Fabulously over the top and beyond chic, the White Party celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year with the theme “Universal Love: Heroes and Icons of the Revolution.” You can “expect to see a lot of Liz Taylors and Marie Antoinettes,” says Tony “Mr. Nightlife” Miros, public relations and marketing coordinator…
Dancing in the Streets FRI 11/26 Viernes Culturales, which presents more than 100 entertainers and visual artists in an open-air format on Calle Ocho between SW Fourteenth and Seventeenth Avenues on the last Friday of each month, has acquired a reputation as the must-schedule ongoing Cuban cultural event. Organizers want…
Satisfy your hoop needs SAT 11/27 Practice those Harlem Globetrotter moves and don’t be afraid to bounce the ball off your opponent’s head. Intimidation is the name of this game. It doesn’t matter if every shot you take is a brick just as long as you look good doing it…
Celebrity chef puts children to work TUE 11/30 A lack of little ones couldn’t stop Rachael Ray from writing a new cookbook for children. She’s an aunt and her baby is a pitbull named Boo, who has a starring role in Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids. A…
SAT 11/27 Take the most difficult piece of music ever written (say, Bach’s Chaconne). Then try to play it on an instrument (say, the Spanish guitar) that was never really intended to do much beyond serenading the occasional blushing senorita. When you’ve accomplished that — after about 50 gazillion years…
Just the Funny: Performers in “Miami’s Home for Improv & Sketch Comedy” use props and phrases (both supplied by the audience) and various skits to showcase their comic talents. “Pick a Line” and a Scarface spoof in which the stage is covered with white powder are particularly funny, as is…
It’s pretty near impossible not to be impressed with the Actors’ Playhouse’s gangbuster production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (yes, the corporate moniker is part of the official title). This should come as no surprise; the Coral Gables troupe has become the undisputed king of musical theater in South…
Artists look inward in a show called “Me, Myself & I,” now on display at University Galleries, located on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. At the behest of New York curators Renee Riccardo and Paul Laster, 31 contemporary artists were invited to submit self-portraits, to share…
The Four Seasons: “Guerra de la Paz,” the artistic duo Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, assemble a natural world that is homely and fabulous at the same time. In their works of sculpture and installation, composed of discarded clothing gathered from rag shops near their studio in Miami’s…
THU 25 The football games are over and the pumpkin pie is almost all gone. The leftover food has been wrapped up and put away into individual containers for the next day’s snacks. Turkey Day has begun its long, slow journey into night. Instead of slipping into a full-bellied slumber,…
The best show in town happens to be an opera. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is just the first offering of the Florida Grand Opera’s 2004-2005 season, a varied feast that promises other mega hits such as Lucia di Lammermoor and The Magic Flute, as well as a tasty rare treat in…
The characters talk and talk throughout Two Trains Running, but what they say and do never really adds up to much in Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson’s play about seven regulars in a Pittsburgh diner circa 1969. This is a long (nearly three hours), static work that speaks to the lofty…
Hoagy — the Hoagy Carmichael Musical: This “biomusical” features the remarkable vocal talents of Broadway chanteuse B.J. Crosby and San Francisco cabaret star Billy Philadelphia as Hoagy Carmichael in an amiable if inspid walk through the life and career of the songwriter-turned-movie actor. Philadelphia is adept at playing Carmichael, and…
Dominican Charo Oquet is a well-known Miami artist with a gift — she is a master facilitator. Since 2003, as Edge Zones director, Oquet has presented a series of important shows at the World Arts Building in Wynwood. Numerous Miami artists have been featured in these collective exhibits. In addition,…
Brown Constructions: Curated by Los Angeles artist Amir Zaki and featuring artists Alice Könitz, Anthony Pearson, Tyler Vlahovich. The works here are linked formally by investigations into planar surfaces and solid constructions, which are pierced, impaled or excavated. Pearson’s photos of rocky landscapes are backlit in an intriguingly counterintuitive way…
Whatever else can be said about Tarnation — and there is plenty to say — there is no denying this: It is a very brave movie. Rarely is the subject of a documentary willing to lay himself bare before the camera, exposing his very consciousness to the audience, and it’s…
A week after having seen Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, no memory of it remains save some scribblings in my notepad, such is the slight nature of this woeful, forgettable sequel. Squandering the goodwill that lingers from the original, now a beloved relic among the singletons and smug marrieds…
Rather than stretch another kitschy television show into a feature length summer blockbuster or — gasp! — come up with a completely original idea for a film, Hollywood executives plan to return to the tried and true. They’ve cast a new Superman, and shooting of the re-re-remake of these favorite…
THU 18 Although eating with your hands is expected at an Ethiopian restaurant, slurping soup and sucking on stone crab claws probably won’t get you invited back for another dinner in Mr. Trump’s penthouse. Even though we are in Miami, white shoes are still tacky when worn after Labor Day…
Anyone who has worked in a restaurant knows that attitudes are as plentiful as drugs in the kitchen. Anthony Bourdain may have kicked the heroin habit, but he is still one bad-ass motherfucker. His bestselling tell-all memoir, Kitchen Confidential, scared the hell out of foodies who will never again order…
Buy Little Pony SAT 11/20 December is around the corner and toy-buying season is kicking into high gear. This year, instead of soldiering through the madding crowd in search of Optimus Prime, why not cut out the middleman? Hasbro Toys invites you to ransack its warehouse. Fill your cart with…
Enjoy the pleasures of Fairchild SAT 11/20 Sixty-four years ago, Col. Robert H. Montgomery was stressed. He needed a truck for his botanical gardens, pronto. His wife, Nell Jennings, came up with an ingenious solution. She started the Ramble-a-Garden, a festival that allowed Miami plant lovers to explore their tropical…
