Desperate Housewives: The Complete First Season (Buena Vista) ABC’s juggernaut drama is made up mostly of elements that have trickled down from HBO: black humor, self-awareness, the radical notion that women over 30 can arouse the national libido. The bonus deleted scenes don’t add much to the story, and behind-the-scenes…
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (Buena Vista) Anthrax Anthrology: No Hit Wonders (Sanctuary) The Batman: Season 1, Volume 2 (Warner Bros.) Battlestar Galactica: Season One (Universal) Born Into Brothels (ThinkFilm) Brothers (Universal) Cowards Bend the Knee (Zeitgeist) Divan (Zeitgeist) Inside Deep Throat (Universal) It’s All Gone Pete…
It’s all about a nickel. American Buffalo, the 1975 play that made David Mamet a star and might well remain the American playwright’s best work, is a simple tale of a heist gone wrong. Three losers in a Chicago junk shop conspire to steal a buffalo nickel that is potentially…
Madagascar: In a hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome, a lovely young woman dressed in pajamas sits on a bed and proclaims there is no such thing as coincidence. An elegant older woman emerges from the shadows in a timeless faux Chanel suit. She’s oblivious to the girl…
Last week’s art gallery openings in Wynwood and the Design District officially marked the beginning of Miami’s fall season, a period that crescendos and culminates in December with Art Basel. What’s special about “Hanging by a Thread,” curated by José Diaz and Nina Arias at the Moore Space, is the…
Castillos en el Aire: “Miami is closer to the sky than to the Earth in every aspect and no matter how you look at it,” says Spanish photographer Vicenta Casañ. But unlike Chicago or New York, the Magic City isn’t recognizable by its skyscrapers. So Casañ’s photos of Miami’s signature…
By conservative estimate, Tim Burton stands to rake in half a billion dollars at the box office this year, thanks to a childlike chocolate-maker in mauve rubber gloves and, now, to a lively dead girl with marriage on her mind and the timid schlub who falls under her spell. As…
Andres Levin is a very busy man. He’s currently scoring a film and a television show, and he’s knee-deep in producing a Brazilian jazz album. Besides those projects, Levin is about to bring his increasingly popular band Yerba Buena back to rock Miami. The seven-member group is hitting the road…
THU 22 Dude, you’ve been sporting a soul patch and toting around that ragged copy of On the Road since you left Evergreen State College in 1993. Don’t you think it’s time to update your look and your book? You can take care of both issues tonight when Miami Living…
The strong bond between people and animals cannot be denied. Pets are part of the family, and those who don’t have human children love their pets as much as any parents. Thousands of residents along the Gulf Coast chose not to leave their homes in advance of Hurricane Katrina’s strike…
T.C. Boyle’s comedy of losers and predators TUE 9/27 Protagonist James Turner, Jr., has more to worry about than losing the security deposit on his first apartment after he takes home a serval that he won in a barroom dice game in the title story of T.C. Boyle’s latest collection…
Dobal is your friend, punchy TUE 9/27 Trainers and promoters in the professional boxing industry often get caught up in its highly competitive nature, but Miami promoter Richard Dobal manages to make friends despite the pressure to create rivals. His close confidants include Hall of Fame trainer Angelo Dundee (who’s…
Folk art featuring saints and Clinton FRI 9/23 Not to be confused with the chicken neck-wringing, mojo-flinging local sort, these santeros are artists who hail from the American Southwest. “I think this exhibit — in a Miami context used to Afro-Cuban Santería — is interesting, but these santeros create unusual…
The sweet sounds of New Orleans SUN 9/25 Of all the horrific images in the Hurricane Katrina footage, the shots of bewildered and suffering children has produced the biggest throat lumps. And as New Orleans recovers and rebuilds and we move down the list of what has been (temporarily) lost,…
In the tradition of A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting comes Proof, a psychological drama about a math genius and the people who worship, care for, and endure him. Based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by David Auburn, Proof is a strong film with intense focus…
Andrew Niccol’s first two films as writer-director, 1997’s Gattaca and 2002’s S1m0ne, were hollow, sterile sci-fi masquerading as earnest satire: The former told of a near future in which parents could genetically engineer perfect children; the latter proffered an actress who became the most famous and beloved movie star in…
When the Museum of Contemporary Art launched its rookie campaign with “Defining the Nineties: Consensus Making in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles,” many in the contemporary art world considered the museum a swaddling upstart trying to elbow a spot at the big boys’ table. “Ten years ago, when Bonnie…
THU 15 Formed in 1992 in a lush little Florida college town we like to call Gainesville, the three Pez-loving pop-y punk bandmates of Less than Jake spent a few years tinkering with their identity, and by adding a few members and an addictive ska beat, they soon won over…
Back when Saturday Night Live was still watchable and before political correctness infected the national discourse, this comment by the fictional Chico Esquela became a buzz phrase (use Ricky Ricardo accent): “Base-a-ball has been berry berry goood to me.” Garrett Morris’s silly gag carried some social weight in that a…
Get hurricane tips from a pro FRI 9/16 To a person who hasn’t experienced a hurricane, the prestorm hubbub can seem like fun. In coastal regions where named storms have become increasingly frequent, folks get caught up in the supply-buying frenzy and dismiss dire predictions of inclement weather as mere…
That shore is a lot of trash! SAT 9/17 Hey, you! Yes, we’re talking to you, the one who just threw your Big Gulp cup out the window of your truck. And you, the jerk who left your empty twelve-pack of Corona bottles on the beach, along with your Funyuns…
Crash into the end times From his early soft-focus self-portraits and pictorials to his later high-contrast landscapes and edgy, natural-form closeups, Edward Weston was a master of manipulating shadow and light to reflect the pure beauty of simple contours and infinite lines. Weston’s famous nudes are curved and turned into…
