A bustling city with plentiful opportunities to take an invigorating stroll for a meal, a drink, an earful of music or to just count your T-shirt-and-sandals-in-winter blessings, downtown Delray Beach turns it up a notch on Friday during Art Walk.
During the monthly, 6-9 p.m. event you’ll find the welcome mat out at more than 30 venues, where new exhibits will beckon, art will be sold and wine will be poured.
Of particular interest will be the Arts Warehouse, a complex of exhibit space and 15 working studios for more than two-dozen artists, which recently celebrated its first anniversary.
One of those studios, No. 15, will soon be home to Max Weinberg, the longtime Palm Beach County resident best known as the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. Weinberg will be on hand during Art Walk to tour the Arts Warehouse and meet fans.
Weinberg is not a visual artist, but Arts Warehouse director Jill Brown says Studio 15 will offer a retrospective of his storied musical career. Brown says that Weinberg will describe his plans Friday night.
“It’s really his vision. We’re just trying to help,” Brown says. “He’s such a big supporter of the arts in general, and he and his wife love Delray.”
For more information, visit Facebook.com/ArtsWarehouseDelray and DowntownDelrayBeach.com.
Weinberg, also the longtime bandleader on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien,” will bring Max Weinberg’s Jukebox, an interactive evening of rock favorites, to the Crest Theater in Delray Beach on April 11. Visit OldSchoolSquare.org.
Mardi Gras Men
From the creative minds that fuel Fort Lauderdale’s Day of the Dead celebration, Saturday’s Fort Mardi Gras party and processional represents more evidence that we may be reaching some kind of critical mass in the cultural life of the city. Featuring a 4 p.m. party at America’s Backyard and a 6 p.m. parade from Esplanade Park, this family friendly community event is collaboration between several out-sized personalities who have consistently nurtured the evolving reputation of Fort Lauderdale, home to one of the most popular Day of the Dead celebrations in the country. The brain trust includes the Puppet Network’s gregarious Jim Hammond and Jeff John, of Damn Good Hospitality and owner of the Revolution Live complex; Mayor Dean Trantalis, who has earned broad respect in his short time in office; Danny Stasi, personable owner of Shuck ‘N Dive Cajun Café (supplying 1,000 pounds of crawfish at Fort Mardi Gras); and popular BIG 105.9 radio personality and all-around do-gooder Paul Castronovo. When these guys get together, something extraordinary will come of it. For more information, visit FortMardiGras.com.
A Wookie in Boca
Festival of the Arts Boca gets going this weekend with its bountiful array of creativity and wisdom to be imparted through March 10, including authors Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jeffrey Rosen and David Sanger; former poet laureate Robert Pinsky; Pink Martini, Nu Deco Ensemble and Arturo Sandoval. One highlight accessible to the whole family is a 7:30 p.m. Friday screening of “Star Wars: A New Hope” with John Williams’ Academy Award-winning score performed live by conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos at the Symphonia at Mizner Park Amphitheater. Tickets start at $35. Visit FestivalBoca.org.
No triskaidekaphobia
You may have witnessed the evolution going on along Fort Lauderdale’s Northeast 13th Street as you drive west from Warsaw Coffee, Milk Money or Gulf Stream Brewing. The area will make a formal introduction 4-8 p.m. Saturday with the 13th Street Craft Beer & Wine Festival with Car Show, a six block-long, family-friendly block party that includes pours from top local breweries, live music, art displays and more. Admission is free. Wristbands for the craft beer and craft wine tasting area cost $30 in advance, $35 at the event. The festival is sponsored by Central City Alliance of Fort Lauderdale (formerly the 13th St. Alliance). Visit CentralCityAlliance.org.
Your night on 13th Street doesn’t have to end at 8 p.m. At the 13th Street Gallery (535 NE 13th St.), a gathering called Limitless, hosted by artist Kelcie Mcquaid and ShangriLa Collective, will run from 4 p.m. to midnight and include five bands (Nervous Monks and the Vagnauts among them), a DJ (vinyl), 21 artists, live silk-screen printing and a full bar. Visit Facebook.com/ShangriLaCollective.
Weekend beer
On Saturday, NoBo Brewing Co. in Boynton Beach celebrates its second anniversary from 2 to 6:30 p.m. with a party featuring 30 timed beer releases, food trucks, a DJ and more. The afternoon will be highlighted by the second annual edition of NoBo’s BBS, a muscular 14-percent ABV double imperial stout spiked with blackstrap molasses. Visit Facebook.com/NoBoBrewing.
A hair-raising good time
If it’s Mardi Gras, that also means St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner. One of the signature events of the season is the St Baldrick’s Foundation fundraiser 2 p.m. Sunday at Tim Finnegans Irish Pub in Delray Beach, where heads will be shaved in the fight against childhood cancer. Visit TimFnnegansIrishPub.com.
Happy hour of the week
The 5-7 p.m. happy hour at Fort Lauderdale’s venerable Mai-Kai Restaurant (half off appetizers and most drinks) comes with a purpose on Saturday: to get your mind right for the 100 Days to The Hukilau party with psycho-surf band the Surfrajettes at 7 p.m. As if the Nancy Sinatra-style boots and hair did not give it away, the quartet (all women) comes to its music with a sense of humor, illustrated by a Dick Dale-meets-Britney-Spears version of “Toxic.” Admission is free. Visit Facebook.com/MaiKaiRestaurant.
Weekend laughs
If you just can’t get enough of men behaving badly, this is your weekend. Ron White performs his “mature audiences-only” show 8 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 28) at the Hard Rock Event Center in Hollywood. Tickets start at $35 at MyHRL.com.
Insult-comedy king Colin Kane is scheduled for three shows Friday-Sunday in West Palm Beach at the Palm Beach Improv (which warns, “If you are easily offended … you should consider attending a different show”). Tickets cost $22 at PalmBeachImprov.com.
The Miami Improv will host three shows Friday-Sunday by Andrew Dice Clay, whose record speaks for itself. Tickets cost $40 at MiamiImprov.com.
Las Olas disco
No offense to anyone, but for years the Las Olas Art Fair that returns to downtown Fort Lauderdale Saturday and Sunday has had a reputation for being a nice place to take a walk with your mom and an event that clogs up your favorite brunching and dining spot with people out for a walk with their moms. Well, the geniuses at American Social Las Olas, overcoming the suspect education they received at Florida State, will take advantage of the overnight street closure to host a silent disco party beginning at 9 p.m. Saturday. Seriously, brilliant. Three DJs will send hip-hop, R&B, retro and club hits into your headphones, and you do you. Headphones, courtesy of HeadPhone Fiesta, cost $10 (you’ll need to put a refundable deposit on your card) and includes a free drink. Visit Facebook.com/AmericanSocial.
Wake-up call
Best known for its refined sandwiches and salads, alluring sweets and laidback patio, Henry’s Sandwich Station in Fort Lauderdale’s FAT Village has noticed all you people moving into the area and figures you could use some breakfast, too. It’s new, earlier hours — 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday-Saturday — come with a new breakfast menu, available all day. The morning after your Silent Disco escapades, you might want to consider Henry’s Bacon Bomb Pancake Stack (pancakes and smoked bacon, topped with a fried egg). Visit HenrysSandwich.com.
‘Gallileo! Gallileo!’
Savor Cinema in downtown Fort Lauderdale will host a week of sing-along screenings of the Oscar-winning film “Bohemian Rhapsody” beginning Friday. And, with that, your weekend plans are complete. Weekend show times are at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday; 1, 3:30 and 10:15 p.m. Saturday; and 2, 5:30 and 8 p.m. Sunday. Visit FLIFF.com.
Beer and visuals
The second annual LauderAle Short Film Festival is 6-9 p.m. Sunday, a free showcase for local creatives curated by Boca Raton filmmaker David De Souza. The evening at the Fort Lauderdale brewery includes popcorn, a food truck and an variety of action, horror, comedy and documentaries, prizes and the opportunity to vote for the winning film. And beer. Visit Facebook.com/LauderAle.
Plenty of room
I saw the Eagles live only once, and was surprised at how many great songs of theirs that I had forgotten. None of them are on the album “Hotel California,” the band’s best-selling studio album of all-time. Goes to show you how much I know. “Hotel California,” partially recorded at Miami’s iconic Criteria Studios, will be the focus when Classic Albums Live does one of their impressive note-for-note concerts at the Old School Square Pavilion in Delray Beach 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets start at $20 (bring your own chair). Visit OldSchoolSquare.org.
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