Eating food is good. Eating food for charity is even better, because when it’s for charity, the calories don’t count, right? Well, even if they do still count, it won’t matter, because the only thing anyone will be thinking about at the Taste the World Garden fundraiser is how delicious…
Have you ever thought about your freedom? Not the freedom you just gained from finally moving out of your parents’ garage apartment at the age of 35. But the freedom you’ve been given due to the brave men and women who were willing to die for this country. If you’re…
Love her, hate her, or remain eternally confused by her — no matter your opinion, Miley Cyrus is everywhere right now. She is on your TV, in your news feed, and most certainly in your earhole. And while we can’t stop the barrage of tongue trickery and teddy bear nightmares,…
It’s dizzying to follow a checkered soccer ball darting from one end of the field to the other for 90 minutes. But tensions run high on Saturday as the Fort Lauderdale Strikers take on the San Antonio Scorpions for the second time this season. Already beating the Scorpions 2-1 in…
Running prevents disease, promotes weight loss, and reduces stress. In addition to all those benefits, running at the Firefighters 5K on Sunday will also stroke your inner humanitarian as you raise money for the firefighter fund and muscular dystrophy. With the waves crashing on one side, and the quaint shops…
Right about now, most of the country is getting some relief from the intense heat of August. With the passing of Labor Day comes a nice refreshing plunge into fall. Not down here; we still have two more months of sweaty T-shirts, frizzy hair, afternoon rains, and the heavy humidity…
Comedy Central, although it may be the authority on funny, has still not quite settled on what funny is exactly. Humor is a constant mission to find the best new sketch comic, YouTube video, or meme. And in this era of tons of information in your face, it looks as…
We’ve all had a California Cab. Most likely you’ve tried an Italian Pinot Grigio or an Argentine Malbec, but wines from Sardinia and Sicily? Unless you’re a massive wino, we doubt it. On Thursday, September 12, at 7 p.m., the Backyard Bar is pairing lesser-known Italian wines with tapas created…
When it comes to beer, draft is always better. To celebrate the introduction of New Belgium kegs to Florida, Tap 42 is hosting a little soiree on Tuesday, September 17, all day long. The bar will be releasing five New Belgium drafts including several IPAs and Lips of Faith Coconut…
Invasions tend to have a rather negative connotation. We mean, who wants to get invaded by cockroaches or even ants? We sure as heck don’t. Food trucks, on the other hand, we’re all about them taking over. On Thursday, September 26, from 5 to 9:30 p.m., the food trucks are…
To the thousands of tourists who visit each year, South Florida is an escape full of sun, sand, and serenity. Feeling stressed? Book a trip to a beach resort and let the sea breezes whisk your cares away. Those of us who live here, on the other hand, know the…
All manner of spoilers below. Nearly anyone with a grievance against America’s dysfunctional prison system can find a scene to illustrate their protest in the first season of Orange Is the New Black, Netflix’s women-behind-bars dramedy. Admittedly, the wonkiest or most disheartening issues, like prison privatization or endemic sexual assault,…
In 1953, the Venice Film Festival jury didn’t award its top prize, the Golden Lion. Instead, it made the highly unorthodox decision to award the second-place prize, the Silver Lion, to six films, among them I Vitelloni and Ugetsu. How did I know this? To celebrate the festival’s 70th edition,…
Since it’s called Austenland, and since it’s a romantic comedy, you probably expect it to open with “It’s a truth universally acknowledged” and to wrap with one lovesick sap madly dashing after another, right up to an airport’s departure gates, even though both presumably have cell phones and could just…
John Berger quipped, “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at,” an observation recalled by this anachronistic picture of Fernando Trueba’s, which offers as generic a portrait of its central relationship as its title suggests. In WWII France, elderly artist Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort) has seen his well…
Intricate, intelligent thrillers made specifically for grownups are so rare these days that it’s tempting to award extra points to anyone who even scales an attempt. Tomas Alfredson’s 2011 John le Carré adaptation, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, may have been the last great example of an adult thriller that refused…
Your life surges ahead as it is, pretty much, but maybe tinted blue. Maybe everything around you is tilted a bit, and strips of light glow on the wall, like an SUV with its brights on is idling on a ramp facing your window blinds. Your world looks not like…
Opens Friday at Movies of Lake Worth, 7380 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth; 561-968-4545; moviesofdelray.com.With all the momentum of dripping molasses, Savannah recounts the true-life story of Ward Allen (Jim Caviezel), a larger-than-life outdoorsman too big to be boxed in by early 20th-century societal boundaries. Rejecting his privileged plantation heritage…
Plenty of film critics and Asian-cinema aficionados care deeply that The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai’s pointillist biopic of martial arts master Ip Man and the director’s first picture in six years, will be released in the States only in a 108-minute version. The cut released in China earlier this year was…
One of Gilbert Gottfried’s signatures, in addition to a voice that makes nails on a chalkboard sound like Mozart, is his propensity to say the wrong things at the wrong time. If there’s ever an opportunity to jeopardize his career and good standing, he’ll take full advantage of it. On…
As another summer movie season characterized by cynicism and excess draws to a close, there are few activities less valuable or interesting than complaining about it. The blockbusters arrived, flattened cities, vomited effects, deafened with explosions, made money, didn’t make enough money, pleased populist critics, displeased elitist critics, and finally…
Few restaurant foods are actually healthy. Sushi is. The only problem: It can be freaking expensive. Not at American Social on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Men get unlimited regular sushi for $19.95; women get it for $14.95. Individual rolls are just six bucks. American Social is located at…
