thursday january 7 Just what we need: another immensely bloated art event featuring more canvases and more sculpture than anyone has wall or floor space for. Really, how many Ertes can one person own? Find out when miles of art go on display today through Tuesday at Art Miami ’99…
It’s 2:00 a.m. at Zanzibar. The club’s few attempts at exotic decor: a totem-pole-like wooden sculpture with carved faces, a couple of bar stools covered in zebra-striped upholstery, and two banners suspended from the ceiling, one depicting a caricature of a black man, the other a black woman. Just out…
thursday december 31 Too much Christmas shopping may have tapped you out, but it hasn’t dampened your enthusiasm for celebrating New Year’s Eve. Maybe you should take the family, head downtown, and close out 1998 at the Big Orange New Year’s Eve Celebration, the nation’s largest New Year’s bash south…
thursday december 24 So you’re a nice Jewish boy or girl. A lonely nice Jewish boy or girl. That fact certainly doesn’t help you on Christmas Eve, does it? But console yourself: At least you don’t have to attend some cornball family celebration and drag along a friend who’ll pretend…
Call Pablo Cano a romantic, a dreamer, even a junk collector. He doesn’t mind. Junk is his life, although amassing it almost ended his life. The artist, acclaimed for the intricate puppets he creates from found objects, used to skulk around town in the wee hours rifling through people’s trash…
thursday december 17 Paulito Fernandez Gallo is the most versatile of Cuba’s young singing stars. A true sonero in the tradition of Benny More, he can render a ballad as suavely as Frank Sinatra. He even sounds great rapping in Spanish. The mix of romantic salsa and aggressive Cuban timba…
When Delma Isles “defected” from the world of traditional ballet and founded Momentum Dance Company in 1982, the last thing on her mind was staging a version of the Nutcracker. Her troupe was and still is steadfastly dedicated to modern dance, and a ballet set to a Tchaikovsky score is…
thursday december 10 The glitz and glitter for which South Beach is becoming too well known can be seen today at the Bass Museum (2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach), when the exhibition Liza Lou’s America opens. The California-based sculptor and installation artist Liza Lou has a fondness for sparkly things,…
“It’s instant gratification,” says DB, a DJ from the UK who was instrumental in bringing across the Atlantic the fast-paced style of electronic music known as jungle. He’s talking on the phone from New York about the life of a DJ. According to DB, it’s the ideal career for restless…
The word burp is layered with meaning in English. There is the nurturing burp one encourages from a baby to help digestion. There is the vulgar burp an ill-mannered boor expels after guzzling a gaseous beverage. Then there is the satisfying burp, the pleasing pffft heard when a Tupperware container…
“Some people just listen, they never do tell,” declares teacher and storyteller Linda Spitzer, referring to members of the Miami Storytellers Guild, the organization she founded in 1990 by recruiting other aficionados through a newspaper advertisement. This Friday night Miami will be one of many cities around the world reverberating…
thursday november 19 Unlike most photographers, Cindy Sherman spends a lot of time in front of, as well as behind, the camera when she works. Sherman is her own best model. In the late Seventies she made her name with “Untitled Film Stills,” a series of photos that depict her…
On July 4, 1998, 29 horses gained their independence on Key Biscayne. No, the city didn’t decide to close itself off and become a wildlife sanctuary. That was the day the Crandon Park carousel came back to life. Built by Allan Herschell in 1949 and 1950 — around the same…
thursday november 12 In 1934 Joseph Stalin attempted to give Jews in the Soviet Union a permanent enclave by creating a Jewish Autonomous Region, the capital of which was dubbed Birobidzhan. In conjunction with the exhibition “Stalin’s Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland,” Nikolai Borodulin,…
“So many books, so little time,” muses Alina Interian, reflecting on her ten years as executive director of the Miami Book Fair International. The weeklong event, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, kicks off this Sunday with a reception at 6:00 p.m. and a reading by Aharon Appelfeld. This weekend avid readers…
We live in the age of the celebrity architect: Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Michael Graves, Laurinda Spear, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Their names are almost as familiar as those of Madonna, Brad Pitt, and Puff Daddy. Whether they’ve designed the house you live in, the linens you sleep…
Imagine going out to lunch and dropping $3500. Rather steep for a caesar salad and an iced tea, no? Well, it could happen if you dine at Meza Fine Art’s gallerycafe in Coral Gables. Opened in 1993 by Andrea Meza, a native of Colombia, Meza Fine Art has always billed…
thursday november 5 This year’s Easter Seals Festival of Chefs promises to be about more than just tantalizing your tastebuds. The event, which raises awareness and funds for children with disabilities, will feature unlimited amounts of good eats from restaurants such as Los Ranchos, Cafe Beethoven, Diego’s, and Cafe Tu…
Life can be tough when you’re known as the Madonna of the DJ set. Just ask Junior Vasquez, a man who has reinvented himself almost as many times as the pop diva. Vasquez is more than just a guy who plays records for a living. He is one of the…
thursday october 29 Up for a Roman holiday? You’re more apt to get heartburn than Audrey Hepburn at this event, but who cares? You’ll have fun taking gondola rides, playing bocce, tasting wines, observing pasta- and cheese-making demonstrations, and watching local musical and comedy acts at the Italian Heritage Festival…
If you’re tempted to shout “Hello, gorgeous!” when you see Steven Brinberg onstage, go ahead. He won’t mind. Having impersonated Barbra Streisand for the past five years, he’s used to it. “I’ve been a fan of hers since I was a kid,” says Brinberg, who once imitated several stars in…
thursday october 22 Don’t be surprised if you see a man walking around town in a ten-gallon hat. It’s probably Augusta (Georgia) State University professor of history Michael Searles, who enjoys dressing like a cowboy and talking about them too. Tonight at 8:00 “Cowboy Mike” delivers his lecture “African-American Cowboys…
