Museums, Music, Movies, and more. Things to do this weekend and in November is our area.
Halloween
Halloween is this Sunday so we’ll start with some local Halloween events.
Fall Festival and Trunk-Or-TreatFall Festival and Trunk-Or-Treat Tomorrow at 5:30 PM Grace Community Church • Boca Raton, FL Free.
The 10th Annual Boynton Beach Haunted Pirate Fest & Mermaid Splash Sat, Oct 30, 11:00 AM100 E Ocean Ave • Boynton Beach, FL Free.
2021 Boca Pumpkin Patch Festival2021 Boca Pumpkin Patch Festival Sat, Oct 30, 10:00 AM Mizner Park Amphitheater • Boca Raton, FL
Rock The Boat- Fort Lauderdale’s International Boat Show Halloween PartyRock The Boat- Fort Lauderdale’s International Boat Show Halloween Party Sat, Oct 30, 8:00 PMBahia Mar Fort Lauderdale Beach – a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel • Fort Lauderdale, FL Free
Museums
Machu Picchu at Boca Raton Museum of Art in a Can’t Miss event.
We went last week and were blown away by the Artifacts, the Creation story of the Incas, and the layout of the Exhibit. And the Gold!!!
This is a timed event, so reserve your tickets and plan to immerse yourself in a fascinating piece of our World’s history.
NSU Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale currently has an exhibition on the great William Glackens.
November 21 will bring new exhibitions including Photographing the Fantastic, Jacob McGriff, Margarita Cano, and the Art of Assemblage.
Norton Museum of Art in West Palm features an exhibition on Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernist Modernism.
The Norton also has a Claude Monet on loan: The Water Lily Pond: Clouds. See if before it leaves on February 3.
Music
Jason Aldean is at iThink Amphitheater in West Palm on Friday, October 19 at 7:30 PM.
Metallica is at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on Thursday, November 4 at 8 PM.
Erykah Badu with special guest Goodie Mob is at Miramar Regional Amphitheater on Friday November 5 at 8PM.
Sebastian Bach is at the Culture Room in Ft Lauderdale on Saturday November 6 at 730 PM.
ZZ Top is at Hard Rock Live on Sunday November 7 at 7:00 PM.
James Taylor with special guest Jackson Browne is at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise on Wednesday November 10 at 7:30 PM.
Rick Ross, Jeezy, Gucci Mane, 2 Chains and more will be at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise on Saturday, November 13 at 7:00 PM.
Smokey Robinson is at Live at Coco Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek on Wednesday November 17 at 8:00 PM.
Chris Stapleton with special guest Sheryl Crow is at iThink Amphitheater in West Palm on Saturday November 20 at 7 PM.
Brett Young with special guests will be at Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton on Saturday November 20 at 8 PM.
The Rolling Stones will be at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on Tuesday November 23 at 8 PM.
Mannheim Steamroller’s Christmas Show will be at Hard Rock Live on Wednesday November 24 at 8 PM.
Black Violin will be at the Au Rene Theater at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, November 27 at 8 PM.
Movies
Parker’s Pics
Just in time for Halloween, Parker’s Pics serves up two terrifying films: The 1985 cult classic, Fright Night and the legitimately scary 2005 Japanese chiller Noroi: The Curse
First up, the fun horror romp that is the original Fright Night. The plot is pretty simple, a teenage nerd is forced to confront a vampire who has moved in next door. Of course, being a teenage, no one is willing to believe his wild stories that the charismatic bachelor living next door is a blood thirsty vampire responsible for a string of disappearances. Unable to convince the cops or his mom, he turns to the only man he could think of…a washed-up actor named Peter Vincent who hosts a local horror TV show called Fright Night.
The film in of itself is a great teenage horror movie, with solid performances from the cast and some good special effects. What really makes the film a must-see cult-classic is Chris Sarandon performance as Jerry Dandrige, the vampire. Jerry has been on this earth a long time and comes at things with a relaxed pragmatism. At one point he just admits that he’s a vampire to our protagonist and tries to hash out a live-and-let-live deal. Sarandon is a lot of fun in the role, managing to be both charming and at times incredibly dangerous. Definitely worth checking out if you are looking for something that’s more fun than scary.
Noroi: The Curse on the other hand is a movie for people who are looking for some actual frights. The film is a Japanese found-footage horror epic featuring a plot that can be best described a sprawling. Here’s the basic premise: following a house fire that killed his wife, Masafumi Kobayashi, a famed paranormal researcher, has gone missing.Months later, a local TV studio receives a tape of Kobayashi’s final investigative documentary titled, “The Curse”. What starts off as an investigation of a disturbed woman living in Tokyo quickly spirals into a fight against an ancient evil, possessed TV personalities, suicide cults and many dead birds.
Noroi is definitely not for everyone.
- It’s in Japanese, so subtitles.
- It’s a found-footage movie (so a lot of shaky camera work),
- It’s nearly two hours long and
- There is a character in it that’s so annoying that it nearly sinks the whole movie.
Saying all that, Noroi is an impactful horror experience, filled with disturbing imagery and an eerie, dread-inducing atmosphere and certainly worth a watch
Fright Night is currently available for digital rental on Youtube or for free with a cable subscription on AMC.
Noroi: The Curse is streaming exclusively on Shudder.
in theaters now:
DUNE
HALLOWEEN KILLS
NO TIME TO DIE
VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE
RON’S GONE WRONG
THE LAST DUEL
THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2
Of course, the best way to ring in November is to contact Cronin Insurance Agency today for get a free insurance quote.
