Rock and roll swagger might be a great draw onstage, but Windy City curator Dominic Molon knows an exhibit mixing music and art is a cocksure hook for drawing stadium-size crowds to the art arena too. “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967” taps into the…
You might have never been to Milan, but you don’t need a passport to appreciate the nuances of Italian eating. We’ve seen you salivate over bowls heaped high with creamy risotto, panini overwrought with fresh veggies and deli meats, and the ultimate decadent dish — layer upon layer upon layer…
For a hot minute there, it looked like Madonna was about to make Kabbalah the new Scientology. Celebrities such as Demi Moore and man-boy Ashton Kutcher were seen sporting the red string on their wrists, and soon enough, even the perennially troubled Britney Spears was spied wearing the spiritual amulet…
Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that “strenuous indoor exercise” does not top anyone’s summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are lining up for Wii Fit, an exhausting personal trainer disguised as a videogame. Me? I’ll be kicking back with Mario Kart Wii and…
Jai alai is not a game for wussies. It takes onions to play a game in which your competition launches a ball at you with deadly speed, on par with the bullet that killed Abe Lincoln. And all you have to defend yourself is a wicker basket. During a standard…
When you hop onto your bicycle with a beer in one hand and an erect middle finger in the other, your friends think you’re nuts. “Watch out for open car doors!” and “Obey traffic lights!” they scream, but your hair is already blowing in the wind. You’re hell on two…
In your younger years, you used to signify the beginning of a weekend by lighting up. No one is going to judge you on that, but you’re all grown up now. You’ve got some sort of important job in a generic Brickell financial institution and are looking to find someone…
Maybe you’ve heard of straight camps. You know, the places bible thumpers send their queer sons and daughters to “pray away the gay” and become X-homos. Well, in Haiti there’s a similar remedy. Only it involves bathing in sheep’s blood, sacrificing a cow and banging on drums for seven straight…
City Theatre’s Summer Shorts was maybe the biggest thing to hit South Florida theater in 2007. It became enshrined as one of the two major short-play festivals in the nation when it partnered with Louisville’s famed Actors’ Theatre and moved from its old home at the Ring Theatre to the…
Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Paul Morrison Steering clear of her usual gooey weeping willows, the homegrown artist has tapped into the central nervous system of Sixties minimalist and junk art in her new show. Rodriguez deserves kudos for avoiding her comfort zone. New paintings and sculptures by British artist Paul…
CANNES, France — No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the dark. It’s impossible to forget, let alone transcend, one’s unnatural situation here. The opening film of Cannes’s 2008 edition clobbered participants with a cautionary allegory. Regardez:…
Steven Spielberg may rule Hollywood, but in the videogame biz — the more profitable of the two industries, becoming more so with each passing year — he’s a bikini-clad babe in Jaws-infested waters. Perhaps that’s why in 2005, Spielberg, an avid gamer, signed with developing giant EA Games for three…
When Quisqueya Henríquez mulls an idea, there’s no telling what medium she might use to shape it. The first major survey of the Cuban-Dominican artist’s career in the United States, now on view at Miami Art Museum (MAM), reveals a bold, fertile mind and immaculate craftsmanship. “Quisqueya Henríquez: The World…
Explosions, pratfalls, and robots; heroes, aliens, and blondes — it must be summertime at the movies. Beyond the flash, though, it’s striking to note just how many movies will require us to actually think this summer — aren’t we supposed to save thinking for the fall? Maybe it’s the election,…
Here’s your hat, Indy, but, really, what’s your hurry? Because 19 years after the Last Crusade that clearly wasn’t, and 15 years after the old man joined Young Indiana Jones on the small screen to recount his glory days blowing horns with Sidney Bechet, it’s almost unfathomable that this hoary…
It’s hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult,” says one tearful shopkeeper along the soon-to-be-submerged banks of the Yangtze River in Sino-Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang’s lucid, beautifully observed portrait of the same incipient flood zone that served as the backdrop for…
Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, who’s been absent from movie screens (except as an occasional actor) for nearly as long as…
CANNES, France — The competition for the Palme d’Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh’s two-part, four-and-a-half-hour Che—an epic non-biopic that might well have been approved by Roberto Rossellini, envied by Francis Coppola, and even appreciated by its subject…
There are some things in life you can count on. That ex of yours will always let you down; mom’s chicken soup will make you feel better when you’re under the weather. And you know Edison Farrow’s weekly bash, The Simple Life, at Buck 15 will always be filled with…
Perhaps when you imagine National Public Radio, you hear her distinctive tone. Diane Rehm sounds like a quavering grandma, but there’s a medical reason — it’s called spasmodic dysphonia, and Rehm has had it since 1998. The condition causes involuntary movements of the larynx, and at one point it almost…
If only high school had been like this: Hollywood actors contractually obligated to not only hang out with nerds but also pretend to like them. Welcome to the idyllic world of the Florida Supercon, where nerds will be disappointed to learn that Oliver Phelps, Devon Murray, and Stanislav Ianevski —…
God bless America and its long weekends. Sure, we don’t get monthlong “holidays” like our brethren across the pond, but we’ve grown to appreciate the little gifts our government gives us. So what if the entire country is forced to vacation on the same weekend? So what if the laws…
