Toward the end of Born into Brothels, a superb and piercing documentary by directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, a twelve-year-old child examines a photograph. It’s beautiful, he says, because it shows us how its subjects live. Yes, they’re very poor, and the shot is hard to look at, because…
Miami Art Central (5960 Red Rd., Miami) is difficult to categorize. It’s not a museum, because it has no permanent collection. It isn’t a commercial gallery, because none of the works displayed are for sale; although if a patron expresses interest, the staff can help contact the artist to make…
THUR 10 In 1912 the Gardner brothers opened a store that still remains in the family. Almost a century later, there are four branches of Gardner’s Market in Miami. Tonight customers of the South Miami branch of this specialty grocery shop can enjoy A Taste of Italy. Besides the usual…
After more than a quarter-century at the fore of festivals, Carnaval Miami’s main event, the Calle Ocho Festival, should be familiar to everyone in South Florida. Folks around here know the tangential activities well — Miss Carnaval, the 8K run, the domino tournament — and how the fête has expanded…
Where are me lucky charms? SAT 3/12 Everyday is St. Patrick’s Day when you’re Irish, so don’t complain about the 27th annual Greening of the Gables St. Patrick’s Day Festival falling a few days before what the calendar considers the actual holiday, or you could find yourself being knocked out…
A tropical haven awaits SAT 3/12 If the ceramic gnomes and metallic globes set on pedestals outnumber the plants and Adirondack chairs in your garden, today is your chance to see what a beautiful oasis your back yard can be. The fourth annual Miami Beach Botanical Garden’s (2000 Convention Center…
Decorating is a good thing THUR 3/10 It’s merely a coincidence that the Lowe Art Museum’s thirteenth annual fundraiser, the Art of Table Decorating, happens just a week after Martha Stewart’s release from prison. It’s nonetheless fitting, as the exhibit will feature more than 30 exquisitely and uniquely decorated tables…
Nuts by Northwest take the stage FRI 3/11 When a group of Seattle performers were working to build a fresh and somewhat funky show, they blended aspects and elements of unrelated sources. Those strange ingredients include the United States space program and Anton Chekhov’s play Ivanov. The production, described as…
With Saint Patrick’s Day on the horizon, the Irish are likely to briefly re-enter the public consciousness, even here in South Florida, which is hardly a Celtic stronghold. Beyond the usual beer and blarney, even the most casual thoughts of Ireland tend to center on its long struggle with foreign…
Good news. The Promethean Theatre is a young company to watch, and its debut production of Orange Flower Water is as exciting as it is promising. Directed by Margaret M. Ledford with a keen eye for detail, the local premiere of Craig Wright’s intense domestic drama treks through familiar territory…
Centenarian sisters Sadie and Bessie Delany fondly reminisce about their first 100 years in Having Our Say, a delightful though at times tiresome new production by the African-American Performing Arts Community Theatre. The setting couldn’t be more appealing: As the curtain parts, it unveils a modest, lived-in dwelling with a…
Action: Mad Cat Theatre Company’s new production of this Sam Shepard one-act play has a lot going on: screaming and chair-throwing, fish-filleting on stage, what looks like a Pollo Tropical chicken passing for a Christmas turkey, lots of drooly finger-licking, spiffy winter clothes, and the sounds of a nasty snowstorm…
Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time,” organized by the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and “Ellen Gallagher: Murmur and DeLuxe,” curated by Museum of Contemporary Art director Bonnie Clearwater, link the kindred spirits of two iconoclastic artists in an exceptional exhibition at North Miami’s MoCA. Both Bourgeois and Gallagher…
Andrew Wyeth: American Master: Now an octogenarian and as committed to his métier as ever, Wyeth continues to work prolifically at a high level of skill and artistic resonance. His show at the Boca Museum must be seen. It spans a 60-year career, beginning with some bravura watercolor landscapes from…
The novel Be Cool, written by Elmore Leonard in 1999 while the ink was still wet on the publisher’s advance, existed only because the beloved writer of seedy thrillers and Westerns knew it was guaranteed gold — the sequel to the 1991 hit novel Get Shorty that, in 1995, became…
Come this time next year, The Jacket may well occupy the slot in movie discourse that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind does now — that of the film that coulda-shoulda-woulda gotten more Oscar nominations if only it hadn’t come out so early in the year and been forgotten by…
The year is 3005. A history professor is lecturing telepathically to his class about ancient history (imagine the words to be pulses from brain-to-brains): “Believe it or not, as late as 2005, in what was the United States, in what was North America, the rulers actually made national policy against…
THU 3 Attila Ambrus was not a very good hockey player. When this Transylvanian stole across the border into Hungary, he dreamed of becoming a great athlete. Instead, he became a third-string goalie for the foundering national team, supplementing his meager income with side jobs as a janitor, pelt smuggler,…
Margaret Cho makes the second stop of her Assassin Tour in Miami this weekend. She spent a recent day off chatting about dictators and being a fag hag. New Times: Tell me about the Assassin Tour. Margaret Cho: It’s about shooting down old ideas or negativity…. It’s a difficult time…
Funky days are back again SAT 3/5 How do you get teenagers to put down the Xbox controls and spend a Saturday afternoon at an art museum? Tell them you’re going for the hip-hop and anime, and they’ll be out the door faster than you can say “Got Akira?” The…
Exotic beauties on display FRI 3/4 In a way, orchids are a lot like models: delicate, temperamental, able to live off only water, and startlingly beautiful for five seconds before withering away. While Miami boasts beauties of both the botanical and buxom variety, only the former will be available to…
Shaking up the Gables FRI 3/4 Artist Erik Lopez (a.k.a. Blur) is a bit of a renegade. At a time when many old-school gallerists are fleeing the Coral Gables scene for grittier pastures in Wynwood, Lopez is poised to bomb “The City Beautiful” with a consumer-friendly infiltration of lowbrow art…
