Two babies cry: one after emerging from a gaping vagina in a hospital, the other a disproportionately large baby mask perched atop a slender 26-year-old woman with chipped pink nails. These are the lasting images after our sneak peak of Jillian Mayer’s “Family Matters,” at David Castillo Gallery. As the…
In a 1897 play, French poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand introduced us to Cyrano de Bergerac. Since then, we’ve seen many incarnations of the romantic, big-nosed nobleman in film and theater. (Steve Martin’s version in the 1987 comedy Roxanne is probably the most famous.) As the story goes, Cyrano is…
The Spinello Gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary with “Collectivism,” featuring the work of Agustina Woodgate who has been with the Spinello stable since its inception. On view is one of Woodgate’s recent monumental pieces, which swallows an entire wall and measures a whopping 10 by 16 feet. For No Rain…
Some couples can’t agree on anything. Who will pick up the kid from day care? Who will take out the trash? Who will scoop up the dog poop? Who will decide who decides? But for Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, both prolific Miami artists who happen to be married, working…
Most people in their early 20s are just trying to find their place in the world (i.e., retreating to their parents’ nests while looking for a job that pays better than being a Starbucks barista). Then there are the lucky ones. For instance, at age 18, Nick van de Wall…
What do you get when everyone except for a few nuns is seasick on a “Faiths of All Nations” cruise and the show must still go on? Well, if that show is Fiddler on the Roof, you get Meshuggah-Nunsb>. The quirky musical is the brainchild of Dan Goggin, creator of…
Tax day is upon us, and man does it suck. It’s the one day a year many of us secretly wish we were Republicans. And part of the whole rigmarole of breaking off Uncle Sam his cut is fantasizing about hording away our hard-earned dollars and giving the feds the middle…
In Charles Perez’s autobiography, Confessions of a Gay Anchorman, he slams the news team at WABC in New York for being a bunch of overpaid, homophobic meanies (with the exception of Sade Baderinwa). He trashes Diana Williams, Liz Cho, Bill Ritter, and particularly Sam Champion, though.Perez started his career in television…
Our mama has given us some great advice, like eat your vegetables and use a condom. But one thing she always tried to reiterate was the fact that it takes one to know one. We always thought we understood the concept, but last Saturday, we really got it. The moment…
When we saw the stills from Jorge Rubiera’s new film, we were stunned. They transported us to another time and place. Rubiera, winner of the New Times MasterMind award for narrative, is someone who knows how to hold a camera and when to take a shot.The current working title of…
Mozart’s two-act opera Don Giovanni, which opens this Saturday at the Arsht Center, tells the tale of the womanizing Don Giovanni and his conquest of women. That is, until he meets the Commendatore, the father of Donna Anna, a woman he tried to seduce. Don Giovanni kills the old man…
Fashion Breakdown: Make up from MAC and Be Eye, pink satin bow from Victoria Secret, leather suspenders were a gift, black shirt from Shrine in Chicago, pants from Zara, and boots from LA Grip Fest…
A few weeks ago, we spoke sternly and admonished Miamians for their refusal to read poetry aloud. The Toronto-based video bloggers How Pedestrian were in town for O, Miami, asking people on the street to read verse on camera. And it freaked us out a little when the Canadians reported…
Anchoring “The Wilderness,” Miami Art Museum’s provocative group exhibit, is McCollum’s sprawling installation, The Event: Petrified Lightning From Central Florida (With Supplemental Didactics) (1998), which takes over the center gallery. To create his jaw-dropping opus, the New York-based artist teamed up with geologists and electrical engineers from the University of…
After a brutal recession, Miami’s corpse has reanimated itself into something that’s hungry for BRAAAAAIIIINNNNSSS!, er, a comeback. Sure, this zombie smells a little rotten and moves a bit slowly, but soon enough there will be an army taking over. No government-enforced quarantine will keep it down.Every good zombie takeover…
With Scream 4 slicing its way into theaters this Friday, any red blooded horror fan will tell you this film has been a long time coming. From the first film’s impact on 1990s horror, to the third movie breaking all the rules, we can’t help but wonder: What else does…
Hederr Perez has traversed quite a few roads to get where she is today. The Miami native claims to have taken “a stroll through the arts” before finding her current passion, filmmaking. Perez pursued music, choreographed modern dance routines, and took on a few university creative writing classes all prior to…
Without your help, O, Miami cannot shout poetry out of a Ferrari come April 27. It takes several greenbacks to rent the damn car and procure one of them fancy megaphones. With only two days left, the Poetry Ferrari’s Kickstarter page needs just $220 to reach its goal. (Psst: the…
Remember the days when being a housewife was a bad thing? Now we all know now that being a housewife is all you need to get on TV and also make a ton of cash. One of our favorites, Marysol Patton, isn’t actually a housewife at all but maven of…
Listen up all you overachievers out there: Naps can be very productive. In fact, The Red Thread, a new original production opening Wednesday at Miami Shores’ PlayGround Theatre, is the product of such a siesta. “The original inspiration came from a Chinese folktale called ‘The Magical Embroidery,’ which Fernando Calzadilla,…
One of the most entertaining things about the Second Saturday Art Walks is discovering the weird media artists often employ in their work. This past weekend, Agustina Woodgate put on a clinic on the subject in “Collectivism,” her solo show at the Spinello Gallery featuring works made from 3000 bricks…
As a kid growing up in Miami, there really was no better place than Vizcaya to blast our young impressionable minds into the past and out of the realm of reality. The romantic mansion and manicured gardens inspire fantasies of lives never lived, wayward minotaurs, and renaissance love affairs. …
