Email Author Nina Korman

2004 Stories by Nina Korman

• Instruments of Commerce

  published May 13, 2004

  TUE 5/18 Your friends snicker at your vast and valuable collection of Precious Moments figurines. But now you have the last... More >>

• Id, Redefined

  published May 13, 2004

  SAT 5/15 It just may be that artist Robert Wyndam Bucknell is conceited. It could be he is a narcissistic charlatan capitalizing on... More >>

• This Week's Day by Day Picks

  published May 6, 2004

  Thursday 5/6 Before there was Madonna, there was David Bowie, the true template for pop stars if there ever was one. Sure, Mick... More >>

• Buy, Buy, Love

  published May 6, 2004

  THU 5/6 Here's a dilemma. As you were giving birth to your first child, your doctors frantically informed you that they needed to... More >>

• Damp Doings

  published May 6, 2004

  SAT 5/8 Finally an event that gives new meaning to the phrase "go with the flow." The WaterFest pays tribute to all the... More >>

• Sounds Like Home

  published May 6, 2004

  SAT 5/8 Boasting the title An American Salute, this concert would surely gain the approval of George Bush. But Democrats... More >>

• Breaking Boundaries

  published May 6, 2004

  FRI 5/7 The last time Fernanda Porto (right) performed in Miami, she wowed the crowd at the awards ceremony of the Brazilian Film... More >>

• Food Fight

  published April 29, 2004

  Wine and food. Food and wine. Whether you prefer eating or drinking, there will be a whole lot of it going on this weekend when the Ninth... More >>

• Comedy, Bitch!

  published April 29, 2004

  TUE 5/4 Only one man can spoof Prince as a basketball-playing, pancake-making fop; make milquetoast talk show host Wayne Brady seem... More >>

• This Week's Day by Day Picks

  published April 22, 2004

  Thursday 4/22 Whenever your child asks for yet another advance on his allowance, you always throw out the same responses: "What am I,... More >>

• In Tune with the Moon

  published April 22, 2004

  NOW 24/7 How do you own the moon? Many have tried; few have succeeded. Lunar expeditions have gotten rockets to land there and... More >>

• Word Fever

  published April 22, 2004

  SAT 4/24 Fifteen of Miami's most dynamic street poets face off today, battling in a word-slinging competition for the title of... More >>

• Healing Harmonies

  published April 22, 2004

  SAT 4/24 Alejandro Sanz was selling out stadiums in Mexico when 10 terrorist bombs exploded this past March in Madrid. While... More >>

• This Week's Day by Day Picks

  published April 15, 2004

  Thursday 4/15 Anatole Litvak's 1939 film Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a thriller starring Edward G. Robinson as a G-man... More >>

• Good Cluck

  published April 15, 2004

  SUN 4/18 Wings might be rather useless appendages for chickens, but some humans find the paltry poultry parts especially important.... More >>

• Home Made

  published April 15, 2004

  Retired lawyer Mervyn Aronoff (above) has painted Asian-inspired canvases for more than 20 years and has rented a studio at the Bakehouse for the... More >>

• This Week's Day by Day Picks

  published April 8, 2004

  Thursday 4/8 Why don't we get drunk and screw? The folks who are organizing National Alcohol Screening Day today can give you... More >>

• Construction Funkshion

  published April 8, 2004

  FRI 4/9 Riddled with cost overruns and delays, the new Miami Performing Arts Center is far from finished and already it has been... More >>

• Up the Creek

  published April 8, 2004

  SAT 4/10 Tequesta Indians, a bridge made of natural limestone, an old starch mill, an oak hammock, and settlers from Elmira, New York:... More >>

• Medium Fare

  published April 8, 2004

  FRI 4/9 The other side: You know, that mysterious plane where our dearly departed depart to and even the folks we don't care for... More >>

• Joltin' Joe

  published April 8, 2004

  THU 4/8 Let's hear it for the great Italian tenors: Pavarotti, Caruso, Lovano. Huh?! That's right, music fans, besides the vocal... More >>

• This Week's Day By Day Picks

  published April 1, 2004

  Thursday 4/1 Everybody has a story, and every story has several sides. If you don't believe that, you will after seeing Japanese... More >>

• Great Balls of Ire

  published April 1, 2004

  MON 4/5 Spring is here and a young or old Jew's fancy turns to matzo balls. Tonight marks the first night of Passover,... More >>

• Mighty Fighters

  published April 1, 2004

  NOW 24/7 After around 3:30 p.m. they start streaming in. Carrying backpacks full of homework, or wearing uniforms from minimum wage... More >>

• Stanza Bonanza

  published April 1, 2004

  THU 4/1 Leave it to poet T.S. Eliot to dub April "the cruelest month" in his monumental 1922 work "The Waste Land." And then 74 years... More >>