With an incisive understanding of character, believably naturalistic acting, and lengthy scenes that don’t feel stretched out so much as given room to breathe, In the Family proves that smart direction and an innate feeling for one’s material trumps potentially precious subject matter. Writer/director/star Patrick Wang’s film chronicles the efforts…
Like a seedling pushing its way up through the soil to unfurl into the nurturing sunlight, so grows the art scene in Boynton Beach. The ActivisitArtistA Gallery is playing host to the latest in a series of new art shows, the “Packaging Nature Exhibition,” which opens on Thursday and runs…
Delray Beach’s ongoing performing arts project, the Arts Garage, is a product of the Creative City Collaborative, a program dedicated to “infusing arts and culture into the Delray Beach Community” by presenting different musical programs and creative performances. In 2010, the Collaborative decided to transform the storefront space at Old…
One immediate difference between the photography that is typically classified as art and the sort that is viewed by following links in twitter posts is that the latter variety is not usually displayed in brick-and-mortar galleries. For that matter, images captured with iPhones and Androids rarely adorn any walls outside…
Three years ago, Terribly Girly pin-up photographer, Janette Valentine decided it was time to turn the tables on the art world and birth her all-female art show, “The Trouble With Girls.” In celebration of the XX chromosome, this entirely female art revue showcases the works of local artists and vendors,…
As the battle for nationwide same-sex marriage rages on, much has been made of the 1,138 federal rights, protections, and responsibilities granted to married couples and not civil unions, according to the National Organization for Women. But the more states that allow gay marriage, the more comedians downplay it: If…
On May 1, 1886, unionized workers striking for an eight-hour work day assembled outside Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. As the so-called “scabs” who’d taken the workers’ places on the assembly line departed the plant for the day, the strikers confronted them, and a police garrison assigned to protect the…
The Five-Year Engagement is as comfy and cute as the bunny costume Tom (Jason Segel) wears at the New Year’s Eve party where he meets Violet (Emily Blunt). The movie opens in San Francisco, on their one-year anniversary, the night Tom proposes. They postpone the wedding so they can get…
The year is 1837. A newly crowned Queen Victoria, voiced by Imelda Staunton and animated in clay as a shrewish little turnip of a woman, decrees war on buccaneering. Well down her most-anted list is the Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant), an only middling terror of the trade routes who’s a…
In Safe, a preposterously enjoyable — or enjoyably preposterous — action-thriller, Jason Statham headlines as disgraced NYPD supercop turned small-time cage fighter Luke, whose refusal to take a dive gets his wife murdered by the Russian Mafia. Banished to a remorseful life of homeless shelters and paranoia, our chrome-domed badass…
On her first day at Seven Oaks College, transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) is scooped up by a trio of prepossessed coeds who school her on campus culture and their own oddly refined sensibilities. Cardigan-clad ringleader Violet (Greta Gerwig), prim Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke), and petite Heather (Carrie MacLemore) preach the…
Drawing baths and listening to classical music, refined soldier-of-fortune Martin (Willem Dafoe) is sent Down Under by a military-biotech firm that wants him to bring back a Tasmanian tiger. Although the crocodile-jawed creature was declared extinct in the 1930s, sightings hav e been reported, and the company wishes to exploit…
A blanket of white covers Montreal inside and out in Monsieur Lazhar, the understated and affecting Canadian drama that earned an Oscar nomination this year for Best Foreign Film. The schoolyard where Alice (Sophie Nélisse) and Simon (Émilien Néron) exchange their usual morning jabs is capped with snow, and their…
If New Times existed in the 1930s, you almost surely would have seen something in the Pulp about how Al Capone was planning to build a mansion on an island just off the coast of Boca Raton. And later, how that move was thwarted by residents who didn’t want him…
Delray Beach’s Coffee District introduces an edited version of your college house-party BYOB every Monday night from 7 to 10 p.m. for its Beer Social event. Owner Chung’s cozy coffee-shop-by-day provides a mellow backdrop for the weekly tasting, carrying top-quality craft beers from around the world. The Monday night event…
Talk about prescient. When the good folks at Girls’ Club gallery opened “Re-Framing the Feminine” last November, little did they know that within months, presidential politics would suddenly live up to the title of their show. I mean, who in her right mind could have predicted that the race to…
A pervasive aura of calm seems to emanate from the paintings of Jim Bobick. Fifteen of them are now on display at Gallery 101, in the increasingly artsy Fort Lauderdale neighborhood across A1A from the Galt Ocean Mile, and they transform the tiny space. I wanted to hear very low…
The world premiere of First Step Productions’ Last Call on its opening night at Empire Stage last Friday was a miserable experience. It had nothing to do with skilled director Michael Leeds or this one-woman show’s incredibly creative performer, Terri Girvin. The fault lay entirely with the audience, especially the…
In the hopes of celebrating Earth Day with a bit of style, the Norton Museum of Art’s weekly series “Art After Dark” is going green for the night. For this week’s event happenings, West Palm Beach designer Kristen Alyce will present a special fashion show featuring her Garbage Gone Glam…
Kingshead Pub is saying “off with your head” to the high hooligans and requesting your attendance at a “Fancy Dress Party.” Now don’t be alarmed; “fancy dress” does not mean frilly attire fit for Kate and William’s wedding. It simply means that your favorite British pub is throwing a costume…
No matter how gratifying it might be, beating the crap out of anything or anyone never really seems to do much good. So instead, channel that inner Hulk and head over to War Memorial at 7:30 p.m. and catch the TNA Impact Wrestling World Tour stop. There, you’ll have the…
If you want to be truly “old school” about your beer consumption, take a cue from the ancient Egyptians and employ a favorite brew to treat a variety of illnesses or offer it up as a sacrifice to the gods. If that all sounds like more work than simply drinking…
