents might have an easier time ac-cepting your lifestyle choices if they knew just how common they are.

“In recent decades,” Klinenberg says, “young adults have been the fastest-growing group of American singletons. They’re delaying marriage and spending more years single. Moreover, they increasingly recognize the fact that over their long

lives, they’re likely to cycle in and out of different situations: alone, together; together, alone.”

And despite the negative stereotypes that slosh around about single people — they’re anti-social, unhappy, isolated — Klinenberg’s research shows that those who live alone do just fine in the friends and social-life departments.

“People who live alone tend to be more social than people who are married,” Klinenberg says. “They’re more likely to spend time with friends and neighbors; more likely to spend time and money in bars, cafés, and restaurants; and even more likely to volunteer in civic organizations. So much for the myth of selfish singles!”

So what should you tell your nagging friends and family?

“How about letting them know that going solo is what works best for him right now,” Klinenberg says, “but that he’s hardly made a vow to stay single forever. Or, if he’s feeling feisty, he can remind them that, no matter how they’ve arranged their lives at the moment, someday they might find themselves opting out of sex and relationships too.”

What should you do if you change your mind someday, IDGAF? You should date; you should marry. Don’t describe your current choices as supe-rior — even if it does mean a better social life — and you won’t have to eat crow if you change your mind.

“We’ve come a long way in our attitudes about sex and relationships,” Klinenberg says. “Now that living alone is more common than liv-ing with a spouse and two children, isn’t it time we learned to respect the choice to go solo too?”

Indeed it is. And the sooner you demand a lit-tle respect from your parents and friends for your choices, IDGAF, the sooner you’ll get it.

Single and partnered people alike should fol-low Eric Klinenberg on Twitter: @EricKlinenberg. To find out more about Klinenberg’s books and his research, go to ericklinenberg.com.

Dear Dan: What’s the etiquette regarding non-penetrative sex toys after a breakup? I bought re-straints, a blindfold, etc., for my ex, and she left them behind. It seems a waste to throw them away. Is it a bit squicky for a guy to bust out an arsenal of old toys when a new gal comes along?

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Jonathan Schroder, general manager of Mr. S Leather in San Francisco (mr-s-leather.com), sug-gests that you get rid of your bondage gear. Schro der is in the business of selling sex toys — Mr. S is famous for its high-quality bondage gear — but his advice isn’t about his desire to move mer-chandise. It’s about your desire for gals, AWASH.

“I think some of the best gear you can get is hand-me-down gear,” Schroder says. “And there’s a great tradition in the gay leather community about passing gear from older folks to younger folks. But my gut tells me that a new girlfriend might wig out about used bondage gear. We have a lot of cus-tomers and couples that have a strong preference for cleanliness. But straight women in particular prefer that things be wiped down, well cleaned, and shiny. So a woman who opens a dresser drawer and finds restraints with signs of wear and tear — and signs of someone else’s sweat or fluids on them — is probably going to be turned off.”

So get rid of your old gear, Schroder advises, but don’t throw it away.

“Find someone who wants and can’t afford bondage gear and give it to them,” Schroder says. “Gear is expensive, and there are people who can’t afford it. Help ’em out.”

Email Dan at [email protected]

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