The yammering about “Oscar gold” and Denzel Washington’s potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can only embarrass a fine character study like Flight, whose prevailing tone is a heavy, elemental melancholy. The mood is there from the opening pan across the Orlando airport under gray,…
The November winetasting at the Backyard Bar in West Palm Beach is 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 14. The cost is $25. To make a reservation, call 561-339-2444. Wed., Nov. 14, 2012…
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The trailer for Cloud Atlas, the gargantuan new movie of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel that took two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer to adapt, looks less like a preview than a whole slate of coming attractions, so many and varied are the times and places it touches down. The box-office…
Around the four-minute mark of my first viewing of the Cloud Atlas trailer, as the M83 track swelled to its bursting point and a hoverbike darted through future-Korea, I remember e-mailing and GChatting at least a dozen friends with a link to the preview and my take: “Holy Shit.” Naturally,…
During this week of goblin and ghoul revelry, do something a little different and putt your way through an apocalyptic zombie attack. Artists Lauren Van Arman and Glen Nelson (AKA Digsy) have staged the Soul Focus Haunted House, a haunted mini putt-putt golf course in their gallery, as part of…
Got kids? The Downtown Cultural Alliance of Lake Worth has you covered. On Friday evening, the DCA will hold, in its words, a “freaky family Friday of fantasy, fright, and fun” for Halloween. It’ll be blocking off K Street in downtown Lake Worth for all this freaky, frightening, fantastic fun…
The Messed Up Show and the Monterey Club bring the Extremely Brutal Monster Mash to Mickey’s Bar in Pompano Beach on Saturday for a night of hard-core metal mania with local bands Echoes of a Nightmare, Dark Legacy, Faethom, Murder Suicide, Half Dead, and Death Crowned King. Although the night…
Attention, costume whores and anyone else who thinks Halloween is a great time to cash in on the one time of year your creepiness is actually praised: Seminole Casino Coconut Creek’s Halloween Costume Contest is about to go down, and it’s going to be epic. There’s a total of $4,500…
Looking for a more authentic Halloween celebration this year? The Moon Path Chapter of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) will present their 15th-annual Witches Ball on Saturday. For local wiccas and pagans, this annual ball marks the Samhain celebration of the new year, or “Halloween” for us Walmart-era…
Clematis Street, filled with bars and great local venues, is always a hot spot on any given weekend. None more so than the Saturday before Halloween, when Moonfest takes over. In case you’re clueless, are new to Florida, or got so wasted last hear that you don’t remember going, Moonfest…
Sonic Phantasm Productions and Soul Chasers Media Madness bring the gore to CarnEvil on Saturday at Da Big Kahuna. The 3-D CarnEvil experience will coincide with performances by Murjur & This Is the Black Machine, whose visual format lends frighteningly fantastic fun to a night of debauchery to the 21-and-over…
Once upon a time, witches were the evil villains of cautionary tales meant to keep children on the straight and narrow. But these days, from Wicked on Broadway to the world of Harry Potter, witches have gotten a PR makeover for the better. Friendly witches will be dusting off their…
RA Sushi locations in Palm Beach Gardens and Pembroke Pines will celebrate Halloween with food and drink specials starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday (October 31). A costume contest includes prizes of gift certificates to the restaurant. Wed., Oct. 31, 2012…
Perhaps Halloween gives women carte blanche to strip down to the naughtiest gear possible and strut about nearly naked in public. But wild parties are not suited for everyone, especially those with children. Cinema Paradiso offers a load of Halloween fun minus the provocation under one roof at the eighth-annual…
Terror alert. When seven strangers are boarded up in a Pennsylvania farmhouse in hopes of surviving a brain-hungry zombie attack, all hell is to break loose. This terrifying night on the farm, as captured in the 1968 George Romero cult classic Night of the Living Dead, proved that a masterpiece…
Those familiar with mad genius laptop musician Otto Von Schirach know the dude and his IDM sounds can be a bit intimidating. This breakcore artist is merely a backdrop to the two blood-curdling slasher flicks (Re-Animator and Night of the Creeps) at this month’s edition of Splatter-Rama. The monthly cinema…
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach will channel British patriotism in a new exhibition that opens Thursday. “Keep Calm and Carry On: World War II and the British Home Front, 1938-1951” will explore the ways in which artists, designers, architects, and filmmakers in Great Britain strengthened the…
Some Scotch With Your Scotch? Wine pairings have been around for quite some time. And it’s certainly no secret that we like our craft beers around here. But we are always looking for new and exciting ways to get alcohol into our bodies, and so spirit pairings were destined to…
