Amid warehouses in an industrial section of Boynton Beach is a special art gallery, the likes of which is rarely seen in Palm Beach County. The Neighborhood Gallery is heralded by a Technicolor mailbox bearing its address and shares a parking lot with several broken construction vehicles. It’s also a…
Look at the publicity photo of New York City’s Elefant. Now consider the title of the band’s debut album, Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid. We know what you’re thinking: “Oh, great, more Strokes wannabes.” Granted, the photo does make the guys look as ostentatious as the most bling-happy rapper (Is this…
THU 6 Think back to what you did on New Year’s Eve, down to the last detail. Assuming you have any recollection at all, it exists as a series of fragments, at best. But that’s OK — it’s the normal way we perceive things, or so says local photographer Hester…
SAT 1/8 Life has been busy for local scenemaker Jared Cole. Just a few months ago, he started a weekly event called Schmoorgis Board Sundays — for which he books, like, 100 bands to play at Ray’s Downtown Bar (519 Clematis St., West Palm Beach). Now he’s bringing the party…
MON 1/10 Many impostors have attempted to mimic the brilliance of World Wrestling Entertainment, promoter Vince McMahon’s brainchild. Myriad copycats have tried everything from octagon-shaped rings to matches ending in ties but never truly measured up. WWE enters 2005 stronger than ever, continuing a storied wrestling history that dates back…
FRI 1/7 If you ever pause in line at Barnes & Noble to flip through an Ansel Adams calendar, then you will appreciate the work of Florida photographer Clyde Butcher. Butcher’s “Retrospective” exhibit will be on display Friday at a reception the artist will attend. You can’t miss him –…
Over a three-month period in 1994, machete-wielding Hutu tribesmen in Rwanda hacked to death 800,000 Tutsi men, women, and children. News reports, including film footage of the unfolding carnage, were broadcast around the globe. In the face of such unremitting acts of inhumanity, the world community did nothing. It wasn’t…
Enchanted April lives up to its name, with enticing characters and an engaging plot. The tale begins in 1922 in dreary England, where a frumpy Lotty Wilton (Cary Anne Spear) finds herself dissatisfied with her humdrum existence. She finds escape through an ad in the paper — a rentable castle…
As if the exhibition title isn’t enticing enough, the first piece you encounter upon entering “I Feel Mysterious Today,” now at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA) in downtown Lake Worth, is a brazen come-on. The work is called Scratch Hither, the first of the show’s ten single-channel…
When the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach opened its new wing almost two years ago, it added 14 galleries with more than 12,000 square feet of exhibition space. Much of that space is devoted to the museum’s justly acclaimed collections of Chinese art and pre-1870 European art,…
This Sunday, celebrate the Japanese new year, a.k.a. Oshogatsu, at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, which has served as a center for Japanese art and culture for more than 25 years. During the daylong celebration, check out the traditional sado tea ceremony and eat mochi cakes — the food…
FRI 1/7 Like any art form, dance is open to interpretation. So when Veronica Robleto and Brooke Waszak decided to participate in the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art’s (601 Lake Ave., Lake Worth) exhibition “I Feel Mysterious Today,” the theme allowed them to keep details about their routine on…
The Sea Inside, the new right-to-die drama from Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar (The Others), is a flawed film worth seeing. Based on Letters from Hell, a book by quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro about his 30-year quest to kill himself, the movie favors the emotional over the legal, foregrounding Sampedro’s relationships with…
Just like the scores of rock musicians who get rich by stealing guitar riffs from their heroes (insert Rolling Stone’s flavor of the month here), the visual arts are rife with those who earn their way by impersonating the masters. Some overtly pay tribute, while others try to conceal their…
THU 30 “When’s the last time you saw a band fronted by a dreadlocked Appalachian Mountain dulcimer player?” So begins the e-mail we received from Orlando’s Mohave, which promises to be a bit different from the average band. And sure enough, Mohave makes good on its word, mixing upbeat bluegrass…
When the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino announced it was opening two new interconnected nightclubs, Pangaea and Gryphon, we were like, “Big whoop. If we wanted to dance in a disgustingly contrived environment where we lose lots of money, we would let hundred-dollar bills hang out of our pockets…
Kickballing off the new year SUN 1/2 Are you looking for a unique way to close out the first weekend of the new year? Are you jonesing to have a kid dressed up as a wizard clock you upside the head with a kickball? The inaugural New Year’s Day+1 Punkball…
Orange Bowl will decide champs. Or will it? TUES 1/4 The University of Southern California Trojans will play the University of Oklahoma Sooners in this year’s Orange Bowl — sorry, the FedEx Orange Bowl — which takes its turn to decide the nation’s college football champions. And get this. The…
and your mountains THU 12/30 Proving that at least some of your tax dollars are being used wisely, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service has put together a sublime collection of American landscapes by nature photographer Stan Jorstad. So who’s Stan Jorstad? He was the cinematographer for the TV show…
Our best movies of the year actually may have been anything but the best to a few of our critics — such is the dilemma of offering employment to writers of dissenting opinion. In other words, the number-one film of 2004 wasn’t universally heralded by our team of Bill Gallo,…
While Michael Moore and Mel garnered most of this year’s critical attention, plenty of fine films opened to little or no fanfare. Following are our reviewers’ favorite movies that didn’t draw the adulation they deserved. Consider yourself armed for the next trip to Blockbuster: Control Room — In a year…
Ennio can best be described as laugh-out-loud hilarious. Italian performance artist Ennio Marchetto engages the audience with side-splitting parody, physical comedy, and origami skill. With presto-changeos of his self-made paper attire, he transforms from one pop icon to another. Lip synching to some of the catchiest tunes from the ’20s…
