Mark Kirschenberg tries sound effects for the Arts Radio Network Theatre Project. (Photo by Amy Pasquantonio) Long before television ruled the airwaves, radio was king, including theater broadcasts complete with the aural authenticity of live sound effects. And since everything old is new again, radio theater lives again, thanks to public station WLRN and Arts Radio Network … [Read more...]
The View From Home 78: Hawks classic, Fuller gumshoe, The Residents, Reynolds and what’s in a name
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Only Angels Have Wings: Howard Hawks’ 1939 masterpiece (Criterion, $26.19 Blu-ray, $19.69 DVD) is set in an exoticized South American airfield, where Cary Grant’s emotionally crippled American expat runs a commercial aviation business. He’s accustomed to sending pilots off into treacherous conditions and, often, … [Read more...]
Jewish film, poetry festivals return for another year
Next week brings two favorite cultural festivals back to Palm Beach County — the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, now in its 12th year, and the Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, which is in its 26th year. Each brings its own perspective and interpretation to two different but similar art forms — contemporary poets and their oeuvre and contemporary filmmakers and … [Read more...]
At the Morikami: Street fashion a la Elvis, Brando and Nabokov
Japan’s street fashion knows no minimalism. Like a rainbow rhapsody, its tune says anything goes and more is always better. An ongoing exhibit wrapping up next month tells us it is all about gaining acceptance, not attention. There is no room for judgment and the main goal is having fun. These are some of the notions the Morikami Museum galleries put forward with Breaking … [Read more...]
Return To Forever, Dweezil Zappa make a Boca Saturday even hotter
Keyboardist Chick Corea occupies the rare air of a jazz superstar who can do whatever he wants. Some of his recent whims included a 2008 reunion tour by the popular fusion quartet version from among his various Return To Forever lineups from 1972-1977, and the recent Forever CD by three of that reunion’s principals (himself, original RTF bassist Stanley Clarke and longtime … [Read more...]
‘Tetro’ marks Coppola’s return to bold, youthful form
If Tetro is the 70-year-old Francis Ford Coppola’s final film, it would be an elegant swan song to an accomplished career: an invigorating inhalation of arthouse air to remedy the commercial drudge work to which the director confined himself in the ‘90s. Indeed, the Francis Coppola of the late half of the late ‘00s harkens more to his rebellious, rulebook-eschewing, film … [Read more...]