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…

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…

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…

SAT 5/8 Finally an event that gives new meaning to the phrase “go with the flow.” The WaterFest pays tribute to all the refreshing liquid that surrounds us, besieges us in the summer, and makes up most of what we are. Created 2 years ago by some of the folks…

TUE 5/4 Only one man can spoof Prince as a basketball-playing, pancake-making fop; make milquetoast talk show host Wayne Brady seem insanely edgy (“White people love Wayne Brady because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X”); and single-handedly revive superfreak Rick James’s career with a plethora of punches and…

NOW 24/7 Photographer Rick Cruz looks at his favorite subject, the Florida Everglades, as if the marshland were an emergency room patient left to fend for herself while we watch. “With the Everglades we are witnessing one of nature’s most basic of survival instincts,” Cruz says. “She is maintaining a…

SAT 4/24 At the beginning of the 2003-04 season Miami Heat fans had a serious case of the doldrums. Megamoney draft pick Lamar Odom provided a glimmer of hope, but when the team went 0-7 all bets were off. Soon after, legendary coach Pat Riley threw in the towel, leaving…

NOW 24/7 How do you own the moon? Many have tried; few have succeeded. Lunar expeditions have gotten rockets to land there and astronauts to bounce around in the gravity-less atmosphere. Painters such as Van Gogh, Rousseau, and O’Keeffe, and photographers such as Ansel Adams have rendered the planet in…

WED 4/21 Do you hear the thundering horde in the distance? GWAR is coming. Are you prepared to be massacred? Well, not in the way you might think. The GWAR (short for God What an Awful Racket) collective is rock band, freaky stage show, art group, and probably a half-dozen…

SUN 4/18 Wings might be rather useless appendages for chickens, but some humans find the paltry poultry parts especially important. This afternoon those people might be seen red-faced, not embarrassed by their love for the blue-collar delicacy but proudly wearing wing sauce as a badge of honor for participating in…

SAT 4/10 Tequesta Indians, a bridge made of natural limestone, an old starch mill, an oak hammock, and settlers from Elmira, New York: all part of the past and present of Arch Creek Park, a 9.4-acre green space in North Miami dedicated in 1982 after decades of preservation efforts. Today…

THU 4/8 Let’s hear it for the great Italian tenors: Pavarotti, Caruso, Lovano. Huh?! That’s right, music fans, besides the vocal prowess of generations of golden-throated opera singers, the world has also seen its fair share of great Italian tenors of the jazz saxophone variety, for instance Joe Lovano. But…

FRI 4/2 As conductor, founder, and life president of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the most recorded chamber orchestra in the universe, Sir Neville Marriner has become one of the most familiar living figures in classical music. Radio stations all over the globe broadcast performances by the…

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 later, leave it to some jokers at the Academy of American Poets to designate April as National Poetry Month. Ha, ha! Did they think…

TUE 3/30 “He is exactly what he says he is: He does it for the money and he gets ’em off,” quips actor Tom Wopat (above) about dastardly lawyer Billy Flynn, a part he just stepped into for a road tour of the hit musical Chicago. (At 8:00 tonight the…

MON 3/22 Partnership Dance, now there’s a concept. Could that refer to a couple dancing together in the old-fashioned way or just a cynical business venture? Whatever it is, promoting it is the mission of a group that calls itself Miami Dance Machine. In the ambitious show Baile on the…

FRI 3/12 A labyrinth of love and passion. The choice between exile and conformity. In the end it’s the human spirit that takes flight in Milan Kundera’s novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Cuban expat Marianela Boan premieres The Unbearable Lightness, her latest dance work based on Kundera’s classic. Boan…

SAT 3/6 Miami filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar laments the dearth of countercultural icons in a world rife with war, corporate greed, and disease. He bemoans the growing apathy in cities and the eerie quiet that comes with assimilation. Once-radical heroes such as John Waters, he observes, maintain a comfort in…

SUN 2/29 At last, a wrestling outfit that knows that fighting is all about the mask. Along with a range of over-the-top identities, many of the fighters who participate in Lucha Xtreme Wrestling possess some of the most compelling costumes in the sport. The Mark of the Mask tour, which…

FRI 2/20 American filmmaker Todd Haynes is an iconoclast. His 1991 film Poison was dismissed as pornography at first, but when it won prizes at Cannes it became regarded as a benchmark in nouveau queer cinema. Tonight Haynes’s 1998 feature Velvet Goldmine will be screened, along with his groundbreaking and…

FRI 2/20 TheatreworksUSA brings children’s book author Beverly Cleary’s (The Mouse and The Motorcycle) beloved character Ramona Quimby to life onstage at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale). Ramona’s adventures on Klickitat Street in Portland, Oregon, have entertained and instructed elementary school-age children…