One of the first popular music shows of the 2021-2022 South Florida concert season was scheduled to be by Dead & Company this week. The group canceled, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s been … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Bumblefest music gathering returns after COVID hiatus
You can’t keep a good area music promoter and PureHoney magazine publisher like Steev Rullman down. After the success of his fourth annual Bumblefest in 2019, with 37 musical acts over two nights … Continue reading...
ART
At Gavlak, Deborah Brown mingles objects and fantasy
By Sandra Schulman For artist Deborah Brown, the pandemic allowed her the luxury to reconnect with both sentimental objects she lives with every day and the fantasy of self-portraits through a … Continue reading...
New sculpture on Boca’s ex-IBM campus a symbol of art and science
Jutting up from the green grass with the blue sky and Marcel Breuer’s iconic IBM building as backdrop, Virginia artist Hubert Phipps’s monumental stainless steel sculpture, Rocket, brings a touch of … Continue reading...
DANCE
To be Black, and a dancer: Two stories from the artistic front
Clarence Brooks still remembers the day that he first saw the posters that had a photo of him dancing. “Someone (or several people) … had plastered the N-word all over the posters,” he … Continue reading...
Season Preview 2020-21: COVID stifles dance, but live shows set for 2021
By Dale King Performance stages throughout South Florida that would normally host all sorts of dance programs this time of year are silent, dark and vacant. Producers have dismissed dancers, sent … Continue reading...
THEATER
Hyper ‘Starcatcher’ at LW Playhouse can’t outrun overlong material
By Dale King Lake Worth Playhouse has opened its 69th season with a frenetic production of Peter and the Starcatcher, a paean to Peter Pan that offers up a plausible prequel to J.M. Barrie’s 1904 … Continue reading...
Slow Burn’s ‘Songs for a New World’ makes the case for composer Brown
In 1995, audiences did not yet know composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brow. After all, he had not won his Tony Awards for best score (Parade and Bridges of Madison County). Nor had he written The Last … Continue reading...
FILM
The View From Home: A revolutionary rock doc, a socialist treatise
For hardcore fans of the Velvet Underground — which is to say all fans of the Velvet Underground — Todd Haynes’ new documentary bearing their name is manna from heaven, a film as disobedient, … Continue reading...
‘Days’: One quiet story, one unforgettable moment
As a cinema studies major in college, I read — or, more precisely, hate-read — Robert McKee’s Story, the industry bible for commercial screenwriting. On page after page, I scoffed at its … Continue reading...
BOOKS
‘Putting It Together’: How Sondheim and Lapine painted their masterpiece
When encountering a fully satisfying musical, it is hard to imagine the difficulties it endured on its way to Broadway. Think of Fiddler on the Roof or Hello, Dolly! – both a shambles in their … Continue reading...
Florida thriller writer finds past has dark resonance for today
By Sharon Geltner One of the world’s best-selling thriller writers recently moved to Orlando, does most of his research in Jacksonville and has raised money for the Palm Beach County Library System … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
Norton’s new CEO: The museum as hub for creativity and dialogue
Early into a recent interview, it becomes clear why Ghislain d'Humières landed the job of director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art. A native of France with a last name that exudes harmony and … Continue reading...
Writer T Kira Madden: Leaving Boca, opening doors for ‘Fatherless Girls’
The tattoos dotting T Kira Madden’s arms may not symbolize everything you need to know about her, but they unlock a number of doors. They include likenesses of the Hawaiian islands, her ancestral … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
New sculpture on Boca’s ex-IBM campus a symbol of art and science
Jutting up from the green grass with the blue sky and Marcel Breuer’s iconic IBM building as backdrop, Virginia artist Hubert Phipps’s monumental stainless steel sculpture, Rocket, brings a touch of … Continue reading...
PBAU merges two divisions, creates new College of the Arts
Palm Beach Atlantic University has merged its School of Music and Fine Arts and School of Communication and Media to form a new College of the Arts. The college is headed by Jason Lester, a … Continue reading...