Miami Now: Don’t miss this mega show from Edge Zones, curated by Charo Oquet and David Vardi and featuring 32 artists. The work is consistently good throughout. Standouts include Nestor Arenas’s insect stills, Raimundo Travieso’s PC-generated drawings, Nereida García Ferraz’s colorful and surreal visions, Nelson Gutierrez’s fashion vitrines, Jacqueline Lipsky’s…
When your movie gets riotous laughter out of endless utterances of the word “Focker,” it doesn’t have to try very hard. So it’s no surprise that much of Meet the Fockers, the inevitable sequel to the 2000 hit Meet the Parents, barely breaks a sweat. When in doubt, after all,…
By all accounts, the only living creatures who’ve never taken in a stage production of The Phantom of the Opera are Osama bin Laden and Uncle Elmer’s deaf hound dog Bart — which means that everyone else on the planet has an opinion about how Joel Schumacher’s zillion-dollar movie version…
Remember the celebration of the new year, decade, century, millennium? Maybe through a haze, but as New Year’s celebrations go, that was the biggest anyone living will ever experience, and when it comes to New Year’s celebrations, bigger is always best. One aspect of the 20th-to-21st century moment that was…
A Parliament/Funkadelic concert will make you feel like you’re tripping, even if you’re not. Band members wear the most outlandish gear, including wizard outfits, giant fake noses, elaborate capes, and even adult diapers and nothing else. From the shadows, a dreadlocked shaman emerges, shaking his multicolored hair extensions and commanding…
SUN 1/2 A new trolley will clang-clang-clang through downtown South Miami beginning today, making several convenient stops around town. The initial ride is set to coincide with the city’s first Sundays on Sunset, an outdoor musical and shopping experience near the busy intersection of Sunset Drive and Red Road. Jazz…
On board and in control SAT 1/1 Whether for transportation or recreation, skateboarding is not a crime. At least it shouldn’t be, even in those places around town with “No Skateboarding” signs posted. Can’t a thrasher kid get a break? Young adults are in dire need of positive influences and…
The woman behind the icon revealed THU 12/30 The Marilyn Monroe the world adored was an invention, a shield, a radiant sex goddess who blew kisses at the cameras. Few ever met Norma Jean, the sweet tomboy Jim Dougherty married, the shrinking violet who stood trembling inside her uncomfortable goddess…
THU30 The holiday parade season is coming to an end, sadly, so get out there and enjoy the festivities while they last. The 56th annual Junior Orange Bowl Parade is saluting our country this year with its patriotic theme of “Celebrating America.” Wear plenty of red, white, and blue to…
In recent years, a lot of what passes for site-specific art seems like a recapitulation of average moments drawn from the land and environmental art of the Sixties and Seventies — from Richard Long’s grass-walking, to Robert Smithson’s invasive Spiral Hill, to Michael Heizer’s desert ground-scarring, to Gordon Matta-Clark’s urban…
The critic who takes notes during The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou will ultimately fill a notepad only with scribbled details: “All the crewmen wear red stocking caps with their tuxedos,” “some names of Zissou’s movies: The Battling Eels of Antibes, Shadow Creatures of the Lurisia Archipelago, Island Cats!,” “one…
“When are you going to find yourself a nice Jewish boy and settle down?” Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard that one, whether from your own mother or from your friends complaining about their mothers. See? You are not alone. And you won’t be alone on Christmas Eve, either,…
On a windy, mid-December evening in Coconut Grove, a group of folks clusters around picnic tables. Their meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., but at 7:00 people are still arriving. A gray-haired man sets up an amplifier and hands a microphone to Antoinette Baldwin, a petite brunette with…
A different kind of daily grind NOW 24/7 Friends and skateboarders on the West Coast of Florida, Chris Williams, 31, and Ed Selego, 26, ran World Market skate shop and rode the rails at Skate Park of Tampa. But after traveling and visiting skate shops all over Florida, Williams wondered:…
Climbing the walls WED 12/29 As every muscle contorts to the point of exhaustion, a burst of adrenaline courses through your body on a cellular level. A moment of temptation envelops you with the sweet thought of resigning the will to continue. But a rush of epinephrine instills a godlike…
Movies, good vibes, and ital delights MON 12/27 The afternoon vibe at the Tree of Zion is inviting, chilled out, and refreshingly organic. Good friend Lucas Arias lounges on the couches, sipping a banana mango smoothie. A curious customer asks about the strawberry pie. “It’s all raw,” the young lady…
TUE 12/28 A dream or two that may come true/When the tide comes in. At least expect to fall under the dreamy spell of The Miamians Men’s Chorus and the Gold Coast Chorus (a chapter of Sweet Adelines International) while they croon at tonight’s Barnacle Under Moonlight presentation. The Barnacle…
THU 23 Kevin Spacey is working overtime. He spent his own cash and five years struggling to make his latest film. The actor has a lot on the line with this labor of love that brings Fifties crooner Bobby Darin to vivid, complicated life, from his meteoric rise to his…
Now that the holiday season has descended upon us, theatergoers as well as producers are faced with the dilemma of “classic” shows. Should we surrender to tradition and go with the tried and true or attempt to buck the trend? Coral Gables’s New Theatre deftly solves this dilemma by presenting…
Bug: This wild riff on blue collar paranoia from the author of Killer Joe is set in an Oklahoma City motel where a hard-luck waitress encounters a Gulf War vet who claims that the government has implanted mind-controlling insects under his skin. Director Joseph Adler stirs up a highly charged…
Keepsake: Working with ordinary objects, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova seduces the viewer into places that are at once eerily familiar yet ineluctably foreign. He has a disconcerting way of revealing the hidden splendor of the mundane, playing deftly with nostalgia and identity, elaborating conceptual memories that bespeak a culture of reinvention, of…
Bad Education, the new film by the flamboyant Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, opens on a man sitting at a table, poring over the tabloids for stories of interest. When he finds something he likes, he reads it to his lover: Isn’t this an arresting image? Could we generate drama from…
