A&E Spotlight

Photos by Eduardo Schneider   Saul Drier’s mobile phone rings a lot. At 94, he’s sitting in an office in his apartment in Wynmoor. He’s a busy man, fielding calls from a summer camp in Wisconsin that wants to plan an upcoming performance for his band, and other calls about bookings everywhere, from Pennsylvania to

Hearing Wanda Sykes’ take on hot-button issues in her stand-up shows, it’s hard to believe that one of the country’s most popular comics was once tied to a desk job. Though Sykes says she always loved comedy, her first job out of college was as a contracting specialist for the National Security Agency in Washington

Forty-six years ago, Daniel Hartwell was an aspiring drummer, standing backstage after an Edgar Winter concert in Massachusetts. Only 11 at the time, Hartwell managed to spend a few minutes with the rock star, an episode he remembers as if it were yesterday. Twenty-six years later, Hartwell, who lives in Ocean Ridge, near Delray Beach,

Lead photo by Eduardo Schneider Kristin Beck and Laura McDermott Matheric tend to finish each other’s sentences. During a conversation about their goals for the arts community in Coconut Creek, they go on short tangents (one mentions the Muppets; another mentions the importance of art). Seeing their easy banter, it’s hard to believe that Beck,

Photography always has come easy for Miquel Salom, a renowned Spanish artist now living in Coral Gables. Not even the revolutionary wet-plate collodion process, which made it possible for a photographer to capture an image on the surface of a piece of glass almost immediately, wasn’t too challenging. Though it’s known as one of the

Above: Polaroid performs at World of Beer On most nights of the week, the array of draft selections and bottled offerings takes center stage at World of Beer. However, on Fridays, the food and beverage menu has to share the marquee. That’s because the popular restaurant at Promenade at Coconut Creek welcomes a live band on

Since debuting his first fashion collection in 1987, much of Isaac Mizrahi’s life has played out in the most public ways. On the runway, his sense of style brought him celebrity and fortune. On screens big and small, his engaging personality led to a star turn in a 1995 film documentary (“Unzipped”), his own TV

The preeminent presidential historian of our time acknowledges that these are strange days indeed. Her latest best-seller—Leadership: In Turbulent Times—mines the formative experiences of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson for insights into how and why they became the right men to guide our nation through some of its most trying episodes.

When 13-year-old Jessica Russo visited New York for the first time in December, there was more on her mind than seeing the sights of the Big Apple. Mentally, she was still preparing to sing before more than 200 people. “Getting to New York—it was huge. It was kind of overwhelming. It hadn’t set in that

It’s a career that, by his own admission, might not exist in today’s music industry.  Thankfully, for Rick Springfield, patience was still a virtue four decades ago when, after three releases that “did nothing,” the 1981 album “Working Class Dog”—and its chart-topping hit, “Jessie’s Girl”—put the native of Australia on the rock-n-roll map. Of course,

Unknown to most people who’ve enjoyed the monthly art walks in emerging Fort Lauderdale scenes such as FATVillage and MASS District, there’s an interconnected group of artists and activists making personal sacrifices to transform the city into a culturally rich community. They’ve lived in blighted areas, had their cars broken into, and have been late

Lead Photo by Neto Almanza / Performance Photos by Bruno Frontino Vincent Raffard is a self-proclaimed “old soul.” The leader of the South Florida-based band, The French Horn Collective, wants audiences to be transported to another era when they hear the music he plays—a time when Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and George Gershwin were entertaining