Is there such a thing as sincerely calculated naiveté? Or put another way, does Miranda July have any idea how annoying she is? Judging by The Future, writer/filmmaker/performance artist July’s second feature, I’d guess she must. A fabricator of her own screen image, July — the high priestess of quirk –…
Please say it isn’t so! Just when we thought at least one couple would survive in Hollywood, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith might be on the way out. There are rumors that the couple is “separating.” Although the comely pair recently denied such rumors, we all know this is…
Henry V, which opens this Friday at New Theatre, is one of William Shakespeare’s most memorable plays featuring arguably his most noble and heroic character, the valiant King Henry.But Henry seems to be the exception in a long line of Shakespearean characters who were complete and total assholes. Amoral, power-hungry,…
What do you call a film that features three-dimensional beheadings, countless veiled “money shots,” kitschy romantic montages, in-your-face flying mule dicks, and eyeball-busting bouncing boobs? We’d call it the film equivalent of a cheap mixed bag of fun-size Hershey’s chocolate bars — lots of short-lived thrills and variety that make…
Fashion Breakdown: Dress designed by Heritage by Halston, candy wrapper clutch by Ecoist, copper wedding band from Israel, jelly shoes are a collaboration design by Melissa and Vivienne Westwood…
Meteorological experts have called August “the month when hurricanes are almost as brutal as my divorce (as in when my wife tires of my fearmongering and drawing trajectory cones on her belly as we make love).” If a nasty, hard-core hurricane is going to strike, it’ll probably be this month. Katrina…
Remember when life was measured in 2MB floppy disks? That all feels so ridiculous now –using something ten times bigger than a flash drive to transfer a thousand times less information. But there’s also something sad about the life cycle of technology. And for London artist Nick Gentry, who was…
If you slapped bikinis on Real Housewives NeNe Leakes, Jill Zarin, and Melissa Gorga, shoved them into an inflatable kiddie pool full of jello, and told them to wrestle, who do you think would end up with the most weave still attached to their head? We’re sure Anderson Cooper would…
At Third Street and Washington Avenue, bland electrical boxes once stood atop dreary pedestals. Now you’ll now find these luminescent hand-crafted covers made of blue mirror waterglass. They appeared last November thanks to local artist Wendy Wischer, one of our 100 Creatives.The creation is part of Miami Beach’s Art in…
Oh, Basketball Wives. How we love you so. And our hearts grew fonder with the final installment of the two-part reunion special last night. Last week, we once again met host John Salley and everyone discussed the Eric Williams drink throwing in full. We also learned that Meeka Claxton thinks…
“Where my money? I need, I need, I need cash!” Maybe Rick Ross wasn’t singing about the everyday grind of paying bills. But there once was a young Rick Ross, who struggled to find a way to balance his creative ambitions and cash flow. In “Everyday Hustlin’,” we talk with…
The Mizu Con this past weekend was disappointing for anyone except diehard fans of Japanese animation. Cons are supposed to be big — that’s why they’re con-ven-tions. But, the Mizu Con took up a few small halls at the Hyatt Regency Downtown and not much else.The most fun to be…
Just four years after Mad Men originally aired on AMC in 2007, the ’50/’60s fetishism has finally peaked. This fall’s new lineup includes Mid Century-based series like Pan Am and the Playboy Club, and chain store Banana Republic is even offering a new Mad Men line. But any mania about…
Fans of reality shows about fraternal twins and sextuplets (and titles that rhyme) were dealt a stunning blow this month as TLC finally canceled Kate Plus 8. In the wake of this tragedy, one wonders what Kate Gosselin will do next to stay relevant. Luckily, we’ve formed a list of…
You’d be lying if you said you never enjoyed eating a can of something like SpaghettiO’sin front of the TV watching a movie, maybe like Maid in Manhattan. Just leaned back on the couch, wearing nothing but undies and a Churchill’s tank top, and thought: now this, this is the…
Fashion Breakdown: Top from Fox House handmade, blue bandana from gas station, locket from the Village in Brooklyn, NYC, shorts from GAP, shoes bought at Venice Beach, cuff made by Charles Falarara from recycled material, hat from South Street Hats in Philly’s art district, earrings from Forever XXI, and blue…
So My Grandmother Died, Blah, Blah, Blah — which opened last night at the Light Box at Goldman Warehouse — is a kinetic, frenzied play where the audience is sucked into the mind of a struggling writer while she trudges through the emotional baggage of her personal life, her relationship…
All the talk of death penalties in Miami this week has Old Sparky considering coming out of retirement. But, of course, the talk involves allegations about Miami’s favorite football team — the Miami Hurricanes, in case you didn’t’ know – and possible sanctions. The Miami Dolphins, on the other hand,…
Literati rejoice! After previously experimenting in the written word through their various memoirs, Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian have picked November 1st as the release date for their debut novel, Dollhouse. What can we expect? A Picaresque satire? Existential fiction in the style of Sartre? No matter what genre the…
Honduran artist Alma Leiva is no stranger to the crime and violence that has made her homeland one of the most dangerous places on the planet. In fact, the New World grad typically creates installations, videos and multi-media art works that reference the cycle of terror leading many of the…
Juan de los Muertos or Juan of the Dead. Even the title elicits a smile. The concept does even more – a full-fledged zombie (communists?) flick produced on the island of Cuba, by Cubans, with Cuban zombies in full make up and a protagonist that does the unthinkable — decides…
Fashion Breakdown: Pink mini from Federik’s, black bustier from strip club, tights and shoes from Charlotte Russe, bra from Walmart, hair dyed with Lorea’l…
