FRI 10/31 I ask myself the same questions around this time every year. The confluence of events happening at the Gulfstream Hotel (1 Lake Ave., Lake Worth) only makes these questions more universal and pertinent. My questions start with a single premise: If I were the disembodied spirit of a…
FRI 10/31 For fans of one particular type of music or another, the festival is the most wonderful time of the year. If you dig washboards, accordions, and a heaping helping of andouille, then each time the Cajun/Zydeco Crawfish Festival comes to town, you’re probably as happy as a mudbug…
Editor’s note: The official opening of 133-film FLIFF isn’t until next Friday, but the entries are already spinning. Here are reviews of some that will be shown in the next week: Just when you thought the music world had gone the way of Britney Spears forever, a band like Betty…
Having your share of woes in the dating wars? Consider yourself lucky you’re not one of the characters in Beyond Therapy, the scathing hilarious comedy receiving a stylish revival at Palm Beach Dramaworks. The New York hit from the 1980s takes aim at an array of contemporary targets, among them…
My most recent foray into the western suburbs of Broward was prompted by news that there was a La Monte Anderson show at the Coral Springs Museum of Art. I had seen some of Anderson’s work in a few other shows — most notably one at the Davie campus of…
On October 12, BBC America aired the second-season premiere of The Office, the beloved mockumentary that follows paper-selling rats ’round the maze of cubicles leading to the office of head cheese David Brent, a pathetic little man who says in public things no rational human being would even think in…
What do you get when you cross punk, techno, hip-hop, glam rock, pop, dance, disco, and neoclassical piano? Not sure, huh? How about if you added a guitar covered in all manner of bizarre stickers and a guy who wears a dog collar while singing about William Howard Taft? Why,…
THU 10/23 Don’t miss your last chance to catch the Andreas Feininger exhibit at the Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach). The son of one of the master instructors at the Bauhaus, Feininger trained as an architect in Germany before moving to Stockholm, where he…
SUN 10/26 Beginning with her work among the chimpanzees of Tanzania in 1960 through her research while living among the chimps at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Africa and the eventual creation of the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 to further the study of Gombe chimps, no one has…
FRI 10/24 The best and brightest of South Florida’s high school swimming and diving talent will be on display when the “FHSAA Swimming and Diving District Championships” come to the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex (501 Seabreeze Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) on Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25. The complex hosts…
FRI 10/24 Who is your favorite Wiggle? What is a Wiggle? you ask. The Wiggles are an Australian musical group and then some, created by three college chums more than ten years ago. Anthony Field, Murray Cook, and Greg Page put their heads together and started writing children’s songs for…
FRI 10/24 If you’re not feeling the creative vibe just yet (i.e., you can’t think of a costume), why not sit back and be inspired? Old School Square (51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach), along with Delray Mazda and the Palm Beach Post, presents a Halloween-themed version of the biannual…
SAT 10/25 Grant is contagious. Not contagious like crabs but more like that Mattress Giant song that gets stuck in your head. When Grant Balfour wants to get that “ooh-ahh” feel, he reaches deep within himself, sometimes three or four times a day. “What inspires me to write a song…
You may notice this year that, for the first time in the history of New Times Broward-Palm Beach, reviews of selections from the 18th-annual “Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival” bear more than one byline. OK, I confess: After nearly a decade and a half of covering the festival solo –…
Given the way the United Nations has been taking a beating in the American media over the past year or so, it may not be a bad thing that the new movie Beyond Borders is at heart a two-hour infomercial for Kofi Annan’s organization. As a call to action, the…
I really like the cold — it makes me feel really alive.” There are few more attractive (or more atypical) things a woman can say, and when wunderkind Sarah Polley says this in My Life Without Me, thinking viewers will note that however “real” the story seems, we are also…
Whew! Be careful what you wish for. If you have seen as many bland South Florida shows as I have, you may start hoping to find something really provocative, something so mind-boggling that you won’t forget it ten minutes after you leave the theater. If that is your quest, prepare…
Sonya Fitzpatrick, star of Animal Planet’s The Pet Psychic, has an amazing ability. An ability perhaps unmatched in history. The talent we refer to, though, is not her alleged skill at reading the minds of animals but her uncanny knack of stating the obvious. Asked to send Fitzpatrick a picture…
The Body Shop ran advertisements a few years ago featuring a “plus-size” Barbie-esque doll lounging on a couch above the following words: “There are 3 billion women who don’t look like supermodels and only 8 who do.” Simple images like that jump-start new thoughts. Or so says Jessica Devaney, a…
THU 10/16 Deicide is scary. Like, scary for real. Not cheesy, metal-dude scary, but genuinely frightening. Deicide is loud and fast and sinister enough to get you thrown out of the house for listening to devil’s music. First, there’s the band’s trapped-in-the-blades-of-a-helicopter brand of metal. Then there are those lyrics:…
“I was still in Africa taking pictures and writing articles and sending them back, but money was always a problem. At one point, in order to raise funds, I spent several months hunting crocodiles along the Zambezi River — the idea being that this was a way to earn money…
FRI 10/17 Food. Sex. The connection is undeniable. Two great tastes that taste great together. Anybody who loves food, whether it be eating it, cooking it, or concocting fantasies involving it, should hightail it to the Harriet Himmel Gilman Theater (CityPlace, 700 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach) for the…
