What are the holidays without a little singing? In this day and age, we can’t go a-caroling door-to-door (imagine that in Miami), but we can go to the beach and belt out a tried-and-true holiday tune. At least today we can – when the Lincoln Road Concert Series begins with…
Despite the undeniable presence of Haitian immigrants, the community tends to celebrate its rich culture at disparate locations scattered throughout the city. Unity is the goal behind the first annual Haitian Art and Films festival. Today through December 29, island-culture lovers are invited to the Tower Theater for music, art,…
Eberjey underwear doesn’t come cheap. Lace thongs range from $18 to $25, and its famous French briefs — seen in movies like American Pie — cost $28 to $38. But that’s a small price to pay to support a Miami-born success story. A decade ago, founders Ali Mejia and Mariela…
Just as the tie-dyed hippie-magic-man Doug Henning eschewed the stereotypical top hat, tuxedo, and porn-star mustache for his stage productions, Miami’s own elfin magician Dylan Ace prefers to keep it casual for his performances. You won’t find smoke machines or mirrors on his stage, nor will you find sequins or…
MoCA Cano with his princess Far from the hustle of Art Basel’s sundry fairs, Pablo Cano’s City Beneath the Sea, the artist’s ninth annual marionette show, played this weekend to a less-than-rapt audience of children — and their dazzled parents — at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami…
Hey there, tourists! Help yourself to one of several guides, booklets, pamphlets and maps being provided at the Miami Beach Convention Center in conjunction with Art Basel this year. Should you be interested in this one, the latest issue of The Adventures of Bi Bi & Friends (right), have at…
Sweet stuff Before a crowd of hundreds packed onto the sand at Collins Park’s Art Positions late Wednesday night, digital dominatrix Peaches took off her undies. No doubt the gathered Art Baselites were not the sort of audience for whom the bikini clad rocker was used to performing, but this…
Brancolini Grimaldi Arte contemporanea Roma/Firenze Strolling into the Wynwood district’s Soho building on Tuesday night for the inaugural Photo Miami fair opening, I breathed a sigh of relief. See, I love art. Never really sure what I’m supposed to seeing though. Sure, I’ll coo and gasp in Art Basel-style awe,…
Nobody said Art Basel was a bastion of high-mindedness. As the hordes of well-washed, champagne-sipping masses poured in to the opening night vernissage yesterday, the first thing many saw at the door was a copy of The Art Newspaper, its front page blaring a report on Miami Beach hotel price…
“T.I.A.,” mutters Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), slouched across a bar in Sierra Leone. It is 1999. As the West obsesses over Clinton’s blowjob, the West African nation is mired in a savage civil war. Our hero, a world-weary soldier of fortune, has struck up a conversation with Maddy Bowen (Jennifer…
From its wink-wink, nudge-nudge movie-within-a-movie opening to its bold-faced quoting of classic Hollywood farces such as The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday, Nancy Meyers’s The Holiday wants us to know it’s different from the kind of rom-com pablum that fills the multiplexes these days. And it is different; it’s…
One doesn’t feel too optimistic about a film that titteringly names its protagonist Lyshitski, especially when all the trailers would have you believe the story’s a one-joke riff on the fear of a black penis. So perhaps it’s just a case of low expectations at work here, but Let’s Go…
Thursday, December 7 Abba Fine Art. ¬Sicilian Set¬ and ¬911 Revisited¬: Lower gallery features Sicilian Set, showcasing the paintings of Emanuele Cacciatore and photography by Tony Caltabiano. The upper gallery presents 911 Revisited, a mixed-media installation by Debra Holt. Mondays-Sundays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Jan. 10. 305-576-4278. 233 NW…
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…
