The pan-genre über-hack of the new Korean zeitgeist, Kim Jee-woon has been deft in some arenas: 2003’s A Tale of Two Sisters suggests a nightmare endured inside a suffocating velvet pillowcase, while 2008’s breathless The Good, the Bad, the Weird pioneered the fourth-gear lo-mein Western with such brio, you could…
Fresh from the main season’s finale, Romeo and Juliet, Miami City Ballet offers its hometown public one last weekend to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary and wish it well on its Paris honeymoon, during Open Barre. This Friday and Saturday at MCB’s 200-seat Wolfson studio theater in South Beach, the…
“The Wilderness” at MAM explores man’s relationship with nature
Cold Weather: Aaron Katz’s riff on the mystery of stories
Borscht Film Festival 2011 picks
At posh Bizcaya at the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, they are indeed puttin’ on the Ritz, with a $65 prix fixe spread ($25 for the under-12 set) that’s good from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A quartet of salads is on the menu, as are assorted tapas, grilled and marinated veggies,…
Whether your religion is organized, disorganized, or eggs Benedict, the prime brunching day of the year is on its way. That would be April 24, Easter Sunday, when the desire to stuff your pie hole with ungodly amounts of calorie- and cholesterol-laden grub will be gleefully fulfilled by a passel…
A rather less traditional Passover dinner will be served at Rosa Mexicano in both South Beach and Mary Brickell Village. The meal will begin with a complimentary Mexican-style Sedar plate of pickled veggies with an Israeli-inspired sauce of cilantro, garlic and jalapenos. A la carte entrees ($18), sides ($5) and…
Passover meals are being dished up for the coming Jewish holiday. At Allen Susser’s Chef Allen’s in Aventura, the traditional Sedar dinner only will be served from 5 to 10 p.m. on Monday, April 18, while on Tuesday, April 19, both the Sedar menu and regular menu will be available…
Not so long ago, near the crossroads of Wynwood and Overtown, stood a community arts venue called The Cornerstone that held weekly open mics, underground plays, art shows, and concerts. The place operated on donations, and the finances of two broke dudes named Rio and Josh. Many of Miami’s current…
Just a few years ago, fresh off back-to-back appearances at the National League Championship Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers were the envy of baseball. The team had the right mix of young stars (outfielders Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier) and been-there, done-that veterans (outfielder Manny Ramirez and manager Joe Torre)…
Meg Ryan might have faked an orgasm at NYC’s Katz’s Deli in When Harry Met Sally. But hundreds of New York snowbirds spent decades in their own state of bliss at Miami Beach’s Rascal House, which served Jewish comfort food ever since Wolfie Cohen opened it in 1954. It closed…
Unlike other art forms that hang neatly in pristine galleries, graffiti offers no dainty placards to explain technique, meaning, or message. Three- or four-letter tags — and occasionally crew names and dates — are the only hints at the personalities behind the spray cans and the stories hidden in the…
The sadists behind the latest stop of the Spartan Race tour, which lands in Oleta River State Park this Saturday, describe themselves as “seven insane ultra-athletes and a Royal Marine.” Figures. The race is rated a Super Spartan-level event, meaning there will be an “eight-plus-mile battlefield of insane mud running…
Barbershops breed good comedy thanks to loads of idle time and plenty of shit-talking. Remember the movie Barbershop and its sequel? It’s no coincidence those movies spurred, at least in a two-degrees-of-separation kind of way, the Barber Shop Comedy Tour. Both Barbershop flicks star Cedric the Entertainer, who was also…
Charlie Sheen Live: My Violent Torpedo of Truth stops at the BankAtlantic Center (1 Panther Pkwy., Sunrise) this Friday at 8 p.m. And because this is the Sheen monster’s megalomaniacal meltdown, we expect some surprises. So here are five ways his #winning could go down: (1) The goddesses will reveal…
In the video message announcing the seventh annual Borscht Film Festival, Werner Herzog mouthed the words to Pitbull’s “Defend Dade.” Thanks to some artful dubbing, the famous filmmaker spat out, “I know they see Miami, they think beach, palm trees, lights — that’s why we call it the Magic City…
So much is enviable about Australian cabaret revivalist Meow Meow. To start, there’s her pseudonym; it takes guts to ditch your given name in favor of a slinky feline handle. Then there’s her list of collaborators: She has performed with fellow vintage-styled musicians Dresden Dolls, Hedwig and the Angry Inch…
Before Wayne Brady’s dinner-theater shows this weekend, will he pull a drive-by, “choke a bitch,” or snap a street cop’s neck? We hope so. Those are three stunts he executed in just one sketch as a guest on Dave Chappelle’s comedy show, which made violence funny again. The gags countered…
In the 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet (adapted from Vito Russo’s 1981 book of the same name), Hollywood’s formerly garish and derogatory portrayals of LGBT characters seem almost cartoonish — especially when you think of all the strong, funny, and endearing LGBT characters on the silver screen today. Fortunately, the…
As Jim Morrison noted, “Film spectators are quiet vampires.” But this Thursday at O Cinema, expect more than just stone-faced voyeurs lurking in the theater’s shadows. At Cinema Sounds # 8, presented by Roofless Rex and Borscht Film Festival, live bands will suck the boring out of the room when…
Never heard of Ignacio “Nacho” Figueras? Well, you’ve probably drooled over him. Figueras is a polo player with a mega Ralph Lauren modeling contract, a mane of dark hair, sultry brown eyes, and an Argentine accent that leaves wobbly knees in its wake. When he takes to his horse at…
