As unrepentantly grandiose and ludicrous as its title, Luca Guadagnino’s visually ravishing third feature suggests an epic that Visconti and Sirk might have made after they finished watching Vertigo and reading Madame Bovary while gorging themselves on aphrodisiacs. That it works so well — despite frequently risible dialogue (“Happy is…
Marcus (Philip Winchester) is a parasomniac: It looks like he’s awake, but he’s sleepwalking, a convenient excuse for, say, sleeping with your best friend’s wife. And lo and behold, when she turns up dead, it’s hard for Marcus to maintain his friendship with Justin (Tim Draxl). Sure, he didn’t mean…
Pine Island Park will bring in the Fourth with a family-filled pool, bounce houses, a climbing wall, country band Shadow Creek, and free birthday cake. Here in Davie, America’s independence will be symbolized with a World War I and II military tank, jeep, and equipment show. Shadow Creek will perform…
The crowd at the recurring TechnoSluts parties is pretty much unlike any other. Think a colorful Venn diagram meeting of that rarefied overlap among candy ravers, cyber goths, bassheads, and fetish enthusiasts and you’ll get the vinyl- and hair-fall-filled picture. For the past four years, this loose artistic collective has…
For those with funky hats and an insatiable taste for watermelon and weird music, an Old Fashioned Downtown Patriotic Explosion may be the perfect launch pad for your Independence Day celebration (no family required). From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the streets of downtown Lake Worth will come to life…
Most singer/songwriters wind up ending their solitude and dupe some people into joining them so they can rock harder and push their limits. Bob Dylan joined up with the Band, Neil Young put together Crazy Horse, and Conor Oberst has left a half dozen backup bands in his wake. South…
A Lake Worth gallery is taking advantage of Independence Day by putting its own brand of “fire works” on display with “Artists Who Play With Fire.” Karen McGovern will use heat and flame to create her metal jewelry, working in such media as copper and sterling silver. Ryan David of…
E-pills sold on the streets of South Florida may be funding the purchase of missiles and sex slaves in foreign countries, but most people rolling their face off at 3 a.m. in the 305 just don’t seem to care. Well, drugs are bad, and now you don’t need them. Club…
Over the past year, Dialect introduced Brew Urban Café to a more nocturnal crowd, one that has come to favor the downtown Fort Lauderdale coffee shop for its selection of frothy microbrews and eclectic local art. Celebrating its one-year anniversary Friday, Dialect will once again replenish the walls of Brew…
Boston’s on the Beach celebrates America’s 234th birthday with three days of this country’s great indigenous art form — the blues. Never mind that the music was created by the descendants of African slaves or that it’s now dominated by white folk. The Delray Beach institution’s Red, White, and Blues…
The big, blonde behemoth, otherwise known as Brock Lesnar, has traveled a weird and twisting road. Back in the day, he was the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling champ. But rolling around in public with sweaty college boys doesn’t typically lead to immediate career opportunities. So, after graduation, Lesnar did what…
With Sunday’s Final pitting the Netherlands against Spain, there will be a new country’s name joining the seven already engraved on the bottom of the FIFA World Cup Trophy. While this year’s edition of the quadrennial tournament is the 19th, there are only eight nations who have won soccer’s biggest…
The cancer cure is, of course, the holy grail of medicine, or a sort of Helen of Troy among doctors. Its pursuit is the subject of The Secret Order, a play by psychologist-cum-playwright Bob Wyward. It starts with a scientist in Michigan, Dr. William Shuway, who suddenly dredges up an…
Sequins? Jazz hands? Bawdy show tunes? Nope. The inaugural Out in the Tropics performing arts festival is all about the kind of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender theater that steps beyond stereotypes. Wednesday at 7 p.m., the fest begins with “Queer Culture, Global Culture,” a panel discussion at the Shore…
Call it a perfect alignment of the stars, because there has been an awful lot of mid- to late-’90s love upon us lately, like the recessionary return to lumberjack plaid fashions and the overcorrection of Courtney Love’s meds, leading to the recent triumphant reunion of Hole. While the grunge revival…
We all know that the grand old U.S. of A is just as green as it is red, white, and blue. Money is green. Fatigues are green. Sweet kush is green. And believe it or not, the White House will turn green if you look at it long enough. One…
An exploded grandfather clock of a movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s intricately antic Micmacs hurls gears, gizmos, and other trash-heap objets d’art at the audience. It’s aggressively, whimsically retro, like a heaping second helping of his 1992 black comedy Delicatessen. Instead of the enchanted fairyland of his smash hit Amélie, Jeunet burrows…
For the less adventurous, the idea of roller skating in hot pants while loaded on bourbon could seem like a harrowing agenda. Especially for a Tuesday. But you aren’t one of those strait-laced types. You piss into the wind. You attend knife-sharpening parties where kegs and children are present. It’s…
The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is typically a pretty quiet place. There are no security guards patrolling the four downstairs galleries, just a volunteer staffing the front desk and at best a handful of visitors. Not so on a recent Saturday, when the place seemed to be crawling…
As the cheeky title indicates, this small group show replaces pomp with POP with mixed but mostly pleasing results. Perhaps inspired by his own latest series, gallery owner Timothy Leistner invited four fellow artists to submit works that partake in a style best represented by Andy Warhol. Leistner’s contributions are…
You know and love Jason Bourne as an implacable killing machine. But what if he were a mouthy asshole instead? That’s the provocative question posed by James Mangold’s Knight and Day, which casts Tom Cruise as a Bourne wannabe who seriously can’t shut up. As Roy Miller, an agent gone…
Opening with a close-up of the crow’s feet around its subject’s eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip, the documentary/portrait Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work celebrates Saint Joan the Resilient, Showbiz Survivor. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg dogged the indomitable standup comic throughout the course of her…
