If you learn one thing from the documentary Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, it’s that the title character was a poster boy for patriotism. The movie tells you this so many times, in fact, that you can probably enter it...

Film | John Thomason

HOLLYWOOD ― “It was a rough night,” Mike D’Amico sighed as he poked through the offstage drapes to deliver a couple of passes to waiting friends at Seminole Hard Rock. No chance to explain, only to say before...

Music | Thom Smith

Not since A Clockwork Orange has Beethoven’s music been imbued with as much primal sexual urgency as in The Kreutzer Sonata (Zeitgeist, $19.93), a present-day transplant of a controversial 19th-century novella by Tolstoy. ...

Film | John Thomason

Art: Today marks the last day of the Florida Atlantic University’s exhibit on the history of surfing in Florida (here’s a YouTube promo). The University Galleries won a grant of almost $17,000 in late 2009 to research...

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The ultimate success of an opera or of a production finally comes down to the music – whether it’s good enough, in the first place, and in the second, whether it’s been sung well. But something needs to be said now and...

Music | Greg Stepanich


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Art:
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Silence helps abstract masterworks reveal themselves

No matter what museum in the world one visits, there is always a crowd and with it comes murmuring. The museum experience then becomes like watching a movie with the director’s commentary on....

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‘Yoni’ tells hero’s story with little art, much treacle

If you learn one thing from the documentary Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, it’s that the title character was a poster boy for patriotism. The movie tel...

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Theater:
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‘Houdini’: Impressive sleight-of-hand, but drama’s slight, too

The magic of theater and magic as theater are at the core of an entertaining, if insubstantial, biodrama, Death and Harry Houdini, created and performed by Chicago’s Hou...

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Dance:
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Pilobolus shows power of collective invention

Pilobolus finished off the Duncan Theatre’s 25th anniversary season in a way that few dance companies can. Engaging and satisfying on so many levels, one can clearly sense the unique creative for...

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Music:
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Still getting around: Beach Boys fire up Hard Rock

HOLLYWOOD ― “It was a rough night,” Mike D’Amico sighed as he poked through the offstage drapes to deliver a couple of passes to waiting friends at Seminole Hard Rock. No c...

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Interviews:
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Angela Meade: A rising soprano looks ahead

Soprano Angela Meade is the winner of the 2011 Richard Tucker Award and the 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award from the Metropolitan Opera. Less than four years after her professional debut, she has...

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Books:
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‘Camp 14’ a horrifying picture of the North Korean gulag

The horrors described in Escape from Camp 14 are so extreme that one might assume this is a work of fiction. But the sad reality is that this is a spellbinding true a...

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Weekend Picks:
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Weekend arts picks: May 12-13

Art: Today marks the last day of the Florida Atlantic University’s exhibit on the history of surfing in Florida (here’s a YouTube promo). The University Galleries won a grant of alm...

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News & Commentary:
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Film fest seeks ‘swedes’; Lynn Phil’s free concert is tonight

PALM BEACH GARDENS – Mainstreet at Midtown, based at the Borland Center for the Performing Arts, has launched the county’s first festival of “swede” films and is now accepting entries. A “sw...

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