Raise your hand if you were ever embarrassed that your mother shopped at Goodwill and garage sales for your back-to-school clothes. Now go call your mother and thank her for teaching you the strategy for finding vintage and designer duds at bargain prices. “The real secret is that you have…
Where can a damsel get a decent mug of mead around here? At the Florida Keys Medieval Festival, of course. Grab your knight and prepare ye for the usual medieval revelry: living chessmen, archery, jousting and equestrian showcases, and giant turkey legs. Master falconer Ray Pena and his birds of…
He began writing short stories as a teenager, perfected his craft at Yale, and then founded The Paris Review with Harold L. Humes and George Plimpton in 1953. Peter Matthiessen, the National Book Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed trilogy Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone,…
It is winter. You are in shorts. Go thank Mother Nature for our good fortune by supporting the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, where the plants aren’t the only things bringing the beauty these days. This weekend the garden is hosting the fourth annual Art Blooms, which celebrates the work of…
The funky urban Nineties sketch comedy show In Living Color was a springboard to fame for a number of its stars. But for every Jim Carrey and Jamie Foxx there’s a David Alan Grier or Tommy Davidson — an equally talented comedian whose breakthrough moment hasn’t yet arrived. Davidson made…
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If there were ever any doubt that boxing is not an occupation for the easily discouraged, we offer the case of Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter, a hammer-fisted 26-year-old with 22 KOs among his 27 wins and a lone loss, a controversial decision to heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. In September,…
A love and appreciation for the arts is one of the requirements for a civilized society, and ever since this past October, the City of Miami Beach has done its part to finally try to earn this label by launching “Arts in the Parks,” free monthly cultural events in city…
We hear that you keep your family in stitches. No, not from beating them, you nut. You are always cracking them up with your silly puns and animated storytelling. Since none of your other grand schemes is paying the bills, maybe you should consider making people laugh for a living…
With a Blade TV show in the works from Spike TV and powder-faced My Chemical Romance fans carrying the goth torch at Hot Topic, this would seem the perfect time to resurrect the Castlevania franchise. Castlevania debuted 20 years ago on the Nintendo Entertainment System and was an instant classic,…
Microsoft isn’t described as an underdog very often. But in the world of videogames, Sony’s PlayStation is king, and all others fight for scraps. While Microsoft’s Xbox managed to bump the once-great Nintendo into third place, it nevertheless remains a distant second to the PS2, which commands an installed base…
Nowhere Man (Image Entertainment) There’s good reason why you’ve never heard of this UPN show from the mid-’90s, which lasted 25 episodes before getting shuttled off to, well, nowhere. It’s a convoluted mind-fuck that owes its existence as much to The Prisoner as The Fugitive, and if you missed one…
2005 may be the last hurrah for this generation’s aging consoles, but sugar, they’re going down swingin’. The PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Game Cube age gracefully, pushing their hardware to the limit one last time and developing some brilliant games in the process — from tear-jerking, giant-slaying adventure to piss-in-your-pants…
Ab-Normal Beauty (Tartan) Art of the Devil (Tokyo Shock) Bram Stoker’s Dracula/Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Sony) Caged Heat (Buena Vista) Dark Water (Buena Vista) Diary of a Mad Black Woman: The Play (Lions Gate) Empire of the Wolves (Sony) 15 Things You’re Not Supposed to See (Xtreme) Happy Here and Now…
Exits and Entrances: When Athol Fugard is in town, he has the well-earned ability to suck the air out of any other plays competing with him on any given night. This snapshot of the mid-twentieth-century crossroads of change in South Africa is no exception. Although the playwright-icon isn’t here in…
Stepping inside Wynwood’s new Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (HACS), one is instantly surprised by an image of a visibly aroused Jesus Christ lounging atop a tattered red upholstered Rococo settee. The piece, titled Ying & Yang, superimposes a lurid thorn-crowned mug shot of Christ, culled from a Cuban grocery store…
A Day and Forever: Ali Prosch makes a jaw-dropping statement with this multimedia exhibition sprinkled with witty doses of flair and drama that portray the lifestyles of the young and fabulously dissolute. Trafficking in hyperbeautiful imagery, at times evocatively laced with autobiographical commentary, Prosch blithely chops Miami’s decadent run-amok egos…
The gifted Irish novelist and filmmaker Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins) says that his overriding concern is “how individuals work with what they’ve been given.” Case in point: Jordan’s new feature, Breakfast on Pluto. This bittersweet, gender-bending drama takes a page from Candide — its beleaguered hero, too,…
In 1968 it was a movie. In 2001 it became a musical. Now it’s a movie again? Yes, and there’s actually good reason to return The Producers to the screen. The original film, though intermittently inspired, was slow and often boring, and its homophobic, misogynistic humor no longer plays well,…
Continuing the tradition of bringing the world’s performers to its stages, the Carnival Center presents Yin Mei in Nomad: The River. A dancer and choreographer borne of China’s cultural revolution, Yin Mei combines traditional Asian performance and Western contemporary dance theater to visually re-create societal themes. She has won many…
A night of drinking in Coconut Grove can feel like some kind of extreme sports competition. The rickshaw dudes pop wheelies, testing their passengers’ fluid-retention skills. Down the street at the Tavern, University of Miami students seem to be competing to see how many people can fit into a bar…
A Day and Forever: Ali Prosch makes a jaw-dropping statement with this multimedia exhibition sprinkled with witty doses of flair and drama that portray the lifestyles of the young and fabulously dissolute. Trafficking in hyperbeautiful imagery, at times evocatively laced with autobiographical commentary, Prosch blithely chops Miami’s decadent run-amok egos…
