Father of the Festival
The mastermind behind the South Beach Wine and Food Festival lives by a simple motto. “It’s not where you start,” says Lee Brian Schrager. “It’s where you finish.” The saying rings especially true for him amid the twists and turns of a global pandemic—and its impact on the multiday event that typically draws celebrities, culinary
When the Laughter Stops
By her own admission, Lisa Corrao is a germophobe. But that’s not the only reason why the Pompano Beach-based stand-up comedian found the anti-mask movement so curious amid a global pandemic. “It’s such a strange concept to me that people were liking it to socialism and taking freedom away,” says Corrao, who first took the
Jeni Hacker: The Actor’s Actor
As 2019 rolled, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, into 2020, Jeni Hacker had just finished her peak year on the South Florida stage. In January, she would receive two Best Actress nominations from the Carbonell Awards for theatrical excellence in the tri-county region—one for her bonkers portrayal of Mrs. Lovett, Cockney baker of cannibalistic pies, in Zoetic
Author Scott Eyman on Cary Grant’s identity crisis
As much as the man born Archibald Leach tried to explain to people that he wasn’t who they thought he was in Hollywood classics like His Girl Friday (1939), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963), few, if any, were buying it. How could someone so effortlessly debonair on the big screen, so utterly comfortable
5 Questions: Jeremy Piven
Since regularly taking the stage as a stand-up comedian in 2017, in addition to his ongoing career as an actor, Jeremy Piven has heard variations of the following post-show comment more than once. “We had no idea you were this funny.” On the one hand, he gets it. For some people, he’s frozen in time
Fran Drescher in Living Color
Though her successful television career in sitcom comedies, along with her unmistakable staccato laugh, suggests that she understands how to find the humor in situations, Fran Drescher is the first to share that she knows when to take life seriously. Look no further than her association with ColorOnly, the game-changing beauty treatment for which the
Dan Marino pays it forward
The gaudy career statistics that Dan Marino posted during his 17 seasons as quarterback of the Miami Dolphins (including 420 touchdowns and more than 61,000 yards passing) were never meant to endure in the pass-happy National Football League. However, the same can’t be said for the formidable numbers—and lasting impact—connected to the Hall of Fame
The Mystery Writer Next Door
Coconut Creek resident Liane Carmen had two reasons for completing her first novel. First, like thousands of other people writing a book was on her bucket list. Then there was a personal experience. When she became entrenched in a quest to track down an adopted family members’ biological mother, she found another obsession: the secrets
Artist Marvin Keith finds creativity in the coronavirus shutdown
Like many artists, Marvin Keith has an “unstoppable need” to create something every day. For the Coconut Creek painter (pictured left), that means using acrylics on canvas to depict peaceful nature scenes, as well as colorful sailboats and hot air balloons, and often choosing to forgo realism in favor of following the light in a
Hungarian Rhapsody
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
Kevin Cronin keeps pushin’ on
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
Q&A with Frankie Valli
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,
