Festival
The South Florida Fair kicks off this weekend and runs through the end of month. The fair offers a
customarily diverse palette of musical entertainment, from country stars Jerrod Niemann and Travis Tritt to “Dust in the Wind” rockers Kansas to alternative rockers The Used to southern rockers Saving Abel. If you attend the festivities this year, don’t miss Tyzen, an entertainer who fuses magic, hypnotism and improv comedy into an amalgamation that’s entirely his own. Using audience members as his hypnotized props, Tyzen’s theme for this year’s festival will be space travel, with his mesmerized subjects believing they are encountering aliens aboard spacecraft. Hilarity naturally ensues. Fair admission is $15 adults, $8 children and $9 seniors. For information, call 561/793-0333.
Art
It’s hip to be square at Lauderhill’s Bear and Bird Gallery on Saturday night. The gallery’s biennial “Locals Only” show for 2011, “Be There Be Square” is a group art show whose only parameter is that the art must be equally proportioned on all four sides. In a recent e-mail blast, participating artist Todd Nolan bruited, “The ‘Be There Be Square’ opening will astound, confound, repulse and convulse you right back into your corner.” Sounds like my kind of a show. The Bear and Bird is located upstairs in Tate’s Comics, 4566 N. University Drive, Lauderhill. For information, call 954/748-0181.
Music
Along with their peers in Screeching Weasel, The Queers are one of the most enduring Ramones
knock-offs of the past quarter-century. Loud and abrasive but tempered by buoyant, bubblegum surf hooks, The Queers’ music has remained resolutely identical for decades, and they still play the same small, grungy, CBGBs-style clubs: On Saturday night, they’ll play the glorious Churchill’s in Little Haiti. A whopping six opening acts will play before them, so expect this show to go well into the wee hours of Sunday morning. Forget those preppy-looking, Hot Topic posers on alternative rock radio stations: This is pure punk, baby. Tickets are $12 in advance and $13 at the door.
TV
If you plan on staying in on Sunday, the Golden Globes air at 8 p.m. on NBC, hosted by the great Ricky Gervais, fresh off his painfully hilarious HBO comedy special “Out of England II.” A prelude/indicator to the more important Academy Awards, the Globes honor the best and, and apparently, not so best (“The Tourist” and “Burlesque” are among the Best Picture nominees in Musical/Comedy) movies and television shows of the past year. Tip: If you’re participating in a Golden Globes office poll and you don’t have Colin Firth and Natalie Portman checked for Best Actor and Actress, you’re a lost cause.
