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Palm Beach Poetry Festival again inspires versifiers from all over

Outside the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach’s Old School Square, Cara Nusinov posed for a photograph by the sculpture she designed to pay homage to poetry. “Art makes poetry touchable,” she said as she stood by the...

Books | Jan Engoren

Logic goes out the window, but ‘Ledge’ still thrills

Like Snakes on a Plane, Man on a Ledge is a bluntly up-front title: a subject and a predicate, reducing the picture to the essence of its poster art. I’m all for enigmatic titles, but this approach has its allure. Why are...

Film | John Thomason

‘Artist’ Cinderella story continues into Oscar nominations

OK, Academy Awards presenters, start practicing pronouncing the name Michel Hazanavicius. Who says there are no surprises anymore in the movie industry? If anyone had predicted a year ago that a black-and-white, virtually...

Film | Hap Erstein

Theater roundup: Life as a wrestling ring, or a cabaret, old chum

At one end of Palm Beach County, at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, we are told that “Life is a cabaret, old chum.” At the other end, at Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre, it turns out that life is actually more like professional...

Theater | Hap Erstein

FGO production makes a strong case for ‘La Rondine’

The soprano who created the role of Magda in Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine said late in life that the composer died “with the wound of ‘Rondine’ in his heart,” having never gotten over the opera’s mixed record...

Music | Greg Stepanich

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