A trip through the drinking glass TUE 9/28 From the ABC to the XYZ of cups, the University of Miami’s New Gallery (1210 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables) opens an exhibition starring, drum roll, please … the “CUP” in all its glorious incarnations. This cupstravaganza features everything from brawny tumblers to…
Mundo Vibe makes noise SUN 9/26 To walk around with an exclamation point at the end of your name and be taken halfway seriously, you better be a sunny optimistic sort who makes people smile when you appear. Jan Sebon!, poet, musician, and media maven, is just that kind of…
Theater has long been praised for holding “the mirror up to nature” to reveal reality through the artifice of performance. Yet, remarkably, our post 9/11 reality — filled with threat, fear, war, blundering, and duplicity — took quite a while to filter into new plays. Now, a somber, deeply pessimistic…
A lot can be said about luna del pingüino, but above all, there is this: It works. Constantly surprising, interactive, and gently transgressive, bursting with smiles even at its most unsettling, ready to face today’s serious moral challenges but readier still to entertain, it is a one-man show but also…
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…
THU 23 Anyone fearless enough to perch on something protruding from a skyscraper gets our vote as cool. That person would be “Margaret Bourke-White: Modern Woman, Modern Photographer,” who in 1932 was snapped standing on a Chrysler Building gargoyle many stories above Manhattan, and who is also the subject of…
With hurricane season most decidedly upon us, questions of probability and fate are on the minds of many. How is it that some people suffer when disaster strikes while others walk away unscathed? Is survival a matter of chance, will, or preordination? Such thoughts are at the fore of Michael…
The real Moms Mabley was a trip. The woman recalled in Jackie “Moms” Mabley Live at the Shores Theater deserves our respect, and her old routines can still get more than a laugh or two. But not even Latrice Bruno’s delicious impersonation can gloss over how little the late T…
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…
Fortune smiles on groovy egregiousness. In the case of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the filmmakers’ investment in their weird visions is wildly unorthodox, but the payoff is oddly satisfying. The movie features myriad killer robots, raucous underwater dogfights, and Laurence Olivier’s best work since he died 15…
Hey, have you heard about that new Danish film that just came out? Distributed by Lars von Trier’s Zentropa Entertainments, has the same star as one of the Dogme 95 movies, and features a dysfunctional family full of people who yell at each other? Wait . . . don’t run…
It’s not often that an interview subject can’t speak to you because she’s in class — not at a dance or voice lesson but in high school. Actually seventeen-year-old Giorgi, the newest one-named would-be pop sensation, was busy eating lunch in the school cafeteria at noon on a Thursday. Afterward…
As with Jesus and Christianity, the Buddha lived as a human long before others created a religion in his name. Both of these great spiritualists had followings of devout people eager to learn their heroes’ secrets, but the Christian scriptures weren’t codified until at least 70, and likely 100, years…
Get the lowdown on Biscayne SUN 9/19 For what has seemed like more years than not, Biscayne Boulevard, Miami’s main drag, has been very much a drag. Running from downtown all the way north to the county line, it’s choked with traffic; blighted by rundown office buildings, shops, and motels;…
ECOMB cleans up SoBe SAT 9/18 Sexy, decadent Miami Beach. The PR reputation of an entire city rests squarely on her sandy shores. Those overpriced clubs and restaurants wouldn’t be squat if it weren’t for her warm waves lapping along the perimeter of it all. Sometimes she’s so dirty, though…
Shake it for a good cause SAT 9/18 When it comes to dancing, you’ve got more moves than a cornered politician, but other than getting you a spot as back-up for Britney or winning a place on Soul Train, what can your fly moves really do? A lot, if you…
Rock with reggae’s finest FRI 9/17 The classic roots reggae lover doesn’t find a lot of musical sustenance in Miami. All the great conscious dancehall headliners wind up playing these fabulous festivals up north and in California, which is surprising and disappointing, seeing as the Caribbean presence here helps to…
THU 16 Forget all about steroid scandals and get ready for some all-American athletes doing their thing. Yes, a giant Wheaties box will come to life tonight when members of the current men’s and women’s Olympic teams and 2003 World Championships team in gymnastics come to town to bounce around…
Some of the people who helped bring you dank, morose amusements such as The Crow, Dark City, and The Matrix have a new movie to offer. Like The Matrix, it features a dork who flies through the air. As in Dark City, we witness the protagonist’s world radically changing shape…
Essayist. Playwright. Radio personality. Librettist. Actor. Novelist. Now, with Bright Young Things, the inimitable British wit Stephen Fry debuts as feature screenwriter and director. Best known here in the colonies either as Jeeves (opposite Hugh Laurie) in Jeeves and Wooster, or as Peter in Peter’s Friends, or possibly as Oscar…
Dinner and a movie was so last weekend, and besides multiplexes are either filled with the clichéd summer blockbuster movies you’ve already seen, or the mindless drivel Hollywood was too ashamed to release earlier. There’s not a single good concert to be found, and now that all the famous people…
Experiencing the work of Haiti’s master sculptors, one can almost hear the rhythm of the resurrection drums, a link with the ancestral spirits and divinities alive in these artists’ fingertips. During the past half-century, from the forged-iron graveyard crosses of Georges Liautaud to the found-object fabrications of Pierrot Barra to…
