Through the Fire (Disney) He’s averaging just nine points in his second season for the Portland Trail Blazers, but considering where he came from and what he’s overcome, Sebastian Telfair is doing just fine, thank you. Jonathan Hock’s fascinating documentary takes us back to the young New York basketball legend’s…
All Dogs Go to Heaven/All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (MGM) American Psycho (Lions Gate) Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (Warner Bros.) Basic Instinct: Ultimate Edition (Lions Gate) Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo — The Little Black Book Edition (Disney) A Fish Called Wanda (MGM) Get Shorty/Be Cool (MGM)…
Although this year’s Super Bowl ads were sorely lacking in hilarity, a world of raucous fun in advertising is waiting for you in The Night of the Ad-Eaters. Presented by Alliance Française of Miami/Fort Lauderdale, with support from Le Soleil de La Floride, the two-hour subtitled commercial marathon features more…
It’s not exactly Wonderland, but when Alice eats a bad mushroom, it’s close enough. Loosely based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Miami Light Project presents the southeastern U.S. premiere of William Donnelly’s Painted Alice at the Light Box Studio. Produced by the Mad Cat Theatre Company, Painted…
The New World School of the Arts is our version of Fame. Earnest, deeply talented youth learn and kvetch and surge through hormonal vortices while perfecting their pirouettes and diaphragmatic breathing and brushstrokes. The talent here, on both the high school and college levels, is formidable. Alumni include Alvin Ailey…
The distinctive cultures that call Miami home may have their differences, but they are united by one major factor — they all love to party. Saint Patrick’s Day is here to spread the boozy luck of the Irish across the Magic City. Irish pubs and bars are just about everywhere…
Funnel cakes, corn dogs, and deep fried Snickers bars. Kettle corn, cotton candy, elephant ears, and pretty much every other fattening treat on a stick can be found among the 200 food vendors at this year’s Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition at the Fair Expo Center. If you’ve eaten too…
Most of the remaining games for the Miami Heat are against losing teams, sub .500 outfits like the Boston Celtics. But as anyone who watched the Cs pull off a one-point win over Indiana on March 3 knows, the Green Machine, like any other NBA franchise, can surprise. If the…
Some tennis fans pay critical attention to the whoops, barks, groans, and moans emitted by top players, particularly on service. Check it out in person at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park during the NASDAQ-100 Open. The aural aspect to this technical and challenging sport is especially fitting considering the…
At what is arguably South Florida’s balmiest waterfront setting — the atoll at Matheson Hammock Park — fifteen artists are exhibiting monumental sculptures and site specific installations. Through March 31, “Art Expressions,” organized by Miami Dade Parks Division of Art and Culture, situates the works “in the most fantastic environment…
To put it bluntly, the last time the Florida Panthers met the Tampa Bay Lightning on the ice, the Cats totally kicked their ass. The best part? The game was in Tampa, where the Panthers set a team record for most goals scored on the road. We’re sure Brad Richards,…
Do you know where your otaku is hiding today? At the Japan Anime Festival 2006 at Florida International University, naturally. What’s anime? Most Americans first encounter it by watching old Speed Racer and Gigantor cartoons. It’s not terribly esoteric, simply Japanese-produced cartoons. Speaking at the event is Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, president…
On any given weekend many a hottie can be spied working on his (or her) hot bod and perfect tan while swatting a volleyball on Miami Beach. This weekend the volleyball kings and queens can work on their wallets as well as their serves when the Corona Light Big Shot…
We love yoga people. With their lithe bodies and funny pants, they quietly pad around town, doing headstands and back bends, spreading peace and harmony throughout the community. This weekend, those who are flexible in both body and mind have the opportunity to be enlightened by the revered Sri Siva…
Cutting-edge culture organization Gen Art has earned a reputation for always being one step ahead of the Zeitgeist. Miami’s mavens and sartorial gurus should get ready to take notes at this year’s Fresh Faces in Fashion event, a national showcase for up-and-coming designers. Some of the fashion industry’s key players…
Anyone who remembers the 1977 Wes Craven film The Hills Have Eyes, which was and remains a piece of Milwaukee-beer shit, remembers it because (A) they had a memorable fuck-or-puke night at the aging neighborhood drive-in; (B) Michael Berryman’s uniquely hairless mug, which glared from the video store horror sections…
If French writer André Malraux was correct when he claimed that “all art is a revolt against man’s fate,” the most horrific events in human history can give rise, incongruously, to images of soul-searing beauty. How else to explain the stunning black-and-white images that fill Fateless, the story of a…
This is — and isn’t — an adaptation of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. The eighteenth-century novel, described by Steve Coogan in the film itself as “a postmodern classic written before there was any modern to be post about,” is highly acclaimed but very seldom…
Ruben Torres Llorca has staged what he terms a thriller in the guise of a fairy tale at the Frost Art Museum. And no shit, Sherlock, he wants us to solve the crime. His bilingual exhibit “Modelo para Armar/Easy-to-Build” is structured in a nonlinear fashion that invites multiple readings and…
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…
The sad and seamy underbelly of the mythical American dream is not a place of hope. Nor is it a world that is easily described, though New Theatre’s powerful production of Day of Reckoning makes a scattered attempt at embracing quite a bit of America’s historical landscape: Ku Klux Klan…
What is it about gangsters that we find so fascinating? From the real-life Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel to the fictional Tony Soprano, mobsters have become as much a part of American culture as Apple Computer. But as rich as our nation’s history is with tales of organized crime, it’s unlikely you…
