Yeah, you hear the name Seminole all the time down here. As you should — the Seminoles inhabited this place way before we were born, and we should remember that. We got places named after them, which helps the remembrance, like the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Been there,…
If you’ve ever purchased one of those “Porn for Women” wall calendars featuring hunky guys cooking, cleaning, and offering to share the remote, then “Real Men Bake for the Rescues” is your kind of event. Monday, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Sundy House (106 S. Swinton Ave., Delray…
Remember Neighbors Helping Neighbors? No? That’s cuz you don’t watch CBS4. If you did, you’d remember Neighbors Helping Neighbors as the heartening charitable campaign that sprang up, seemingly fully formed, from the CBS4 studio in that terrifying first week after Hurricane Andrew and that somehow never went away. It’s still…
This is the Dialect to attend if you haven’t gone to any yet — writingwise, we couldn’t put it more simply than that. Go to this event! (If you’re a Dialect regular, we’ll see ya there.) For this special occasion, it’s leaving Brew Urban Cafe coffee shop in downtown Fort…
We need to start a movement. It’s time we take back Christmas from the lazy bourgeois Claus family. That pessimistic, fat scumbag Santa works one day of the year and spends 364 days casting judgment on us? Ewww. Let us commence Occupy North Pole. Better yet, on account of how…
In “The Fire Next Time,” Humberto Calzada tackles the destructive and regenerative properties of fire. The artist is best known for nostalgic, architectural paintings of Cuba that are freighted with the psychological drama of exile. Carol Damien, Frost’s executive director and chief curator, says the exhibit is a departure from…
The increasingly distant connection between food — the stuff that grows, walks, flies, and/or swims — and “food” — the semi-edible material that pops out of a box, can, or drive-thru window, is the source of much contemporary hand-wringing. But how did food become “food”? The question is political, anthropological,…
Starting Thursday, and right in time for the end of the Iraq War, the Norton Museum is paying homage to American pride with an exhibit by contemporary artist Dave Cole. The exhibit features a 15-by-28.5-foot American flag constructed with pieces of the 192 flags that make up the United Nations’…
A woman exits the dense, sweaty mangroves and finds the limestone splendor of Vizcaya. She attempts to make sense of the Mediterranean-revival home on Biscayne Bay by caressing the furniture, wandering the gardens, and even trying to dethrone the civilized lady of the house. Such is the fantasy of Miami…
America doesn’t dress up. America doesn’t pose. Oh, maybe here and there — in certain parts of Miami or in Las Vegas or L.A. Mostly, though, America happens in discrete little moments when it doesn’t seem like anyone’s watching. That’s the country revealed in Artist Unknown: The Free World, an…
When the ancient working stiff was preparing for his journey into the afterlife, little did he know he would spend decades gathering dust in a musty Wynwood warehouse. But that’s exactly where the Egyptian craftsman dating back to the 25th or 26th Dynasty (808-518 B.C.) was found inside a polychrome…
The late author John Updike once wrote that his goal was to “give the mundane its beautiful due.” That spirit is alive and well in “Manifest and Mundane: Scenes of Modern America,” a new exhibit at the Wolfsonian on display Monday and running through August 2012. Those who believe art…
Sometimes a small, well-conceived, tightly focused show can be just as satisfying as a much larger exhibition. The Norton’s new photography exhibit is not such a show. It’s no more filling, in fact, than an appetizer when you’re hungry for a full meal. The show is made up of 20…
Standing outside his small-town Ohio home, his wife and child busy preparing breakfast inside, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) looks up at the ominous, slate-gray sky in the first scene of Take Shelter. The clouds open, raining down oily, piss-colored droplets. It’s end-of-days weather, a phenomenon that only Curtis seems to…
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare — who, due to the troublesome existence of evidence, remains the general favorite. De Vere, played as a figure of regal isolation by Rhys Ifans, is the protagonist…
Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at the Occupy protests, writer/director J.C. Chandor’s lifeless Margin Call depicts roughly 36 hours at an unnamed Manhattan investment firm at the dawn of the 2008 financial freak-out. Chandor’s debut feature audaciously asks us to empathize with obscenely overpaid risk analysts…
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early ’60s and published, under Johnny Depp’s auspices, more than three decades later. A first-person account of the drinking life on a tropical isle in the late 1950s, its protagonists are mainly…
Ben Joseph, the lead character in the Caldwell Theatre’s After the Revolution, is a fascinating specimen. An academic, dyed-in-the-wool socialist with a pompous ponytail, Ben continues to raise his tattered red flag, spreading the people’s gospel at a time when nobody wants to hear it. You see, After the Revolution…
To out-of-towners, Palm Beach County may best be known for its pristine coastline, Donald Trump golf course that sits a stroke shot away from the county jail, and the sexiest seniors this side of Aventura. But the longest conga line? Not so much. That is, until Thursday, when the Hispanic…
It may pain our vegetarian friends to learn that during the early 20th Century, a slaughterhouse stood where many of them gather to schmooze on Thursday nights. Sorry, leafy ones, to report: Animal blood soaked the floor of the structure that now houses nightlife hot spots Green Room and Revolution…
Mom always told us never to get in bed with strangers. But what if it’s for a good cause? The Pineapple Grove Arts District in Delray Beach will be packed with teams of people pushing metal-framed beds down the street — all to raise money for eight local charities. The…
Are you self-conscious about dressing up for Halloween? Do you secretly love it but worry that your friends think it’s ridiculous? If so, first of all, get new friends, because they sound really lame. Second, register to enter the Third Annual Scary Rock Star Costume Contest on Friday at the…
