For a decade now, “serious jazz” public radio station 88.9 WDNA-FM has gifted the city with the Miami Jazz Film Festival, an increasingly impressive celluloid celebration of America’s greatest musical contribution and the characters who perform it. To celebrate this memorable milestone, this year’s fest will present a packed schedule…
Cuban-born filmmaker Rolando Díaz is traveling all the way from his home in the Canary Islands to attend the premiere of his feature Cercaníal(Closeness) — you could at least drive over to the Tower Theater to join him. This evocative tale reminds us of Elián and a million or so…
Like Rumpelstiltskin, the wily dwarf in the Grimm brothers’ fairytale, Jean Lurçat had a knack for spinning straw into gold. When wheedled by Picasso in the Fifties as to why he was weaving his pictures in wool, Lurçat, the leading revivalist of tapestries among his contemporaries, chided the old Spanish…
The old Lucas/Spielberg stunt of turning B-movie peekaboos into E-ticket thrill rides remains the industry standard — to the virtual exclusion of other multiplex fare, particularly when school’s out. But as not every kid who remade Raiders in Super 8 either gave up the dream or morphed into Michael Bay,…
This might as well be titled A Day at the Races. Like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, with which the latest Adam McKay/Will Ferrell collaboration shares its essential plot of a celebrity humiliated and redeemed and an obsession with Ferrell’s pale paunch, the writer-director and star offer just enough…
Dressed in a fitted black T-shirt and plain dark pants, Miami artist Michael Israel stands alone on an expansive stage. In his right hand he clutches a paintbrush. Before him is a blank canvas that measures approximately six by four feet. Behind him are hundreds of people who have gathered…
Miami is not known for its profusion of bona fide black theater. But that is about to change — at least for a weekend. Through August 5, the first Urban Theatre and Entertainment Festival/Awards will showcase a variety of films, plays, musicals, lectures, and workshops at various locations throughout Miami-Dade…
Let’s face it, most people are afraid of something. An IRS audit. A cheating spouse. Catching an STD from a public toilet. Something. For everyone fear creeps in at birth. After getting all cushy as fetuses in the relative silence and peace of the maternal womb, we suddenly find ourselves…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
V for Vendetta (Warner Bros.) Illustrator David Lloyd calls this adaptation of the comic he made with writer Alan Moore “very good” — so why did Moore beg to have his name removed? The intentions are noble, sure; name another big-studio blockbuster in which a government manufactures fear to keep…
Native American heroes are a rare commodity in videogames. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, released a decade ago, is the most prominent example. Now Turok finally has company. The best way to describe Prey is “Doom meets Cherokee mysticism.” And while most critics are fawning over this first-person action/horror title, don’t believe…
Beavis & Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 3 (Paramount) Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf (Panik House) Broken Saints: The Animated Comic Epic (Fox) Dallas: The Complete Fifth Season (Warner Bros.) Elvis: ’68 Comeback (BMG Heritage) A Fish Called Wanda: Deluxe Edition (MGM) Girls Next Door (Fox) The Graduate (MGM)…
Hot Nights Cool Films 3 is the Miami Jewish Film Festival’s tight and ambitious movie weekend at the Cosford. It’s not the main event, but this August 5-6 minifest produced on the University of Miami campus with the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education crams a breathtaking diversity of…
You are sick of South Beach and over Coconut Grove. You don’t dig the Design District and are wary of Wynwood. Finally there is a new alternative on the Miami social scene. Take note, cool kids: South Miami is where it’s at. Every corner boasts a bar, each of which…
Taking a break from baking a birthday cake, young-adult author Adrian Fogelin spoke with New Times about living on a boat in Key West, working as a librarian in Tallahassee, and settling down to write her first book at age 35. Books have always been in her blood – Adrian…
Lately it seems all of Culture in the City’s events have been the new-age variety: Wiccan chanting, alternative medicine, metaphysical stuff. This past week, organizers held a lecture about the “value of human life from the Vedic perspective,” and we didn’t even know what Vedic was. (Thank Goddess we can…
This is one you can blame on the dog. In honor of a stray Dixie dingo puppy named Logan, popular local artists Julie Lara Kahn and Brook Dorsch present the second Dixie Dingo Super-8 Invitational Film Festival at the Dorsch Gallery to celebrate the lucky dog’s third birthday. “He changed…
You have more than just another case of the Mondays. You have fallen ill with a serious strain of stop-bugging-me-boss bloat, an annoying fit of psychotic-colleague cough, and the worst I-cannot-possibly-meet-my-deadline diarrhea. Go ahead, call in sick and stay in your boxers all day. Watch Days of Our Lives and…
With ten games remaining, Miami FC needs to close strong to finish in the top half of the standings, which would be fairly impressive for a rookie franchise. Two games — the recently scheduled August 2 scrimmage against Deportivo Alaves and the August 9 battle against Guatemalan champs CSD Municipal…
While the days are getting shorter, the heat, humidity, and threat of hurricanes continue to linger throughout August and September. And as predictable as pit stains on a pizza delivery boy, Miami Spice Restaurant Month returns for its fifth year. If you are not familiar with this cheaper-eats program, Campo…
Wander through South Beach on any given Sunday afternoon, and you might feel as though you’ve stumbled into an anteroom of the Westminster Kennel Club. Pooches are everywhere, holding court at al fresco eateries and strutting jauntily into boutiques. Although most establishments on the Beach seem to have become pet-friendly…
When prepared correctly, the Puerto Rican dish mofongo is a little sweet, a little salty, filling and decadent, and infused with the smoky succulence of bacon. The indigenous mishmash is so yummy it’s difficult to describe. The culinary delight makes a perfect title for the first full-length album by popular…
