In the land of eternal summer, high-minded culture can be a little hard to find. Not to say we don’t have culture; it just tends to get overlooked, especially by the young. There are lectures, symposiums, art shows, and literary talks going on at libraries, museums, and galleries all around…
Calling all detectives! We have a murder on our hands. Whodunit? Mrs. Peacock in the boiler room with a candlestick? Or the butler in the kitchen with a wrench? Returning for its 17th year, Clueless on Las Olas is an annual fundraiser for Partners in Education. Participants gather to bring…
Despite our miles of gleaming beaches, our gorgeous sunny weather, and our notoriously sexy population cruising around in expensive sports cars, there aren’t actually many films or television shows shot in South Florida. And the ones that are, like Burn Notice, are mostly filmed in Miami. In 2010, the Palm…
For rock bands of a left-field and perhaps nondanceable bent, it’s still pretty damn hard to get taken seriously in this town. Now, imagine how much harder it would have been 30 years ago, before the artsy Miami renaissance of the past decade or so, and worse, before social media…
Ah, the art of burlesque: a once-taboo underground performance that has somehow managed to become an oversaturated trend among the nightlife scene. Still, we’re not complaining about seeing a busty beauty or ten donning only a pair of glittery, heart-shaped pasties. Although there are a slew of burlesque babes shaking…
Indie craft fairs are certainly nothing new on the South Florida scene. In the past few years, the fairs, festivals, and shows have multiplied all over the tricounty area. Like handmade goods, not all fairs are created equal, and while new fairs might seek to imitate, they cannot necessarily replicate…
Craft-beer fever has only recently infected the nation, but we were the test case. We don’t call our signature party the New Times “Original” Beer Fest for nothin’. We’re in the 15th year of throwing this extravaganza, and we’ve thought of everything. Craft beer? We got it! Good ol’ domestics?…
As kids, we always dreamed of running away and joining the circus… except that the music was so lame. We wanted to fly high on the trapeze and run around with a gang of tigers… but not listen to old-timey show tunes. Surely, Mom and Dad are glad we let…
“If no one watches, then they don’t have a game,” a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne Collins’ astronomically successful dystopic YA trilogy. A withering indictment of omnipresent screens, endless spectacle, and debased celebrity culture, The Hunger Games was inspired, the author…
The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about love that in no way reassures that love conquers all. Plumbing disquieting depth, Deep Blue Sea investigates the insoluble dilemma of romantic love: the expectation, contrary to experience,…
Three decades after rummaging through the ruins of the downtown punk scene (Smithereens) and immortalizing Madonna, East Village fashion, and Battery Park’s coin-op binoculars (Desperately Seeking Susan), Susan Seidelman still knows how to capture the chaotic magic of New York. At the outset of Musical Chairs, her camera moves in…
Visions of Japanese culture danced in my head as I set out to visit the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach to see a new show by artist-in-residence Mariko Kusumoto: haiku poetry, raku pottery, bonsai trees, Noh theater, sumi-e calligraphy and drawings. I pondered the holy trinity of Japanese cinema: Ozu,…
“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” — Karl Marx “I like being able to fire people.” — Mitt Romney Like women’s reproductive rights, environmental protection, and healthy eating, the issue of workers’ rights is divided…
Sadly, The Unseen is the last show we’ll see from Davie’s hard-working Promethean Theatre Company, which cited fundraising woes in its death-knell announcement last month. But what a piece to end on. In Craig Wright’s smart, philosophical, paranoid drama, two men (Andrew Wind and Antonio Amadeo) — broken in body…
In 16th-century Italy, the social elite would gather in private homes to savor the finer things in life. This artistic social trend — the salon — rapidly spread through Europe, eventually making its way to Paris, most notably into the home of novelist Gertrude Stein. From Matisse to Picasso, a…
Pain: a physical suffering or distress. Mental or emotional torment. Or so says Dictionary.com. But is it that easy to define pain? For centuries, artists and writers have been exploring the concept in their works. Whether you’ve experienced your fair share or you have luckily been spared its daggers, you…
Party like the Irish this St Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17 at The Field Irish Pub & Eatery. Featuring real Irish music on two stages with Celtic Bridge, Richard Wood & Gordon Belsher plus many special guests. Bars inside and out, Irish fare and drinks, The Drake School Irish Dancers,…
Depending on whom you talk to, Bradley Manning is a cold-blooded traitor, a troubled shemale, or a national treasure. What’s beyond disputation is this: Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, 22, perpetrated the largest leak of classified military information in American history. At the end of 2009, he delivered hundreds…
Most days, the Japan that is reverently reconstructed in Morikami’s gorgeous gardens (4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach) is historic, pastoral. Not today and not tomorrow. At the weekendlong Hatsume Festival, which celebrates the “first bud of spring,” the resident guardians of Japanese culture chuck the old and embrace the…
On March 20, Turner Classic Movies will bring its newly restored version of the 1960 film Elmer Gantry to the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts – for free. In an event that surely stirred memories of first glances at fifth grade required reading lists, TCM started its third annual…
Everyone has at least one know-it-all friend who is constantly correcting everyone or dispensing little factoids. “Actually, that’s the dolphin fish — or mahi-mahi — you’re eating, not Flipper.” If you don’t have one of these friends, sorry to inform you, but you probably are that annoying person. Never fear:…
America has long had a love/hate relationship with the French. They helped us out with that whole Revolutionary War thing and gave us that pretty lady statue that stands out in the middle of New York Harbor. On the other hand, we mock them as being snotty, smelly socialists who…
