Five days a week, you can curl up in front of your TV and watch Judge Greg Mathis hand down judgments to wronged mistresses and slow-talking dope-fiends. But today and tomorrow, the judge will be settling a different kind of case: Youth vs. Premarital Sex. Why? “Having faced so many…
Reverence for the elderly and a celebration of youth line up in a harmonic convergence today during a pair of exhibits spiritedly reflecting the arc of life. The Art of Aging, at the Jewish Museum of Florida (301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach), features the work of 40 artists from the…
The cast of freaks that populates the Howard Stern Show includes Crackhead Bob, Crazy Alice, Elephant Boy, Sour Shoes, Jeff the Drunk, Gary the Retard and Wendy the Retard, Bong Hit Bill and Bong Hit Eric, High Pitch Eric and Eric the Midget, and the irrepressible Beetlejuice. But the show’s…
Zaha Hadid, the famed Iraqi-born architect and 2004 Pritzker Prize (the Pulitzer of architecture) winner, pulled up to the Miami Museum of Science in a black stretch limo Tuesday. She was there to speak at a selection panel hearing for the museum’s planned $275 million building in Bicentennial Park (a.k.a…
At SaveNetRadio.org, they are counting down to May 15th, “the day the music dies.” On that day new rates imposed by the federal Copyright Royalty Board for web streaming radio stations will go into effect that will nearly triple the current fees. The fees, paid by broadcasters to license songs,…
A smattering of cricket fans occupied the bar stools at Churchills Saturday morning. Mostly Australians, with a few New Zealanders and Indians thrown in, they were there to watch the Cricket World Cup Final between Australia and Sri Lanka. The game was scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. The Australians…
Please do enjoy “Chongalicious,” a video by a pair of Hialeah girls who are either chongas themselves or do more than passable impressions of the young Latinas with “hoop earrings big enough to fit your arm through.” The song turned up on YouTube recently, and is picking up steam. Miami’s…
Book banners get ready! Cigar Afficionado magazine is rolling out a June issue packed with Cuba news that is sure to raise hackles in our banana republic. Last time the magazine did a similar series – in June 1999 — county bureaucrats pulled it from news racks at Miami International…
The idea of Tigertail releasing a fifth anniversary “best of” volume of its annual poetry periodical was concieved early on in the publication’s life. “It was Mitchell Kaplan’s idea,” says Mary Luft, founder of the local cultural institution. So it’s only fitting that tonight, Tigertail will celebrate the launch of…
Chingo Bling in all his glory On Tuesday night, I found myself sequestered inside a cacophonous display of mediocre reggaeton and rap performances at Mansion on South Beach. The nightclub was hosting the third leg of the Cuervoton nationwide talent search showcase of “up-and-coming Latino talent in hip-hop, reggaeton and…
Kickin’ it As with most things organized by teenagers and twenty-somethings, Tuesday night’s Battle of the Kicks at Buck 15 started with a flurry of last minute phone calls to figure out the grand prize and tie up loose ends. Miami’s sneaker fiends lined up outside wearing their flashiest kicks…
Think pink? Try orange. In a subtle attempt to remind audiences of the county’s most infamous and contemptible act of homophobia, organizers of this year’s Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival have appropriated the state’s official fruit — in the sweet and sunny form of an orange slice — for…
How best describe to experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger? Let’s leave that to the man himself. In this rose-tinted career recapper by Elio Gelmini, Anger declares himself a maverick, a pioneer, an idealist, a romantic. Just don’t call him a cynic. Or a conformist. Fair enough. The Fireworks dealer also recalls…
If Shakespeare had attempted to write Romeo & Juliet as a gay love story set in today’s Middle East, he couldn’t have written a more tragic romance than this plea for peace from Yossi and Jagger and Walk on Water director Eytan Fox and his writing (and life) partner Gal…
It’s easy to lose yourself in the jungle island that serves as a home for grumpy and finicky botanist Chen (Ling Dong Fu) and Cheng An (Xiao Ran Li), the daughter who tends to his every need. It’s a lush and exotic refuge from an intolerant and unforgiving society. No…
No doubt Oscar Wilde would have approved of director Duncan Roy relocating the setting of his Victorian-era Faustian exploration of youth, vanity, lust, and power to modern-day New York City. His superficial social-climbing stud — who now employs a multiscreen art installation, rather than a portrait, to prevent his beauty…
A quote from Golda Meir has returned to me often over the last four years: “We can forgive you for killing our sons, but we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.” Golda apparently said that to Anwar Saddat midway through her term as Prime Minister of Israel,…
By Any Other Name … Romeo & Juliet: Ballsy as all hell to inaugurate a new theater company with a reworking of Romeo & Juliet, isn’t it? That’s what Antonio Amadeo’s Naked Stage is up to, and bless them for it. The general idea is thus: What makes Romeo &…
Andrew Guenther’s radioactive solo show at the David Castillo Gallery could well have been called “Invasion of the DayGlo Saucer Men.” His trippy suite of paintings, saturated in bleeding psychedelic hues suggesting a jumbo box of fluorescent Crayola crayons nuked in a microwave, taps into the central nervous system of…
“Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I”: MoCA’s institutional toast to the legendary choreographer’s career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists, and features costumes and decor actually used in his company’s productions. The exhibit includes works by Sandra…
Planet Earth (BBC/Warner Bros.) Roll over, Marlin Perkins, and tell Jacques Cousteau the news: There’s never been another nature series like this. You will spend forever glued to this five-disc collection, finding among such holy-shit discoveries a herd of never-before-photographed camels who live in the frozen wastelands, great whites dining…
Al Franken: God Spoke (Docurama) Code Name: The Cleaner (New Line) Columbo: Mystery Murder Collection 1989 (Universal) Déjà Vu (Buena Vista) The Documentaries of Louis Malle (Criterion) The Drew Carey Show: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) Flipper: Season One (MGM) .45 (Velocity) Ironside: Season 1 (Shout! Factory) Jean Renoir:…
