SunFest is a little younger than Saturday Night Live, but bears similarities to the iconic TV series that recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. Starting out small and grass-roots in 1983, the sprawling West Palm Beach event, set for April 29-May 3, now calls itself “Florida’s largest waterfront music and art festival.” And as is the case with SNL, some people prefer the … [Read more...]
Sundays: A shopping list from the catalogs
Editor’s note: To do our bit for the long shopping weekend, we’ve asked our friend Lou Ann Frala to go through the stacks of catalogs she gets at this time of year and find some things we might want to send to kin and kind. By Lou Ann Frala The first catalog I remember poring over was the Sears Wish Book. What a field day I would have had with Post-it Notes. My lists and … [Read more...]
2014-15 arts preview: The fall season in film
Somewhere hidden in the list below is this year’s Oscar-winning best picture and most of the performance nominees. Having survived the all-about-the-box-office summer, the film industry rolls out its prestige products, which includes an armful of biopics ranging from theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking to seascape painter J.M.W. Turner to the Old Testament’s Red Sea parter, … [Read more...]
The 2011-12 season in Palm Beach art: Ghosts, gods, bodies and wildlife
The state of all things is pretty much still looking gray and uncertain, which makes the list of shows and exhibits you are about to read possibly the only piece of good and colorful news you hear in a while. By the time you are done reading this, I predict, there will be several shows competing for your attention. My advice? Write them down. The artists and creations hitting … [Read more...]