A&E Spotlight

Virtuoso pianist and contemporary composer Havasi has garnered international acclaim by taking classical music as we know it, turning it on its head, and reinventing it into something original and electrifying. Suffice to say that, thanks to Havasi, classical is cool again. As cool as the legendary Hungarian composer whose name is attached to the

It took three years for Kevin Cronin to finish the book that chronicles his career with rock group REO Speedwagon. But thanks to his daughter, Holly, it took just one conversation in the kitchen to settle on a title for the project, which Cronin recently turned in to his literary agent. “Holly came home from

A few seconds into the 1962 classic “Sherry,” and you hear it—the voice of Frankie Valli followed by the complementing vocals of the rest of the Four Seasons: Tommy DeVito, Bob Gaudio and Nick Massi. The group’s harmonies, catchy hits and Valli’s falsetto launched the friends from New Jersey to worldwide fame in the 1960s,

If there’s such a thing as comedy heaven on Earth, this is it. Steve Martin is on the phone from New York talking about the Festrunk Brothers, the “wild and crazy guys” that he and Dan Aykroyd turned into must-see TV on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s. Martin Short, on the phone at the

Bret Michaels won’t be working from a set list when it comes to his official duties as grand marshal of the 48th annual Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade (Dec. 14). But the longtime front man for the rock band Poison—and, for the reality generation, star of VH1’s “Rock of Love” dating series (2007 to

Not many singers can boast of the release of a greatest hits compilation at only 21 years old. But for anyone who knew LeAnn Rimes story, her 2003 compilation album Greatest Hits shouldn’t have come as a surprise. When the Mississippi native burst onto the country music scene in 1996 with the single “Blue,” then

For the 20 years she has been the artistic director of the Township Center for Performing Arts, Claudia Genteel has seen her share of talented artists and musicians perform at the Coconut Creek theater. But few hold a place in her heart like the Sugar Pops Orchestra, which has been part of the theater’s subscription

For artist Kristin Beck, the beauty of art lies not only in its aesthetic appeal but also in the conversations that it sparks. “It could be as simple as, ‘I like this. Do you?’ Or the bigger conversation of what you feel that artist was trying to say or the context or what this means

Whether the story is about fictional protagonist John Deal, now an American icon in the crime novel genre, or a page out of history’s real-life stories, Les Standiford’s writing has a narrative element that makes whatever he’s decided to put his pen to a page-turner. The Pinecrest author’s latest, a nonfiction book called Palm Beach,

It’s not that the question catches Shauna Sweeney by surprise. But in the same way that the auburn-haired singer/songwriter has been patient about the doors that have opened in her career, she’s not about to rush an answer that perhaps says more about her as a person than as an artist. So, she pauses for

Drawing saved Niki Lopez. When she was 11, her mother joined the Brooklyn-based United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors cult, becoming one of the secluded wives of sexual predator-leader Dwight D. York. Niki went with the preteens; her 2-year-old sister was holed up with the toddlers; her brother, just 6 months old, would never know the

The way Area Stage Company founders John Rodaz and Maria Banda-Rodaz met could be a script for a theater love story—a play about a couple whose chance meeting was orchestrated by destiny. It’s 1989. A woman is riding on a tram down Lincoln Road. It’s her first day in the United States after moving from