NOW 24/7 When Victor Leong began building his sandcastle along the seawall at Lummus Park more than 11 years ago, his creation was seen as a funky, one-of-a-kind attraction. Leong would perform with buckets of sand, building elaborate spires and fragile bridges and Gothic moats. His effort quickly drew crowds,…
THU 1/1 We’re not happy about it either, Jeb. Alas the Bowl Championship Series computer oracle has spoken: The Canes, who beat the Seminoles in an October slosh-fest, must face the team again on New Year’s Day. Any real Floridian prefers a Buckeye-Cane Orange Bowl matchup. And Cane fans, like…
THU 1/1 The holidays in South Florida can get weird. A longing for sleigh bells can burn a melancholy pang into your sun-tanning bliss. What’s Christmas without snow? Young folks who crave respite from the interminable warmth can find it at the Miami Seaquarium’s Winter Kids’ Fest. The event offers…
SAT 1/3 It’s hellishly cold in Germany right now, and downright frigid underground. But for a taste of both in the comfort of Miami’s temperate climes, one need only traipse over to the upstairs lounge of Edelweiss Gasthaus for a weekly gathering of the best in the local underground scene…
SAT 1/3 You never know what you’ll hear at a show by Tammerlin, a husband-and-wife musical duo composed of singer-songwriter-percussionist Lee Hunter (left) and guitarist Arvid Smith. They call their unusual sound “folklectic.” And they’re not kidding. The Jacksonville, Florida-based couple plays multiple instruments and boasts a varied repertoire of…
To hear Mike Lefebre tell it, these are desperate times for full-time horseplayers. In the not-too-distant past, he explains from his residence in West Palm Beach, “Out of nine or ten [daily] races at Gulfstream, I would bet seven of them. Now, maybe I bet two or three.” As a…
Thursday 1/1 The story of the Samimy family of Miami is also the story of the Zargar family, Jews who originally resided in Persia (known as Iran since 1935) as jewelers to the shah in the 1880s, then fled owing to anti-Semitism to Turkmenistan in the early 1900s, then returned…
Anthony Minghella’s magnificent film version of the Civil War epic Cold Mountain has much more going for it than Hollywood grandeur. Beyond its striking set-pieces and gruesome battle scenes populated with thousands of extras, in addition to its movie-star glamour — Jude Law and Nicole Kidman are like beautiful pieces…
The dispute at the heart of House of Sand and Fog concerns the occupancy of a rundown little bungalow near the northern California coast. It’s not much of a place, really. And to get a glimpse of the Pacific you’d have to climb up to the roof and stand on…
The ringed planet is at its brightest; check it out
No planet is cooler than the sixth one from the sun. Not Mars. Not Venus. Not even your cute little Uranus. No other rock orbiting the sun has those groovy rings like the hula hoops around Saturn’s waist. It’s funky and hip and there’s a car named after it. This…
Pantomime. For many Americans the very word elicits frightening memories of silent, pale, black-clad street performers terrorizing little children with wild gesticulations. However, obnoxious mimers represent only a small minority in the history of the theatrical art that has existed in some form or another since antiquity. In the United…
NOW 24/7 You walk down the beach, searching for seashells, but as far as the eye can see there are none. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Gone. When the powers-that-once-were manufactured the Miami Beach coastline, were shells not part of the equation? Or is nature just holding out on us? Probably not…
SAT 12/27 “Uh, you know, we’re really, uh, just like getting, the, uh, like, you know, the, uh, kids together, like it’s really cool that there’s, uh, so many kids in the, uh, city, who, you know, like, uh …” What Matt Cantor, creator of Control Skate Park, is trying…
TUE 12/30 Jobie, the on-again-off-again mascot of the Junior Orange Bowl Parade, is on again, at least for this year. Today the cute little citric mascot re-emerges as the symbol of the Junior Orange Bowl Parade, in its 55th year as a Coral Gables holiday tradition. Because of legal issues…
WED 12/31 The philosophical roots of Paul Miller, AKA DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, run deep. More than just a mixer of sounds, beats, and words, Miller describes his art as a new evolution of music. He uses the word jazz to describe what he does, but don’t expect horns…
WED 12/31 The thrill is definitely still there when it comes to 78-year-old master blues guitarist B.B. King. In a career that spans 6 decades over worlds from the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s to South Beach today, blues music’s regal ambassador has accomplished more than just about any other…
Once again, the time has come to wonder where it all went and where do you go from here. But first and foremost, it’s time to party. In order to save you some trouble, we here at New Times have devised a list of worthwhile New Year’s celebrations. Use this…
Uh oh. When I learn that a screenwriter has just written a play, I usually look for a place to hide. Many, no, most successful writers fall into the trap of hubris: If they thrive in one medium, they assume they will triumph in all. The result is often abysmal…
For all of its inspired side trips down Imagination Lane (let’s call it that, because the “memories” of protagonist Edward Bloom are too majestic to be trusted and too affecting to be discounted), Big Fish is ultimately about one thing: the relationship between a son about to become a father…
Thursday 12/25 Beware of cantors from the Great Smoky Mountains: They come bearing guitars and singing funky Jewish folk tunes. Cantor David Shneyer is one such dude. Founder of the Jewish Folk Arts Society and the Fabrangen Fiddlers klezmer band, Shneyer is a singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C. Trekking to South…
Art Basel Miami Beach 2003 is over. But this year’s fair and the events it generated were so multifaceted — and there was so much — that there’s no way to summarize it within this space. We’ve decided to ask a group of art experts to contribute their perspectives as…
Damien B: “Sweetly the Air Flew Overhead,” by Cathy de Monchaux, with musicians Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke and philosopher Theodore Zeldin. Through January 2. The installation’s glowing celestial lights emanating from Damien B called to the pedestrian traffic making their Basel rounds on the Art Loves Design Thursday night…
