Arts & Culture

Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a complex, abstract, and challenging guy. A disciple of Freud, this father of analytical psychology split the mind into the conscious and the unconscious, cooked up the introvert-extrovert concept, spun out engaging interpretations of myths and symbols, and — as if to bring these…

Although there’s not much green at Palm Beach County’s trio of weekly Saturday green markets, and virtually no farmer at Fort Lauderdale’s Sunday farmers’ market, there are plenty of other reasons to sample these outdoor-shopping events. The cream of the crop is the West Palm Beach GreenMarket, which is lively…

In a dingy sixth-floor room, two lonely souls join hands to escape their solitude and isolation through the medium of dance. They shuffle across the floor, clumsily performing a waltz as they banter about the drama of their lives. If this scenario sounds as though it were penned by romance…

It’s hardly as appealing as ice cream, as addictive as chocolate, or as adaptable as seafood. So what were organizers of this weekend’s Second Annual Delray Beach Garlic Fest thinking when they chose a pungent collection of cloves as the theme for a food bash? Perhaps they were looking for…

“Aaaaiiiiieeeee!” a young girl yells as the roller coaster crests a 100-foot peak and hurtles down a steep incline. “Aaaaiiiieeeee!” echoes a man in a nearby car as it rockets around a sharply banked curve at 55 miles per hour. Shrieks of delight or screams of terror? It depends on…

Let’s get this out of the way right now, because so many of you will find this hard to believe: Yes, Mad magazine still exists. It is still being published 48 years after it was created by Harvey Kurtzman and William Gaines, neither of whom lived long enough to see…

“Art is domination. It’s making people think, for one moment in time, there’s only one art, one voice, and that’s yours,” declares opera star Maria Callas (Rosemary Prinz) in Master Class. Callas was not simply a talented singer and a beautiful woman; she was a diva. It is the ability…

There are two ways to approach “The Male Form in Contemporary Art,” now at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. Enter the door directly in front of the museum’s main entrance, and you’ll find the “Education Center,” a midsize gallery that’s meant to prepare you for what’s to come…

Before others could reject him, Michael Chabon had convinced himself no one wanted to read an epic novel about comic-book creators, mythical Jewish monsters called golems, New York in the 1930s, daring escapes from Lithuania, Nazis, and the Empire State Building’s elevator system. He wanted to write the book–desperately, one…

You’ve huddled under the newspaper, you’ve fired the squirt gun, you’ve thrown rice, toast, and toilet paper, you’ve done the pelvic thrust until it drives you insay-yay-yay-yay-yay-yane. Maybe you’ve even shouted, “Same room, different color!” with the unusual suspects at the Carefree Theatre in West Palm Beach. But until you’ve…

“A shade filled the door, and I knew him at once,” David Novak utters in his spookiest voice. “It was old, cold Mr. Grim. Death had entered the room. I motioned to him to join me….” Audiences expecting tales that begin with “once upon a time…” and end with “and…

We enjoy a classic whodunit in the same way we enjoy Christmas carolers — with a certain amused detachment. We are not seeking new insight into the human condition but instead are indulging in a bit of nostalgic escapism. Thus, if the revival of a genre piece like Ira Levin’s…

It has often been written of Chris Guest–or, if you prefer, Fifth Baron Christopher Haden-Guest, son of diplomat Peter Haden-Guest, who could once vote in Parliament–that he has the demeanor of cold stone and the temperament of the dead. He possesses, one often hears, an impenetrable façade, that of the…

Now that Fort Lauderdale has banished under-21 revelers from its nightclubs, what’s a fun-loving gay, lesbian, or bisexual youngster to do? Try strutting your stuff on stage at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Fort Lauderdale’s open-mic night. From attire to talent, anything goes, as long as you’re younger…

A naked woman with bright blue hair enters a long, narrow room from a doorway on the left. She crawls laboriously on her hands and knees over to what appear to be shiny red jewels scattered about on the splintered wood floor. The mystery stuff turns out to be Jell-O,…

When you walk into Miami Light Project’s theater space, you will find yourself momentarily on stage. The space is set up so the stage has its back to those entering; you have to walk through it to get to the chairs. There’s a sensation of getting lost backstage and accidentally…