By Carolyn Susman
If you’re a mother of daughters, the title of Susan Shapiro Barash’s latest book will resonate strongly.
You’re Grounded Forever … But First Let’s Go Shopping makes you laugh, then stabs you. There likely isn’t a mother alive who hasn’t been stung by attempts to discipline her girl and set her on the right path.
How do we do that without engendering bad feelings? How do we keep her love without being her doormat? Read the full story
After a glorious discussion of food in December at the Boca Beach Club, Culture & Cocktails returned to Café Boulud Jan. 10 with a feast for the eyes and ears.
Fatima NeJame, executive director of the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, moderated a discussion with conservation and nature photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum, who literally wowed guests with slides of his work. “Oohs” and “ahhs” were audible as Ketchum showed his photographs of Alaska’s natural areas and described threats these landscapes face or have staved off. Read the full story
By Jan Sjostrom
As prices soar and availability shrinks for post-war contemporary art, fair organizers David and LeeAnn Lester are concentrating on more recent art at Art Palm Beach.
“We’re shifting generations of artists,” LeeAnn Lester said. “The fair focuses on living artists and new trends in multimedia, video, sound and light.” Prices will range from the hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read the full story
By Jan Sjostrom
Twenty-five mirrors created by members of the Seabranch Art League are on display in “Reflective Art” at the Armory Art Center. The league, which was founded in 2004, includes artists from Martin and Palm Beach counties. The mirrors will be sold in an auction benefiting the U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts in West Palm Beach at 7 p.m. Friday at the Armory.
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By Jan Sjostrom
The Society of the Four Arts began banning nonmembers from the auditorium for its O’Keeffe lecture series Tuesday.
Nonmembers used to be able to buy $35 tickets for available auditorium seating 10 minutes before the lectures began at 3 p.m. Now nonmembers can purchase tickets starting at 2 p.m., but they will view a telecast of the speech in the Rovensky building next door.
By Jan Sjostrom
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Florida’s wading birds were being slaughtered by the millions to adorn fashionable women’s hats.
The rise and fall of the plume trade and Palm Beach County’s participation in it are the subjects of “Feather Wars: Surviving Fashion 1870-1920” at The Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum in West Palm Beach. Read the full story
By ROBERTA SABBAN
Holiday shopping in the sunshine under palm trees with sand between your toes beats trudging through snow drifts any day. One of the pleasures of this island is to toddle through the vias to see what you can see.
A bevy of merchants with jewel-box boutiques awaits. You’ll find shops stocked floor-to-ceiling with merchandise from around the world. Read the full story
Miami City Ballet continues its 25th anniversary season in South Florida with Program II and the company premiere of Twyla Tharp’s Baker’s Dozen at 8 p.m. Jan. 28 through 30 at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.
Program II also will feature George Balanchine’s La Sonnambula and Western Symphony.
The Opus One Orchestra will play under the baton of maestro Gary Sheldon, 42-56 musicians strong, supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.
'Ahead of Time' focuses on the life of author and photojournalist Ruth Gruber, now 99.
By ROBERT SIMS
Sisters are doing it for themselves during this year’s Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival.
“This festival is about gutsy women and a few good men,” says PBJFF artistic director Karen Davis.
To prove it, the festival opens Wednesday with Anita, a compelling Argentine drama about a Down syndrome adult lost in Buenos Aires following a terrorist attack. It ends Dec. 12 with the Israeli offering Jaffa, a heart-breaking look at how a family tragedy forces a young Jewish woman to reassess her interfaith romance with a Palestinian man. Read the full story
By Jan Sjostrom
The cash-strapped Palm Beach International Film Festival will survive into its 16th year, organizers said. Not only that, but it’s returning to its nine-day schedule after reducing to a budget-cutting five days in 2010.
“Many of us who have been involved since the festival’s inception were not about to let go of an event that has brought so much to the community,” Executive Director Randi Emerman said. Read the full story
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