The average player is six feet, four inches tall and weighs 200 pounds. A study following the 1984 Olympic Games found they were the most finely tuned all-around athletes. Basketball players? Decathletes? Forget about it. As a recent TV commercial proclaimed while images of buff, battling bodies splashed across the…
Thursday December 4 It’s been in production for slightly more than two centuries, yet Mozart’s Don Giovanni still has the stuff to keep modern operagoers enthralled. First there’s the music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was no slouch as a composer, so of course the music kicks. He also knew just what…
Thursday November 27 Timothea Beckerman grew up in a musical family in a musical city. By age nine she was singing and dancing in the New Orleans clubs where her mother kept bar, then quit school after sixth grade to perform in local revues; as a thirteen-year-old she was being…
Everyone knows that Don Juan is a stud. So how come the protagonist in Mozart’s sensual opera Don Giovanni — “Don Juan” translated from Spanish into Italian — is such a romantic washout? And what really happened between him and Donna Anna? Find out the answer to these and other…
thursday november 20 Merlot, pinot noir, chardonnay, and other varietal wines vie for palate-pleasing prominence during the three-day Las Olas Wine Festival, held today through Saturday. Modeled after a similar annual event in Aspen, Colorado, this celebration of fine food and wine features winetastings at 24 Las Olas Boulevard locations…
thursday november 13 If you’ve procrastinated this far into the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, what the heck are you thinking? A plethora of independent, art, and foreign films fall into your backyard (okay, nearby theaters), and you missed them all — almost. There’s still a chance for celluloid slackers…
He was nine years old when he saw his first Marx Brothers film, A Day at the Races. “That night I remember acting out scenes from the movie with my brother,” says actor Frank Ferrante. “From that point on I became absolutely intrigued by Groucho Marx.” So intrigued, in fact,…
thursday november 6 The twelfth-annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival features art exhibitions, gala parties, workshops, and — of course — plenty of films. Emmy- and Oscar-winning composer Leonard Rosenman talks about music’s influence on the mood of a film in the seminar “Music for Motion Pictures” 9 a.m. today…
Just don’t call it “sci-fi.” The term conjures images of scantily clad women in the arms of bug-eyed beasties. “SF” is the acceptable shortened form for today’s smarter, socially conscious incarnation of science fiction, warns Connecticut SF and fantasy author Esther M. Friesner, a guest speaker at this weekend’s Tropicon…
When Jim Collier was growing up in Deerfield Beach, the land behind the row of white cottages lining the north side of Hillsboro Boulevard — now a suburbia-scape — was still wooded and vacant. The Kestor houses, as the twenty or so tidy Florida bungalows were known, were constructed by…
