What I don’t know: why these movies keep getting made. I Don’t Know How She Does It is based on Allison Pearson’s 2002 diaristic, comic bestseller and directed by Douglas McGrath. But its real auteur is screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, scripter of wan workplace romantic comedies such as the limp…
Life is a series of constant adjustments to ever-shifting realities in Gun Hill Road, a Brooklyn-set indie about a criminal, Enrique (Esai Morales), who returns home after a three-year prison term to find that things aren’t quite as he remembered them. Specifically, wife Angela (Judy Reyes) is trying to end…
“AIDS” isn’t uttered until well past the halfway mark of Oliver Schmitz’s problematic South Africa-based tale about the fear, gossip, and superstition surrounding the illness in a township 125 miles outside Johannesburg. Bright, stoic 12-year-old Chanda (affecting newcomer Khomotso Manyaka) puts her studies on hold to handle one unbearable situation…
As Bees in Honey Drown is a witty satire on the vagaries and temptations of fame in the late ‘90s, on the apparent necessity of personal reinvention, and on the impossible reconciliation of art and commerce. It remains compelling until the climax, even if the show’s cynicism is ultimately too…
It’s a post-Twitter society, y’all. Thanks to Twitter, we want everything in 140 characters or less, preferably with a humorous pic of a cat attached. So how does the green movement, which has been shouting about recycling for the past 20 years or so, keep things fresh? For the past…
Over forty restaurants, and over forty wineries paired. (Craft beers and alcohol also available.) Foodies and boozehounds, unite! Yep, it’s a night when delectable dishes from the area’s most notorious restaurants are expertly paired with wines from local and international wineries. We love to eat and drink at the same…
What is it with holidays in America? Retail stores begin pimping for Christmas in August, Fourth of July fireworks go on sale in April, and some parents have taken to hiding Easter eggs in February (yuck). Yes, the slow, persistent holiday creep is so all-encompassing that even bars have gotten…
The phrase “Giant Nautical Flea Market” may conjure an image in your silly mind of huge insects in sexy sailor outfits selling things or… selling themselves. Selling each other? In any case, you’ve got the wrong idea: That is nonsense — why would the Guy Harvey-T-shirt-wearing boat people in the…
The world of burlesque has been constantly evolving and changing since its beginning in the early 1900s. In ancient Greece and throughout Europe, it was considered to be a bawdy form of theatrical satire. Over here in America, the world of Gypsy Rose Lee and her legendary sexually teasing act…
Unless you were buried under a stack of Justice League International comics recently, you no doubt caught the interwebs all aflutter around DC Comics’ plan to make all new comics available online for day-and-date digital publication. At first, it sounds positive, right? Save trees and free up that spare room…
What is it with holidays in America? Retail stores begin pimping for Christmas in August, Fourth of July fireworks go on sale in April, and some parents have taken to hiding Easter eggs in February (yuck). Yes, the slow, persistent holiday creep is so all-encompassing that even bars have gotten…
After a certain age, chances are you will never be a singing sensation, but that’s why God invented children. You might never have your name in bright lights on Broadway or be the next Judy Garland or Liza Minnelli, but that doesn’t mean your kids can’t. Drag your little future…
If everything you know about Indian culture came from watching Slumdog Millionaire and eating at the restaurant down the street, hit up the Seventh-Annual Indo-Pak Festival, which also has “Caribbean flavor,” at Bahia Mar on Sunday. This one-day fest packs all the traditions into this hotel: There will be live…
If you’re a Broadway neophyte like we are, you’re haunted by a nagging sense of inadequacy for never having seen the stage versions of the staple musicals: Singin’ in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, etc. But now we get a chance to catch snippets from…
Marriage and politics are a reactive mix. Either the drunken wife is blabbing about the president’s crimes and needs to be sequestered (brave Martha Mitchell, married to Nixon’s attorney general) or the husband is posting pictures of his penis on Twitter. And then you have the Stepfords, like Newt Gingrich’s…
A farm-family composed of colored pencils, a cow made of shoe soles, palm trees constructed from books: Welcome to the twisted vision of Federico Uribe. Step into the mind of this Colombian conceptual artist in the season-opening exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, “The World According to Federico…
As reported in a New York Times Magazine cover story on the actress in 2006 (three years before her Oscar-nominated performance in Up in the Air), Vera Farmiga has expressed her disgust with the roles offered to her by setting scripts on fire: “I stack up all those crass female…
Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh’s ever-expanding preretirement slate, Contagion opens on day two of a global viral epidemic. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Beth Emhoff, an American employee for an ominously unspecific multinational corporation who returns from a business trip in Hong Kong to her wintry Midwestern home feeling like…
You know those Affliction shirts, covered in skulls, gothic lettering, and tribal patterns, all cacophonous symbols of badass machismo? That’s what the mixed martial arts tie-in movie Warrior is — an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink fire sale of male-weepie tropes, awesome in its thoroughness. The collective dream of authentic blue-collar American grubbiness lives…
Fashion Night Out officially kicks off New York’s “Fashion Week.” But in actuality, it was created to revive consumer habits in a sleepy economy. Profits must have been good, because now cities like Miami are enjoying their own FNO with an annual night of celebrity designer appearance, extended store hours,…
You’d be hard-pressed to find another country-western club in South Florida other than the Round Up Country Western Club (9020 W. State Road 84, Davie), where boot-clad cowboys and cowgirls crowd the large dance floor to get down to country-western dancing, two-step, line dance, cha cha, East Coast swing, and…
Get your tech geek on at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale during the “Techno Expo Conference and Exhibition.” Whether you’re interested in learning the ins and outs of LED lighting or you just want to get better at shooting your YouTube bedroom rants, this expo covers all of the…
