It feels like I’ve already seen this movie four times, after witnessing the parade of commercials for junk Over the Hedge’s characters are pimping. Perhaps it makes perfect sense: The entire movie is built on a scenario that involves the stealing and hoarding of junk food. A swindling raccoon named…
One night, five restaurants, and fifteen characters sum up Five Course Love, the tasty yet not entirely filling new musical onstage in Miracle Theatre’s intimate upstairs room. Directed by David Arisco, the Actors’ Playhouse ensemble of Oscar Cheda, Janet Dacal, and Christopher A. Kent is the hardest-working trio in showbiz…
The Impressionists: In the 2000 movie Pollock, a crucially transformative scene places Jackson Pollock breaking through his previous conventions to slap paint on canvases. When wife Lee Krasner comes around to see what would forever after be recognized as his signature groove, she proclaims, “You’ve done it, Pollock. You’ve cracked…
Sabrina Cohen’s portrait on display at the Dorsch Gallery is striking, but her story yanks the rug from under you. The 28-year-old Sandra Bullock look-alike has spent half her life in a wheelchair. “I was fourteen at the time of my accident,” the quadriplegic explains. “On Halloween night 1992, a…
Astral Cumulo Uber Express: Kenny Scharf’s exhibit at the Kevin Bruk Gallery harks back to the Fifties. Scharf has tricked out a 1960 Cadillac coupe, one of the most iconic designs of the era, in a giddy fusion of modern design and contemporary art that pokes fun at duck-and-cover classroom…
Winter Passing (Fox) Try this, should you be inclined to rent this downer from writer-director Adam Rapp: Skip from chapter to chapter and see whether they all don’t begin with exactly the same image, accompanied by exactly the same sound. There is always someone (usually Zooey Deschanel as a would-be…
Mom always says that videogames rot your brain. Hell, some say that Grand Theft Auto trains kids to kill. So Nintendo’s claim that its new portable offering, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, actually makes players smarter has been received with a mix of curiosity, cynicism, and…
All You’ve Got (MTV) American Soldiers (Velocity) The Big Valley: Season One (Fox) Con Air: Unrated Extended Edition (Buena Vista) Crimson Tide: Unrated Extended Edition (Buena Vista) Doogal (Weinstein) Duma (Warner Bros.) Funny Games (Kino) Garçon Stupide (Picture This) Hill Street Blues: Season Two (Fox) My Mother’s Smile (New Yorker)…
Do you canoe? Or do you prefer fondue? Now you can do a little of both — and even play your didjeridoo — at the Inner City Outings Canoe Fondue fundraiser. The ICO is an outreach program of the Sierra Club that was established to provide underserved youth populations with…
Ingmar Bergman is among the world’s last living iconic auteurs, a filmmaker’s filmmaker who never sacrificed his personal vision for box-office success. The Swedish director began making movies in 1944, and his key themes have remained constant for the past 62 years — emotional studies of existentialism, mortality, and faith…
When the Ramones began playing gigs in 1974, they quickly earned a reputation for being loud, fast, and different. The straightforward New Yorkers made themselves famous by employing the same philosophy country songwriter Harlan Howard espoused: three chords and the truth. Most of the original members of the first real…
If the last time you visited a museum you arrived in a yellow bus and carried your lunch in a metal box bearing Fonzie’s image, it is time to go back. Today is International Museum Day — a celebration sponsored since 1977 by the International Council of Museums — and…
You might call her “Angel of the Morning,” but did you know Juice Newton is also an accomplished equestrian and polo player? Oh yes, she can sing and ride with the best of them, and you can catch the “Queen of Hearts” at this weekend’s Islamorada Island Festival. The two-day…
From the Horse’s Mouth sounds like an eat-your-broccoli piece — a compendium of dancers holding forth on the history of dance in 90 pirouettes or fewer. But there is dessert here, in the sublime forms of diverse, dizzyingly good dancers. A few notables: sexy and soulful flamenco artist Clarita Filgueiras,…
Since 2001, Miami-Dade Public Library has collaborated with other libraries worldwide to host the Art of Storytelling workshops, which help librarians, teachers, and professional storytellers learn new tales and hone their techniques. Each year the conference culminates in a day-long festival of performances and activities to highlight this craft. For…
The man who calls himself Nathan Bliss has very discriminating tastes and a pretty sweet gig. He is the creator and producer of The Bliss Club, a freeform organization that throws the hottest erotic-theme events in Miami, where exceptionally attractive ladies celebrate their Madonna/whore complexes. Tonight at the third annual…
The Grove … where once upon a time artists ran free, bohemians ruled the streets, and no two houses looked alike. Although the area is being bulldozed and repopulated with multimillion-dollar McMansions, and briefcases are replacing fishing poles, some of its former spirit remains. Tonight everyone is invited to Commodore…
Can you guess who will be at the Greynolds Park Love-In this year? Damn, you’re smart. Yes, the legendary Winnipeg rockers of the Guess Who will provide music you can spin to at the Miami-Dade Park and Recreation department’s annual peace-love-and-harmony-theme festival. Dig out those Birkenstocks and flammable Indian skirts,…
Every charitable cause benefits from a celebrity spokesperson. Television news bombards us with so many tragic images that we inevitably become jaded, and it often takes a famous face to focus our attention. Take the crisis in Sudan, a bitterly divided nation ravaged by civil war. Since the conflict began…
Although Dale Chihuly is fighting allegations made by disgruntled former employees claiming his artwork is unoriginal and created by other artists, you can still enjoy a trippy illuminated tour of the funky glass sculptures during Tropical Chihuly Nights. Throughout the exhibition’s final weeks, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will be open…
Indochine may have been open for only a year and a half, but in that time this intimate restaurant located near the Miami River has transformed from gourmet bistro to hip cultural haven. In addition to serving tasty, affordable sushi, Thai, and Indonesian dishes, the cozy lounge offers a happy…
Yes, the Florida Marlins suck. Suck like I-95 at 5:00 p.m. Suck like Rachael Ray on the Food Network. Suck like President Bush doing Shakespeare. They really, really suck. But the Chicago Cubs are not exactly the Chicago White Sox. As of a couple of weeks ago, the Cubbies were…
