Eight days, 150 films, you know the drill. It’s the tenth year for the Palm Beach International Film Festival, with movies from Boca to Belle Glade and Lake Worth to Jupiter. The festival opens with When Do We Eat? — a Sabbath meal, a tough father, and a son perhaps…
Any production of a Shakespeare play, no matter how flawed, can uncover unexpected layers of meaning. Take Hollywood Boulevard Theatre’s threadbare Comedy of Errors, now at the Hollywood Playhouse. Director Paul Waxman utterly fails to get the most basic staging right; his direction sometimes consists of actors wandering pointlessly back…
To her fans, Michelle Newman’s exhibit at the Cornell Museum in Delray Beach’s Old School Square is a dream come true. For the rest of us, her collection of hand-decorated textiles and garments is merely an inspired mix of colors and clothes that have been hand-dyed, woven, silk-screened, and painted…
So it doesn’t really show videos anymore. Does that mean MTV is no longer relevant? The network did, after all, bring us The Osbournes, Nick & Jessica, and, God help us, Ashlee. Doesn’t that count for anything? Regardless of its programming, or lack thereof, no one can deny the channel’s…
THU 7 You may not have heard of comedian Pablo Francisco, but chances are, after his show you won’t forget him. The 20-something Tucson native got his first break during a comedy competition at age 17. Since then, he’s been spotted on Mad TV, Comedy Central, and the Tonight Show…
Take one look at local fashion designer Adrianne Russin’s revamped vintage threads and you’ll have no question where her inspiration comes from. “Rock ‘n’ roll and funk is my answer to everything,” she admits. The formula has been working. She’s created styles for tons of freelance clients, including current American…
TUE 4/12 If you’re more of a boozer than a foodie, think of this as the opportunity to reform yourself — while still catching a decent buzz. The Himmarshee Bar and Grill (210 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale) will school you in the finer points of quaffing during complimentary winetastings…
SAT 4/9 For the average college football fanatic, the year is separated into two distinctly separate and inequitable parts — the college football season and the long and arduous eight months spent waiting for it to start again. Like a basehead fiending for one more hit of the tasty rock,…
THU 4/7 It takes balls to be a drag queen. But with a little duct tape, that’ll be the dong and short of it. Seriously, though, photographer J.W. Calcaterra (a.k.a. Pompano Bill) has amassed quite a pile of pictures of drag queens. Now 79, Calcaterra served in the Navy during…
FRI 4/8 Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), a.k.a. the Elephant Man, had a rare disease called Proteus syndrome that caused exaggerated growth of his body. His head was so large that the hat he wore measured three feet across. The dancehall star known as Elephant Man could use a hat that…
The Groden family lives out in the middle of the New Mexico desert, far from main roads. They grow, harvest, and/or kill all their own food, own their own home, and make what little money they need from crafts. They’ve got no phone or indoor plumbing, and they haven’t paid…
Damian Cunningham has the face of an angel — calm and cool blue eyes perched above freckled cheeks and a benevolent grin — which is appropriate for a 7-year-old boy who speaks with the late, great saints, among them Peter, Joseph, Claire, and, of course, Francis of Assisi. Damian sees…
Last year, the Simmons family of Needham, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, sent Christmas cards for the first time in more than 20 years. “We send out Xmas cards about as often as the Red Sox win the World Series,” the card very cleverly proclaimed. This movie is for them. In…
Jekyll & Hyde is all about the duality of man and the battle that rages within us all between good and evil. So perhaps fittingly, the musical now at the Stage Door Theatre offers radically contrasting moments. There are, that is, strokes of theatrical excellence and passages of grindingly bad…
When Enrique Martínez Celaya talks about relocating last year from Los Angeles to Delray Beach, the phrase “the buzz” crops up again and again, as in “We wanted someplace away from the buzz.” He makes L.A. sound not so much like a beehive, busy with productive activity, as a nest…
Don’t let the name throw you. Project Earth Design isn’t a cooperative of environmentalists, nor is it a clever moniker for a home landscaping service. It’s a 3-month-old gallery of sorts on the eastern fringe of Fort Lauderdale’s Gateway shopping district. And while not everything the shop sells is organic,…
Sahara is a stunning piece of work — stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every single way imaginable. How this didn’t go direct to video or cable or airplane or bootleg is unfathomable. Actually, that’s not entirely true. It gets a proper blockbuster theatrical release through Paramount Pictures because…
The mere notion that The Simpsons and William Shakespeare have a lot in common is enough to make your average high school drama teacher let out a derisive “D’oh!” But once you get past the obvious disparities, thou shalt see that many of the characteristics that made the Bard so…
THU 31 Today through Sunday, Miami Beach will be transformed into Muscle Beach as 50,000 hot bods invade the sand between Seventh and Ninth streets on Ocean Drive for the Seventh Annual Miami Beach Sports & Fitness Festival. Gabriele Brustenghi, the event chairman, is a freak who has punished himself…
Isaac Hayes’ life story is so jam-packed that the 5,000-word biography on his website contains only three sentences about the role for which you probably know him best: that of Chef on South Park. Yes, the man has done more in his career than sing “Oh! Suck on my chocolate…
SAT 4/2 Attention, all crawdaddies ‘n’ mommies — here comes crawfish stew, crawfish kebabs, and crawfish étouffée. In Bubba-speak, it’s time to come out for a big taste of the Big Easy at the First Annual Palm Beach Cajun Blues Crawfish Festival from 3 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Meyer…
FRI 4/1 The 2005 Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) season is here. It’s time for the best and brightest in the world of beach volleyball to serve, set, and spike on the Fort Lauderdale sand. The AVP Nissan Series Fort Lauderdale Open begins Friday on North Side Beach adjacent to…
