Getting healthier is the most prominent resolution for the new year. You need to eat well to do so — learning how to make foods for yourself always helps. For those looking to find a salubrious new skill, Publix Aprons Cooking School in Plantation is hosting a special hands-on sushi…
You’re supposed to make positive changes with the new year. Maybe it’s getting into shape; maybe it’s just getting out of the house more often; maybe it’s being more conscious, or maybe you want to get into being politically active. If the latter is your resolution, Food & Water Watch…
In the 21st Century, becoming a Disney princess might not be as glamorous as the children’s books made it seem. Nowadays, Snow White would be elbow-deep in dish soap washing up after seven dwarves, and Alice would be baking all kinds of mind-altering (but gluten-free) goodies to pass the time…
Do you ever sit at your desk and not work? Well, obviously. But how about instead of finishing those TPS reports, you find yourself staring out the window, conjuring the best way to break out of the working-blues shackles? Well then, chances are good you have seen 9 to 5…
What becomes a legend most? After prolonged incubation, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom offers the biopic’s usual reply: legend itself. Bigger, louder, more expensive legend, brought to bear by the best talents and technologies of the day. The name Nelson Mandela has long been shorthand for the things Mandela shows…
The surprise in Grudge Match, the not-quite-a-comedy that pits Rocky Balboa against Raging Bull, isn’t that it has the chutzpah to posit a universe in which Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro have, since the early ’80s, been equally matched rivals. The surprise is in how easily audiences will buy…
Solemn as a funeral march, humorless as your junior high principal, as Japanese as a grocery-store California roll, Keanu Reeves’s let’s-mope-about-and-kill-ourselves samurai drama has exactly three things going for it. First, the cockeyed sensuality of Rinko Kikuchi as a spider-puking evil witch who can transform herself into a fox, a…
In the 20 years since Reality Bites, his directorial debut, Ben Stiller has metastasized from sketch comedy lunatic to Generation X darling to blockbuster king. Among the funnymen, most of whom have calcified into cliques (yawn, Anchorman 2), he’s the last of the triple-threat writer-director-stars and the only one who…
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is the kind of movie directors make when they wield money, power, and a not inconsiderable degree of arrogance. Sprawling and extravagant, it revels in all manner of excess, including sexual debauchery, hearty abuse of liquor and quaaludes, even dwarf-tossing. Its antihero, the…
The waiter smiles and drops the plates at our cozy, round, two-person table. I take my first bite into a medium-rare medallion of filet mignon. It’s so good that I forget that the same five smooth-jazz Christmas songs have been playing on a loop for an hour. Thirty minutes later…
Christmas is over. You got together with your family and reflected on a great year. You ate yourself silly and probably drank plenty of booze. If the thought of spending one more night attached to the dining room table listening to your uncle’s same jokes or your cousin’s inappropriate college…
There’s something to be said for starting out the year with a blank slate — Max’s Grille in Boca Raton is going for the blanc (French for “white,” if you didn’t know) theme this New Year’s Eve. The restaurant is offering a $45 three-course prix fixe dinner with a complimentary…
When it comes to New Year’s, the emphasis tends to sway toward the night before. That’s fun and all, but what is one to do to nurture the raging hangover that follows? On Wednesday, January 1, the Palm Beach Gardens Marriott is hosting a family-friendly brunch from noon to 5…
Do you ever sit at your desk and not work? Well, obviously. But how about instead of finishing those TPS reports, you find yourself staring out the window, conjuring up the best way to break out of the working blues shackles? Well then chances are good you have seen 9…
When a gunman ripped through the classrooms of Sandy Hook Elementary School, horrendously killing 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut, the world mourned. It was a cold day on December 14, 2012, when this senseless act of violence broke hearts. As America expressed outrage and gun-control debates raged,…
In Spike Jonze’s new sci-fi romance, Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays a divorcée who rebounds by falling in love with his smartphone. On a recent Wednesday, however, he’s a delinquent boyfriend, leaving his iPad abandoned on a chair in a Lebanese restaurant as he bounces off to the parking lot for…
In 2013 there were a thousand bright lights and no strong center — even with Gravity, which ranked No. 8 on our tally of almost 100 critics’ bests. The results in this year’s Village Voice Film Poll, like the decisions arrived at by critics’ circles around the country, suggest that…
If you’re a person alive in this age, Ralph Fiennes has at some point probably made you hate him. As the Nazi Amon Goeth in 1993’s Schindler’s List, Fiennes embodied one of history’s great evils, somehow making being utterly detestable compelling. In Martin McDonagh’s riotous, under-regarded In Bruges, Fiennes spat…
Here’s where I write about how hard it is to draw up a 10-best list at the end of the year. Except it isn’t: I think of drawing up a list as an honor and a necessity, a way of putting 12 months of moviegoing into some sort of perspective…
The audience that shows up for a comedy is the most tyrannical of all. Its very presence is the equivalent of a schoolyard bully’s challenge: “Go ahead — make me laugh.” Which is why there’s danger in following up a hit comedy with a sequel, even nine years after the…
Even if South Florida weather doesn’t permit sweater-wearing this winter, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy an ugly sweater party or pub crawl! In case your friends disappoint you by not throwing their own Christmas-sweater shindig, downtown Fort Lauderdale has you covered with not one but two hideously knitted events…
‘Tis the season of eating and drinking. But mostly drinking (no offense, eating). Beers, eggnog, the weird moonshine your uncle made; it all comes out to play during the holidays. But after a morning of the fuzzies, have you ever questioned your drinking choices? Maybe it’s time to class it…
