Almost everything we know about Grant Peeples we learned from perusing his website and browsing the Internet. But we saw enough there to get us out the door and over to Lake Worth’s South “F” Street tonight to pick up on his quirky, folkie tunes and wry, very political attitude…
If the second time is a charm, Florida may soon take steps toward enlightened drug policy. For the upcoming legislative session in Tallahassee, proposals that were introduced but died stillborn last year have been revived, and with bipartisan support. One would rewrite mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for possession of pain…
A man of some history, many parts, a hard edge, and a soft underbelly, singer/songwriter and hairstylist extraordinaire David K brings his tales of heartbreak and paradox to the stage on an irregular basis. One of those appearances happens tonight in off-downtown West Palm Beach, at the Blind Monk, a…
Mouse-mild, youthful, and nerdy but with an unnerving intensity to his gaze, Everett Stern sits in the booth of a local chain restaurant and announces, “I’m sure I’ll get capped eventually.” It seems melodramatic — especially in the Florida suburban setting — but the record is there: The former Wellington…
This Sunday, arts and social justice marry at Unit 1, the new Lake Worth gallery and performance space, as it hosts a fundraiser for the South Florida Prison Book Project. It is the latest effort in the group’s many years of providing free books to citizens who’ve run afoul of…
We know the city fathers and mothers of Palm Beach Gardens are licking their chops at the prospect of luring the Houston Astros to set up a new spring training facility in their burg. We know there may be as much as $100 million in public funds going into the…
They’re out there in the bushes, unrecognized but bursting with talent, according to Saxsa Stevens. And Saturday night, he and unindicted co-conspirator Tuesday Gilliam plan to lure local aspiring artistes onto the stage of Coastars Coffee in Lake Worth. It is there that they will sing, dance, prance, read, tell…
Susan Joy Share likes to play dress-up with paper. Onstage, to varied musical accompaniment, she drapes book-like constructions over and around her body like a tutu, then a bandolier, then a head wrap and a prayer shawl; she spreads them across the floor or fans origami slinkies through the air,…
FAU’s student paper, University Press, has a cover in this week’s issue that trumpets the phrase “Free Palestine,” illustrated by a photo of students reenacting an Israeli soldier’s detention of a Palestinian woman at a roadblock. See also: – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Gets Personal at FAU It’s the kind of…
Here’s more news of the good things in store for South Florida if present climate change trends continue. Not. See also: Dengue Fever Cases in Florida Confirmed That dengue fever you heard about? The creepy disease also known as “breakbone fever” and that is normally confined to places along the…
Two years along and still choogling, artist and impresario Rolando Chang Barrero’s adventurous alternative arts gallery ActivistArtistA is throwing a three-day birthday bash this weekend. The event includes live music, visual arts, food, and performances of the unexpected sort that we’ve come to expect from him. This includes fire acts,…
Governor Evil’s Rick Scott’s secretary of state, Ken Detzner, hit Ft. Lauderdale yesterday on the last stop of his “Project Integrity” road show, which the state describes as an effort to “[protect] the voting rights of eligible voters from those who may cast an illegal vote.” Voter fraud is common…
Pitching the public a shot at the Way and the Truth and the Lights of Broadway, an outfit called Actors, Models & Talent for Christ is bringing its traveling road show to West Palm Beach later this month. Will the next great Christian rock star arise out of Palm Beach…
Artist and arts impresario Rolando Chang Barrero has another lively show opening this weekend at his Boynton Beach exhibition space, ActivistArtistA Gallery. (Un)Common Traces is a fresh effort by four artists from Dwelling Projects, a Dade County artists’ collective. Just two years along, Dwelling Projects grew out of the arts…
Why anyone would want to be saddled with the leadership of the Palm Beach County Republican Party is a mystery. Reeling from their unexpected loss in the 2012 presidential contest (they really thought Thurston Howell III Willard was going to pull it out) and riven by Tea Party wilfullness, the…
No one disputes that Dylan Bouscher, editor in chief of FAU’s student newspaper, University Press, approached the scene of an August 24 suicide on the school’s Boca Raton campus. There are two versions of what he did there. Police say he “showed a total lack of respect for FAU PD…
Stone metaphors too numerous to name — a landslide of them? — came to mind when I learned that rightwing political hit man Roger Stone had joined Lotus land lefty director Oliver Stone in the JFK conspiracy corps. The rightwing Stone, a former Nixon confidante, has co-authored a new book…
Outside the reach of Fidel’s block committees, working without the approval of Havana’s bureaucrats, independent filmmakers are bursting the limits of mainstream Cuban cinema. A selection of these films, rarely seen in the U.S., will be screened today through Sunday on FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The festival, “Submerged,” was curated…
Florida is currently experiencing an environmental hell. Our rivers and estuaries — basically, the coast’s nurseries for baby sea life — are being devastated. Blob-like, the deterioration of South Florida’s waterways creeps forth inexorably from the chemical dump formerly known as Lake Okeechobee. The water there has been polluted by…
Jacques de Beaufort is easily bored. It’s a problem. Or not, as he’s decided to do something about it, and not for the first time, though this time in peculiar little Lake Worth, on the funky west end of town. The Cal Arts-schooled, D.C.-born, LA expat grew up on Fugazi…
Aficionados of kava — a drink made from the kava root, which is said to have a mild sedative effect — are warning of ill effects from kava gathered in the wild. Apparently, free-range kava is to be avoided and carefully cultivated varieties the way to go. Echoing a scare…
Biotech interests’ plan to sacrifice Briger Forest on the altar of development met new resistance yesterday as environmental groups filed a notice of violation with federal agencies charged with permitting the plan, Scripps Florida Phase II. According to one of the enviros’ attorneys, the notice effectively stops Scripps in its…
