…and one awesome artist THU 4/15 Thought-provoking, articulate, and babe-alicious artist Michael Joo (at left in picture) comes to the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (601 Lake Ave., Lake Worth) today to talk about his work. Often photographed with shaggy hair sticking out of a beanie, Joo looks more…
And red all over THU 4/15 As we delve ever further into election season, it’s increasingly important that the electorate stay well-informed about the full range of campaign issues. However, with television and radio far outweighing the printed word as our primary source of information, the flow of information is…
Through Thursday, April 22, at Muvico Parisian 20, CityPlace, West Palm Beach; and at Sunrise Cinemas Mizner Park, Boca Raton. Call 561-362-0003.
How far will one friend go for another? In Trembling Hands, Ivonne Azurdia’s grotesque, funny crime drama now in its world premiere by the Mad Cat Theatre Company, the answer is very, very far indeed. Following up on her splendid Tin Box Boomerang, a hit for Mad Cat last season,…
Is “The Beatles: Photographs by Harry Benson,” now at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, more than just a slice of pop-culture history? You decide. This batch of 75 black-and-white pics by photojournalist Benson, who hooked up with the lads at the beginning of their career roughly…
Where can you go to see people stomp on stage, throw chairs around, and beat the floor with canes while the audience goes wild — besides a taping of the Jerry Springer Show? Check out Florida Atlantic University’s ninth-annual Sunshine State Classic Step Show, where six fraternities and sororities from…
When Attorney General John Ashcroft made a big to-do about the Spirit of Justice statue’s exposed marble breast, he succeeded mostly in looking like an out-of-touch, crotchety old fart. Anyone with an ounce of respect for the First Amendment felt vindicated by Ashcroft’s publicly looking the fool. But then came…
When Jewel’s fans got their hands on her latest album, the beat-infused 0304, many of them got a little emotional. Their beloved wistful singer was pictured on the cover in fluorescent pink pants and torn lime-green and yellow shirts. The video for “Intuition” featured her dancing like any other disposable,…
THU 4/8 For the working comedian, ubiquity is the name of the game. Just ask Nick DiPaolo. In addition to touring as a standup comic, DiPaolo has been a writer for The Chris Rock Show, has appeared on sitcoms (Grace Under Fire) and talk shows (The Tonight Show), and is…
B-ballers fired up about the Cavs FRI 4/9 Remember when this basketball season got under way? The overwhelming consensus regarding the Miami Heat wasn’t good. Pat Riley resigned as head coach four days before opening night, and the team promptly limped to an 0-7 record out of the gates under…
Star introduces Phantom of the Paradise SUN 4/11 What would Easter be without the redemptive power of rock opera? If you don’t believe us, think Jesus Christ Superstar. After all the hallelujahs are sung, the chocolate bunny ears gnawed off, and the dyed, hard-boiled eggs converted into slightly sulfurous exhaust,…
Dada meets minimalism SUN 4/11 It’s a damn chore sifting through the endless barrage of band fliers you’re assaulted with upon entering any given rock club. Mainly because most of the bands pictured on the fliers don’t look that interesting. But then you see a flier with some dude wearing…
It’s a measure of continual cultural desensitization that The Girl Next Door plays like a remake of 1983’s Risky Business, yet very little of it feels risky in the slightest. Twenty years on, the notion of a high school student getting involved in the sex-for-pay business seems almost cute rather…
Be thankful for small theaters. While the larger companies in South Florida cater to conventional tastes, the tiny troupes fill out the menu with an array of riskier, challenging programming. Fort Lauderdale’s Sol Theatre has made risk-taking a fundamental company rule. Tony Priddy and Robert Hooker’s cheeky crew debuted in…
In The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the half-dressed, high-kicking high jinks of Miss Mona’s girls and their Aggie companions is just enough to rescue this maudlin tale of a madam with a heart of gold whose business is interrupted by no-good do-gooder Melvin P. Thorpe (Justin Barnette) and his…
“Reconstructing a Family Portrait”: Elizabeth Cerejido’s exhibit is a poignant narrative of political exile, love, and loss. The setting is Cuba in 1970, a year of political turmoil. People leave by the thousands. One family splits apart, the mother and her young daughter traveling to Florida while the father stays…
THU 8 Colleges and alcohol. They just go together. So it makes perfect sense that Nova Southeastern University is presenting a program that celebrates wine, winemaking, and places where wine is made. “Exploration 2004: The Oenology Expedition to Chile” is a photography exhibit that highlights the landscapes and people of…
The Golden Age of the Comic Book Movie has turned the color of tarnished copper. But there is no going back, not when comic shops have become movie studios’ research and development labs. No moving forward either; the comic-book movie has become a cinematic smudge once more, one blurring into…
NOW SHOWING Fiddler on the Roof — If the traditional Broadway musical is your cup of tea, your cup runneth over with this show. The widely loved, well-known classic about a tradition-bound Jewish community caught up in the turbulent changes of pre-revolutionary Russia is a huge undertaking, but the Playhouse…
Now on Display “Enrique Martínez Celaya: The October Cycle 2000-2002” — There are only about two dozen pieces by the Cuban-born MartMartineznez Celaya in this one-man show, now at Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art. Those pieces, however, are monumental, both in scale and in impact. MartMartineznez Celaya uses jet-black tar…
It’s open-mic night at the local comedy club, and your buddies are eggin’ you on to tell the audience that joke about the priest and the rabbi. But you’re reluctant, so they up the ante. “Come on, I double-dare you!” “Nah.” “Well, then… You leave me no choice: I triple-dog-dare…
THU 1 Come the evening of April 1, you’ll be a bit tired and irritated from the onslaught of stupid April Fools’ pranks you endured all day. “Your house is on fire… April fool!” “So and so says you’re hot… April fool!” Or, worse yet: “I’m giving you a raise…..
