Three exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art: one, an expected pleasure; one, a pleasant surprise; the other, a disappointment. Let’s dispatch the disappointment first. “Gary T. Erbe: Forty-Year Retrospective” is a perfectly lovely survey of an artist who leaves me, for the most part, cold. Erbe is a…
Michelle Weinberg wears many hats: working artist, gallery director, arts educator — and now, judge for the MasterMind Awards, a contest founded by New Times and sponsored by the Amplitude Academy of Musical Arts, a new music school. “Always artist first,” Weinberg emphasizes. The native New Yorker, who won a…
There’s not much in the way of climbing here in South Florida, unless you’re into rock gyms or scaling the sides of condos. But for one night only at Cinema Paradiso, the traveling Reel Rock Film Tour will bring mountain climbing to town with various short adventure flicks featuring some…
In the Oscar derby for Best Actor, is it better to die or to grieve? Clive Owen opts for the latter route in this strained, sentimental adaptation of a memoir by widowed English journalist Simon Carr. His 2001 book — boozy, breezy, and thoroughly unsystematic — was a precursor to…
Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That’s just one of the tasty tidbits in Aviva Kempner’s celebratory but clear-eyed portrait of Gertrude Berg, the creator, writer, and star of The Goldbergs, which, against the odds, grew into a huge…
Couples, retreat. In the latest from Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (co-starring and co-writing), we learn that one compelling reason to make a life commitment is so you will always have someone to eat with at Applebee’s. The movie’s cumulative idea is that, forgetting the delusions of midlife panic, this…
Tonight, check out “This Land is My Land,” an exhibit of Latin American artists at Art Expressions Gallery (1438 NE 26 St., Fort Lauderdale). No, it’s not a Woody Guthrie tribute to redwood forests and Gulf Stream waters (Remember his song: “This land is your land, this land is my…
Just imagine the benefits of becoming a good actor. Never again will someone call you a liar (because you will never be caught lying; you’ll be that good). Never again will you be stuck daydreaming about being someone else (method acting means you stay in character; you will be someone…
It’s been a tough year for all of us, and we all need a good professional massage. And a facial, manicure, pedicure, highlights, waxing, and probably some cellulite reduction treatment. If you play your cards right, $350 would buy you all of that during Spa Week in South Florida. During…
Now that the Miami Dolphins’ mission to get to the playoffs has officially gone tits up, it’s time to focus on the new task at hand. Namely, to completely eradicate the New York Jets, their loudmouth head coach and their over-hyped quarterback. Not to mention shutting up the most obnoxious…
It’s officially fall. The weather is cooling to 80 degrees, the mosquitoes are dying, and everyone is starting to talk about the Miami Heat. So much has changed, though. Tim Hardaway’s number is being retired; Alonzo Mourning is the VP of Player Programs; and Quentin Richardson is now on the…
Do you know what a story about a talking rabbit, a hookah-smoking caterpillar, a disappearing grinning cat, a queen with a penchant for beheading people, and a girl who chews mushrooms and talks to animals needs? A twist, of course! Enter Reach Dance Company, which has transformed Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s…
Consider the recent popularity of tween sing-alongs like High School Musical and Glee, partnered with Hollywood’s inability to come up with an original idea, and it’s easy to imagine Fiddler on The Roof is due for a modern remake. A hip cast of young Jews like Jason Schwartzman or Scarlett…
When did vampires become undisputedly the most screwable monster? Granted, the alternatives are paltry: Zombie sex is probably a feisty affair but untenable without copious restraints; werewolf sex is only once a month (or twice, in a blue moon); boogeymen would rather be coming to get you than getting you…
Your workout routine is more meta than traditional. You know that your biceps brachia is in there somewhere, but who’s to say it wants to be exposed? It’s been content lying idly until this point, so if it craved the spotlight – well, surely you would have heard something by…
Miami folkie duo Raffa and Rainer’s sound possesses the calm beauty of a flower that’s just emerged in the morning dew: uncluttered, naturally charming, and potentially moving. The sweet Raffa Jo Harris floats her jazzy vocals over understated guitars (her own and her partner Rainer Davies’). The quirky melodies sound…
A photograph is a document – a moment in time captured and preserved. Some of these moments are more fleeting than others. And in the case of the Sunshine State and its ever-changing environment both natural and manmade, time is of the essence. “Vanishing Florida” is an exhibit of works…
Ever heard the saying, “the ____ from hell”? You know, like “the date from hell”, or “the boss from hell”? Well, comedian Richard Lewis, the man who claims to have coined the phrase (and who was recently credited by the Yale Book of Quotations for doing so), will be raising…
Josepher, the mastermind behind Spank Saturdays, Cabaret Vampyra and Scary-Okee karaoke, is turning the heat up on the candleabra by bringing the dark lord of industrial music, Sebastian Komor, to Pulp Live (2674 E Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Luaderdale). Komor, the Norwegian-born, Canadian-based Timbaland of electro-industrial beats, has produced and…
Here’s an easy way to inundate all five of your senses with some fun and culture at the same time. During the Art After Dark series, the Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach) ups the art quotient by about 300% when it opens its doors…
In the early ’60s, a music executive told young Patsy Holte that she was “too plain, too dark and unattractive” to join his label. But after he heard her sing, he renamed her Patti LaBelle (ironically, “the beautiful” in French), and the rest is R&B/Soul history. And a triumph for…
Every year for about three weeks, Fort Lauderdale becomes a veritable hub for filmmakers and film geeks. They come from all over the world to celebrate the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF), held at our neighborhood arthouse Cinema Paradiso. The festival doesn’t start until October 23, but in the…
