King Lear: Aaron Spelling certainly injected Shakespearean ambition into his glittering prime-time soap operas — Melrose Place was a total tragicomedy — but here’s a theatrical mashup we never could have envisioned: Ted Lange starring in a touring production of King Lear. Lange, he of the red tux, perfectly spherical…
Real estate come-on, or art? Was it true? All the hubbub about razing The Miami Herald’s waterfront headquarters and putting up condo towers? Sure, Herald poobahs have said there are no plans to move, and the city has rejected a bid to rezone the bay front property for highrises. But…
Thanks, guys! On October 12, the Miami Herald editorial board endorsed Linda Haskins for Miami city commissioner. The editors touted her as the best prepared candidate from a field of seven due to Haskins’ “integrity, experience and knowledge of the city and job.” They lauded Haskins for advocating a moratorium…
This past Veterans Day weekend, volunteers from grassroots groups Democracy for America Miami and Veterans for Peace put up 2500 markers — white plastic boards on metal posts — in Lummus Park on Ocean Drive Between 8th and 10th streets. Most of the boards were handwritten with the names of…
Lock yer doors, pirates be comin’ From Blackbeard to the infamous Captain Barbarossa, history’s most renowned pirates have all exhibited an unseemly talent for raping, pillaging, scheming, cheating, and lying. Ironically, this past Friday, before a modest crowd who had gathered at Bayfront Park to witness the cast and crew…
I’ll have the alcoholic one, please British comedian John Cleese, in his role on the zany TV series Fawlty Towers, once said: “I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn’t know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.” I’m guessing that some…
Old Grover Watch that hand, Mister Some voters in Miami Commission District Two awoke Saturday to find a political message in their inboxes that just may confirm longstanding charges that candidate Linda Haskins is a puppet of Mayor Manny Diaz. It is not known exactly when the above photograph was…
One endangered species we won’t miss During a 2004 public hearing concerning manatee protection, county Commissioner Natacha Seijas complained about a herd that kept popping up in the canal behind her Miami Lakes residence. “And as dumb as they always are they keep floating back and forth and I need…
August Wilson August Wilson, one of the 20th Century’s greatest playwrights, died last year at age 60. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and high school dropout was among the first to put the black American experience, imbued with truthful vernacular, humor, politics and sex, before theatre goers. On Friday morning,…
On November 4, the Carnival Center’s Knight Concert Hall was converted into a YMCA dance — literally. The YMCA of Greater Miami celebrated 90 years in the Magic City. The gala raised $350,000 and honored some of our most illustrious individuals. The star honoree was county commissioner and YMCA vice-president…
Now he’ll have some time to find those WMDs himself Bush sat down to lunch with the San Francisco woman who’ll have his nuts in a legislative vise for the next two years. Donald Rumsfeld waved a pouty goodbye. Dick Cheney was described as “glum” in the New York Times…
Side of infighting optional Brenda Khan, manager of Renaisa Indian Restaurant, was less than enthused over a recent review and hasn’t been shy about letting me, and my New Times editors, know about her displeasure. Her emails have objected to the way the write-up, a dual review of both Renaisa…
Side of infighting optional Brenda Khan, manager of Renaisa Indian Restaurant, was less than enthused over a recent review and hasn’t been shy about letting me, and my New Times editors, know about her displeasure. Her emails have objected to the way the write-up, a dual review of both Renaisa…
Pucker up We here at Miami New Times love Curtis Morgan. He’s one of the Miami Herald’s finest writers. And lobbyist Rodney Barreto isn’t the worst influence peddler at County Hall. But the decision by Morgan and his editors to publish a puff piece about Barreto in this morning’s paper…
Do you have this in black? And red? And gold?… “I did not have 3000 pairs of shoes. I had 1060.” So said Imelda Marcos, the infamous first lady of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, after fleeing the impoverished country in 1986. The name Imelda became synonymous overnight with gross overindulgence…
Mr. Marmalade: Teetering on the edge of reality, Noah Haidle’s play takes you to the playground of make-believe for emotionally disturbed children. Yes, four-year-old Lucy’s imaginary friend is a bipolar coke addict who also has a personal assistant. And the little girl’s real friend, Larry, is suicidal. (Life sucks when…
Category 305 rifles through the latest Vanity Fair — “not even slowing down for the pix of Brad Pitt in his boxers” — in search of “local stardust.”…
Follow the money Ralph Arza’s self-inflicted demise proves that he was nothing more than a foul-mouthed Tony Soprano wannabe. The beady-eyed, hooch-swilling Hialeah Republican would sell his mother out for cash and power. That was abundantly clear during his aborted reelection campaign. Even though he had no real opponent, Arza…
Is this where Jim Davis has been hiding? 30 Seconds of total absurdity: There’s an ad running against Jim Davis that accuses him of being a terrorist communist with a “risky home insurance plan,” all in the same breath. The accusation is accompanied by a little pop-up picture of Fidel…
Throw me a bone, willya? Incredibly, last year, when the voters of Miami-Dade County were offered the opportunity to vote in favor of allowing parimutuel wagering at the greyhound torture grounds known as the Flagler Dog Track, they turned the gambit down. Allowing OTB to set up shop at the…
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) While I prefer to hunker down on a Friday night with a good book or a classic John Hughes film from the Eighties, the sixteen-year-old girl in me wanted to go meet a former boy band member and his really hot boyfriend. Yes,…
That’ll be $375, please Although Locust Projects is billed as a small alternative space, the gallery’s annual fundraiser held this past Saturday at its eponymously named Wynwood spot was anything but. The event attracted not only some of Miami’s biggest names in the business, but also their cash. For three…
