If you’ve seen a movie at a Landmark theater in the past year or so, you’ve probably enjoyed the trailer for Shaolin Soccer. Over a lilting Asian flute that morphs into pounding percussion, airborne soccer players execute kung fu moves that send the ball blazing across the field (or, in…
Solo performer Tim Miller knows a little something about being in the middle of a raging storm. In the early 1990s, Miller (along with artists Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and John Fleck) had his National Endowment for the Arts fellowship revoked on the basis of obscenity, thanks to the racy…
Former Miami Heat all-star player Alonzo Mourning has proven that top-tier NBA stars are not all self-centered, money-hungry, bling-headed egoists. Mourning breaks the bad-boy mold with a charitable heart and a mission to do well in the community. Showing moxie with a courageous battle against focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a rare…
THU 7/15 Outside OLA (Of Latin America) on a recent Thursday evening, flashing squad car lights made chef Douglas Rodriguez’s pan-Latin restaurant look like a riot site. Was the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit back in town? Was Paris Hilton taking her clothes off — again? Actually the…
FRI 7/16 So you wanna learn a drop-step post move that’s money in the bank? Or a nifty crossover dribble to keep your man off balance? Or a sweet stroke from downtown? Well, if you wanna be the best you gotta learn from the best, someone like Alonzo Mourning for…
SAT 7/17 The old Ministry anthem “Everyday is Halloween” says it all for an urban industrialist or nostalgic Goth. Oh, the joy of suburban angst. Ah, the fierceness of donning black trenchcoats in the summer swelter. In Miami the Kitchen Club, a regular gathering of fun-loving weirdoes, has been keeping…
THU 7/15 Every 4 years during a presidential election season, some joker comes forward to pledge his candidacy for the highest office in the land. Persistent comedian Pat Paulsen never let his optimism flag year after year as he languished at the bottom of the pack. Al Franken fantasized about…
Whew! Summer is here with a vengeance, a fierce season that is, in some ways, a little like winter up north. Most everyone starts spending more time indoors and plotting how to minimize the time spent walking in full sunlight between car and destination, while the spare room or the…
The EDGE Theatre’s self-appointed mission is to “find new playwrights and produce the neglected works” of well-known writers. That this charge knowingly does not lend itself to works with tremendous commercial appeal is admirable. However, that same mantra becomes troublesome when long and dreadful pieces like Nicky Silver’s Fit to…
Josephine’s Bakery: A small bakery in France is given a rambunctious welcome by two overtly gay proprietors of the establishment and an orchestra of misfits. By mistakenly attempting to be a topical, biting black comedy instead of taking solace in what it really is — a rowdy, raucous farce –…
Louis Laloy, a critic, musicologist, and drug-addict célèbre, once told Jean Cocteau: “Some things should be tried only once.” Laloy was referring to opium, but when it comes to writing about a figure like Pablo Picasso, I feel I’m ready to heed his advice. This is why: Picasso is, arguably,…
Florida Artists Series: R.F. Buckley and Clive King: FIU visual arts faculty members Buckley and King exhibit way too many artworks in a small museum. Overhung inevitably leads to overworked. In the case of Buckley, despite a few serendipitous still life elements, the forged and welded aluminum doesn’t reward the…
THU 15 Garnering comparisons with keyboard giants Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, and Bud Powell isn’t half bad for jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut. Of course you might expect he’s pretty good, as he’s been banging on the keys since the age of five and later graduated to sharing the stage with…
In the restaurant business, one classic mistake is to pay more attention to the presentation of the meal than the cooking itself. Beautiful décor and lighting and expert service always enhance a dining experience, but they can’t compensate for an ill-prepared entrée. The same truth applies to show business. Take,…
With Josephine’s Bakery, showing at the Prometeo Theatre’s new home on the downtown Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College, things get off to a raucous, deliriously fun start, then slow down and never quite get back up to speed. The play, informed by Jean Anouilh’s The Orchestra, is billed as…
King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The New Theatre’s annual Shakespeare fest is played in true repertory, with King Lear, the Bard’s greatest tragedy, alternating nightly with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, that popular comedy of lunacy, love, and poetry. Director Rafael de Acha and his superior design team deliver…
Recent artists’ exhibitions such as “Making Up Carolyn” at Worm-Hole Laboratory, “The Last Show” at The House, and a flurry of articles in the media have put the issue of gentrification in the forefront of the news. (As I write this, The House is being demolished to make way for…
Definitive Juxt: Curated by Lissette Garcia and co-organized by José Carlos Diaz at the Odegard Building in the Design District, this show challenges viewers to accommodate highly personal visions of a group of Miami artists. Works by the Paper Dolls, Mauricio Espinosa, Sarah Murrie, Brian O’Dell, Jason/Opalka (FeCuOp’s Jason Ferguson…
The dramatically useful accident that befell Davaa and Falorni happened in the spring of 2002. According to Mongol legend, if a mother camel rejects her newborn calf, the herding family must call in a musician to perform a kind of seduction ritual. The musician plays. The mother camel becomes enchanted…
Behold what is, in theory, the thinking person’s ideal summer blockbuster. King Arthur features some of the planet’s most beautiful people, dressed way sexily, gallantly galloping and bashing each other with all manner of implements amid lush vistas and robustly appointed sets. Add an intriguing historical pedigree and apparently unprecedented…
Just after 6:00 on a Wednesday, chef Dewey LoSasso is getting ready for a bustling evening at North 110, the new Biscayne Boulevard eatery he recently opened with his restaurant-manager wife Dale. Nevertheless he happily answers his cell phone, eager to discuss the merits of the mango. Perhaps the sweet…
Thursday 7/8 You’ve ogled the more than 300 bawdy prints by artist/provocateur Pablo Picasso currently on display at the Bass Museum, and now all you want to do is … learn how to make prints yourself! Tonight’s lecture and demonstration with local artist Charo Oquet will teach you to do…
