For any institution, a million-dollar gift is a cause for celebration. But at the Miami Art Museum (MAM), Charles Cowles’s donation of 101 photographs from his noted private collection has left honchos turning cartwheels. The gift represents the largest donation of artwork in MAM’s ten-year history. Cowles, whose collection tops…
Asian Art from the Bass Museum Collection and Treasures from the Bass Museum of Art: With a bushel of blue-ribbon shows, the Bass has embarked on perhaps its busiest programming season. Deciding on which shows to see among the museum’s expansive menu might be as slippery as handling a hog…
Up Wake: The stage is set: three blank walls, one actor, and no script. For this performance be prepared to go on a sensory journey. Natasha Tsakos’s show synchronizes the disciplines of animation, music, and acting, exploring a completely original style of theater that integrates technology and performance. As the…
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (Warner Bros.) At long last, Richard Donner’s much-whispered-about “original version” of Superman II sees the light of day, and it quickly joins the ranks of the reconstructed Touch of Evil, Apocalypse Now, and Blade Runner as films made superior in the recutting and retelling…
By now, you’ve probably heard about Bully. It’s the game that was supposed to finally ruin America’s youth. Crusading lawyer Jack Thompson, the self-appointed schoolmarm of the videogame industry, called it a “Columbine simulator” and tried to block stores from selling it. Lou Dobbs — who hasn’t seen a videogame…
The Ant Bully (Warner Bros.) Criminal Minds: The First Season (Paramount) Dane Cook: Vicious Circle (HBO) The Ellen DeGeneres Show: DVD-licious (Warner Bros.) Foo Fighters: Skin and Bones (RCA) Hot Wheels Accelerators: The Ultimate Race (Warner Bros.) Joan of Arcadia: The Second Season (Paramount) Jamie Kennedy’s Blowin’ Up (Paramount) Little…
New York City we are not. With no off-Broadway to look to for inspiring and thought-provoking theater, Miami-Dade denizens are making their way up to Miami Lakes, where the Alliance Theatre Lab is presenting its rendition of Down the Road. Tony-nominated playwright Lee Blessing’s crime thriller tells the story of…
You strive to be the hostess with the mostest, but you always end up spending the entire evening in the kitchen, and your guests never get to see that sassy holidazzle skirt you have hidden beneath your equally cute Anthropologie apron. Girl, you need to keep it simple — Real…
If you have ever wondered about the creative shift that occurs when a painter ditches his brushes for a camera, two photography projects at Alonso Art offer windows into the process. Opening tonight at 7:00, José Iraola’s “Memoria Televisa” and Tomás Esson’s “The Empire State Building Versus the Water Tank”…
It is the distinct feeling you get when watching bodies in motion, leaping across, writhing upon, and treading softly on the stage. You long for their flexibility and envy their strength. Prepare to feel those pangs at the launch of Momentum Dance Company’s 25th-anniversary season, featuring the Florida premiere of…
A few weeks ago, photographers and professional gossips were racing around South Beach in a tizzy, searching fruitlessly for the newly liberated Britney Spears. The media mob easily could have found Brit-Brit, La Lohan, and Paris Hilton on the University of Miami campus at the CAS Gallery (1210 Stanford Dr.,…
Get out your safari chic, but keep it cocktail comfortable, because you will have a wild time at tonight’s Feast with the Beasts at Miami Metrozoo. Presented by the Zoological Society of Florida and Metrozoo, the gala will treat guests to savory samplings from more than 40 fine restaurants and…
It is one of the great tragedies of moviedom that Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant career ended with Eyes Wide Shut, a terribly awful film by anyone’s hand, but especially lousy compared to any of the great American auteur’s other works. To make a comparison, spend the weekend with host Shelley Novak…
Miami men are stylish, slick, and fastidiously groomed. Head to South Beach and you’ll find throngs of dudes in designer labels queuing up outside nightclubs and at elegantly sweaty bars. Now there is a new place for all the fine young males to be admired, and it takes a page…
Think it is a coincidence that the World Peace Conference Miami is scheduled exactly one year after President Bush publicly outlined his national strategy for victory in Iraq? We think not. Miami will partake in the first year-long, worldwide celebration in honor of the 100th anniversary of an exalted yoga…
With a cacophony of events and parties swelling the noggin during Art Basel, it should not come as a surprise that a savior has emerged to shepherd a flock of art aficionados through the soul-withering wilderness. Tonight at 6:30, Heather Urban, who has been anointed the “insider’s insider,” will be…
Arrrrrgh! We’ve been pillaging and plundering for hundreds of years, and now everyone wants to be a pirate. (Arrr! That damn Johnny Depp! Oh, but he’s a looker, all right.) Sure, you can put on a puffy shirt, stick a parrot on your shoulder, and wear a trendy skull-and-crossbones scarf,…
Next time you’re at a religious service and the choir begins to belt out a song, remember they are there for more than entertainment; where mere words might fail, a great singer’s voice can illuminate the meaning of God’s message. Yeah, attending a spiritually themed concert is probably a sneaky…
Guys, you might think it is cute to have your favorite childhood books filling the bookcase in your living room, but if Eric Carle, Shel Silverstein, and S.E. Hinton are the only authors you know, you are never going to get anywhere with the ladies. (Well, at least not the…
It was one of Art Basel’s most interactive, innovative shows in 2005, and now it’s back. Pimp My Kart is a touring art show — a socially conscious extravaganza that rolls along the streets of Miami — that was inspired by a homeless man who transformed two carts into a…
Most of us don’t have the funds to buy anything at Art Basel. But there is one event where you might be able to purchase an original piece and have a few cocktails: the third annual Masters’ Mystery Art Show at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach. More than 1500 original postcards…
In Miami you’re just as likely to hear street-corner conversations in Spanish or Kreyol as you would in English. Regardless of whether you say feliz navidad or joyeux noël, the pleasure of giving Christmas joy is universal. Many children in our sprawling city don’t get a visit from Santa Claus,…
