Don’t be fooled. Although Lee Blessing’s usual eloquence gives Down the Road the look and feel of Devastating Cultural Analysis, its heart is pure pop psychology. The subject under discussion is that old canard, The Commodification of The Individual and The Ascendance of Celebrity Culture, but Blessing can’t seem to…
Just a Kiss: In Catherine Bush’s new play, making its world premiere, two beautiful but struggling actresses are excited to land costarring roles in an off-Broadway play. The enthusiasm of Zee Scott (Caroline Edelen), a guarded, eccentric loner; and Annie Howard (Elise Girardin), one half of a conservative cohabitating couple,…
Rocky: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition (MGM) An old TV commercial for Rocky included here compares Sylvester Stallone to Pacino, De Niro, and Brando — and though we now know this to be pure madness, it’s easy to see what inspired it. Sure, Stallone (who also wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay) slowly destroyed…
I did not have to fend off a horde of bloodthirsty geeks for my PlayStation 3. And nobody shot me either, as one hapless Connecticut gamer was. Actually, I just preordered my console weeks ago, and on the day it came out, I walked into the store, paid for it,…
The Architect (Magnolia) Beerfest: Unrated (Warner Bros.) Charlie Chan Collection, Volume 2 (Fox) Coma Girl (Cinequest) The Conformist: Special Collector’s Edition (Paramount) Dinosaur Valley Girls: Mammoth Edition (Cinema Epoch) Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series (Brentwood) Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton: The Film Collection (Warner Bros.) Gwen Stefani: Harajuku…
If you can put aside the crude jokes about certain meaty ingredients, you’ll find that Vietnamese cuisine is among the most sophisticated of the Asian culinary traditions, and one of the finest restaurants in Miami happens to serve up excellent renditions of those Chinese and French-influenced dishes. Since opening the…
In the Jetsons’ futuristic utopia, urban dwellings looked like they had been stuck atop Seattle’s Space Needle, but by comparison, the hyperornamental architecture sprouting in Dubai today makes the space-age family look like they were stuck in the Stone Age. Presented by Black Bird Space and Factory Model, “Pause,” opening…
We know how stressful the holidays can be for us, but can you imagine how your dogs must feel? C’mon, you bring a tree into the house and then expect Kiki and Rufus to not chew, scratch, or pee on it? That is so unfair. Take the fur kids out…
There are the books you proudly display – volumes by Steinbeck, Mailer, and Twain. Then there are the well-thumbed ones you stash under your bed. The location of your copies of Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls and Dominick Dunne’s People Like Us doesn’t mean those books are anything less…
The woman who wears Aveda loves beautiful colors and highly pigmented makeup but would never use items tested on animals or created under circumstances that are less than environmentally aware. That combination of glamour and goodness is reflected in all Aveda salons, especially the just-off-Lincoln Road Van Michael Miami salon…
Seattle comedian Brad Upton recently said, “You’d think the world’s greatest glass artist would make himself an eye.” That’s funny. Love him or loathe him, Dale Chihuly is often credited as revolutionizing the studio glass movement, and his exhibit at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden brought nearly 300,000 visitors to the…
I never would have thought that a sports bar could serve a tasty specialty martini. But after downing countless beers and bloody marys at the neighborhood pub with my friend J-Dog, I decided to see if the Flanitini at Flanigan’s (check the Website for other locations) lived up to the…
In a division (the Atlantic) where no team has a winning record, Toronto has achieved what some thought to be an impossibility: knocking the Knicks out of last place. Don’t laugh too hard, fans, because the Raptors’ terrible record isn’t all that much worse than your Miami Heat’s. Yes, the…
Microwave dinners and reruns of Friends are convenient, but one can take only so much precooked chicken and Joey Tribbiani one-liners. After all, it is okay to desire some refinement when it comes to dinner and entertainment. Ditch the sodium-packed cardboard food and played-out jokes and head to Macarena tonight…
Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Ezra Pound had their atelier at 24 Rue de Fleurus in Paris in the Twenties. Andy Warhol and his gang had Studio 54 in New York in the Seventies. Supremus Roots have Miami in December. Okay, these locals aren’t famous yet, but they are hoping…
Like most photographers, Jeremiah Jenner received his first camera at a young age and fell in love with the process of capturing an object exactly how he sees it in that brief moment in time. But he also had the luxury of growing up in Rochester, New York — the…
It is the immortal debate among those who know, or think they know, more than most about South Florida. Is the 150-square-mile rural area in South Miami-Dade the Redland, or is it the Redlands? Lexicographers have long sought a definitive answer, without luck. The style mavens at this newspaper decided…
These are chaotic times, what with the war and the housing market and all that miserable traffic everywhere. Buddha once said, “Peace comes from within.” Begin your journey of inner peace this month at the Wat Buddharangsi, the Thai Buddhist monastery (yes, there is such a thing here in Miami)…
I’m not a psychoanalyst, but I play one on TV. Okay, I’m not a TV actor either, but like many people, I love to psychoanalyze the borderline crazies who cross my path daily — just like you’re probably trying to analyze the first couple of sentences in this paragraph. Some…
Alcohol and girls in wet wifebeaters were once considered a frat boy’s forte. But it’s a new day, and Laundry Bar is celebrating a woman’s desire to enjoy such things via the Naughty Girls party. Every Thursday night at 10:00, women who love women congregate at this South Beach club…
Considered the “architect of the exile community’s visual Cuba” by curator Jesus Rosado, artist Humberto Calzada creates visually serene yet psychologically charged scenes of his native land, weaving the languages of architecture and nature to transport the viewer. Rich with elements of Cuban colonial and neoclassical architecture, Calzada’s work explores…
Art Basel Miami Beach is only five years old, but the festival acts more like a know-it-all teenager. Patrons purchasing art like they would pick stocks, and artwork that inspires a WTF? rather than a wow! steer the everyday art lover away from the haughty Swiss import. Friends with You…
