“Heterosexuals can’t understand camp because everything they do is camp,” opined an associate of the old Playhouse of the Ridiculous, a New York theater known for its good-natured, anarchic sexual farce — a piece such as Turds in Hell, which offered a farrago of sodomy, sadomasochism, incest, coprophagia, bestiality, homosexual…
Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald’s parents didn’t just plan for her — they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare parts and infusions for her leukemia-sick older sister, Kate. From a 2004 Jodi Picoult bestseller, My Sister’s Keeper mashes Death Be Not Proud with Irreconcilable Differences. When Kate…
Photography Exhibit at the Lowe Brings Alive the History of the Art
The economy makes the idea of haute couture seem silly. Who can afford custom-made dresses that carry a price tag rivaling most luxury cars? The truth is that even before the recession, the number of houses that showed haute couture (a term actually protected by the French government) was dwindling as the…
Maxi Ratunuman will soon be a free man. The Indonesian ex-lover of Ruhama Canellis, wife of celebrity clergyman Rev. Alberto Cutie, was arrested this past June 6 by the Village of Biscayne Park Police Department. Ofcr. Raimundo Atesiano and Capt. Antonio Sanchez arrested Ratunuman for trespassing and for not having…
Here’s a nice challenge for local shutterbugs. In celebration of their Arnold Newman exhibits, the Lowe Museum is hosting a photography contest. The prize is a free membership and the posting of your work on the front page of the museum’s website.All you have to do is take a picture of…
For all its recent advancements in the field of art, the key piece that Miami is missing is a top tier art school. Local developer Craig Robins, founder of Design Miami/ and a key figure in bringing Art Basel to Miami Beach, is looking to change all of that with…
As a kid, Miami Beach freelance writer Kendall Natvig went to his first Elizabeth Taylor movie–Giant–with his father. He’s been hooked on the legendary actress ever since. In the last 35 years, he’s collected at least one original poster from every E.T. flick (of which there are more than 50), plus multiple…
Seems that during his time in Miami Shaq didn’t get out much to Wynwood, as he seems to think Peter Max is the best artist since Picasso. I’m sure fans of Rauschenberg, Warhol, Pollock, de Kooning and just about every major artist to emerge since Picasso unveiled Guernica would have…
Walter Lara is a good kid. He’s never been arrested, graduated from Miami-Dade College with a 4.7 grade point average, and has done 1,000 hours community service. The 23-year-old emigrated from Argentina when he was three years old. That’s why his classmates are outraged that he’s scheduled to be deported…
The Broward-birthed four-piece Nonpoint came up in the late 1990s, a particularly fertile time in South Florida for experimental heavy rock. At clubs like Cheers, Fubar, and other one-named venues long defunct, they’d share the bill with other arty-but-loud local leading lights like Endo, Darwin’s Waiting Room, and the Groovenics…
San Francisco DJ/producer and Dirtybird label co-owner Justin Martin burned up the White Room dancefloor during his mind-blowing performance last January, not to mention various slots around town during WMC in March. Now the man is back to make new converts at the Electric Pickle this Friday night and the…
Nothing about the Fourth of July exactly screams “clanging, experimental electronic noise” — but then again, the elusive, quasi-legendary Miami duo Phoenecia doesn’t appear live too often, either. So for fans of the loosely labeled genre known, unfortunately, as IDM (“intelligent dance music”), this show adds a little luster to…
If your late-night TV ritual is getting old, it’s time you tuned into The New Century. Fresh from a run at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Paul Rudnick production recently had its Southeastern premiere at GableStage. This story of a Long Island Jewish mother of three gay children; an accomplished…
Imagine, if you will, how it felt to be the first person in history to combine rice and beans. Or if that’s not your thing, ketchup and French fries. Ice cream and bacon? Vodka and Red Bull? Paris Hilton and night vision? Well, some clever City of Miami employee knows…
With Al Gore already hard at work on his next great invention — the hybrid shuttle — space is no longer the final frontier. Sorry, Spock, but death has taken over as the new wilderness. What happens after the body takes its well-deserved dirt nap? Does the soul go to…
Seven days a week, it serves sake shots and tiny bowls filled with oversize corn kernels, and on Tuesdays, SushiSamba Dromo goes way left and converts into the home of all-out Harajuku-style mayhem. You can come as you are or dress like Chun-Li from Street Fighter, but don’t stare at…
In 1959, Brazilian artist Carybé was commissioned to paint two 50-foot-long murals in the American Airlines terminal at Idlewild Airport (which became JFK) in New York. But when the terminal outlasted its usefulness, officials planned to demolish the half-century-old murals. After all, they were in pretty bad shape and had…
Poor Pittsburgh Pirates. Their city is two-for-two in sports championships this year. The Steelers romped through the NFL Playoffs, and the Penguins completed an improbable (and epic) comeback to top the NHL. The Steel City hasn’t been this ecstatic since, well, it was actually making steel. And wouldn’t a trifecta…
The California governor himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, calls him “the best photographer I have ever worked with.” But for Robert Zuckerman, shooting photographs is just like being “a kid in a candy store.” Zuckerman’s experience snapping publicity pictures for films such as Any Given Sunday, Training Day, National Treasure, Transformers, and…
You may party like an American the other six nights a week, but on Saturdays, hit Uva 69 for its weekly Arabian Nights shindig. This Saturday-evening chill-fest includes belly dancing (by pros, not you), hookah-puffing, Uva’s light fare and tapas, and a full bar — all framed by a backdrop…
There’s only one way to properly commemorate our nation’s deliverance from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Dancing. Lots of it. So come join NYC Meets Miami, this weekend’s seven-event, multi-club Fourth of July bonanza organized by New York nightlife promoter Rob Diesel and featuring Big Apple-based DJs Nyse and Abrupt…
