Arts & Culture

In two short years, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival has evolved, like a rhyming Ebola virus, into a sort of iambic pentameter circus. Last year, it was small, with four big-time poets trucked in, including crowd-pleaser Billy Collins, the ex-U.S. poet laureate. This year, it will live larger, with readings…

Whoopi Goldberg’s done so much in her career that calling her an overachiever is like saying Bill Clinton is merely a politician. She’s got an Oscar, a Grammy, and two Golden Globe awards. She’s got a Nobel Prize. OK, Goldberg doesn’t really have a Nobel Prize, although some would say…

You thought that every day was “Hockey Day in Canada.” But, no – the unofficial holiday fell on January 7. It started just six years ago, and now, one Canadian fan says, the event is “bigger than Santa.” On the big day, grassroots hockey games are played and celebrated throughout…

Get your calendar and mark Wednesday nights as “booked,” now that the Poor House has launched its weekly “Art of Moving Butts” extravaganza. Jay and Josh (formerly of Hashbrown) are back from an exhausting year of playing/partying in New York, and they’ll be laying down background sounds for a slew…

NiFlame, a 27-year-old designer, knows that fashion isn’t humanitarian relief or anything, but still, “I realize how clothes can change people’s lives. You see it on those makeover shows – people start crying, saying, ‘I never thought I could look this good.’ When people see you, they’re judging you right…

This year, the Florida Pit Bulls have been anything but boring. The first-year team has scored more than Colin Farrell at a sorority slumber party, while streaking to one of the best records in the American Basketball Association. Tonight’s game against the San Jose Sky Rockets will be the third…

Watching televangelists perform their supposed miracles makes for an amusing pit stop while channel-surfing. But then the real horror of the situation sets in – that so many people believe a palm to the forehead cures disease. Doesn’t the name Marjoe Gortner mean anything to them? They obviously haven’t seen…

Some anniversaries should pass unnoticed: the first time your kittens vomited up their prey, that day you failed algebra – again, or any romantic landmark ending in one-half. Other, more hard-fought victories deserve to be properly celebrated and reflected upon. Planned Parenthood suggests Sunday, January 22, the 33rd anniversary of…

Before Coach Pat Riley regained the reigns of the Miami Heat earlier this season, the Shaq-less team had been caught in an underachieving rut. One month and a healthy Shaquille later, the Heat still seem like they’re just spinning their tires. But the sky isn’t exactly falling yet, as Miami…

If popular sentiment is correct – that Americans are all fat, indolent slobs — then how do you explain the continued success of the Komen Race for the Cure? The cause-oriented cardio event, whose proceeds go to finding cancer cures, has been taking place locally for 15 years now, and…

Now that the iPod revolution has begun, the concept of owning hard copies of music, pictures, and video is quickly going the way of the eight-track tape. Though it’s unlikely traditional cameras will soon follow, any up-and-coming photographer not schooled in digital imaging is in for a reality check come…

If there’s one word that sums up Americans’ blasé attitude, it’ s whatever. In Romany, the language spoken by gypsies, there’s a different term – wherever, or varekai. And in the language of Cirque du Soleil, Varekai is the mythical place where strange and fanciful beasts freely roam the wilderness…

So there’s this Hispanic kid named Rosario who lives in the ghetto. He got his ex-girlfriend pregnant, and yeah, maybe he beats the holy living crap out of her now and then, but he still wants the best for their unborn baby. She, however, has gone off to live with…

As they leap across the stage, executing perfect pirouettes and high kicks, it is impossible not to be in awe of these leggy dancers. Exuding grace and strength, the “World Famous” Lipizzaner Stallions are marching into town to celebrate their 36th anniversary season. You may remember the Lipizzaners from the…

Back in the Less than Zero ´80s, if you talked about your “young professional” friends, we would have probably turned our mohawked heads on you and sneered, “Yuppies go home!” (That is, if we’d been older than eight.) Then, of course, the thing to do was to collect your MBA…

Anyone not accustomed to a Black Lips show would probably think the band was on the verge of self-destruction. After all, it’s not often you see band members drop-kick each other during a performance, finishing the set in a giant dogpile of blood, sweat, and beers. Ah, but for Georgia’s…

As a North Carolina native, comedian Jim David’s down to earth, charming, not full of pretension – a true-blue southerner. Of course, most southerners aren’t blue at all, politically speaking. They like having a bible-thumper president, especially one who’ll go to bat against all those ungodly homosexuals. But as an…

Many people think of poets as quiet wallflowers who occasionally drum up the nerve to read their own prose on stage. Wrong! The days of poetry being seen but barely heard are over with this weekend’s Palm Beach Poetry Fest, which brings renowned writers to town for non-stop jibber-jabber during…

His CD, Retaliation, was the first comedy CD to bust into the top five on the Billboard charts since Steve Martin’s A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978; his MySpace page has more than 700,000 friends; and he kissed Charlize Theron’s ass on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. If…

Complain all you want about Florida’s hurricanes and oppressive humidity. In January, while most of the nation is freezing its kabushkas off, we’ve got perfect outdoor festival weather. And guess what? We’ve got the perfect festival to go along with it. Boca Fest is among Boca Raton’s most popular seasonal…