Nothing says “yappy hour” like a good milk bone — or milk stout, for that matter. If your canine friend enjoys an evening happy hour as much as you do, take your furry (and nonfurry) friends for a walk to Funky Buddha’s Friends of Greyhounds fundraiser “Yappy Hour” event on…
Before you get all gung-ho about the fourth-annual Animal Adoption Fair at Fort Lauderdale’s War Memorial Auditorium, you should fully think this out. Americans love their furry pals, and everyone knows a “forever home” is the best kind. But before you set your eyes on their fuzzy adorableness, ask yourself:…
For the third time in as many years, the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce’s Boca Festival Days, the Alliance Association Bank, and Boca Raton Regional Hospital have partnered to promote the Lynn Cancer Institute’s League of Ribbons initiative. Cancer is a terrible disease and, as such, one that is…
If pairing dinners featuring the best in local beers just happens to be your thing, look no further than Delray Beach. This Tuesday, 50 Ocean — the waterfront restaurant above Boston’s on the Beach — will host a special pairing dinner known as “Bites and Brews” as part of its…
After all those botched English papers in high school, every time you rented the movie or bought CliffsNotes without even thinking of doing the actual reading, it turns out Shakespeare is cool. It defies all logic. The playwright whose name you dreaded in high school is actually totally badass, and…
In Calvary, Brendan Gleeson plays a Catholic priest who plods through a rustic Irish village that’s more brutal than beautiful. The beach is gray, the waves are choppy, and the wind whips his ankle-length black cassock as though every step were a fight against nature. In some ways, it is…
Jan Troell’s The Last Sentence tells the story of Torgny Segerstedt (Jesper Christensen), the former newspaper editor in Sweden, where he spent more than a decade of his wartime tenure penning editorials lambasting Nazi Germany and the neutrality of the Swedish government. The film’s original title is Dom Över Död…
Actually, there are two girls in this skimpily budgeted, suspenseless neo-noir. One is an indelible golden-curled vision from a Holocaust survivor’s remembrance of a concentration-camp-bound train, as filmed by NYC documentarian Danny Hart (Henry Ian Cusick of TV’s Lost). The other is the blandly secretive Lexi (Nicki Aycox), a poor…
In the era of the megachurch, with its telegenic preacher, stadium-quality lighting and sound, and number of congregants ballooning into the thousands, there is something more than a little nostalgic about the tent revival, even for nonbelievers. This vanishing, primitive tradition of Pentecostalism — in which a limited number of…
Even those of us who loved Robin Williams as a performer would have to say that sometimes he was too much — too wired, too pleading, too on. There were times when I’d see him nattering away on a late-night talk show, or suffer through a performance like the one…
In the highly imperfect world of contemporary romantic comedies, What If is as close to perfect as anything we’ve got, not least for the way it captures the abject hopefulness of young people who’d like to be in love but don’t know how to go about it. Who does know…
When you put a pair of losers in uniforms, at the end of the day they’re still losers. Best friends and roommates Justin (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Ryan (Jake Johnson) learn that the hard way but not without finding some joy in the fantasy that you can become the success…
Titles don’t get more ironic than The Expendables 3. The franchise claims to be about death-seeking mercenaries yet stars ’80s action heroes, who refuse to die. Three films in, everyone in the sprawling team is still alive and ass kicking, save for Bruce Willis, whose million-dollar-a-day asking salary has caused…
The Giver is more simple and raw than the rest of today’s teen dystopias that try to cram in unnecessary backstory and love triangles. (Original author Lois Lowry published her novel in 1993, which makes it officially the cool aunt of Katniss and the kids.) The story picks up several…
Maybe you think you know what Woody Allen did or didn’t do in that summerhouse all those years ago. Maybe you look at his history — shacking up with a Stuyvesant high school girl in the late ’70s; marrying his longtime partner’s adopted daughter in the ’90s — and simply…
The Classic Albums Live series is the brainchild of Canadian musician Craig Martin and touts masterful, note-for-note re-creations of classic rock’s most brilliant gems. From the Beatles’ Abbey Road to the Eagles’ Hotel California and Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin II, Martin’s ensemble knows no bounds. On Thursday, Martin brings his…
Perhaps one of our fondest memories as children was our yearly shopping spree for school supplies. Knowing what an overwhelming sense of joy it is to prepare for the new school year, Covenant House Florida is asking the community to help its youth get ready to go back to school…
The feminist in all of us no longer needs to be hidden; any Beyoncé fan knows that as a fact. We are in an age of celebrating women who have accomplished great feats as opposed to burying it in the headlines. But it wasn’t always this way. Florida-based author Marjorie…
When you’re in muddy waters, conquer those emotions the way one man launched his career and sing along to the blues at the Rock ‘N’ Blues Fest on Friday. A special tribute to the late Johnny Winter, the man who captured the very essence of melancholy with his guitar, will…
Remember when we were younger and wanted nothing more in the entire world than to sit for hours in the dirt and play racetrack with our Hot Wheels monster trucks? And then we wrapped the monster trucks up in teeny-tiny Band-Aids and took them to the makeshift truck hospital for…
Nothing can fully fund a comedic arsenal like a good disease and/or affliction can. Take, for example, systemic sclerosis, also known as scleroderma, a chronic systemic autoimmune disease that has no cure and no clear indication as to what causes it. People afflicted by it usually have “hardened” skin, and…
If imitation is the best form of flattery, then Elvis Presley might be the most flattered human being of all time. The man who brought rock ‘n’ roll to the mainstream (and Forrest Gump) has been living on through Elvis impersonators ever since his untimely death. We will never be…
