By Dale King Monkee-mania gripped Boca Raton for a couple of hours last Saturday night. The surviving three members of the Monkees — the put-together pop quartet assembled by NBC executives in the mid-1960s for a TV show designed to capitalize on the success of the Beatles flick, A Hard Day’s Night, are still performing 47 years later. The Mizner Park Amphitheater concert … [Read more...]
Jewish film festival thriving as it turns 21
At a time when film festivals are either shrinking or simply disappearing, the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival is expanding as it turns 21. The annual celebration of Jewish culture on celluloid from around the world, a program of the Jewish Community Center of the Greater Palm Beaches, unspools beginning this evening, Dec. 1, with 34 films from 12 … [Read more...]
Eminent translator of Japanese turns to China’s ‘source of sources’
After the Bible, the Tao Te Ching is the second most translated text in the world, and certainly it is the most famous and influential book of ancient Chinese wisdom in the West. Why, then, with dozens of versions already available, would we need a new one – especially by a translator who made his name in classical Japanese samurai literature? “My friends all ask that same … [Read more...]
‘In the Heights’ electrifies at Broward Center
It is ironic how much electricity courses through every minute of In the Heights, and yet the Tony-winning musical’s story turns on a power outage. In early 2008, a major new voice of the musical theater, composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda, staked his claim on a piece of Broadway with his salsa-flavored show, a slice-of-life in New York’s Washington Heights. Merging Latin … [Read more...]