One of the many famed phrases used by vocalist James Brown (1933-2006), the “Godfather of Soul,” was “give the drummer some.” It served as an instruction to the remainder of his ensemble to lay … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
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MCB ends season in superb style at Kravis with ‘Spring Mix’
Miami City Ballet presented an outstanding lineup for its Spring Mix program earlier this month as the company wrapped up its much abbreviated season at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. … Continue Reading
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Parma Portraits: Ode to caregivers illuminates at Boca Museum of Art
By Sandra Schulman An unexpected near-death experience during the early days of the pandemic has yielded a remarkable series of portraits, drawn by the patient. Donald Farnsworth, an artist who … Continue Reading
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Drummer’s gift will help vistiting bands at LWB’s Rudy’s at Bamboo
One of the many famed phrases used by vocalist James Brown (1933-2006), the “Godfather of Soul,” was “give the drummer some.” It served as an instruction to the remainder of his ensemble to lay … Continue Reading
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It’s no mystery: There’s no good reason to catch ‘Clue’ at Kravis
Remember the old joke about the guy who complained of the poor quality of a restaurant’s food, then added “and the portions are so small.” So it is with Clue, the painfully silly, amateurishly … Continue Reading
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‘Camping With Henry and Tom,’ at Dramaworks, a trip worth taking
Suppositional history is a specialty of playwright Mark St. Germain, as he demonstrated in Freud’s Last Session, The Best of Enemies and Camping with Henry and Tom, plays of fiction that bring … Continue Reading
MUSIC

PB Opera tops itself with stellar ‘Figaro,’ jewel of the season
By Márcio Bezerra Palm Beach Opera closed its 2025 season with a outstanding production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Even by the higher standards set by the company since the … Continue reading...
Arts News
ART

Parma Portraits: Ode to caregivers illuminates at Boca Museum of Art
By Sandra Schulman An unexpected near-death experience during the early days of the pandemic has yielded a remarkable series of portraits, drawn by the patient. Donald Farnsworth, an artist who … Continue reading...

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...
DANCE

MCB ends season in superb style at Kravis with ‘Spring Mix’
Miami City Ballet presented an outstanding lineup for its Spring Mix program earlier this month as the company wrapped up its much abbreviated season at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. … Continue reading...

Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami brings Duncan dance series to brilliant end
Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami boldly took to the stage at the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth Beach on March 21, closing out this season’s ever-popular Modern Dance Series. Under the leadership of … Continue reading...
THEATER

It’s no mystery: There’s no good reason to catch ‘Clue’ at Kravis
Remember the old joke about the guy who complained of the poor quality of a restaurant’s food, then added “and the portions are so small.” So it is with Clue, the painfully silly, amateurishly … Continue reading...

‘Camping With Henry and Tom,’ at Dramaworks, a trip worth taking
Suppositional history is a specialty of playwright Mark St. Germain, as he demonstrated in Freud’s Last Session, The Best of Enemies and Camping with Henry and Tom, plays of fiction that bring … Continue reading...
FILM

‘Drop’: A Hitch-like thriller for our digitally connected reality
The setting for most of Christopher Landon’s clever thriller Drop is a fancy restaurant in downtown Chicago called Palate. Enclosed in glass walls, it lives on the top floor of a colossal building, … Continue reading...

The View From Home: Schrader’s latest explores a callous documentarian’s jumbled reckoning
Richard Gere’s Leonard Fife, the unreliable narrator at the core of Paul Schrader’s latest film Oh, Canada (Kino, $23.96 Blu-ray, $15.96 DVD), is seldom without a woman in his life. Yet he shares … 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...