By Erik Kvarnberg Something new is stirring at the corner of J Street and Lake Avenue in Lake Worth Beach. The Mango Music and Art Festival is the uniquely South Floridian result of a meeting of the minds: Pomona restaurant co-owner Alexandra Dupuis, PureHoney magazine publisher Steev Rullman, and record label Tiki Tumbao maverick Travis Acker. From 1 pm to midnight … [Read more...]
Lake Worth Playhouse receives transformational $1M gift
The story of the Lake Worth Playhouse took an unexpected twist this summer with an anonymous $1 million gift — a transformational donation that will help ensure the theater’s next act. With the gift, the Playhouse now has a permanent endowment — a dependable stream of annual funding to fuel its artistic vision, protect its historic building and grow educational programs for … [Read more...]
South Florida theater titan Lou Tyrrell dies at 75
The South Florida theater community is in mourning after the passing of Louis Tyrrell, founding director of the Theatre Lab at Florida Atlantic University. Tyrrell died Friday, April 10, after a brief and sudden illness. He was 75. Tyrrell’s theater roots in Florida run deep. In 1974, he became the founding director of Florida Stage, a position he held for 24 years until … [Read more...]
Kips Bay Decorator Show House event returns for ninth year, this time with two houses
This year’s Ninth Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House brings a first to Palm Beach County — not just one show house, but two. The result is a double dose of Palm Beach design and talent — twice the talent, twice the inspiration. Highlighting the work of 23 interior designers, many from South Florida, the two show houses are open to the public through Tuesday, March 24. … [Read more...]
Easy Rawlins creator Mosley to speak at Festival of the Arts Boca
“On hot, sticky days in South Louisiana, the fire ants swarm.” That was the sentence Walter Mosley wrote in his mid 30s — a line he never used, but one that convinced him he might become a writer. Then working as a computer programmer in Los Angeles, Mosley, now 74, liked the sound and cadence of the sentence and decided to try his hand in fiction and mystery writing. … [Read more...]
Longtime Boca Museum of Art curator Goncharov dies at 73
By Sandra Schulman In an art career that spanned 40 years and major cities, Kathleen Goncharov served for 14 of those years as the senior curator at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, where she curated more than 30 exhibitions featuring notable artists of national and international acclaim. Goncharov died Dec. 31 at age 73 at her home in Boca Raton, family members said. … [Read more...]
Folk Radio Hall of Fame inducts longtime WLRN host Stock
A list of the things that have changed in the South Florida music scene since the Reagan administration’s first presidential term constitutes a scroll, with practically all being for the worse. Yet something that hasn’t changed during that time frame is WLRN (www.wlrn.org) deejay Michael Stock’s Folk & Acoustic Music radio program, which streams and airs Sundays from 3-5 … [Read more...]
Appreciation: Remembering Palm Beach County folk scene star Marie Nofsinger
Singer, guitarist and songwriter Marie Nofsinger came onto my radar more than 25 years ago, as I was walking along Lake Avenue while she was performing live on the sidewalk stage in front of the Coffee Gallery in downtown Lake Worth. This was back when Palm Beach County had a thriving original music scene — even if I purposely only heard some of its many such performers in … [Read more...]
Palm Beach’s new Glazer Hall means more than a theater’s rebirth
In the 21 years since the Royal Poinciana Playhouse closed its doors, several groups have tried unsuccessfully to bring the former jewel box performance space back to life. Now, however, on the site of the dormant theater, a much-redesigned multi-purpose arts center in Palm Beach is under construction, poised to launch by the end of this year. The difference this time? … [Read more...]
Veteran South Florida theater critic Hap Erstein dies at 76
Harris Alan Erstein, known to his decades of readers and to family, friends and colleagues as Hap, died Saturday in Aventura. He was 76. Erstein had long suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was taken ill Monday night after a showing of the latest Jurassic Park film and transported to Aventura Hospital. Doctors there were able to stabilize him, but his … [Read more...]