Atop a high dive in a hotel in Greece is a woman who is terrified of heights while her son and 34 other on-lookers goad her to jump. That’s the setting of High Dive, a charming one-person play that opens this Saturday night at New Theatre.Written by award-winning playwright, Leslie…
It’s believed that Ernest Hemingway wrote the first chapter of Old Man and the Sea while on the toilet. Kanye West has admitted to writing rhymes (hopefully on his MacBook Air IN ALL CAPS) while sitting on his porcelain throne. But what about the lesser known pieces of literature and…
First, an obligatory reference to the old glory days of South Beach: Sandra Bernhard totally hung out there in the ’90s and — obligatory related reference to Ingrid Casares — totally dated Ingrid Casares! Okay, got that out of the way. Everyone involved in that era has moved on, but ribald…
“It’s like they’re all making dances for a fictional body that none of them have,” choreographer Jess Curtis remembers his colleague saying, describing a university dance program he’d just seen. A seed was planted for Curtis to begin Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies, a work of dance, theater, circus, and more,…
It appears filmmaker Billy Yeager’s outlandish claims inspired the actual piano man to step forward. The Miami Herald reported last night that Nicholas Harrington, a 16-year-old from MAST Academy, placed the grand piano on the sandbar as a project to build up his art portfolio. He provided video of the…
ENTER: You — a young, up-and-coming, dreamy-eyed Miami writer with an idea for a novel, something hip and grandiose. It’ll capture the voice and culture of your generation. The idea in your head’s big. Real big. It’ll shake foundations. Rattle the establishment. Who knows? Maybe it’ll change the world. There’s…
A Round-Heeled Woman By Jane Prowse. Through February 6 at GableStage at the Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-445-1119; gablestage.org. Tickets cost $37.50 to $47.50 . A 66-year-old divorced schoolteacher who hasn’t had sex in 30 years thinks it’s about time she get some nooky. So she takes out…
At first blush, the crumpled 55-gallon oil drum spilling its contents onto the gallery floor gives the impression that Frost Art Museum’s new show might be a knock on the high price of gas or an ironic ode to car culture. “Gran Torino,” however, is not a stab at America’s…
Another Year, the tenth feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), the happiest post-middle-aged married couple in the whole of the London suburbs. Heading into their fifth decade together, Tom and Gerri are healthy…
The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession as a major plot-point. This doesn’t mean the subject is wrung out — its continuing resonance with audiences hasn’t been effaced by secular pop psychology or modernization within…
The late Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in the manner of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, with a mad helping of Joseph Heller. So it comes as a big letdown that director Richard J. Lewis (who made Whale Music…
Remember that New Year’s resolution that you were going to learn how to boil water and feed yourself something besides cheeseburgers and deep-fried Twinkies? Well, then, get your buns moving to the Aventura Bloomingdale’s, where successive Saturdays in February will feature a trio of Miami chefs showing off their culinary…
With all the crazy shit people have done only a month into the New Year you might call 2011 the Year of the Asshole. To the Chinese, however, it’s the Year of the Rabbit, which will be celebrated at Café Sambal at Brickell Key’s uber-swanky Mandarin Oriental hotel. There will…
If you still don’t know how to pronounce caipirinha you can at least learn how to make a good one. That would be at the Brazilian Cocktail Class held at the South Beach Texas de Brazil. The class will be led by Leblon cachaca rep Aisha Sharpe, who in addition…
Wynwood and the Design District might be Miami’s art meccas du jour. But do they have staying power? Only time will tell. Coral Gables, on the other hand, has proven art cred; Gallery Night existed for decades before the Second Saturday Art Walk. And now, the City Beautiful is primed…
Famous centenarian George Burns once said: “You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.” But dwelling on the limitations of getting old just won’t do anymore. A new era has dawned, dubbed the new old…
January was a month of bad mojo for our major sports teams, thanks mostly to the Miami Dolphins and their refusal to stop sucking. The Fins not only missed the playoffs, but embarrassed themselves nationally with their botched attempt to get a new head coach, while trying to save face…
Bollywood and restraint are two words rarely seen in the same sentence. But the 2010 Tamil production Enthiran definitively blows all of its predecessors out of the water. The S. Shankar-directed film took a decade of preproduction and two years of filming. The result is the most expensive Indian film…
Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are superstars. But they don’t compare to Diego Armando Maradona. The squat, 50-year-old former soccer player born in the slums of Buenos Aires has long retired, but he still inspires love and hate the world over. He’s attained near mythical and farcical status, not unlike…
Here’s our spatial description of South Florida: beaches to the left and right, islands to the south, and a great big road to Nowheresville due north. We may have failed sixth-grade geography, but some of the earliest maps of Miami describe it the same way. In fact, map nerds the…
Have you been taking your dog for granted? When is the last time you serenaded him with Cat Stevens’s ode to Fido, “I Love My Dog”? What are you getting your four-legged best friend for Valentine’s Day? If you haven’t even considered these pressing questions, you need a refresher on…
Wynwood and the Design District might be Miami’s art meccas du jour. But do they have staying power? Only time will tell. Coral Gables, on the other hand, has proven art cred; Gallery Night existed for decades before the Second Saturday Art Walk. And now, the City Beautiful is primed…
