Why attend the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix this Thursday through Sunday at the International Swimming Hall of Fame (1 Hall of Fame Dr., Fort Lauderdale)? Four words: clowns on diving boards. Yes, aside from witnessing the paragons of the diving world compete in the largest pre-Olympic event, you can…
Serving up a smorgasbord for your viewing pleasure, The Boca Raton Museum of Art premieres two spring exhibitions Friday: “American Impressionism: Works from the Bank of America Collection” and “In The Eye of The Beholder: Selections From The Art Galleries at Gallery Center.” The former comprises over 60 landscape paintings…
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean the ones, like Batman’s Bruce Wayne, whose transformation from average Joe into masked crusader is an act of will instead of the unintended result of a…
In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), who’s on her way to Scotland to marry Mr. Right Now since Mr. Right’s too chickenshit to say boo before her…
When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer, and then walked out — essentially paying full price for a fraction of the final product. Superfans are happy to do that sort of thing…
The come-on was seductive: “There is an assumption that patterns created by the stars carry an indisputable reality to them, and it is with this misapprehension that the viewer may become more vulnerable.” The words are part of a flier for “Jay Oré: Skygarden,” an installation of related works now…
Nanique Gheridian doesn’t get out enough. There are probably good reasons for this — being one of the big cheesettes at Palm Beach Dramaworks probably keeps her busy — but still. She’s smart. She’s seen what theater looks like in the companies forced to create good drama without her presence,…
An intersection of history and cultures occurs in “Paths that Connect: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Andrews-Schroeer Collection.” The evolution of the form can be seen as classic ukiyo-e style works in ink, with their distinctively flat quality, give way to more modern shin-hanga prints, which incorporate Western rules perspective…
Lumonics, coined in the sixties from the words “illuminate” and “harmonic,” are works of art that explore light and color with a seemingly spiritual element. On Saturday, the Tanner Studio/Lumonics (3019 NW 60 St., Fort Lauderdale) will hold its monthly open house featuring “Moodscapes,” an installation of light sculptures designed…
Cinco de Mayo hits Delray on the tres de Mayo this year, and as the moment draws nigh it is worth taking a look at the illustrious, though tragic, history of this little-understood holiday. It was the Fifth of May in the turbulent year of 1862 when handsome, bespectacled Ignacio…
Being at a ska-punk show in the early 1990s had its perks. For one, even the whitest of white kids could look like dance masters. Flailing arms and legs to the beat while skankin’ might have looked silly, but it was still a lot of fun. But as the popularity…
For years you’ve been supporting your favorite comic book heroes. When Green Arrow’s sidekick Speedy got addicted to heroin, you were there to help him get clean. When Captain America and Superman each died in the line of duty, your mournful tributes (read: dollars!) brought them back from the grave…
You’re doing your part to save the planet: You take reusable bags to the grocery store instead of wasting plastic; you turn off the water in the shower while you wash your hair; you’ve started recycling diligently and reuse the plastic containers from store-bought products. That’s great. But is it…
The odds are that you’ve survived at least one of these in the last week: A hellish, sadistic assemblage of final exams. Increased responsibilities at work while everyone else takes their summer vacations (“You don’t mind being a team player this week, do you?”). Or a bear attack. (What? If…
Nobody meets all of his or her deadlines. It’s OK to let fixable ones slide (oops, sorry Tax Day!), just as long as you make the ones that really matter. Take, for example, this weekend’s final showing of three awesome exhibits at the Dorsch Gallery (151 NW 24th St., Miami);…
It’s official: Kanye West’s star-studded Glow in the Dark Tour is dampening music critics’ panties everywhere it travels. Even seasoned haters are raving: they’re calling it the “ultimate concert experience” and “the show to redefine arena performance.” It seems that West’s world-famous ego might have finally found an environment that…
Ah, weddings: The most romantic and memorable time in a woman’s life. Except, you know, all the planning. All the freaking out over minute details; the fastidious attention to everything from too much pesticide in the flower arrangements to whether his sister will eat the salmon if she finds out…
Last year, Radiohead received a healthy bit of press over their self-released album In Rainbows. Users were prompted to type in whatever cash amount they felt was appropriate for the album’s digital download and to pay only that. Of course, that was a nice way of saying free — what…
Museums bore you. They’re just so… unsexy. And clothed. You prefer your culture served up with a twist of kink, which is precisely why you’ll be attending ARTundressed ´08: South Florida’s First International Erotic Art Festival. This weekend-long fest features all varieties of art: film, fashion, sculpture, canvas, music —…
You know Tel Aviv as a major Israeli hub, a sort of Mediterranean Manhattan. You are aware of its contributions to the global economy via the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the way its support of the arts trickles out into the world — filling our lives with poetry, dance,…
The spirit of blithe spontaneity is alive and well in the photographic community — thanks to Lomography. With a rallying cry of “don’t think, just shoot,” cellulose-loving lomographers all over the world are uniting with the mission to shoot anything and everything with their cool Lomo cameras. You’ve seen them:…
Dick Cheney has a mania for secrecy. The Vice-President keeps a man-sized vault in his office. He has a personalized stamp for marking memos classified. He refuses to submit his papers to the National Archives. His openly stated goal is to restore executive power to the halcyon days before Watergate,…
