WED 5/14 If you are a University of Florida alumnus or even just a Gator fan, you probably miss Steve Spurrier’s presence on the Gainesville sidelines. Spurrier left Florida for greener pastures in the NFL last year. His reward? A 7-9 season with the Redskins and many grumbling Skins fans…
TUE 5/13 Puppeteer Akbar Imhotep’s motto of “have stories, will travel” fits nicely with his love of traditional African storytelling. Imhotep’s puppetry skills and tales of wisdom have been delighting children in his hometown of Atlanta, and now he brings his talents to South Florida for the second year in…
THU 5/8 Attention, South Florida history buffs, art connoisseurs, and nostalgic ladies and gentlemen! The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) brings you “The Tumultuous Fifties: Photography from the New York Times.” Through 200 vintage photographs, this exhibition strives to outline the dynamism of…
SAT 5/10 Dave Chappelle is not a fan of subtlety. His new Comedy Central show includes a skit in which he plays a blind white supremacist who doesn’t realize he’s actually black. His screams of “White power!” confound his incredulous onlookers, and his superfluous use of the n-word elicits a…
If you have never heard of Lizzie McGuire, you are not a female child between the ages of 6 and 14; nor are you a parent with a female child between those ages. For the uninitiated, then, Lizzie is the eponymous heroine of the 3-year old, wildly popular Disney Channel…
Filmmaker Terry Gilliam is no stranger to fiasco. After all, this is the human dynamo who saw 1989’s inventive if sometimes incoherent The Adventures of Baron Munchausen through a series of artistic and financial crises that would have landed most people in an asylum. But Gilliam’s encounter with the tale-spinning…
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There’s a lovely paradox at the heart of some recent works by Pérez Celis. The Argentine artist anchors his mixed-media canvases in mundane, earthbound objects, then superimposes those objects with colors and forms that send the imagery up and out into the cosmos. For Celis — who was born in…
Comedian Dick Gregory, drum major for civil rights and good world nutrition, highlights the 2003 Pan African Bookfest and Cultural Conference Saturday at the Rev. Samuel Delevoe Park in Fort Lauderdale. Gregory will discuss his latest book, his second autobiography — Callus on My Soul: A Memoir. “I’ve lived long…
THU 5/1 Though it started yesterday, SunFest continues through Sunday in West Palm Beach along Flagler Drive from Banyan Boulevard to Lakeview Drive, bringing you the very best in… well, let’s not delve into hyperbole. Many media outlets with music coverage, including New Times, have derided SunFest in general and…
In the never-ending consumer orgy, the word tease has taken on the hackneyed association with — yawn — girls going wild. The concept of glamour has been replaced with the hunger for quick cash. Leaving a little something to the imagination is just too time-consuming. America has women to exploit,…
FRI 5/2 Can we still learn a little more about the facts of life? Audiences seem to think so, as Eve Ensler’s smash hit The Vagina Monologues goes into its fourth year of production since its original off-Broadway run in 1999. The play reveals almost everything you’ve ever wanted to…
SAT 5/4 This Saturday is possibly the most prestigious day in horseracing. Churchill Downs. The Run for the Roses. The Kentucky Derby. The Derby is the first of the big three races that make up horseracing’s Triple Crown. It’s followed by the Preakness on May 18 and the Belmont Stakes…
THU 5/1 A number of children will get to go on a trip around the world this spring and summer, without leaving South Florida. These lucky kids will travel to five countries on four continents to explore the diverse cultures of the world through hands-on art activities, all for about…
THU 5/1 Betty Godfrey, author of On the Winds of Destiny, met her husband while vacationing in Fort Lauderdale, and something clicked. They began a long-distance relationship, with Betty continuing to reside in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, while Bob dwelt on his 65-foot ship, Destiny, in Fort Lauderdale. When Bob…
SUN 5/4 After catapulting from obscurity to multiplatinum success with 1998’s Wide Open Spaces, the Dixie Chicks enjoyed continued success, thanks to tight vocals and above-average musicianship (fiddler Emily Robinson, for example, once took third place in the National Fiddle Championships). Admittedly, the stuff’s pretty fluffy, but it’s also plenty…
It is rare to find a film that defies one’s expectations as sweetly and satisfyingly as this coming-of-age comedy-drama from first-time feature writer-director Peter Sollett. The surprise isn’t in the plot of Raising Victor Vargas — that would be too easy — but rather in the extraordinarily subtle and convincing…
You can’t be sure what to make of Identity for its first hour: Director James Mangold’s first foray into the horror genre plays so much like a joke, it’s almost impossible to tell whether he’s making you laugh on purpose or because, well, he is director James Mangold, maker of…
He claims to be blacklisted and close to busto. Thirty years in the film biz, with a cult bigger than David Koresh’s and a disemboweled body of work that would make any studio boss blood-red with envy, and still he kvetches in a voice so eerily similar to that of…
Summer weather hasn’t quite arrived in South Florida, but the Sol Theatre isn’t in the mood to wait. This Fort Lauderdale-based company is setting off some fireworks of a theatrical nature in an uneven but sometimes dazzling production of a wildly imaginative play called Marisol. The Sol, in only its…
Showtel begins at 7 p.m. at Hotel Biba, 320 Belvedere Rd., West Palm Beach, on Friday, April 25. Admission is free, as are the hors d’oeuvres in the hotel’s Biba Bar. Call 561-832-0094.
Thursday, 4/24 Like most scientifically unproven pseudohealthy gimmicks, aromatherapy can trace its origins nearly into prehistory. The Egyptians used scents for health as far back as 1550 BC, and the Greeks learned from them, with the Romans cribbing off the Greeks. Despite the fact that most medical doctors acknowledge aromatherapy…
