Ever-changing Spectrums: For $1650 a year, artists clinch fifteen feet of wall space during one of the three-month group exhibits Art Fusion switches out four times a year. The artistic criterion for inclusion in the gallery’s stable seems to be a penchant for cranking out wildly colorful stuff in the…
The Proposition (First Look) There’s an old saying about Ginger Rogers, who did everything Fred Astaire did — but backward and in heels. This Australian western seems to be saying something similar about gritty American westerns: You think that’s hard? Try living in the Outback. The Proposition mucks about in…
LocoRoco arrived with impossibly high expectations. This ridiculously cute new game for the PlayStation Portable debuted as a demo in April, and since then, the gaming press has tripped over itself to anoint it the successor to Katamari Damacy or Guitar Hero. Now the game’s finally here, and at first…
After Sex (New Yorker) Bob & Tom Radio: The Comedy Tour (Image) The Boris Karloff Collection (Universal) Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (Strand) 8th & Ocean: The Complete First Season (Paramount) Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (Wolfe) Gilmore Girls: The Complete Sixth Season (Warner Bros.) Go for…
Picture reggae music as something like a groovy, bass-heavy Russian nesting doll, comprising genre inside of similar genre. Rocksteady, roots, dub, and dancehall all share space within this term’s outermost shell. And then there was rockers, the Seventies subgenre also known as lovers’ rock. The name was derived from Augustus…
Everyone who put money on the Marlins’ being in the playoffs — or even coming close — please stand up and give a big shout. Okay. Now sit down and shut up, you liars. We admit our own derogatory declamation of the teal sleepers (no, it’s not a dream!) in…
An entertainment shows special promise when it inspires treatment in multiple media. The Light in the Piazza glows with romance hot enough to have moved it from the printed page to one of Broadway’s brightest lights of recent years (six Tony Awards in 2005), with a delightful stop in movie…
A friend of ours once told us that to be a proper host we should always keep these drinking staples on hand: Chimay, ginger beer, and a good rum, “Not that Bacardi crap,” the wise Brit would say. If our buddy were in town, we know he would be the…
Their unpretentious sartorial style might not be often imitated by today’s rappers, but if you can’t hear the influence of A Tribe Called Quest in the music of recent chart-toppers, you need to get your ears checked. The introspective lyrics of Kanye West, the experimentalism of OutKast, and the colorful…
Over the past quarter-century, the annual Sting concerts have become a launch pad for some of the Caribbean’s hottest acts. “Now we’re adding elements of R&B, hip-hop, and as we go on, Sting will come to represent rock, jazz, and soul too. We’re taking it to the next level,” says…
It’s a red square. No, it’s art, the curator tells you. But it’s a square, and it’s red, you think. What’s different from the one on the wall and one your five-year-old could do, besides ten grand? This has long been a puzzlement of modern art. You act like you…
So how about them Dolphins? They had a strong finish last season, and we soon had visions of Super Bowl celebrations after we heard they had secured quarterback Daunte Culpepper. Now we don’t want to be naysayers already, seeing that we are still trying to dig ourselves out of the…
Miami is a melting pot for many diverse cultures, but our strongest flavors are certainly Latin. One of the most concentrated regions is Hialeah. “We’re 94 percent Hispanic, and our population is about 250,000,” explains William Sanchez, the city’s sponsorship coordinator and public relations representative. The unique municipality is the…
Like Bridget Jones, we used to scoff at the “smug marrieds” as they held hands and gave us sympathetic looks as we stood alone at yet another wedding, posing in a sea-foam-green taffeta bridesmaid disaster. Being single sucks, and we never want to go back there. Now it’s time for…
Nam June Paik, who first introduced artwork featuring a television set into a museum space in 1963, once referred to the moon as the “oldest TV.” A couple of years later, the art maverick reproduced the lunar cycle using seventeen TV sets atop pedestals in a blacked-out room. A different…
Getting your vision out there or, heck, just securing a wall to hang your canvas on is not always easy. A few locals are not going to bother waiting around to be “discovered” by gallery owners who deem them worthy. Nor are they burning prayer candles, hoping to be judged…
As downtown Miami swells larger, there has been a corresponding increase in entertainment options for the locals populating our urban core. One of the newest and coolest kids on the block is the Jamaica International Café. A crowd of in-the-know revelers have been congregating for the Jammin’ Friday Happy Hour,…
Can you feel the heat? Feel the burn of Seraphic Fire, Miami’s hottest chamber choir ensemble, shooting up flames across South Florida with its fifth anniversary concert this weekend. In case you don’t know already, chamber music is traditional choral music performed by small ensembles. For this performance, the Fire…
Austrian auteur Michael Haneke’s films are bleak and fervent, scary and socially observant, disturbing and engaging all at once. He is described as a moralist, but one who reveals his truth using a dispassionate lens. Unlike many American directors, Haneke isn’t afraid to wade just as deep into sexuality as…
Worried those childhood violin lessons might have put a cramp in your cool? That fear didn’t stop David Harrington from forming the Kronos Quartet in 1973 and turning the group into the bad boys of new music. Iconoclastic almost to the point of being contrarian, the quartet isn’t the kind…
On the exterior, human beings are like snowflakes. None of us is completely like another; there are striking differences in the shade of our skin, the color of our eyes, the shape of our bodies. But strip away the epidermis, and the similarities begin to emerge. Deep down we’re all…
Ever wish you could have heard Jack Kerouac or Hunter S. Thompson read live from the novels that made them famous and their readers yearn for a wild life on the road? Yeah, us too. Although Jack and Hunter are gone, you can head down to Coral Gables this evening…
