“The New Year’s that first comes to mind is the one I spent in the Virgin Islands. I came down to my home in North Miami Beach trying to escape the cold, but when I got here it was actually kind of nippy. I couldn’t go in the water. I…
THU 9 They say that behind every good man, there’s an even better woman. Behind James Joyce, there was Sylvia Beach, who was driven to bankruptcy by publishing his scandalous masterpiece, Ulysses. Behind Pablo Picasso stood Gertrude Stein, who discovered and promoted this then-unknown artist while employing a young errand…
Take a holiday classic loved by all, add a few star turns and more than a whiff of camp, don your gay apparel and get set to make some memories: That is the aim of It’s a Fabulous Life!, David Sexton and Albert Evans’s loose and merry musical adaptation of…
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…
In only its third year, Art Basel is rapidly becoming the art festival of America. With events spoking out from its official hub at the Miami Beach Convention Center across Miami-Dade County and going on from noon to dawn for nearly a week, it is also one of most daunting…
Jim Drain and Ara Peterson Alumnae of Forcefield, the Providence, Rhode Island, artist collective, and of the 2002 Whitney Biennial, artists Jim Drain and Ara Peterson are reunited here by Lawrence Rinder, an adjunct curator at the Whitney. The result is “Wiggin Village,” a sprawling, antic installation at the Moore…
According to Miami native Art Kendallman (not his real name), art is war. The performance artist is a one-man fighting force railing against the big business art concept the only way he knows — through a visual assault on unsuspecting passersby. While Art Basel invites patrons to immerse themselves in…
It takes pure genius to come up with a party that can distract from the overwhelming influx of art and culture descending upon Miami during Art Basel, but that is exactly what Aquabooty’s Tomas Ceddia and Joe Budious have done with their “Fuck Art, Let’s Dance” party. From the Design…
At some point during Art Basel, patrons at the official event are going to want to get from the Miami Beach Convention Center to the streets of Wynwood and the Design District, and those on the mainland will be eager to take in the exhibits at the beach. They can…
Mike Nichols’s new film Closer is a boiling pot of lust, mistrust, and double-dealing that might well be taken for outright soap opera — or, in quite a few places, soft-core porn — were it not for the sophisticated gleam of its well-heeled London desperadoes and the vicious dazzle of…
When shot with verve and skill, so that we can feel the heat and passion of the moment, a concert film is the next best thing to being there. That’s the way it is with Lightning in a Bottle, a Martin Scorsese-produced documentary that captures an extraordinary evening in February…
Heard locally on WLRN-FM (91.3), Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me! host Peter Sagal once appeared in a music video starring (a) Michael Jackson, (b) Michael Moore, (c) Mandy Moore, or (d) Marilyn Manson? That’s right — (a) Michael Jackson! Carl, what has our listener won? Fans of National Public…
The Baka Boys have come a long way since they moved here from Los Angeles. Sure, out in La-la-land they were big shots, creating Friday Night Flavas on Power 106 back in the heyday of the east coast/west coast rivalry. The boys represented westside rap to the fullest, until Power…
Discovering sculpture in the fall SUN 12/5 One of the advantages of living in Miami is that while the rest of the country suffers a season of cold, bleak misery, Miami is having the best weather of the year. The skies remain blue and the sun is still warm, but…
SAT 12/4 If you shudder at the thought of photographing bugs, birds, and trees for fear of blurry or boring prints, let Crandon Park (6767 Crandon Blvd., Key Biscayne) bring out your inner Ansel Adams. Nature Photography 101 will teach amateur photographers the basics of capturing postcard quality shots for…
A mix of music, art, and beer SAT 12/4 No one appreciates the work of creative types as much as other creative types. That’s why Lindsay Bell and Juan Navarro created Underground Cavalcade as “an eclectic event designed by artists and musicians for the benefit and entertainment of artists and…
A six-pack of plays THU 12/2 Life is indeed what you make it in Mere Mortals, a medley of short plays by David Ives. And if that means wandering the streets of New York City convinced you are a French Impressionist, like the character in Degas C’est Moi, then dammit,…
THU 2 November’s in the rear view mirror and we’re zooming full speed ahead through the holiday tunnel. For college students, this time of year traditionally means high stress, what with finals bearing down. For professors, it means stacks and stacks of papers to read. Well, professors Zack Bowen and…
“Transmission: A Mobile Collective”: Judith Robertson, Marilyn Gottlieb-Roberts, and other artists have transformed a moving truck into mobile art. It will park in different locations throughout Art Basel. Through Dec. 4. Private Tours – Three Perspectives: Urban Art Access will be offering three different tours during Art Basel. Choose to…
If you’ve ever gone line-dancing with a gaggle of amputees on crank and hallucinogens, you know something of the feeling engendered by viewing Alexander. This broad, bold, and ambitious film by Oliver Stone presents itself as a fairly straightforward endeavor, but its rhythms quickly go strange while its participants hobble…
s the year stumbles toward its conclusion and critics begin penning their best-and-worst compendiums, here’s a holiday contender fit for the all-time Naughty List. Based on the John Grisham novel Skipping Christmas — which, face it, is less a novel than an impulse item stacked on bookstore checkout counters –…
Behind the carefully polished, clean-cut Leave it to Beaver veneer of the 1950s, there existed an underbelly of shame and fear. This was not an era where self-expression was encouraged, or even allowed. McCarthyism ruled the day, women were seldom allowed to wear pants on television, and civil rights were…
