SAT 6/12 As artistic director of Miami’s Teatro Avante and the International Hispanic Theatre Festival, Mario Ernesto Sanchez is finding out that in a post-9/11 world, running such a festival requires some psychic abilities. Who would have guessed Spain’s government would abruptly change hands, thereby affecting a Spanish theater group’s…
THU 6/10 Who is the most dangerous man in the world? In his new book, Rogue State: America at War with the World, author/journalist T.D. Allman bestows that dubious distinction on President George W. Bush, not on Osama bin Laden as most folks would think. A distinguished foreign correspondent who…
MON 6/14 While visiting the Skate Park at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah this summer, don’t start meditating at the foot of the 3-sided pyramid. The structure is made to withstand leaps and grinds that make many a skate rat with time to kill salivate. In fact the skate park…
SUN 6/13 Everyone knows the tale of the goose that laid the golden egg. As a conduit to wealth, at least in that legend, geese seem to get plenty of respect. Running far behind are ducks. In real life, they’re the dopey birds that float on water but can barely…
Tao Rey, one of the resident members of the art collective known as “the House,” gathers his personal items from the chaos of what is soon to be an abandoned home. He stacks paintings made by his former housemates against a wall at the front door of the 1920s building…
Thursday 6/3 In her show Reno: Rebel Without a Pause, Manhattan’s edgy performer, Reno, takes on the global political situation and skewers it with her unique brand of feminist-lesbian outrage. Whatever you do, don’t call this New York broad hysterical. Part comedian, part monologist, Reno has been known for saying…
THU 6/3 The recent re-emergence of mauled illusionist Roy Horn underscored one of the reasons that magic has regained some of its former glory with blasé audiences: A performance might still turn deadly. Real danger is almost absent from the litigious entertainment world except in the strange, old-fashioned corners of…
SAT 6/5 The excuses are wearing thin. With 1300 miles of hiking trails that make up the Florida National Scenic Trail, running from deep in the south of the state up through the Panhandle, and under perpetually sunny skies, there’s no reason not to lace up those hiking boots and…
NOW 24/7 Last year’s hurricane season was devastating. Of course, no major storm even threatened our little metropolis, and nary a gale sent worry-warts scampering for bottled water. The only dangerous weather was the hot air blown by City of Miami Police Chief John Timoney and Mayor Manny(!) talking up…
With any luck, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, himself, will make an appearance at the Brazilian Film Festival. Indeed Lula would make a jolly addition to the films which, this year, express a bent toward the left-leaning policies Lula himself personifies. The charismatic former labor leader who rose to…
Thursday 5/27 Since February literary types have been reading, discussing, and analyzing Edwidge Danticat’s novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, as part of the One Book, One Community reading initiative. The three-month process, run by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College, comes to an end tonight as…
FRI 5/28 Ed has got a problem. He is addicted to his meds, and doesn’t realize those little white pills have turned him from a mild-mannered schoolteacher into a raging megalomaniac with psychotic urges. Sounds like a nifty plot for an HBO special. But the film, Bigger Than Life (above),…
SAT 5/29 If you had a dog, you’d name him Nick and you’d love him, and you’d hug him, and you’d squeeze him. But draconian rules mandate you can’t have a bird or a turtle, let alone a little furry 4-legged friend, where you live. This weekend, though, you can…
NOW 24/7 The violence was appalling. The coverup was scandalous. The acquittal by an all-white jury in Tampa of four white Miami-Dade County police officers charged with murdering black insurance agent Arthur Lee McDuffie was simply outrageous. For long-time Miamians, McDuffie’s name is synonymous with racist cops and brutality. It…
Mention the name “Double R” to any semihip urbanite and they’ll know what you’re talking about: Ruff Ryders. The phenomenon was born in New York with Ruff Ryder Records, home label to hip-hop stars DMX, Eve, and LOX. But making music is just one facet of the organization. Ruff Ryders…
Thursday 5/20 Last time we checked, NBC news guy/Meet the Press host Tim Russert was not Beaver Cleaver. But by the sound of his new book, Big Russ and Me, which he’s been plugging on every show except Ricki Lake, Maury Povich, and TRL, it sure as heck seems as…
THU 5/20 How real is real? This is a question worthy of a poet. Miami spoken-word artist Will Bell is so real, he has adopted “Da-RealOne” as his moniker. Inspiration for his art comes from the six o’clock news, random conversations, or street scenes. Da-RealOne relates all issues and current…
FRI 5/21 Grandpa might be pushing 80 but he can still kick butt on the tennis court. He is also quite the dancer, speed walker, and golf player. The feisty old codger hasn’t lost his competitive spirit. Problem is that you have. Maybe he can find some able-bodied opponents who…
SAT 5/22 Home to a vast collection of post-Art Deco buildings (yes, they’re important too), North Beach recently celebrated the City of Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board’s designation of the North Beach Resort District, which recognizes the sleek and fun Miami Modern (or MiMo) apartments, hotels, shops, and more between…
Stop where you are. Take a look around you. In a city like Miami it’s likely that one of the people you observe will have a story to tell involving escape, desperation, political exile, starvation, and a dangerous journey to freedom. If you happen to be hanging out in Sweetwater…
Thursday 5/13 Fabulous people, fabulous furniture, fabulous art, and fabulous cocktails. You too can be fabulous at Art and Design Night, a monthly series of faboo block parties in fabulousness central, Miami’s Design District. Best of all, the district’s fabulous restaurants, cafés, showrooms, and galleries provide multo-fabulous settings for you…
SAT 5/15 It just may be that artist Robert Wyndam Bucknell is conceited. It could be he is a narcissistic charlatan capitalizing on his heroin-chic Jesus aura to draw attention to himself. But then again, he may be doing more. According to the London-born artist, his show “Why I Think…
