Sometimes the making of art is as interesting as the art itself. Occasionally, as with “Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures,” now at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, it’s even more interesting than the art itself. Imagine a body of work so distinctive and unusual that a whole subculture…
Black Water (Sony) Catacombs (Lionsgate) Chaos (Lionsgate) Cops: 20th Anniversary Edition (Fox) The Death of Adolf Hitler (Koch Vision) The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ to Town (1977) (Warner Bros.) The Final Inquiry (Fox) Gangsters: The Ultimate Film Collection (Universal) German Expressionism Collection (Kino) In the Valley of Elah (Warner Bros.)…
Margot at the Wedding (Paramount) Margot (Nicole Kidman, or someone who looks just like her) is a fiction writer whose tales are based, uncomfortably and unkindly, on the real-life family for whom she seems to care very little. Hence sister Pauline’s (Jennifer Jason Leigh) late discovery that Margot’s a “monster”…
The pleasures of Be Kind Rewind do not extend far beyond the promise of its premise: Jack Black, magnetized and manic (yawn), erases every single video tape in the rental store where he hangs out and has to reshoot the movies with pal Mos Def. Theirs becomes a ramshackle filmography…
Like most wannabe heroes of the eager-to-please teen comedy, poor little rich boy Charlie Bartlett is charming and quirky. Too charming by half and not nearly quirky enough, as played by an artfully rumpled and wide-eyed Anton Yelchin. Blazered, briefcased, and blitzed, Charlie comes to us newly expelled from his…
Let’s just get it out right now: “Devil May Cry” is a weak-ass name for a wicked action game. But what’s in a name? In three previous outings, the brutal, hella-challenging series has consistently delivered some of the greatest hack-and-slash thrills in the genre. Sure, the setup’s as old as…
When it comes to images, the digital world values clarity, but in the art world — both old and new — sometimes blurry is better. “Winslow Homer: Illustrator and Graphic Artist” offers a survey of woodcuts and etchings by the 19th-century American artist whose career straddles the line between commercial…
Susana LaCubana could dance you under the table, but she wouldn’t – she’s much too nice. She’s wearing a powder blue velour track suit with her hair pulled back in a braid that extends to her sacrum; her eyes light up when she talks about break, salsa, belly, and vertical…
A- N- I’m- E- LIVES! A- N- I’m- E- LIVES! It’s so easy! Joyful Yankee blue jeans! Super Con is in Davie! We have costumes and games! Woot, woot, woot, woot, hai, hai, hai, hai! Kawaii! (refrain) Anime! Anime! Otaku Dance Party is you! Anime! Anime! Come dressed as Sailor…
You might think that an aspiring singer with an utterly outlandish name like Engelbert Humperdinck would have it legally changed to something a little more normal… like Tom Jones, maybe. In this case, the opposite is true. Although he had the looks and the vocal chops, Arnold George Dorsey made…
The only thing bigger than the hair in Armadillo Acres trailer park is the drama. The guys and gals of this mobile Mecca have more than Bisquick on their minds — at least that’s what you’ll learn this afternoon when you check out The Great American Trailer Park Musical at…
We know you’re excited about the 80th Annual Academy Awards Show, but please don’t do what you did last year: that is, put an evening gown on the dog, spread a red bed sheet across the floor, and then interview the poor mutt as he drags his butt across it,…
Quick – which famous political activist was both a founding member of the Black Panther party and the author of the cookbook Barbeque’n with Bobby? If you answered Bobby Seale, you’re correct. If you guessed wrong, a black history quiz is necessary. During Taste of Black History at the Fred…
Although it’s certainly achieved cult status, you have to wonder why more theaters don’t show late night screenings of Monty Python and the Holy Grail with regularity. Perhaps it’s that Grail doesn’t have an interactive, audience element, a la The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And why not? The Pythons’ 33-year-old…
South Florida can be a torturous place to seek out music. After all, trying to pick a show based on flyers is a total crap shoot. (Remember that band you assumed was metal that turned out to only cover Canadian Top 20? Ouch.) Thank goodness we have the Honeycomb. Steve…
Hardcore was huge in Miami in the late 1990s. The city was the birthplace of a whole army of groups considered among the genre’s best – Morning Again and Shai Hulud often show up on top 10 lists – but none of them became as influential as Poison the Well…
Do you know what fish really, really hate? Raw effluent! Yes! And do you know what Phish really, really hate? Again: raw effluent! Yessir — no man or beast likes swimming with the floaters, and Alligator Alley understands this well. Which is why their Tuesdays are now given over to…
You’ve waited for this: The star of the unforgettable action trilogy Snake Eater is finally coming to town. After getting snubbed at the Oscars for his work in Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster, Lorenzo Lamas put in one more turn as Jack Kelly (the devourer of serpents) in SE3:…
You know your week hasn’t gone as it should when your name appears in a headline like the one Panthers forward Richard Zednik generated in the Miami Herald: “Panthers’ Zednik lucky to be alive.” Earlier this month, Zednik made possibly the biggest news in the National Hockey League by catching…
Technically it doesn’t matter whether you’re gay or straight during the South Beach Winter Party Festival — just so long as you don’t mind being stared at by 10,000 shaved nipples. They will be pointing out of the shirtless chests of the masses: flocks of gay men, fresh off planes…
Anyone who’s tried to make true Indian curry at home knows that it’s difficult work. First, there’s the matter of procuring all the various spices – cardamom, anise, coriander, red chilies, turmeric, mustard seed, and fennel, to name a few. And for any chef used to coaxing a roux into…
Down at the Honeydripper Lounge locals aren’t keen on change. It’s the early 1950’s in Harmony, Alabama, and American music – like everything else — is in a state of flux. Something big is coming. If the good folks of Harmony squint their eyes and stand with their faces towards…
