Ice cream: It’s the sweet, cold, and tasty treat so dear to our hearts that we make up chants for it. It’s what we crave on hot summer days, it comes in a seemingly endless array of delicious flavors, and it becomes our own edible masterpiece with carefully selected toppings…
Summertime calls for relaxing movie nights spent with family and friends, watching everything from classics to rom-coms, old films and new ones alike. This summer, Hot Days Cool Flicks is providing six weeks full of movies. This Tuesday through August 27, the Mandel JCC will host Palm Beach film premieres…
The Feast of the Sea Chefs Challenge Series has intensified. With two skirmishes down, chefs Edwin Bermudez of Nick & Johnnie’s and Eugenio Santucci of Ristorante Santucci have secured their spots for the final showdown in September. This third challenge, held at Delray Beach’s Salt 7 Steakhouse & Sushi Restaurant,…
Little honeybees swarming about our ecosystem do more than make honey. But unfortunately, we often misunderstand or overlook what a big job these little guys do. Bees play a crucial role in our food source, a job so important that researchers claim that without their existence, humans would not survive…
A truly punk act, a shout of freedom, frustration, and exaltation, hits about halfway through Lukas Moodysson’s girl-punk reverie We Are the Best! The three 13-year-old protagonists, high on the idea of the three-chord band they’ve just started, find some damp garbage bags on the street that, they discover, are…
Who knows why, but the sight of apes sitting tall and proud on horseback is stirring in a primal way. That’s one of the best images in Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the sequel to the enormously successful 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes…
“It’s the secret films you have to watch out for,” jokes Richard Linklater of his new movie Boyhood, a furtive experiment that he kept quiet for more than a decade. In 2002, he chose a first-grader named Eller Coltrane, the 6-year-old son of two Texas artists; cast Patricia Arquette and…
How has there not already been a Nicolas Cage movie called Rage? That title could fit many of the Drive Angry star’s late-career time-wasters. Here it works best as an imperative rather than an announcement of theme: You may feel some anger if you pay to watch this. Or you…
To call Roger Ebert one of the great populist film critics is to damn him with faint praise. Though he took pride in working for the scrappier of the two Chicago dailies, the Sun-Times, and though we do have him to thank — or curse — for popularizing the thumbs-up/thumbs-down…
Why wait until the next St. Patty’s Day to celebrate Irish culture when you can visit Dania Beach’s most authentic Irish pub, the Field Irish Pub and Eatery, any time? Hold the green beer, though. This Thursday, the charming watering hole will offer a savory Irish Whiskey Pairing Dinner at…
In an era of Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decisions, thigh-gap controversy, and Fox News reporters denying the “war on women,” it may be absolutely mind-boggling that here we sit, discussing an upcoming Miss Florida USA 2015 competition. But the pull toward this grown-ass-women version of Toddlers and Tiaras is strong,…
“Gooooaaaalll!” the announcer roars as your team makes the big play and the ball crashes into the opponent’s net, the goalie still in disbelief of the last few seconds’ occurrences. You leap up, arms raised high, adrenaline rushing through your veins, excitement overwhelming you as you jump around in victory…
USA Sports Promotions of Florida and the National Physique Committee (NPC) will showcase what they are billing the “largest fitness event east of the Mississippi.” This studfest for NPC-registered enthusiasts will host competitions in men’s bodybuilding, fitness, and physique and in women’s fitness, figure, bikini, and physique. All ages will…
“Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?” said a perturbed Chris Tucker to an amused Jackie Chan in the 2001 hit buddy action film Rush Hour 2. It’s just one of many choice phrases renowned comedian/actor Tucker has exclaimed in box-office hits (who can forget…
If you love the cheesy, thin-crusted, topping-personalized creation we call pizza, then Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria and Bar is planning an event just for you. The pizzeria, known for its coal-fired brick oven pizza and home to the 18-inch white clam pie, is celebrating the opening of its second location…
If there is one thing we can benefit from in this short and topsy-turvy life, it’s living in the moment. That’s the philosophy Casandra Tanenbaum and friends of FlowSource follow. The Lake Worth troupe is made up of flow artists — jugglers, fire dancers, acrobats, break dancers, yogis — who…
Farley Aguilar answers the door of a modest Edgewater duplex while clutching a frosty gin and tonic and sporting a teardrop-creased fedora that would have made Indiana Jones beam. Clad in a Night of the Vampires T-shirt, plaid socks, and sandals, he heads to the inner sanctum of his rumpled…
Mark Ruffalo’s great gift, besides those scruffy good looks and that prickish, hungover charisma, is capturing the essence of the guy who’s spinning toward a crash but trying to angle himself back. His greatest performance, in Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me, one of the best films of the…
“Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late,” the Mekons once sang. The smug suburban Dutch family in writer-director Alex van Warmerdam’s bleakly comic allegory Borgman never got the memo, which leaves them open to a peculiar and languorously sinister home invasion. Not even the backyard is…
Let’s get the obvious bit over with: The early days of the Beatles, as reflected in Richard Lester’s ebullient shout of freedom A Hard Day’s Night, were all about the optimism of the early 1960s, a thrilling and energizing time when young people, and even some older ones, truly believed…
It’s a relief, after the wretched Identity Thief, to see movies whose makers love Melissa McCarthy as much as audiences do. Identity Thief’s comic centerpiece was predicated on the idea that McCarthy having sex is a hilarious gross-out, like she’s the pie Jason Biggs once had to diddle. Half an…
Horror, like porno, can be judged only by its effect on your pulse. If you jerked in your seat, it served its function. Biology requires us to react to jump scares, just as it urges a lonely man to thrill to a great set of tits. But triggering a coronary…
