It is out with the old and in with the new at Boca Raton craft-beer watering hole the Funky Buddha. Gone is its weekly Monday-night Improv Jazz Night in favor of a new evening where any genre goes. Homemade Jam Night welcomes musicians of every musical proclivity for one serious,…
Two things are certain in life. One is that death will come for every one of us. The other is that every film Michael Haneke makes will have a fair shot at the Cannes Palme d’Or. Amour, Haneke’s much-garlanded latest, is set almost entirely within a well-appointed Paris apartment, amid…
Two sacred texts of the ’50s proto-counterculture have escaped the rapacious machine of cinema adaptation for a half-century. One is J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, which probably would have worked only if starring Salinger himself, and the other is Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, that ecstatic recount of crossings…
There’s traffic from Silver Lake. That’s why Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund, the stars of On the Road, are late to the Benedict Room of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. We’re as psychically far from Jack Kerouac’s Beat gospel as you can get: fidgeting under crystal chandeliers in…
In George A. Romero’s deeply silly 1993 Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half, Timothy Hutton stars as Thad Beaumont, a writer whose highbrow pretensions don’t pay the bills. When Thad needs to make a quick buck, then, he seals himself into his study and grinds out a nihilistic thriller to…
Nobody likes going to see the doctor. But when your sleepwalking condition has become so detrimental that, in a somnambulatory state, you collapse through the second-story window of a La Quinta Inn and require 33 stitches in your leg, it might finally be time to see a specialist. This incident…
Margaret Cho is one comedian who will never lose her audience. Not only because gays and Koreans won’t be going extinct anytime soon but because she is, herself, an evolving artist. She’s danced with the stars and inked most of her flesh. She played a comedic but convincing Kim Jong…
You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2009. Coogler opens the film–one of…
Sometimes, one film in a festival lineup can help to reveal another in sharper relief. To wit, one of the loveliest entries in Sundance 2013’s U.S. Dramatic Competition, James Ponsoldt’s deeply felt coming-of-age drama The Spectacular Now, looked even better after the premiere of The Way Way Back, a deeply…
Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color — a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body — was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Well, let’s say it was a class shared by a more conventional but no less heady…
Any sense of remorse about overdoing it at this Thursday night’s Hollywood Craft Beer Pub Crawl can be overcome with the thought: “Hey, it’s for a good cause.” Who can argue with that? A $10 donation from each pub crawler goes directly to the Covenant House Florida — a private…
Some people like toe-tapping to the blues, and others are moved by traditional gospel hymns. Still others like music, such as hip-hop and reggae, that makes them want to dance. Whatever music it is that touches your soul and gets your blood pumping, the Grammy Award-winning female a cappella group…
True to its name, ArtHeart is an art and music event that beats a pulse. More than mere art parties, ArtHeart events seek to promote undiscovered artists while simultaneously raising money for charity. This year’s ArtHeart aims to raise more than $18,000 for the ZOE Ministry, a relief ministry based…
According to the bio on Christopher Ian Macfarlane’s blog page, crapbychris.com, the young artist is just “a dude who likes to make art.” If only other South Florida artists were this humble. Although Macfarlane didn’t learn his technique in an elitist art school, he has spent a lifetime devoted to…
Monty Python’s Spamalot is one of the most successful convergences of comedy nerd culture and Broadway fanaticism ever to trot across the stage using coconuts in place of horses. The cheeky musical comedy, based on the 1975 cult classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, has been going strong since…
Das Biergarten in Jupiter is celebrating its grand opening with craft beer happy hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, January 26. There’ll be live music from 4:30 p.m. on. Sat., Jan. 26, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. & 4-7 p.m., 2013…
Even a strictly sugar-free diet could, from time to time, use a sweet break. The fetching vixens of Cupcake Burlesque offer a calorie-free helping of candy that’s far more likely to get the heart racing than to rot the teeth. South Florida’s female-founded burlesque troupe performs in classic style with…
Nothing is more American than barbecue and good, ol’-fashioned competition. No one has ever achieved barbecue greatness by sitting around, taking handouts. If you’re looking to watch some dramatic BBQ Pitmaster-type entertainment, look no further. The American Institute of Fine Wine South Florida and River Walk Fort Lauderdale are hosting…
If the thought of gyros and baklava makes you hungry and syrtaki dancing tickles your fancy, you may be ready for a trip to Greece. Passport not updated? No worries. Greece is closer than you think. “Passport to Greece,” the 31st-annual Greek Festival at Saint Mark Greek Orthodox Church, located…
Now in it’s 16th year, ArtPalmBeach returns to the Palm Beach County Convention Center from noon to 7 p.m. January 25, 26, and 27 and from noon to 6 p.m. January 28. One day admission is $15 in advance or $20 at the door . Multi-day passes are available for $20…
Making a play is a long and arduous process. Sure, there are fun parts but not nearly as much sleeping around as you’d think. Mostly, it’s just exhausting hours and sheer determination that get a play made. The task of crunching that down into a 24-hour period seems, well, impossible…
Flamingo Gardens in Davie hosts a fleet of food trucks from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, February 1. The trucks will gather in the front parking lot. Fri., Feb. 1, 5-9 p.m., 2013…
