This much can be said for the movie version of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events: Its villain, Count Olaf, just might be Jim Carrey’s finest screen role. A bitter, would-be master thespian who delights in donning ridiculous disguises and adopting funny accents, he doesn’t seem that far removed…
Dimitris “The Dream Boy” Labatos had an idea four years ago. His vision was to avert the attention of Miami’s misguided youth from the violence and moral degradation plaguing their community. Gangsters by the name of TNS (Take No Shit) and INP (International Posse) had riddled his school, G. Holmes…
The subject line on the press release read, “Once more with Feeling … CHER!” Oh, my God. Please say it isn’t so. Cher is back, back again? It goes on to claim that “due to overwhelming demand, Cher will continue her öFarewell Never Can Say Goodbye Tour 2004.'” Damn! She…
A transformation at the Marlin 24/7 If anyone can take the Marlin Hotel (1200 Collins Ave., Miami Beach) from hipster grunge to upmarket funky and fabulously hip in less than 6 months, it’s Sami Stormo, Nerve Lounge survivor and the Marlin’s director of operations and marketing since May. The sassy…
SAT 12/18 Challenge yourself with 12 hours of biking competition. The course at Oleta River State Park (3400 NE 163rd St., North Miami) features tight tracks, tree roots, and jumps. Admission ranges from $40 to $150. Call 352-873-9279 or visit www.goneriding.com. — Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik Arena Dreams Make a…
3 GZ Productions shares its vision SAT 12/18 In 1896, Alice Guy Blaché made La Fee aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy), a minute-long film based on a French fable. Although Blaché’s movie was completed months before George Mélis’s first foray into the medium, Mélis is touted as the father of…
Sing a song of underwear FRI 12/17 What happens when 4 tired, cranky, randy strangers meet up at a lingerie sale? They commiserate on menopause before breaking into song in Menopause The Musical, which runs through January 29 at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center at Nova Southeastern University (3100 Ray…
THU 16 David Yurman makes the kind of jewelry that causes discerning, Vogue-reading women to salivate. When Sybil Yurman wore a handcrafted gift from her husband to an art opening, the gallery owner fell in love with the piece. The woman asked if the gift was for sale. David answered…
Oh, how deceiving first appearances can be. At the start of Tracy Letts’s Bug, now in its Florida premiere at Gablestage, a leggy redhead stands in the doorway of a battered motel room, sipping some wine and swaying gently to lively Colombian music playing somewhere off in the night. It’s…
There’s a lot to be said for this thing that just opened at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, but here’s the essence: Crush the Infamous Thing: The Adventures of the Hollywood Four is the season’s funniest comedy and the best cure for postelection, preholiday blues. Don’t miss it. The screwball setup…
The Marilyn Monroe most people know is her star persona: A ditzy blonde who oozed sexuality and was both a threat and revelation to the conservative Fifties. But the real Marilyn, as depicted in various biographies and here in Jim Tommaney’s intriguing Final Hours of Norma Jeane, was a woman…
Late Nite Catechism: You don’t have to be Catholic to laugh with Vicki Quade and Maripat Donovan’s one-woman show starring Kathleen Stefano that has turned the Encore Room into a parochial school complete with holy cards, wooden rulers, and one formidable nun who will be sure you do not chew…
Me, Myself & I: Works of self-portraiture by 31 artists assembled by guest curators Renee Riccardo and Paul Lastre. When artists gaze in the mirror, they invite us to follow and vicariously wallow in our own inner cores. Tomoko Sawada transforms herself into a “girl of a thousand faces.” Mickalene…
If you’ve already decided to see Ocean’s Twelve, it’s probably best not to read much about it. Unlike its predecessor, a remake that clung to a hoary heist formula, the sequel contains ample pleasures, most of which amuse as the result of surprises both great and small. There’s no one…
They walk among us. They resemble people, approximate our words and actions, present themselves more or less as human. And yet they are more — a different species, with their own dark legends, their own clandestine meeting places. They are dorks, and they are going to be pretty okay with…
L. Murray Dixon was part of a circle of architects who sought to create a district on Miami Beach that would set a fashionable tone for this burgeoning resort area to follow. Dixon helped to sculpt Ocean Drive into 23 marvelous blocks of Art Deco design, turning the strip into…
Another year has sped past and we still haven’t mastered the art of relaxation or found inner peace. Anxiety from holiday shopping and having only a few weeks left to attain those resolutions can leave us wishing for a day at the spa. The timing for the Spa and Resort…
Diversity rules the day SAT 12/11 You make arrangements with a travel agent. Have a passport issued. Stuff a couple of suitcases. Grab a cab to the airport and cram into an airplane. And then comes one of life’s great pleasures: an international vacation. If you live in Miami, you…
MON 12/13 People, the Miami Hurricanes aren’t all hulking, sweaty men. The women’s basketball team has been kicking ass all season. Watch the Her-a-Canes rule their home court at 7:00 p.m., at the Convocation Center, 245 Walsh Ave., Coral Gables. Tickets cost $5. Call 305-284-2263 or visit www.hurricanesports.com. — Patrice…
Party at the Merrick House SAT 12/11 Inflatable gingerbread men, supercharged light displays, digital gadgets, and the ubiquitous Sponge Bob are basic trappings. They define the holidays. For festivities of a simpler sort, the historic Coral Gables Merrick House (907 Coral Way, Coral Gables) is throwing a holiday event today…
Folk singing their hearts out FRI 12/10 Listening to Laurie McClain and Karen Mal sing makes all your lost hippie hopes of peace, love, and simple, good times come washing over you like warm bathwater. These two women live the dream, traveling from city to city playing folk music, harmonizing,…
…and we’re not just talking about Bush getting reelected. So much has happened that it is hard to recall every detail. Is it the short term memory loss that makes it seem as if the last twelve months have just vanished? Or is it the fact that it has been…
