When the Living Play Dead

Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is the world’s largest funeral party… and South Florida is not one to miss out on the fun. Fat Village will host its third-annual Day of the Dead Celebration on Friday, with art exhibitions, music, shopping, performance art, face painting, and…

Designing for Victory

The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach will channel British patriotism in a new exhibition that opens Thursday. “Keep Calm and Carry On: World War II and the British Home Front, 1938-1951” will explore the ways in which artists, designers, architects, and filmmakers in Great Britain strengthened the…

Muggles, Be Warned

Looking for a more authentic Halloween celebration this year? The Moon Path Chapter of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) will present their 15th-annual Witches Ball on Saturday. For local wiccas and pagans, this annual ball marks the Samhain celebration of the new year, or “Halloween” for us Walmart-era…

Trick-Or-Treat On K Street

Got kids? The Downtown Cultural Alliance of Lake Worth has you covered. On Friday evening, the DCA will hold, in its words, a “freaky family Friday of fantasy, fright, and fun” for Halloween. It’ll be blocking off K Street in downtown Lake Worth for all this freaky, frightening, fantastic fun…

A Pit of Passion at ArtsPark

If you’ve been inside a drinking establishment in the past three years, you’ve heard the track “Sleepyhead” by Passion Pit. And then proceeded to have it stuck in your head for weeks on end. Well, the Massachusetts-based synth-poppers will be hitting the ArtsPark Amphitheater in Hollywood on Tuesday, where they…

Delray Takes Politics to the Streets

Delray Beach’s latest installment of On the Ave will get political with “Spin the Vote” this Thursday. Billed as a “voter registration project for the EDM community,” “Spin the Vote” has been popping in at random events all over the country to motivate young people to be more patriotic, one…

Dopapod and Fusik – Funky Buddha, Boca Raton – October 12

A packed house anxiously awaited the experimental funk rock sounds of Dopapod at (appropriately) Boca’s Funky Buddha Lounge this past Friday night. The Brooklyn-based act has spent ample time in Florida, having played at Bear Creek and Aura Music Festivals and numerous other venues in our strange state over the past several years. The band’s following…

Five Fall Brews to Try

Fall is in the air, and all you alcoholics know what that means: fall beer time!OK, let’s get real — fall is never in the air in South Florida. However, it’s fall beer time anyways, damn it, and we’re going to enjoy the frothy goodness of crisp pumpkin and pecan…