Palm Beach fashion icon Iris Apfel, 93, has been a businesswoman, an interior designer and a university professor. She now adds to her résumé “documentary subject,” as Magnolia Pictures prepares to release the last movie by the late acclaimed non-fiction filmmaker, Albert Maysles, titled simply Iris. The film almost did not happen. “At first, I wasn’t interested at all. I … [Read more...]
West Palm artist makes a fashion statement of his own
When he slipped into the white-lace wedding dress and adjusted the veil on his balding head, a diminutive Raymond P. Neubert stepped into another dimension of his life. Seventeen more of his friends and acquaintances followed suit while Neubert photographed the experience and evolving personas, taking more than 100 pictures of each person. Although the small-framed Neubert … [Read more...]
Rasta Thomas’s Bad Boys – and girl – electrify at Rinker
Each of Rasta Thomas’ three nights at the Kravis Center packed the little Rinker Playhouse to the gills. An imaginative lighting plot kept even the bare black-box stage looking good for the Bad Boys of Dance. And the eight dancers of enormous ability and facility – including Thomas and his wife of two years, Adrienne Caterna-Thomas -- could be mesmerizing in the sheer … [Read more...]