In 1999 The Gathering was a goth party that began in Club 5922. Every week industrial fans layered on white makeup and swayed to Depeche Mode. But after several years and four different venues, the event was laid to rest, forcing extension-donning divas and latex lovers to scatter to their…
Tired of being cooped up on a fine Miami evening? How about catching a film alfresco with friends? Check out the free outdoor movie nights in the courtyard of 55th Street Station. Providing the weather cooperates, the fine folks at the Station will screen films in the open-air courtyard every…
In the photography by friends Jacqueline Carini and Eyjólfur Már Thoroddsen (better known as AO), images cling to the familiar as if odes to real scenes and remembered places conjured in the melancholy of tone and mood. The work of Carini — an award-winning photojournalist and freelance contributor to the…
Tired of being cooped up on a fine Miami evening? How about catching a film alfresco with friends? Check out the free outdoor movie nights in the courtyard of 55th Street Station. Providing the weather cooperates, the fine folks at the Station will screen films in the open-air courtyard every…
In the photography by friends Jacqueline Carini and Eyjólfur Már Thoroddsen (better known as AO), images cling to the familiar as if odes to real scenes and remembered places conjured in the melancholy of tone and mood. The work of Carini — an award-winning photojournalist and freelance contributor to the…
Miami FC fans know why Onandi Lowe is gone (attitude problems), why Rodriguez is called “El Loco,” that Romario’s other nickname is Shorty, that the very cool drummers who give rhythm to games sit in the east-side stands. They also know for a new USL team, winning is not everything…
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…
What does it take to throw a great party? For Lissette Barros, all it took was a little dream about publishing a lesbian-centric magazine called EveInterrupted. After premiering the publication online, EveInterrupted sponsored an art show highlighting underrepresented lesbian artists, which soon expanded to include bisexual and straight women. And…
The word supermodel is bandied about readily nowadays, but very few can lay claim to the title. One such woman is the seemingly ageless Iman. The stunning Somalian began her career in 1975, and during her fourteen years of modeling, she became a muse to designers such as Yves Saint…
Art School Confidential is very much like every movie pilfered from the Saturday Night Live playbook, in which the slight giggles of a four-minute sketch are wrung into two-hour yawns. The work upon which it’s based is a four-page excerpt from a fourteen-year-old comic book called Eightball, written and drawn…
The makers of this Belgian drama, about a twenty-year-old hustler who sells his infant son like a bag of weed, have referred to it as a “love story,” and so it is. As the film opens, we discover that Bruno (Jérémie Renier), a panhandler and petty thief, has traded his…
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…
“Besos,” at Leonard Tachmes Gallery, features a fanciful body of photography, video, and installations in a loosely knit exhibit that combines the talent of four emerging female artists. And as the title suggests, the show seeks to address issues of sexuality, intimacy, and femininity. The works — by the collaborative…
Fateless (THINKFilm) I’ve no patience for the Holocaust docudrama — didn’t even see Schindler’s List till years after its 1993 release, to my parents’ everlasting shame. And so it was I avoided Lajos Koltai’s acclaimed adaptation of Imre Kertész’ Nobel Prize-winning autobiographic novel; are we not already gorged on the…
If you’ve gazed at a record player and imagined you could scratch as well as the next guy, you’re not alone. Guitars, drums, bass — all these instruments appear to require real skill or at least blisters. But who can’t drop a needle? The problem is, cutting beats and transplanting…
The Barbie Diaries Gift Set (Family Home Entertainment) Battle in Heaven (Tartan) The Best of Rocky and Bullwinkle: Volume 1 (Sony Wonder) Big Momma’s House 2 (Fox) Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season One (Paramount) The Facts of Life: The Complete First and Second Seasons (Sony) Grandma’s Boy: Unrated Edition (Fox)…
Playing footsie under the table; winking as you stick your tongue out; playful slaps and hair-pulling. Yep, you have been perfecting the art of flirting since kindergarten, but you are still looking for that special someone who gets your wacky sense of humor and love of documentary films. Test your…
Interviewing a mentalist is intimidating. Does he already know what we are going to ask? Can he really read our minds? Maybe, but then we realize it doesn’t work as well over the phone. “Much of my work is nonverbal,” says the world-renowned mentalist, Marc Salem. Even so, he tried…
Three words: jazz and poetry. Four words: free jazz and poetry. Many words: An Evening of Jazz with Walt Whitman and the Mystical Trumpeters. You don’t have to say it. Just hush up and kick back for GableStage’s reading of the Jerry Marshall musical – based on works by one…
One autumn day in 1963, the mother of a yet-to-be best-selling author was invited into her basement by a yet-to-be convicted serial killer. Something was wrong with the washing machine, he claimed, with a look in his eyes she later said was “indescribable” — like, in a bad way. The…
Before whisking her off to a fabulous Mother’s Day brunch, you should take Mom for a stroll. Today the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization is launching its inaugural Miami Walk to Empower at Kennedy Park (2200 S. Bayshore Dr., Coconut Grove). The Y-ME’s mission is not medical research, but “to…
She birthed you, raised you, and, for better or worse, made you who you are today. Mother’s Day is a perfect opportunity to show appreciation to the woman who knows you better than anyone and loves you like no one else will. For such an occasion, the typical bouquet of…
