The town of Plantation recently seems to have become a womb for young male violence, with the most recognized wickedness to come out of this pseudo-Fitzgerald West Egg lately being the alleged bashing of homeless men in January by baseball bat-wielding teen lads. Bad, sad news all around. But Plantation…
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men: Some things mature with age, others don’t. Almost 40 years after Ceremonies premiered off-Broadway, it still offers a powerfully rich portrayal of a disenfranchised African-American family in crisis. But it also projects such a clichéd, outdated, and stereotypical image of black men that it begs…
When speaking with the boyish yet erudite David Castillo, one senses the art dealer is poised to gain traction on some of his gray-beard competitors. “Paris, Barcelona & Miami,” on exhibit at his recently opened, eponymously named gallery, features a handful of works by the Cuban vanguard generation and is…
The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley’s exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. The twists and turns of the artist’s formative years pepper his paintings. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age of fifteen and later served a…
Walk the Line (Fox) No matter what a junkie does with his spare time — say, redefine country music, or forge one of history’s most enduring personas — movies about junkies are a drag to watch. So it’s too bad this Johnny Cash biopic is a by-the-numbers fall-and-redemption tale. A…
Last fall, Microsoft hyped its pricey Xbox 360 by promising to reinvent gaming as we know it. The blockbuster “next generation” titles were supposed to harness the machine’s awesome power to deliver high-definition graphics and impossibly realistic action. But a funny thing happened on the way to the future. The…
Annie Duke’s Conquering Online Poker (Big Vision) The Avengers: The Complete Emma Peel Megaset (A&E) Battle’s Poison Cloud (Cinema Libre) Bleak House (BBC Warner) Camara Oscura (Warner Bros.) Charmed: The Complete Fourth Season (Paramount) Death Tunnel (Sony) The Hobart Shakespeareans (Docurama) The Ice Harvest (MCA) The Lords of Discipline (Paramount)…
Another year is coming to an end, and we’re once again nostalgic for the easy days of the Eighties, when we would spend Christmas vacation watching Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, and Smiths videos on MTV. Our hair was big, our makeup frosted, and our hot pink pumps looked so killer…
Forget the head-shrinkers. Music and flowers are the sick soul’s panacea, says Mieko Kubota, an ikebana (Japanese art of flower arrangement) practitioner. Kubota’s motto is “friendship through flowers.” But many Miamians are trained in the art of vulgar hand gestures and horn blasts. We bet our best chrysanthemum that a…
“It’s been said she knocks ’em dead/When she lands in town…./All those gifts those courters give/To sweet Georgia Brown” — just a sample of the little known lyrics to Louis Armstrong’s “Sweet Georgia Brown.” Most folks don’t know Satchmo wrote the tune or even that it has lyrics. But they…
Attention, suburbanites of South Miami and surrounding areas: Now you can enjoy a little slice of SoBe without leaving the comfort of your zip code. Martini Bar is located in the Shops of Sunset Place — one of the few locations where you can get your buying, boozing, and schmoozing…
You might imagine Rosie Perez — successful actress, In Living Color’s legendary choreographer who orchestrated the Fly Girls’ every move, and dynamic star of Broadway’s The Vagina Monologues — would have no problem making her dream project reality. But when it came to her directorial debut, the riveting documentary Yo…
How does it happen? The Washington Wizards don’t have any players of note whom they actually drafted. Seven footer Brendan Haywood, one of the NBA’s top rebounders and shot blockers, was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2001 draft; the rights were traded to Orlando almost immediately; the rights…
Colorfully clad in traditional guayaberas, and chomping on their cheroots as if the cigar were their last meal, the veteran players tossing bones at Little Havana’s Domino Park represent the flavor of Miami as much as a café con leche. Given the peppery language and folksy pageantry, one shouldn’t be…
The neon lights will be bright tonight in the Wynwood Art District when New York artist Tapp Francke’s exhibit “Chromesthesia” opens at Dot Fiftyone. Francke takes our universal and often intense response to color and sends us on a loopy neon ride through a tube of emotional juxtaposition. Staring at…
Tommy Lee Jones’s feature directorial debut is probably much as you’d expect: a blast of nostalgia that nonetheless accepts the realities of modernity, which isn’t surprising coming from an actor who’s getting up there in years but has found more fame as an old man than as a young’un. The…
If you’re a parent trying to teach your sullen teenagers that movies with subtitles aren’t all bad, try taking them to see Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor). Like Christophe Gang’s The Brotherhood of the Wolf or Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this is a foreign-language film proving geekdom observes no…
The centerpiece of this preposterous bit of historical fiction is an opulent dinner party hosted by a wealthy Hungarian-Jewish industrialist and his elegant wife, for the purpose of signing over everything they own to the Nazis in return for their safe passage to Palestine. Among those tearing into the roast…
To most people, food sustains life. But to the culinary celebrities converging on Miami February 24 through 26 for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, food is life. And they’re set to nourish the hungry crowds with shows of sustenance. “You can call me a lot of things,” quips…
Few things are more difficult to describe than childhood molestation. But Paula Vogel’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning controversial play, How I Learned to Drive, now onstage at the University of Miami’s Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, does just that. Set in Maryland largely during the Sixties, this 90-minute dark comedy moves in…
On a recent Friday afternoon, squadrons of turkey buzzards circled the Claude Pepper Federal Building while a skywriting plane created childlike pictures of clouds in the pristine blue sky. Some of the faux clouds were shaped like bear claws, and others bore an uncanny resemblance to billowy buttocks, as if…
All the President’s Men (Warner Bros.) It’s no mystery why Warner Bros. chose to rerelease All the President’s Men now; at last we know how much — which is to say how little — Mark “Deep Throat” Felt really looked like Hal Holbrook. A new doc on former FBI second-in-command…
