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Florida Weekly (Naples)
Published 7 hours agoReflections on some photos
Win Everham — Professor Edwin “Win” Everham, Ph. D. — has studied altered landscapes since 1996 from his post now at The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University. I asked him to look at photos of the near 40-square-mile landscape taken not long before it became Alligator…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published 11 hours agoThe View from Home: Ozon’s bold adaptation of “The Stranger” luxuriates in ambiguity
As in the source material, the beauty of the title of François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s The Stranger (Music Box, $27.96 Blu-ray, $23.96 DVD) is that it can refer to any number of its players. Surely there’s the mysterious protagonist, the emotionally inert Meursault…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published August 28Mango Music and Art Festival to debut in Lake Worth Beach
By Erik Kvarnberg Something new is stirring at the corner of J Street and Lake Avenue in Lake Worth Beach. The Mango Music and Art Festival is the uniquely South Floridian result of a meeting of the minds: Pomona restaurant co-owner Alexandra Dupuis, PureHoney magazine publisher…
The Town-Crier
Published August 21Dreyfoos Alum And Teacher Ryan Toth Designs New Cafeteria Mural
The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts has unveiled a new mural designed by 1998 visual arts alumnus and current visual arts teacher Ryan Toth. The large-scale installation, titled “The Magic Starts Here,” spans the entire cafeteria and was painted throughout the summer of…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published August 21Lake Worth Playhouse receives transformational $1M gift
The story of the Lake Worth Playhouse took an unexpected twist this summer with an anonymous $1 million gift — a transformational donation that will help ensure the theater’s next act. With the gift, the Playhouse now has a permanent endowment — a dependable stream of annual…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published August 21Film historian sees art form as enabler of fascism
Did the movies sleepwalk us into the elections of Donald Trump? This provocative question hides in plain sight throughout A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies, British film historian David Thomson’s unsettling and often downbeat new book, his 45th on the art…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published August 21Musician-historian Wade’s new book investigates, celebrates our folksong commonalities
Author, music historian and Grammy Award-nominated banjoist and guitarist Stephen Wade’s brand-new book is called Our Common Life (University of Illinois Press, 2026), but it’s the unifying book’s subtitle that perhaps captures its intent equally. “Folksong From the Front Porch…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published August 04J.P. Soars: Almost famous, and loving living la vida Boca
Success for performing artists in the music business comes in many forms, most of which fly decidedly under the familiar radar of current superstars like Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny, Beyoncé or Harry Styles. Case in point: South Florida-based blues singer, guitarist and songwriter…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published July 30First-ever Banyan Dance Festival aims to expand local dance ecosystem
Like the sprawling tree it’s named for, the inaugural Banyan Dance Festival — running Monday, Aug. 3, to Saturday, Aug. 8 in West Palm Beach — takes root in the shared vision of two Palm Beach County artists and educators, Ericka Squire of Natural Movers Foundation and Branndi…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published July 30New company devoted to adventurous theater to debut in Jupiter
By Ilana Jael Even in South Florida’s lively theater scene, it’s not every day that audience members have the chance to bear witness to the birth of a brand-new company. This year, though, sufficiently adventurous theater-goers will have just such an opportunity as Sticking Place…
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Published July 14Standout performances enliven ‘Little Women’ at FAU Festival Rep
By Ilana Jael Though it’s been a long time since I’ve revisited Louisa May Alcott’s best-selling novel Little Women, I have fond enough memories of the book and its various adaptations to be one of many modern women with a soft spot for this particular classic. As a teenager, I…