A longtime bastion for touring blues artists, and more recently for ones playing funk, the Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton recently instituted a welcomed series of notable jazz/fusion acts. Those include … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Bassist Beller brings funk-fusion trio to Boca’s Funky Biscuit
Music has a history of artists deserving of wider recognition — especially instrumentalists — and especially now, in the modern era of TV shows that only hype singers and dancers toward their 15 … Continue reading...
ART
Artist Prusa maps the infinite through painstaking silverpoint
What if Stephen Hawking had been an artist? What would his theories look like as physical representations of the universe and the cosmos? Carol Prusa, a Boca Raton artist and professor of painting … Continue reading...
In St. Petersburg: AI tech brings Dalí’s boast, and himself, to life
Salvador Dalí once said, “I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.” Now we know he was right. The eccentric surrealist master personally greets us with his trademark mustache at the entrance … Continue reading...
DANCE
Beautiful, visually lavish ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ ends MCB season
The visually lavish production of George Balanchine’s evening-length ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream closed out Miami City Ballet’s 2018-19 season in the Palm Beaches last week. This revisit of … Continue reading...
Paul Taylor troupe sublime in late master’s dances
At last, Esplanade. The Paul Taylor Dance Company performed an exuberant version of what is generally considered Taylor’s most popular work to a very enthusiastic audience March 23 in Lake Worth. … Continue reading...
THEATER
‘When She Had Wings’ is attractive whimsy for the whole family
For the two seasons that Matt Stabile has taken the artistic helm of Florida Atlantic University’s Theatre Lab, he has begun with a Heckscher Theatre for Families production. In addition to … Continue reading...
Appreciation: Harper was so much more than Rhoda
Say the name Valerie Harper to most people and the response you invariably get is “Rhoda.” After all, she did win four Emmy Awards playing the unlucky-in-love, self-deprecating sitcom character in … Continue reading...
FILM
‘Mike Wallace Is Here’: Doc of the original grillmaster raises dark questions
The road from Walter Cronkite and his generation of stoic newsreaders to the wild-eyed, pro-wrestling-style rantings of Alex Jones is paved through Mike Wallace. That’s one of the takeaways, not all … Continue reading...
Moore, Williams lift ‘After the Wedding’ out of its rote-ness
Like the proverbial after-school special, the Lifetime Original Movie is an institution that is summarily dismissed by us snoots in the film-critic intelligentsia. Never mind that most of us have … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Gripping ‘Nickel Boys’ tracks racism’s reach in the Panhandle
Colson Whitehead won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his novel The Underground Railroad, a compelling story of slaves escaping from Southern plantations on a fictional … Continue reading...
Journalist Brooks finds service is the true road to character
New York Times columnist David Brooks won wide praise for his 2015 book The Road to Character, which celebrated the happiness found in personal achievement. He now believes he was … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
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...
#MeToo and the young actress: Three FAU thespians view the road ahead
By Janis Fontaine The #MeToo movement that exploded onto the cultural scene in 2017 with allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein – who was indicted this week on … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
West Palm tries to make a construction summer ‘i-coneic’
By Sandra Schulman Construction is never fun. But the city of West Palm Beach is making lemonade out of construction lemons this summer with a lineup of orange cone-themed events and activities … Continue reading...
Schwarz named director of Palm Beach Symphony; Spady Museum gets NEA grant
PALM BEACH — Gerard Schwarz, who led the Seattle Symphony to national prominence in his 26 years with the orchestra, has been named artistic and music director of the Palm Beach Symphony. Schwarz … Continue reading...