He likes warm wood floors. She prefers cool marble. He likes dark-colored painted walls. She prefers flower-flecked pastel wallpaper. He dreams of taxidermied animal heads mounted, clubby leather furniture, and plaid flannel curtains. She dreams of gold-framed botanical prints, overstuffed shabby chic furniture, and light lacy curtains. This married couple…
The dining room accommodated eight, served from a capacious galley. A queen-sized bed dominated the sleeping quarters, which gave way to a bathroom outfitted with a shower and gold-plated fixtures. A quartet of TVs blared in the conference room, while strewn hither and yon were seven telephones. And a four-person…
Wednesday 5/28 According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there are roughly 4000 people in Miami-Dade County who ride their bicycles to work. Unfortunately since the census count was done, most of these bikers are now dead. Because of ever-increasing traffic congestion, snotty Metro Bus drivers who relish cutting off urban…
Saturday 5/24 Hip-hop permeates all cultural boundaries. It cannot be confined to clubland or radio play. It lives in movies and television. It grinds with strippers and revs up motorcycles. Super-sized hip-hop egos are scheduled to make appearances all over the Miami party map this Memorial Day. The glittering posse…
Saturday 5/24 Your toddler may look like an innocent human child, but he already knows more about you than your ex-husband and mother ever did. He sees through you. He will overpower you by the time he turns four, so you better not get in his way. That’s what proponents…
Thursday 5/22 Painter Sebastian Spreng is an utter romanticist, and his sublime landscapes swell with the heartbreak that surrounds true beauty, or the lack of it. The large works in Spreng’s current exhibition at the Americas Collection are richly colored and textured and slightly surreal — paintings as poetic paens…
Friday 5/23 That’s it like to be the mother of a prophet? We couldn’t tell you, but Cedella Booker Marley, mother of Bob, gives us a glimpse in her book Bob Marley, My Son. After all, she has a lot to be proud of. Her son was not only a…
Thrusday 5/22 A pretty girl. A meek florist. A bloodthirsty plant? Must be Little Shop of Horrors! The Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre (280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables) presents a test run of the widely popular Alan Menken and Howard Ashman musical prior to taking it to Broadway this…
Thursday 5/22 In developing his latest project for the Washington, D.C.-based company Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, choreographer and director Peter DiMuro strives to pierce his audience’s consciousness. To do this, DiMuro wants to use the unique stories of the town he’s performing in. To customize his ongoing oeuvre Near/Far/In/Out, a…
Thursday 5/22 Soulful chanteuse/songwriter Abenaa delves into her Ghanaian and Trinidadian roots to craft the deeply intimate and enlightened tunes on her first CD, Tuesday’s Child. Tonight she brings her spellbinding songs to the Funk Jazz Lounge at Sax on the Beach (1756 N. Bayshore Dr.). Her sound is a…
A spotlight shines on the darkened stage alternately illuminating five characters: Arlin Jasper, Dodie and Ed MacDonald, Tom Hawkins, and Denny Hedges. Each one utters a piece of a fragmented soliloquy that speaks for an entire town’s shock, grief, and disgust. Welcome to Irving, a.k.a. “Anywhere, U.S.A.,” a one-post office,…
Neil LaBute is back to his old self again, and the cinematic world is a better place for it. Honestly, what was he thinking when he made Possession? Did the charges of misogyny, still lingering from In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, get to him so…
In March 2002, days before President Bush was scheduled to visit Peru, a car bomb exploded near the U.S. embassy in Lima, killing nine and injuring dozens. Government officials, here and in Peru, blamed the attack on Shining Path — a Marxist terrorist organization with roots dating to the 1960s,…
Time was, moviegoers could rely on European films for interesting ideas and unpredictable storylines. But in the 1990s, foreign producers decided that the way into the American film market was to make American-style movies. Since then we have been besieged by a series of lame comedies and generic thrillers that…
This girl I know — we’ll call her Sophie — told me she never touches herself, you know, down there — she never masturbates. Impossible, I thought. “She’s lying,” another friend said, in shocked disbelief. After realizing as a kid that women actually poop and fart and do everything men…
Argentine rock pioneer Nito Mestre felt somehow vindicated last Wednesday when Colombian star Juanes invited him to share one of his encores in front of the enthusiastic audience that packed the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts. “I wanted to meet him and give him my album,” says Mestre…
Mon 5/19 Miami’s urban neighborhoods are changing faster than you can say obstructed waterfront view. One second the Biscayne Boulevard Corridor is dubbed the hot new place to own or rent property. The next moment the hookers have been magically displaced as 50-story condos rise quickly from the ground. Residents…
Sat 5/17 “Oldtimers” who remember the destruction Hurricane Andrew wrought can celebrate a symbolic victory at Miami Metrozoo (12400 SW 152nd St.). After eleven years and $13.5 million, a new hurricane-resistant aviary opened this month. As part of the ongoing festivities and to complement the theme of its reborn “Wings…
Now 24/7 Creativity and a love for learning cool stuff is all kids need to become members of the Intel Computer Clubhouse. The after-school program is a casual drop-in center where kids between the ages of 10 and 18 can learn cutting-edge computer skills — from digitized filmmaking to Web…
Thur 5/15 If you have any doubts about the sensuality of Josephine Baker, you won’t want to miss the screening of the 1935 French gem Princess Tam Tam. In it Baker smolders as Alwina, a Tunisian Bedouin girl introduced into Paris society as a royal who proceeds to turn the…
Sat 5/17 Six years ago, Arroz Con Mango was a back-yard party with a neighborhood DJ put on by college kids to raise money for the fight against cancer. Today the event, organized by the Junior League Against Cancer, has graduated to a heavyweight fundraiser featuring performers like Latin pop…
Fri 5/16 Bird and Dizzy may be more famous, but Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell are equally responsible for creating bebop, the first radical shift in modern popular music. Even for geniuses, Monk and Powell were extraordinary artists. Monk was a brooding presence in the Harlem Renaissance while Powell was…
