This summer’s to-do list held so much promise: more sunset bike rides to the beach, more nighttime sea turtle sightings, more greenmarket visits, and so many more trips to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens — specifically for its short-lived but much-loved summer Sushi & Stroll. Where else can locals…
Fans of PBS’ hit lost treasures appraisals show Antiques Roadshow are really going to appreciate all the serious antiquing offered this weekend at the Art and Antique Appraisal Fair and Salon Fundraiser. It’s set to go off in similar fashion as the popular PBS show, only with a local twist…
The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation will host the 2014 Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk to honor the heroic life and death of Stephen Siller. Siller was a New York City firefighter who strapped on 60 pounds of gear and ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel all…
If seafood is your thing, you’ll want to check out the inaugural seafood extravaganza and festival headed for downtown West Palm Beach. This Saturday, the first Feast of the Sea event will take place on the waterfront in the city’s downtown area. The festival will showcase Palm Beach County’s best…
Judging from the Martin Scorsese treatment of the memoirs of the “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort — there are some things in life we might never want to ask Belfort for advice on. Like how to properly treat the little-people community like actual human beings (Belfort and his coworkers…
For the 2013/14 season, the Girls’ Club secured the curatorial services of artist/sibling duo the TM Sisters. The mission was to look into the vast array of art ephemera in the collection and engage it in a new manner. The sisters, Monica and Tasha, themselves visual artists in multiple genres,…
The Ghost Light Series came to fruition almost ten years ago by county library worker Kevin Johnson and a group of literary friends who got together to read plays at full length at different libraries and community centers across South Florida. Last year, the same group branded these events and…
Drummer Beatriz Monteavaro of sledge-metal duo Holly Hunt has been tearing up South Florida’s music scene for some time now. Those who know the edgy brunet’s musical identity might not know she’s a formally trained artist who has prolifically shown her work since 2000, locally and in galleries around New…
Before getting the chance to speak with Steve Martin, you start to really wonder who Steve Martin is. He’s King Tut, but he’s also The Jerk. He’s dueled banjos with Kermit the Frog and even pissed himself as Ruprecht in what is, safe to say, one of the best movies…
You could be forgiven, after watching the opening minutes of Ira Sachs’ fine-grained and flinty Love Is Strange, for thinking it’ll be a movie about Gay Marriage, with all the import those initial caps imply. We see two older men, clearly a couple, roll out of bed in what is…
If older man/younger women matchups make many people uncomfortable, the older man/much younger women combo tends to make them apoplectic. It would be impossible for Nabokov to publish Lolita today, now that all of life, and all of art, must be arranged, categorized, and restricted as a way of protecting…
Four years ago, comedian Bill Hader told his agent he wanted to do a drama. It took awhile. “I used to think typecasting wasn’t a thing, and it totally is,” Hader admits. “That’s an industry feeling: ‘How can I take that person seriously when I know they’re capable of such…
“I’ll always be anti-authoritarian, as long as I live,” says Terry Gilliam, the comic provocateur who’s been taking aim at the establishment for over four decades. The only thing that changes: his targets. In Life of Brian, it was religion. In Brazil, the government. And in his latest film, The…
To call Anthony Jeselnik the “satanic prince of standup,” as the A.V. Club’s Nathan Rabin so casually put it, is pretty on point. However, denoting “satanism” merely implies that Jeselnik is a follower of the dark side. Jeselnik is the current Satan of comedy. He is slick; he is suave…
The predictions and consequences of global warming — loss of fresh water, pollution of coastal communities, the deforestation of rainforests, and human overpopulation — all run rampant in our media, regardless of whether we choose to pay attention. Unless we search hard for the truth, most of us are unaware…
Awards-show season is back, and it’s sucking the life out of you. We know; it’s sucking the life out of us too. You can pretend to care about Katy Perry’s outfit for only so long. But there is the occasion where the award-giving crowd got it (almost) right. One such…
Burlesque is about more than just buxom broads wearing nipple pasties and teasing audiences with feather boas. Granted, some would argue that this come-hither coquettishness is a big part of the draw, but burlesque is a performance art that has deep roots in vaudevillian theater and encompasses not only scantily…
Most people think the ingredients to a great book start and end with its content. Local artist and graphic designer Victoria Landis has teamed up with Florida Authors Academy to explain why aspiring authors need to be just as concerned with the cover of their eBook, hardback, paperback, and/or audio…
It’s not every day you come across a true friend, one to sit and have a good laugh with when embarrassing paparazzi pictures surface of the two of you swimming on holiday in St. Barts together. Or commiserate about what a total buzzkill that Chevy Chase could be on the…
The best portraits will capture the essence of a person, revealing a sense of who she is in a single image. Traditionally, in portraiture, the subject is prominently displayed; her face and body make up the composition. But in 2007, California-based photographer Robert Weingarten got an idea for a portrait…
Art Houses Are Reshaping the Culture of Broward and Palm Beach
Broward and Palm Beach are drowning in independent cinemas. You’d never know it during a day at the mall, but small theaters like the Gateway and Cinema Paradiso in Broward and the Lake Worth Playhouse and Living Room in Palm Beach are booming. This week, we provide short reviews of…
Weep at another whiff of an Elmore Leonard adaptation, one that nails down neither the peppery laughs nor the street-crime desperation that are key to the writer’s work. Instead, the comedy is too broad to take the characters seriously, and the vibe is breezily aimless, a mistake in a story…
