Earth to Echo is a slender kiddie flick about a quartet of preteens and their palm-sized alien pal that’s at once bland, well-intentioned, and utterly terrifying about the mental development of modern children. As in the most honest kids films, our 5-foot heroes admit to being isolated, unhappy, and cowed…
Here are some of the triumphant moments of recent history that make it into the climactic montage in America, the latest “America’s perfect!”/”America’s doomed!” pant load from felonious troll Dinesh D’Souza: Jackie Robinson rounding home. Elvis Presley swinging his hips. Ronald Reagan and the Berlin Wall. Boxed copies of Windows…
Here are some of the triumphant moments of recent history that make it into the climactic montage in America, the latest “America’s perfect!”/”America’s doomed!” pant load from felonious troll Dinesh D’Souza: Jackie Robinson rounding home. Elvis Presley swinging his hips. Ronald Reagan and the Berlin Wall. Boxed copies of Windows…
A venue well-known for featuring the artwork of regionally, nationally, and internationally recognized and emerging artists, the Vargas Gallery of the Vargas University Department of Art is hosting the “2014 South Florida Group Exhibition” to honor 16 artists who demonstrate their love of art through every little thing they do…
Delray Beach’s July Fourth Celebration on Atlantic Avenue starts at 4 p.m. with family activities including minigolf, a splash zone with water slides, a photo booth, and a sandcastle contest on the beach. BurgerFi, Caffe Luna Rosa, and Boston’s on the Beach will provide refreshments. The fireworks show launching from…
Boca Raton’s Fabulous Fourth Celebration kicks off at 6:30 p.m. at the Spanish River Athletic Facilities of Countess de Hoernle Park, located at 1000 NW Spanish River Blvd. There will be live music and family activities, including crafts, games, and a full-sized Ferris wheel. The fireworks display — accompanied by…
Fort Lauderdale will host a Fourth of July Spectacular on Fort Lauderdale Beach beginning at noon with music, games, and contests. The fireworks show over the Atlantic Ocean, with music simulcast on 101.5 LITE FM, will take off at 9 p.m. For a complete schedule, visit fortlauderdale.gov. Fri., July 4,…
Hollywood’s Star Spangled Fourth of July Celebration will take place on Hollywood Beach and the Broadwalk beginning at 2 p.m. Children’s activities will be set up at Charnow Park, at the Hollywood Broadwalk at Garfield Street, from 2 to 6 p.m. A fireworks show is at 9 p.m. From 4…
Forget their judicious recycling practices, stellar public transport, and beer dispensed in vending machines: The Japanese are masters of animation. Starting Saturday, Young at Art Museum will host “Japan: Kingdom of Characters,” a traveling exhibition that showcases the country’s decades of dominating all things kawaii. Saturday marks the exhibition’s U.S…
There’s something kind of inauthentic about resting in a meditative yoga post, splayed out on a laminated gym floor with fluorescent lights overhead, clenching onto a PVC yoga mat that will sit in a landfill 500-plus years after you leave this good green earth and imagining your happy place –…
Still not sure what all the World Cup hype is about? It’s like the world’s powers combined to make soccer not boring by throwing in a heavy dose of national pride with a side of healthy competition. But the beauty of the World Cup is that even the un-sports-initiated can…
Besides stories about dumb criminals and alligator tales, another thing South Florida is good at dishing up is free, quality live music. It’s an incredible gift bestowed upon us by city governments that take music seriously. Whether it’s a Thursday night in West Palm Beach or a Sunday afternoon in…
An exhibition with a truly special theme, “The Triumph of Detritus” at 1310 Gallery, curated by Lisa Rockford, is featuring a group of artists that has pushed the limits through the collection of raw, found, and unexpected debris to create utter masterpieces. Such a feat is due to the combination…
Chef Brian Carenuto has mastered the art of stylish comfort food. His talents at concocting colossal, mouthwatering burgers won him an episode of the Food Network’s reality cookoff show Cutthroat Kitchen and has garnered him a huge following at his lunch-counter eatery in Deerfield Beach, Tucker Duke’s Lunchbox, in a…
When Lisa Rockford curates her shows, she doesn’t show her own work. That would be too self-promoting for the tenured Broward College art professor. Rockford is one of Broward County’s finest on the contemporary art scene, but the striking blond with avant-garde fashion sense would never say so. Her latest…
For all of the Fox News fear-mongering that Hollywood is out to indoctrinate us with liberal values, when it comes to pregnancy, the movies have for years been curiously conservative. If a woman gets knocked up, she either loses the baby by accident (cue waterworks) or carries it to term…
Ask anyone who grinds through the New York subway each day: The worst words in the world might be “It’s showtime!” That means riders are about to be treated/subjected to public break dancing. Once the boombox starts bumping and the performers start whipping themselves around, subway riders find themselves exploring…
Romances are Hollywood’s most anxiety-inducing fantasy. Like superhero flicks or horror films, they exist in a phony world of big scenes and breathtaking climaxes. But while audiences know that geeks can’t meld with spiders and that the bogeyman isn’t real, they still hope to fall in love, and boy, it’d…
David Trueba’s wistfully charming six-time Goya Award–winner (including best film, director, and original screenplay) circles a blip in Beatles history when a tour-weary John Lennon took a break from the band in 1966 and visited Almería, Spain, to film a role in Richard Lester’s avant-garde comic flop How I Won…
Believe it or not, during Transformers: Age of Extinction, Michael Bay’s fourth rattling of the toy box, I felt one moment of near transcendence. Three-fourths of the way through the punishing 165-minute runtime—and fifteen minutes after my seatmate took off her 3-D glasses in exhaustion—my brain left my body, crying…
Laughter is good for the soul. Laugh hysterically to well-known comedian Josh Sneed’s jokes at the City Palace Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theatre in West Palm Beach on Thursday and feel good about helping the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Sneed’s comedy promises to let you have a…
From the television set to live onstage before your eyes, the stars of NBC’s hit reality singing competition The Voice are coming to Fort Lauderdale. Great news for fans of what’s become the most watched singing competition on the tube, as Season 6 winner Josh Kaufman is confirmed to be…
