It’s that time of year again. You know, the time to celebrate Palm Beach County’s first micro brewpub, the Funky Buddha Lounge. This month marks Funky Buddha’s four-year anniversary, to be exact, and as they do every year, the owners will be dedicating an entire day to the most important…
Sitting the folks down and announcing your life’s dream to be a fashion designer isn’t always met with the same enthusiasm as say, the dental school decision, but for those students who choose the road more fashionable, it’s the right one — even if a career path of uncertainty awaits…
There’s bound to have been gallons upon gallons of spilled Smithwick’s and Guinness Stout throughout the course of the 20 years convivial Clematis Street Irish bar O’Shea’s Pub has been open. This Saturday, clicking pint glasses are destined to spill even more Irish Stout as the welcoming 500-block locale rings…
Do yoga, help kids in need. To raise money to continue the widely popular free yoga programs for kids in schools, shelters, and jails, Yoga Gangsters, a Miami-based non-profit organization reaching at-risk youth in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and the Palm Beaches, New York, Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, Nevada, Oklahoma, Illinois,…
If you haven’t paid a visit to the nexus of Southern Broward art that is the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, this Sunday grants you that opportunity. On this day, as with every third Sunday of the month, the forward-thinking gallery and performance space waives its $7 admission fee…
There aren’t many qualifications for the Sunday Sleuths book club at beloved mystery bookshop and performance space Murder on the Beach. One, the club is for all ages, so young, persnickety Nancy Drew types can sit right alongside hardened career Colombos and Angela Lansbury doppelgangers to solve the toughest cases…
Darkness. Vision is consumed by darkness and the sound of knobs turning and metal clashing. Light flickers in, and things start to come into perspective. It’s a lift; something is being carried up — but to where? The screeching of a pulley is joined by the panting of a young…
From the playwright who brought you the Broadway thriller Deathtrap and the novel-turned-movie Rosemary’s Baby comes another infamous mystery making its way to South Florida’s theater scene. Ira Levin’s Veronica’s Room is nothing short of his predilection for the supernatural. The acquisition of Veronica’s Room only strengthens Andrews Living Arts’…
The sex scene almost makes it worth sitting through Atlas Shrugged III, the last and least of the cheapjack adaptations of Ayn Rand’s brick-thick celebration of taking your ball and going home. About an hour in, after she’s toured and left the hidden Colorado enclave of the captains of industry…
Married Women Over 30, here’s a pitch for a movie: My Dinner With Idris. You never thought it would happen to you, but one rainy night when your handsome and successful but distracted husband who doesn’t appreciate you is out of town, Idris Elba (The Wire, Mandela: Long Walk to…
For women especially, it’s wholly out of fashion to have sympathy for middle-aged white men. In both real life and fiction, the thinking goes, they’ve reigned supreme long enough. Who cares about their anxiety over their receding hairlines, their poochy stomachs, their inability to attract young babes? That tinny plink…
On the east end of the upscale drag that is Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Boulevard, a peculiar new space called Two& — yes, that’s the correct name; it’s pronounced “Two and” — opened its doors just last month. The name is a play on words in an attempt to get…
The Drop, a richly textured, beautifully acted film collaboration between Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead) and novelist-turned-screenwriter Dennis Lehane (Mystic River), takes place in the present, but its heart lies in the noirish past of movies and literature. In that shadowy realm, tough guys are endlessly quotable, and most…
In two minutes, the Beatles captured the empty life of sad singleton Eleanor Rigby. Director Ned Benson is devoting three films to her namesake — a New York divorcée (Jessica Chastain) — and this first entry, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, barely explains her at all. Wan and adrift,…
Since it’s the kind of slow-building movie whose very premise is something of a spoiler, a pretty delicious one, let’s get the consumer-guide jazz out of the way first. Hilary Brougher’s YA-ish horror satire/romance/whatzit Innocence, adapted from Jane Mendelsohn’s novel, boasts a wicked setup, some strong performances, several gloriously bloody…
Even the most inspiration-averse will have eyes as moist as blowholes by the end credits of Dolphin Tale 2, a good-hearted kids’ drama whose earnestness and surprising moral complexity put other sunny-weepy sea-mammal flicks to shame. After the story wraps up, the filmmakers work a trick that’s become common in…
The beginning of David Mackenzie’s U.K. prison drama, Starred Up, might make you wonder if you’ll survive to the end: We see a kid with a hardeyed, shutdown face being matriculated at a new jail — apparently, he’s outgrown his old one, and so he’s been “starred up,” or prematurely…
What’s fascinating, new and neglected across all major video platforms. Among other things, cinema has always been a ready-made self-eulogizer — Hollywood was making two-reeler silent comedies about the craft of moviemaking before the viewing public even knew what it entailed, and documentaries about famous and forgotten threads of film…
This summer, a prankster stole Kevin Smith’s Twitter account and tweeted, “Before this comes out I want to state that I am a gay proud man.” Ninety minutes later, Smith responded: “Not me. Been hacked. Proud to be bi-curious, not brave enough to commit.” But the internet already knew that…
Step into the kitchen of chef Giovanni Rocchio, owner of Valentino in Fort Lauderdale, and experience the best in Italian wine and cuisine with the restaurant’s latest special event, wine-pairing dinners. Thursday, Valentino will host a special wine dinner featuring icons of Italian winemaking for aficionados celebrating the best of…
In an effort to showcase music that will remain unforgotten, Classic Albums Live recruits some of the greatest musicians to perform your favorite music. When it comes to Prince’s Purple Rain, you should not expect any different. As much as we’d all love to see Prince perform this epic album,…
Put on your heels, grab your purse, and get ready for a day of high-class pampering. One of its most worthwhile events of the season, local breast cancer charity organization Glam-a-Thon, has teamed up with the Gallery of Amazing Things to host its annual Lipstick Lounge. Lipstick Lounge is Glam-a-Thon’s…
