Beauty, grace, and the synchronicity of movement envelop a dance that originated in a country that has a deep sacred historical origin. More than 800 dancers celebrate the land of Israel with the nation’s largest Israeli Dance Festival on Sunday at the Broward Center for Performing Arts. The 18th-annual festival…
Donald Sterling. Counterterrorism. Investment banking. Washington press corps dinners. If you want to know what comedian Paul Mecurio thinks about any of these random topics, chances are you can turn on the TV (right now!) and find out. With regular bookings on CNN, Fox News, ESPN, MSNBC, and both the…
Making a rendition of Dale Wasserman’s classic 1970 adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the Andrew Living Arts marks the second appearance of this unforgettable story in South Florida this season. Depicting a group of patients in a “state mental hospital somewhere in the Northwest”…
“I gather people; I open their hearts and grow their soul,” says Nerissa Street, a New York native who teaches theater, storytelling, and public speaking to both kids and adults. “I see adults as just grown-up children,” she says of her teaching experience. “I see the potential in children, and…
Godzilla is the movie monster with the mostest. King Kong may be just one gorilla-chest-hair behind, but not even the greatest of apes can quite match the half-dragon, half-dinosaur who first stomped and chomped his way through Tokyo in Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Toho Co. Ltd. extravaganza Godzilla. In that picture…
Chef, the back-to-his-roots indie flick from Jon Favreau (Iron Man), is to modern foodie culture as his own Swingers is to ’90s swing revival. Favreau plays Carl Casper, a culinary bad boy, barreling egotist, and divorced father with a chef’s knife tattoo stretching down his right forearm and “El Jefe”…
The lights were dim. Gray-haired musicians in linen guayaberas filled the small stage, and the hips of every man and woman, young and old, moved to the rhythm. It was an exhilarating moment in one of Miami’s oldest hangouts, Little Havana’s Hoy Como Ayer. And there, right in the middle…
Looking for a chance to shout, “Only in America!”? Only in America — or an American movie — could the story of the first two Indian players to be signed to a Major League Baseball team get spun as an L.A. sports agent’s journey toward realizing the importance of family…
Greetings from Cannes! It’s an unwritten rule – maybe it should even be a written one – that no one who is lucky enough to come to Cannes for the film festival, now in its 67th year, should, in any way, shape, or form, complain about being here. But may…
If you’ve ever loved a terrible person, Mike Leigh’s quietly sensational Cannes competition entry Mr. Turner — a biopic, of sorts, covering the last 25 years of the life of the great 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner – is the movie for you. In his seascapes and landscapes, Turner…
We’ve all dreamed of escaping to a remote island and starting a new life, far removed from today’s nonstop traffic and iHell. And while 2014’s barrage of ads, fads, and selfies is much greater than it was in the 1930s, even back then, society’s overload was enough to make two…
An event designed to enhance the experience of music, the Girl Choir of South Florida (GCSF) is gearing up to present Sound Sense, which entails a musicological journey through the senses. Although music is generally an auditory experience, vocal music enriches this mental journey through its ability to express and…
Running and tigers and running, oh my! The Palm Beach Zoo has something special on its hands with the second-annual Save the Tiger 5k, and you can be a part of it. The purpose of this run is to raise funds that will support the zoo’s crucially important Malayan tiger…
Some beverages are better-suited for consuming in a laid-back backyard setting — you’re not exactly going to pull out your nitrogen canister to mix up some molecular cocktails (not even the mightiest master mixologist wants to deal with that at home). Beer, on the other hand, perfectly fits the bill…
Have you ever wanted an excuse to run in your underwear? If so, you’re in luck! Encouraging the practice of turning your underwear into outerwear in a family-friendly fashion, the Colon Cancer Alliance is hosting the Greater Fort Lauderdale Undy 5000 Two-Mile Fun Run/Walk to raise awareness and funds for…
Childhood Disney memories become very grown-up realities this Saturday at the “Cupcake Burlesque Presents: Diznee Undressed” event. The curvaceous gals from the Cupcake Burlesque troupe venture inside the animated world of damsels in distress and conspiring villains and flip it on its head. Picture Sleeping Beauty waking up from her…
Join the fifth-annual Covenant House Florida 5K to help homeless youth on Saturday along A1A in Fort Lauderdale. The Young Professionals for the Covenant House are proud to have hosted the 5k for the past five years and hope that everyone will come out to this benefit that helps young…
These days, it seems as though everybody is obsessed with Game of Thrones and craft beer — hey, no one’s complaining about it. And we’re all self-proclaimed foodies now that Instagram exists — OK, the food pics are annoying: No one cares that you ate a sandwich. Your chance to…
Dressed in short blue jogging shorts, a tank top, and sneakers, Zachary Fabri clamored up the famous steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When he got to the African wing, surrounded by ancient, glass-encased objects, he pulled an orange skullcap over his dreadlocks and began silently doing a ritualistic…
Nicholas Stoller’s hilarious Neighbors splashes into summer with the satisfying swish-plop-hooray of a winning beer pong serve, making the director, who also wrote March’s Muppets Most Wanted, the first filmmaker in history to simultaneously have in theaters both a kiddie flick and an R-rated comedy where two men sword-fight with…
The landmark 1996 documentary that introduced audiences to the West Memphis Three, three teenagers — Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and, of course, Baldwin himself — wrongly convicted of murdering three 8-year-old boys. Jason Baldwin had already been in prison for several years when his friend Mojo shook him awake at…
Dating is stressful. First, you have to find someone with whom you’d like to spend a few hours of your time. Then you have to figure out what to do with said date. If you’re looking to solve your dating woes, Red Hot & in Style is auctioning off some…
