A little racy for quaint Delray Beach, Maestros de Cuba at the Cornell Museum showcases five contemporary Cuban artists whose work has never been exhibited together prior to this show. Working in different media with vastly different perspectives, the artists were selected by Anita and Jay Hyman, founders of the…
Ah, fall. The thermostat starts to dip, the leaves change, and you can almost catch a whiff of pumpkin pies cooling on a windowsill out yonder. OK, reality check. This is Florida, people. Leaves don’t change, it’s miserably hot, and it’s still hurricane season, for God’s sake. October means one…
Oktoberfest comes around like cuckoo clockwork FRI 10/14 At precisely 7:30 Friday evening, a procession will march down a wooded path, past an authentic German chalet, carrying a parade of flags. Then, with the gravitas that accompanies such official ceremonies, one of the marchers will execute a sacred autumn ritual…
Hockey picks up where it left off THU 10/13 When the Florida Panthers opened their season against the Atlanta Thrashers on October 5, just a tiny fraction of seats in the big, fat BankAtlantic Center (1 Panther Pkwy., Sunrise) were empty. It’s nice to know that after a yearlong strike,…
A Bergman family feud THU 10/13 Marianne had a feeling that paying Johan a surprise visit was a bad idea. But she just had to do it. Three decades had passed since the troubled couple in Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage parted ways. So the famed writer/director decided to…
Our Lady Peace heads south for the fall SAT 10/15 Rock is a dying genre. Not rock ‘n’ roll. Not hard rock, punk rock, alt rock, folk rock, prog rock, post rock, or any other variation of the genre. Just plain rock. You know — grandiose-gesturing, lighter-waving, arena-playing, message-disseminating, larger-than-life…
Good Night, and Good Luck, a riveting movie that’s as entertaining as it is socially and politically important, could not have come at a more propitious time. But more than just the right film at the right moment, George Clooney’s sophomore directorial effort is dynamic filmmaking: brilliantly conceived, visually arresting,…
It happened almost with the first step off the airplane at the Toronto airport last month. Someone, a friend or merely a concerned stranger, would stop to warn you of impending peril. They would plead with you to avoid the danger ahead in Elizabethtown, the Cameron Crowe film that screened…
Her name is Domino Harvey, and she is a bounty hunter. If you’ve seen even one TV spot or theatrical trailer for Domino, you’ve heard that message ground into your brain like an annoying jingle. What you may not know is that Domino Harvey was a real person, daughter of…
Director Curtis Hanson, a journeyman only recently bestowed the title of Great Director, has already made his horror movie (1973’s The Arousers), his kiddie action comedy (1980’s The Little Dragons), his teen sex romp (1983’s Losin’ It ), his handful of Hitchcock riffs (1987’s The Bedroom Window, 1990’s Bad Influence,…
July 4, 2005 — While most people were busy getting hammered and shooting off bottle rockets, some conniving coward (or cowards) set fire to the Presidential Women’s Center in West Palm Beach. But their mission failed. The center reopened five weeks later, the City Commission OK’d a 20-foot buffer at…
THU 13 Hey! It’s that comic in the Hawaiian shirt! You know you’ve seen him; he’s been everywhere from Good Morning America to Jimmy Kimmel Live. Well, he has a name, and it’s Gabriel Iglesias, a.k.a. Picachu (yes, like the Pokémon character). Sure, Iglesias is a Latin comic, but he’s…
Arrested Development: Season Two (Fox Home Entertainment) The best show on TV — which you’d know, if you actually watched the thing — also serves as one of the best reasons for the existence of DVD: No show has ever rewarded multiple viewings the way Arrested Development does. The second…
Waking from a trance, you find yourself in the restroom of a diner. You just stabbed a complete stranger to death as he urinated. Blood is on everything — including you. And to make matters worse, a police officer is sitting outside, drinking coffee. Should you take the time to…
Alicia Keys: Unplugged (J) Audioslave: Live in Cuba (Sony Music) The Best of the Chris Rock Show: Volumes 1 and 2 (Warner Bros.) Bomb the System (UMVD) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Warner Bros.) The Dresden Dolls: Paradise (Fontana) 11:14 (Warner Bros.) The Ellen DeGeneres Collection: The Beginning/Here &…
A lifelong friendship began on a three-week exploration of Cuba in 1933. The Boca Raton Museum of Art is showing a recently compiled exhibition of 50 images by American photography master Walker Evans and 20 of legendary Ernest Hemingway’s photographs and artifacts. “Three Weeks in Cuba, 1933” examines a country…
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Universal Studios ) Alfred Hitchcock may be the best pop filmmaker in our history, and this gorgeous 14- film set is certainly worthy of the master. Licensing issues kept it from being as “definitive” as the box claims — missing, most notably, are Hitchcock’s classic…
The Amityville Horror: Special Edition (Columbia/Tristar) Beyond the Gates of Splendor (Fox) The Black Keys Live (Fat Possum) Christmas With SCTV (Sony Music) Count Duckula: The Complete First Season (Koch Vision) Cream: Royal Albert Hall (Warner Strategic Marketing) Drawn Together Uncensored: Season One (Paramount) The Fly and The Fly II:…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock to protect yourself from the 17 feet of water that ravaged your hometown and entire way of life, you are probably aware of Kanye West’s actions during an NBC live broadcast to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Standing beside a mojo-less…
THU 6 Here’s something you don’t normally get from a singer/songwriter performance: comedy. But that’s part and parcel of a Matt Nathanson show. Though his songs mostly appeal to the heart, the San Francisco-based musician isn’t above tickling the audience’s funny bone as well. It’s just Nathanson’s way of connecting…
Let’s get this straight. Space-age surf music is an authentic part of tiki culture. Pro surfers Kelly Slater and Laird Hamilton are not. Pineapple juice — tiki. Cranberry juice — not so much. Carved wooden masks are tiki, while Jimmy Buffett — well, “Those two words are actually kind of…
Gabrielle Union and 112 host a post-hurricane jam SAT 10/8 She’s one of those actresses who keeps popping up: First on Saved by the Bell in 1989. Then as “the black girlfriend” on an episode of Friends (in 1994). Film roles in Bring It On, Cradle 2 the Grave, and…
