Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have littered the Miami Art Museum with enough banana peels to send visitors sliding into some disorienting realities. Their slippery installations fuse fiction with haunting sound effects, hijacking spectators and taking them on a surreal journey. Part sound sculpture, part theatrical experience,…
Ziggurat: If every generation must build its own city, then Glexis Novoa lays out the blueprints for a utopian rebirth via his graphite-on-marble works in which the archaic cohabits with the futuristic. His cities seem to be in a state of perpetual animation: Statues raised to failed ideologies stand cheek…
The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition (MGM) As far as anniversary-edition DVDs go, The Princess Bride is crushingly disappointing: no Rob Reiner commentary track, no outtakes, no making-of doc, no nothing, save for a lousy game and a few short interviews with Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Guest, and…
Hold still” — it’s what the hunters say to the hunted in Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men. The first time we hear it, it’s the out-of-work Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) whispering optimistically to the antelope he spies through his rifle sight while perched on…
Midway through the amiable children’s movie Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium comes a speech that writer-director Zach Helm probably has been saving for use ever since he discovered the Bard. As pop philosophy goes, it’s bracing stuff: Paraphrasing King Lear, Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) — a 243-year-old “toy impresario” with shell-shocked…
This is easily — easily — the worst adaptation of a major novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author. Director Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and writer Ronald Harwood have rendered Gabriel García Márquez’s novel little more than a sudsy telenovela — Lifetime by way of Telemundo…
Show of hands: Has anyone not heard of Guitar Hero at this point? You, sir, in the back row, clutching the Ratt cassette — you’re the only one? All right, pal, here’s your recap: Guitar Hero is the most popular music-based game ever made. It comes with a plastic guitar…
The M Ensemble is one of South Florida’s longest-extant pro theater companies, and I like it a lot. It has a refreshing DIY vibe that is matched in Miami only by the fuck-it-all punk aesthetic of Mad Cat, over on Biscayne Boulevard. But M is cozier. Check out the photos…
Triptych: Edna O’Brien’s story tells of three women (a mistress, a wife, and a daughter) who plot against one another for the affection of one man, dissolve when that affection is withheld, and generally make asses out of themselves. Maybe their behavior is excusable, maybe not; since the man himself…
The Addams Family: The Complete Series (MGM) Amazing Grace (Fox) Annie Duke’s Texas Hold’em Supercourse (Big Vision) Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition (Sony) Gilmore Girls: The Complete Seventh Season (Warner Bros.) It’s a Wonderful Life: 2-Disc Collector’s Set (Paramount)…
Back in the day, he was Cassius Clay, a handsome and sharp young boxer with a smart mouth and a knack for showmanship. He had won the light-heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, but he hungered for a new title — Sonny Liston’s world heavyweight championship, to be…
Fresh off an East Coast road trip, the Miami Heat will return to battle Eastern Conference foes the Atlanta Hawks tonight. The Heat is looking to avoid last season’s downfall and shake the cycle of complacency and injuries to key members of the squad. There was a buzz on South…
Ah, circuit parties. Those bacchanalian gatherings where thousands of gay men converge, (allegedly) partake in recreational narcotics, and dance shirtless for hours on end. They were all the rage in the Nineties, fueled by an influx of cheap, readily available party drugs. Sadly their origins were also their downfall; inconvenient…
Great art should inspire and delight you, it should take parts of the world you want and jam them into the one you’re in – making everything more beautiful in the process. Tonight the Jam at MAM – that’s the Miami Art Museum — will do exactly that, by bringing…
When New York girls want to know where to go, what to wear, and what to drink, they ask Shecky. Who’s that? If you guessed an all-knowing oracle, you’re close. Shecky’s is a lifestyle media company that started out reviewing nightlife, fashion, and beauty stuff and became this humongous party-throwing…
For 14 years the UniverSoul Circus has infused typical three-ring fun with urban flavor that even has the high-flying acrobats leanin’ and rockin’ with it. Christened the “Hip-Hop Big Top,” the only African-American owned and operated circus has proven to spectacle and extravaganza authorities that everything is better with a…
The next time you wake up on a Sunday and can’t decide whether you want pancakes or a flank steak, try something new for the most ambiguous meal of the day. We know you’ve had brunch with the in-laws more times than you’d like to remember, and the same chock…
Hope has many faces. You can see it in Dynella’s almond-shape eyes or in Martin’s apple-cheek smile. In his portrait, Marco wears a brightly colored shirt as he leans against a tree with a quiet confidence that belies his tender age. Their pictures do not come from a family album…
Where else in Miami can you see a leprechaun, someone who calls himself the Heart Break Kid, and a dead man? You could try your luck at Jimbo’s, Tobacco Road, or South Beach, but the only sure place to see all three is at tonight’s 21st annual World Wrestling Entertainment…
Missing your recently departed Sopranos already? Then get ready for a whole lotta singin’ sopranos — but without a certain New Jersey mob family. Florida Grand Opera’s production of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte will kick off FGO’s 67th season with Grammy Award-winning soprano Ana Maria Martinez and mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham…
For 67 years, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden has celebrated its founders’ legacy with a garden party that brings enormous crowds of green-thumb matrons, fresh-face families, and romantic couples looking to enjoy a weekend of fun at what is arguably one of South Florida’s most beautiful, verdant places. If you can’t…
Your kids are like, “Hooray, Christmas is almost here!” Your bank account is like, “Oh no, Christmas is almost here!” It’s hard to believe the holidays are so rapidly upon us, especially in a delicious climate like ours where the term sweater weather is worth a giggle. The first, biggest…
