This is my first lesson in Drag Queen Time. I’ve arrived at the Laundry Bar in South Beach for the Queen Cabaret troupe’s rendition of “Chicago” at 10 p.m. – right on time. None of the drag queens are here yet. The show was supposed to start by 11:30, but…
Finally, someone in Miami is building a solar-powered, thoroughly green house. Dubbed “future house,” the pre-fab building will have geothermal heating and cooling, energy efficient lighting and appliances and a recycled roof. Photovoltaic panels will supply the bulk of its electricity needs. So, what enlightened South Floridian had the foresight…
Figuring out what constitutes art can be a craptastic adventure. Or so Alvaro Oyarzun implies in The Painted Image or The Most Beautiful Memories of the Life of Captain Carrot currently on view at CIFO. Engulfing one entire wall and part of another, the Chilean’s sprawling project is part of…
Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show (Sony) The greatest boxed set ever — not so much for the made-up irritainment as for the real thing, which this collection serves up by the ton. There are 23 brilliant episodes of the HBO show here, but they pale in…
We’ve all seen Super Mario eat copious amounts of mushrooms, but have you ever considered the care that goes into preparing such delicacies? In Cooking Mama: Cook Off for the Wii, Wolfgang Puck wannabes are thrust into the kitchen — alongside “Mama,” the game’s titular chef — where they’ll chop,…
Brute Force: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Cutie Honey: The Movie (Bandai) Double Happiness (Image) Forgiving Dr. Mengele (First Run) Freedom Writers (Paramount) George Lopez: The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons (Warner Bros.) Happy Days: The Second Season (Paramount) The History Boys (Fox) The Image (Warner Bros.) La Haine: The Criterion…
For all the huzzahs deservedly heaped upon the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead, in which it took a good long while to discern the living from the walking deceased, the zombie-flick spoof was little more than an extended sketch taken, oh, nineteen minutes beyond its breaking point. But the…
This week’s generically titled studio suspense thriller, Fracture, has the good sense to begin where last week’s generically titled studio suspense thriller, Perfect Stranger, ended — with the solution to that tedious riddle: Whodunit? The answer this time is Anthony Hopkins as Ted Crawford, an aeronautical engineer whose pockets of…
Perfectly suited to the shabby delights of the hometown drive-in theaters of yesteryear, director Nimród Antal’s creepy cockroach of a thriller feels less horrifying than it does curiously nostalgic. David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale) are a miserable, bickering couple driving back to L.A. when David’s wrong turns…
Listen: You really, really need to go see Animals & Plants at Mad Cat Theatre. I’m not kidding. Go. When you do, here’s what will happen: You will enter the theater by walking across the stage itself, and you will be struck by the dirty aesthetic purity of the thing…
“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…
For your average stoner, 420 is all about fun. But for activists on the front line of the fight to legalize medicinal marijuana, the herb that gets you high is not to be consumed frivolously. Although several states have recognized studies that prove that weed ain’t that bad for you…
Gwen Cooper’s reading from her controversial Diary Two years before the book even hit store shelves, Gwen Cooper’s Diary of a South Beach Party Girl was already getting press in local media. Thanks to a steamy galley seen by the cognoscenti, Cooper quickly earned her own little category on the…
As said in the white-hot movie Backdraft, “The funny thing about firemen is, night and day they are always firemen.” But this afternoon, ladies, a select group of South Florida firemen will be both firemen and luscious man-meat. They’ll be peeling off the layers of that heavy uniform, shaking their…
Some people approach cooking with as much passion as their first love. Then there are the rest of us, who use smoke detectors to signal when dinner is ready. No matter what category you fall into, there’s a Latin-flavored cooking class for you today. Sip margaritas over grilled carne asada…
Sneaker heads are everywhere these days. You can catch them posted up at your local downtown shops, corner stores, or even confessing their addictions on Tyra Banks’s daytime talk show. If you’re a fiend for sneaks, you need to check out the Battle of the Kicks tonight and the last…
Here’s an indication of how tough the Marlins’ division is going to be this year: Of the six teams in the bigs that won five of their first seven games, half were in the National League East. One of those teams was Florida, and another, Atlanta. Now, there’s still a…
It’s 7:00 p.m. What’s for dinner? Whaddya got? Herb and butter Rice-a-Roni? Ketchup with the crusty top? A can of tuna from a Hurricane Andrew survival kit? If you were an Iron Chef, someone would yell out “Allez cuisine!” and you would snap into action, concocting dishes like buttery rice…
As soon as the sun rises today, sit upright in your bed (or futon), swing your legs around and onto the floor, and get out of the house! Your first stop is Homestead Bayfront Park and Marina (9698 SW 328th St., Homestead) where from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. you…
Now that it’s cool to be environmentally savvy (peep Leonardo DiCaprio’s steez on the cover of this month’s Vanity Fair for inspiration), here’s hoping that more Miamians turn out to celebrate Earth Day this year. There are celebrations taking place all over the city, but unlike the typical outdoorsy weekend…
With sixteen-dollar eyeliner pencils and $35 compacts, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how cosmetics became a multi-billion dollar industry, and no amount of “while supplies last” freebies can conpensate for a lifetime of extravagant spending at the makeup counter. So in an effort to square things…
When it came to midcentury building, the prevailing mantra was “less is more.” But not for architects like Morris Lapidus, whose concrete flights of fancy (evidenced in gems like the Fontainebleau and Eden Roc hotels) still turn heads near the shore. Under the dynamic eye of such architects, swooping curves,…
