Arts & Culture

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…

… 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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…