Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more interested in what was going on outside the classroom window than inside. But there’s one moment from Redford’s academic past that burns brightly in his memory…
You’re not a masochist.” “Oh, yes I am. I’m an insurance seminar hostess!” High-pitched twitters; big Tupperware-party smiles. This is the kind of exchange with which Uncommon Women & Others begins, and it makes you doubt the veracity of the title. The Mount Holyoke College alumni meeting for drinks in…
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If you have a problem with vertigo, approach the latest body of work from Royo with caution. In “Royo: Ingrávidos,” now at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, the Spanish artist is preoccupied with the human body suspended in space, and the overall effect of seeing so many of his…
Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 (Genius) On the heels of the Electric Company boxed sets, which were at once educational and groovy as all get-out, comes the latest in greatest hits from Sesame Street before the neighborhood was gentrified for Elmo’s protection. Chief among the copious highlights in this…
Banking on the career choices of Vince Vaughn garners increasingly erratic returns, which is ironic, given that he has finally settled on (or surrendered to) a consistent onscreen persona: his own bad self. Uneasy from the beginning, Vaughn avoided the superstardom that seemed within reach after Swingers by trying on…
Castlevania, the vampire-hunting series that stretches over 20 years and as many games, has basically two kinds of fans. There are the traditionalists, who’ve followed the games since they were straight-up action titles with thumb-busting combat and infamously steep difficulty curves. Most agree that the best of the old-school Castlevanias…
Are you one of those who needs to ride the short bus to art school? “Looking at Art: A Primer” offers a crash course in art’s elements and principles — 15 terms in all — taught by informational placards and exemplified by the masters. Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Joan…
Some children’s stories made you giddy, others made you tuck into a ball and burrow your eyes behind your knees. The Wizard of Oz films probably had both effects. A girl, separated from her family is swept up in a tornado, dropped on a witch, and finds herself surrounded by…
When “Bodies” wanted to roost in the Museum of Discovery and Science last year, it was rebuffed. The museum distanced itself from the exhibit’s controversy. The cadavers in “Bodies” are unclaimed and unidentified, a fact that appalled some but had no effect on the hundreds of thousands of others, who…
Well, hockey fans, there’s good news and there’s bad news. Let’s start with the bad: Remember Niklas Hagan? We traded him two seasons ago? Well, he’s scored nearly as many points for his current team, the Dallas Stars, as our entire roster put together. Ouch. Here’s some more: Tonight, the…
“In the unstoppable march for modernization and globalization,” says Holden Luntz, of Holden Luntz Gallery (, “so much of what is precious, unique, and sacred is vanishing.” He’s discussing the new exhibit “Karo & Surma: Body Painting,” which is making its inaugural debut Saturday. The series documents the wildly beautiful…
The great thing about art is that you can make up your own stories. Take the new exhibit “Connecting the Dots: The Union Series” by James Goodwill. The intricate detail on Goodwill’s acrylic lines and pinpoints unite to form circular spheres, some with tiny bursts and vine-like ruptures, others more…
Palm Beach County is lucky enough to be graced with two awesome greenmarkets, the West Palm Beach Greenmarket (Second St. and Narcissus Ave., West Palm Beach) and the Delray Greenmarket (150 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach), both of which recently opened for the fall season. We know what you’re thinking:…
It’s about to happen: holiday cards arrive, ruining your routine of junk mail and bills (both of which you currently discard). This annual mailbox barrage perplexes you: the professionally-rendered photos of distant relatives in matching sweaters, clutching their children’s shoulders should make you smile. You know this. Instead, you just…
We here at New Times don’t exercise. But if we did, we’d have a really badass regimen – like pushing two-ton trucks down a track, lugging massive, wooden logs, or deftly flipping heavy tires with a flick of our well-toned arms. Basically, we’d model our routine after the Ultimate Athletic…
Nevermind tool making – if any trait distinguishes humans and animals, it’s our ability to doodle. Even our Presidents dabbled in it: Reagan sketched cowboys on memos and Nixon enigmatically called himself a “square doodler.” But no one in the history of doodling matches Leonardo Da Vinci. This autumn, a…
Nevermind tool making – if any trait distinguishes humans and animals, it’s our ability to doodle. Even our Presidents dabbled in it: Reagan sketched cowboys on memos and Nixon enigmatically called himself a “square doodler.” But no one in the history of doodling matches Leonardo Da Vinci. This autumn, a…
Here’s a novel thought: The Dolphin’s game against the Bills this Sunday afternoon is one they could actually win. No, really, this Buffalo team may be 3-4, but they’re an exploitable 3-4. Buffalo’s defense is ranked thirtieth in the league, allowing a dismal 381.3 yards per game. Likewise, their offense,…
The days of the single cinematic plot line are over. Babel, Crash, and the television series Heroes have successfully tapped into our deep-running human desire to multitask. Midnight Clear is constructed in the same vein. Taking place on Christmas Eve, five very different characters weave and shoulder rub through one…
Anthony Joyce has always been interested in politics; the problem, he says, has been getting his peers as involved as he is. In 2004, then 18-year-old Joyce ran for mayor of Pembroke Pines, earning over 2000 votes. He ultimately lost the race, but the experience opened his eyes to a…
Anthony Joyce has always been interested in politics; the problem, he says, has been getting his peers as involved as he is. In 2004, then 18-year-old Joyce ran for mayor of Pembroke Pines, earning over 2000 votes. He ultimately lost the race, but the experience opened his eyes to a…
