By Myles Ludwig ’Tis the season of anxiety. Freakouts are in full bloom. The Christmas craze has descended upon the land and the shadow of New Year’s Eve neurosis is coming back again along with feigned resolutions and February’s bills. The other night, the Costco parking lot in Lantana was ablaze with the blinding colors of taillights and I couldn’t find my car for about … [Read more...]
Sundays: NSFW (Not safe for whatever)
By Myles Ludwig The smut bomb has finally been dropped. And it turns out to be one of the most powerful cordless screwdrivers in the NSA’s Craftsman toolbox of surveillance techniques and useful dirty tricks. Certainly, this latest revelation from the Snowden treasure chest of purloined documents has sent a chill up the collective spines of every man in the world with … [Read more...]
Sundays: The return of Me
By Myles Ludwig Veni, vidi, vici. I selfied. I think the selection of “selfie” as the word of the year signals the Return of Me. The inclusion of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) by the arbiters of the English language and its meaning is equivalent to the Supreme Court of Lexicology issuing a final, unappealable decree. Neither plea nor twerk could change the … [Read more...]
Sandoval, Goodwin headline 8th Festival of the Arts Boca
Jazz trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval and popular historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will be among the guests for this year’s Festival of the Arts Boca, which will return for an eighth season to the Mizner Park Amphitheatre. Festival officials unveiled the lineup Friday night in a media event that included a screening of I Am Not a Rock Star, a documentary by Bobbi Jo Hart that … [Read more...]
Sundays: In memory yet green
By Myles Ludwig The mist of history swirls still around the life and especially, the death of JFK. Fifty years later, that mist has not dissipated for those of us who were accidental eyewitnesses-once-removed; it refuses to leave. He is very much alive in our collective imagination. He had been born a year before my father. My daughter, born a few days earlier than his death … [Read more...]
In the news: PB Symphony does ‘Carnival’ for kids; Maltz records ‘Looking Glass’ score
PALM BEACH GARDENS — The Palm Beach Symphony offers its second-ever children’s concert Thursday with a morning performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’ classic Carnival of the Animals. Conducted by the young Greek-born pianist and conductor Zoe Zeniodi, the orchestra will present Saint-Saëns’ zoological spoof to the accompaniment of choreography by Jerry Opdenaker’s Gardens-based O … [Read more...]
Sundays: You can’t hide your prying eyes (and ears)
By Myles Ludwig I’d like to thank the CIA for paying part of my telephone bill this year. Unfortunately, that subsidy has come at a cost of the increasing deflation of what the Supreme Court decided in 1967 as one’s reasonable expectation of privacy according to the Fourth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution. No wonder Nixon was worried. He apparently forgot he was taping … [Read more...]
News briefs: ‘Of Mice and Men’ extended; student rockers salute vets
Because of audience demand, Palm Beach Dramaworks has added three new performance dates for Of Mice and Men at Don and Ann Brown Theatre in West Palm Beach. New performance dates include Friday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. The theatre is located at 201 Clematis St. in downtown West Palm Beach. Set in author John Steinbeck’s … [Read more...]
Sundays: Time to take stock
By Myles Ludwig Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? I was having a G&T with a colleague at the old Long Bar in the Royal Selangor Club in the twilight of Kuala Lumpur when he posed that question to me. Founded in the late 1800s as a social club for the best of British colonial society when they ruled Malaya, it has survived flood and fire and is very pukka. … [Read more...]
Letter from Paris: In the footsteps of Hemingway
By Chloe Elder Ah, Paris! (Cue the Edith Piaf.) The City of Lights! The City of Love! The City of Americans? Mais, oui! Many of those chic Parisians strolling around this famous city are, in fact, just Americans who happen to live in Paris. I, too, am just another clichéd example of the American in Paris: an expatriate from Florida who has come looking for life, liberty, … [Read more...]