Arts & Culture

Right about now, you’ve probably got relatives in town for the holidays who need to be entertained… but bringing Grandma to your favorite dive bar? That might not go over so well. Luckily, Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit is coming to the Kravis Center (701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach)…

Oh, the holidays. The only thing more annoying than family reunions is the onslaught of played-out Christmas music. Well, here’s one gathering that should help counter all that. For the second year now, Respectable Street (518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) hosts the Foundation Reunion, a night of musical reverie…

If you like moving pictures on large screens accompanied by sound, there’s probably no reason for you to skip Savages. Why? Well Philip Seymour Hoffman, for one, is a perennial critical darling – the Academy has been tonguing his nethers ever since Capote, though he’s a fan favorite from his…

Right about now, the Panthers are the only South Florida sports team that isn’t sucking awfully – they’re just a notch below .500, and are very much alive in the weak Southeast Division. Just think about that for a moment: The best assemblage of athletic talent in the lower third…

So you’ve torn through all your presents on Christmas morning, and it looks like a two-ton wrapping paper bomb ravaged your living room. Now you’re basking in the afterglow of rampant commercialism, thinking that the last thing you want to do is clean up and cook Christmas dinner. But you’re…

Tonight the goyish are all tucked away. They’re fussing with last-minute gift wrapping, baking desserts they should have made days ago, and they’re knockin’ back nog with their toothless grandparents around their energy-inefficient Christmas trees. For Jewish singles, Christmas Eve and Christmas can feel like a sci-fi movie: You go…

It’d be the easiest thing in the world to write off Simply Barbra as the most obvious and ill-advised drag show in the history of men in dresses. Barbra Streisand’s mannerisms are tricky to lampoon and trickier to emulate, and the voice — that glass-shattering, earth-rending, note-scooping, ball-blasting freak of…

Native Floridian joint Alligator Alley (1321 E. Commercial Blvd., Oakland Park) is known for a couple of things: (1) Its gladesman-style take on Cajun cooking and its bitchin’ selection of microbrews; and (2) a nearly endless stream of mind-expanding jazz, blues, and fusion music that wafts through the tiny bar…

Getting face time with the big guy is tough; his minion elves command you to stand patiently in hour-long lines and then hustle you away as soon as your photo op is complete. You hardly have time to eke out the words “I wanna new pink glitter paint job for…

Charity events don’t have to be stuffy, monotonous affairs. Sometimes you’ve got to get a little crazy to raise interest – maybe incorporate a hip fashion show and a pyrotechnics display on one stage. Then, maybe you’ve got to show some short films and bring out a troupe of bellydancers…

Despite what shows like Donald Trump’s The Apprentice have you believing about businesswomen, not all power suit-wearing femmes are out for back-stabbing, bitching, and feeling the drunken effects of absolute power. In fact a lot of women just enjoy hanging out with other professionals, and gettin’ beauty treatments. During Women…

Since the NBA’s then-New Orleans team moved to Salt Lake City in 1979, the Utah Jazz has been the most oxymoronic team name in American sports, surpassing even the Seattle Sunlight, the Omaha Mountaineers and the Los Angeles Decent Human Beings. The identity crisis intensified after John Stockton went the…

Today is the Winter Solstice, meaning the earth is at its maximum tilt with the sun and you can expect progressively longer days until June. What are you going to do with all of that extra sunlight? You can’t store it up (but if you could, it would go into…

Art is not only illuminating; sometimes, it’s illuminated. This is certainly true of “Extraordinary Leaded Glass,” an exhibit of the work of the late Jackson Hall. You can’t really think of leaded, stained glass without thinking of windows — whether religious imagery glowing in churches or Frank Lloyd Wright’s luminous…

It comes into view as you round the southern curve of Young Circle in Hollywood. Perched on a plot of park land on the eastern edge of the circle, across from a Publix parking lot, it looks poised and ready. Neither bird nor plane nor Superman, it is nevertheless an…

The past few years have been good to Purvis Young. Last year he was named Best Local Artist by this paper. The year before he was the subject of both a career retrospective, “Purvis Young: Paintings From the Street,” at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, and a documentary, Purvis…

At a Guitar Hero tournament a few months back, one kid complained to me that Expert Mode is “too easy.” Then he demonstrated the game’s secret Hyper Speed mode. My pupils nearly ruptured at the sight of him as he navigated the light-speed stream of colored notes; it looked like…

John Patrick Shanley’s Danny & The Deep Blue Sea is currently running at The Alliance Theatre Lab in Miami, and if you get the chance to see it, do. The story of two incredibly damaged societal rejects meeting in a bar and discovering their potential for mutual healing, Danny is…