For what would turn out to be one of his last multidisciplinary productions, the late, great modern dance innovator Merce Cunningham tapped the then-24-year-old artist Daniel Arsham to create the sets for eyeSpace in 2007. The result was a delicate, ephemeral work that was visually stunning and that would tour…
Mesches at the Frost: Nightmarish images of America
Due Date: Zach Galifianakis steals another Todd Phillips buddy comedy
Eyes Wide Open at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Miami art this week: DNA cloning at the Frost
Ira Glass was just telling us about psych experiments where baby monkeys were smacked around and rejected by fake moms and then the young primates became obsessed with winning back their robot mother’s love. It was the “Unconditional Love” episode of This American Life and, much like the others in…
Throughout history, music has transcended political, religious, and cultural lines to unite even the most ardent of enemies. Remember the Juanes concert in Cuba last year? Well, since the end of the Cold War, we’re no longer enemies with Russia (frenemies maybe). But even if we were, we would still…
The Miami Dolphins have been road warriors this season, going to places such as Green Bay, Minnesota, Buffalo, and Cincinnati and emerging victorious. Their home games, however, are quite a different story. In the three matchups that the Fins have played at the supposedly friendly confines of Sun Life Stadium,…
The 27th annual Miami Book Fair International begins this Sunday and runs through November 21. Though most of the big names make appearances late next week, there are a few highlights on the festival’s front end too. Perhaps the strangest choice in the author lineup is George W. Bush, who…
In its, pardon the pun, short history the Miami Short Film Festival has established itself as one of the premier and eclectic film exhibitions in the city. This year the festival, which starts Saturday and runs through November 20, has expanded to screen films at the Coral Gables Art Cinema…
During most of our lame, suburban upbringing, we figured all food was made by lab-coat-clad fascists on petri-dish assembly lines. We still have Styrofoam stuck between our teeth from all of that processed goodness. Later in life, though, we discovered that real food actually grows in dirt — you know,…
This weekend marks Wynwood’s last Second Saturday Art Walk before Art Basel. At Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts (2043 N. Miami Ave., Miami), Brooklyn artist Michael Scoggins taps into the playful doodling from school days via his enlarged notebook paper pieces in “#1 Fan.” Using bubble-letter scribbles and exaggerated exclamation points,…
What do you get when 50,000 Latinos shake their nalgas, chomp on tasty treats, and party until late at the Miami-Dade Fair Expo Center? If you answered the Youth Fair, you’d be right. And wrong. The fair doesn’t roll into town until spring. In the fall, it’s Exponica time. How…
Sometimes Miamians like to think they have a monopoly on immigrant angst. But that just ain’t so, bro. Long before ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? and Sábado Gigante were floated as pilots, there were some heavy-duty culture collisions on the West Coast. And most of that involved our Chicano brothers. Three of…
What do Russell Simmons, Dr. Dre, New Times columnist Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, and, heck, even Suge Night (pre-Death Row bankruptcy) have in common? Besides possessing an ear for hip-hop, they are, or were, savvy businessmen. That’s the part of the hip-hop game that some upstarts never figure out. Newbies…
Two weeks ago, the Miami Heat opened the 2010 NBA season against the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics. It didn’t go very well. Rust and a rabid Boston crowd hit the Heat. It was like a perfect storm of deficiency and doucheyness. A powerful case of the suck struck Dwyane…
During most of our lame, suburban upbringing, we figured all food was made by lab-coat-clad fascists on petri-dish assembly lines. We still have Styrofoam stuck between our teeth from all of that processed goodness. Later in life, though, we discovered that real food actually grows in dirt — you know,…
For Colored Girls: Tyler Perry mangles Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem
Opera can be brutal. In Turandot, set in ancient China, a cold-hearted bitch of a princess says that before she will marry, her suitor must correctly answer three riddles. Of the many who try, those who fail are beheaded. We won’t spoil the surprise, but later in the story, a…
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre always mixes it up. From Les Cage Aux Folles to Urinetown, the theater puts on some pretty varied fare. Now they’re taking it old-school with Oliver!, a Tony Award-winning musical about that lovable little scamp Oliver Twist. Stealing hearts as he picks pockets, Oliver…
In the Cirque du Soleil production Kooza, an extremely naive, melancholy character known as the Innocent finds himself unable to launch a kite. Instead of giving up, he initiates a Fight Club-esque mental illusion in which a trickster appears in a box and begins to command the world using a…
“The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper” showcases 300 years of insight, struggle, and soul in the form of drawings, etching, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, and acrylics. The Lowe Museum of Art hosts this rare opportunity to view works from widely known African-American artists such…
