As the name implies, this art exhibit features pieces portraying typically small items such as oranges as expansive big objects. Be one of the first to see this new exhibit at its opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 10. Live music by Mariachi Los Monarcas will…
A significant portion of Tim Burton’s output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the “Burton treatment” to susceptible texts: Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland— and now, Dark Shadows. A supernaturally themed daily daytime soap, Dark…
Eileen (Kathleen Turner) is consumed by the Catholic Church and its doctrine — so much so that her nonstop charitable work for the church leads to her priest (Richard Chamberlain) nominating her for Catholic Woman of the Year, pitting her against childhood rival Agnes (Sharon Lawrence). What the good father…
A group of disparate British retirees is lured to the Indian subcontinent for cut-rate surgery, low-overhead living, or reasons they hope to keep private. They find themselves together under the roof of the titular hotel. The cast is led by Judi Dench as a long-sheltered widow looking to stand on…
An emancipation story that takes place mostly on the road and on the run, Natural Selection tells the story of how a God-fearing 40-something woman found the greatest love of all. Linda (Rachael Harris) has been living a life of quiet deprivation with pious Abe (John Diehl), who holds fast…
Single mother Grace (Eva Mendes) toils as a maid and a waitress to keep her petulant daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez), in private school in Seattle. Although the teenager’s name translates as “anxiety,” she exhibits no fear or apprehension when, inspired by an English class on rites of passage taught by…
If you are destined for the stage and can carry a tune, then come to this karaoke night held at the Coffee District and sing your heart out. For those who don’t have a penchant for singing, come anyway to experience the performance by those brave enough to take over…
You couldn’t live in or around Deerfield Beach in the fall of 2009 without hearing about the horrific attack on 15-year-old Michael Brewer. The middle-school student was allegedly doused in rubbing alcohol and set ablaze by four of his classmates, reportedly because of an unpaid loan for a $40 videogame…
Marvel or DC? Superman or Captain America? The X-Men or The Avengers? Whatever the choice may be, everyone has a preference when it comes to comic books and superheroes. But why not root for Iron Man and the Hulk with a bunch of like-minded folks? On Thursday, comic-book haven Tate’s…
There’s an old saying that goes, “There is nothing new under the sun.” And maybe it’s right. But it doesn’t say anything about what new things you might discover beneath the moon – all you need is a little light. Precision Paddleboards has just the thing to light your path…
In celebration of the Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery’s third anniversary on Friday, it will hold a special party with a majestic butterfly release. Over the past three years, the gallery has worked to bring the Lake Worth artistic community together in an effort to give the area a new…
Get your rhinestone-bedazzled jackets out of storage and dust off those patent platforms, because Elvis is in the building! Well, OK… not really, but internationally recognized King of Rock-n-Roll tribute artist Chris MacDonald is bringing the King back to life in downtown Boca Raton for the city’s monthly Friday Night…
While the daredevil aspect of motorcycle riding has been glorified more than the joys of safe riding have, trying to cheat death while operating any motor vehicle remains unwise and, truly, uncool. Luckily, there is a less painful way to get the “bad boy biker” dream out of your head…
The folks at C&I Studios have introduced a $1 movie night inside their massive photo/design studio in Fort Lauderdale’s FAT Village neighborhood. The event takes place the first Saturday of every month and welcomes families and friends to get together and enjoy a fun, budget-friendly flick on C&I’s giant, 30-foot…
By divine providence, May 6 falls on a Sunday this year, meaning Cinco de Mayo can be celebrated to the fullest extent of cinco de mayhem, safe in the knowledge that you’ll be treated to a day of recovery after the insanity. Go deep into the madness at the Third-Annual…
As drunk driving continues to be an all-too-common occurrence, resulting in a ridiculous amount of pain and suffering – for instance, some stats show that one person every minute is injured in an alcohol-related accident – you can help to remedy the situation simply by walking. In this case, walking…
Here’s the deal: If you’re a Broward County person, you’ve been here for 12 months or more, you’re at least 18 years of age, and you can prove that you’re a practicing artist, there is no reason you should not soon be bathing in your fellow taxpayers’ money. Show up…
In a marshy Florida fort a couple of miles north of Saint Augustine, for up to 120 years before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the inception of the Thirteenth Amendment, African-Americans had been living free. The community was called Fort Mose – a beacon of progressivism…
“Tantrism,” as it’s understood today, is a kind of yogic pantheism drawing from the evolution of Buddhism, Hinduism, and even Indian Islam influences. (As with all scriptures, their actual profundity is debatable.) According to the media materials for the Preciousness of Tantra classes at the Drolma Buddhist Meditation Center, Tantra…
At the start of the long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick The Avengers, a powerful, potentially dangerous glowing cube is in the hands of NASA. Called the Tesseract, Captain America (Chris Evans) liberated it from the Nazis in his movie last summer. The cube soon starts spewing gamma radiation, heralding the…
In Oscar nominee Chico & Rita, the life of Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdés seems to have been translated first into fairy tale and then through the filter of cinema before it wound up as a work of animation. The result has only a loose resemblance to Valdés’ story…
“Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms,” George Eliot once wrote. That’s certainly the appeal of Freeway, a stray mutt rescued by Beth Winter (Diane Keaton), unhappily married to overweening, distant surgeon Joseph (Kevin Kline) in Darling Companion. The handsome pooch is also…
