With no summer show this year, Palm Beach Dramaworks has been out of the media eye lately, so it invited the local theater press -- and a few politicos -- for a tour of the renovations of the Cuillo Centre in West Palm Beach, to demonstrate that it was on schedule to open Dramaworks’ new permanent home on Nov. 11 of this year. Yes, 11-11-11, for you numerology fans. According … [Read more...]
Welcome to our new home
Today, the launch of this version of the Palm Beach ArtsPaper site becomes official with the redirecting of our initial site – www.pbartspaper.com – to this one, www.palmbeachartspaper.com. If you’ve bookmarked the old site, you should end up here. If you are still interested in seeing the site as it was since our launch in November 2008, we’ve moved all that material to … [Read more...]
The View From Home 26: New releases and notable screenings, May 24-June 10
Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian New Wave’s most glorified director of rarefied museum pieces, represents, more than any director of his generation, the division between true cinephiles and casual “movie buffs.” The latter enjoys Fellini, some Godard and even an Antonioni picture or two, but Tarkovsky’s art-house pedigree is so pure – so dismissive of the standard that films be … [Read more...]
Steep Canyon Rangers reach new bluegrass fans, with Martin’s help
Most bands don't become successful overnight, especially in a niche musical sub-genre like bluegrass. Take the Steep Canyon Rangers, for example, the quintet of guitarist Woody Platt, mandolinist Mike Guggino, banjo player Graham Sharp, violinist Nicky Sanders and bassist Charles Humphrey III that formed 10 years ago in Asheville, N.C. After five years of touring and … [Read more...]
The View From Home 22: New releases on DVD
Around a Small Mountain (Cinema Guild) Release date: March 8 Standard list price: $26.99 Could it be that French director Jacques Rivette, the New Wave lion who just turned 83, is finally slowing down? What else can we make of the fact that his latest feature, which could very well be his last, is a scant 84 minutes? For Rivette, Around a Small Mountain is the equivalent of … [Read more...]
FAU concert, exhibit spotlight Russian music publisher’s legacy
BOCA RATON -- The Bessel publishing house, founded in St. Petersburg in 1869, grew from a music shop into a concern that was at the center of Russian musical life, printing works by the nation’s leading composers from Tchaikovsky to the members of the “mighty handful.” Many of the first-edition scores published by Bessel can be seen in the Richard Beattie Davis Collection at … [Read more...]
New independent cinema house at FAU broadens area’s film offerings
With the exception of the occasional adventuresome booking at West Palm Beach’s long-since defunct Carefree Theatre, this county used to be a wasteland when it came to international, independent or alternative films. But six years ago, a digitally projected national network, Emerging Cinema, moved into Lake Worth. Now, beginning this weekend, comes Living Room Theaters, a more … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 30-Nov. 2
Film: The long waited third shoe in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest -- has just dropped locally, and it snaps the trilogy back into form, paring down the third weighty, introspective novel about Goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) into an involving, fast-paced … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 15-18
Film: Moviegoers with a tendency towards high blood pressure are advised to take medical precautions before seeing the first-rate documentary, The Tillman Story, which is bound to make you seething mad. Amir Bar-Lev does a first-rate job sifting through the lies and cover-ups surrounding the death of Arizona Cardinals star Pat Tillman, who put his lucrative football career on … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in classical music
With the addition of a new performing arts center in southern Palm Beach County (and a major new hall on Miami Beach), the 2010-11 classical music season in South Florida looks a little stronger than it did last season, and that impression is fortified by the unusual fact of there being two performances each of major Romantic masterworks: The Verdi Requiem, and the Fifth … [Read more...]