Thursday March 4 Tequesta — the town, not the ancient Indian people — is way up in north Palm Beach County, but the drive may be worth it if you’re into glass art. In the show “Hot Glass,” opening today at the Lighthouse Gallery and School of Art (373 Tequesta…
It’s a typical day in the American West of the 1880s, and you’re strolling into Burritoville, minding your own business, when suddenly the peace and quiet is shattered by gunfire. As you take cover and load your pistols, you realize the Hatfields are looking for revenge. You’re in for a…
Thursday February 25 Truth is indeed often stranger than fiction — and sells just as well. John Berendt proved that point with Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, his megaselling novel based on a murder case in Savannah, Georgia. In that same vein, The New Yorker magazine writer…
The first post time is still half an hour away, but the thoroughbred racing action has already begun, via video, in the Inside Track Room. The glass-enclosed area, which resembles nothing more than a smokers’ lounge at the airport — sans smoke — is beneath the grandstand at Gulfstream Park…
Thursday February 18 Everyone’s heard of the guy, but how many folks, outside of the art world, really know anything about him? Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is now famous for his depictions of the nightlife of the Montmartre section of Paris in his paintings and drawings. But he began his…
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the Tennessee-North Carolina border along a rugged stretch of mountains. From one peak to the next, elevation changes drastically, and the area is notorious for extreme weather changes, too. But when Charles Anchors, Jr. and a buddy set out on a backcountry trip…
Thursday February 11 In 1993 Dr. Kary B. Mullis won the Noble Prize in Chemistry for the invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), the method used to identify specific DNA molecules. His work has revolutionized the field of forensic science, which now relies on DNA identification to pinpoint suspects…
The first rule of writing a successful romance novel is to make your characters beautiful. The estimated 45 million romance readers in North America demand it. Romance fans also want lush, descriptive writing and some substance to balance the lovey-dovey stuff, according to a couple local romance authors. And with…
Thursday February 4 Blue humor is the easy way out for comedians of dubious talent. On the flip side is Chris Rock. As much political animal as comic, he uses racy language and imagery to drive home points on race relations and politics in his sharply honed bits. The Saturday…
Back when flower children were earning the nickname “granolas” for their healthy eating habits, nutritionist Nikki Goldbeck was handling public relations for a food company. “In doing that, I realized how skewed the public’s perception of nutrition was,” she recalls. “What we were learning [about nutrition] was what the food…
After the Dolphins’ pathetic wildcard playoff loss to the Denver Broncos, Super Bowl Sunday in South Florida should be a day of mourning. But the biggest bowl of ’em all will take place in South Florida, at Pro Player Stadium in Miami-Dade. So, like it or not, it’s party time…
Motorcycle mechanic Sergio Morales’ garage in Havana is an apt representation of today’s Cuba. Black-and-white photographs of the repair shop reveal cracked cement and a tangle of spliced wires leading to an air compressor. The paint on the walls is peeling, and the grease-stained hands of one of the mechanics…
Thursday January 28 Natalie Cole, as we all know, is the daughter of legendary singer Nat “King” Cole, and while her dad’s genes may have helped her singing voice, she didn’t depend solely on his name to become a star in her own right. The 49-year-old singer performed in her…
Thursday January 21 For a quarter of a century, Joyce Tarnow has been part of the abortion debate, and she’ll speak at tonight’s Voice For Choice celebration of the 26th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. “Celebration,” however, may be too strong a…
Rumor has it that the South Florida lesbian magazine Fountain will soon cease publication. The magazine, which has been in circulation for about five years, will supposedly be replaced by a new magazine called She. But there’s also talk that, sometime in the future, Fountain may make a comeback. So…
Thursday January 14 No one is calling him the next Martin Luther King, Jr., nor is he claiming the title. But in his own way, Tavis Smiley is continuing the good doctor’s work. He’s host of the Black Entertainment Television talk show BET Tonight With Tavis Smiley, on which he…
Spalding Gray likes to talk about himself. Sitting alone on stage behind a wooden desk, with a microphone, a notebook, and a glass of water as his only props, the actor-writer has made a career out of yakking about his life. Of the 18 humorous, autobiographical monologues he’s written and…
Lounging on plush couches and overstuffed armchairs, and sitting at bistro tables appliqued with collage art, the thirty- and fortysomething patrons at the candle-lit Now Art Cafe in Hollywood were expecting, as usual, to hear the languid strains of a New-Age guitarist. But, on a recent Monday night, they were…
Thursday January 7 The highlight of Vanilla Ice’s career so far is comic actor Jim Carrey’s send-up of the hit “Ice Ice Baby” on the Fox comedy-sketch show In Living Color. Carrey, dressed in leather, lampooned the white rapper by dancing spastically across the stage and changing the song title…
Thursday December 31 Since its founding in 1974, the members of Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo have proven two things: 1) Men can indeed perform in pointe shoes — as female ballerinas do — without falling flat on their faces; and 2) excessive amounts of body hair spilling out…
Thursday December 24 What do Jews do on Christmas Eve, when all their Gentile friends are at church or with their families and businesses are closed? Well, if they’re young, single, Jewish professionals, they head to the Matzo Ball. The creation of a Jewish guy who got bored watching It’s…
In this era of megaplexes, the Gateway Cinema 4 theater retains a quaint, neighborhood-theater feel. Built in 1951 near the eastern edge of the Victoria Park neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, it has just one box-office window out front and only four screens inside. “I’m stopped in the lobby all of…
