Ladies, we know you really do not need an excuse to attend a fabulous fashion show, but today you can catch a peek at Rene Ruiz’s spring and summer line while putting another notch in your philanthropy belt. Known as the “Bat Mitzvah King” in society circles, Ruiz will show…
Too many people like to wordplay around with sex and sax, as in “there’s nothing like good sax,” et cetera. A deeper reason than simple homonymity exists. What Homer Simpson calls the sax-a-mo-phone might be the most sensual of all musical instruments, at least in the right hands, such as…
Churchill’s isn’t the kind of cushy, tastefully lit lounge that fans of smooth saxophonists Dave Koz and Kenny G. would consider a fitting venue for a jazz night. But aficionados who wax nostalgic for the gritty jazz clubs that spawned innovators like Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday will feel right…
Six months after America’s most devastating natural disaster struck New Orleans, the city struggled back to its feet to host Mardi Gras. With determination and passion, revelers and colorful floats took to the French Quarter, and for three bacchanalian days the air filled with music and tossed beads. If you…
Few things are more romantic than dinner under the stars. For a truly exclusive and memorable dining experience, take your sweetie out for Dinner in Paradise. Gabriele Marewski of Paradise Farms and Michael Schwartz, executive chef of Afterglo, created this monthly series of fabulous dinners, which are held for 50…
The mix is almost too much, but the mission is stunningly simple: The nation’s largest community college once again is producing one of the world’s most ambitious celebrations of the art of the motion picture, concentrating as much of the best as possible into what amounts to a glamorous orgy…
Didn’t Richard Donner retire? A 1980s star-director name, among many, that should now send bolts of discouraging dread down your spine, Richard Donner may well be seeing his filmmaking skills peak with 16 Blocks — even if saying it’s his best, least flatulent, most efficient film is tantamount to saying…
The town of Plantation recently seems to have become a womb for young male violence, with the most recognized wickedness to come out of this pseudo-Fitzgerald West Egg lately being the alleged bashing of homeless men in January by baseball bat-wielding teen lads. Bad, sad news all around. But Plantation…
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men: Some things mature with age, others don’t. Almost 40 years after Ceremonies premiered off-Broadway, it still offers a powerfully rich portrayal of a disenfranchised African-American family in crisis. But it also projects such a clichéd, outdated, and stereotypical image of black men that it begs…
When speaking with the boyish yet erudite David Castillo, one senses the art dealer is poised to gain traction on some of his gray-beard competitors. “Paris, Barcelona & Miami,” on exhibit at his recently opened, eponymously named gallery, features a handful of works by the Cuban vanguard generation and is…
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…
Walk the Line (Fox) No matter what a junkie does with his spare time — say, redefine country music, or forge one of history’s most enduring personas — movies about junkies are a drag to watch. So it’s too bad this Johnny Cash biopic is a by-the-numbers fall-and-redemption tale. A…
Last fall, Microsoft hyped its pricey Xbox 360 by promising to reinvent gaming as we know it. The blockbuster “next generation” titles were supposed to harness the machine’s awesome power to deliver high-definition graphics and impossibly realistic action. But a funny thing happened on the way to the future. The…
Annie Duke’s Conquering Online Poker (Big Vision) The Avengers: The Complete Emma Peel Megaset (A&E) Battle’s Poison Cloud (Cinema Libre) Bleak House (BBC Warner) Camara Oscura (Warner Bros.) Charmed: The Complete Fourth Season (Paramount) Death Tunnel (Sony) The Hobart Shakespeareans (Docurama) The Ice Harvest (MCA) The Lords of Discipline (Paramount)…
Another year is coming to an end, and we’re once again nostalgic for the easy days of the Eighties, when we would spend Christmas vacation watching Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, and Smiths videos on MTV. Our hair was big, our makeup frosted, and our hot pink pumps looked so killer…
Forget the head-shrinkers. Music and flowers are the sick soul’s panacea, says Mieko Kubota, an ikebana (Japanese art of flower arrangement) practitioner. Kubota’s motto is “friendship through flowers.” But many Miamians are trained in the art of vulgar hand gestures and horn blasts. We bet our best chrysanthemum that a…
“It’s been said she knocks ’em dead/When she lands in town…./All those gifts those courters give/To sweet Georgia Brown” — just a sample of the little known lyrics to Louis Armstrong’s “Sweet Georgia Brown.” Most folks don’t know Satchmo wrote the tune or even that it has lyrics. But they…
Attention, suburbanites of South Miami and surrounding areas: Now you can enjoy a little slice of SoBe without leaving the comfort of your zip code. Martini Bar is located in the Shops of Sunset Place — one of the few locations where you can get your buying, boozing, and schmoozing…
You might imagine Rosie Perez — successful actress, In Living Color’s legendary choreographer who orchestrated the Fly Girls’ every move, and dynamic star of Broadway’s The Vagina Monologues — would have no problem making her dream project reality. But when it came to her directorial debut, the riveting documentary Yo…
How does it happen? The Washington Wizards don’t have any players of note whom they actually drafted. Seven footer Brendan Haywood, one of the NBA’s top rebounders and shot blockers, was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2001 draft; the rights were traded to Orlando almost immediately; the rights…
Colorfully clad in traditional guayaberas, and chomping on their cheroots as if the cigar were their last meal, the veteran players tossing bones at Little Havana’s Domino Park represent the flavor of Miami as much as a café con leche. Given the peppery language and folksy pageantry, one shouldn’t be…
The neon lights will be bright tonight in the Wynwood Art District when New York artist Tapp Francke’s exhibit “Chromesthesia” opens at Dot Fiftyone. Francke takes our universal and often intense response to color and sends us on a loopy neon ride through a tube of emotional juxtaposition. Staring at…
