Tea at the Artist Cafe with Andrea Huffman This two hour workshop uses Edmund Feldman’s Four Step Criticism teaching participants how to look more closely at works of art in museums and art galleries, understand artist’s intentions and draw informed conclusions about the artwork. Elaboration of the Design Principles will…
After last season’s sold-out Broadway and Classics performance, this multifaceted concert will return with gusto in a style that only the Symphony the Americas and Maestro James Brooks-Bruzzese can deliver. Audiences will be thrilled to hear more of their favorite melodies both classic and popular presented by full orchestra with…
Ann Storck Center, a true slice of Fort Lauderdale history, was named after its founder, Ann Storck, a nurse who opened up her home to care for children with disabilities in the 1950s. The center was incorporated in 1981 and today serves more than 300 intellectual disabled individuals on over…
After being kidnapped by two criminals during birth, Chappie becomes the adopted son in a strange and dysfunctional family. Chappie is preternaturally gifted, one of a kind, a prodigy. He also happens to be a robot. Mon., March 9, 2015…
The Historical Society will host Suzanne Tripp for her lecture “The Last Train from Key West” when the FREE Broward 100 Lecture series continues on Monday, March 9, 2015 at 6 p.m. Tripp’s lecture is based on her mother’s (Doris Brady) book that tells the story of her trip on…
Broward College North Campus presents the Bergonzi String Quartet in concert featuring faculty artist Joanne Kampiziones-Ying, performing Beethoven String Quartet, Opus 18, No. 5, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for piano and strings, as well as other arrangements by the Bergonzi String Quartet. The performance will be held on Monday, March…
Singer, songwriter, and actor, Paul Anka became famous in the late 1950s, 60s, and 70s with hit songs like “Diana,” “Lonely Boy,” and “Put Your Head on My Shoulder.” In addition to his illustrious singing career, Anka wrote the theme music for “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” Tom Jones’…
This lecture series will discuss “When it Rains, It’s Stored: Managing the Ebb and Flow of South Florida’s Water Resources.” Mon., March 9, 2015…
By Stassa Edwards Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s tumultuous marriage is the stuff of legend. In a relationship situated somewhere between codependent and abusive, the Mexican painters married in 1929, divorced in 1939, and remarried in 1940. Though deeply fraught and troubled, their relationship has an enduring appeal in large…
Margot Wins the Willennium If Grace Kelly had been raised by coyotes, she might have stalked the screen like Focus’ Margot Robbie, a va-va-voom blonde with bite. Robbie is too beautiful to play normal, too sly to play nice. Miscast as a shy saint in Craig Zobel’s upcoming Sundance hit…
Even if you’ve never seen or heard of a movie called She Killed in Ecstasy, isn’t it lovely to know that such a thing exists in the world? That 1971 eroto-thriller was a creation of prolific Spanish-born writer/director Jess Franco, who had a lasting career making florid B movies with…
Spike Lee still summons miracles — but sometimes you gotta dig for them. I can’t exactly recommend Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, his remake/cover/jazz-variation on Bill Gunn’s epochal indie lulu Ganja and Hess, but I can recommend Ganja and Hess, so elusive and bloody and challenging a picture that it’s…
Where we come from defines us more than we even realize. That’s the idea implicit in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s somber, sturdily elegant drama Leviathan, in which a mechanic who has lived on the same parcel of land all his life — as his father and grandfather did before him — resists…
TV shows aren’t too different from people in at least one respect: The longer they’ve been around, the less interest they tend to garner. But the sixth season of FX’s beloved spy spoof Archer is like few others. It’s an “unrebooting” of the previous year, in which creator Adam Reed,…
Artspower USA presents this wonderful musical stage production of this classic tale of the brightly colored trains that set out across a big mountain (Grades K-2). Thu., Feb. 26, 2015…
t began as one man’s story… became everyone’s music… and is now Broadway’s musical. MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is the true American dream story of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and many…
When he was 9 years old, Chazz Palminteri received an index card from his father that read, “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” That axiom stayed with him through his time as a struggling actor and as a club bouncer in New York City, even when he was…
Celebrated Mexican folk artist Frida Kahlo once famously quipped, “There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley; the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.” Crippled by a trolley accident as a teen, Kahlo spent years in isolation, learning to paint as she…
Miami New Times proudly presents the 7th Annual ARTOPIA® event on Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 7pm – 10pm at the Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Avenue in Coral Gables. This event joins together an eclectic a touch of art, culture, fashion, food, music and film. Join us as we…
Florida Grand Opera (FGO) continues to solidify its commitment to education and the community by partnering with the Broward County Public Library System to offer a free literacy program running through the 2014-15 season. Fri., Feb. 27, 2015…
Featuring popular Broadway songs, Italian canzones and opera highlights, Teatro Lirico D’Europa presents a 2-hour concert complete with full orchestra, international opera soloists and narration by a Master of Ceremonies. Fri., Feb. 27, 2015…
It’s 1977, and the world of music is changing fast. Disco is dying and the defiant new attitude of punk is rising to replace it. Set against this changing of the musical guard, Rooms follows Monica, an ambitious singer-songwriter, and Ian, a hard-driving rocker, as their romantic and creative partnership…
