French sculptor Elyan Biscayn doesn’t need to wander beyond her yard to find inspiration. Since she moved to South Florida, palm trees have been her muse. The artist applies resins to fronds to form carved and twisted shapes that she later mounts on geometric pedestals of marble and steel. Her…
Live pigeons are no longer used as targets, but the sport of trapshooting hasn’t changed too much since the late 1700s. If you have never tried it, you can give it a shot at tonight’s Shooter Clinic. Learn more about the rules of the sport, shotgun safety, technique, and field…
There aren’t too many people online who don’t know about the immensely popular MySpace and how strange it can be. Capitalizing on the site’s more than 75 million eccentric members who let the world know of their outlandish or nutty lifestyles, Impromedy’s “Top 8” sketch comedy parodies the “look how…
They were an indigenous people scarred by colonization and repressed by a society that would prefer to have left them behind. No, we’re not talking about Native Americans. Yolngu Boy, a coming-of-age film set in Australia’s heartland, examines present-day Aboriginal culture in the midst of turbulent adolescence. Tonight’s free screening…
As if you needed an excuse to head to Key West. The weather is ideal for a jaunt to our adjoined archipelago, and there is a party around every corner. This weekend, visitors will encounter the 26th annual Goombay Summer Festival, a uniquely Key Westian celebration rooted in Bahama Village,…
Feel like you are all thumbs sometimes? Well that is just a taste of how our best friends feel — all paws, all the time. Try dialing a Razr with one of those. Or typing your next blog entry. Or, you know, getting your O-face on. That’s why you should…
Thursday is the new Friday, and South Miami is the new South Beach. Okay, not quite, but every Thursday night a horde of young suburbanites squeezes into Sunset Tavern, turning it into something that resembles a scene from a popping club on Washington Avenue, sans the attitude and designer clothes…
In earlier collections such as “Nudes/Portraits” and “Still Lifes,” British photographer Allan Jenkins reveals an ability to canvas fine art using camera and film. His fondness for form (particularly curves), his fine sense of composition, and his simple good taste elevate him from picture-taker to artist and illustrate a technique…
The Leiter Gallery is a three-month-old baby in Miami’s bustling art scene. But if the owners have their way, this two-story space will soon be the anchor of a revived Biscayne Boulevard, offering fabulous food and drink, incredible art, and a constant source of inspired entertainment for a hip and…
For an industry in decline, print journalism has done a fashion publicist’s job of staying in vogue, particularly among the more stylish of career-seeking college grads. Never mind telling these BlackBerry-toting eager beavers that even an unpaid gig in the field is as rare as a winning lottery ticket: The…
After all that, just this? After all the anticipation, all the hype, all the product available on toy-store shelves and kiddie sections at bookstores, after all the promise that this would be the most super of Superman movies, all we get is just this this remake? Because let’s first call…
Vondie Curtis Hall’s irrational and contradictory crime thriller stars Tyrese Gibson (2 Fast 2 Furious) as an indestructible ex-con who, with a sullen but sizzling L.A. streetwalker (Meagan Good), sets out to find his kidnapped son. They raise ransom money on a well-publicized 24-hour crime spree and put two rival…
At Rocket Projects on a recent Saturday, a group of Midwestern artists gussied up for their Miami premiere. Florida Power and Light had torn apart the sidewalk in front of the gallery, and construction work blocked off the street. Someone taped signs on the building’s exterior walls that read, “Enter…
I’m So Much Better than You: Magnus Sigurdarson’s installation features four tons of Miami New Times papers interlocked like bricks to form a curving hip-high wall. It houses a DVD player and monitor where the artist is seen performing a puppet show in Xiamen, China. Sigurdarson, who was born in…
Early on in This Is How It Goes, Neil LaBute’s savage one-act play showing through July 23 at the Biltmore Hotel’s GableStage, the lead character confesses that he is an unreliable narrator and that the story about to unfold may not have happened quite as he says. And then he…
The Devil’s Sword (Mondo Macabro) Few trash movies live up to their reputation, but here’s a balls-out wonder that surpasses it. Grab a 12-pack of Bintang and cue up this jaw-unhinging slab of Indonesian sword-and-sorcery circa 1983 — a start-to-finish feast of martial arts, mullets, flying heads, vestal virgins, dry-ice…
For comic geeks, an X-Men game that promises to fill in the backstory between movies sounds hotter than a date with Jean Grey. Finally, we get to discover what Wolverine has been up to between films — besides winning Tony Awards as alter ego Hugh Jackman, of course. That’s the…
Commander in Chief: 2-Disc Inaugural Edition Part 1 (Disney) The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection (MPI) Cow Belles (Disney) Danger After Dark (TLA) Evil (Magnolia) Is It Really So Strange? (Frameline) Failure to Launch (Paramount) Family Affair: Season One (MPI) Fear Factor: The First Season (Universal) Imagine Me & You (Fox)…
When you reach the half-century mark (if you haven’t done so already), will you say you have accomplished all you had hoped to? The 50-year-old digital media artist pioneer Laurence Gartel thinks he has done a pretty good job of reaching his goals. “I pounded the pavement in the early…
This summer the Miami Art Museum beckons you to unleash that inner size queen with “Big Juicy Paintings (and more): Selections from the Permanent Collection,” a space-gobbling show organizers hope will leave the public tingling with thoughts that bigger is better indeed. How big is big? Try Arturo Herrera’s When…
As the Miami Heat’s recently concluded best season ever amply demonstrated, this city’s sports fans have only one mode of transportation: bandwagon. Sunshine fans in the Sunshine State. If our team loses a few, we disown it. It wins, we break out our T-shirts and pennants and pose about how…
Ask twenty rappers what their favorite film is, and you’ll get the same answer over and over again: Brian De Palma’s Scarface, 1983’s bleak snow globe of a movie written by Oliver Stone in the midst of a yayo hangover. The film recalls a flurry of iconic images that speak…
