**This is an abbreviated version. To view the full Best of Boca feature, click here. Note that this article was published in July 2014 and menu items/personnel may have changed in the interim.
5 Best Concerts in Broward/Palm Beach Counties
1. FORTE (pictured) at Mizner Park Amphitheater
2. Death in June at Respectable Street
3. Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck at the Hard Rock Live
4. FUN at Mizner Park Amphitheater
5. Billy Joel at BB&T Center
Best of Boca: Culture in the Spotlight
Kimberly Wick, Wick Theatre
Read the full story here.
Best Live Music Venue
201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton // 561/300-0730
Best Festival of the Arts Moment
Cirque de la Symphonie
Worst Festival of the Arts Moment
Itzhak Perlman’s one-song performance
Best Lecture Series
Society of the Four Arts (pictured)
2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach // 561/655-7227
Local Resident’s Picks: Chrissy Biagiotti
Sunshine Music & Blues Festival
‘Your Brain on Music’ lecture by Daniel Levitin
Best Opera Not Written by a Dead Italian
“Mourning Becomes Electra”
Best New Music Festival
(Pictured: Two Door Cinema Club)
Best News for Retro Film Lovers
Dada’s new art-house movie theater Sundays
Best Exhibitions of the Year
1. “Love of Technology,” Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
770 N.E. 125th St., Miami // 305/893-6211
2. Pop Culture,” Boca Museum of Art
501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton // 561/392-2500
3. Phyllida Barlow, “Hoard,” Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach // 561/832-5196
