Get out the butter and salt and be the first to sink your teeth into a new variety of farm-fresh sweet corn at the 24th annual Sweet Corn Fiesta. Redemption, the new variety named by growers, will make its debut during the corn-themed event from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 28, in Yesteryear Village at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach. “What makes it different is that it’s really sweet and has a long shelf life,” said Eva Webb, Sweet Corn Fiesta co-chairwoman and director of the Western Palm Beach County Farm Bureau. “The sugar in the corn is what helps it stay fresh longer ..read more

Jon Bon Jovi acknowledges that the new documentary “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story” is “a little overwhelming, emotional.” It’s also a proverbial warts-and-all presentation of his life, as well as the 40-plus-year career of the band that bears his name. But Bon Jovi wouldn’t have it any other way. “All I’ve ever wanted to sell was the truth,” the 62-year-old New Jersey rock icon explains via Zoom. “If you’re not gonna show it warts and all, don’t bother. This wasn’t a VH1 ‘Behind the Music.’ I wasn’t interested in a puff piece.” “Thank You, Goodnight” — premiering Friday, April 26, o ..read more

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12, sooooo … do not mess this up. If you want to take Mom out for a matriarch-meal, then you better make a reservation now. We hope this list of mama restaurant specials in Palm Beach and Broward counties can help. All you have to do is find something that you think will: Appeal to the mater-to-be-honored Be geographically possible (yup, traffic could be an issue in SoFlo, even on a Sunday) Be in a price range that you are comfortable with (keep in mind that taxes and gratuities are not listed) PALM BEACH COUNTY Abe & Louie’s 2200 Glades Road, Boca Raton; 561 ..read more

Appearing this weekend at Our Voices: Festival of Words in Fort Lauderdale, writer and educator Jericho Brown won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2020 for his collection “The Tradition,” which takes its name from a 14-line sonnet that weaves themes of tragic death with the names of flowers he planted with his father, a landscaper.  The message in his readings here on Friday and Saturday is that inspiration can come from everywhere.  In an interview on PBS’s “American Masters” podcast shortly after winning the Pulitzer, Brown talked about the creation of the poem, which begins with a ..read more

When the 40th edition of SunFest returns to downtown West Palm Beach on May 3-5, it will feel bigger, more flavorful and boast a distinctive sound — a little more local, with an extra dash of EDM.  As always, the big draws at this beloved music festival are big names, an eclectic list this year that will include Cole Swindell, Nelly, Third Eye Blind, Billy Idol, Elle King, Hailey Whitters, Matisyahu, Shaggy, Quiet Riot and Yung Gravy, to name just a few.  Everywhere there are signs that an event that appeared to be shrinking last year is now in growth mode. SunFest 2023 trimmed down ..read more

‘Missing White Woman’ by Kellye Garrett. Mulholland, 336 pages, $29  Breanna Wright’s life hasn’t turned out as she expected as Kellye Garrett persuasively shows in her insightful “Missing White Woman,” touching on racism, social media and true-crime fanatics. Garrett shapes Breanna as someone who wants so much from life but has achieved so little, a situation that often makes her angry, fragile and prickly, yet very appealing. Breanna, who goes by Bree, expected to go to law school, to have a successful career, possibly marriage and a family. But an incident when she was a teenager derai ..read more

In the remote Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, students are allowed 10 excused absences a year for subsistence activities, primarily hunting. “If you don’t do subsistence activities, you die,” says the school principal in the documentary “One with the Whale,” airing this week on public television as part of Independent Lens. Directed by Peter Chelkowski (whose credits include the NatGeo series “Life Below Zero: First Alaskans”) and environmental journalist Jim Wickens, the film is about many things at once: Climate change; poverty; parents worrying about the ..read more

In the brawl for tastiest hamburger in Broward County, Sef Gonzalez thinks he’s found a winner. It’s dubbed El Cruz Diablo, and the spicy double-smashed patty will star in a new sandwich celebration called 954 Burger Month, a series of events happening May 1 to 19 at eateries from Fort Lauderdale to Pembroke Pines. The burger-centric showcase is programmed by Visit Lauderdale, the county’s tourism arm, and coincides with May’s National Hamburger Month. Gonzalez, better known to South Floridians as comfort-food blogger Burger Beast, has reason to be biased about that burger: He created it. El C ..read more

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