In December, the Arts Garage in Delray Beach learned it had received not only a coveted Knight Foundation arts grant but also the first-ever Knight Foundation People’s Choice Award. For a theater less than 2 years old, it was a momentous accomplishment. The People’s Choice grant money comes free and…
Can’t afford to hire an art broker to fill that new apartment with conversation starters and head scratchers? Hit the pavement and do the work yourself at this weekend’s 26th-annual Boca Fest Arts Festival. The long-running show will feature more than 150 exhibitors, with everything from large-scale sculpture to fine…
He’s a little long in the tooth, and the leather vest is straining a bit at the seams, but age has done zilch to soften the bite in Andrew Dice Clay’s standup. Raunch remains his language of choice, and he throws around the f word — the one that rhymes…
New Orleans-based VooDoo BBQ & Grill will celebrate its grand opening on Sunday, January 13, in Pembroke Pines. Festivities begin at 11 a.m., and the first 99 customers on opening day will receive free barbecue for a year. Sun., Jan. 13, 11 a.m., 2013…
Either you’re still buzzing with excitement about your awesome New Year’s celebration or you need a redo of a terrible night. Either way, we’ve got you covered. This Sunday, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is hosting Oshogatsu, the Japanese New Year celebration. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the…
West Palm Beach will host the Feast in the Park food truck rally on Thursday, January 17, in Gaines Park. The event is 5 to 9 p.m., and trucks like AZ Canteen, Crazydilla, VeggieXpress, On the Slide, and others are scheduled to appear. Thu., Jan. 17, 5-9 p.m., 2013…
Studies show that the average person spends less than five seconds viewing modern art in a gallery. But fans of the kinetic artwork created by internationally renowned artists Ralfonso and Cork Marcheschi,would beg to differ. For decades, Ralfonso and Cork have wowed viewers with their moving art displays. Ralfonso focuses…
It’s no secret: Our seasons are totally backward. Right now, it’s kind of working out in our favor. While everyone up north is nearly freezing to death, we’re hanging out at outdoor restaurants, taking photos, and bragging to all our northern brethren about our lack of seasons via Instagram. To…
Any night of the week, you can take a date here. An actual big banyan tree out front is so downright magical that you’d think some sort of Irish elves make the delicious homemade cinnamon ice cream inside of it. Indoors, there’s dim lighting and dark wood everywhere you look…
For the spray-paint set, the unmarked concrete alleys in Miami’s Wynwood District are as alluring as the empty Sistine Chapel ceiling must have been to Michelangelo. The whole neighborhood is a blank canvas, begging to get tagged. And during Art Basel week, vanloads of graffiti vets and muralists did just…
“Just so you know, it’s going to take a while,” says the CIA officer to his newly arrived colleague at the start of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. The year is 2003, the place a secret prison (or “black site”) somewhere in the deserts of the Middle East or Asia,…
Most of the blathering last year about the death of film and film culture has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as “a beautiful island with a cemetery” following the world premiere of Holy Motors at Cannes…
When the words true story appear twice in a film’s opening disclaimer, it’s a guarantee that what follows will include at least one questionable fiction. The Impossible is inspired by the Alvarez Belons, a Spanish family of five who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed almost 300,000 lives;…
David Chase looks like he wants to whack somebody. Not just anybody, mind you, but the middle-age guy with the bad dye job a few tables away from us in the Library Bar of the Regency Hotel. “Hiya!” bellows the dye job into his phone. “I’m sittin’ here watchin’ the…
“Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it,” screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood’s A-list. Unexpected, because just five years ago Beall was busy working for Tinseltown’s second most famous employer, the Los Angeles Police Department, where he…
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…
Perhaps in response to bombastic mainstream Hollywood, international auteurs often veer toward minimalism — quieter emotions, slower tempos, a tightly defined era and setting. Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes is clearly a man of the art house — his new film, Tabu, which opens this week, was shot on 16mm black-and-white…
Ah, here it is again: that special time we experience every two to six years when Quentin Tarantino makes a new movie, and people dig out the old “Tarantino just steals everything from such-and-such” arguments. You’ve heard them. Reservoir Dogs is a scene-for-scene rip-off of Ringo Lam’s City on Fire,…
Palm Beach’s Society of the Four Arts pretty much has all corners covered, what with exhibitions in art, lecture series, live concerts, classes, and an active learning library. Heck, the Four Arts even screens live performances of the Metropolitan Opera in HD. One of the center’s traditions is a Friday…
“Lummox” may be the most existential art project ever to showcase glittering crystal codpieces. It chronicles the making of a band that never was — called Lummox — during the lead-up to its first and only “performance,” at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2005. In the process, it asks a…
You can hear the people sing — really hear them — in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the standard practice of having the actors in a film musical lip-synch their songs to prerecorded tracks, director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) insisted that all of…
Salesmen are typically depicted in screen drama as the quintessential American phonies. The exceptions — in Barry Levinson’s Avalon or Whit Stillman’s Barcelona — are buried under a mountain of films proving the rule. That one set of phonies are being dramatically indicted by actors is an irony that we…
