It certainly says something about an author when their book holds the title for most translated in the world. And at 71 languages, Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s allegorical novel “The Alchemist” presents a philosophy of life and living that is housed within a story of whimsy and fiction, yet real enough to have happened anywhere. […]
Category: Arts and Entertainment
Music Review – Deathspell Omega’s “Drought”
With 2011’s monumental release of “Paracletus”, the latest part in French avant-garde metal band Deathspell Omega’s metaphysical album series of God and Satan, the group firmly cemented their position in the annals of progressive black metal. Now they seek to do it again. “Drought”, released in June this year, serves to begin something new. But […]
Restaurant review: Vienna Café and Wine Bar
Vienna Café and Wine Bar in Davie is one of the area’s best fine-dining restaurants. Chef/owner Per Jacobsen and chef Courtney Burks will transport you and your taste buds to Europe with their cooked-to-order cuisine.
‘Godspell’ will cast its spell in Coral Gables
Josh Canfield will star as Jesus in the Actors’ Playhouse’s production of “Godspell’, from Oct. 10 – Nov. 4, kicking off the theater’s celebratory 25th anniversary season. Structured around a series of parables, which are inspired by the Gospel of Matthew, Canfield calls the musical “the story of Jesus and the disciples put into a modern time.”
‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’
Take 11 talented NSU students and put them in the beloved “Peanuts” musical, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”, and you get a delightfully funny theater performance.
Restaurant Review: Pine Island Bagels
Pine Island Bagels has been serving the Davie area for 15 years; while other restaurants in its shopping plaza have come and gone, P.I. Bagels has remained unfazed.
Offshore Calendar
Weekly Calendar of events being held in the general Fort. Lauderdale area.
Music Review: Matchbox TwentyNorth
Matchbox Twenty has released a vibrant album after a 10-year hiatus. The band, which formed in the 90’s in Orlando, FL., continues rocking after 17 years — and with five Grammy-nominations under their belt.
Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves”
In Mark Z. Danielewski’s both mystifying and horrifying experimental fiction novel “House of Leaves”, color is only another part of an intricate puzzle spanning over 300 pages. Within the wildly formatted and sometimes intensely experimental pages of “House of Leaves”, a reader may become both lost and amazed at the surreal world painted within a book about a house.