The skinny leg pant trend has left the building, and guess what’s on it’s way in? High-waisted, bell-bottomed pants a la Jan and Marcia Brady, which, FYI, are universally more flattering than the stovepipe cuts of last season. The revolving door of fashion trends slows for no one. One way…
With promises of beautiful women, delicious treats, and good times, who wouldn’t want to go to The Fifth tonight for the I Love the Ladies bash? As enticing as it sounds, not everyone can attend. This party is strictly for girls who love girls — sorry guys! This monthly event…
Experiencing winter in Miami is as unlikely as running into a giant, magical, ice-skating rodent. But the odds of the latter encounter will be pretty good tonight, when Disney on Ice skates into the American Airlines Arena. Couture designer Rene Ruiz and a few Disney characters will host an invitiation-only…
During the past three decades, Marina Abramovic has become known for her raw, unnerving performances in which she uses her body to test the limits of endurance, often placing herself directly in harm’s way. The artist has whipped and lacerated herself, frozen her body on blocks of ice, and nearly…
File this under “truth is stranger than fiction” — a modern dance company coming to Miami Beach is performing a ballet based on The Price Is Right. Seriously. The Australia-based Expressions Dance Company’s latest work, Score!, is based on the behind-the-scenes action at a reality TV game show. If there…
If you get a Santa Claus-like twinkle in your eye every time you see the letters “XXX,” then the Exxxotica convention this weekend at the Miami Beach Convention Center just might be your dream come true. Porn goddesses Jenna Jameson and Tera Patrick will be at arm’s reach, there’ll be…
Put on your walking shoes and come hungry: The fourth annual Coral Gables Wine and Food Festival gets under way tonight, from 7:00 to 9:00. The area between Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Galiano Street will show why its nickname is “restaurant row” by hosting more than 25 booths of…
The pursuit of the majestic billfish is probably best known to most of us landlubbers as the subject of one of the true American literary masterpieces — and probably your seventh grade book report — Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. So it’s fitting that the Miami Billfish Tournament…
As the founder and executive director of the Women’s International Film Festival, there have been moments when Yvonne McCormack-Lyons has questioned her sanity. Putting together a four-day film festival that features over 170 films from seventeen countries must boggle the mind at times. But thanks to her blood, sweat, and…
As the program director of the University of Miami’s motion pictures program, Paul Lazarus is immersed in Coral Gables campus life. In the Seventies, Lazarus worked in Hollywood as a producer, on films like Yul Brynner’s sci-fi/western Westworld, and the James Brolin/OJ Simpson vehicle Capricorn One. But it took a…
Getting down for a good cause Since it was erected last fall from scraps of wood and sheet metal, Liberty City’s Umoja Village shantytown — which currently houses 50 residents – has managed to keep close to whatever’s hot in Miami. During the Superbowl, Umoja residents staged demonstrations, calling national…
Winter Music Conference might have spawned some pretty stellar parties, but Susanne Bartsch’s bash at the swanky Setai hotel on South Beach this past Friday was the ultimate in divine debauchery. Where else would you find the likes of America’s most infamous transsexual, aka Amanda Lepore, perched naked in a…
The Bebop Theatre Collective’s Sty of the Blind Pig opened last night at the Joseph Caleb Auditorium. Sitting in that theater in the heart of Liberty City, time seems to rewind. You’re transported to a small apartment in pre-civil rights Chicago — a witness to the secrets inside one of…
Even 67-year-old actresses can have their moments of Internet infamy, as Lily Tomlin discovered this week, when the sister blogs of celebrity snark, Gawker and Defamer, posted guerrilla video shot on the set of I Heart Huckabees, the 2004 film in which Tomlin clashed with director David O. Russell. Along…
Democracy can be a messy affair. After months of closed doors negotiations and planning for Museum Park (a.k.a. Bicentennial Park), the city held a public meeting Wednesday to show preliminary plans and take comments. More than 100 people jammed into a meeting room at the Performing Arts Center, with more…
In the same week that sees Adam Sandler playing a grieving 9/11 widower in Reign over Me, another lone figure reeling from post-traumatic stress fills the central role in the new Antoine Fuqua-directed thriller, Shooter. Named Bob Lee Swagger and played with appropriately gruff machismo by Mark Wahlberg, he’s a…
As Charlie Fineman, a New York dentist who lost his wife and three young daughters in one of the September 11 plane crashes, Adam Sandler sports a mass of bedraggled locks and walks with his head hung low, the sounds of the city drowned out by The Who or Bruce…
The feature debut from South African director Sunu Gonera is straight from the sports-film playbook, the one in which an underdog team coached by an obstinate overachiever overcomes obstacles and adversity to take home the gold. It’s Hoosiers in a swimming pool — well, Glory Road, anyway, given this is…
La Cage aux Folles is a weirdly resonant story, and that is not just my opinion. It began life as a French play, got reworked as a now-classic French-Italian film, was turned into a Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical that proceeded to win just about every Tony ever invented, and then…
Fat Pig: If you are a successful young businessman and you find yourself falling in love with a pretty, witty, engaging girl who just happens to be 80 pounds overweight, do you break up with her when your friends start making fat jokes? That’s the dilemma faced by Fat Pig’s…
“Bodies”: Controversy has stuck to “Bodies … The Exhibition” like a blood tick on a hound dog’s tail, but more than 10,000 spectators flocked to see the corpse show within days of its debut. If you’re one of the few people who still hasn’t seen what all the fuss is…
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.) Ed Zwick’s Blood Diamond, about the civil war over diamonds that devastated Sierra Leone in the late 1990s, plays like a guilt-ridden Jerry Bruckheimer movie. It’s little more than action-adventure pulp drenched in someone else’s blood — which it tries to wash off by proselytizing to…
