FRI 3/12 If Morrissey’s call to hang the DJ is carried out tonight, then his onetime Smiths bandmates Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce may be seen dangling from a gibbet. Thankfully the bassist and drummer for the legendary Manchester quartet don’t take Mozzer very seriously. Still why is the duo…
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 3/13 During its 52 runnings, the Florida Derby, taking off today at Gulfstream Park (901 S. Federal Hwy., Hallandale), has served as a prescient precursor to the more prestigious Kentucky Derby, with a handful of horses winning both races, notably Spectacular Bid (1979), Swale (1984), Unbridled (1990), Thunder Gulch…
SUN 3/14 The Calle Ocho Festival has een described as the hottest street fair in America. With a mix of Latin music legends, hoochie-coochie starlets, and up-and-coming acts, the party gets beamed via Spanish television networks all over the world. Despite its grand scale, the event sneaks up on us…
It was not surprising that Jonathan Schwartz would have an unusual life. With sophisticated songwriter Arthur Schwartz (“That’s Entertainment”) for a dad and fair-haired soprano Kay Carrington for a mom, how could it be anything but? Growing up in Beverly Hills during the height of World War II among luminaries…
Thursday 3/4 Skate rats and nouveau punks will be getting their fiercest attitude together as Linkin Park, the rocking clash of old-school hip-hop and hard-driving rock and roll, brings its Meteora tour to town. The altmetal quintet packs a loud and energetic wallop despite the fact that its members are…
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…
MON 3/8 Your days of screaming obscenities at the television screen are over. Don’t get too excited: Hardball, Chris Matthews’s annoying MSNBC gab fest, hasn’t been canceled — yet! The silver-haired pundit continues to offer up in-depth political analysis with weighty guests such as comedian Bill Maher. But if you…
THU 3/4 The common denominator unifying creatures is the passing of time. After all, the same sun rises and sets in its daily cycle for all of us. Right? Wrong. Some creatures live in their own bubbles of time. For instance the Aldabra tortoise, named for its native Aldabra Atoll…
FRI 3/5 For some people, guarding orchid-growing secrets is tantamount to the Department of Defense protecting information about nuclear warheads. They steal, they lie, they hire spies. You wouldn’t believe it. In case you haven’t read the book The Orchid Thief or seen the film Adaptation, you should know that…
Tall, slim, with long dark hair and a beard, he roamed around Old Havana in the 1950s. Dressed in black, a cape fluttering behind his dignified stride, he wrote and recited poetry and always carried flowers, which he’d present to women he saw on the streets. Clearly cultured and more…
Thursday 2/26 Don’t count on hearing gripping stories about the Titanic or the Andrea Doria or even the S.S. Minnow from Gilligan’s Island when you pay a visit to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida’s (101 W. Flagler St.) latest exhibition, “Shipwrecks and Rescues: 1550-2000.” The disasters and heroic events…
FRI 2/27 Now that Sex and the City is off the air, actor/dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov is screwed. He has to find something else to do besides playing a moody artist who beds Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Carrie Bradshaw and whisks her away to Paris. Well, it seems the 55-year-old Russian…
FRI 2/27 In Sidney Lumet’s 1976 film Network, Peter Finch plays a washed-up television anchorman who begins to lose his sanity. When in a rage he encourages his audience on live television to stick their heads out their windows and shout at the top of their lungs “I’m mad as…
We barely had time to scream our tits off. We bitched when we heard that the Cactus Bar and Grill, Miami’s longest-running gay bar and home to Biscayne Boulevard rough trade, was closing. We lamented the passing of glam and grift, once hallmarks of the gay underworld and fodder for…
Thursday 2/19 For years Spanish master guitarist Paco de Lucia has been taking flamenco music to new frontiers. His collaborations with jazz artists have forged his signature style of nuevo flamenco, a sound many critics consider a harbinger of the renaissance of Andalusian music. A consummate artist, de Lucia takes…
SAT 2/21 We all know the poem: “A Dream Deferred.” Langston Hughes wrote it, if you hadn’t heard. “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — and then run?” One of the greatest black literary figures of the 20th Century, Hughes was…
SAT 2/21 Modelizers, you better be ready. Among the requirements for the nearly 300 models participating in the 11th Annual Volleypalooza Model Volleyball Tournament is that they will be scantily clad. Can they serve the ball, bump, or set? Who cares? All that’s important in this fundraising event for PETA…
NOW 24/7 Getting naked in public and running like hell. It was a fad among college students in the early 1970s, its crowning moment occurring in 1974 when a streaker bounded across the stage of the Academy Awards telecast right under the nose of prim Brit actor David Niven. Back…
Late on a February morning from Seattle, Erik Larson is discussing death over breakfast. Washington State might be home to the infamous Green River Killer, but Larson isn’t an assassin plotting his next move. He’s an acclaimed author who last year wrote of a murderer and an architect; his number-one…
SUN 2/15 Imagine the pressure put on a singer when critics compare his style with venerable musicians like Paul Simon, Raffi, and Mr. Rogers. (Wait a sec, when did Mr. Rogers become a musician? Well, he did sing “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”) Such acclaim means he must embrace the…
Thursday 2/12 There’s a reason they call corporate logos “brands.” Though they don’t stink of burned flesh anymore, today’s brands still retain their air of slavery. The aim, it seems, is to pollute the human mind with a barrage of commercial slogans, swooshes, and “lifestyles.” San Francisco artist Hank Thomas-Willis…
