Guest lecturer Alan Stopek of Efflorescence will explain how succulents provide excitement and elegance with their dazzling architecture strengthening any and all landscape design concepts. Attendees will learn more about these versatile plants and the various ways to use them in landscapes. Efflorescence, Inc. is a professional horticultural firm based…
Help support cancer research and cancer patients locally and internationally by coming out to the Livelong Benefiting Livestrong Walk, Run, Ride from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. October 13 and 14. In addition to plenty of activities for the family there will be a half marathon run, 5k walk and…
A journalist for more than 30 years, Bill O’Reilly has risen to the top of his profession. Monday through Friday on the Fox News Channel, The O’Reilly Factor causes the powerful in America to duck for cover as the rigidly enforced “No Spin Zone” deals with the nation’s most important…
Chef Owner Baron Skorish and Bryce Statham have created a romantic evening for two. Mondays, 6 p.m. Starts: Aug. 27. Continues through Feb. 25, 2012…
Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park will open to the public its new Farmer’s Pick Buffet on Friday, September 14 at 4 p.m.,featuring freshly prepared foods from Florida purveyors including a variety of fruits, herbs and vegetables hand-picked from the Isle’s own two-acre farm and hydroponic garden at Powerline Road. The…
Chinese artist, activist, and antagonist Ai Weiwei became a worldwide cause célèbre last April when he was arrested by authorities at the Beijing Airport, detained in an undisclosed location for nearly three months, and released after allegedly confessing to tax evasion. The Sundance-feted documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry concludes shortly…
For three months in 2010, Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramovic sat in a chair in a gallery at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and directed her full, silent attention toward individual visitors seated across from her, seven hours a day, six days a week, without eating or drinking. Stillness…
Is there something intrinsic to these wide-net, we’re-all-connected ensemble movies that makes their authors think they need to address every human conundrum? The vast, split-screen-slashed 360, directed by Fernando Meirelles from an overreaching screenplay by Frost/Nixon screenwriter Peter Morgan, is an alleged descendant of the granddaddy of social cross-section dramas,…
Calling back many of the same characters and more than a few of the same jokes, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy’s fourth film as writer-director, is a sequel to her 2007 2 Days in New York. A spinoff of sorts itself, Paris piggybacked on the popularity of 2004’s…
In anticipation of the remake of the 1976 girl-group melodrama I (which didn’t screen in time for our deadline)—Whitney Houston’s posthumous film appearance and her return to movies after a 15-year absence—we look back at the handful of celluloid performances by the woman once known as ” the Voice.” Houston’s…
“I’ll just tell you straight out, Killer Joe is the most disturbing film I’ve ever made,” William Friedkin admits. This is really something, coming from a filmmaker who has spent much of an eclectic career testing audience limits. The Exorcist riled Catholics and had theaters stocking barf bags in 1973;…
Like antidepressants, artificial sugars, Botox, and other miracle inventions of the past century, corporate culture became an omnipresent fact of life before anyone could know how it would affect the human body and brain on an extended timeline. One way to look at writer/director Craig Zobel’s second feature, Compliance—a pot-stirrer…
In playwright Tom Jacobson’s minimalist exercise The Twentieth Century Way, set in 1914, two out-of-work actors gather in a dank, brick-lined room lit by a single-bulb floor lamp. They are there to audition for a part in a Hollywood movie. As in Waiting for Godot, they’ll be waiting a long…
It’s hard out there these days, and not just for the usual suspects — the working poor, the homeless. This economy is hard even for young, educated, professional types. A little networking can do a career good. Enter the Young Professionals, an organization custom-built to help young employees connect with…
Not everyone loves Woodstock. In his entertaining treatise X Saves the World, a Defense of Generation X, cultural critic Jeff Gordinier dismisses the legendary festival as “The Great Mythical Hippie Sludge Convocation.” As a turn of phrase, this one’s a keeper, but for the 500,000 people who attended the four-day…
Like most art forms we Americans import from other countries, tango dancing has been modified, simplified, cartoonified, and de-exotified. It’s gotten to the point where genuine tango practitioners look at the moves and body placement of tango dancers in American TV shows and movies and shake their heads in dismay…
Does anyone really need a reason to hunt down a herd of gourmet food trucks, aside from an insatiable craving for hand-dipped gelato pops or overstuffed fish tacos? In case you’re the sort who needs extra motivation, it may help to know that Saturday’s Festival Flea Market Food Truck Rally…
The contest will give pepperphiles 10 minutes to eat as many of Wicked Awesome’s delicious chicken meatballs as possible. The catch? Aside from each meatball being plenty spicy, a few select ‘balls per tray will be laced with ultra-hot ghost peppers. Contestants looking to cool their mouths won’t find much…
Fire can be a force of creation or destruction, and the ever-popular Bon Festival at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens explores both sides of the element. Though the multifaceted event includes a range of activities — like taiko drumming, Japanese folk dancing, a beer garden, food vendors, and a small…
Every little kid dreams of seeing gigantic trucks crush the smaller, puny vehicles in their paths. You might assume the fantasy of seeing monster trucks pulverizing their smaller car counterparts would be a dream little boys would grow out of, but the sight of behemoth trucks turning cars into metal…
UFC ain’t the only place to find some mixed martial arts action. American Battle Championships is an amateur MMA league, but don’t let its nonprofessional status fool you. The people who participate (both men and women) fight like two Republicans over the last sandwich at a Chick-fil-A. This particular event…
On Sunday, put the party in party planning by attending Party With Promise, a party exposition, to benefit Family Promise of South Palm Beach County. Family Promise is a nonprofit, interfaith organization that works with local churches and synagogues to provide temporary shelter for homeless families in Boca Raton and…
