Ever heard of a book club? Well apparently there is an extracurricular activity that you can be proud to tell your mother about at the next family gathering (because that last swingers club story was not appropriate at Easter dinner). So this is a group of people that get together…
Documentary film has become increasingly popular because of controversial filmmakers like Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, and the worldwide acclaim for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Films that were once seen as educational (read: boring) are actually making box office bucks and reaping more than dry academic headlines. The artform…
Sure, you get stoked for your Saturday nights. When it comes to stepping out with flair, you’re a pro. But, as any Miami hipster should know, there’s always something new to try. Tonight you can support the arts and frequent an über-exclusive SoBe hotspot, a no-brainer of a package deal…
Today is 420 and you know what that means: Time to get stoned! And we don’t mean Cheech and Chong-style. Head to Mallory Square tonight for a live concert by Satisfaction, a Rolling Stones cover band. Starting at 8:00 you can watch lead singer Chris LeGrand (a dead ringer for…
Something strange is happening on college campuses today. Final exams are next week and the students are burned out. Their eyes are bloodshot, and they all seem to have the giggles. Why aren’t they studying? What in the good Lord’s name is going on? “It’s 420,” says some hippie student…
Ask an old stoner if they know what 420 is, and you’ll probably get a slack-jawed stare in response. Although the three magic numbers are well known to today’s generation, hippies who toked up in the Sixties and had kids in the Seventies know nothing of the informal international celebration…
Have you always wanted to take your kids to Mardi Gras, but worried that it sends the wrong message about drinking, sex, self-respect, growing up, and human life in general? Well, you might be better off with CocoWalk’s free family-oriented Mardi Gras party, which celebrates the complex’s grand reopening this…
Remember about five years ago, when capoeira was the hottest new trend in fitness? Schools popped up everywhere. After tonight the Afro-Brazilian martial art will become the latest thing in modern dance too, when the Miami Light Project presents Idalina at the Carnival Center. The self-defense movements of capoeira were…
Hindsight may teach us valuable lessons, but that’s not much consolation when you’re bawling over an ex. If only you had the foresight to see that the apple of your eye would eventually sprout a worm, turning into a psycho, a cheater, or just a plain old jerk. While you…
Modern dance master Merce Cunningham is back in Miami, kicking off the latest exhibition of his work, “Dancing on the Cutting Edge part 2,” for a two-month run. Cunningham is well-known to dance mavens in Miami, having taken up something of a secondary residence here with the Museum of Contemporary…
Port Royal was once a mecca for pirates and a haven for debauchery. Then it collapsed into the sea, erasing an infamous part of Jamaica’s coast. Today the city’s remains are a tourist hotspot. “Right now, people go there to eat fish and bammy. Whenever I go, I really cry…
Lily Tomlin opened her set at the Carnival Center last night with a riff on Miami’s notoriously confusing street grid. Brandishing a map, she said, “I’m not saying Miami’s street system is complicated, but it is true that after visiting Miami the creator of Rand-McNally committed suicide,” she said. She…
Come on, people! We had our pick of seats, and actually changed our minds and relocated two or three times before the movie started. As the trailer for Ratatouille began, my five-year-old daughter asked me, “Daddy, when are all the people going to come to sit in those seats?” The…
Miami Heat: Southeast division champs. And yesterday, you said this, Miami Sports Dude: Shaq: Attending his grandfather’s funeral. Udonis Haslem: DNP due to injury. Dwyane Wade: Still rusty. Gary Payton: Torn left calf muscle. James Posey: Shitfaced. Take that. By the way, thank you Mr. Arenas. We couldn’t have done…
Frylock, Meatwad, and Master Shake — the three Stooges inhabiting Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters — will survive should you choose to avoid their movie. Truth be told, you’ve probably never heard of them anyway, unless you’re a regular viewer of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming…
Writers Christopher Landon and Carl Ellsworth receive sole credit for the movie Disturbia, which is surprising, as the film clearly is based on both a previously published work (a 1942 short story by Cornell Woolrich, titled “It Had to Be Murder”) and the John Michael Hayes-penned, Alfred Hitchcock-directed, Academy Award-nominated…
Will Ferrell, having moved on from the anchor desk and NASCAR, at long last ridicules a hallowed profession. I refer, of course, to men’s figure skating. Who until now has dared to mock the sequined costumes, the fondness for power ballads, the Spandex pants? Luckily Our Man Ferrell is up…
Late last month the sister blogs of celebrity snark, Gawker and Defamer, posted guerrilla outtakes from the set of I Heart Huckabees, the 2004 film, in which Tomlin clashes with director David O. Russell. “Leave me the fuck alone!” she shouts. “Do you know what the fuck is going on,…
Samson et Dalila is Camille Saint-Saens’s most well-loved expression of his wild terror of women. While his other operatic celebrations of misogyny have, for whatever reason, failed the test of time, Samson et Dalila still packs houses with regularity. In the hands of Florida Grand Opera, it is eminently worth…
There is an almost Grapes of Wrath veneer to the photos of rural Cubans Ghada Khunji took last year. They look like they have to be at least 80 years old. Her stark collection of eighteen color C-prints, on view at Filtro in Wynwood, is a throwback to the work…
“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…
Sleeping Dogs Lie (First Look) Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait takes a subversive concept (honesty is overrated) and marries it to an outrageous scenario (a woman’s family learns that she once, uh, performed for a dog) to create . . . a romantic comedy? Well, sort of. Like Goldthwait’s underrated Shakes the…
