You know how it’s often the ones we love whose flaws are most apparent? Well, when it comes to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, I am smitten. This film is a miracle, an extravaganza equal to its predecessors and in some ways more stunning. It…
The Mona Lisa Smile in question belongs, of course, to its star, Julia Roberts. Why? For no particular reason, actually. It’s just what Italian professor Bill Dunbar (Dominic West) calls her — Mona Lisa, perhaps because he’s an Italian professor possessing few points of reference outside the works of da…
Thursday 12/18 One week until Christmas. You’ve already spent thousands of dollars on gifts (none of which is for you) and you’re not quite done shopping for others yet. You could use some major laughs. Lucky for you that comedian Richard Jeni is beginning a four-night stint at the Miami…
NOW 24/7 I found Jesus in a black velvet dinner jacket hanging on a rack at the Douglas Gardens Thrift Shop. Flared at the waist, the garment was tres-1970s Bob Guccione. Alas the Messiah was bleach stained and at $40 far too expensive. Despite the suede yarmulke found in the…
THU 12/18 Two names: Antonio Wilson, Charles Bouie. Six feet 2 inches, 6 feet 8 inches, respectively. Each of these 200-plus-pound Pahokee High School hoopsters has the raw talent and physicality that can morph into a super-freak like Lebron James. This weekend’s Zoned-Out Shootout Basketball Tournament, the brainchild of local…
THU 12/18 If you’d rather not be bombarded by electro music at a club, you can watch it on TV. Well, it’s more like a little big screen at the Miami Beach Cinematheque (512 Española Way, Miami Beach), where at 8:30 p.m. local filmmaker and music enthusiast Iris Cegarra will…
It’s high holiday time to help out kids affected by AIDS
By Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Worldwide the number of children affected by AIDS continues to grow. In South Africa thousands of so-called AIDS babies are abandoned each year, found by police in trash bins and public bathrooms. Meanwhile the pandemic continues to spread voraciously across the Indian subcontinent. In China, where health officials continually underreport…
For 365 days a year this Liberty City bookstore celebrates black life
By Joyce C. Murray
At times when others might be curled up at home with, say, a good book, you might find William or Stephana Clark answering the phone or tending to customer requests at their Liberty City store. They might not seem like typical bookstore owners. In fact it’s not even their day…
NOW 24/7 Pudge, Pudge, Pudge. How we loved chanting your name this championship season. Your chubby image spoke of determination and guts, team spirit and flavor. Pudge was cute. Pudge symbolized a tough and hungry underdog squad. In fact we got used to seeing your big J.Lo butt flabbing around…
THU 12/18 Venevision International Theater’s production of Kvetch: The Art of Complaining calls for an end to whining. The play gets a Spanish translation, which turns it into El Arte De Quejarse. Either way it is a sharp-tongued comedy, written by British actor and playwright Stephen Berkhoff, whose mastery of…
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. And since…
Change is a funny thing. Some of it is dramatic, embodied in single moments — a wedding, a birth, a terrorist attack. But a whole lot of change happens incrementally, so slowly that it isn’t noticed until after the fact. These thoughts may come to mind when contemplating the Coconut…
Galleries Ambrosino Gallery: Crush with Eyeliner, works featuring pop stars Adam Ant, Gary Numan, and Siouxsie Sioux by Beatriz Monteavaro, through Jan. 31. 769 NE 125th St, North Miami, 305-891-5577. ArtCenter/South Florida Gallery: Out of Sight: Technicolor and Deviations, San Francisco curator Jeanna Yoo develops exhibit featuring the seamier side…
Remember the Farrelly brothers? Makers of Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary? Known for crossing the line of good taste and making fun of the differently abled, but with sufficient sweetness that they could be forgiven? Kinda popular until Trey Parker and Matt Stone came along and one-upped…
To get the obvious out of the way first: Something’s Gotta Give is a film designed to appeal to older women, and it very likely will. Diane Keaton gives a good performance in it as a postmenopausal playwright who gets back in touch with her libido. The movie will probably…
Speed down NE 96th Street in Miami Shores some nights and you might think you’ve seen a holiday miracle: camels standing patiently by the sidewalk, a tax collector nearby raking in the big bucks, a baby hanging out in a manger, angels descending from the sky. It’s not street theater…
Bill Clot has bragging rights to being the grand pooh-bah of holiday yard decorations. The Pinecrest man is the owner and possessed designer of the nation’s most elaborate Christmas yard display: a doozy of a diorama with more than 700,000 lights, hundreds of moving figures, dancing bears under a makeshift…
FRI 12/12 Everyone is familiar with the World Trade Center collapse and the vast number of people who died as a result. But how many know that after the year or so of cleanup, all that remained in the 70-foot hole in the ground was the buildings’ foundation? Architect Daniel…
FRI 12/12 Babes and booze and good food, but forget the ménage à trois: We’re talking strictly foursomes, about 20 of them, if last year was a credible gauge. Oh, and then there’s the golfing. The Fourth Annual Playboy Scramble Golf Tournament comes to South Florida for the second time…
THU 12/11 Barbie dolls don’t quite figure into the Miami Children’s Theater’s new production of Little Women. Based on the book by Louisa May Alcott, the play is about the antics of the 4 March sisters, and the fun and trouble they get into while growing up. They stew over…
FRI 12/12 “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” Famous last words from Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), symbolic of how the prolific filmmaker and leader of New German Cinema lived, pumping out more than 30 features in his 37 years of life. Always the iconoclast, Fassbinder attempted to film the unfilmable in…
FRI 12/12 Well, of course you’ve seen it before. Onstage. On TV. On ice even. Mushrooms dance to its music in Fantasia. Barbie pays homage in a ballet costume (and an animated video, in case you were curious). But you decorate the tree every year too. Does that ever get…
