As part of the main soccer league of South Florida and of the North American Soccer League, Fort Lauderdale Strikers games are known to be fierce! Although the league is best-known for its state rivalry with the Tampa Bay Rowdies, the Strikers are gearing up to play against another Southeastern…
Maybe it’s our ever-shrinking attention spans, our addiction to Vine videos and listicles, or our constant need for instant gratification, but if the thought of sitting silently still for the average 90-minute-plus play complete with intermission and second act has you feeling like pummeling the sweet volunteer usher in front…
The Boca Raton Museum of Art is home to Florida’s oldest-running annual juried competition. This year, the 63rd-annual “All Florida Juried Exhibition” attracted nearly 630 artists from across the state who submitted 1,600 works that juror Trong Gia Nguyen had to sift through. Winnowing down the entries to a manageable…
Lasse Hallström has become an expert at making mom-jeans movies, nonthreatening pictures in which headstrong women find love just when they think it’s too late (Once Around), take the upper hand with their cheating husbands (Something to Talk About), and turn small, French villages topsy-turvy by opening chocolate shops (Chocolat)…
Land Ho! is a How Grandpa Got His Groove Back for the geezer set, a buddy road trip through Iceland, starring two divorced men with a combined age of 150 years. The writer/directors, Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, are 30 and 34, respectively, young enough to be their leading men’s…
In his debut feature, Justin Schwarz is clearly drawing from the same bag of tricks as many of his indie comedy predecessors, but he’s refining them. Even his wide, Wes Andersonian compositions have a purpose. Paintings are everywhere in this film about shaping history, setting up a nostalgic framework before…
Mood Indigo is bitter candy, a heartbreaker that uses sugar as a trap. The director, Michel Gondry, has a brilliant, contradictory brain. He’s a swoony pessimist, a big-dreaming romantic who believes in love at first sight but never lets his films end with a kiss. Instead, his idea of a…
Star presence, that distillation of charisma and sometimes glamour, lies at the heart of the movies’ appeal. The star presence James Harvey evokes so richly in his new book, Watching Them Be, is never simply about physical beauty. Harvey rightly points out that Ingrid Bergman’s fresh unaffectedness was distinctly unglamorous,…
Daniel Radcliffe’s first trip to Comic-Con kicked off like the world’s cuddliest Nuremberg rally. This summer, just minutes after he walked into Hall H, the hangar-sized sardine can of 6,500 people sang him “Happy Birthday.” It was an emotional moment for everyone. “The fact that I was turning 25 slightly…
Before you buy that tiny box turtle in Chinatown, know that it can live for 100 years. Which means that among all the Mad Libs nonsense of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — a comic book-turned-media-phenomenon that’s always half-admitted it’s a goof — at least the teenage part is accurate…
Incompatible fronts collide in director Steven Quale’s weather-horror patience-tester Into the Storm. The first is the summertime yen for righteous kablooey, the dumber the better, exemplified here by drunk galoots hauling ass into a twister on a four-wheeler ATV, tossing beer cans and whooping about getting a “million YouTube hits.”…
If you’re interested in Pablo Picasso’s works, then join the Norton Museum of Art for a discussion of Picasso’s Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman) on Thursday. The genius of Picasso will be unraveled and discussed as part of the museum’s Art After Dark weekly event series and will…
Conundrum Stage has successfully produced six years’ worth of variety shows in South Florida and will now be appearing at the Sunrise Civic Center with its first official production, Café Conundrum, which will be a locals-heavy take on cabaret and coffeehouse acts. Stage actors, comedians, musicians, soloists, and performance poets…
A Culture of Symphony Entering its 23rd year, Summerfest links up players of the Symphony of the Americas with an ensemble from overseas for one month’s worth of performances across Florida. Joining the Symphony of Americas this year will be the highly acclaimed Mission Chamber Orchestra, which is making the…
If your initial feelings on communal drumming conjure up a cloudy Nag Champa thought bubble of sweaty Matthew McConaugheys or a bad trip at a beachside bonfire with some young and grating trustafarians, perhaps it’s time to scrub your brain completely clean of everything that college experience delivered to you…
What drew director Michael Leeds to the 1969 classic Broadway play Butterflies Are Free was not so much the sweet back-and-forth of a young blind man out living on his own for the first time and a liberated, free-thinking actress neighbor next door but the underlying lesson of how deceptive…
Improvisational comedy troupe Sick Puppies has been racking up the laughs since setting up shop in Boca Raton’s 125-seat Showtime Theatre last year. Tickets for its monthly 90-minute nonscripted performances are snagged up quickly, with shows often selling out. This weekend, the Sick Puppies are upping the hilarity factor when…
Palm Beach Photographic Centre is hosting the National Press Photographers Association’s (NPPA) 2014 Best of Photojournalism (BOP) Awards and TED-Style Discussions. Attendees will witness thought-provoking presentations and panel discussions from BOP winners, visual journalists, NPPA members, and NPPA’s board of directors during this two-day event. A reception of this kind…
The Stranahan House — built in 1901 by the father of Fort Lauderdale, Frank Stranahan, and his wife, one-time schoolteacher Ivy Cromartie-Stranahan — has served at one time or another as a trading post, community center, post office, restaurant, bank, and home. Restored in 1984 to the original plans of…
Turtles are amazing creatures: They look like dinosaurs, have been around for 215 million years, their sex is determined according to temperature (in some species), and they can hide their heads inside their shells whenever they want — we wish we possessed that attribute. But as cool as these little…
Celebrating its 40-year anniversary, lively sexual comedy Let My People Come stands as relevant today as it did back in 1974, when it premiered at the Village Gate Theater on Bleecker Street in NYC’s Greenwich Village. What with today’s climate of court rulings on gay marriage, Andrew Living Arts couldn’t…
Austrian photographer and diver Andreas Franke is bringing his photographs of sunken shipwrecks to South Florida. Known as the “Sinking World” exhibit, Franke’s images bring to life wrecks like the USCGC Mohawk, a WWII ship; and the USNS Vandenberg, along with captivating shots of the second-largest artificial reef in the…
