I’ve been a fan of and writing about Mary Karlzen since 1992. As one of the breakout female singer songwriters from South Florida, Karlzen broke through at a time when radio and Tv were ripe for new and fresh crossover music. …

In 1982 I was an intern at Metro Pictures Gallery on Mercer Street. I was 21 and living at 250 Mercer, just up the block, in an airy apartment with a loft bed. I had escaped the dull suburbs of Westchester to get an education in the arts. …

by Sandra Schulman South Florida’s Y&T Music is the pioneering label from the early 1990s that launched the music careers of The Mavericks, Mary Karlzen and For Squirrels, along with Amanda Green and Arlan Feiles. As a music writer for Billboard and the Sun-Sentinel in the 1990s, I followed Y&T…

Jupiter homeboy Tyler Cameron has made the leap from college football quarterback to licensed contractor to reality TV star, all in just a few years. Growing up the son of a successful contractor in South Florida, Tyler followed that path at FAU earning a master’s in business administration after he…

By Sandra Schulman In person Allegra Miles is a tall, confident presence, with a sunny smile, a curtain of blond hair and a sweet smattering of freckles. Disarmingly polite and attentive, she listens and nods and laughs in the right measure. …

By Sandra Schulman In his second solo show at Wynwood’s Waltman Ortega Fine Art Gallery, “painter who sings” Richard Butler presented a “melancholy” group of intimate portraits that haunt and linger. As the lead singer for The Psychedelic Furs, he has created a moody, edgy goth pop soundtrack for decades…

Women in ruffled white dresses float in a cosmic watery world. A well-dressed man and an underdressed woman smoking a cigar appear like apparitions by a pool. Continuous line drawings evoke Greco-Roman friezes. All these disparate works hang easily together in a new exhibit by Philip Ross Munro at the…

. Joe Namath on Life After Football Joe Namath, football superstar, actor, TV show host, restauranteur, author, philanthropist, pulls up in a gold Cadillac SUV with a Save the Seas shark license plate, and strides into the Jupiter Beach Resort. He’s wearing a smile, a greeting for everyone there he knows by name, and his Super…

Cherokee North Carolina is a small but special place at the base of the magnificent Great Smoky Mountains National Park. With a population of just over 2000, the tribe has quietly thrived after their tumultuous and tragic history. …