For the fourth year running, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami holds its annual teen day Saturday, May 5. Strangely it has chosen as the theme “Back to the Eighties II.” This seems an odd choice, since the teens of 2001 were born between the years 1982 to…
Presently sitting in a very peaceful meditational facility. First time here. The location (which shall remain unnamed so as to maintain nondenominational vibe) was selected specifically for the loving creation of this review, as it provides an almost perfect contrast to The Center of the World, the new motion picture…
Where were Howard Fast, Joe Adler, and Bob Rogerson when Mr. Nelson, my high-school history teacher and the wrestling team’s coach, sidled up to the lectern to teach the American Revolution? That war, as I remember it, was a series of lively anecdotes about converting Boston Harbor into a giant…
A little girl, her pouty lips slightly parted, lies stretched out provocatively in shadows that fall like a lattice across her body, while a ghostly TV image hovers above and behind her. In another picture the same girl sprawls on the floor in a blue bikini and a platinum blond…
There is no good place to begin with Harry Shearer, because he doesn’t sit still long enough to allow one the chance to focus. He is a blur, forever in motion–on his way to the radio station, on his way from the movie studio, on his way to the publisher’s…
Janet Leigh once admitted that, since her infamous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, she hasn’t taken a shower. When you’ve been traumatized like that, there are really only two possible responses — either develop a love of baths or drastically reassess your personal hygiene priorities. But as much as…
Maypole dances may have seemed innocent when you were a kid, but for the MoonPath Chapter of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS), the practice stems from an ancient spring ritual that signifies new birth and celebrates the continuation of life. Historically the dance is supposed to represent the…
Given the autobiographical impulse, it’s not surprising that there is a disproportionate number of movies about filmmaking. But Shadow Magic, Ann Hu’s fictional feature debut, is different from most in two ways: It’s set in China; and it’s about the very earliest days of cinema, some 50 years before the…
Classic noir is the color this season in West Palm Beach. The Cuillo Centre for the Arts’ current production, The Betrayal of Nora Blake, is a musical comedy billed as “musical noir.” This spoof of the film-noir classics of the ’30s and ’40s takes all the late-night B-movies you’ve ever…
Visualize a pretty young woman and a handsome young man heading for the bedroom. She has just suggested that she wants to show him what she really wants, so naturally he begins unzipping his trousers en route to the bed. Oblivious to his loud boxers, she sits and begins swooning…
Joe Simon doesn’t read comic books anymore, and not because he’s an 87-year-old man with far better ways to spend his time. The former and, perhaps, future comics writer and illustrator simply doesn’t get them anymore; he doesn’t know who they’re for, what they’re about, why most of them even…
“They want us to tell scary stories,” chuckles Cassandra Jones, “so maybe I’ll tell my version of how women got power. That always scares the guys.” CJ, as the Fort Lauderdale native is known, is talking about Moonlight Tales, Jazz and Java, the adult storytelling event put on by the…
Tired of seeing the glitzy Hollywood movies that are big on star power and action sequences but short on plot? The Palm Beach International Film Festival is the cure for all your celluloid ills. Running April 19 to 26, the fest boasts 55 feature and short films as well as…
There’s a majesty to Michael Winterbottom’s new film, a majesty and a terrible, icy chill. There’s also a fair bit of invention, as the director of the wrenching Jude — based on Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure — has shifted the locus of that author’s fierce, beloved English west country…
“Keep a diary, and one day it’ll keep you,” said Mae West, and while the sentiment rings true, it does little to explain the mystery of why Helen Fielding’s sliver of literary history managed to keep anyone. Fluffy, shrill, and approximately as deep as Cosmo magazine, the book somehow hit…
At best the revival of a classic stirs our sensibilities much like a remarkable piece of music. A chord is struck that reverberates from antiquity to the present, reuniting us with the universality of our most human emotions. At its worst a classic only manages to transport us as far…
Three very different solo shows currently share the spacious galleries of the Coral Springs Museum of Art: “Clyde Butcher: Visions for the Next Millennium,” “Len Janklow: Kinetics in Light & Color,” and “Leo Kaplan: Nostalgic Gatherings.” Butcher, of course, is the South Florida photographer celebrated as the “Ansel Adams of…
Paul McGuinness has never thought of himself as a teacher of life lessons, so it comes as a bit of a surprise for him to hear it relayed that Kelly Curtis considers him an adviser–hell, a mentor. It comes as even more of a shock to discover that Curtis recalls…
One of the great moments of crowd participation at Grateful Dead shows was when someone started up the chant. If enough people were on the ball, soon 20,000 would be calling out, over and over again, “Let Phil sing! Let Phil sing!” Jerry Garcia, 50 years old and not looking…
You could say that Sarah Jones’ poetry is on the move. Her one-woman show, Surface Transit, has been in demand throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and will soon be produced for television by Spike Lee. Jones’ dynamic performance and gutsy social message have won her fans from Robin…
A viewer doesn’t watch Amores Perros (Love’s a Bitch) so much as absorb it — like a body blow. “I wanted to make a movie that smelled of filth,” Alejandro González Iñárritu has said about his feature directorial debut. He has succeeded beyond perhaps even his wildest dreams. One of…
You may not know the name Anthony Anderson yet, but you will. Having had significant roles in four major films last year (Big Momma’s House; Me, Myself & Irene; Romeo Must Die; and Urban Legends: Final Cut), he’s trying to top himself this year with appearances in five. Already he’s…
