If 2006 was your year of the slob, spent in a chocoholic, sedentary haze, blithely letting the phone ring as your creditors kept calling, it’s time to snap out of it and get off of your lazy butt. Two thousand seven is your year to change for the better, and…
Live dance performance can be grueling, as dull as a spoon. But, at its best, it can also be explosive and propulsive, an in-the-face assault on the senses that leaves audiences so drained they feel like they did the steppin’ themselves. Vincent Mantsoe’s work definitely falls under the latter description…
It has been threatening our city for months, and whether you plan on putting up your Super Bowl shutters or heading outside for a look-see, there’s no escaping this storm. The big game is days away, but today you and the other early birds can celebrate at the NFL Experience,…
Thirteen-time Pro Bowler, three-time Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl MVP, and Rookie of the Year are just a few of the accolades Jerry Rice garnered during his unparalleled twenty-year NFL career. His fleet feet and deft hands won him the admiration of many coaches, teammates, opponents, and sports writers, who…
In 1969 — the dog days of the preternaturally long summer of love — Dr. David Reuben released a slim volume titled Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). The book became a must-have manual and is widely deemed responsible for altering attitudes and…
Foodies and world music freaks seeking an exciting weekend of cultural immersion should stop what they’re doing and head straight down Coral Way. The 30th annual Lebanese Festival will be rocking the Gables from 5:00 p.m. Friday until midnight Sunday, making the Our Lady of Lebanon Catholic Church a mecca…
When one thinks of “Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice,” girls toting assault rifles don’t pop into mind. But in this exhibit, featuring the work of a trio of lens slingers investigating the image of women in a media-saturated world, convention is damned. Tonight at 6:30 at the Art and…
More than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed since the 2003 invasion, according to U.S. public health researchers. In that embattled corner of the world, thousands of civilians risk their lives and begin each day facing the perils of war and occupation. Living with War is a documentary series that reveals…
A mere weekend stroll down Lincoln Road offers a smorgasbord of delicious foodstuffs. From ginormous slabs of pizza to epicurean fusion sushi, there is something to please every palate along South Beach’s most family-friendly strip. Today gourmands and gluttons should break out the comfy-chic stretch pants and get ready for…
Taylor Steele is like the Quentin Tarantino of surf movies. In 1989 his first film, Seaside and Beyond, captured the California scene through a newbie’s lens, but since that initial foray, Steele’s cameras have traveled far beyond sleepy Seaside Reef. The Hawaiian pipeline scenes he captured in 1992’s Momentum changed…
There was a time when country songs were about being a cowboy, drinking whiskey, and offing your wife — and times were good. Nowadays you can nary find a song about wife-killing, and half of the acts — with their popped collars and greasy hair — look like primped city…
I have a confession. Sometimes, at 8:00 p.m., I turn to the Food Network and watch Emeril Live. I know, I know — all that bam-ming can grate on your last nerve. But there’s something magical about Emeril at work, and watching the audience groan and grin like idiots can…
For women a free drink from a cute lad is a good thing. Unfortunately it is also a rare thing. Disinterested damsels often find themselves slipping away to the restroom to escape the cling of an overly amorous courtier. Sorry, fellas, but it’s going to take more than one Skol…
In arguably the most anticipated event of the season, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) is featuring the first U.S. exhibit focusing on Merce Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists from 1997 to the present. The two-part project culminates at the museum’s Wynwood annex in April. During a career spanning more…
The PlayGround Theatre has earned a reputation for producing extraordinarily well-crafted productions for children. Its past performances have enthralled young audiences via vibrant costumes and out-of-this-world sets, while bringing to life vintage fairy tales and European fables. Now the theater group is giving youngsters recess and producing a play for…
The countdown is on The second annual South Beach Comedy Festival landed on the beach with a bang this past weekend. Big headliners like Jon Stewart and Bill Maher performed at the Jackie Gleason Theatre, and solid B-listers like Roseanne and Jim Breur played to the smaller houses. On Saturday…
At face value, Alpha Dog — based on a real-life story that’s still waiting for its ending — plays like an amped-up, drugged-out episode of Dragnet: In 2000 a gang of SoCal kids kidnapped and murdered fifteen-year-old Nicholas Markowitz, a soft-spoken boy from the San Fernando Valley who dreamed of…
In the new Clint Eastwood movie, ordinary young men — husbands and fathers, artisans and aristocrats — are drafted into a war whose motives many of them do not fully understand. There, on an island called Iwo Jima, they fight against an enemy who has been demonized by wartime propaganda…
From the eardrum-shattering shout of “Attention!” that echoes over the opening logo, through to the strobe-lit krump dancing contest that follows, the early scenes of Stomp the Yard are so loud and incoherent that they feel like punishment. After an equally incomprehensible street brawl, director Sylvain White pauses long enough…
If you’re a tiny little theater with a tiny little budget, there is no better play to tackle than Three Angels Dancing on a Needle, by exiled Iranian playwright Assurbanipal Babilla. You need no sets, no props, no costumes. All that’s required is a director as perverse as Square Peg…
In May 2000, when Little Havana’s monthly schlock street festival Viernes Culturales (Cultural Fridays) began, the area already boasted an edgy arts scene that attracted multiculti crowds from throughout the city. There was a late Friday-night rumba every week at Adalberto Delgado’s gritty pioneer space, 6G. Black-box performances (including Surreal…
Oscar Bony, Leon Ferrari, and Tracey Snelling: Perfumed by the scent of fresh paint and sparkling floors, Pan American’s newly hatched Wynwood digs open with the muscular work of Argentine conceptualists Leon Ferrari and Oscar Bony in the capacious main space, and multimedia pieces by California’s Tracey Snelling in the…
