Oh, life before the internet. Can you even remember what it was like? You might have to Google it. Back in the day, the radio used to mean something besides Top 40 hits and a chance to win some free tickets. It was your most important source of entertainment and…
Some people have to work on Valentine’s Day — others just want to bask in the romance more than once. On Thursday, February 6, at 6:30 p.m., the Backyard Bar is offering a wine-pairing dinner created by German master chef Michael Ober for just $30 per person. Dishes include Blue…
Drinking isn’t exactly the most organized extracurricular activity. Most folks have a tendency to find a bar and go back incessantly. That works if you want to feel like part of the cast from Cheers, but it’s nice to get out of the routine every now and then. On Saturday,…
Valentine’s Day is supposed to be about showing that special someone how much you care — it’s doesn’t have to include spending tons of money. To make it easier on the wallet, NYY Steak is offering a three-course dinner for $150 per couple. It includes smoked lobster and scallop salad,…
Past and present converge, and reality and unreality collide in Harold Pinter’s acclaimed Old Times, which opens on Friday, January 31 (8pm) at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre (201 Clematis Street). Performances continue through March 2, with specially priced previews on January 29 and 30. In this three-character play,…
There are many reasons to rejoice in Miami City Ballet’s second program of the season, called “See the Music,” but chief among them is this: the company premiere of Nacho Duato’s Jardí Tancat. It is a gem, a major addition to the company repertory, and above all, it is beautiful…
You can say this for the Disney teen machine: They sure know how to pick ’em. Vanessa Hudgens was 17 when High School Musical made her famous, the tail end of a generation of Mouseketeers that included her contemporaries Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez, and her elders Justin…
Audaciously overcooked in its fussy grandeur and telegraphed plot twists, Cinema Paradiso writer/director Giuseppe Tornatore’s obsessive-quest drama strains toward being a thriller under Ennio Morricone’s strident score. Geoffrey Rush is on the money as hoity-toity art auctioneer Virgil Oldman, whose auction-block witticisms and Sherlock-worthy ability to deduce centuries-old forgeries impress…
It’s particularly disappointing to watch a film “based on a true story,” an interesting one at that, and suspect that what’s on the screen must pale in comparison to what really happened. That nagging frustration overshadows Summer in February, a ceaselessly bland take on the famed Lamorna artists’ colony in…
Let’s start with the ending: the closing credits disclaimer that insists that none of the lead actors in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac filmed penetrative sex. If there is real sex in the movie, and it sure looks like there is, it must have been done by one of the eight…
Every Sundance there’s a crowd-pleaser, and most years it’s got one degree of separation from the Little Miss Sunshine crew. But the most delightful flick of the 2014 fest is an unconventional documentary with no plot, no dialogue, and nothing but party. Living Stars, a fleet 63-minute film by Argentinean…
There are four good things we can say about I, Frankenstein, another muscles-and-rubble comic book adaptation just un-terrible enough not to alienate its core audience, yet never consistently grand or surprising enough to win over anyone else. First, Aaron Eckhart brings it, scowling like a champ beneath his jigsawed scar…
Bridal shows are great; free cake samples, a chance to test-run photo booths, vendors everywhere fawning over you, free cake samples, bridal fashion shows, contests — and did we mention free cake samples? But if you’re rocking a slightly alternative lifestyle, a.k.a. you’re covered in tattoos and are a diehard…
Art comes in all different forms: paintings to see, music to hear, poetry to read, food to eat. It’s about exploring the senses — or, at least, we like to think so. On Wednesday, January 29, it’s time to indulge in art for the eyes and the palate at the…
Everyone wants to be a rock star. The thing is, you kind of need a stage presence to make that possible. They say practice makes perfect: Here’s your chance to jam out in front of a live crowd at Saturday Karaoke Night on Clematis at http://www.voiceplaces.com/broward-palm-beach/palm-sugar-22353726-l. It takes place every…
In Devil’s Due, co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (V/H/S) and first-time screenwriter Lindsay Devlin offer an uninspired found-footage riff on Roman Polanski’s demon-spawn classic, Rosemary’s Baby (1968). On their Dominican Republic honeymoon, the squeakily innocent Samantha (Allison Miller) and Zach (Zach Gilford) are drugged by a cult who draw…
Despite some reluctance, Wes Craven is a name-brand filmmaker. The phrase “Wes Craven Presents” comes with certain expectations thanks to the financial success of the Scream franchise and The Hills Have Eyes series before that. But what cemented Craven’s reputation is A Nightmare on Elm Street, a deathless cycle of…
A tale of love complicated — if not thwarted — by prior responsibilities, intractable barriers, and the rigid high-society norms that frustrate its Victorian characters’ attempts to live as they so desperately want, The Invisible Woman finds Ralph Fiennes proving as adept behind the camera as he is in front…
“You are the man?” a crook asks Ice Cube as the cop comedy Ride Along opens. “I am the man!” Cube insists. You can’t blame him for being defensive. Now a 44-year-old father of five, Cube is three decades away from the furious teenager who cofounded NWA his senior year…
Russians still make the best movie villains. Since 9/11, Hollywood has been queasy about giving us fictional baddies from Arab countries — the line between cheap stereotypes and real-life religious extremism is too blurry, too delicate. South American drug lords have had their day, and Albanians in bad sweaters just…
January! Just the time to snuggle up with a 3-D sword-and-pectoral extravaganza. And although some of its more imaginative plot details would make Edith Hamilton blanch, Renny Harlin’s The Legend of Hercules fulfills every silly, flimsy promise it makes in the first place: There are lots of battles (though rather…
Careers can be tumultuous. While some teeter with the whims of the economy, others are self-made and -lost. The latter is true of veteran comic Andrew Dice Clay, whose crash of fame has only given him a reason to pick up the pieces and make it better the second time…
