Girls’ Club Collection is a large industrial art space inside a converted warehouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale, miles inland from the beach. So it is a tad disjointing to hear a soothing ocean breeze, the cooing of seagulls, and an endlessly rolling tide floating down from the mezzanine and echoing…
There’s an unfun tendency in American life to fictionalize our national heroes as rigid statue people who speak only as though they are delivering commencement addresses, a kind of unlovable, Al Gore-ish anti-charisma that would inhibit anyone in real life from becoming a national hero in the first place. Own…
That the American cinema is deader than Dillinger is a fact no right-thinking observer unwilling to be laughed out of the room would even think of denying today. To do the current round of think piece writers one better, we will add that not only are the movies dead, but…
Silver Linings Playbook, which stars Bradley Cooper as a manic-depressive man-child attempting to get his life back together after a breakdown, won the coveted Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and subsequently shot to the top of most Oscar prognosticators’ Best Picture short list. The film’s…
Google “Danzig shopping for cat supplies” and you’ll find links to phone-cam shots of former Misfits singer Glenn Danzig crossing a grocery-store parking lot while wearing a Danzig T-shirt and carrying Fresh Step. The shots are humbling and humanizing. In scenes perhaps inspired by those photos, retired musician Cheyenne (Sean…
RA Sushi in Palm Beach Gardens will host a ’90s-themed party to celebrate its 15-year anniversary. The party starts at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 15. Get 15 percent off your check for the evening, and 15 percent of profits from the event will benefit Feeding South Florida. Thu., Nov. 15,…
‘Tis the season for painfully awkward family dinners. Avoid having to make small talk about Uncle Ed’s colonoscopy by moving the meal to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and letting someone else control the conversation. Laffing Matterz kicks off its new season on Thursday. The comedic dinner theater…
The 13th-annual Boca and Beyond on Thursday features tastes from more than 30 local restaurants and an afterparty at Rocco’s Tacos. The event is 6 to 9 p.m. at the Shops at Boca Center, 5050 Town Center Circle in Boca Raton. The cost is $50 per person. Thu., Nov. 15,…
It’s time for the annual rivalry of FAU and FIU to commence. Normally FAU does well in this game, and this year should bring in the crowds for a couple of reasons. First, it’s the first Shula Bowl in the new FAU stadium, and second, it’s the first year with…
Stroll down a pub crawl set to the soulful melody of jazz music this Friday, with eats, drinks, and stellar music at each venue. Presented by the Gold Coast Jazz Society, “The Art of Jazz” Pub Crawl will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the North Beach Arts…
Rosalie was the apple of her daddy’s eye. Unfortunately, her father, Cpl. Daniel Linnabary II, will never see his lovely daughter’s first day of kindergarten, the brave Marine dying while serving in Afghanistan. Rosalie was just months old when her father shipped out, and Dan’s wife, Chelsea, now faces the…
The South Florida Boogie Woogie Piano Festival, a two-night celebration of the consonant piano blues style, has been migrating northward since it launched in Coral Gables in August 2010. Last year, it hit Fort Lauderdale in September, and this year, it’s found residency at Delray Beach’s Arts Garage, just in…
Literary genius is not reserved exclusively for the written word. As singer/songwriters and spoken-word artists can attest, the craft of literary expression goes beyond the bleeding ink on the page. The power of words can shine through the light of blending writing and performance, a challenge a crew of Broward…
Back in 2007, polemicist Christopher Hitchens wrote one of his most controversial articles ever, and that’s saying something. In a Vanity Fair screed titled “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” he argued that it was simply not in women’s nature to be funny, because unlike men, they don’t need humor to lure…
Crooner Nathan Pacheco will bring his freshly brewed blend of pop and classical music to the Parker Playhouse this Saturday. Pacheco straddles the generational and stylistic divide between classical music and contemporary pop, following in the footsteps of the likes of Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban. So, if you like…
What would you do if your doctor diagnosed you with pancreatic cancer and said you had only six months left to live? Perhaps indulge in lavish feasts and wild romps while jetting to exotic cities? Freak out, cry, and live in anguish? If pancreatic cancer has afflicted you or a…
Famed mixed martial arts fighters Chuck Liddell and Bram Imes didn’t glean how to bash people’s heads in just by watching videos. Both of them got their start in amateur MMA rings. Renegades Country Bar and Grill in West Palm Beach offers the best amateur matches in South Florida, with…
If life in the concrete jungle has you itching for a close encounter with creatures that don’t yet know how to operate a car horn, hit the road for the Broward County Fair, which kicks off Thursday afternoon in Pembroke Pines. The revamped fair includes familiar attractions like carnival rides,…
Fifty years in, the spy is ever less relevant — and still beloved. Why? Attention, Eon Productions, Daniel Craig, and Heineken: James Bond is not a beer drinker! Sure, I know. Getting all worked up about the new James Bond installment is like freaking out about a new Tim Burton…
Sean Baker’s Starlet stars Dree Hemingway (Ernest’s great-granddaughter) as Jane, a 21-year-old “girl next door” porn performer whose off-hours are spent getting high in the Valley house she shares with fellow “starlet” Melissa (Stella Maeve) and Melissa’s small-time impresario boyfriend (James Ransone). The story in the movie, which screens at…
Woody Allen has been known to suggest that, in directing a good movie, much of the battle lies in casting. Were that entirely true, A Late Quartet — starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Christopher Walken — would be phenomenal. As it is, the film about a New York…
“You were really and truly inside me,” Helen Hunt’s sex surrogate, Cheryl, assures her client, 36-year-old Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), a poet and journalist confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, who doesn’t want to die a virgin. Similarly, The Sessions, written and directed by Ben…
