French poet and dramatist Edmond Rostrand introduced us to Cyrano de Bergerac in his 1897 play. Since then, we’ve seen a lot of incarnations of the big-nosed romantic nobleman in film and theater (Steve Martin’s 1987 comedy Roxanne is probably the most famous). And now, composer David DiChiera is the latest…
Norm Macdonald is admittedly a seemingly bizarre choice to host Sports Show. Nearing age 50, he hasn’t been nationally relevant since he hosted Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live in the mid-’90s — a gig that ended when then-NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer fired him. What followed was Dirty Work, a…
Kayla de la Cerda, like most of us, remembers eating Lunchables as a kid. Unlike the rest of us, this 18-year-old Miamian was able to incorporate her memory of mystery meat and crackers into a screenplay for With Me. Filmed with Fro Rojas, it screens this Saturday at the Borscht…
The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, (MGLFF) now in its 13th year, is back. The festival open tonight and runs until May 1, with 50 films over 10 days. This year’s selections include all kinds of features, from Tomboy, an animated short about a queer kid, to the documentary…
The cubists had Guillaume Apollinaire; the surrealists André Breton. Guild, an emerging group of eight Miami painters, all New World School of the Arts grads, have Ricardo Pau-Llosa to champion their cause. Since discovering the octet during a Little Havana exhibit coinciding with Art Basel this past December, the local…
Every day, 82-year-old Bill Cunningham stands on a bustling NYC street corner and takes pictures of strangers. The man’s no creep; he’s the photographer behind New York Times’ “On the Street” column in the Sunday Styles section. And to appear in one of his round-ups is validation that you’re sporting…
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2011 movie picks
There’s no denying it: Miami’s indie music scene is on the up-and-come. Ambassadors of Magic City tuneage are the Jacuzzi Boys, Rachel Goodrich, and ANR (formerly known as Awesome New Republic). They’re all out reppin’ the 305 brand around America’s red, white, and blue. Like parents of children gone off…
The social-networking generation has arrived. There are Facebook pages for everything from multinational conglomerate megacorporations to the coffee shop on your corner. There are Twitter feeds for celebrities, nobodies, and escaped snakes. The foolish attempt to fight this share-happy, microblogging tsunami of impersonal intimacy. The wise embrace it. The Museum…
The Guild, eight Miami artists, pushes art ahead at the Ladder Room
Barry Jenkins calmly navigates his navy blue Nissan Maxima through the empty afternoon streets of Overtown. He crosses rusty train tracks and passes skeletal figures curled up in shuttered doorways before turning onto narrow NW Miami Court.
The Red Thread: PlayGround Theatre’s magical Chinese journey
African Cats: Kings of the jungle get March of the Penguins treatment
At the newly Michael Psilakis-less Eos at Brickell’s swanky Viceroy Miami, a buffet-like brunch is being offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Among the dishes for your brunching pleasure: salads of tropical fruit, baby greens, and roasted beets; and sections dishing up poached salmon, omelets, seafood, eggs Benedict, and…
When someone says, “O, Miami,” you probably think what they really mean is “Oh, shit! Miami,” or “Oh, no, Miami” or “Uh-oh, Miami.” But if they care anything about poetry, what O, Miami really means is a monthlong celebration of rhythmic verse that runs from April 1 to Saturday, April…
It’s hard to eat out these days without at least a side order of guilt. Maybe you don’t want to dish out the cash, or maybe that tire ’round your belly is beginning to overinflate. Whatever the case, eating out is often less enjoyable than it should be. Thank goodness…
More rums than Johnny Depp could shake a cutlass at (more than 130-plus at last count), plus tastings, seminars, cocktail competitions, dinners, and plenty of VIP parties are all on the menu at the largest collection of rums (and rummies) in the Western Hemisphere: the annual Rum Renaissance at Miami…
Texas de Brazil will put on a veritable suckfest of good booze and grilled meat, when beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, the SoBe churrascaria will pair Tequila Avion Silver, Reposado and Anejo with an all you can stuff yourself dinner from its 60-dish salad bar and array…
Saying, “Work sucks” is like saying, “Water is wet.” But for two more weeks you can make work just a little less sucky, at least if you work within easy distance of Coral Gables Museum Plaza, where on successive Wednesdays, April 20 and 27, you can catch two hours of…
The average middle-schooler isn’t likely to list Bach or Gershwin as a musical idol. The annual event Piano Slam, spearheaded by the Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation, intends to remedy this. While piano duo Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia, Miami hip-hopper Brimstone127, and the Miami Conservatory’s Thomas Armour Youth Ballet…
Are you a Miranda (a cynical feminist), a Charlotte (a hopeless romantic), or a Samantha (a shameless slut)? Because you’re an actual, breathing human being and not a fictional, one-dimensional female stereotype, you likely don’t identify with any of these Sex and the City characters. You probably think of yourself…
Sick of settling for adult-targeted jokes thrown into your kid’s Disney movies? Want something to do with the family that won’t make your friends cringe when you tell them about it? Then come for a night of live, explosive, energetic, unleashed entertainment courtesy of WWE’s Monday Night Raw. You already…
