Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin and Ryan Guzman in Everybody Wants Some!! Richard Linklater’s most personal films are inevitably about time, its passing and the desire to freeze it. Everybody Wants Some!!, his shaggy college baseball comedy that’s not about baseball at all, is another prime example of this. It begins at a Texas college on a Thursday in 1980, with the first day … [Read more...]
‘Stars of David’ revue celebrates Jewish celebrities
If you had a new musical revue about the lives of celebrated Jewish figures, wouldn’t you bring it to Florida? That is what New York-based producer Daryl Roth decided, after developing Stars of David, Story to Song, beginning a three-month tour now at the Broward Center through Jan. 4 and playing West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center from Feb. 17 to March 15. The Sunshine State … [Read more...]
Music, science link arms for Max Planck lecture series in Jupiter
If you were to list the names of prominent scientists who also were interested in music, you’d be at it for some time. Along with the more or less well-known examples of chemist-composer Alexander Borodin, physician-organist Albert Schweitzer and physicist-violinist Albert Einstein, you could find any number of physicians, chemists, botanists, surgeons, astronomers and the … [Read more...]
Composer Levy to see ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ return to stage
In the elevator, Marvin David Levy didn’t even look over at the man standing close by. What he could feel from him – and it wasn’t nice – was all he needed to know. The other man was Samuel Barber, whose Antony and Cleopatra had opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in September 1966, and was one of the most colossal failures in the history of the house. … [Read more...]
At the cabaret: A Georgia firecracker lights up the Colony
By Dale King During summer in the Palm Beaches, hot entertainment in cool locations is de rigueur. The Colony Hotel has again picked up that vibe and is offering a season-long set of cabaret shows in the hotel’s celebrated Royal Room -- a short hop from the famous “Avenue” in downtown Palm Beach. Performing Fridays and Saturdays through July 20 is Carole J. Bufford, a … [Read more...]
Christmas film manages to find some truths, despite predictability
Hollywood has given us its fare share of over-the-top Christmas comedies -- cynical and secular Yuletide pictures in which acts of Christmas-tree terrorism fry felines (National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation) and cat burglars hold dysfunctional families hostage (The Ref). In holiday movies, family is something to be endured and tolerated, not celebrated. There was even a film … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 22-28
Art: For the past 36 years, John McCoy has been teaching visual arts and art history to students at Florida Atlantic University. Many of his students now have successful art careers, and some of them have come together to celebrate McCoy's ceramics work in a retrospective exhibition. The list of exhibitors for John McCoy and Friends reads like a Who’s Who of South Florida … [Read more...]
‘Angel’s Game’ a fresh, spellbinding take on genre novel
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international bestseller The Shadow of the Wind, poses an affront to those serious readers who believe they know what makes for literary quality. What to do with a novelist, clearly motivated by a popular rather than artistic impulse, who nonetheless writes with wit, skill and creative energy? Zafon’s new novel, The Angel’s Game, is the … [Read more...]