Streaks are generally a good thing, unless we’re talking about those people in England who run around naked at tennis and soccer matches. Or the Florida Marlins. The Fish had a pretty cool streak a few weeks ago when they went 15 straight games with ten or more hits —…
A recent article in GQ had a cover line that read, “When Michael Was Cool.” Sure, it’s easy to forget how inherently awesome someone such as Michael Jackson is when you witness him crumble before your eyes. But let’s be clear: The King of Pop never lost his coolness; it…
If you’re a famous work of art, say Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas, you can run from the Travel Channel’s Lee Sandstead, but you can’t hide. Host of the show Art Attack, Sandstead shows great art no mercy, hunting it down with ruthless precision and peppering it in a hail of…
Ah, autumn in South Florida! The weather somehow gets even hotter; the Marlins are through teasing us with a 2003 redux; and it’s time for a sport this county actually excels in: road rage. But football is back, too, and the legions of Miami Hurricane fans (slightly diminished since so…
It didn’t cost $2 billion, just a simple request to the North Miami municipal government for a special designation, but Stickball Boulevard is a world-class facility. Every Sunday, a group of dedicated players puts out the orange cones, and spectators of all ages bring beach chairs to watch one of…
If you ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, you might want to check out the jukebox musical Smokey Joe’s Café at the University of Miami’s Ring Theatre this Wednesday at 8 p.m. Rock ‘n’ roll standards “Hound Dog,” “Stand by Me,” and “Love Potion No. 9” were the products of…
When hip-hop thugs G-Unit rap, “I move the keys, they call me the piano man,” they’re talking about transporting loads of happy powder, but when scene king Edison Farrow puts on a party called Piano Man, he’s talking real keys, like the black-and-white ones at Crescendos Piano Bar. Each Wednesday,…
If you want to wile away your lazy Labor Day Sunday hunched over a smoky grill, so be it. But if you’d like to spend it noshing on culinary delights from some of the areas most celebrated chefs, head to the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club for the Sand…
The humans are mostly quiet. They’re polite young men, willing to climb atop animals a dozen times their size and try to hold on for eight seconds. The quadruped participants in this arrangement are snorting, slobbering masses of muscle, with lethal weapons affixed to the end of their legs and…
Fresh Produce: A cornucopia of world-class works at Gary Nader Fine Art in Wynwood
With Extract, Mike Judge Goes Back to Work
Serial killer Michael Myers, it turns out, has mother issues. In this disappointing sequel to his intense and much underrated 2007 remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, Halloween, rock star turned filmmaker Rob Zombie sends Michael (Tyler Mane) on another killing spree at the urging of his now-dead mom (Sheri…
Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts Ongoing at the Lowe Art Museum, 1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-3535; lowemuseum.org. Open Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday noon to 4 p.m. Public funding for local culture might be sinking, but philanthropists Myrna and Sheldon Palley…
The Harder They Come By Perry Henzell and Trevor Rhone. Through September 13. Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org See this week’s full theater review, “Off the Cliff.” ———- Speed-the-Plow By David Mamet. Through September 13. GableStage at the Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-445-1119; gablestage.com…
Off the Cliff: The Harder They Come hits the Arsht Center
Hello, Kitty: All of this talk about celebrities having babies has my wife really wanting to conceive, but I don’t think we’re ready. Hell, I’m not ready. We’ve been married for three years and both have steady jobs, but I’m 26 and she’s 24. I want to enjoy the rest…
Some shows on the boob tube will suck you dry, leaving your brain with no sign of function or creativity. Others are so good they make you want to quit your job and be a full-time resident of your living room couch. Mad Men is one of the latter. This…
In a city that has the attention span of a 5-year-old, it’s surprising when anything lasts more than one year, let alone ten. So when Poplife celebrated its decade-old milestone this past July, Miami took notice. Of all the hipsterati dance parties that emerged at the turn of the millennium,…
“Jeho-vah is why we are in Vietnam,” Ishmael Reed wrote in his 1969 Neo-Hoodoo Manifesto, an anti-religion, pro-religious tract that serves as the touchstone for the exhibition “NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith,” showing at the Miami Art Museum. Reed’s essay-poem claims “every artist is a priest” in neo-hoodoo, a…
Even if you’ve never wanted to own a motorcycle, admit it, you’ve at least wanted to be in a bike gang. Not a gun-toting, Gimme Shelter gang maybe, but an open road, Easy Rider bunch? With American flag helmets, leather jackets, and a mean pair of cowboy boots? Definitely. Well,…
Last year’s Hugs and Spoons Show didn’t draw quite the crowd organizers expected, so this year the Fair Expo Center decided to change course and host Victor Bean’s Southern Classic Gun and Knife Show. The doors to the Fuchs Pavilion will open at 10 a.m. this Sunday, and inside will…
Art Miami will celebrate its 20th anniversary this December, but it will do so without a major sponsor. BlackRock, a tough-sounding investment firm that manages upward of $1 trillion in assets, decided it didn’t want to send anymore money Art Miami’s way, according to Lindsay Pollack. BlackRock is the largest money manager…
