Once upon a time, the daily newspaper was delivered on grassy lawns, and comic strips made their way into American homes on lazy Sunday mornings, when readers fought over the cartoon pages alongside clacking cereal bowls and sizzling bacon. Charles M. Schulz, the mastermind behind Peanuts, arguably created the finest…
A 9-year-old girl with leukemia and a war correspondent kidnapped and bound in a Middle Eastern cell do not sound like typical subjects for American musicals, a form often associated with jubilance and escapism. They sound like more CNN headlines or Oscar-bait movies. But two musicals about just these subjects,…
In Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, Iron Man gets off a good burn on Thor during their intramural fight in the woods: “Shakespeare in the park?” he says. “Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?” Like any good Shakespearean pastiche, The Avengers began in media res, with a glowy cube thing…
Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams, and pop-pom-furred Wild Things that populate Monsters movies. Their very lives depend upon coaxing night-screams from human kids, a premise rich enough for Seuss or Borges. Is it too much to ask, then, that a film…
The new film from Spanish writer/director Pablo Berger is a silent, black-and-white film so witty, riveting, and drop-dead gorgeous that moviegoers may forget to notice that they can’t hear the dialogue. Astutely, Berger has chosen to wrap his experiment around a tale everyone knows: the perils of that sweet beauty,…
Rama Burshtein’s Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that when pieced together, the sensuous images accumulating into a fuller picture, become a wedding dress, tulle and silk diffusing the glow. Engagements, weddings, births, and deaths: This film is a more traditional kind of…
It’s to the great detriment of The Kings of Summer that it follows the identically premised Mud by just weeks. Both films tell bittersweet coming-of-age stories about teenage friends who learn how to become men in a soon-to-be-corrupted Eden, and both are questionably embellished by a predictable teen romance, an…
In World War Z, All That Matters Is Brad Pitt
Now that the heat of summer has kicked in, true Floridians will tell you to go out only at night. Norton Museum is offering a summer kickoff for its latest installment, Block by Block: Inventing Amazing Architecture. Block by Block is the result of too many hours with oodles of…
You may think the only way to experience Asian culture in South Florida is to visit the World Showcase in Orlando’s Epcot. But now you can get a taste of Asian tradition and music in your own backyard at Coco’s Asian Celebration at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. The show features…
Every third Saturday of the month, FAT Village “idea agency” and production house C&I Studios opens its doors to the public and hosts the area’s topnotch bands. June’s edition of “Live at C&I Studios” will be a singular treat as the photographic and film-editing studio is bringing in two acts…
Contrary to its name, Fort Lauderdale watering hole the Poorhouse has been rich in its musical offerings and beer selection for more than a decade. No other Himmarshee venue has shown as much dedication to the local music scene as the Poorhouse. From blues to punk to indie and jazz,…
Beer fans, unite! Forty local, regional, and national beer brands will be out in full force at the second-annual Palm Beach Craft Beer Festival at the Meyer Amphitheater in West Palm Beach from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Sample beers from local brewers Due South, Florida Beer Co., J. Wakefield,…
Admit it, you miss playing hide-and-seek. Well, we have life-changing information: You haven’t grown out of the game; the game has grown with you. Whether you are a local who knows Delray Beach like the back of your hand or a newbie looking to learn, the Great Delray Chamber of…
Pistache French Bistro is offering skint, would-be travelers a slightly cheaper option this summer with its ‘Tour du Monde’ events. The ‘tour’ will take guests through a variety of cuisines and national traditions. ‘Tour du Monde’ guests will receive a passport to collect stamps at each event. Since membership has…
Want to learn about beer but feel it’s too much to just jump in headfirst? Do trips to Total Wine make your head spin? Don’t despair; Riverside Market in Fort Lauderdale has you covered with an introductory six-week beer academy hosted by top area craft-beer aficionados, including Eric Guererro from…
Beer geeks, get ready. On Thursday, June 27, Tap 42 is hosting a tap takeover with the ultimate firkin, Blueberry Muffin Top Vanilla Porter. This one-time tapping will go alongside other Breckinridge favorites like Vanilla Porter, Oak Aged Pandora’s Bock, and 471 Batch Double IPA. The takeover starts at 7…
Your favorite characters come to life in The Wedding Singer, a stage-set comedy from when hair was big and collars were flipped up. It’s 1985, and rock-star hopeful Robbie Hart is tearing up the wedding circuit, leaving bridal parties in his dust. But when he loses his head groupie and…
Monty Python fans: Brace yourselves. Some of the funniest scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail are about to hit the stage in Monty Python’s Spamalot at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square. The musical comedy of the Arthurian legend, “lovingly ripped off” from…
“Printed Matters” will have author Cary Polkovitz with special guest authors Billy Hitz and Monique Wegmuller reading from their works. Polkovitz is a Kickstarter baby who successfully funded his book Often Overlooked, which focuses on everyday beauty that people — you guessed it — often overlook. He accompanies these images…
Ever wonder what it takes to make awesome German bread? It’s your chance to learn with Slow Foods Glades to Coasts tour of the German Bread Haus. On Saturday, July 13, at 3 p.m., the German Bread Haus will conduct tours for groups of eight for just ten bucks. The…
Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is a movie event with an actual movie inside, crying to get out. Despite its preposterous self-seriousness, its overblown, CGI’ed-to-death climax, and its desperate efforts to depict the destruction of, well, everything on Earth, there’s greatness in this retelling of the origin of Superman; moments…
