Unite, and slaughter fishies FRI 10/15 If you’re one of those fetishists who thinks there’s simply nothing sexier than a woman and her fishnets, listen up. Ladies, let’s go fishing! This time will be different, we promise. Enjoy a briny celebration of women designed to make the fairer sex feel…
About time, too SAT 10/16 When the heart of the artist is enhanced by the mind of the sociologist, art is informed by an intellectual meaning not necessarily tied to visual qualities. In her new book Celebrating Women, Paola Gianturco trains her lenses on the feminine half of humanity. In…
Okies in South Florida FRI 10/15 In 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein created the first people’s musical, a story intended to transcend geography and time. Oklahoma! introduced a passel of tunes that everyone knows. Ray Charles breathed fresh life into “Oh What a Beautiful Morning,” and jazz legends Cannonball Adderley and…
There are several good reasons why South Florida playgoers may want to trek out to Plantation to take in Amadeus, now playing at the Mosaic Theatre. First and foremost is Peter Shaffer’s grand potboiler of a script about the life and death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Because of its formidable…
To hear him tell it, there is little out of the ordinary about the time Ralph met Rona, about his annoying but seemingly harmless pushiness, about the girl’s eventual return of his insistent “Hello, hello, hello.” Soon we learn, however, that Rona is but ten years old, that Ralph is…
CORAL GABLES — Isabelle Czerny, an elderly classical pianist, was murdered last weekend at the Shear Madness hair salon, which is neatly nestled inside the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. Dets. Nick Rossetti (Michael St. Pierre) and Miguel “Mikey” Ortiz (Francisco Padura) were working undercover at the scene, yet still…
Amadeus: Reviewed in this issue. Through October 17, and October 28-31. Mosaic Theatre, American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd., Bldg. 3000, Plantation. 954-577-8243. Air, Fire, Water: Jim Tommaney’s three short plays range widely in subject and effectiveness but stick to a central tone of foreboding. In…
House and Garden: A Dip in the Deep End of Domesticity: Chad Abel, an artist and photographer with a taste for parody, revulsion, and the grotesque, works with surfaces, paint and glaze, reassembled plastic toys, and makeshift furniture to set up bizarre sculptures. He is also a good painter. Interact…
The presidential election is near, and the Florida Room folks have a lot on their minds. Nuclear proliferation, for starters, as well as the Iraq War. Also the memory of butterfly ballots and hanging chads, electronic voting machines, Al Jazeera and Fox News, political cartoons and cartoonish politicians, Will Ferrell…
The Spanish Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Español, or CCE) for years has been a unique place for interesting cultural exchanges in Miami, and the current display continues that tradition. “De Ida y Vuelta” (roughly, “Going and Coming”) is a show of works, mostly on paper, curated by Carlos M. Luis…
If there’s an award for great theatrical moments, this year’s prize will undoubtedly go to Nilo Cruz and his Anna in the Tropics, now playing at the Coconut Grove Playhouse: In the play’s final image, a half-crazed Cuban girl dressed in a Russian costume staggers toward a huge palm tree…
Miami’s art venues have experienced many changes recently, but OBJEX Artspace remains steadfast and safely in place. Now on exhibit there is “House and Garden: A Dip in the Deep End of Domesticity” by Chad Abel, an artist and photographer with a taste for parody, revulsion, and the grotesque. He…
Adhesive 44: Fulfilling art writer John Berger’s prediction that museums of the future would ultimately disappear and be replaced by personal arrangements of reproductions and printed ephemera, Brazilian artist Jac Leirner unpacks her decalcomania at the Miami Art Museum. Composed of hundreds of stickers adhered to two rows of window…
Maybe it’s the mark of a great film that it can affect an audience member even when he sleeps through the entire thing. Such was the case with my father at a recent preview of David O. Russell’s I Huckabees, a philosophy lecture masquerading as a comedy in which shrill…
Revolutionary idolatry is an odd business. Just ask unruly pop singer Stew, of the unruly pop group the Negro Problem. On his Naked Dutch Painter album, the melodic rebel dares to challenge a very sacred image. “Don’t you wish there was, like, another picture of Che Guevara?” he inquires. “Like,…
I was prepared to loathe Wade Robson. Discovered by Michael Jackson when he was only five years old, he’s appeared in three music videos alongside the erstwhile, self-proclaimed king of pop. He was referred to as the “unofficial sixth member of NSYNC,” actually standing in for an injured Joey Fatone…
THU 7 When some people think theater, they think boring and stuffy. Well, how’s about a play called Jane Fonda’s Breast? Or, I Stand Naked Before You? The second annual Lavender Footlights Festival of New Plays brings four nights of mind-expanding theater from gay and lesbian theater legends Edmund De…
Not long into director Russ Meyer’s outsized 1970 Hollywood satire Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, the filmmaker introduces all of his principal characters via a sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll party held at the Los Angeles manse of a dandified, reptilian music impresario who speaks primarily in Elizabethan English. As a sea of…
Hispanic Miami from the street BY CARLOS SUAREZ DE JESUS SAT 10/9 During October, Miami-Dade Transit jovially celebrates the spirit of Columbus, sending forth a caravan of curb-hugging tin galleons offering three-hour Hispanic Heritage Tours every Saturday of the month. Unlike the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria, though, this fleet…
Five decades of debauchery SAT 10/9 Yes, yes. It’s so no-no to celebrate the voyage of Christopher Columbus without mentioning how his desperately financed, endlessly perilous, and ultimately earth-altering expedition led to the most horrific genocide, the most appalling spread of disease, and the most evil empire building of all…
Live la dolce vita SUN 10/10 Tuscany is so hot these days. It seems this quaint Italian region hired itself a Hollywood publicist. Blame the influx of all things Tuscan on Frances Mayes. Her bestselling memoir Under the Tuscan Sun was made into a chick flick in 2003. Since then,…
Miami Carnival gets it together downtown SUN 10/10 The history of Miami Carnival has been notoriously plagued with conflict and drama. In the past separate festivals were held at locations spread so far apart that revelers were forced to pick a parade according to geography. The organizers have finally gotten…
