Art: Invention on display at Fine Craft Show astounds By Myles Ludwig Imagination is abloom at the Palm Beach Fine Craft Show at the Convention Center. It is a springy bouquet of masterfully individualized techniques and unexpectedly fused mat... Read More... More in: Art

Film: The View From Home 58: Feminist defiance, a cult horror puzzler, and an Apa Tess: One of the most sumptuously photographed films of Roman Polanski’s career, 1979’s Tess (Criterion, $34.99 Blu-ray + DVD) opens its Victorian-era narrative by conjuring none other tha... Read More... More in: Film

Theater: Theater roundup: ‘Full Monty,’ ‘Fighting Over Beverley,’ ‘Rags,’ and ‘Siste In 1968, Broadway was aghast (and titillated) when a tribe of hippies went naked in Hair. Thirty-two years later, a handful of unemployed steel workers strip down to ... Read More... More in: Theater

Dance: Strong lead performances lift Ballet Palm Beach’s ‘Romeo’ It was an interesting experience to see Romeo and Juliet at Ballet Palm Beach in the middle of the Winter Olympics at Sochi; if ice dancing is a somewhat clunky country cousin of ... Read More... More in: Dance

Music: Scrupulously beautiful Beethoven, intriguing Beamish from Elias Quartet Sometimes the difference between a splendid performance of something and one that’s merely good comes down to an exercise of fundamentals. In the case of Britain’s Elias String Quartet, which played the... Read More... More in: Music

Interviews: Festival Boca preview: Anna Deveare Smith, on a search for grace Anna Deveare Smith won’t be mounting a full production of her new one-woman show On Grace at the Festival of the Arts Boca. But she will be offering the one thing that mig... Read More... More in: Interviews

Books: T.D. Allman: Looking feistily at Florida, past and future T. D. Allman, a raconteur of rare qualities, begins a telephone interview with a story about his dad. An officer in the Coast Guard sailing patrols out of Tampa during World War II,... Read More... More in: Books

Weekend Picks: Weekend arts picks: March 7-9 Theater: Off-Broadway pioneer Israel Horovitz sets many of his plays in his adopted hometown of Gloucester, Mass., which is where the triangular tug-of-war, Fighting Over Beverley, takes place. But the story is mor... Read More... More in: Weekend Picks

News & Commentary: Sundays: Vlad the Impaler By Myles Ludwig Vlad the Impaler has struck once again. This time, however, instead of lining the roads of his rule with the corpses of his enemies, he’s impaled the for... Read More... More in: News & Commentary

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