By Chloe Elder Auto shops and heavy machinery might not be the first thing you think of as a backdrop for artwork. But the artists of the Boynton Beach Arts District have turned Industrial Avenue into just that. The arts district lies inconspicuously off Boynton Beach Boulevard at 422 Industrial Ave. The district houses a series of warehouses that function as galleries, … [Read more...]
The View From Home 37: New releases on DVD, April 10-24
As the axiom goes, you’re not paranoid if they really are out to get you. During his quest, which began in 2000, to urge the SEC to investigate Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, Harry Markopolos was indeed a paranoid man. Toppling one of the kingpins of Wall Street is not an enviable job, Markopolos suggests in Chasing Madoff (MPI, $24.99 Blu-ray, $22.99 DVD), the recently … [Read more...]
Despite new blindness, jazz guitarist Golub remains thankful
When New York City-based guitarist Jeff Golub takes the stage Saturday to close out the International Polo Club's two-day Saddle Up for JazzFest Wellington event, much about the experience will be familiar to him. As he has for more than 35 years, the 56-year-old guitarist will hear the ebbs and flows within the music, feel the power surge from his electric instrument through … [Read more...]
Evenhanded ‘J. Edgar’ mostly shies away from sex life
When I was a kid, before I knew who J. Edgar Hoover was, I associated him with cross-dressing. I’m not alone. “Cross-dressing” is the seventh-most-popular Google search accompanied with the phrase “J. Edgar Hoover,” behind “movie,” “biography,” “trailer,” “building,” “president” and “black” (something about Hoover’s rumored African-American ancestry). It tops even “FBI” in … [Read more...]
Less isn’t more as Norton asks ‘Now WHAT?’
Two strangers in a museum find themselves sharing the same opinion about that thing facing them. They call it “thing” because they don't know what it is. And the brave one's loud comment (“What the heck is this?”) is the shy one's relief. Such a flow of communication might be common at the Now WHAT? show, which opened recently at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach in an … [Read more...]
Here’s our Tony Awards quiz: Do better than Hap and win a prize
You read Palm Beach ArtsPaper, so chances are you are a theatergoer and you actually care who wins the Tony Awards this Sunday evening. You realize this puts you in a very small minority of the population, don’t you? Well, theater writer Hap Erstein considers himself in that group, too, and he hereby challenges you to a Tony Awards predictions duel. All you have to do is guess … [Read more...]
Take our Sondheim quiz – if you dare – and win ‘Into the Woods’ tickets
In honor of Broadway composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday and the opening of the Caldwell Theatre’s staged reading of his Into the Woods this Friday through Sunday, May 21-23, we fiendishly present our Ultimate Sondheim Trivia Test, geared to separate the obsessive fanatics from the casual fans. And the Caldwell has generously donated a pair of tickets to any … [Read more...]
‘Wild Things,’ you make my heart — shrug
For a story set largely inside a young boy’s imagination, Where the Wild Things Are does a remarkable job of planting the viewer in the boy’s head. Using unhinged, handheld camerawork and an inordinate number of point-of-view shots, director Spike Jonze presents a compelling prologue of a boy with a loving home who nonetheless seeks solace in isolation, donning a wolf costume … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 18-20
Art: The EG2 Northwood Gallery is hosting a brief solo show for painter Anthony Burks that begins tonight and lasts through Sept. 30. Tonight at 6 p.m., Burks' wife, Trina Slade-Burks, will also be debuting and signing her book of poems, affirmations and art titled What Is My Priority? The book deals with the emotions of a multi-disciplinary artist. The Anthony Burks … [Read more...]
‘The Goods’ lacks it – and everything else
Contrary to what the deceptive trailers want you to believe, nobody who wrote or directed the new comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard had anything to do with Talladega Nights. That “From the guys who gave you Talladega Nights” nonsense stems from the fact that Talladega director Adam McKay merely produced this jalopy, which isn’t a fraction as funny as his own weakest work … [Read more...]