On the surface, there isn’t much to object to in How to Be Single. Look, it says! No matter how fabulous their lives may seem, everyone wants to be happier and more fulfilled. Everyone is looking for something more, just like you! And really, Christian Ditter’s film (based on the…
HBO’s Vinyl is the latest in a series of cultural hard-ons for the rough-and-tumble world of pre-Koch NYC: From novels like Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers and Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire to online photo galleries of graffiti-splattered subway trains and can-you-believe-this-juice-bar-used-to-be-a-crack-den slideshows, there’s a hunger for what Manhattan looked,…
The first Zoolander, Ben Stiller’s dopey, fitfully funny fashion spoof, was released less than three weeks after the September 11 attacks. Its sequel shows the extent to which another kind of nefarious plot — the cynical quest for world domination through cross-brand synergy — has proven impossible to eradicate on…
In 1947, conservationist Marjorie Stoneman Douglas famously dubbed the Everglades “The River of Grass,” using that handle as the title for her iconic book about the wetlands that are synonymous with one of Florida’s great natural treasures. Despite her warnings about the need to fight for its preservation, those vast…
Thursday, February 11 Boca is known as a wealthy town. Seriously, there’s a Tesla store in the local mall. If you want to peek in on the good life, there’s no reason to look further than Palm Beach County’s southernmost city. Here’s your chance to get inside the inner sanctum;…
Matt Mahady was writing poetry before there was a poetry scene in Florida. He helped one coalesce and grow. He was on the first Florida poetry slam team that went to the National Poetry Slam. He competed in Providence, Seattle, and Minneapolis in the early 2000s. His poems made book/CD…
When curator Jane Hart left the Art & Culture Center of Hollywood last year, it came as quite a shock. Over almost a decade, Hart had brought sophisticated, cutting-edge contemporary art to the quaint, unassuming space near Hollywood’s Young Circle. Shows here always stood out in Broward County’s otherwise bland…
Three years ago, Michael Moore wrapped up a TV interview about the Sandy Hook massacre and asked the producers to leave him alone. “You guys call me every time there’s a school shooting,” he sighed. He had, after all, made Bowling for Columbine, which blasted the NRA and the nightly…
A guy I grew up with had the superpower to make anything dirty. No matter what you’d say to him, he’d manage to make it about his dick, or about anal sex, or about how girls — so he had heard — smelled like fish. I asked him what he…
“I’ve turned into this kind of crazy optimist,” Michael Moore admits in his new documentary Where to Invade Next, his first film in six years. At 61, the gadfly savant has mellowed. Instead of charging into rooms, he shuffles, the American flag wrapped around his shoulders like a grandmother’s shawl…
The feeling of when Disney’s Cinderella famously slid her foot into the glass slipper is how Rebecca Fell felt when she was told the Buckskin Declaration, an age-old document the Seminoles used to declare their sovereignty more than 50 years ago, was found after years of being lost. At the time,…
The queasiest thing about American Crime Story’s (FX) retelling of the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial is how easily such a flagrant miscarriage of justice could happen all over again. The twin forces that most warped that case, after all, still plague us today: a tabloid culture that reduces flesh-and-blood…
As a #1 New York Times bestselling author behind books for both adults, tweens, and teens, Meg Cabot knows how to embrace her natural gifts. “We all have an “inner royal” — something we’re great at, or loved doing as kids, anyway,” says the Key West resident. “But sometimes life…
The biggest story at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the record-breaking bidding war for The Birth of a Nation, a prestige biopic about rebellious slave Nat Turner. When Fox Searchlight snatched it for $17.5 million — $5 million more than any other flick in the festival’s history — their…
A kick for those who’ve distractedly thumbed through Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, Joel and Ethan Coen’s bustling comedy Hail, Caesar! looks back to the waning days of moviedom’s golden age: specifically, to 1951, when big-studio fixers were still tidying up the messes left by the talent (scrubbing now done by…
You’re probably right if you think you might get a couple laughs out of a movie titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. You’re also right if you’ve guessed that this gung-ho but cruddy-looking mashup fails from A to Z: It’s neither good Austen nor good zombie flick. But in those…
Thursday, February 4 Maybe you are a yoga nomad, dropping in on community classes, Groupon offers, and sunrise beach yoga sessions when the mood strikes and the debit card allows. But if your fitness (and life) goals for 2016 include finding a dedicated spot for your practice, where you could…
Admit it: Even as an adult, you sometimes long for the kind of fun that involves balloons and parades and lights, a place where you can unleash your childlike wonderment while still totally being a grownup about it, the kind of event where you and all your coolest friends can…
Patrick Warburton is that rare voice actor who looks like he sounds. His imposing, muscular physique complements his deep basso voice, but his warm tone gives a touch of soul to his many memorable performances as lunkheaded alpha males. Quite likely your ears perk up when you hear him. He…
Jane Got a Gun’s reputation precedes it, but it shouldn’t define it. After a tortured production that included the departure of original director Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin) and a revolving door of leading men, the Western arrives in theaters long after popular opinion declared…
“It was early 2014 when we first started thinking about a children’s book,” says Cari Corene, co-creator of Floral Frolic. “We both were wishing to do work featuring our own intellectual property. At the time both of us were working a lot on projects belonging to other people and we…
Thursday, January 28 From a framed, coveted auction highlight to a particularly juicy or thought-provoking character scrawled on a concrete wall, “art” comes in many wonderful and varied forms. So goes the theme of this year’s first art walk in Boynton Beach’s Art District when the focus will be on…
