Stay-at-Home Dad For his current project at Hardcore, Juan-Si Gonzales literally put his balls on the line. The 47-year-old Cuban artist underwent a vasectomy reversal operation, allowing him to create “Stay-at-Home Dad,” featuring several digital prints of his infant daughter along with religious toys and text that reflect a virulent…
Theatergoing is generally an expensive hobby, but not this week. If you play your cards right, you can see 18 plays for $102. That’s 16 short plays at City Theatre’s Summer Shorts festival (for $92, including dinner, or see them separately for $37 apiece) and two one-acts at the new…
Not unlike blues legend Robert Johnson, considered by many to be the granddaddy of rock and roll, Dominic Molon must have found himself tempted by a Faustian deal. Five years ago, the curator was at the crossroads between rockers and artists, confronting the daunting task of exploring the deep-rooted and…
John Edwards might see two Americas, but this simpleminded little game enthusiast is more preoccupied with America’s two Wii owners. One is the Nintendo fan: the cat who bought a GameCube, Nintendo 64, every incarnation of the Game Boy — and anything Nintendo releases with a “Mario” or “Zelda” in…
Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsize codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad superheavy: catching barbecue fish in his butt crack on a Tel Aviv beach, repelling bullets with his nostril, sculpting hand grenades into toy poodles for delighted Palestinian children while making mincemeat of an Arab terrorist…
Screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it, and what it looks like depending on where you’re standing. In Conrad’s The Weather Man, the central figure was a vain TV news personality who had everything that…
Suggesting an American remake of David Moreau and Xavier Palud’s Them, The Strangers is practically an abstraction: an old-school spooker spun from the blood splatter on a wall, a nearby record player scratching an oldie, a CB radio in the garage, a creaky swing set in the back yard. First-time…
There are many ideal times for beer drinking — a lazy Sunday afternoon at the beach, a baseball game, or immediately after a hard day’s work. This week, there’s a four-hour chunk of Saturday evening made for guzzling like a zealous Viking: From 6 to 10 p.m., you won’t want…
Gaggles of beautiful girls press their high heels against the cracked rocks; the night air is heavy, hot, and wet; the clubs are stumbling distance to each other; and the parties are famous. It’s a veritable downtown Miami Babylon. The developing walkability of the neighborhood means you can drink and…
Some women don’t want you to know their age, while others conceal their shoe size. Some decide to hide their IQ, maybe to fit in or maybe because they adore catching foolish machismo by surprise. But today at the Byron Carlyle Theater (500 71st St., Miami Beach), the women of…
Sixty years after television made it obsolete, radio drama is going strong, surviving purely on the sheer nerdiness required to produce it. Its patron saint, This American Life host Ira Glass, has a voice so perfectly dorky that children get beat up just for listening to it — so of…
Banyans have those incredible trunks, willows are weepy, and oaks are famously mighty. But few trees are so strikingly beautiful that they’ve earned an annual festival dedicated to their floral magnificence. Offer all praise to the head-turning blossoms at this year’s Royal Poinciana Festival. Miami’s oldest continuously running (and arguably…
In case you’re a rum, vodka, or — shudder — Everclear drinker, allow us to educate you about one of our favorite brands o’ booze. That would be Johnny Walker. This popular Scotch comes in a wondrously inebriating rainbow of labels. Red is what they call a “mixing Scotch,” which…
It’s Sunday morning, and you’re planning on parking your butt in front of a Top Chef marathon. But out-of-town guests are blowing up your phone, demanding to go out to brunch. It’s cool. You don’t have to suffer through another mundane plate of eggs Benedict over boring small talk (of…
In America — hell, at Churchill’s alone — everything that can be done already has been. We’ve seen a guy light himself on fire and then ride a motorcycle into the pub (he was briefly banned). Lead singers have thrown their pubic hair on the crowd like an effed-up ticker…
About the only music lovers making out in this scorching heat are the crickets. But no worries — while they’re rubbing their wings into a sweat, you can saunter inside to the cool club feel of the Coral Gables Congregational Church’s Community Arts Program and rub shoulders with artists who’ve…
Back in our day, we had to walk 30 miles to school with holes in our shell-toes and a cattle-driving dog nipping at our heels. But once we arrived at our destination, the amazing art, music, and science programs made us forget about the fact that our feet were now…
You’ve watched every episode of So You Think You Can Dance, bought leg warmers and tights, and somehow made it through Shall We Dance?, Step Up 2 the Streets, and Save the Last Dance. Now it’s time to put those moves to use, right? Well, before you try to re-create…
Pearl Jam has always been a political sort of band — recall the Ticketmaster boycott, Eddie Vedder’s public Bush bashing, and the group’s aversion to big business, including their own record labels. Unfortunately, their political maneuvers don’t always work out. It’s like the Midas touch in reverse: Everything they endorse…
Lola Bar couldn’t tame it, and Lounge 16 was too small to satisfy it, but Liquor Lounge handcuffed it for a year, and The Club House was an appropriately raucous fling SpiderPussy tackled with major verve. No matter where its flower decided to open up, this box has been the…
One of the main reasons for the Florida Marlins’ recent ass-kicking ways has been the out-of-his-gourd play of 28-year-old second baseman Dan Uggla. He finished May atop the NL homerun leader board alongside stalwarts such as Lance Berkman and Ryan Howard. Yet for all of his bad-assery, Uggla has remained…
Call us eat-out-aholics, but our workdays are nothing without the anticipation of biting into an eight-dollar sandwich for lunch. And be honest, you agree that special occasions are meaningless without some chain restaurant serving up huge plates of forgettable cuisine. Never mind the constant disappointment we endure; we have issues!…
