Ah, the holiday shopping season. It usually goes something like this: battle traffic; wade through the mall; buy overpriced, useless, generic crap; fight with significant other; go home and worry about the credit card bill. This year promise yourself that you will give – and receive — some genuine holiday…
Lowbrow Art is a movement that pointy-head elitists don’t care for you to embrace. Despite these puckered-ass purists’ notions, an appetite for all things underground has been swelling, and it’s damn time! Today at ArtCenter/South Florida, curator and artist Francesco LoCastro unleashes “We’ll Make a Lover Out of You,” an…
Dear Mr. Riley: With due respect, and an awareness that Shaquille O’Neal is being paid an enormous sum of money, we don’t understand why Alonzo Mourning isn’t the starting center for your World Champion Miami Heat. You have always been so defense-oriented, and in Zo you have one of the…
Some people adopt nicknames like Katie and Jimmy. But one Sixties-era hippy, known as a passionate humanitarian, preferred a catchier moniker: Lumpy Sue. The fifteenth annual Lumpy Sue Acoustic MusicFest, founded in 1982 by Sue herself, will feature live music, raffle prizes, and a relaxing alternative to the biggest shopping…
To the untrained eye, popular Miami DJ Lance-O’s sun-bleached dreadlocks and ready smile give the impression of an easy-going dude. But his hard work and determination are evident in the Dirty South Surf Contest, an improbable event that has brought crowds to Miami Beach for the past three years. Eager…
Your parents probably remember him for his alcohol-soaked stand-up in the Eighties, or his will-they-just-kiss-already sitcom with Jamie Lee Curtis, Anything but Love, but you know Richard Lewis as Larry David’s friend in need of a new kidney on Curb Your Enthusiasm. With more than 30 years of comedic experience,…
Unlike New Year’s (which is fundamentally about drinking) or Christmas (which is about either marketing or Jesus, depending on who you ask), Thanksgiving is definitely a holiday for eating. So what better way to spend this morning than working up a healthy appetite – and burning off a few hundred…
Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce fresh out of the can – the traditional Thanksgiving menu has become so familiar that families are in search of alternatives to the time-honored feast. Turkey deep-fryers are selling like hotcakes, and the little shelves near your grocery’s cashier are overflowing with recipe books suggesting new…
The bait Holiday movies are traditionally light-hearted attempts at restoring faith in human kind. In short, they are nothing like Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone (2001). Though well written and engagingly performed by an all-star cast, it is one of the most relentlessly grim movies ever made. And unless…
Umm, which way is Miami? After winning critical kudos for their output on Seattle’s tiny Barsuk Records, Death Cab For Cutie finally struck career paydirt when they inked a well-deserved major label affiliation and, in turn, a shot at wider recognition. But while Plans, last year’s aptly dubbed Atlantic Records…
Save Our MiMo Drowsy passengers on the cross-town bus Thursday night looked puzzled by the middle aged woman chanting outside the window. It was Bay Harbor Islands after all, a wealthy, quiet little burg — not exactly a hotbed of controversy. “Save it baby, save it,” the woman shouted, holding…
By all rights, 2002’s Die Another Day should have been and could have been the final James Bond film. It was packaged like a cynical, weary best-of concert coughed up by an aging dinosaur, offering copious nods to the franchise’s past without bothering to offer any new material of consequence…
For Your Consideration pulls off the neat trick of skewering the movie industry while remaking it in its own image. The latest ensemble comedy by Christopher Guest and company takes place in Los Angeles, but its imaginative provenance lies somewhere between the La La Lands of Entourage and Mulholland Dr…
Cops-gone-wild movies and TV shows are the Angry White Guy counterpoint to thug-life melodramas: fantasies of abusing rather than seizing power, operating above the law rather than outside it. This caffeinated fit of antihero worship — the directorial debut of screenwriter David Ayer, who made detective with his bad-cop thrillers…
It might seem a stretch to find a connection between one of Man Ray’s optically fragmented “rayograms” and a scattershot collection of batter-fried books. But at The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, curator Katherine Hinds dismisses notions of a master plan to determine how the collection grows. “We look for…
True Stories: A big-nose profile. A closeup of breasts. A photo of a woman sporting a pig-snout mask while holding cutlery. These are just a few of Sophie Calle’s photographic self-portraits. Above each 67-by-39-inch picture is a story about her life. Over the shnoz profile, Calle tells us that when…
It’s difficult imagining a more idyllic way to enjoy an afternoon of stimulating theater than spending a Sunday in the park with Ed. During a recent matinee, Edge Theatre staged a minimalist production of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story outdoors, on the lawn of the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, under…
Attention, all twelve-year-old boys: Krysten Batlle is looking for a dance partner. Batlle, an attractive brunet with a ready smile and an infectious giggle, is one of the most accomplished competitive ballroom dancers in Miami, if not the state. She’s also a seventh-grader at Arvida Middle School in Kendall. Only…
King Lear: Aaron Spelling certainly injected Shakespearean ambition into his glittering prime-time soap operas — Melrose Place was a total tragicomedy — but here’s a theatrical mashup we never could have envisioned: Ted Lange starring in a touring production of King Lear. Lange, he of the red tux, perfectly spherical…
Forbidden Planet (Warner Bros.) Long available as faded discount product, Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 masterpiece — the movie without which Star Trek, Star Wars, 2001, and, oh, Lost in Space wouldn’t exist — at last gets its proper due; this double-disc collection comes with everything but stardust and rocket fuel…
Final Fantasy is to role-playing games as the Yankees are to baseball. The series — now almost 20 years old — practically redefined the genre with Final Fantasy VII on the original PlayStation, the first console RPG that captured a mainstream audience in the States. But FF was a victim…
Brothers of the Head (IFC) Cary Grant: The Franchise Collection (Universal) CSI: The Complete Sixth Season (Paramount) Cream: Royal Albert Hall (Rhino) 49 Up (First Run) Friends: The Complete Series Collection (Warner Bros.) The Green Mile: Two-Disc Special Edition (Warner Bros.) Hate Crime (Image) He Changed Our World: Steve Irwin…
