“Christian rock” is a relatively vague 20th-century description that crept into music ranging from pop stars (Irish group U2) to hard rockers (Missouri-launched trio King’s X) to metallic acts … Continue reading...
MUSIC
South Florida Symphony, chorus deliver poignant Mozart Requiem
By Robert Croan Contrary to legend, and to Peter Shaffer’s iconic play Amadeus (along with the movie that followed), Italian composer Antonio Salieri did not murder Mozart — nor did he attempt to … Continue reading...
ART
In its centennial year, Boca salutes its original visionary, Addison Mizner
A current exhibit at The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum coincides with the city of Boca Raton’s centennial and looks back on the continuing impact of city planner, industrialist and architect … Continue reading...
Botanical beauty: The floating flowers of Rory McEwen
By Sandra Schulman Adrift in space, purple tulips waft in whiteness, red roses gleam in unseen sunshine, a red pepper shines with ripeness. These exquisitely painted flora by Rory McEwen are the … Continue reading...
DANCE
MCB’s Palm Beach presence smaller, but Balanchine was beautiful
Two weekends ago, the Miami City Ballet appeared for the first time in their now-abbreviated season at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts presenting just three performances of its second … Continue reading...
South Korean dance troupe makes powerful debut at Duncan
When a dance company is well-known, there is a constant pressure of needing to satisfy the expectations of its audiences, but when an audience comes to the theater to see a dance company for the first … Continue reading...
THEATER
‘Moulin Rouge’ provides entertainment in excess, and it’s welcome
As Oscar Wilde is said to have said, “Nothing succeeds like excess.” Wilde lived in the late 19th century, the time period that Moulin Rouge: The Musical takes place, though he was born too early to … Continue reading...
Maltz’s ‘Guys and Dolls’ competent but uninspired
By critical consensus, Guys and Dolls is as close to perfect as musicals get. Subtitled “A musical fable of Broadway,” it hails from 1950, when composer-lyricist Frank Loesser and book writers Jo … Continue reading...
FILM
‘The Monkey’ proves to be all blood, no guts
Hal Shelburn has a monkey on his back. Not an actual monkey, mind you, but one of those grinning, wind-up, midcentury percussion-playing simians that, outside of the jaundiced world of supernatural … Continue reading...
Hap’s fearless Oscar picks: Wins for ‘Conclave,’ ‘Brutalist,’ Brody, Moore
Predicting the Academy Awards last year was easy, because of the evident dominance of Oppenheimer. But this year's field for Best Picture, and several other categories, is wide open. But that does not … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Season Preview 2024-25: Books events show printed word still a strong draw
We may live in an increasingly digital age, one now further complicated by the rise of AI. But the printed word in books still exerts a powerful draw, as these festivals show: Miami Book Fair … Continue reading...
Delray art gallery owners publish major study of Central American modernist art
It was the love of Central American art that brought co-authors Suzanne Brooks Snider and Mark Morgan Ford, of Ford Fine Art, together more than a decade ago. A labor of love and passion project … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
Nora Maité Nieves: A sense of play, a sense of home come out in artist’s solo Norton show
It’s been a big year for Nora Maité Nieves. Her first solo museum exhibition, Clouds in the Expanded Field (Nubes en el Paisaje Expandido), is currently showing at the Norton Museum of Art through … Continue reading...
Designer-entertainer Mizrahi to bring cabaret show to Boca fest
Bringing his Café Carlyle cabaret show to Boca Raton will be even more fun and fabulous on the big stage at Mizner Park, says the multi-talented fashion designer, actor, singer and Project Runway … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
In its centennial year, Boca salutes its original visionary, Addison Mizner
A current exhibit at The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum coincides with the city of Boca Raton’s centennial and looks back on the continuing impact of city planner, industrialist and architect … Continue reading...
Kips Bay’s 2025 edition showcases designers’ rich imaginations
Not your typical Palm Beach mansion, this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House is a single-family brick Providencia house built in 1937, located on a corner lot in West Palm Beach. With 7,706 … Continue reading...