Thursday, September 17 Romance, sadly, is a dying concept. With modern advances in dating that don’t require people to have in-person interactions until much later in the relationship, it’s no wonder women often mutter, “Chivalry is dead.” But it doesn’t have to be! There are options, ladies and (those few)…
The events surrounding an artist’s death are often steeped in ritual. In preparation for a posthumous retrospective, colleagues, family, friends, and at times the ailing artist himself collectively participate in the gradual cataloging of a life’s work. With each sketch unearthed from piles of studies and prints, the same petulant…
Born in Bombay, India, Salman Rushdie has made a name for himself over the last few decades in both traditional and nontraditional ways. The traditional: Win the Booker Prize. Get knighted. Non-traditional: Work with U2. Go into hiding after publishing The Satanic Verses and appearing on an Al Qaeda hit…
In 1985, Lupe Ontiveros played Rosalita, a clueless housekeeper who’s the butt of jokes made by 13-year-old Corey Feldman in The Goonies. In 1997, she played another housekeeper, who gets a door slammed in her face by Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets. In her later years, she…
James “Whitey” Bulger was more like a character from a 17th-century folktale than a late-20th-century criminal, the sort of figure who’d murder innocents on wooded roadways and then, with a shrug, toss their bloody bones to hungry wild dogs. In ’80s and early-’90s Boston, he headed a criminal syndicate known…
Friendships between women have the ambiguous vitality of growing vines: They can either strangle or nurture, and at times it can be hard to tell the difference. That’s particularly true for young women first stepping into the puzzling gray area of rivalries and loyalties. How best to support your friends…
Collaborations are all the rage these days. Taking a page from the burgeoning tech culture, artists are increasingly working on group projects in an attempt to mutually boost their exposure, gain recognition, or simply learn from the experience of working closely with a colleague. This weekend the Centro Cultural Espanol (CCE) premiered…
The uttering of the name Tony Nathan strikes a chord in most all Miami Dolphins fans; after all, the former all-pro Dolphins starting running back in Super Bowl XVII and Super Bowl XIX will forever go down as one of the greatest players in franchise history. However, what might not come…
Rise and shine, folks. You’ve got another work week ahead to get through, some saddled by leftover pounds of Rosh Hoshana brisket you better not waste or your Mom’s gonna be pissed. Luckily, we’ve got the perfect pick-me-ups to make the days breeze by, from new art exhibits and live…
Who saw this coming? The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan’s witty, crowd-jolting spook-house of an 11th feature, is its writer-director’s best movie since the tail-end of the last Clinton era. And it’s the best studio horror flick in recent years, combining the but-what’s-in-those-shadows? immersion of The Conjuring, James Wan’s basement-wandering simulator,…
“I have found that the workshop provided an uncensored, unfiltered platform for us to express our thoughts and emotions related to our combat experiences,” says Anthony Torres. “Sharing stories not only normalized our similar experiences, but we realized our work could prove a useful tool in de-stigmatizing veterans issues such…
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a television crime drama is being filmed in Miami. I know, groundbreaking stuff. Fox debuts Rosewood September 23rd at 8 p.m., the newest version of a who-done-it placed with a backdrop of beautiful Miami. Rosewood is based on the main character Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. (Morris Chestnut) —…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. Miami offers just about every activity this weekend, with a slew of art events to kick off the 2015 arts season. The fourth annual Art Days starts Friday, with over 60 events happening around downtown Miami. Celebrate its…
For Sonja Bogensperger, there’s no better way to connect the community than through art. Bogensperger, deputy director of Miami’s Downtown Development Authority, is spearheading the fourth annual Art Days this Friday through Sunday. She wants to show locals and tourists that Miami’s arts district is a force to be reckoned with. …
Friday, September 11 Dwntwn Art Days is like a three-day treasure hunt, with the treasure being so much art that your head spins. This year marks the fourth-annual Art Days weekend, a collaboration between the Miami Downtown Development Authority and the cultural spaces and artists residing in downtown Miami. Beginning…
The American Dream killed Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman, but their TV counterparts have mostly fared better. Sure, Walter White ends up in a metaphorical ditch and Tony Soprano may too. But the serialization of TV storytelling largely means that characters on shows like Roseanne, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Mad Men,…
Even though the Bass Museum of Art closed for renovations back in May, the art won’t stop in the meantime. Starting Tuesday, October 13, the Bass will launch a series of solo artist projects, exhibitions, talks, educational programs, and events known as bassX. According to their website, the “X” represents,…
In anticipation of Miami Art Week, Pulse Miami Beach has announced its lineup for the 2015 season. The lineup looks promising, and it includes a number of founding galleries who have been with the fair since its beginning, as well as three Miami galleries. The local galleries showing are familiar…
It’s a perfect summer afternoon in Los Angeles, and Lily Tomlin wants to do everything: drive to Neptune’s Net in Malibu, explore the L.A. River, tour Koreatown, grab cocktails in West Hollywood. She jumps in her 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer — her other car, a Prius, balances out its ecological…
Young people are the only ones who ever talk about growing old gracefully. For those actually in the thick of it, the romance of that notion burns off pretty quickly, and wrinkles and creaky joints are the least of it: Growing old, gracefully or otherwise, means becoming the person you…
There’s steady, scary thrill in the final third of Meru, the latest attempt to conquer the climb-and-tweak-the-nose-of-God mountaineering documentary, a genre that has yet to reach its apex. The terrible beauty of the Shark’s Fin point of northern India’s Mount Meru is enough to make this worth seeking out on…
Claude Sautet is the finest French filmmaker you’ve probably never heard of, a discerning craftsman who began his career in the late 1950s only to be swept aside by the unstoppable New Wave. Sautet was simply never a Nouvelle Vague type: He began his career as a screenwriter — he…
