Like Gauguin’s lush odes to Tahiti, Laura Kina explores dreams of paradise using Hawaii as her tropical muse in provocative mixed-media paintings. “Aloha Dreams,” opening tonight at 7:30 at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts (2043 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-576-1804, www.dlfinearts.com), draws on images of popular culture and offers loaded commentaries…
Casinos are full of guys acting tough, and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is no different. But tonight at 9:00, one group of guys won’t be acting. The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Hollywood, and the competitors will be kicking ass and taking names. Lightweights Sam Stout and…
Don’t get it twisted – Russell Simmons isn’t a businessman. He’s a business, man. The unassuming, modest dude who shuffled onstage at the end of every episode of HBO’s Def Comedy Jam to mutter, “Thanks for coming out, God bless y’all, goodnight,” is more than just one of the foremost…
Populist party candidate Jim Wurster is a shoo-in for U.S. president in the 2008 elec…. Sorry, we are referencing Wurster’s hilarious hoax Web bio (www.jimwurster.com). Actually Wurster ranks as one of the most engaging and evocative of South Florida’s stalwart stars, having made a huge mark as frontman of Nineties…
Every blue moon brings murmurs about a new party arising from the monotony that is the South Beach club scene. But you’ve heard it all before, and by now it takes a roar for you to believe it. For more than a year, the urban chic crowd has been meeting…
Bob Marley did it. Willie Nelson loves it. Snoop Dogg even made a career out of it. These musicians and many others have been bold about their love affair with Mary Jane. Rumor has it, ganja does get those creative juices flowing. Now we’re not suggesting that the Tony Hume…
As children, we had story hour, 60 minutes of sitting cross-legged while the adventures of the Berenstain Bears and the Cat in the Hat were read aloud. We seemingly listened intently but really just daydreamed about the milk and cookies that would soon be sliding down our greedy little throats…
It’s hard not to notice longtime Miami resident Claudia La Bianca www.claudialabianca.com with her whacky, colorful outfits, bleach-blonde waist-length dreadlocks, fishbowl-shape hazel eyes, and lilting Italian accent. Add to the mix a flair for film making and even veteran Hollywood producers Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett couldn’t refuse the charms…
The rumors started Friday in cyberspace, swirled throughout the weekend and by Monday morning, had reached a crescendo: what’s happened to DJ Laz and his morning Pimp Show on Power 96? The show wasn’t on the air Monday morning. And listeners heard other Power 96 jocks issue vague apologies that…
“The Sun” It was as if some advanced civilization sought to mock our ideas about natural beauty, heightening them and exaggerating them, fashioning vibrant, otherworldly creations that resemble plants and flowers boosted by alien DNA. Or, as my two-year-old son put it: “Look at the monsters!” Monstrous or beautiful, Dale…
And so Disney’s immense, booty-busting, pro-piracy epic has come to an End. I doubt very much that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is, in fact, the last we’ll be seeing of Capt. Jack Sparrow and, you know, all of those other people. How could it be? Treasure remains…
Dating games have come a long way since the days when Chuck Woolery invited mullet-sporting contestants to bump uglies on Love Connection. In Japan, the “dating simulator” video game craze has raged stronger than a schoolboy’s hormones since the early ’90s. But here in America — where our gaming interests…
Hannibal Rising (Weinstein) Pointless beyond belief, Hannibal Rising serves more as a cautionary tale than horror story. Made for $50 mil, the movie pocketed half that during its U.S. run and likely wound up in the red — an appropriate adios for a franchise starring a peripheral character better served…
Above the Law (Genius) The Andy Griffith Show: Complete Series Collection (Paramount) Big Train: Seasons One and Two (BBC Warner) Biography: Legends of the Silver Screen (A&E) Circle of Iron: 2-Disc Special Edition (Blue Underground) The Closer: The Complete Second Season (Warner Bros.) Drive Thru (Lionsgate) The Foursome (Universal) Free…
The Boy from Russia: What begins as an icky feelings-fest ends as a smart meditation on suburban values, parental instinct, and the way privilege or deprivation can twist a person’s sensibilities. The new, semiautobiographical play by South Floridian Susan J. Westfall follows yuppies Beth Marshall and Jack Goldman (Sandy Ives…
Sol LeWitt x 2: Sol LeWitt earned himself a place in history books as one of the Johnny Appleseeds of the minimal and conceptual art movements during the Sixties. He’s also among the most prolific artists of the mid-Twentieth Century. “Sol LeWitt x 2,” a two-part exhibition at Miami Art…
Once upon a time, there was a little gay bar called Rocks on the Mile in a little city called Coral Gables. Not many people knew this little gay bar was there, for everyone thought all the gay bars were on South Beach. But this little gay bar had a…
Fans of the HBO series Entourage can re-enact the antics of Vincent Chase and his goofy gang at Broadway Billiards every week at a hot new party called Entourage Thursdays. Well, at least the ladies can. Women in groups of six or more will feel like A-list celebs when they…
She comes onstage with the flowing brown hair and piercing green eyes of a modern-day screen siren, but once she grabs the mike, you know Tammy Pescatelli is there to do more than play the girlfriend to some corny, tight-shirt-wearing hero. Then she says, “Hi, my name’s Tammy Pescatelli. Yeah,…
What is it with the lack of mini golf parks in Miami? You’d think in a flat, bustling town like ours, there’d be lots more places to putt a ball past the slowly turning blades of a windmill. But unless you count the trek up to Boomers in Davie, there…
The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We do not like them in a box. We do not like them with a fox. We do not like them in a house. We do not like them with a mouse. But we do…
As most Miamians know, vodou isn’t a religion exactly. It’s more like a code used by slaves and ex-slaves in Haiti to Africanize the Anglo crap that has been shoved down their throats. With trance-inducing, resonant, traditional drums leading the call, Erol Josué sings in tongues – lyrics are a…
