Art: Raheleh Filsoofi: Embracing culture and clay By Lucy Lazarony When Boca Raton resident Raheleh T. Filsoofi returned to her homeland of Iran last summer, she went determined to see her country through the eyes of an artist. An... Read More... More in: Art

Film: ‘Frances Ha’ a heroine worth rooting for Greta Gerwig – intelligent, gangly, un-classically beautiful and uniquely fetching -- is now poised to be the new Parker Posey. That is, if there wasn’t already a new... Read More... More in: Film

Theater: Community theater: Charming ‘Sylvia’ closes Delray Playhouse season By Dale King The literary device known as the “willing suspension of disbelief” is “an essential element when experiencing any drama or work of fiction,” said poe... Read More... More in: Theater

Dance: Timeless, beautiful ‘Dances’ closes out MCB season By Tara Mitton Catao On Friday at the Kravis Center, Miami City Ballet finished off its 2012-2013 season by presenting an evening that crisscrossed Broadway with ballet, and ballet with Broadway. Th... Read More... More in: Dance

Music: Chameleon ends season with worthy revival of forgotten composer It’s surely the case that most of the readers of this review have never heard of the Swedish woman composer Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929), whose career ran into the standard gender roadblocks of the... Read More... More in: Music

Interviews: Cary Polkovitz: The painter turns writer By Colleen Dougher West Palm Beach painter Cary Polkovitz has never been big on telling the stor... Read More... More in: Interviews

Books: ‘Shouting’ a poignant look at growing sound of silence Nearly 50 million Americans suffer from hearing loss, most of it related to aging and exposure to loud noise. For more than two decades Katherine Bouton has lived with hearing loss so ... Read More... More in: Books

Weekend Picks: Weekend arts picks: May 17-19 Art: Transformations, a solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings, wall reliefs and sculptures by artist Yvonne Parker, has just opened at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Museum in West Palm Beach. Parker, who was... Read More... More in: Weekend Picks

News & Commentary: Sundays: Standing in the corner with Kafka By Myles Ludwig I’m not surprised that Franz Kafka woke up one morning and imagined he was some kind of giant beetle. He needed someone to talk to. A ... Read More... More in: News & Commentary

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