The word feast conjures images of sumptuous culinary samples and goblets overflowing with wine. Not so at the Goddess Feast Extravaganza. “There will be delicious organic food available, but this is a feast of art,” explains Chia Ortegon. The artist and fashion designer will present her latest handbag collection and…
What do a pop artist from Pittsburgh and an Argentine surrealist have in common? Try Romero Britto. Tee “Teepop” Davis and Cesar Levy met a few years ago while working as graphic artists for the Brazilian marvel. Davis and Levy recognized that philosophically they were “twins separated at birth” and…
Admit it: You take every opportunity to show off your rock-hard abs to your friends. “Go ahead; punch it!” you tell them as they shake their heads and beg you to put your shirt down. But today you can show off and possibly win a prize at the FAME Tropical…
Nickolas Muray — the photographer behind more than 10,000 portraits of celebrities such as Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Claude Monet — may be most remembered for his relationship with Frida Kahlo. In her 1990 biography, The Brush of Anguish, Martha Zamora mentions several men with whom…
The caveat for really cool stuff is the longer it exists, the less cool it becomes. BoardUp is Miami’s first Pro-Am Wakeboard Championship, which makes it pretty cool (although wakeboarding is already a $90-billion-per-year industry). The sport is also known as skurfing because it combines water skiing and surfing –…
Parents are usually hard-pressed to get their teens to spend a Saturday afternoon at a museum, but today all of the cool kids will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art for Teen Day 2006. Hip young artists, photojournalists, and documentarians will be on hand to share their experiences and…
Jete, pointe, pas de chat…. No, this is not French class. It is ballet. And you don’t need to understand the words to appreciate Miami City Ballet School’s thirteenth annual Student Showcase. The event gives 2006 graduates an opportunity to show their stuff before they begin professional careers. Dancers will…
The season opener indicated South Florida’s new soccer team is competitive: Miami FC played the Montreal Impact, which had the best regular-season record in the USL last year, in a 0-0 tie. An April 29 scrimmage against local Haitian team OKAP also indicated FC is keen to develop a good…
Whenever egos and public monies are at stake, politicking, back-dealing, or just plain whoring colors the arts as strongly as a fresh tube of alizarin crimson. Miami’s dance community is no exception. But sometimes the negatives add up to a positive. Tonight’s performance by Ballet Gamonet/Maximum Dance Company marks Iliana…
Those still suffering from 2004 election heartbreak are escaping reality by fantasizing about America’s future presidential candidates. Progressive advocates are yearning for a woman in the Oval Office. Will it be Hillary, or Condi? Whoever lands commander in chief should seek counsel from strong-minded, savvy ex-officials who know a thing…
If you were one tequila shot short of fully experiencing the Mexican phenomenon known as Cinco de Mayo, get the rest of your Latin dose tonight at Centro Cultural Español. DJ Fussible (Pepe Mogt) provides Nortec music — a mix of Tijuana’s popular folk music Norteño and techno. Feast your…
Hip-hop began as the little genre that could. When the Sugarhill Gang and Kurtis Blow started spitting rhymes in the late Seventies, few dreamed that hip-hop would become mainstream and that rappers would own fashion labels and star in corporate commercials. The bass keeps booming and the movement is unstoppable…
Coming closer even than Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers to resembling the Chinese cover art for an Iron Butterfly album, Chen Kaige’s The Promise is psychedelia extremis. Hardly a minute of it passes without a concentrated dose of digital frou-frou and lavish cartoon-poetic imagery: floating ocean goddesses, flying swordsmen,…
The most important thing to know about the new movie Hoot, adapted from the children’s book by Carl Hiaasen, is that it’s coproduced by Jimmy Buffett, who also appears in a small role and provides new music for the soundtrack. Middle-age drunks and boat owners might possibly rejoice at the…
Doug Atchison’s sweet-natured, immensely likable family film recasts the innate human drama of the spelling bee — captured memorably in the 2002 documentary Spellbound — in the familiar but satisfying terms of an after-school special. Keke Palmer plays a bright eleven-year-old languishing in an underfunded, underequipped South Central L.A. public…
Watching M Ensemble’s production of Seven Guitars is like sitting in your neighbor’s back yard on Sunday: Although there’s not a lot going on, simply being invited generates a feel-good sense of belonging. But after spending an hour listening to strangers jabber about their lives without any real story line,…
Carmen: We know her, we love her, and we can’t get enough of her. People who have never been to an opera house could probably recognize Carmen within a few notes. And those who love opera remain fascinated by this sexy creature. Florida Grand Opera, which began its relationship with…
Astral Cumulo Uber Express: Kenny Scharf’s exhibit at the Kevin Bruk Gallery harks back to the Fifties. During the era in which the Soviets sent Sputnik hurtling across the sky, America’s obsession with space was limited to watching Annette Funicello fill out her bra on The Mickey Mouse Club —…
Tennessee Williams Film Collection (Warner Bros.) All that’s missing from this boxed set — six movies, one doc, eight discs — is a jar of sweat; even Williams is here, in a 1973 documentary. Then there’s Brando, Beatty, Newman, Taylor, Burton, Gardner, Leigh, Malden, Huston, Kazan — the last of…
The biggest innovation videogaming saw in the past decade or so was the invention of the “sandbox”: Programmers create settings and consequences, but give you, the user, free license to do with them what you want. Grand Theft Auto is certainly the best-known of these games. The carjackings, the hookers,…
BTK Killer (Lions Gate) Chubby Hubby Workout (On Air Video) Dinosaurs: The Complete First and Second Seasons (Disney) The Family Stone (Fox) Flight 93: The Movie (UAV) Jargo (Picture This!) King of Thieves (Picture This!) Last Holiday (Paramount) Lie With Me (Lance) Life in the Undergrowth (BBC) Misaki Chronicles: Volume…
Tuning into “Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents” at Centro Cultural Español, one might be reminded of the B-movie classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The 1956 film depicts the takeover of an entire community by alien seed pods that replicated and eventually replaced humans. At its core,…
