Your kids, mom, the dog, they don’t care if you’re using pennies collected off the floor of your car to buy a $0.49 cheeseburger for dinner. They want presents this Christmas.But where are you going to buy gifts for your loved ones and the people you don’t really like on…
Modern dating is a jumble of websites, speed dating, matchmakers, online personals, and even more recently, quick sex meet-up apps on cell phones. Even with all this new electronic dating technology, the pattern still remains essentially the same: Boy meets girl, boy takes girl out, boy tries to have sex…
Fashion Breakdown: Cropped blouse jacket is XOXO bought at the Lotus House, black beater from Target, jeans from Rainbow, skull bag bought at the street markets in Lower East Manhattan, boots (really old) from TJ Maxx…
The Santaland Diaries, which opened last night at the Arsht Center, is the perfect antidote for the saccharin-filled Holiday themed cheeriness that bombards our every day existence in movies, television, plays, parks and, most of all, the cathedral of mawkish X-Mas merriment — the shopping mall.Based on the collection of…
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and in Miami apparently, ’tis also the season for one-man shows. The Arsht Center has David Sedaris’ The SantaLand Diaries, and a few miles southwest, Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre is putting on Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. Starring South Florida stage veteran Ken…
The 29th Annual Miami International Film Festival is about 80 days away, but the board has broken us off a little sumthin’ sumthin’ to give us film junkies a reason to salivate for the next few months. Namely, the titles of the first ten films in the 2012 MIFF lineup,…
We understand that Dickens intended A Christmas Carol to be, in part, a critique of class power dynamics. And that the reprehensible-but-ultimately-redeemed Ebenezer Scrooge is supposed to symbolize some kind of hardened capitalist. But no matter how totally 1% the dude was, he had a point when it came to…
Fashion Breakdown: Floral satin bluse from a friend (Baby Phat), mustard coat, a Jackie Onassis-type of coat. Leggings, don’t even know. Necklace from Alexandria is a stone of three colors. Boots from Paris, red hat is from Mamushka’s signature line…
We’ve temporarily suspended our sense of disbelief and are allowing ourselves to be awed by a young magician named Ace. Born in Miami to Cuban American parents in 1981, illusionist Dylan Ace is a natural performer who became fascinated with magic at the age of six after watching David Copperfield…
Although the aerosol stench, peelers dangling on stripper poles jutting from food trucks and nude pig in a poke performances are long gone, this weekend’s Second Saturday art crawl still has plenty to intoxicate art-addicted crowds. Beginning at 6 p.m., offerings range from jumping brain circle jerks to a shutterbug’s…
For many, the holiday season is a time best spent with family and friends. For the rest of us, there’s television. For decades, TV has given us a treasure trove of holiday programming, from the true meaning of Christmas in A Charlie Brown Christmas to the delightful suicidal antics of…
We’ve been feeling pretty empty lately. Ever since the art world packed their designer bags and went back to Paris, New York, Milan and Hong Kong, we’ve been itching to fill that Basel void in our heart. Wait a tick, it’s the second weekend of December! Hello, Second Saturday Art…
The Peace Mural Foundation will inaugurate Vietnamese artist Huong’s Immigration Mural at the Miami Art Palace January 14. Huong, a Vietnam War survivor, is striving for one thing through her art: Peace. The mural was inspired by the fact that the United States of America is a multicultural nation that…
Stippling, defined as the act of marking a given surface with numerous dots and small pecks, is one of art’s most tedious techniques. For one Miami-based web developer/stipple enthusiast, it’s also the ticket to Internet stardom. Miguel Endara, a self-described “non-stop thinker,” has gone viral after a Vimeo video of…
Miami City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is a mainstay to Miami’s holiday season. MCB first produced The Nutcracker on Nov. 23, 1990, at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts. Since then the company has performed the Christmastime classic annually throughout Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade Counties…
Dogs are not only man’s best friend, but also man’s most alive accessory. Walk down Lincoln Road and you see an assortment of unnatural relationships people have with their four-legged beast companions. Why are we so in love with our canine pets? Mark Derr, a Miami Beach resident, asks this question in…
We Need To Talk About Kevin, a thriller centered on the messed-up relationship between a reluctant mother and her son with sociopathic tendencies, opens in theaters Friday. In it, critics say, the ever-freaky Tilda Swinton offers one of her most unsettling performances ever. And judging from the trailer, Ezra Miller,…
If you’re the kind of person who shudders at the thought of Black Friday or abhors malls altogether, chances are you’d be a good candidate for buying handmade this year. Not only do you avoid fighting your way through obnoxious crowds of sale-hungry consumers, but when you buy handmade, you’ll…
We Need to Talk About Kevin: Tilda Swinton and her problem child
Second Saturday Art Walk December 10, 2011
Twain versus Shaw at New Theatre
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Cold War redux
