Join more than 500 runners and walkers around dawn and watch the sun rise above the sandy beaches of Fort Lauderdale as the Young Professionals for Covenant House hosts the fourth-annual Covenant House Florida 5K on A1A. The race to raise money for Covenant House Florida, serving runaway, homeless, and…
At first glance, it looks like a beautifully wrapped present, but remove the lid of the Venetian explosion box and a surprise of photos, drawings, collages, and text will unfold before your eyes. Learn how to make your own unique box of surprises when you join artist Lou Anne Colodny…
Over the past couple of months, some massive music festivals have taken over parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties: SunFest in West Palm, Tortuga in Lauderdale. That’s cool and all. But what about the locals? Check out some local flavor with local bands in a locals bar this Saturday…
Some of the greatest female jazz vocalists of all time were Ella Fitzgerald (the “Queen of Jazz”) and Sarah Vaughan. Known for their incredible vocal range, spanning three octaves, these ladies knew how to capture an audience. Well, move over, Fitzgerald and Vaughan, because jazz singer and actress Renee Olstead…
When was the last time you said you were going to hang out at the lounge? Probably never. But it sounds ridiculously cool. Well, if you’re looking for a way to amp up the cool factor of your Saturday nights — or just to pretend you have a life —…
In the 1800s, Native American tribes throughout Florida were forced to surrender to the United States government. But one tribe, hiding from the U.S. army in the swamps and Everglades of South Florida, refused to sign a peace treaty and more than a century later remains strong and proud. Join…
“Altered Fest” is on the nexus of electronic music and animation. There is a synergy between the bleep-bloops of digital music and the tweening and morphing of computer animatronics. “Altered Fest” looks to explore it. This Fort Lauderdale Electronic Music and Animation Festival presents a day full of electronica, electro…
Blue Moon Fish Co. will kick off the first of its summer wine series May 23 at 6:30 p.m. For $30, guests will be able to sample Rodney Stron wines paired with hors d’oeuvres and live entertainment. Call 954-267-9888. Thu., May 23, 6:30 p.m., 2013…
Mixing and grilled cheese sounds like it could be some sort of molecular gastronomy trick. It’s not. New York Grilled Cheese and Jenkins Law Offices are hosting a networking mixer in the Wilton Manors sandwich/frozen yogurt shop. The event includes complimentary hors d’oeuvres and one free drink. It takes place…
We learn pretty quickly after those intense elementary-school finger-painting sessions that the real-world definition of “art” is as expansive and varied as those who partake in creating it. The good artists, the ones who always get us thinking, focus on the fact that art is not something that can be…
There’s a scene in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s hyperrich, superawkward Jay Gatsby takes it upon himself to redecorate the bachelor pad of his less-prosperous friend, Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). Gatsby’s old flame, Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan), is coming to Nick’s house for tea. Eager to…
Would you sign on for three months in shark-infested waters on a tippy raft under a captain who can’t swim? The shrewdest joke in Kon-Tiki’s surefire story — about Thor Heyerdahl’s 4,000-mile South Pacific expedition to prove that ocean-faring Incans could have settled Tahiti — is that practically every character…
Over the course of its first 60 minutes, Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share proves a testament to its director’s enduring reputation as a master of British cinema and the social realist form, articulating the frustrations of Glasgow’s working class with clarity and sophistication. Robbie (nonactor Paul Brannigan) is a brash…
A self-referential, insider farce about the hunger for Hollywood stardom, He’s Way More Famous Than You is — like its leading lady — as unhinged as it is hilarious. Still clinging to the fact that years earlier, she costarred in The Squid and the Whale, Halley Feiffer (as herself) aims…
Anyone can use Polaris, the north star, to orient himself in the world, says Brian Welch, the stargazing young presenter of a show at Buehler Planetarium on a recent Friday night. But in our perpetually wired age of GPS ubiquity, we don’t really need it anymore. Until the zombies come…
Stephanie Zacharek is the new chief film critic at the Village Voice. Alan Scherstuhl is the Voice’s film editor. Sometimes they gab about how the review-sausage gets made. To: Stephanie Zacharek From: Alan Scherstuhl Hi, Stephanie, welcome again to the Voice! Like you, I found myself worn out by Iron…
Iron Man 3 opens this week. For some viewers the film’s appeal isn’t the eponymous superhero, but the sarcastic-yet-sensitive hero behind the gravity-defying, repulsor-ray-shooting suit of armor. I refer, of course, to Shane Black. Iron Man 3’s co-writer–director recharged the buddy-cop flick in the ’80s with his screenplay for Lethal…
Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There’s no doubt he’s the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic panther. Yet he’s absent, detached in a Zen-like way from the whole affair. The nakedness that defines his best performances — in any role, up to…
Responding to the uproar earlier this month over the passage—and President Obama’s signage—of the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” the gene-bending agri-giant Monsanto issued a press release dismissing any attendant conspiracy theories as “worthy of a B-grade movie script.” They got it half right. Immediate in its politics yet Shakespearean in…
Unless you watch Nancy Meyers’ romantic-comedy oeuvre strictly for the interior design and décor, there’s little to note about Sophie Lellouche’s shallow, witless, but pretty-enough French ode to Woody Allen, couched in a loose revision of 1972’s Play It Again, Sam. A model-thin blond beauty with perfect cheekbones, Alice Taglioni…
To the Wonder, Terrence Malick’s second movie in two years, is ridiculous, pretentious as hell, and in places laugh-out-loud funny. “Newborn. I open my eyes. I melt. Into the eternal night…” With dialogue like that, in voiceover and in French, who needs satire? But for all the absurdity, there’s also…
If War Horse does its job, you’ll leave the theater crying — not over the relationship between two humans or even between a human and a live horse but between a boy and a mechanical horse puppet made of cane-wrapped aluminum and mesh fabric. To say the national tour of…
