South Florida blues rockers Iko Iko recently played a Fort Pierce Jazz & Blues Society event and provided some good music for a weekend afternoon:

For more information about Iko Iko, click here, while more about the Fort Pierce Jazz & Blues Society can be found here.

The Fall For the Arts festival at the Arsht Center in Miami was a great success. Over a hundred cultural organizations were represented with handouts and offers. On stage, bands played and people enjoyed delicious food from a huge variety of vendors. The day was hot but so was the festival! WPBT2 was there and here’s some of what was going on:

Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait, on loan from the National Gallery of Art, is part of an exchange of masterworks with the Norton Museum of Art, which will offer a Gauguin from their own collection painted at about the same time as the Van Gogh portrait in exchange, for the touring exhibition on the work of Paul Gauguin. Hearst Curator of Education Glenn Tomlinson explains the significance of the Van Gogh and the relationship between the two artists from the gallery at the Norton Museum of Art, where the Van Gogh will be on display for just a short time.

The Mosaic Theatre in Plantation begins the new season with the latest entry in the “Reduced” Theatre genre. Now setting their sights on Tinseltown, the Reduced Shakespeare Company gives Hollywood more than just a nip and a tuck. They cut through the celluloid and fast forward through movie history, splicing Casablanca, Rocky, Star Wars, Titanic, Avatar, and every other enduring Hollywood moment into the ultimate gag reel.

The production stars Antonio Amadeo, Erik Fabregat and Christian Rockwell and is directed by Richard Jay Simon.

In this clip the trio of actors take time out from an exhausting rehearsal schedule to talk about the improvisational nature of the production, the number of characters they play and the danger of picking the wrong seats.

With his novel Star Island, novelist and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen aimed his wit at the world of stardom and celebrity culture. The PBS show Need To Know sits down with the author:

At the recent Second Annual Dog Wash and Tiki Towel-Off in Jupiter, Eric Ness entertains with his excellent work on steel drum:

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Brandon K. Thorp discusses Palm Beach Dramaworks’ The Gin Game, which continues through Aug. 15:

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Clive Cholerton, director for the latest production at the Caldwell Theatre, The Comfort of Darkness, discusses the world premiere of this play and the cast, many of whom are new to South Florida audiences. The play opens Aug. 11:

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Jack White, guitarist/singer for The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, came alone onto a stage at the White House and played “Mother Nature’s Son”, in honor of Paul McCartney:

Opening Friday, ‘Ramona and Beezus’ stars Joey King and Selena Gomez, respectively, as the title characters.

The actresses discuss the similarities and differences between themselves and the characters they play (Gomez saying she is more like Ramona than that imaginative eight-year-old’s sister) as well as their relationships, on and off set. King, who like Ramona has two sisters, said she now thinks of Gomez as a member of her family.

Click here for reviews and local show times of the movie version of the children’s classic.