When you think big-budget organized sports like the NFL, a vegan fan base may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Save for the Skittles commercials this coming Sunday, most of the fancy halftime food ads are totally lost on us. Big Game supermarket deals focus heavily on…
There is a line from the classic Bill Murray film Groundhog Day that rings especially memorable for us Floridians: “OK, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties, ’cause it’s cooooold out there today… What is this, Miami Beach?” This is because, while the sunny shores of South Florida…
We recently interviewed interviewed Lucinda Williams, and on our call, she lamented the difficulties of her earlier days, hitting the road alone. “I talked to a girl not too long ago, a young singer-songwriter. And she was doing all that that I used to do, driving all over the place…
It was an astute advice columnist who once said ‘find that one thing you love…and then pursue it on night and weekends for the rest of your life, (thank you The Onion). For many well-known faces on the internet (where most, if not all, content is free and ad revenue…
National Geographic photojournalist Maggie Steber remembers one of the first times she was confronted with the real possibility of danger on the job. “Once in Haiti in a church that had been attacked by a gang with machetes and machine guns, and it was the church of Father Aristide, who…
Try as elementary history books might, it’s not a well-kept secret that President Lincoln was a man of many contradictions. So much so, in fact, that even while he was delivering the groundbreaking lines to the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln himself was dealing with his own conflicted views on slavery, racism,…
A line Lucinda Williams likes to sing that she borrowed from her poet father is: “The temporary nature of any precious thing, that just makes it more precious.” It was just one of the many bits of advice, momentary musings, or poetic observations that her father, Clinton inaugural poet Miller…
Comedian Russell Peters has set records with his popularity — once for performing for the largest audience in Australia for a standup comedy show, another in 2009, when he set record sales in London, and last for being the first comic to sell out Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. He made…
We could blame the foodie movement’s loving embrace of deep-fried Oreos, butter, and cola, or maybe it’s social media’s push to embrace all things nostalgic and formerly cheesy (ugly Christmas sweaters, anyone?), but it does seem as if the ol’ county fair is in a renaissance period of late. See…
Usher in the Year of the Sheep (one of the most feminine, creative, and inspiring signs of the Japanese zodiac) with a proper Oshogatsu New Year’s Celebration at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach) on Sunday. Yes, you may have already rung in the…
Fact: This past New Year’s Eve, promises of “Out with the old, in with the new!” were shouted at top volumes around 11:59 p.m., and those were noble sentiments indeed. But let’s make one little, teeny, tiny exception with tonight’s Holiday Hangover at the Historic Stranahan House Museum (335 SE…
This week as cozy lounge pants are swapped for lycra gym shorts, cigarettes are traded in for patches, and the Fry Daddy used for holiday donut holes is secured in the back of the cupboard in favor of bringing the juicer front and center – New Year’s resolutions (both eventually…
When you become an adult, there are certain childhood beliefs you need to reassess — like leafy green vegetables taste like total garbage or thrift stores, yards sales, and flea markets are all dank and dusty places that your grandparents drag you to on the weekends during prime cartoon time…
All the attention is on Wednesday’s New Year’s Eve festivities, but anyone worth their weight in Miller High Life bottle caps will tell you: The big day is little more than amateur hour. Sidestep the overpriced door entries, drunken frat boys on holiday break, and sidewalk mystery puddles and start…
Gloria Steinem. Joan Rivers. Gwyneth Paltrow. Norman Lear. What do these incredibly accomplished and wickedly talented people have in common? If you feel a knee-jerk cue for some acoustic strumming and a young Adam Sandler sing-along coming on, you’d be on point. But Sandler isn’t the only one singing gifted…
Holidays can be truly problematic for vegans, as they are a celebratory chance to be with people you love deeply, but they are often gathered around a holiday roast, of one species or another. While meals at their home can prove to be a little easier if you bring a…
The resounding familial chorus of “Why haven’t you met a nice Jewish boy/girl to bring home?” can be absolutely deafening this time of year — especially with all of the required extended-family get-togethers — but if they could just see, it’s not for lack of trying, right? Promising an “unforgettable…
Riding on the success of last week’s larg- est local gathering of people wearing ugly holiday sweaters (an estimated 700 hideous creations were attempted), Delray Beach is absolutely nailing it in terms of holiday spirit this year. Add the beaming 100-foot Christmas tree, the Santa cookie cruise, and the massive…
No, there are no artsy Target Superstores, walkable designated arts districts, or fashionable Europeans flying in to get a closer look at this Basel, but on the upside — there is also no $30 parking fee, overheard stuffy-art-critic dribble, or gentrification of some of the city’s most eclectic spots. If…
Student-led holiday concerts have come a long way since the days of sour notes, off-time handclaps, and solos only a mother could love. Exhibit A: Nova Southeastern University’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ Annual Peace Concert. The Bossa Nova Chorale (NSU’s premier vocal ensemble) and Pro Musica Chamber Ensemble…
If neighborhood Christmas-light tours, curbside caroling, and cups of eggnog shared among friends sounds like something of a naive, Rockwellesque era (or at the very least an era before there was the possibility of Googling your neighbor’s criminal past or viewing potentially damning Facebook posts), it may be time to…
“Everything in South Florida is refined, polished, and perfected — we are trying (without trying) to break that mold,” says neo-burlesque performer Tuesday Lee Afton. She and a handful of others in the recently formed, Lake Worth-based performance troupe Cabernet Cabaret (a group that supports and promotes an atmosphere free…
