When Winston Anderson, a Jamaican immigrant and owner of the beautysensation.com cosmetics website, wanted to promote his business, he thought, “Everybody and their cousin is having a concert. Why don’t I have a fashion show? I looked at all the top cosmetics companies and saw what they were doing. Why…
Like moths to a flame or lemmings to a cliff, dutiful couples file into French restaurants, Hallmark shops, and florists each February 14. But admit it: the giving of cards, the lighting of candles, the mumbling of sweet nothings — it’s being done out of obligation, not impulse. This year,…
We mean, the neighborhood goes all cultural and stuff SAT 2/12 Alert! Alert! There has been an infestation! A bunch of artsy-fartsy types have snuck into downtown Lake Worth, erected their easels, and started painting and sculpting things! Some gallery owners settled onto the main drag, while a few artists…
Shaq vs. Duncan marquee matchup SUN 2/13 Tim Duncan and Shaquille O’ Neal are the two most dominant players in the NBA, with apologies to Minnesota’s Kevin Garnett. The pair has claimed three of the past four MVP awards, and four of the last five NBA titles. They’ll battle this…
Pats and Eagles battle for Lombardi’s Trophy SUN 2/6 Is there any representation of brash Americana bigger than the superhyped, superpromoted, supercorporate Super Bowl? This Sunday in Jacksonville, rendition XXXIX pits the defending champion New England Patriots against the Philadelphia Eagles. In one corner, we have the Pats, boasting a…
See the world through old maps FRI 2/4 Who needs a 1763 map of Philadelphia anyway? Find out when 50 antique-map dealers from around the world — armed with newfangled Mapquest printouts and rental car keys — descend on the Miami International Map Fair to show off their collective cartographic…
Why bury your most embarrassing experiences deep down where only a psychiatrist can reach them when you can bring them to a stage for a live audience’s viewing pleasure? That’s playwright Scott Sherven’s m.o. His first completed play, a fast-paced one-man show called Out with Norm, opens with Sherven getting…
Tournament a hit on and off court MON 1/31 Billed as the most globally recognized event in Palm Beach County (that was before Donald Trump’s wedding last week), the Millennium International Tennis Championships start on Monday and run through February 6 at the Delray Beach Tennis Center (201 W. Atlantic…
Canadians baking SAT 1/29 Like the swallows of Capistrano, it’s that time of year again — when Canadians drag themselves from the drudgery of shoveling snow (and the occasional dog-sled race) to make their annual migration to South Florida. Go ahead and joke. Say something about their horrendous driving or…
in the blues pond TUE 1/25 Eric Bibb is an American music blue-blood. His father (Leon Bibb) led the New York Folk Revival of the ’60s; his uncle (John Lewis) was the founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet. As a child, he learned from master bluesmen like Taj Mahal and…
Mayweather headlines Miami fight card SAT 1/22 World Class Boxing is coming back to Miami with Top Rank’s Showdown on the Bay at American Airlines Arena (601 Biscayne Blvd.). The evening’s junior welterweight feature pits undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (31-0, 21 KOs) against Puerto Rican Henry Bruseles (21-2-1, 24 KOs)…
Poets are like rock stars FRI 1/21 In 1998, just after she’d been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, writer Patricia Smith was fired from the Boston Globe for having fabricated material in her columns. The scandal pretty much spelled the end of Smith’s journalism career. From her home in Westchester…
Baboons defy classification but demand attention SAT 1/15 Reviewers have struggled to classify the music of the Baboons ever since the band premiered a decade ago. “Spicy rhythmic gumbo!” said one. “Afro-Cuban funk and roll!” declared another. “Urban-tribal funk,” one more dribbled. And so on. Would it help if we…
Working as a photographer ain’t as fabulous as it’s cracked up to be. Take it from someone who once had to process film in the darkroom at Fenway Park to get Red Sox photos on the Associated Press news wire. Oh sure, walking by all of the suckers who paid…
“Vulnerability, sassiness, and bodaciousness” — that’s what Jawole Willa Jo Zollar wanted to convey when she founded the Urban Bush Women dance troupe in 1984. Bodaciousness was in long supply among the black women in the Kansas City neighborhood where Zollar grew up, but New York — where Zollar moved…
SAT 1/8 Life has been busy for local scenemaker Jared Cole. Just a few months ago, he started a weekly event called Schmoorgis Board Sundays — for which he books, like, 100 bands to play at Ray’s Downtown Bar (519 Clematis St., West Palm Beach). Now he’s bringing the party…
Call it wet, call it wild, just don’t call it dull. 2004 was a year of ups and downs for the local music scene. Plenty of national attention was focused on our golden shores as awards shows flourished, celebs flaunted, and Mother Nature literally tore off the roof. Along the…
Kickballing off the new year SUN 1/2 Are you looking for a unique way to close out the first weekend of the new year? Are you jonesing to have a kid dressed up as a wizard clock you upside the head with a kickball? The inaugural New Year’s Day+1 Punkball…
Pick the needle up SUN 12/26 Don’t let the name intimidate you. DJ Icey, a.k.a. 36-year-old Eddie Pappa, might as well be called DJ Nicey. “I got the name Icey,” he says, “because when I was 18, I lived with three guys, and I had a new down comforter I…
Jared Cole presides over Ray’s Downtown Blues bar with Hugh Hefner-like authority. He sips straight Jim Beam from a highball glass; a cigarette dangles from his hand. His smile is three times the size of his head, not because he’s surrounded by half-naked Bunnies — unless you count the girl…
THU 2 Sometimes in comedy all it takes is the right quote or a really outrageous character to make a lasting impression. John Witherspoon has experience with both, from simple sound bites like “Bang! Bang! Bang!” from Boomerang or hard-headed characters like the father in Friday. Though never quite able…
THU 26 Funny how we scrutinize and scrutinize the people who run for president, but we could give a rat’s posterior about the folks who run for relatively dinky offices. And then they turn out to be gay governors who sleep with their employees or elections supervisors who can’t design…
