Remember the way you felt reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart” for the first time? The vulture eye keeping a close watch on your every move. The sound of the beating heart echoing through your ears. The hairs on the back of your neck standing up as the prose grows…
Never got a chance to see Frank Sinatra perform live? Don’t fret! Because thanks to Come Fly Away, the Broadway musical hit from the mind of Tony Award winning choreographer Twlya Tharp, Sinatra’s music and voice are superbly brought to life with a live band, spectacle and dance. 15 of…
Given that tasty waves are a rare phenomenon in South Florida, local surfers have lots of time on their hands that they wish was being spent tucking into perfect barrels. Hence the popularity of skimboarding, kiteboarding, skateboarding, and paddleboarding. Another righteous way to keep the stoke alive is to channel…
Belting out the anthem “Les Filles du Crazy,” half a dozen women sing of themselves: “They are the soldiers of the erotic army.” The military metaphor proves apt for this spellbinding documentary on the Crazy Horse, Paris’ classy nudie cabaret, founded in 1951. The dancers’ taut, perfectly proportioned bodies suggest…
The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 and ran until 1991. As a sign of the progress made since the Reagan-Bush era, the mixed-bag, big-screen 21 Jump Street mocks the program’s lethal earnestness with retrograde raunch, packing in…
With her ponytail and toggle coat, Audrey Tautou, playing workaholic widow Nathalie in Delicacy, gives off a sexless, cutie-pie charm — not as aggressively as she did in Amélie but still gratingly. The actress, therefore, is perfect for this dainty, inconsequential romantic dramedy, the first film from brothers David and…
Nic Cage has been in a flurry of activity since the IRS closed in on him in 2009, and, like the proverbial stopped clock, his promiscuous work habits land him in an altogether watchable movie once a year. So, then, Seeking Justice: Cage is Will, a New Orleans high school…
Much like a presidential candidate stumping for votes, Jay Leno will be making a pit stop at the Hard Rock Live (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood) at 8 tonight. And that kind of gets you thinking: Jay Leno for president? He started from humble roots and worked his way up, appearing…
Stereotypes are bad — usually. But there are exceptions to every rule, and on St. Patrick’s Day, it’s probably best to drown your PC radar in some green beer. Fort Lauderdale St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival is a longstanding South Florida tradition. The day kicks off at 11 a.m…
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-haw. Shine those cowboy boots and break out them spurs. Get your appetite ready, but leave the utensils at home. Things are about to get messy, loud, and finger-lickin’ good at WIRK 107.9’s Third-Annual Rib Round Up. A slew of country music’s finest — including Montgomery Gentry, Jake Owen, Miss…
The enlightened know just how meaningful it is to a certain minority group for us all to make time in our busy lives to show some support on March 17. The date has long been dedicated to St. Patrick, but in recent decades, there has been a growing movement to…
The historic Moore Building (4040 NE Second Ave., Miami) is one of the most alluring and architecturally surreal buildings in the Magic City. It was built in 1920, just as a young Salvador Dali was leading the Dada movement toward Surrealism. So there is probably no better venue to welcome…
It can’t be easy to sit next to a blowhard like Joe Scarborough every morning, which is why local women can learn a lot from Mika Brzezinski, the Morning Joe cohost and author of the self-help book Know Your Worth. She likes to tell the story of how when she…
Much like the North American salmon, our Miami Marlins swim against the stream — they’re the only baseball team that goes north for spring training. Which is why fans will need to hike up to Jupiter’s Roger Dean Stadium (4751 Main St., Jupiter) to get a look at the 2012…
While awareness about the benefits of a plant-based diet seems to be increasing, folks who have adopted this lifestyle are still sometimes looked at cockeyed by steadfast believers in the food pyramid of yore. Many people still would rather drink breast milk of another species, pop myriad prescriptions daily, and…
A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence — when bodies and identities are still fluid — Tomboy astutely explores the freedom, however brief, of being untethered to the highly rule-bound world of gender codes. About 20 minutes elapse before we learn the real name and biological sex of a…
Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite — it’s almost 70 years since the end of World War II, and untold stories of decimation and survival are still hitting the mainstream. Agnieszka Holland’s new film, In Darkness, opens a scab perhaps familiar only to Holocaust Museum devotees — the…
In Silent House, a college-aged young woman, Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen), is on break and helping her father (Adam Trese) and uncle (Eric Sheffer Stevens) renovate the remote, no-cell-phone-reception lake house where they once vacationed as a family. Then Uncle storms off after a round of fraternal bickering, Dad disappears with…
With expectations to match its obscenely huge budget (an estimated quarter of a billion dollars), this long-delayed adaptation of pulp meister Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 1917 sci-fi swashbuckler A Princess of Mars has every right to be a bloated, gutless CGI eyesore. What a surprise, then, that John Carter—leaden title and…
When Rossetti Fine Art in Pompano Beach presented a show called “Best of the Best” last year, it smacked of hubris. Granted, gallery owner Tom Rossetti is a veteran judge with many, many shows under his belt, not to mention being an accomplished artist and teacher himself, but even so,…
Jewelry sales are normally reserved for the fashionistas of New York City, ladies hell-bent on getting the best deals on this season’s hottest designs. Many people would agree that those jewelry sales should be reserved for that “in crowd.” Well, the Norton Museum (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach)…
If you’re anything like us, chances are you’ve got a garage, house, or closet filled with knickknacks and trinkets from yesteryear that just aren’t getting any love. You’re hoarding, and, c’mon, do you really want the folks over at A&E showing up at your doorstep with an entire camera crew?…
