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: ‘Cock’: Battle of words enlivens question of sexual identity There is an art to upping a play’s controversy quotient with its title. Certainly Stephen Adly Guirgis knew he was stirring up trouble and attention when he ... Read More... More in: Theater

Dance: Harid marks 25 years with three celebratory programs Reared in the orphanages of rural southwest Brazil, Gleidson Vasconcelos found his future one day as he looked into a window he was passing, and saw a girl dancing to the sound of ... 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 24-26 Theater: Palm Beach Dramaworks ends its season with Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, a fictionalized tale of his mother and her four spinster sisters, who lead a repressed, impoverished life in the Iri... 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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