If you thought the only rule in cage fighting is “There are no rules,” sadly you are incorrect. Or so says Crawford Grimsley, promoter of Let the Rage Begin: A Mixed Martial Arts Battle of Apocalyptic Proportions. “There’s no eye-gouging,” says Grimsley, “no kicks to the groin, and no head-stomping”…
Nowadays it’s difficult for the average woman to love herself just the way she is. Photoshopped images of already gorgeous starlets adorn every magazine cover, and Hollywood’s impossible standards loom over our heads every time we look in the mirror. Give yourself a much-needed ego boost and sign up for…
It wouldn’t be far-fetched to say promoters are party connoisseurs. As far as the who, what, and where in club land is concerned, they know what’s hot and what’s not. So what happens when a well-connected nightlife impresario becomes disillusioned with the scene he helped create? He changes it. Such…
Give Wendy Doscher-Smith free rein behind the lens of a camera, and all kinds of quirky images begin to emerge. Doscher-Smith is best known as the doggie-obsessed president of Apawture Pet Photography, and she specializes in taking poignant and sweet portraits of the paws of famous people’s pets (check www.apawture.com)…
Ah, 1992. It was a very good year. The New Wave hippies were grinding their teeth and enjoying the heyday of raves, Dr. Dre was educating us about The Chronic, and the new music by flannel-shirted Seattle bands was just beginning to garner mainstream attention. And in the midst of…
The point of film festivals is that people get to wear badges, duck lines, and go to afterparties. It’s like Italian slalom skier Alberto Tomba said on the eve of the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, when asked if he would change his lifestyle during the competition: “I used…
Looking for the past three months at the Miami Heat, it’s difficult to tell whether the team took the off-season off or merely had an off off-season. In one of the deepest drafts in memory, the Heat came away with all of Daequan Cook, who played fewer than 20 minutes…
Romeo and Juliet, one of the most well-known stories about forbidden love, has been adapted for the stage and film countless times. Each time you have seen it, you might have wondered, Does a rose by any other name really smell as sweet? From today through October 13, you’ll be…
At the Freedom Tower, Goya’s caustic vision has lost none of its power to unnerve. In fact, for some, Goya’s brush with state-sponsored terror, rabid religious fundamentalism, brutal conquests, and antagonism between social classes will seem woefully relevant for our age. Therein may lie the brilliance of the Spanish master’s…
Talk Radio: Eric Bogosian’s play (which was filmed by Oliver Stone in 1988) about radio host Barry Champlain, once a small-time Akron DJ blessed with the gift of gab, incorporates elements of radio host Alan Berg’s murder at the hands of neo-Nazis. — Brandon K. Thorp Through October 7. Mosaic…
Any drinker worth her salt and lime is well versed in the top five standard liquors — that’d be rum, vodka, gin, whiskey, and tequila. But maybe you’re bored of the status quo. Maybe your alcoholic taste buds are crying out for something potent and new. You need look no…
Nicole Klaymoon’s The Sixth Vowel, produced by the Miami Light Project last Friday was THE BEST small theatrical production I have seen in this city in a decade. It was the kind of small, wine-drinkin’ intimate performance that make you remember why you go to the theater rather than the…
My boyfriend has a crush on Clyde Butcher (http://www.clydebutcher.com). So much so that he laid down $40 bucks for us to tromp through part of the renowned landscape photographer’s backyard in the Big Cypress National Preserve one recent weekend. Butcher bought a slice when you still could. The swamp walk…
The sun has been in hiding for the past couple of days, and we’ve all been going through withdrawal. Citizens of Miami have been seen huddling around fluorescent lights and doing the sun-dance – a move that strangely resembles the Macarena. Since wetness is in the forecast for the next…
Too far? Fashion Week in Miami is still a few months away, but things are going full swing in Milan. One designer has overshadowed Pucci, Prada, and Gucci: Nolita, an Italian label that makes clothes for younger women. Nolita’s Fashion Week ad shows a naked model — a severely anorexic…
Karen Kilimnik has a knack for picking at the scab of the national psyche. Beneath the deceptively saccharine blush of her artistic production oozes celebrity-addled America’s obsession with Page Six gossip, fashion glossies, purple tabloid prose, and Court TV. Her complex work reminds us why a has-been wreck like O.J…
False Start: Onlookers can discover rubberneck heaven while gawking at Timothy Buwalda’s large oil-on-canvas paintings of car wrecks. His sumptuous works depict crumpled Beemers and Toyotas, their mangled husks rendered in excruciatingly clear detail. Buwalda’s powerful paintings swing between photorealism and abstraction, delivering a haymaker. — Carlos Suarez De Jesus…
Knocked Up (Universal) Apparently as Judd Apatow was making Knocked Up, he was also prepping for its DVD release, because most of the bonuses here were shot during breaks on location. And they’re no small treats, either — finally here’s a “collector’s edition” worthy of the moniker. Chief among the…
Behold the shark! “The very symbol of impending danger,” intones the narrator of an old air force training film. The scratchy black-and-white footage, cut into the opening reel of the new documentary Sharkwater, shows the piscine predators in a frenzy underwater as an airman floats on his makeshift raft above…
Four decades ago, the American space program was synonymous with the pinnacle of human achievement. Thirty-eight years later, the program that punched a hole in the heavens barely dents the public consciousness. It took a vengeful astronaut in diapers to put NASA back on the nation’s front pages this year…
Directed with considerable formal intelligence and brooding power by David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises is very much a companion to A History of Violence. Both are crime thrillers that allow Viggo Mortensen to play a morally ambiguous and severely divided, if not schizoid, action-hero savior; both are commissioned works that permit…
In terms of the yawning chasm between what was promised and what has been delivered, Lair earns the distinction of being the biggest letdown ever for PlayStation 3. Worse, it’s also one of those games where massive prerelease hype merely ended up underscoring its flaws, transmogrifying a game that would’ve…
