Over the 30 years that the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival has been presenting summer concerts, its musicians have presented more than 500 pieces, the majority of which have been pieces from worthy … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Oz Noy offers improvisational variety at Funky Biscuit Show
Prior to June 3, Israel-born, Manhattan-based jazz/fusion guitarist Oz Noy's last appearance at the Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton was barely more than two-and-a-half years ago. Yet those two shows … Continue reading...
ART
Artist Hundt wins Cultural Council’s Dina Baker grant
Michele Hundt's business is running an apparel boutique for members of Wellington's equestrian community. But her passion is art, and her work in that field has been recognized by the Cultural … Continue reading...
Haring-Alechinsky ‘confrontation’ at NSU Fort Lauderdale more of a friendly get-together
There would be blood – we thought – in the duel of two titans from the art world. We imagined brushes piercing the skin, intense stares exchanged by their canvasses, a snarky gesture hidden like a … Continue reading...
DANCE
In MCB’s season-ender, couples, soloist Peters stand out
Miami City Ballet hedged its bets for the last program of season by presenting the world premiere of an elaborately ambitious collaborative work together with the company premieres of two acclaimed … Continue reading...
Complexions ballet troupe astonishes as its widens dance audience
The “wow factor” when seeing a performance of Complexions Contemporary Ballet is incredibly high — in fact, it is off the charts. During their one-night stand at the Kravis Center for the … Continue reading...
THEATER
FAU’s student cast ably takes on Simon’s ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’
By Dale King Summer has arrived, and while most college students have gone home for a school break or to earn tuition money for the coming year, Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Theater … Continue reading...
Camp classic ‘Irma Vep’ lights up Island City Stage
By Dale King The Mystery of Irma Vep is a high-octane, mystery/thriller/satire that’s getting plenty of guffaws from summer audiences at Island City Stage in Wilton Manors. The show is peculiar … Continue reading...
FILM
The View From Home: A bracing, anti-nativist love story; a ‘90s art-house classic of urban longing
Call it love in the time of nativism. Darkly comic and fretfully relevant, Bulgarian writer-director Ivaylo Hristov’s Fear (Film Movement, $24.95 DVD) exists on a pitch-black nexus between satire and … Continue reading...
‘Jurassic World Dominion’: Franchise’s ‘final’ film overstuffed and clunky, but still has some teeth
Nostalgia, as they say, never goes out of style. And in a pop-culture space increasingly populated by aging Gen-Xers and millennials with time on their hands, affection for the more sanguine 1990s has … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Palm Beach Book Festival features Watergate historian Graff, actor Cumming, director Stone
Author, journalist and historian Garret M. Graff wasn’t even born in 1972 when the Watergate scandal unfolded 50 years ago, ending in the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon on Aug. 9, … Continue reading...
‘The Prince’ slims down Henry James for the modern age
By Sharon Geltner It took a former book reviewer for the New York Times to cleverly update Henry James’s best and, at 600 pages, longest novel, The Golden Bowl. Dinitia Smith has just launched … 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
Artist Hundt wins Cultural Council’s Dina Baker grant
Michele Hundt's business is running an apparel boutique for members of Wellington's equestrian community. But her passion is art, and her work in that field has been recognized by the Cultural … Continue reading...
Hallmark, Lifetime movie fans unite: The stars are aligning in West Palm Beach this week
Bringing the stars, screenwriters and producers of made-for-TV movies and the romantic dramas of The Hallmark Channel, Lifetime and Netflix to West Palm Beach, RomaDrama Live! comes to the Palm Beach … Continue reading...