Thursday, June 5 Who says all top-quality cultural events evaporate come summer in Miami? The moment hurricane season rolls around, temperatures linger in the upper nineties, and the humidity starts to wreak havoc with our hair, we thank the Lord that there’s still something to look forward to: the Coral…
Thursday 5/29 Is the United States’ wet foot/dry foot policy of immigration prudent? Is it fair? Legions of immigrants from Cuba and Haiti (and points beyond) risk their lives crossing the Florida Straits in rickety vessels each year, and each year the results remain the same: If you’re Cuban and…
There are many ways to keep Granny and Grandpa’s memory alive. Some people arrange meticulous albums filled with yellowing and faded photographs. Some folks have their grandparents’ cremated remains put in an urn and display them on the mantelpiece. Other people, like artist David Baskin, get their grandpa’s hat, coat,…
Thursday 5/22 Soulful chanteuse/songwriter Abenaa delves into her Ghanaian and Trinidadian roots to craft the deeply intimate and enlightened tunes on her first CD, Tuesday’s Child. Tonight she brings her spellbinding songs to the Funk Jazz Lounge at Sax on the Beach (1756 N. Bayshore Dr.). Her sound is a…
He likes warm wood floors. She prefers cool marble. He likes dark-colored painted walls. She prefers flower-flecked pastel wallpaper. He dreams of taxidermied animal heads mounted, clubby leather furniture, and plaid flannel curtains. She dreams of gold-framed botanical prints, overstuffed shabby chic furniture, and light lacy curtains. This married couple…
Thursday 5/15 Like the sour-apple martini, Chilean sea bass is perhaps one of the most fashionable items you can sample at your favorite bistro. But did you know that it’s WRONG? Just like wearing a mink coat might get you splattered with red paint by animal-rights activists, ordering the trendy…
Thursday 5/8 As far as we know, vocalist Nancy Wilson has never pulled the diva act. No preperformance tantrums. No firing her musical director during intermission. No demands for a dressing room decked out in white flowers and stocked with several bottles of pricey champagne. Of course she’s never had…
Sat 5/10 It’s all around us. It’s in us — makes up 50 to 65 percent of our bodies, in fact. And soon it will fall from the sky on an almost daily basis. We’re talking about water. You know, the very precious resource that often tastes like bleach when…
To my darling husband, as I sit alone on the wooden bench at the Smoke Pit restaurant, watching that enticing pink pig sweating and slowly rotating on the spit, I’m reminded of the many wonderful years we’ve spent together, rolling with the punches, memories as rich and sweet as a…
Mark Mothersbaugh wants to get into your house. It’s not as if he hasn’t been there before. He was once the frontman for Devo, the geek-chic rock quintet from Akron, Ohio, popular in the Eighties for its spastic delivery and highly art-directed image and record covers. What Eighties New Waver…
Thursday 3 Active girls and guys gone wild. Before the late 1980s, Ocean Drive’s Art Deco hotels boasted a slew of Jewish immigrant radicals, many of them retirees from New York City, where they had been active in the civil rights and labor movements and sometimes even in anarchist groups…
The Raleigh. The Ritz Plaza. The Tides. The Marlin. The Tiffany. The Victor. For anyone the least bit familiar with Miami Beach’s hallowed Art Deco District, those hotel names instantly conjure up visions of clean lines, sweeping curves, dazzling terrazzo floors, gleaming metal railings, shimmering etched glass panels, block and…
Known for its vast collection of cool ephemera, intriguing exhibitions, and engaging presentations that appeal equally to the upper crust and the common man, the Wolfsonian-FIU museum will celebrate itself all over town with A Very Wolfsonian Weekend, seven events designed to raise funds for exhibitions and public programs. And…
There are fashion victims: people oblivious to the fact their garish outfits make them resemble clowns more than supermodels. And there are fashion victims: people oblivious to the fact that their intense desire to shop for clothes, shoes, and accessories is fed by the media, garment industry, and their own…
Last time we checked in with Clemson, South Carolina-based folk singer/songwriter Carla Ulbrich, she was alive, well, and working too hard: touring the country, writing humorous songs about wedgies and such, and presiding over the Difficult Last Name Club. That was all before her first stroke in January of 2002…
Be it by a simple pat on the back, a hefty raise, or a shiny award, everybody wants to be recognized in some small way for the things they do, especially drag doyenne Shelley Novak. Known for his perennial five-o’clock shadow, copious chest hair, and ersatz resemblance to hefty actress…
Talk about your etiquette dilemmas: What’s the proper way to say thank you to a kidney donor? Do you marry them? Buy them a car? Pay off their house? Send them flowers every month for life? If you’re spoken-word artist Sekou Sundiata, you write a show about the whole harrowing…
“Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to my aid,” says Carol Durbin, relating some words that were favorites of Martin L. Marcus, her partner of thirteen years. Marcus, who passed away last month after a long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), certainly took that expression to heart. Thoroughbred…
“There’s no other dog like a dachshund,” says the first line of the “Dachs Song,” penned in 1991 by Paul de Vries and Murray Weinstock and available on CD via www.dachsong.com. Devoted owners of wiener dogs all over the world must agree. In 1991 one of them, Adrian Milton, founded…
Intricate, outrageous plots; clever wordplay; catchy songs performed quickly. Hearing the work of opera composers William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (the British duo who collaborated from 1871 to 1896 and put the “light” in light opera) sung in English is enough to give the average listener a splitting headache. Imagine…
To hear it from the viejos and the not-so-viejos, everything Cuban was (and is) unique. Sure, their brand of inflammatory politics is one point. And to the unschooled palate black beans can seem odd. But how different can things Cuban really be? Two exhibitions at the Historical Museum of Southern…
David Levinthal, a grown man, can’t help but play with toys. Cowboys, Indians, Barbie dolls, figurines clad in S&M-wear: All have posed for the photographer’s large-format Polaroid camera — one of six in the world — over the past 30 years. Or better said, he has posed them. A graduate…
