Miami men are stylish, slick, and fastidiously groomed. Head to South Beach and you’ll find throngs of dudes in designer labels queuing up outside nightclubs and at elegantly sweaty bars. Now there is a new place for all the fine young males to be admired, and it takes a page…
Think it is a coincidence that the World Peace Conference Miami is scheduled exactly one year after President Bush publicly outlined his national strategy for victory in Iraq? We think not. Miami will partake in the first year-long, worldwide celebration in honor of the 100th anniversary of an exalted yoga…
With a cacophony of events and parties swelling the noggin during Art Basel, it should not come as a surprise that a savior has emerged to shepherd a flock of art aficionados through the soul-withering wilderness. Tonight at 6:30, Heather Urban, who has been anointed the “insider’s insider,” will be…
Arrrrrgh! We’ve been pillaging and plundering for hundreds of years, and now everyone wants to be a pirate. (Arrr! That damn Johnny Depp! Oh, but he’s a looker, all right.) Sure, you can put on a puffy shirt, stick a parrot on your shoulder, and wear a trendy skull-and-crossbones scarf,…
Next time you’re at a religious service and the choir begins to belt out a song, remember they are there for more than entertainment; where mere words might fail, a great singer’s voice can illuminate the meaning of God’s message. Yeah, attending a spiritually themed concert is probably a sneaky…
Guys, you might think it is cute to have your favorite childhood books filling the bookcase in your living room, but if Eric Carle, Shel Silverstein, and S.E. Hinton are the only authors you know, you are never going to get anywhere with the ladies. (Well, at least not the…
It was one of Art Basel’s most interactive, innovative shows in 2005, and now it’s back. Pimp My Kart is a touring art show — a socially conscious extravaganza that rolls along the streets of Miami — that was inspired by a homeless man who transformed two carts into a…
Most of us don’t have the funds to buy anything at Art Basel. But there is one event where you might be able to purchase an original piece and have a few cocktails: the third annual Masters’ Mystery Art Show at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach. More than 1500 original postcards…
In Miami you’re just as likely to hear street-corner conversations in Spanish or Kreyol as you would in English. Regardless of whether you say feliz navidad or joyeux noël, the pleasure of giving Christmas joy is universal. Many children in our sprawling city don’t get a visit from Santa Claus,…
The 1988 comedy classic Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was set on the French Riviera, but the scenario could just as easily be transposed to posh local areas like Bal Harbour, Las Olas, and Palm Beach. With a number of wealthy, desperate housewives and lonely socialites in South Florida, a distinguished con…
Update: Last week, New Times wrote about a 12-year-old ballroom dance ingenue in search of a partner. Krysten Batlle, a seventh-grader at Arvida Middle School in Kendall, has been winning dance competitions all over Florida for years, but the only partners she can find are at least twice her age,…
Okay, so Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott were asking for it by naming their latest megaproduction Déj Vu. These dudes aren’t exactly paragons of innovation, unless taking rhetorical hysteria to awesome new heights counts. As the opening credits roll — by which of course I mean roll, zip, flicker, fade,…
For progressives lifted, however temporarily, by the swell of a turning tide, Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is — an Airport movie with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as the central calamity and an all-star cast deployed like multiple George Kennedys. Juggling some 22 main characters…
Todd Field’s second excursion into middle-class unease, after his intelligent but overrated In the Bedroom, unfolds at a leisurely, insidious pace. It posits a suburb full of hypocrites busily persecuting their local child molester (a compellingly creepy Jackie Earle) so as not to face up to their own subterranean secrets…
At his eponymous gallery, Anthony Spinello has painted the walls of a room near the entrance a velvety brick tone and added white crown molding to suggest a Victorian parlor. He did so for “Sueño,” Santiago Rubino’s first solo show, hoping to add an air of mystery to the self-taught…
True Stories: A big-nose profile. A closeup of breasts. A photo of a woman sporting a pig-snout mask while holding cutlery. These are just a few of Sophie Calle’s photographic self-portraits. Above each 67-by-39-inch picture is a story about her life. Over the shnoz profile, Calle tells us that when…
I wasn’t looking forward to seeing Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love. On the surface, the Caldwell’s decision to house the production seemed like the most awesomely cynical move imaginable, coolly calculated to pacify the antediluvian nostalgia junkies who pay the theater’s bills. I thought the show would be theatrical comfort food,…
Zoo Story: Written in 1958 and steeped in shades of economic disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world, Edward Albee’s searing one-act play still retains its power to shock nearly a half-century later. The Edge Theatre stages the numbing encounter between a middle-class publishing exec and a disturbed transient at…
An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount) This isn’t exactly the kind of DVD you buy to watch again and again; the ending doesn’t get happier, and there are no twists to decipher with repeated viewings. The producers hope instead that you buy it and share it; it’s less movie, after all, than…
Guitar Hero gave party games a much-needed kick in the ass. No one expected this rhythm game — sold with a miniature plastic guitar — to play to sellout crowds. But it became the most addictive game of the year and one of the most attractive to nongamers. The reason…
American Slapstick (Image) Alias: The Complete Fifth Season (Buena Vista) Boston Legal: Season Two (Fox) The Cry Baby Killer (Buena Vista) Devil Times Five (Code Red) Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season Two (Paramount) Fall Out Boy: Solid Gold Uncertainty (Music Video Dist.) A Fish Called Wanda: Collector’s Edition (MGM) Freedom…
Shortly after winning a 1992 Tony Award — or so the story goes — composer William Finn found out he had a brain tumor. Despite his having just received the top award in his field for the Broadway musical Falsettos, the bad news inspired Finn to write a new semiautobiographical…
