WED 12/31 The thrill is definitely still there when it comes to 78-year-old master blues guitarist B.B. King. In a career that spans 6 decades over worlds from the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s to South Beach today, blues music’s regal ambassador has accomplished more than just about any other…
WED 12/31 The philosophical roots of Paul Miller, AKA DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, run deep. More than just a mixer of sounds, beats, and words, Miller describes his art as a new evolution of music. He uses the word jazz to describe what he does, but don’t expect horns…
TUE 12/30 Jobie, the on-again-off-again mascot of the Junior Orange Bowl Parade, is on again, at least for this year. Today the cute little citric mascot re-emerges as the symbol of the Junior Orange Bowl Parade, in its 55th year as a Coral Gables holiday tradition. Because of legal issues…
NOW 24/7 You walk down the beach, searching for seashells, but as far as the eye can see there are none. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Gone. When the powers-that-once-were manufactured the Miami Beach coastline, were shells not part of the equation? Or is nature just holding out on us? Probably not…
The ringed planet is at its brightest; check it out
No planet is cooler than the sixth one from the sun. Not Mars. Not Venus. Not even your cute little Uranus. No other rock orbiting the sun has those groovy rings like the hula hoops around Saturn’s waist. It’s funky and hip and there’s a car named after it. This…
THU 12/18 Venevision International Theater’s production of Kvetch: The Art of Complaining calls for an end to whining. The play gets a Spanish translation, which turns it into El Arte De Quejarse. Either way it is a sharp-tongued comedy, written by British actor and playwright Stephen Berkhoff, whose mastery of…
NOW 24/7 Pudge, Pudge, Pudge. How we loved chanting your name this championship season. Your chubby image spoke of determination and guts, team spirit and flavor. Pudge was cute. Pudge symbolized a tough and hungry underdog squad. In fact we got used to seeing your big J.Lo butt flabbing around…
It’s high holiday time to help out kids affected by AIDS
By Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Worldwide the number of children affected by AIDS continues to grow. In South Africa thousands of so-called AIDS babies are abandoned each year, found by police in trash bins and public bathrooms. Meanwhile the pandemic continues to spread voraciously across the Indian subcontinent. In China, where health officials continually underreport…
NOW 24/7 I found Jesus in a black velvet dinner jacket hanging on a rack at the Douglas Gardens Thrift Shop. Flared at the waist, the garment was tres-1970s Bob Guccione. Alas the Messiah was bleach stained and at $40 far too expensive. Despite the suede yarmulke found in the…
Thursday 12/11 In the midst of the crummiest Christmas of his life, Joe, the protagonist of Teatro Avante’s latest production, It’s a Fabulous Life, becomes something of a queer Jimmy Stewart. In his depths Joe asks the ultimate despairing-diva question: “What if I had never been born — gay?” The…
FRI 12/12 Well, of course you’ve seen it before. Onstage. On TV. On ice even. Mushrooms dance to its music in Fantasia. Barbie pays homage in a ballet costume (and an animated video, in case you were curious). But you decorate the tree every year too. Does that ever get…
FRI 12/12 “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” Famous last words from Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), symbolic of how the prolific filmmaker and leader of New German Cinema lived, pumping out more than 30 features in his 37 years of life. Always the iconoclast, Fassbinder attempted to film the unfilmable in…
THU 12/11 Barbie dolls don’t quite figure into the Miami Children’s Theater’s new production of Little Women. Based on the book by Louisa May Alcott, the play is about the antics of the 4 March sisters, and the fun and trouble they get into while growing up. They stew over…
FRI 12/12 Babes and booze and good food, but forget the ménage à trois: We’re talking strictly foursomes, about 20 of them, if last year was a credible gauge. Oh, and then there’s the golfing. The Fourth Annual Playboy Scramble Golf Tournament comes to South Florida for the second time…
FRI 12/12 Everyone is familiar with the World Trade Center collapse and the vast number of people who died as a result. But how many know that after the year or so of cleanup, all that remained in the 70-foot hole in the ground was the buildings’ foundation? Architect Daniel…
Bill Clot has bragging rights to being the grand pooh-bah of holiday yard decorations. The Pinecrest man is the owner and possessed designer of the nation’s most elaborate Christmas yard display: a doozy of a diorama with more than 700,000 lights, hundreds of moving figures, dancing bears under a makeshift…
Thursday 12/4 It’s that time again. Time to drape yourself head to toe in black and do your best art collector impression (a beret might be a nice touch). The mammoth event known as Art Basel is back to try to talk you into forking over your hard-earned cash for…
FRI 12/5 About the only people up before 5:00 a.m. are insomniacs and truck drivers, which is what you’ll have to be to catch the Tom Joyner Sky Show at the Miami Arena (721 NW 1st Ave.) featuring DJ Tom Joyner, the morning jock heard on Hot 105 (WHQT-FM). But…
SAT 12/6 While Scottish actor Billy Connolly is busy frittering his talent away on that Crichtonian cow of a flick, Timeline, Florida Scots will be making their own, more enlightened, noise at the St. Andrew’s Pipe Band of Miami’s Annual Christmas Dance. When the pipers stop pipin’ hot, musical duties…
NOW 24/7 P. Diddy, O.J., Lenny Kravitz, Iggy Pop, Ben Affleck, Michael Jackson: You never can be sure what celeb-hunk-or-junk sighting you’re in for in South Florida. But if you’re a famous single male wintering here, you’re almost sure to get laid. Not so for one Sunshine State winter guest,…
THU 12/4 Kathe Izzo vows to fall in love with anybody who makes an appointment with her. She offers a deep, telepathic connection based on unconditional love. This is not a joke. It’s art. Her work, LOST: An Exploration of Trust, Love, and True Connection, consists of a series of…
Muffins. Artist Carlos Betancourt is contemplating muffins outside a warehouse full of art owned by New York art dealer Robert Miller. The structure sticks out like a corrugated steel iceberg in the middle of the lush and gritty Wynwood street where Betancourt lives. As the artist ponders whether to serve…
