UPDATED April 22, 2024: Don’t call this fake news, but Tony Oursler’s “Creature Features” gallery, a centerpiece of the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s “Smoke & Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art” exhibition, has just been extended through Oct. 13. “Smoke & Mirrors,” meanwhile, will close as originally planned on May 12. Call them conspiracy theories, alternative facts or disinformation, but the theme of the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s new blockbuster exhibition is the almighty lie. “Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art,” running Nov. 18 through May 12, takes on ..read more

We’re circling back on a deep-fried query we raised to our readers: Who makes the best donuts in South Florida? It certainly wasn’t a topic that was glazed over by fans of the sweet confection. We received several hundred nominations of favorite donut shops throughout Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties — and now we have the finalists! The top-five, most-nominated donut makers, in alphabetical order, are: Bake Shack (Dania Beach) Max’d Out Donuts (North Miami Beach) Mojo Donuts (multiple locations) The Dandee Donut Factory (multiple locations) The Hollywood Donut Factory (Hollywood, F ..read more

We know that South Floridians love to bring their dogs to the supermarket, the beach and out to eat. But did you know we live in a “Pets’ Paradise”? We do, according to “Pets in Paradise,” a show that will appear on the Travel Channel on Tuesday, April 23, and Thursday, April 25, as part of a marketing program sponsored by the Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council. The half-hour show explores dog parks, beaches, hotels, restaurants and attractions in Palm Beach County and offers insight from a local veterinarian who details how to travel with a happy dog. “Pets in Paradise” explores do ..read more

Ernest Hemingway once wrote that “Paris is a moveable feast.” I think he might have meant “transportable,” because a moveable feast changes dates but not location, whereas a transportable feast goes wherever you do. But what do I know? Holidays, like Easter or Passover, that move around the calendar are known as “moveable feasts.” But I would argue that any occasion that kicks off brunch season — whether it’s Mother’s Day or the first sunny Sunday after months of rain — is the ultimate moveable feast. Adding a whole egg adds richness to a Ramos Fizz. (Ross Taylor/The Virginian-Pilot) And brunc ..read more

By 2023, artificial intelligence had seeped into enough corners of a nervous film industry — buoyed by Barbenheimer, but fully aware of an imminent 2024 shortage of new titles — to become a seriously effective tool of labor unrest. Last year’s Screen Actors Guild contract, achieved after a lengthy, costly staring contest with industry producers and streamer honchos, added some guardrails designed to protect actors’ collective livelihood, noting “the importance of human performance in motion pictures and (AI’s) potential impact on employment.” Tye Sheridan knows about that impact. He’s an actor ..read more

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and EDDIE PELLS (AP Sports Writers) The names have been trickling in, one or two at a time. Over the next two months, that trickle will turn into a flood. By the time the festivities begin in Paris on July 26, some 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries will be able to call themselves 2024 Olympians. From archery to wrestling, each of the 32 sports on the Olympic program has different qualifying criteria. Some athletes have been racking up wins, or points, over the past year and already have secured their spots. Many more — for instance, more than 85% of the spots on the ..read more

There are plenty of restaurants in South Florida that are prized for their special view — ocean, Intracoastal, sunset or city skyline.  But how about a table overlooking ice? Or the region’s hottest craze, pickleball? The Florida Panthers can put you in the catbird seat for both at downtown Fort Lauderdale’s newest restaurant, The Federal, inside the Cats’ new Baptist Health IcePlex practice facility in Holiday Park.  A burgers-and-beers eatery with a sports bent and elevated culinary ambitions, The Federal is set to open on Wednesday, April 24. The next night, the restaurant will ta ..read more

Florida-based Tijuana Flats announced that it has been acquired by a new ownership group, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and that it had closed 11 restaurants. The changes, revealed Friday, mark a new chapter for the Winter Park-based Tex-Mex chain that was founded nearly 30 years ago by former University of Central Florida student Brian Wheeler. The chain had 65 company-owned locations throughout Florida, along with 26 franchised restaurants located in Florida, Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee. The new ownership group is listed as Flatheads LLC. Joe Christina, chief execu ..read more

Robert Lloyd | Los Angeles Times (TNS) “Based on a true story” — why do we care? Does it matter whether the events of a dramatic work “really happened,” or sort of happened, more or less in the way we’re being told? Is it a come-on to prurient interests, when the subject is dark or sensational? Is it to appear educational? Is it to advertise that things that seem too incredible to be true really are true, to make what’s shocking even more shocking, or to prop up a story that can’t stand on its own? If I had a definite answer for you, there wouldn’t have been so many question marks in the prece ..read more

When it premiered on HBO a decade ago, the true crime docuseries “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” stood out mainly because of Durst’s willingness to appear on camera. The wealthy New York real estate heir was suspected of killing three people: His first wife Kathleen McCormack in 1982; his close friend Susan Berman in 2000; and an elderly Texas neighbor Morris Black in 2001. At the time, he had only stood trial for the murder of Black (whom he also dismembered) and was acquitted. Surprisingly, Durst agreed to be interviewed by filmmaker Andrew Jarecki about all of it. Perhaps Du ..read more