Beauty might be only skin deep, but a great personality isn’t going to get you in the door of that ritzy club. When the sun sets, doormen everywhere assume the position of Saint Peter, permitting the stylish and beautiful to pass through the nightlife version of the Pearly Gates. Those…
The NBA playoffs are commonly considered the real season. The 82 regularly scheduled games serve as a seeding process, although tonight’s 7:30 scrimmage versus the New York Knicks has a tinge of drama because back when the Knicks were a pro-level team, the Heat had something of a rivalry with…
Few contemporary dance groups provoke thought or dazzle the senses as much as Ronald K. Brown and his Evidence Dance Company, whose work has earned the talented hoofer a reputation as one of the most profound choreographers of his generation. Tonight and Saturday at 8:00, Miami Dade College brings Brown’s…
When drive-ins ruled, our parents flocked to them to conceive us in the back seats of their cars. Later, when they couldn’t find a babysitter, they hogtied us in the Chevy and dragged us to the scene of the crime, polluting our pliant young minds with B-movie cheese while they…
Before the iPod, people used to actually wear giant headphones and carry clunky Walkman cassette players while running down the street. Even after skip-protected CD players came out, an evening jog was still accompanied by stuttering versions of your favorite tunes if you hit uneven pavement. Gosh, if only you…
Whenever landlocked visitors come to Miami, they always want to have drinks by the water. “Let’s go to South Beach,” they plead, not yet realizing that although the name would indicate fabulous seaside vistas, most of the bars there aren’t within eyeshot of the lapping waves. If you want to…
With the holidays approaching, everyone has been busy making lists of gifts they want to receive and those they will give. But go ahead and cross the Miami Art Museum off of your gift-giving list, because the museum just got a big one. In fact it is the largest single…
Real estate come-on, or art? Was it true? All the hubbub about razing The Miami Herald’s waterfront headquarters and putting up condo towers? Sure, Herald poobahs have said there are no plans to move, and the city has rejected a bid to rezone the bay front property for highrises. But…
Lock yer doors, pirates be comin’ From Blackbeard to the infamous Captain Barbarossa, history’s most renowned pirates have all exhibited an unseemly talent for raping, pillaging, scheming, cheating, and lying. Ironically, this past Friday, before a modest crowd who had gathered at Bayfront Park to witness the cast and crew…
August Wilson August Wilson, one of the 20th Century’s greatest playwrights, died last year at age 60. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and high school dropout was among the first to put the black American experience, imbued with truthful vernacular, humor, politics and sex, before theatre goers. On Friday morning,…
Once an actor gets big enough to take whatever kind of role he wants, it makes sense that the biggest stretch imaginable, given his current situation, is the part of a powerless man with no control over the world around him. Call it a “nice” movie — a vehicle designed…
Pity Max Skinner, emasculated over his lamb chops. On a gray afternoon, at London’s hot spot du jour, his gloating superior unveils a plot to poach his most lucrative client, divesting him of a six-figure bonus (pounds sterling) in the process. Fuck it. The bummed-out bond trader hands in a…
The third collaboration between Britain’s Aardman studio and DreamWorks animation, this puckish charmer about a posh Kensington mouse flushed down the loo into London sewer country is to action-adventure what Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was to Hammer Horror. Aardman’s first foray into CGI might spell woe…
While covering the 1970 Kentucky Derby with Hunter S. Thompson for an obscure sports magazine, Ralph Steadman had his sketchpad hurled on by a julep-sodden horse dealer before a race. The artist had put his money on a nag called Holy Land but turned from the track to scan the…
Manimalism: Miami International University of Art & Design students and faculty have ripped a page from H.G. Wells’s sci-fi classic The Island of Dr. Moreau and hatched their own crossbreed experiments with equally bizarre flair. “Manimalism” features more than twenty animal/human hybrid characters that curator and sculpture instructor Brian Hiveley…
Mr. Marmalade: Teetering on the edge of reality, Noah Haidle’s play takes you to the playground of make-believe for emotionally disturbed children. Yes, four-year-old Lucy’s imaginary friend is a bipolar coke addict who also has a personal assistant. And the little girl’s real friend, Larry, is suicidal. (Life sucks when…
The Junky’s Christmas (Koch) They just aren’t cranking out claymation Christmas specials like they used to, which makes this a welcome one. Nicer still, it’s got heroin! A mixture of stop motion with a little puppetry and live-action shots of William Burroughs (who may himself have been a Muppet), this…
In the gangsta pantheon, nobody gets more respect than Tony Montana. Consider all the homages: Not one, but two rappers have named themselves after Montana (Scarface of the Geto Boys and Tony Yayo of G-Unit), and Nas borrowed Montana’s slogan for his breakout hit, “The World Is Yours.” Indeed, the…
Anna Karenina (Kino) Arrested Development: Seasons One-Three (Fox) The Best of the Scripps National Spelling Bee (ESPN) Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete First Season (Paramount) Cinema Paradiso (Weinstein) The Fallen Idol (Criterion) Freak Out (Anchor Bay) Jag: The Complete Second Season (Paramount) The James Bond Collection: Volumes One and Two…
The holidays are practically upon us, and everyone’s party schedules are rapidly filling up. ´Tis the season to look gorgeous, and there’s no better place to get your glamour on than at the M•A•C Annual Shopping Extravaganza. Now in its third year, the fundraising event will benefit Suited for Success…
Not all aphrodisiacs are created equal. Chocolate is fattening, champagne can give you a headache, and products like horny goat weed and deer antler should be avoided at all costs. In terms of sensual and arousing foods, nothing beats the oyster. Slippery and succulent, these salty mollusks have a well-earned…
Miami is known for its intellectual buffet of Cuban, South American, and Haitian culture. But if you’re looking to whet your appetite for something different, point your compass farther east today and visit the sixth annual Iranian Festival of South Florida. The Persian-theme party offers Middle Eastern food, music, art,…
