It’s been a minute since fuzzed-out, home-bred blog sensation Surfer Blood played a local show. You haven’t forgotten about our cherished West Palm Beach college rock purveyors, have you? Despite releasing an album on a major label, performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and touring the world a few times over,…
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…
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…
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…
Every now and again, jaded though we are, we get a little excited about some new musical gem we encounter. For example, yesterday we stumbled upon the dreamy, trip-a-delic sounds of Celebrator. It’s the latest project of Boca Raton resident David Barnard. If you didn’t know any better, listening to…
Don’t be passé and get caught wearing white after Labor Day; get it all out of your system this weekend at the End of Summer White Party at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. This posh summer sendoff gives revelers a chance to dress to impress in their summertime white…
After enduring a two-month permitting battle with the City of Boynton Beach, the Boynton Beach Art District’s monthly art walk returns this Thursday enlivened and reenergized. With its city ban now lifted, BBAD’s Art Walk celebrates its four-year anniversary this week. Sprouting from a nearly abandoned warehouse lot, this event…
This weekend, our very own “fold-out party Bible,” PureHoney magazine, celebrates its third year of existence. The noble endeavor of creating an indie print publication in this digital world is undertaken by Steve Rullman. Besides going strong, PureHoney is hosting a proper shindig at Respectable Street to celebrate its anniversary,…
This weekend, our very own “fold-out party Bible,” PureHoney magazine, celebrates its third year of existence. The noble endeavor of creating an indie print publication in this digital world is undertaken by Steve Rullman. Besides going strong, PureHoney is hosting a proper shindig at Respectable Street to celebrate its anniversary,…
With Robert Plant’s epic yawps, Jimmy Page’s masterful, bewitching guitar strokes, and John Bonham’s monstrous snare-drum rolls, Led Zeppelin rose to become one of the ’70s’ seminal acts. Arguably, its sound defined a generation and will go down in the annals of classic rock for generations to come. Most of…
The all-knowing internet defines “ballyhoo” as “a buildup, hoopla, fanfare.” And no title more aptly describes the musical output produced by the Aberdeen, Maryland, reggae/rock/punk fusion quartet known by that handle. Add an exclamation point to the end — Ballyhoo! — and one can already imagine the level of merriment…
“Wanted: a ’60s-influenced singer looking to participate in a project with a sense of energy and soul,” read a Craigslist ad posted by local musical whiz Christopher Moll two years ago. Moll had gotten the itch to start crafting music again after stepping away from a bustling career with his…
The all-knowing internet defines “ballyhoo” as “a buildup, hoopla, fanfare.” And no title more aptly describes the musical output produced by the Aberdeen, Maryland, reggae/rock/punk fusion quartet known by that handle. Add an exclamation point to the end — Ballyhoo! — and one can already imagine the level of merriment…
The Classic Albums Live series is the brainchild of Canadian musician Craig Martin and touts masterful, note-for-note re-creations of classic rock’s most brilliant gems. From the Beatles’ Abbey Road to the Eagles’ Hotel California and Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin II, Martin’s ensemble knows no bounds. On Thursday, Martin brings his…
One minute it’s a parking lot, the next, poof, it’s a full-on concert, hosting some of South Florida’s top musical acts with cocktails, swag bags, and all the fixings. That’s the concept behind Summer Sountrack’s weekly pop-up series, taking over secret locales in Fort Lauderdale this month. Pop-ups are instant…
Celebrating its 40-year anniversary, lively sexual comedy Let My People Come stands as relevant today as it did back in 1974, when it premiered at the Village Gate Theater on Bleecker Street in NYC’s Greenwich Village. What with today’s climate of court rulings on gay marriage, Andrew Living Arts couldn’t…
Improvisational comedy troupe Sick Puppies has been racking up the laughs since setting up shop in Boca Raton’s 125-seat Showtime Theatre last year. Tickets for its monthly 90-minute nonscripted performances are snagged up quickly, with shows often selling out. This weekend, the Sick Puppies are upping the hilarity factor when…
A Culture of Symphony Entering its 23rd year, Summerfest links up players of the Symphony of the Americas with an ensemble from overseas for one month’s worth of performances across Florida. Joining the Symphony of Americas this year will be the highly acclaimed Mission Chamber Orchestra, which is making the…
Boynton Beach Arts District’s acclaimed monthly art walks will live to see many another day! We hit up BBAD’s outspoken leader Rolando Barrero yesterday and found him to be in great spirits about the outcome of his meeting with the City of Boynton Beach on Friday. Barrero met with Boynton…
Enjoy a two-hour-long indulgence in all the Tito’s Handmade Vodka you can drink Friday without any guilt. Why no guilt? Because it’s all for a good cause. Cocktails for Charity offers attendees two hours’ worth of the best vodka ever to come out of Austin, Texas, with 100 percent of…
Just in time for the remaining lazy days of summer comes Materia. It’s the newest, breezy, leisurely-paced electro effort by Coral Springs’ Millionyoung. The EP comes out today on Brooklyn-based Old Flames Records and already received considerable blog love. Millionyoung, and its creator Mike Diaz, is no stranger to the…
Tonight is a big deal for Danny Brunjes and his crew. It marks the long-awaited debut not only of his project, Rivers itself, but the band’s first, eponymous release. Yeah, that’s right, a double whammy. Friday is the act’s first official gig, like, ever. We don’t remember any local group…
