The bunny-print boxer shorts and wife-beater tee are fine for an evening of eating pizza-bites while watching Gilmore Girls, but if you know that a boy might be stopping by, you will want to be wearing something a little lacy — and a little racy. Pick up a few unmentionables…
It’s tough to follow a legend. Take George Wolfe — producer, director, Tony Award winner, New York Shakespeare Festival helmsman, and former democratically fascistic artistic director of the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Wolfe’s name reverberates with power and resonance through Broadway’s halls, having been linked to Tony Kushner’s Angels in…
For ten years the Miami Children’s Hospital’s Radio Lollipop program has made hospital stays for young people a little less scary and a little more fun. Majic 102.7 (WMXJ-FM) has brought together new benefactors who will step in and help raise money to keep the show on the air. Tonight…
When Thembi Nyandeni speaks of apartheid, the passion ignited by repressed memories rises in her voice. “Then, you could be arrested just for being black. And this was our country,” she says with quietly devastating authority. This South African has experienced mankind at its worst — men who delight in…
Washington lobbyists with bulging pockets, politicians on the take, and seemingly omnipotent corporations out to screw the little guy. No, we’re not talking about recent headlines. These timely topics will be tackled head-on in the Ethics Film Series. Movie screenings were specially chosen by the moral minds at the University…
The sun is out, the sky is blue, and there’s little doubt summer is hurtling toward us at an alarming rate. So now is the perfect time to enjoy the weather at an open-air event or even in your own back yard. You can do both at this weekend’s Backyard…
Debbie Stoller has done much to dispel the image of a gray-haired knitter wielding needles in wrinkled hands. As the best-selling author of the Stitch ´n Bitch books, she has taken the lessons handed down to her by her nimble-fingered Dutch ancestors and remixed them for a younger generation. “As…
Hey, dudes. Can we tell you a secret? Most of us ladies prefer a smooth face to the mountain-man Grizzly Adams look. Of course so do razor companies. Gillette, the maker of the new Fusion five-blade face-scraper (because four blades are so passé), is looking for the new Face of…
Mike McKenzie is an NFL player who pulls his weight both on and off the field. The adorable, dreadlocked defensive back for the New Orleans Saints reaches out to disadvantaged youth and stresses the importance of staying in school. He dreams of building his own educational facility right here in…
We all want to believe that in even the most dangerous or frightening of situations, we would have the courage to stand up for our convictions — that we would not name names, that we would not betray our friends or our ideals. Thank God, most of us will never…
It can’t be easy making films about war. It’s so inherently dramatic that, as a setting for art, it’s overdetermined; it drips with meaning even before the first scenes are set. And so much has been said already: War is hell. War is noble. War is surreal. War is absurd,…
Screenwriter Robert Towne has spent decades trying to adapt for the big screen John Fante’s 1939 novel about a struggling writer named Arturo Bandini, and Towne’s affection for the material and its maker is plainly evident here. He is faithful to the novel to a point, but also more forgiving…
Brian Reedy farcically hashes out the end of the world as we know it in his new body of work where man, nature, and technology collide calamitously in the aftermath of a warped seismic cataclysm. The drawings, paintings, and woodcuts in “Eleventh Hour” at the Dorsch Gallery project the sense…
For most of us, combining the words dance and Miami Beach in a sentence conjures up the same image: a self-esteem-shrinking battle with a member of the ubiquitous velvet-rope squad. You attempt to persuade the very important door personnel that you are attractive, thin, and/or cool enough. He or she…
The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley’s exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. The twists and turns of the artist’s formative years pepper his paintings. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age of fifteen and later served a…
Day of Reckoning: The sad and seamy underbelly of the mythical American dream is not a place of hope, though this production makes a scattered attempt at embracing quite a bit of America’s historical landscape: Ku Klux Klan rallies, slavery and its aftermath, burning crosses, forbidden love, shameless hate, interracial…
Breasts (First Run) Honest, compassionate, and funny, this documentary is remarkable for the bravery of its participants, who bare their breasts as they speak about them. The film delivers 22 women of all shapes, sizes, ages, races, and orientations — all of whom have interesting, surprising things to say about…
As celebrity career paths go, Sonic the Hedgehog has been tiptoeing dangerously close to Baldwin Brothers territory lately. Last year brought the embarrassing Shadow the Hedgehog, a dark title in which Sonic’s brooding alter ego wielded a gun, earning it the unflattering nickname “Grand Theft Hedgehog.” Still, at first blush,…
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Universal) Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) The Billy Wilder DVD Collection (Paramount) Bukowski: Born into This (Magnolia) The Busby Berkeley Collection (Warner Bros.) Capote (Sony) Chicken Little (Buena Vista) Crackheads Gone Wild (Xtreme Films) Dear Wendy (Fox Lorber) Derailed (Weinstein Co.) Dreamer:…
Hey, you have something on your shoulder. Oh, sorry. It was just one of your angels hanging out — you know, the one who sits on the opposite side of that little devil and attempts to guide you into making the right decisions. Sure, you do not always listen and…
Disney animators were the first to mine Neptune’s kingdom for family friendly laughs with The Little Mermaid. Then Pixar’s Finding Nemo took fans on a computer animated journey through the briny deep, eschewing the traditional story line of imperiled guy/girl romance for the poignant tale of a lost clown fish,…
Being a beatnik should be more fashionable than ever. Not because of the clichéd black garb, beret, and sunglasses — though those sartorial statements remain timelessly stylish. But the beat movement was about rhythm, nonconformist language, and rebelling against an oppressive establishment — a cultural revolution largely shaped by Allen…
