By GERRY BARKER
North Palm Beach Life

Motown came to the Kravis Center stage Tuesday night with the opening performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show, "Ain’t Too Proud -- The Life and Times of the Temptations." Led and narrated by the band's founder, Otis Williams (played by Rudy Foster), it chronicles the group's tumultuous journey from the Detroit streets to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Featuring hit songs like "My Girl," "Just My Imagination," "I Wish It Would Rain" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," the show captures not only the group's highs and lows, but also the social and civil unrest that marked that time period.

Displaying the exhilarating choreography and smooth harmonies for which the group is famous, the talented cast engages the audience from the opening curtain as they juggle new-found fame, personal issues and the challenge of bringing the Motown sound to mainstream, white audiences. Besides Foster, Josiah Travis Kent Rogers, portraying David Ruffin, and Robert Crenshaw, playing Al Bryant, both delivered standout performances.

As a sidenote, Williams, now 83 and the sole surviving member of the original group, continues to perform, keeping alive the legacy of one of the most successful R&B groups of all time.

"Ain't Too Proud -- The Life and Times of The Temptations" is at the Kravis Center's Dreyfoos Hall through June 29. For tickets visit kravis.org or call 561.832.7469.

(Press Release) West Palm Beach, FL (June 23, 2025) – The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties  awarded $1.4 million in college scholarships through its 2025 Scholarship Program. A total of 115 scholarships were granted to students enrolling in college this fall, continuing the Community Foundation’s longstanding commitment to expanding access to higher education.

By GERRY BARKER
​Splash Magazines Worldwide

One-of-a-kind jewelry creations, the "hidden mothers" of 19th century portraiture, hand-blown glass tubes embedded in a sea of sand -- all that and more await visitors to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach this summer.

Let's start with art at a small scale -- "Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection," featuring over 150 pieces of jewelry created by some of the most prominent artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Paris-born Ms. Venet, married to sculptor Bernar Venet, assembled this collection over several decades, and features works by Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Frank Stella, Salvador Dali, Man Ray and many others.

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(Press Release) PALM BEACH, FL – The dog days of summer are here, bringing scorching temperatures and heat-related safety hazards that put our four-legged friends at risk.
 
“Unlike humans, dogs do not sweat to regulate their temperatures as efficiently as we do,” said Dr. Robin Ganzert, President and CEO of American Humane Society. “That makes dogs especially vulnerable to heat stroke and other dangerous symptoms, which can be fatal.”

(Press Release) Palm Beach Gardens, FL – (June 5, 2025) – Students from Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt College of Medicine are combining their passion for medicine and music with Shake, Rattle, and Rock 'N' Roll, a fundraiser benefiting the Mind, Music, and Movement Foundation for Neurological Disorders (M3F). The event will take place on Sunday, July 13, 2025, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Double Roads Tavern, 103 US-1, Suite A1, Jupiter, FL.

(Press Release) West Palm Beach, Fla. (June 18, 2025) – In what promises to be another stellar season, Palm Beach Symphony has announced the 2025-2026 Masterworks Concert Series led by Music Director Gerard Schwarz. The Symphony welcomes guest pianists Shelly Berg, Misha Dichter, Simon Trpčeski and Emanuel Ax, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and violinist Vadim Repin during the six-concert season from November 2025 through May 2026 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida.
 

(Press Release) ​West Palm Beach, FL – (Wednesday, June 18, 2025) – Nonprofits First proudly celebrated the graduation of the class of 2025, its fifth cohort of the Advancing Leaders program, on Tuesday, June 10th in a ceremony at the National Croquet Center. The event honored 10 accomplished professionals representing 10 nonprofit agencies from across Palm Beach County, each of whom completed the intensive six-month leadership development program.