Botticelli, Parmigianino, Allori, Giordano, Monaco — all old masters, all of whom created works as priceless as the Crown Jewels and lovelier by far. In “Offering of the Angels,” work by these men, on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, stand side by side at the Museum of Art|Fort…
What we’ve got here is a bunch of pictures taken by 45 ladyfolk over the past 60 or so years, all exhibited together in the hope that their juxtaposition will reveal something interesting about the dynamic relationships among women, their worlds, the technology women use to document their worlds, and…
The miniature locker room off to one side of Mosaic Theatre’s stage looks every bit like a museum piece, festooned with Super Bowl pennants, Green Bay nameplates and scuffed cleats, and preserved for transfer to the NFL Hall of Fame, where waxen Packers will stand chiseled in pregame ritual. This…
In a few days, South Florida takes off its dunce cap, trades its oversized reflector shades for a pair of sturdy bifocals, and flees the thumping club beats for the quietest stall at the library. It’s that great time of year when the Miami Book Fair brings the world’s literary…
“The revolution will not be televised.” So Gil Scott-Heron asserted in 1970. In the case of Bobby Fischer, though, the revolution was televised. Considered by many to be the greatest chess player who ever lived and certainly the most celebrated, Fischer (1943 – 2008) first entered America’s teleconsciousness as a…
Mumble, the hoofing emperor penguin from the first Happy Feet (voiced again by Elijah Wood), now struggles to make a fatherly impression on his own chick, Erik, who has instead found his role model in a mysterious beaked penguin, Sven (Hank Azaria, doing burlesque Swede), who has become a messianic…
The single advantage the awful Twilight movies have over Stephenie Meyer’s awful-but-gripping novels is that, unlike the books’ sad sack, movie Bella Swan is a spiky, populist heroine. On film, Kristen Stewart beautifully underplays (or, for all I know, overplays to the absolute peak of her abilities) Bella’s deadpan ordinariness,…
In Fort Lauderdale, there is a longstanding tradition of loading onto a bus — a trolley, actually — and getting loaded. It’s called the Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop. To participate, you just check in, hop aboard, and roll from bar to bar (ten total) with dozens of friends and strangers,…
Gridiron! Fire! Meat! Football! Manly things men like! Finally, a food event men can appreciate. Keep your bakeoffs, your wine pairings, and your cupcake battles. The 2011 Gridiron Grill-Off Food, Wine, and Tailgate Festival is coming to the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre (1806 NE Sixth St., Pompano Beach) on Friday from…
Until now, many Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fans have probably assumed that the fighters are just as angry offstage as they are onstage. The fights are brutal and bloody — losers get their noses punched in as their bodies are completely pulverized by their opponents’ fists. But what we haven’t…
Come on, folks — think! Think before you spend your entire paycheck on clothing for the kids! The City of Plantation — along with a very thrifty woman named Juliana Ruiz — will bring you a trendy consignment shopping experience that guarantees to save you cash or get more for…
So — remember the Bible? The Old Testament? Remember how Jezebel’s blood splattered everywhere because she was such a loosey-goosey and how the Creator of Life, the Universe, and Everything killed all the men women and children among the Amalekites just cuz? And remember how that strumpet took that one…
Let’s forget the Dolphins game this Sunday for a moment. At the same time as the Fins take on the Buffalo Bills, there will be a Green Bay Packers game on, and we are opportunists. And at Slackers Bar & Grill, there are Cheesehead specialties. The owner is from Wisconsin…
There are three countdown clocks — three! — counting down the time for when the Festival of Chocolate enters the southern half of Florida on its website. This is how badly people here need their chocolate fix. The shebang first arrives in West Palm Beach on Saturday before heading over…
There are people who love the holidays, love the cooking, the gift wrapping, and the time spent in the warm bosom of kith and kin. Those are them. And they’re probably not looking to get blitzed the night before Thanksgiving. But you are. Before you drudge off to a self-imposed…
Come on. Cow milking. Camel rides. Do you know how this story ends yet? A county fair is a surreal event: This is where you see the cutest pig alive, where a chicken’s hair gets blow-dried, where everything is fried or smothered in something sweet, where a teenager and young…
A little bit of fin-de-siècle Paris will come to Coral Springs on Thursday when the Coral Springs Museum of Art presents “Toulouse-Lautrec and His 19th Century Mentors.” A vibrant artistic era just before the turn of the 20th Century, fin-de-siècle Paris buzzed with counterculture, radical ideas, and the talented observers…
The Boca Raton Museum of Art has a long and noble tradition of showcasing works from the private collections of its board members and benefactors. “Outsider Visions” continues that tradition, assembling 95 works from the collection of Ted and Ann Oliver. Collectors often establish well-defined parameters and then lavish their…
Clint Eastwood goes deep into Oliver Stone territory and emerges victorious with J. Edgar. Although hardly flawless, Eastwood’s biopic is his richest, most ambitious movie since the Letters From Iwo Jima/Flags of Our Fathers duo, if not Unforgiven. Does anyone under age 50 even remember the man who more or…
As taut and economical as its title is unwieldy, Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene — a first feature that won the Best Director award last January at Sundance — is a deft, old-school psychological thriller (or perhaps horror film) that relies mainly on the power of suggestion and memories…
After 20 years together, 40-ish arts professionals Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper) have succumbed to bed death. Other stresses burden the relationship: the passing of Simon’s mother, his diagnosis of testicular cancer soon after, the insistence of writer/director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, The International) on constantly using…
One miserable couple collides with another in the cringe comedy Happy, Happy, a prizewinner at Sundance and Norway’s official submission for the foreign-language-film Oscar. Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen), a chipper teacher of German and “arts and crafts” at a local junior high, lives to please her disengaged closet-case husband, Eirik (Joachim…
