You’ll witness no border-crossing histrionics in writer-director Antonio Méndez Esparza’s first feature, which translates as “Here and There”; the film is as simple, straightforward, and elegant as its title. Featuring a cast of nonprofessionals — many playing versions of themselves and all naturals in front of the camera — Aquí…
It’s time, apparently, for the aging ghosts of ’60s radicalism to once again take stock of their sins and compromises. Once it gets its walkers moving, Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep nearly plays like a green-granola-lefty counterpart to The Expendables, a Hollywood Elderhostel reunion crowded with septuagenarian icons looking…
Urban gardens are kind of the way of the future. Help the Flagler Garden grow at the Moonlight Affair fundraising event Wednesday, June 12, from 7 to 10 p.m. The event is raising funds for a phase two and three of construction. Tickets cost $30 in advance, $30 at the…
Every great musical starts with a script. Add a piano, some music stands, and top South Florida musical talent and you’ve got the play-reading concert of The Longing and the Short of It at the Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach. The script, by Daniel Maté, an NYC-based writer…
A matter that must be chalked up to sheer coincidence, both acts on Friday night’s bill, opener 1975 and headliner the Neighbourhood, adhere to a minimalistic black-and-white aesthetic. California’s the Neighbourhood embellishes the black-and-white imagery across all of its artwork and videos, while Manchester, England,’s 1975 sprinkles subtle monochrome visual…
It’s not exactly Shakespeare, but it’s saucy and sexy enough to make the Bard proud. Join the Glamour Goddesses for a night of dreamy fantasy and bawdy humor at A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Harold’s Coffee Lounge in West Palm Beach. Watch this South Florida classical burlesque troupe bring fantasy…
Touted as a newlywed version of Seinfeld, Mad About You featured the same observational comedy that made us fall for Jerry and the gang. Proving that the laughs aren’t over once you tie the knot, Mad About You cocreator and star Paul Reiser turned the absurdities of married life into…
Chances are you owe your dad quite a bit. Not only is he responsible for half of your DNA but he also probably taught you a thing or two along the way. Time for you to show your appreciation on Father’s Day; we have some suggestions for customizing the day…
Zoinks. You look like you’ve seen a ghost — perhaps the specter of childhood memories. Want to treat your offspring to the cartoonish high jinks of your youth? If so, brush up on your mystery-solving skills, because the gang will need your help catching the pesky apparition that haunts the…
Rent tells the classic tale of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl both realize they have HIV along with nearly everyone else they know. So perhaps it’s not a traditional love story, but it’s certainly an entertaining one. Rent has been on Broadway and…
Live music is on many minds as the weekend approaches, but this Tuesday, get your party started a little early. Take the special opportunity to see classic-rock heroes the Grass Roots, with a little NOLA twist. Famous for cranking out the jams in the 1960s and ’70s, the Grass Roots…
National Burger Month might have ended May 31, but, let’s face it: Summer is here — we might as well just call it National Burger Season. To keep the burger festivities going, Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill is hosting a battle of the burger eaters. The competition will pit…
Everyone loves puppies. If you don’t, you’re probably an incarnation of Cruella DeVille. Pizza is also loved by most. So it’s even better when you can combine the two for a good cause. Well, the Georgio’s Pizza Plaza is holding a car-wash fundraiser to benefit Warm Hearts Pet Center on…
Dirt. God created man from it. We grow our food in it. And it’s where all of us go to rest in the end. For Broward artist, curator, and writer Onajide Shabaka, the primordial substance is also the inspiration for “DIRT Yuta Suelo Udongo Tè,” a new exhibit opening in…
Here’s a category idea for bar trivia: Collect one-sentence plot summaries of young-adult novel series and R-rated horror films, and see who can distinguish which from which. The one in which the kids kill each other for sport is approved by school districts for extra-credit reading, as is the one…
Ask people about their favorite movies and the same titles come up regularly — Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane. But some films have special meaning for people even if they don’t turn up on lists of established favorites. For many people, particularly those who were in their 20s…
“A great singer, chandeliers, champagne, and costumes — we see this at a distance,” Jean-François Sivadier says deep into Becoming Traviata, a spare and ravishing documentary that positions viewers in the rehearsal room in the weeks leading up to his minimalist production of Verdi’s La Traviata. Sivadier is encouraging his…
The chronic artistic (and, ironically, political) failure of much mainstream American queer cinema is its earnest, facile treatment of the issues affecting the LGBT community. Director Glenn Gaylord, working from a script by David W. Ross, falls into the usual traps in this film about marriage equality and immigration, and…
A big winner at last year’s SXSW, this palm-sized Bronx indie about a couple of graffiti bombers aiming to gain fame by tagging the Mets’ Home Run Apple runs on nothing but biodiesel personality. Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana Washington) are mates only in spraying, and they work a…
Superman is an idea. OK, fine. Technically he’s an intellectual property—a set of data points slammed together by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the 1930s, sold for $130 to National Allied Publications (later DC Comics/TimeWarner), and subsequently transformed into a nugget of multivariously exploitable content that has netted entertainment…
If you’re going from restaurant to restaurant to sample multiple dishes for just one meal, we call it progressive dining. Have a go of it at Northwood Village Dishcrawl. On Wednesday from 7 to 9:30 p.m., guests will get to try food from four Northwood spots — and each place…
Funky music and funky beer just sound like they should go together. So it really should come as no surprise that a funktronic band from Brooklyn is making its way down to play a show at the sixth borough’s funkiest brewery and lounge. Dopapod, a Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston, punk/experimental funk-rock band, is…
