SUN 1/25 Fine art museums are not child-friendly. Curious little hands and clumsy little feet have no place near million-dollar canvases. Not to mention the tendency of 20th-century art to be shocking, if not completely vulgar or prurient — which is a shame because many modern artists derived inspiration from…
SAT 1/24 Would you buy a ticket to watch a man coax 1700 horses into submission while the steeds haul 12,000 pounds of steel and fling their load 25 feet into the air? Multiply the spectacle by about a dozen and you’ve got an event that’s something close to this…
SAT 1/24 In Frank Capra’s 1937 classic, Lost Horizon, our handsome protagonist Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) is haunted by a strange feeling of déjà vu while lost in the Himalayan utopia, Shangri-La. “I sense I’ve been here before,” he tells the beautiful doe-eyed Sondra (Jane Wyatt). “Everything is somehow familiar.”…
In 1945 Joseph Pilates published his revolutionary fitness manifesto, Return to Life Through Contrology. The thin volume has pictures of a tanned and toned 60-year-old master demonstrating his stretching and resistance regimen in tight Burt Lancaster briefs. Though the pictures evoke a timeworn prescription for health, the ideas expressed in…
One day very soon, our radio hits will sound like outsider music wunderkinds Girls With Attitude. Not familiar with the term outsider music? Well, it’s an acquired taste and an oddball genre made up of unlikely performers that include singing psychics, autistic children, certifiable karaoke maniacs, and fervent do-gooders with…
Thursday 1/15 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s birthday is officially observed on Monday but today is the actual anniversary of his birth. No doubt events will be held all over town on Monday, but beginning today the West Perrine Community Development Corporation kicks off a five-day observance. Attend a…
FRI 1/16 Some wimp requests information about John Waters’s film Pink Flamingos on an Internet bulletin board. “I want to see this movie but I want to know what I should watch out for, how gross it is … please help!” A reply is posted: “You’ll see the following: Divine…
NOW 24/7 Being a good sailor is simple when you have major bucks to spend on a fancy boat, club membership fees, and what seems like endless maritime maintenance. Never mind actually devoting some money toward learning how to handle a vessel. Now you’re broke and suddenly feeling just a…
SAT 1/17 Big-mouth baseball players: You’re on notice. It’s time to put up or shut up. The Global Scouting Bureau (GSB) is rolling into town, rattling your very own keys to the planet, during a 2-day Professional Baseball Tryout. Since 1998 GSB has signed 1200 players to scores of leagues…
NOW 24/7 In a world where celebrity sells, having your likeness reproduced in the form of a bobblehead doll may very well be the highest measure of an athlete’s worth. Whether it’s through raw athleticism or magnetic theatricality, a bobblehead doll means you are a somebody in your respective arena…
At 2:00 my telephone rings. “Hello Juan, this is Sandra Bernhard,” a clear, enunciated voice says in rapid staccato. “I’m supposed to call you in a couple of hours, but I overbooked myself with interviews. Can we talk now?” My eyes roll. “That’s just so typical of you,” I tease…
Thursday 1/8 Wood block prints of a city in flux made in the 1930s by artist Koizumi Kishio, currently on display in the exhibition “Tokyo: The Imperial Capital” at the Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach), are the subject of a chat titled “Koizumi’s Tokyo: Idealized Views of Radical Change”…
THU 1/8 Country roads that disappear through Carolina tobacco fields, silos looming over a prairie, tractors kicking up dust on a hot summer day. This is the world evoked in the songs of folksinger Dana Robinson, the West Coast native who homesteaded in Vermont before settling down in the heart…
SUN 1/11 Freedom isn’t free. It requires vigilance 24/7. SAVE Dade, queer Miami’s political front, will be hosting its annual fundraising Lambda Showcase with an array of homegrown talent. Singing group the Rough Riders will perform a madcap version of Moulin Rouge. Rocker mama Bev McLellan will be jamming and…
THU 1/8 Two days ago marked the beginning of ARTS Week, when the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts’ Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) program awards cash and college scholarships to worthy teens. One hundred dancers, musicians, writers, actors, filmmakers, visual artists, and vocalists from 30 states will…
THU 1/8 Utter the word “aperture” and the amateur photographer might merely think about the opening on a 35 mm camera’s lens. A more schooled photo fan will envision Aperture, the venerated quarterly magazine, created by the New York-based nonprofit arts institution of the same name devoted to advancing photography…
Thursday 1/1 The story of the Samimy family of Miami is also the story of the Zargar family, Jews who originally resided in Persia (known as Iran since 1935) as jewelers to the shah in the 1880s, then fled owing to anti-Semitism to Turkmenistan in the early 1900s, then returned…
SAT 1/3 You never know what you’ll hear at a show by Tammerlin, a husband-and-wife musical duo composed of singer-songwriter-percussionist Lee Hunter (left) and guitarist Arvid Smith. They call their unusual sound “folklectic.” And they’re not kidding. The Jacksonville, Florida-based couple plays multiple instruments and boasts a varied repertoire of…
THU 1/1 The holidays in South Florida can get weird. A longing for sleigh bells can burn a melancholy pang into your sun-tanning bliss. What’s Christmas without snow? Young folks who crave respite from the interminable warmth can find it at the Miami Seaquarium’s Winter Kids’ Fest. The event offers…
THU 1/1 We’re not happy about it either, Jeb. Alas the Bowl Championship Series computer oracle has spoken: The Canes, who beat the Seminoles in an October slosh-fest, must face the team again on New Year’s Day. Any real Floridian prefers a Buckeye-Cane Orange Bowl matchup. And Cane fans, like…
NOW 24/7 When Victor Leong began building his sandcastle along the seawall at Lummus Park more than 11 years ago, his creation was seen as a funky, one-of-a-kind attraction. Leong would perform with buckets of sand, building elaborate spires and fragile bridges and Gothic moats. His effort quickly drew crowds,…
Thursday 12/25 Beware of cantors from the Great Smoky Mountains: They come bearing guitars and singing funky Jewish folk tunes. Cantor David Shneyer is one such dude. Founder of the Jewish Folk Arts Society and the Fabrangen Fiddlers klezmer band, Shneyer is a singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C. Trekking to South…
