If nothing else, give French actor Yvan Attal credit for his faith in domestic bliss. At a time when matrimony has a shorter lifespan than mayonnaise, Attal has sought to mingle the joys and traumas of his own marriage (to actress Charlotte Gainsbourg) with his piquant views on the ambiguities...
Call your governor, then, Steve-o: Thank you for Bob Norman's August 29 article, "De Regier." Now more than ever, every voice needs to speak out against this kind of lunacy before it is too late. Steve Gonzales Fort Lauderdale Suuuuppperrr Bob! Just wanted to say that I love to read...
Anyone looking for the theatrical capital of the world will unquestionably end that search here in London, where a strong theatrical tradition has been nurtured, almost unbroken, for well over 400 years. The city is looking more prosperous and confident than it has in many decades, choked with new construction...
In Tom Walker, a new play at the New Theatre, a very old story is given a modern twist. The devil appears to the title character, dupes same into a hellish bargain, and runs off with poor Tom's soul. Playwright John Strand has performed a similar act of piracy: He...
"Jaboticaba." Johnny Vinczencz says the word as if he's chewing it, standing in what can only be described as Delray Beach's singular tropical Eden. "Jaboticaba." Or, perhaps he says it as if he's getting used to uttering it. The latter's probably the more apropos metaphor, since he's now picking that...
Don't go into "María Martínez-Cañas: A Retrospective," now at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, expecting anything remotely resembling what we ordinarily regard as photography. Martínez-Cañas is usually characterized as a photographer, and she uses the medium of photography and the tools associated with it, but the results she...
Carol Roberts still gets THE REACTION, two years after Palm Beach County's dangling and dimpled chads became world-beamed symbols of the 2000 presidential election morass. While W. Bush does his John Wayne thang in the White House, preparing to finish off his daddy's business with Saddam, the formerly most-reviled villain...
I've often cited Gertrude Stein's complaint that the problem with sculpture is that one can walk around it. It's a somewhat bizarre assertion, but there's plenty of modern sculpture to support her sweeping dismissal -- big, clunky public art that looks more like the aftermath of an industrial or traffic...
Jello Biafra's scathing brand of political commentary won't pass for comfort food in troubled times: Gooey, patriotic pabulum is best left to star-spangled yokels like Lee Greenwood or Alan Jackson. But the guy takes his anti-punditry as seriously as any free-speech proponent out there. He also has a knack for...
As minitrends go, this nü metal fad's got legs: Korn's first album came out in 1994, and it is still rocking adolescent treatment centers across the country. Nü metal is pretty patently the mainstream now; the charts are full of Stainds, Nickelbacks, Disturbeds, and other bands for whom personal torment...
After two months in chilly London, I must say that sultry Florida feels good. And propelled by a notebook full of observations from UK theater, it also seems a good time, before the fall season, for me to reflect on the good and the bad in our own scene. First...
If we could, we'd stay right where we are now and live it forever," Thursday singer Geoff Rickly enthuses over the phone from Billings, Montana. With Thursday's 2001 breakthrough album, Full Collapse, still moving 5000 copies a week (with more than 130,000 sold at press time) and a current headlining...
Summer is the off-season in South Florida, so museums often take advantage of the lull to showcase works from their permanent collections. A few years ago, for instance, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach did a large, ambitious, but near-incoherent summer show; last year the Museum of...
Of all the A-list men playing dedicated authority figures, Star Wars alums Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson remain among the most amusing and pleasing, which is why K-19: The Widowmaker glides along engagingly rather than sinking. In many ways it's just another cramped, dank submarine movie -- bells, whistles, leaks,...
In theater, as in life, we expect marriages to fail, lovers to betray, and family members to hurt us, but when friendship takes the center stage, one cannot help but take note. This familiar but unpredictable territory offers much dramatic potential, and GableStage's current production Chinese Coffee makes the most...
Blowing the whistle on the DMV: After reading Chuck Strouse's June 27 column, "Security Collars," I want to offer encouragement on reporting a story that too many people are ignoring. Yes, it is a scary time for national security, and yes, we do have to live with inconveniences at the...
One of the results of 9/11 (we've been told) is a return to the values of yesteryear: decade-old sitcoms, meatloaf and stews, casual sex. So maybe recording Are You Passionate? with Booker T. and the MG's is Neil Young's comfort food, a return to his roots for a musician whose...
This sparrow is the key to everything! In regard to Mike Clary's July 11 feature story, "For the Birds," the Cape Sable seaside sparrow in the Everglades is like a canary in a coal mine; if we lose the sparrow, Everglades restoration is sure to fail. The sparrow is the...
Combine the most nauseating aspects of Florida kitsch -- things like pink flamingos, pastel buildings, and seascape paintings -- and extreme amounts of drugs, massive gunfights that result in staggering body counts, and good old, stark-raving insanity and you have... well, actually, you have the state of Florida. But no...
A young man in a Speedo slices through crystal-blue waters, a pyramid of bubbles escaping from his nose and trailing half the length of his toned, swimmer's physique. Above his head, a prism of block printed letters reads "Rainbow Guide." Issued in June, this is the first travel brochure distributed...
The response by Mango Festival organizers to the violent and unruly end to last year's festivities is to pass out fliers asking participants to go home peacefully after the festival ends. What isn't clear is if that edict will be carried out by the festival-goers themselves or by the Broward...
Betrothed relatives and dear friends, please take note: I will not review the food at your weddings. Not even in jest. I will give whatever hotelier, restaurant, or caterer you hire my highest accolades. I will praise your decision to serve chicken over pork and vigorously applaud whatever version of...
