Jock Support

Heat plays for good cause MON 10/10 The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has led to more than $1 billion in donations. If you’ve yet to donate money to the relief efforts through a charity, at the supermarket, through your house of worship, on the Internet, during telethons, at one of…

A State of Mind

… or mind control? THU 10/6 Imagine if the X-Games were a state-run event. Think about it. What better way to promote the Bush administration while indoctrinating young athletes? While that sounds like an Orwellian nightmare, it’s real life for the North Korean kids who participate in the Mass Games,…

Saxon the City

Neo-prog shores up at Dada SUN 10/9 A million years ago (OK, so maybe more like 30), ambient instrumental rock was poised to take over the world (OK, maybe just the record stores). Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and even Pink Floyd were using emerging technologies to weave electronic…

Say Cheese

Ah, Wallace and Gromit. Who doesn’t get a little lift at the sound of those names? Who doesn’t feel the edges of her mouth begin to tickle toward a smile, her heart grow warmer with images of the love between a (plasticine) man and his (plasticine) dog? Perhaps you’re not…

You Got Served

All the publicity for Waiting… has focused on the scene in which an annoying customer at the fictional chain restaurant ShenaniganZ sends her food back to the kitchen, where it meets with all sorts of nasty modifications, courtesy of some dandruff, pubic hair, and mucus. The teaser posters depicted similarly…

Fruitful Reverie

A word of warning: It is inadvisable to have a heavy lunch immediately before taking in an art exhibition featuring an abundance of food. Or at least, that was my experience when I visited “Naturaleza Muerta: Latin American Still Life from South Florida Collections,” now at the Boca Raton Museum…

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

It’s obviously an idea whose time has come: Art meets food. Case in point: Mark’s at the Park restaurant in Boca Raton engagingly displays the multimedia works of longtime local artist Elizabeth Chapman. Diners get the opportunity to digest this earthy yet ethereal exhibition as they indulge in Chef Mark…

Roll Play

Last year’s Katamari Damacy was so quirky, it should have been subtitled “Marketed to Stoners.” Its star, a little green prince, was forced to roll a giant gravity ball to atone for the sins of his father, the King of the Cosmos, who had gotten drunk one day and knocked…

Big Fun, Even Small

Robots (Fox) The story of a small-town ‘bot (voiced by Ewan McGregor) who bolts for the big city, Robots is the first non-Pixar film to compete with that studio’s razzle and dazzle; the thing’s stunning to look at. (And, frankly, it’s better to stare at than listen to, since listening…

Our top DVD picks for the week of September 27

Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power (Universal) American Pie: 3 Movie Pie Pack (Universal) Beethoven: The Pooch Pack (Universal) Billy Jack: The Ultimate Collection (Ventura) Blind Melon: Live at the Metro (EMI) Bouncing Souls: Live at the Glasshouse (Fontana) Britney & Kevin: Chaotic… the DVD & More (Jive) The Complete Monty…

Red Cross Rock

It’s been roughly a month since Katrina made waves in the Gulf Coast, but the effort to assist evacuees has only begun. Though our commander in sleep took his sweet time before stepping in, the American Red Cross was on the scene to do what it could with what it…

This Week’s Day-by-Day Picks

THU 29 You might think it’s a strange idea to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with a topless party, but if you’ve ever seen Salma… What’s that? You say it’s a tapas party. Ohhh. That makes loads more sense for an event hosted by the Boca Raton Museum of Art…

No, She Didn’t!

You’d think that in an age of South Park, Eminem, and Grand Theft Auto, the only way an entertainer could be shocking is to be just totally inoffensive. But then you tune in to Comedy Central and see the Friar’s Club Roast of Pamela Anderson, where a scowling, loud-mouthed comic…

Groove-ilee

Praisin’ and roof-raisin’ FRI 9/30 Billed as the largest party of the year for grown folks, the Jubilee Groove Fest is a weekend-long celebration of comedy, music, fashion, poetry, and worship. Worship? Not in the hushed, monastery sense of the word but the fun, hands-in-the-air kind of worship. The party…

Fish Finale?

Marlins pray for playoffs FRI 9/30 This wasn’t supposed to be the Atlanta Braves’ year. They didn’t have the bats, they didn’t have the bullpen, and as they sat near the bottom of the standings early in the season, pundits patted one another on the back for predicting the fall…

Repent!

And pray to the Wrong-Eyed Jesus THU 9/29 Amid the calamitous ruins left by Hurricane Katrina, there’s one cover that should have been blown off long ago — New Orleans’ famous “party town” façade. Only now is the world having to face the rampant poverty of the American South. There’s…

Black Power

Feel the wrath of Lewis Black SAT 10/1 Listening to an angry 57-year-old white guy shout obscenities about his discontent with pretty much every aspect of Western civilization sounds more exhausting than entertaining, more frightening than funny. It definitely does not seem like an activity someone would partake in by…

Tom’s Diner

Anything can be anything to anybody, particularly in the case of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence. If you want to believe that his new film, a loose adaptation of a little-known graphic novel, is a work of damning criticism aimed at the hypocrisy of Americans who believe violence is…

Something Missing

In 2001, Jonathan Safran Foer made an astounding literary debut. “A Very Rigid Search,” published by the New Yorker, was his hilarious, heartbreaking account of an attempt by a young American man (named, cheekily, Jonathan Safran Foer) to find a Ukrainian woman who had saved his grandfather from the Nazis…

The Opposite of Suck

About once a year — twice, if we’re lucky — a first-time director shows up with something original, electrifying, and humane, a film that shows us a new way to see, that presents complex and memorable people in whom we recognize ourselves. Last year, it was Joshua Marston and Maria…

Have Gun, Will (Space) Travel

Serenity, Joss Whedon’s big-screen spinoff of the 2002 TV show Firefly, which didn’t even last a dozen episodes, is already a cult phenom well before its opening. The show’s DVD boxed set lines the shelf of every fanboy who dreamed of gunslinging in space alongside preachers and prostitutes, and already…

Played for Fools

Anyone vaguely familiar with the rules of golf knows that you may not improve your lie, ground your club in a sand trap, or — most grievous of all — subtract strokes from your score. This last one apparently never occurred to the makers of a new movie with the…