Some bands don’t like to travel far to play shows, much less to hold band practice. Even the hour-and-a-half trek from Miami to West Palm Beach is often more of a pain than it’s worth. But for some bands, no distance is too far; their love of making music far…
A slew of artists will this week prettify the pavement of downtown Lake Worth with chalk pastel images that, to the traditionalist, would seem more secure on paper or canvas. It just so happens, though, that impermanence is what the age-old practice of street painting is all about. “The beauty…
More than just a fetish party SAT 2/28 Looking for a different spin on the whole fetish party scene? Sure, it’s fun to watch some dude in a codpiece being whipped by a leather-clad Betty Page look-alike, all the while knowing that the guy’s probably a stockbroker or business executive…
Will the fish fry or be fried? WED 3/3 Last season, Marlins fans were treated to a 91-win regular season and three thrilling rounds of playoffs culminating in a star-studded World Series versus the damn Yankees. The cherry on top was a series-clinching game six masterpiece in Yankee Stadium by…
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about “Embracing the Present: The UBS PaineWebber Art Collection,” a show at Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art (MoA). Now comes “Return to Realism: Contemporary Art from the UBS Art Collection,” a similar but superior exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. (The…
THU 26 Isadora Duncan may be best remembered for her freakish death: Her long, iridescent scarf, trailing out of her speeding roadster, got stuck in the spokes of a back wheel and strangled her. It was a shocking ending to a shocking life. Duncan, now considered the mother of modern…
So, you want to start surfing? Just make sure you’re doing it for the right reasons. Because no matter how fashionable your boardshorts, you’re guaranteed to perform your share of Hawaiian noseplants before even remotely resembling the cast of Blue Crush. If, however, you respect the fact that the ocean…
Temperatures are warming. Flowers will begin blooming shortly. Everyone’s starting to think about tax returns. And the Super Bowl is now in our rear-view mirror. Baseball must be right around the corner. Pitchers and catchers will report this week. Spring training games start in March, with the regular season opening…
Turn it up, bring the earplugs THU 2/19 A chance meeting with the Tampa-based noise band Hepatitis Youth outside a recent show in Orlando included a squall of feedback and a few curious onlookers. That’s because they were playing their set outside, in the parking lot. As part of a…
Kick sand in their faces! SAT 2/21 In the mood for some sand, sunshine, bikinis, and a bit of volleyball? The Florida Beach Volleyball Tour makes its first of three Fort Lauderdale stops for the opening event of the season on Saturday. The tour brings together some of the top…
Cool kids SAT 2/21 Except for those pesky seasonal hurricanes, the weather outside is hardly frightful. Especially not during February, when it’s more like, well, delightful. But if you’ve no place to go and you don’t want to break it to your kids that the average temperature in South Florida…
An all-ages flower show THU 2/19 We were old pros at planting banana trees in Costa Rica, but when we tried harvesting the fruit in our Palm Beach County backyard, the tree took on the brownish pallor and limp posture of a stalk of hay. For advice, we turned to…
Mr. Costello swings all sorts of ways SAT 2/21 “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” Elvis Costello is rumored to have said. And writing about Costello is an equally daunting task. To begin to understand him, you first must ask yourself the question: How can an artist who…
It is so very nice when a movie completely outstrips the expectations conjured by its trailer, as is the case with The Dreamers. At first blush, this tale of three passionate youths caught up in the late ’60s Parisian countercultural revolution looked downright trite. Never mind that esteemed veteran director…
With 50 First Dates it seems as though Adam Sandler is trying to compile a greatest-hits film, cobbling together the stuff that worked in his previous films in the hopes that it’ll play even better all in one go. There’s the falsetto comedy song bit from every episode of Saturday…
Watching Florida Stage’s new production of The Drawer Boy is a bit like observing a bumblebee in flight. Based on the evidence, it shouldn’t fly, but there it goes. Michael Healey’s 1999 script is riddled with implausibilities and secondhand ideas. Still, it offers some gentle humor and soul, and audiences…
Albert Maysles, with brother David, made two different films about two different rock-and-roll bands five years apart, but to this day he can’t think of one without immediately thinking of the other. The first he was shooting 40 years ago this very day, more or less: The Beatles were on…
THU 2/19 Ever wish you could escape the city’s grind and just retire to your favorite uncle’s mansion in the country? Unfortunately, life’s not fair. We can’t all be duPonts and Pulitzers. Blue blood? Some of us have favorite uncles who bounce between residences under the Singer Island Bridge and…
Billy Blob is like the Andrew W.K. of the art world. While most artists are reserved and reluctant to talk about their aaahhrt, Billy (who prefers this moniker over his real name… to keep things “mysterious”) is way excited to talk about his. Speaking from his Kansas City home/studio, Billy…
THU 2/12 The Finnish language is so diplomatic. Did you know it has a word (hän) that means he or she? Forget what you’ve heard about metal bands and ritualistic suicides, Finland is a real cool time. And at FinnFest 2004, you can learn all about the language, food, and…
Most Northerners would give anything right now for just five minutes of our warm, balmy, non-ice-laden weather. Yet many of us still complain when the temperature drops below 72 degrees. Rather than bitch about the two days a year that require more than a tank top and sandals, we should…
FRI 2/13 Sewing has spun a long history with the women’s movement. For many, the tool of choice for a revolution was the needle. Susan B. Anthony crafted the first American flag, and handmade quilts were hung in windows of houses used in the Underground Railroad. Find a local quilting…
