After a solid month of talking about Mickey Rourke non-stop, Riptide and the other residents of Rourke’s home town can finally see his Golden Globe-winning performance in The Wrestler. After being released in only New York and Los Angeles a month ago, the film is getting a wider release today…
Supermodel Christy Turlington just celebrated her 40th birthday and is still booking gigs. She recently spent some time poolside in Miami Beach with famed lens man Mario Sorrenti, shooting the spring/summer ads for Swiss luxe leather maker Bally. Good to know the recession hasn’t forced major supermodel layoffs or put…
Russian Dreams … Through February 8. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7530, www.bassmuseum.org. Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. At the Bass, this selection of cutting-edge works by contemporary Russian artists — which includes painting, photography, video, and…
Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the first film George Tillman Jr. has directed since 2000’s Men of Honor, about a sharecropper’s son who becomes the first black diver in the Navy who becomes the first amputee to return to…
For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works, in its way, as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new contestant in its pageant of cold-sweat set pieces. Often, this involves starlet Odette Yustman very, very slowly approaching some obscured, inevitably terrifying figure from behind. Yustman…
If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit next to us. We love to rank on unsuspecting passersby, chopping them to hilarious pieces with a slice of our silver tongue. Our mother used to slap our hand whenever we would indulge in naughty jokery, but no one can…
Okay, here’s the movie pitch: Take one part fetish vixen, Rubberdoll, and one part 600-plus-pound professional wrestler, Maximum Capacity. Top with a floater of creepy ghetto-bass purveyor Otto Von Schirach; add a splash of Miami promoter Notorious Nastie; garnish with the TM Sisters, Ted Vernon, and Sweat Records; then serve…
Generally speaking, there’s nothing chic about a bowling alley, where unsightly shoes combine with cheap beer, bad pizza, and ball grease to make for a mostly uncomfortable ambiance. But the lanes at Lucky Strike (1691 Michigan Ave., Miami Beach) are an exception: They’re unimpeachably chic, what with their gourmet sliders…
Comedian Artie Lange’s memoir is titled Too Fat to Fish, but recently his cohosts on the perennially popular suggested an alternative title: Ticking Time Bomb. Lange is of the breed of comedian who wears his life (and consequently his art) like an oversize cloak. And lately the cloak has been…
When organic food Shangri-la Whole Foods opened on South Beach, health nuts rejoiced. Finally it wouldn’t take a drive across the causeway to find a farmers’ market with pesticide-free apples. The Alton Road location is clearly more intimate than other sites, but what’s a little elbow rubbing when you can…
Last season, the Florida Marlins introduced the first Major League Baseball all-male dance squad. That in and of itself would be unique. But the Manatees are not your everyday run-of-the-mill average male dance squad. They’re actually your everyday run-of-the-mill average Joes. And by that, we mean they’re shaped like potatoes…
We tend to take the great outdoors for granted in South Florida. Maybe it’s that old adage, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Our winter-dwelling neighbors to the north are quick to slap on a pair of shorts and pack the tent into the minivan as soon…
Getting time alone is easy. Simply say, “I’m going to go see an experimental film,” and watch your friends run from you like fire ants from water. But say, “I’m going to go see a feature-length experimental film,” and they will, if they are truly your friends, throw you face…
Did you hear the one about the guy who came home and found his best friend in bed with his wife? He said, “Morris, I have to. But you?” Ba-dum-ching! That’s Catskills humor for ya. But the Borscht Belt — a string of large Jewish resorts where the likes of…
During Art Basel, the Dorsch Gallery was awash in kudos for its bugged-out group-show-undermining perception. “Shapeshifter” boasted nearly a dozen artists whose creative sleight of hand toyed with the senses and bitch-slapped viewers into recognizing that art can be chameleonlike and paradoxical in its nature. The exhibit featured paintings, videos,…
If you were at the Wyclef and Jay-Z Vote for Change concert or the Obama rally in downtown Miami, you know. Obama fever swept the 305 just as it did across the country (apologies to the folks still rockin’ the McCain/Palin stickers on their cars; you make us giggle in…
Pollo Tropical, El Rey de las Fritas, Subs on the Run, Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Those restaurants were the bane of many a Miamian’s existence in 2008. There’s an abundance of unhealthful fast-food joints to be discovered here, and the proof is in the greasy-ass paper bag the cashier…
Unless you were born with a platinum spoon in your mouth, chances are you’re feeling the effects of our crumbling job market. Pink slips are floating around like confetti, and salaries are falling like gas prices. In times like this, you can either cry or fly. Or you can go…
Some would say that to wear a mask on any day other than Halloween is the mark of eccentricity. Could you imagine walking into your boss’s office and see him sitting at his desk sporting a rubber interpretation of Dubya’s face? Or your mom baking a pie with a Zorro-inspired…
Ol’ Billy Joel has been kicking around the music industry for a while — beginning with his Billboard debut in 1973 with a little ditty called “Piano Man” that surely must be tattooed into the brain of every barkeep across these great United States. Since then, Joel had top ten…
The crappy economy is affecting every industry imaginable, most of all the ones that entertain and nourish us. The restaurant industry, from celebrity chefs to busboys, dishwashers, and even food producers and farmers are more than feeling the pinch. Fine establishments in Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, downtown, and Miami Beach…
“You can consider Dante even more of a surrealist than Dali,” wryly observes Jorge Luis Gutierrez, director of Miami Dade College’s art gallery system and curator of an intriguing exhibit of the Spanish painter’s work at the Freedom Tower. “The Divine Comedy” features 101 Dali watercolor prints commissioned by the…
