The photography of Rosalie Winard depicts the sparse beauty of America’s wetlands — including the vast wilds of Florida’s Everglades — with special elegance, capturing the chaos of natural life in still images that thrum with power but nevertheless seem composed, almost drawn. The metal sculptures of Herbert Mehler achieve…
The point of the bus loop: to provide a great time to a bunch of revelers and make sure nobody drives drunk. The mechanism of the bus loop: Everyone pays $20 (or $25, if you don’t preorder) to board a bus bound for nightlife destinations. In Delray Beach, that’s Boston’s…
A viral video party at Respectable Street (518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) will go something like this: You’ll drink a sharply discounted beer ($3), and you and your friends will watch a man on a screen mouth the words to “Dragostea din tei.” You will laugh. You will drink…
Christmastime in Florida is never snowy. Instead of hot toddies and sled rides, we opt for tropical drinks in coconuts and paddleboarding. Santa swaps out his fleece red pants for a pair of floral-print board shorts. And you can forget about decorating an evergreen Douglas fir; the tinsel and ornaments…
With populist politics dominating the national conversation these days, who wants to get caught occupying the mall and big-name retailers? Brand names can be expensive, and items created en masse are anything but thoughtful. Does your BFF really want another shirt from the Gap? To help you avoid looking like…
Santa Claus and Elvis have a lot in common. They’re both larger-than-life figures with jolly round bellies and deep baritone voices; every once in a while, someone claims to have spotted one of them under suspect circumstances; and people of all ages, sexes, and races get a kick out of…
The NBA lockout might have canceled the preseason games through December 15, but it couldn’t stop the red-hot success of the Miami Heat. Put your game face on, because our home team is playing the Orlando Magic at the American Airlines Arena on Sunday, and you’re going to need some…
The holidays make us stray, splurge, and sin — and why wouldn’t we, with the new year right around the corner? (New Year = fresh start; note there’s a little more than one week left.) But, hell, we got a conscience too, so Saturday starting at 3 p.m. and running…
The City of Miami Beach SoundScape Cinema Series’ showing of Some Like It Hot won’t be the first time we see drag queens cavorting outside a Miami Beach building at night, but it might be the classiest. As part of the Arts in the Parks Program, the film will be…
Even if you never dreamed of being a dentist, you can still appreciate the story of Hermey the Elf, DDS, his struggle to break with elvish tradition and become a dentist, and his journey to the Island of the Misfit Toys. Perhaps you have long dreamed of becoming an artist…
What’s the best thing about Christmas? Is it the family gatherings or the roast meats? Is it the presents or that it’s Jesus’ birthday? God forgive us, but no. Friends, it’s the Christmas lights. Those wonderful glowing buds of hope that light our way in the darkness of winter and…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — everywhere except South Florida. But who’s complaining? We’ll take mild temperatures over a snowstorm any day. But if there’s one thing that has always made us jealous of Northern weather, it’s ice-skating on a frozen pond while the stars twinkle above…
A successful gallery exhibit is the culmination of senses. A good exhibit incorporates appealing visuals with key pieces from popular artists. A great exhibit reaches out to human senses of sight, smell, and touch to provide viewers with an experience that rivals a great meal. That’s what Florida Atlantic University’s…
The Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale’s new exhibition of paintings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, will make you long for a Christianity for Dummies guide or at least a set of biblical CliffsNotes. As the posted introduction makes clear, we are about to embark on a long exploration of…
One of the biggest names in Formula 1 racing, Ayrton Senna was 34 years old when a well-placed blow from a suspension shaft ended his life on Tamburello curve at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. Asif Kapadia’s expertly orchestrated documentary/biography condenses the breakneck decade leading up to…
Le Havre is something of a comeback for Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki. His warmhearted comedy of underdog working-class solidarity is made with a mixed Finnish-French-Senegalese cast in the French port city Le Havre. The French setting seems to have leavened director Kaurismäki’s morose humor. Le Havre (which means “the haven”…
This documentary on Kevin Clash — the kind, gentle man who created the Muppet beloved by every single child in the world — rushes through intriguing points its interviewees bring up to devote more time to banalities. Instead of hearing more from the colleague who exhorted Clash, “Jim [Henson] doesn’t…
My Reincarnation was in production for more than 20 years, beginning when acne-plagued teenager Yeshi Silvano Namkhai learned that he’d been dubbed the reincarnation of a famous Tibetan yogi. The judgment was passed down by his world-famous Tibetan spiritual-leader dad, Rinpoche Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and director Jennifer Fox wastes no…
Mayans might have predicted the end of the world in 2012, but could they have known that the countdown to eternal hellfire would begin with the multigenerational-celebrity-glutted New Year’s Eve? New York City serves as the metropolis flattened by dull location shots and ethnic caricatures: Sofía Vergara, playing a sous…
This gentle, Bambi-level-sad documentary is about an orphaned killer whale named Luna who never harmed anybody and only wanted to be loved. Separated from his pod near Vancouver Island, Canada, he begged for human contact and play, posed for photographs, nuzzled boats, frolicked with logs and buoys, allowed children to…
With our first official cold front under our belts, the South Florida holiday season is truly under way. Unfortunately, those belts have also been tightened quite a bit due to our frosty economy. So this year perhaps more than any in recent history, it is important to fill the season…
New Moon isn’t necessarily the best gallery space in SoFla or even on Wilton Drive. It’s a lesbian bar, first of all, which means it’s kinda dark and kinda loud. Also — well, it’s a lesbian bar, and lesbian bars just aren’t known for their dazzling aesthetics. But New Moon…
