NOW 24/7 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a miracle of another feather. It’s the 60-by-60-foot labyrinth on the parking lot blacktop of the Unity on the Bay church. The cheeky diva of Miami’s holy houses has spawned a veritable “happening” with this blue-on-black meditative walking…
SAT 10/11 Men and women quickly walk from the water’s edge to long, vibrantly colored wooden boats to the beat of pounding drums. On Biscayne Bay, rowers yell as their boats roam in all directions and water splashes. Bienvenidos to Miami’s version of the classic dragon boat race. Two separate…
SAT 10/11 In a world where high-schoolers need to be schooled on the overuse of the N-word, it’s no wonder getting old-school manners means going back to school. The Kid’s Village Youth Etiquette Camp gives youngsters the cues they need to gracefully navigate through precarious social events like greeting our…
THUR 10/9 Every year when National Depression Screening Day rolls around, your interest is piqued but you just can’t seem to get off your ass and get to one of their free and anonymous screenings. It’s not that you’re lazy, maybe just … depressed? Depression does spread its ominous cloud…
SAT 10/11 The always-edgy minds at GableStage may have outdone themselves this time. Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? is the shockingly amusing tale of an architect named Martin (Bob Rogerson) whose happy life, complete with loving wife and gay teenage son, is changed by the admission that…
Talk about counterprogramming. South Florida playgoers tired of lightweight modern plays and musicals can find some heavy — really heavy — drama at the New Theatre in Coral Gables. The tiny troupe often takes on gargantuan projects and its latest, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, is a monster. This three-hour-long…
Recently ornithologists in Antarctica made a startling discovery: Female emperor penguins, being forced against their wills to endure stern patriarchal societal norms, tend to practice iffy mating habits. Close scrutiny revealed that most adult females go bonkers struggling to choose between an exciting-but-destructive “bad-boy” penguin and a dependable-but-boring “good-boy” penguin,…
The opening credits insist Kill Bill: Volume 1 is “Quentin Tarantino’s 4th film,” when it’s actually his 3.5th; it’s too incomplete to be measured as a whole, half a movie waiting for a proper ending due to arrive in the next volume in February. Till then we’ll have to contemplate…
THURSDAY 10/9 Hosting the House of Terror Amusement Park during George Dubya’s war against terror is sure to be somewhat of a marketing challenge. In the initial days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, we were sure the producers of Miami’s most commercial haunted house would change its name. But…
You wouldn’t think it nowadays, but there was a time — not so long ago — when Sam Shepard was the king of American theater. His vision of America as a metaphysical and spiritual desert haunted by dark ghosts of violence was preeminent in the restless 1970s and ’80s as…
Carlos Suarez de Jesus is a Miami-based artist who co-founded the alternative art space lab6 in Little Havana. He’s just returned to Miami from self-imposed exile in Detroit. He missed Art Basel. In Miami perception is everything — knowing how fickle the winds here can be, the word to the…
You gotta love John Sayles. No, really — you gotta, or else a mob of indie-minded cineastes will club you into submission. Sometimes it’s easy to comply, as with City of Hope and Sunshine State, both astute portraits of uniquely American class, race, and real estate struggles boiling down to…
You see them all the time, on the sides of walls and buildings, rectangles a few square feet or more painted a shade noticeably different from the rest of the structure. They’ve become such a part of our urban landscape, like the graffiti they’re intended to cover up, that we…
Director Richard Linklater’s School of Rock imagines, sort of, what might have become of voluble rock snob Barry the morning after his grand finale in Stephen Frears’s adaptation of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity — after his Marvin Gaye impersonation had faded and been forgotten in the daylight hours, after he…
One-woman shows that resurrect the spirits of female icons like Janice Joplin and Billie Holiday rely on the communal memory of the public and the actresses’ ability to channel that legend. Sully Diaz promises to elevate the story and music of Cuban-born diva “La Lupe” to such heights in her…
There’s no question that the construction of a major museum is a big deal. Often it involves acclaimed architects from all over the world competing for the right to design it; millions of public and/or private funds (or billions in the case of California’s J. Paul Getty Museum); and time,…
SUN 10/5 According to Celtic legend, Stingy Jack was a thieving reprobate, a chap so nasty he tricked the Devil himself on several occasions. Banned from both Heaven and Hell, Jack had nowhere to go when he died and began roaming the night looking for mischief to perform. Because he…
SAT 10/4 Soccer is the universal sport. All around the world kids understand that fun and good-natured competition happens when you take a ball and begin kicking it around. The City of Miami kicks off a new soccer program today that is free of charge for disadvantaged inner-city children. The…
MON 10/6 Kids, what do you do with a day off school? You sit around the living room playing video games or run around outside wreaking havoc in your hood. No! Take advantage of Florida’s beautiful fall weather and sign yourself up for the Cane Pole Fishing Contest at Bill…
MON 10/6 Food. You love it. But is it better enjoyed alone in the privacy of your home? Or with a group of, say, 15 other possibly lonely, possibly gregarious, possibly gluttonous food lovers just like you? For the last couple of weeks Ortanique on the Mile (278 Miracle Mile,…
SUN 10/5 Oye, it’s time for the second annual Urban Latin Music Festival and you know what that means. Lots of rump-shakin’, bass-thumpin’ Latin and hip-hop music. All the musical bases are covered with the bachata band Aventura, Huey Dunbar doing tropical and salsa, the Spanish hip-hop of Majic Juan,…
THURSDAY 10/2 Whiskey and chewing gum: We certainly can’t dream up a better combination, except maybe beer and Fruit Loops. But someone thought the former was a good idea because among the many sponsors of the Latino Comedy Series is the Jack Daniel’s brand and Chiclets gum. Sounds comical to…
