We mean, the neighborhood goes all cultural and stuff SAT 2/12 Alert! Alert! There has been an infestation! A bunch of artsy-fartsy types have snuck into downtown Lake Worth, erected their easels, and started painting and sculpting things! Some gallery owners settled onto the main drag, while a few artists…
MOMIX dances with rattlesnakes SAT 2/12 The lights dim, the music starts, and the dancers appear to have been eaten by the giant Gila monster crawling across the stage. Huh? No, there wasn’t a peyote button in your taco — it’s Opus Cactus, the latest offering by dance illusionist group…
One should expect little from the man who has directed an Olsen twins movie (It Takes Two, the one with Steve Guttenberg, no less), Matthew Perry’s first Friends-to-film entry (Fools Rush In, its title an apparent nod to audiences who went to see it), and Sweet Home Alabama, one of…
Bride & Prejudice is the third major film released stateside in the past few years to fuse the epic romantic musical stylings of Indian “Bollywood” movies with more Westernized “Hollywood” elements. It’s also the most successful of them, but when the only significant competition has been The Guru and Bollywood/Hollywood,…
For those viewers hailing from the lucrative under-six demographic, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie will prove to be a suitably sweet addition to the Winnie the Pooh cinematic canon. The youngest of them certainly won’t recognize the story’s central message — accept others, especially purple elephant-looking creatures with dreadlocks, for who they…
The small Appalachian community of Whitwell, Tennessee, boasts two traffic lights and a population of 1,600, nearly all of them white and Christian. Lying just 100 miles from Pulaski, where the Ku Klux Klan was founded, this now-defunct coal-mining town would seem an unlikely place to find a memorial to…
It takes no time at all to get into the swing of the M Ensemble’s latest production, a revival of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. To one side of a small stage swathed in red velvet, a trio of jazz veterans in pork pie hats are laying down…
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue uses the flair of an old Ziegfield Follies show to amiably exaggerate the story of the legendary folk philosopher. The piece highlights Rogers’ transformation from do-nothing ranch boy to world celebrity, Ziegfield entertainer, columnist, movie and radio star, and politician, while showcasing…
Andrew Wyeth and I go way back. When his now-notorious Helga Pictures — a series of drawings and paintings of a neighbor, many of them nudes, executed in total secrecy over a 15-year period — made its belated Florida debut at the Norton Museum of Art in 1996, I reviewed…
It may or may not be a compliment to Roland DesCombes to say his drawings look like photographs. On one hand, the comparison is a testament to DesCombes’ incredible technical skill. On the other, the comparison speaks to the biggest problem in his current exhibit, “Reflections,” at the Jeannette Hare…
THU 10 Kevin Pollak doesn’t have to do standup comedy. His beefy résumé as a 17-year Hollywood actor continues to pile on the credits and pay the bills, most recently from the soon-to-be-released film Hostage, in which Pollak stars alongside a SWAT team negotiator played by Bruce Willis (you can…
Like moths to a flame or lemmings to a cliff, dutiful couples file into French restaurants, Hallmark shops, and florists each February 14. But admit it: the giving of cards, the lighting of candles, the mumbling of sweet nothings — it’s being done out of obligation, not impulse. This year,…
Why bury your most embarrassing experiences deep down where only a psychiatrist can reach them when you can bring them to a stage for a live audience’s viewing pleasure? That’s playwright Scott Sherven’s m.o. His first completed play, a fast-paced one-man show called Out with Norm, opens with Sherven getting…
THU 3 One contributor to www.urban-dictionary.com defines the word samurai as an “underrated Suzuki jeeplet with a huge following, known for its off-road capabilities.” Another writer simply says, “Tom Cruise is not a samurai.” And a third defines samurai as “the most kick-ass warrior class, and they bitch-smack the ninja…
As the comedy world mourns the loss of late-night god Johnny Carson, don’t look to Bill Cosby to lend a Kleenex. Once again ensnarled in a nasty controversy (this time it’s sexual harassment allegations), the Cos had to bow out from his January performance in Fort Lauderdale. But there’s no…
See the world through old maps FRI 2/4 Who needs a 1763 map of Philadelphia anyway? Find out when 50 antique-map dealers from around the world — armed with newfangled Mapquest printouts and rental car keys — descend on the Miami International Map Fair to show off their collective cartographic…
Pats and Eagles battle for Lombardi’s Trophy SUN 2/6 Is there any representation of brash Americana bigger than the superhyped, superpromoted, supercorporate Super Bowl? This Sunday in Jacksonville, rendition XXXIX pits the defending champion New England Patriots against the Philadelphia Eagles. In one corner, we have the Pats, boasting a…
And a real suit of armor too SAT 2/5 Assuming you’ve finally taken down all those bulky holiday decorations, it’s time you filled your living room with something of artistic value. But before making such an investment, you should know that the alleged Chagall you’re looking at in one booth…
Ten of them! FRI 2/11 Playwright Ronnie Larsen certainly knows how to get our attention. He called his first play Ten Naked Men. He followed that with Making Porn. Then came All-Male Peep Show. You get the point. Is he smart? Or merely lazy? On www.bringdown.com, where people can make…
When we first see Tony Fingleton, the plucky Australian hero of Swimming Upstream, he’s a cute little guy getting cuffed around by his vile big brother, Harold Jr. That’s just the beginning of a long ordeal. For the next two hours of screen time, Tony (played as a teenager by…
The buzz is golden, the word is out, and this festival’s going to be big. The Friday-night opening screening of Andy Garcia’s Modigliani at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts sold out so fast that a second showing was added at the Regal Cinema in South Beach for the…
“24 hours. 350 miles. His girlfriend’s kids. What could possibly go wrong?” In the case of Are We There Yet?, here’s the short answer: a flaccid screenplay, bratty kids stripped of depth and personality, a single joke replayed in every scene, unearned attempts at sentiment, and a bizarrely whitened backdrop,…
