“BALLS!” The drunken crowd, clad in tight jeans and ironically large sunglasses, splayed on a cheap folding chairs and pricey low-lying couches, screams mostly in unison and with feeling. It’s Bingo Night at the Standard. Inside the Belle Island hotel — a joint so hip that its bright white sign…
Kyle Munzenrieder NBC 6’s Roxanne Vargas blushed every time they dropped an f-bomb. Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer might have been too busy to drop by Friday’s 25th Anniversary screening of Scarface at The Gusman Center, but after a quarter century the true star of the film, Ángel Salazar, finally…
Michael McElroy If you haven’t read our profile on local artist Clifton Childree, you are missing out on getting to know one of the city’s most inventive people. Childree’s work is mostly done via film, for which he creates elaborate sets, recreating silent-era imagery laced with juvenile humor. Just so…
In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It’s hard to knock any sequence that climaxes with a musical number titled “Rock Me, Sexy Jesus,” done up nice and Grease-y. Problem is, the 80 or so…
Often kidded for the many times he bellows “Dammit!” at 11th-hour moments on 24, Kiefer Sutherland finally gets to show his range — and he proves equally skilled at “Goddammit!” and “Shit!” Even so, it’s a mystery why Sutherland attached himself to this dour, muddled thriller (copied from a Korean…
Transforming Light Through August 23. Dot Fiftyone Gallery, 51 NW 36th St., Miami; 305-573-9994, www.dotfiftyone.comThis zippy mélange might be thrifty on the electric bill, but it attempts to balance the dim wattage with a focus on concept instead. Don’t expect to be razzle-dazzled by laser beams, brilliant strobes, or mega-candlepower…
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, is a lot of things. It is a courtroom drama and a comedy. It is both a Christian and an existentialist apology — and it attempts to fuse those disparate philosophies. As presented by Ground Up and Rising, it is…
Alette Simmons-Jimenez comes across like an Amway representative when she describes local artists’ involvement in what she calls the “open collective” of the new incarnation of her gallery, Artformz Alternative. “We have two levels: artist partners, who have an intellectual investment in the space and pay $100 a month, and…
From Bill Murray’s Nick the Lounge Singer to Will Ferrell’s Robert Goulet, comedians (and audiences) can’t seem to get enough of the cheesy lounge act. There’s something uniquely American about our celebration of the lounge act, with its mediocre piano-playing, synthesizers, and corny renditions of songs no one ever really…
Is there any Miami movie bigger, badder, or more beloved than Scarface? The insurmountable framed evidence seen via MTV’s Cribs on every rapper’s living room wall tells us no effing way. It’s been a quarter-century since Al Pacino and Steven Bauer introduced us to the dangers of violating the 10…
Sun, sand, surf, blah, blah, blah. Live here long enough, and you’ll realize it ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Summer in Miami is too damn hot and humid to truly enjoy most of that outdoorsy stuff. The weather is stifling, the kids are at camp, and in these…
His name alone should conjure images of a hot party. But in case you need more, we’ll give you Hip-Hop legend, turned DJ extraordinaire. And tonight, Biz Markie will be in the house to put his spin on tastemaker Cherisse Coley’s birthday and Headliner Market Group’s “It’s Actually Fly…” Saturdays…
Guinness World Records recognizes her as the top art teacher in the world. With more than 17 million students ranging from Johnny Carson and Dave Letterman to “drug addicts in Hong Kong and amputees in India,” Conni Gordon has been teaching folks to paint using her patented four-step method “since…
According to smart people who study fossils, the ancient lemur survived Madagascar’s separation from continental Africa by boogie-boarding across the ocean on a large clump of plant life. That’s hard-core. Lemurs are cousins to your run-of-the-mill monkey, but with freakishly reflective eyes and a “toilet claw” that serves the same…
It’s been an up-and-down season for the Miami FC Blues. Our home team is floating between seventh and ninth place in the United Soccer League standings, and with just seven matches left to play, the Blues’ time is running out for a playoff spot. Striker Alex Afonso, who has 10…
If it’s Sunday and you find yourself in the semi-tony area of South Beach that the locals know as SoFi (South of Fifth Street), don’t feel compelled to have a $1,000 meal at Smith & Wollensky or drop a McDonald’s manager’s salary on bottle service at Privé. That’s right, you…
Your five-pound cat Muffy takes up as much space in bed as Fatty Arbuckle. This is a mystery best left unexplored. After a full night of contorting yourself around the happily sleeping feline, your spine cracks with a chakra-chakra sound. Perhaps your body is trying to tell you it’s time…
For thespians in South Florida, the 24 Hour Theater Project is an Olympic event equal in difficulty to the decathlon. This Sunday at sundown, a bunch of playwrights will gather at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. They’ll be tasked with writing a play based on a random title (at…
Bill Parcells’s Pavlovian reflex whenever one of his former players suddenly becomes available kicked up a few notches two weeks ago when the Jets released quarterback Chad Pennington. Parcells picked Pennington 18th overall in the 2000 NFL Draft (181 spots before Tom Brady!), back when the Tuna was running things…
Miami’s stage performance scene is studded with mainstream Broadway aspirants, edgy hip-hop-inspired companies, and award-winning thee-ay-tah types who sometimes take themselves too seriously. And then there are the Crystal Parrot Players, an intimate nonprofit troupe that treats performance as a labor of love. Founded by artistic director Sandra Riley and…
An evening at the Miami Beach Cinematheque (512 Española Way, Miami Beach) is like a visit to your eccentric aunt, who seems a bit odd to some but is undeniably fun nonetheless. The MBC is located in a modest storefont among the tourist-trap restaurants of Española Way; the “cinema” is…
A museum built for sticky-fingered kids hopped-up on Tootsie Rolls and BlowPops might not be high on your list of places to visit anytime soon, but the Miami Children’s Museum is anything but your average kiddy playground. With exhibits ranging from a semi-psychedelic “Castle of Dreams” to a faux TV…
