Last year’s faculty exhibition at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale got mixed but generally promising grades. Although some of the instructors represented in the show seemed to be working at less than their full potentials, several were producing above-average work, the kind we might reasonably expect from people in…
James McLure’s one-act Pvt. Wars made a neat splash back in 1979 when it appeared at the celebrated New Playwrights Festival at the Actors Theatre in Louisville. But between that time and now, the work has run aground, having hit many of the metaphorical icebergs that are apt to sink…
Kevin Welsh photographs the world’s top wave-riders for Surfer magazine and catches the action on video at the same time. A senior staff photographer for the surfing mag, Welsh won’t reveal the specifics of his “double trouble” system, but it’s clear he’s getting maximum mileage from each shoot: The glossy…
Somewhere between the club crowd and the couch potato set lies a group that doesn’t mind going out late — as long as the effort results in some form of “cultured” entertainment, according to Cody Thomas. And Thomas, an actor and stage manager at the Academy Theatre in Fort Lauderdale,…
Whether it’s bad or good commercial luck that the thriller Stir of Echoes follows so closely on the heels of The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan’s wildly successful ghost-story sleeper, it’s bad critical luck. The film has some startling parallels with The Sixth Sense: Both concern psychic communication with the…
As a filmmaker, John Turturro clearly believes in drawing from personal experience: The actor’s directorial debut, the 1992 Mac (which won the Camera D’Or at Cannes), was avowedly based on his father’s life. For his second feature, Illuminata, Turturro takes a look at the theater, showing us the ambitions, fears,…
Somewhere between writing dialogue for the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story and creating Sunday in the Park With George, the only Broadway show to date based on an impressionist painting, Stephen Sondheim revolutionized American musical theater. Inspired by the elaborate story musicals of his mentor Oscar Hammerstein…
When asked to describe the most precarious position he has been in while taking a picture, photographer Michael Joseph recalls a midafternoon climb up a 50-foot-tall industrial crane. “When you start to climb, you have the feeling of falling backwards,” he explains nonchalantly, as if photographers scale cranes every day…
Beneath the dark surface of thigh-deep swamp water in the Everglades grow the roots of cypress trees. They’re all but invisible to hikers until someone rams a tender shin into one. Snakes and alligators inhabit the murky water, too. But, according to Sandy Snell-Dobert, “with the water as high as…
When last we encountered Peter and Bobby Farrelly, they were pelting movie houses with industrial-strength jokes about retarded kids, lost semen, found excrement, and exploding house pets. Good plan. There’s Something About Mary turned into last summer’s surprise hit and catapulted the brothers to the top of Hollywood’s A list…
Like her contemporary, the movie star James Dean, Patsy Cline arrived in pop-culture heaven prematurely, the result of a tragedy. She died in a plane crash in 1963 at the age of 30, leaving behind two small children and the work that resulted from 12 recording sessions, not to mention…
A year ago there wasn’t a gallery at Steven F. Greenwald Design, just a suite of interlocking offices, work areas, and cavernous storerooms. Greenwald was primarily in the business of custom framing, not running an art gallery. All that changed in December. Now a gallery — divided into two sections:…
Duran Duran’s catchy brand of synth-pop and its sexy videos made the band’s members darlings of the new wave scene in the early ’80s. The music and images also sold tons of records: The albums Duran Duran (1981), Rio (1982), and Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983) each had several…
What is it they say — that even a flea can reach Mount Olympus riding in Pegasus’ mane? Well, in the case of the new Albert Brooks comedy The Muse, Brooks is the flea and Pegasus is his delectable costar, Sharon Stone. But I get ahead of myself. In The…
It seems like only yesterday that movies dealing with gay and lesbian life were synonymous with extravagant displays of gloom and doom. From the suicides of The Children’s Hour (1961) and Advise & Consent (1962) to the serial killers of Cruising (1980) and Basic Instinct (1992), same-sexuality was no fun…
The names have been changed and so has the setting, but no one will fail to recognize August Strindberg’s neurotic heroine and her boy toy in New Theatre’s unrelenting and compassionate production of Miss Julie. By transferring it to colonial Latin America, artistic director Rafael de Acha recasts the Swedish…
Like many late-night theatrical troupes around the country, Punch 59 presents sophisticated sketch comedy on a variety of odd topics. But unlike most other groups, this one is named for a torn-off section of an election poster urging voters to punch a certain key in a voting booth. Director/ writer/actor…
Her demonstration almost complete, Reiko Nishioka begins taking the pins out of the dolls. No, this is not some kind of voodoo ritual going on here; Nishioka is director of education at the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach, and she’s explaining the cultural underpinnings of cloth dolls to a visitor…
As a student at the Florida Institute of Technology in the late ’60s, Mark Sivik was interested in biology — especially bugs. And to him FIT’s Colombian exchange program sounded like a chance to collect some exotic insects. So he signed on ostensibly as a guide for a project in…
Lo and behold the plight of the American gangster. John Gotti, the Dapper Don, has been sent down the river. His bigtime heavy, Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, is famous and face-lifted for being a no-good-dirty-rat stool pigeon. And Robert De Niro, the reigning deity of hoodlum heavies in films such…
If Kevin Williamson has anything to say about it, the good works of noble movie schoolteachers like Mr. Chips and Miss Dove and Mr. Holland will be wiped out in one fell swoop. In their place the creator of TV’s hormonal Dawson’s Creek series proposes an unmitigated horror — a…
Actress Elizabeth Dimon was so delightfully adroit last spring in the Caldwell Theatre Company’s production of The King’s Mare and the Florida Stage’s Quills that it should surprise no one that she walks away with the part of Cissy, the female half of the comic pair of lovers in A…
