Every year at this time most of us determinedly scribble a list of New Year’s resolutions, pledges, if you will, by which we solemnly vow to live the remainder of our lives: Quit smoking, stop drinking, begin rigorous exercise regimen, go on strict diet, develop enviably muscular physique, find perfect…
Exits and Entrances: Athol Fugard has the well-earned ability to suck the air out of any other plays competing against him on any given night. This snapshot of the mid-twentieth-century crossroads of change in South Africa is no exception. Although the playwright-icon isn’t here in body, his spirit shines through…
Tijuana-based Tania Candiani teases rather than ignites fires with her solo show at Kunsthaus Miami, but her work might provoke if one’s perceptual libido responds to erotic irony laced with the soft and subtle instead of the hot and sweaty. “Mattresses” distills what she refers to as “the cruel game…
A Day and Forever: Ali Prosch makes a jaw-dropping statement with this multimedia exhibition sprinkled with witty doses of flair and drama that portray the lifestyles of the young and fabulously dissolute. Trafficking in hyperbeautiful imagery, at times evocatively laced with autobiographical commentary, Prosch blithely chops Miami’s decadent run-amok egos…
For your Heath Ledger holiday-movie options, you have (a) a cowboy in love with another man, and (b) history’s most infamous womanizer. Since the name Casanova is synonymous with an unquenchable thirst for straight sex with women (or at least boasting about it), the role might seem to be a…
Hands down the funniest bit from the summer’s raunch smorgasbord The Aristocrats was hearing Sarah Silverman tell the infamously profane family-act joke at the center of Paul Provenza’s documentary. Where Robin Williams, Drew Carey, George Carlin, and a hundred other funny folks were serving up naughty variations in various shades…
The Jerry Lewis chromosome is running amok again inside Jim Carrey, and in this remake of the 1977 George Segal-Jane Fonda farce, he revels in his usual quota of rubber-faced, talking-in-tongues set pieces. Otherwise, this sometimes pointed, sometimes pointless comedy is pure post-Enron — the tale of a prosperous suburban…
Florida Brits might not be your regular tea-and-crumpet Anglophiles, but they still celebrate Boxing Day and think pantomimes are a gas. The Gold Coast Theatre continues its tradition of droll storybook divertissement for the whole family with Mother Goose Goes to Mars, a show whose cross-dressing high jinks draw as…
When strolling around Miami Beach on a Saturday afternoon, admiring the giant fur hats of black-cloaked men walking with their families, one finds it difficult to imagine that Jews have been allowed to live in the state of Florida since only 1763. The first Jews settled in Pensacola and slowly…
The Miami Beach Cinematheque plans to send Art Miami off with a sensory jarring splash tonight when it presents “Waves,” a site specific projection installation by multimedia minx Rosalind Schneider. The artist is transforming the cinematheque into a “temporal awareness environment,” projecting Atlantic Ocean inspired imagery onto a huge sphere…
Have you ever been sitting on the couch, smoking out with your buddies while watching Cops, Law & Order, or any of the dozens of CSI shows, and thought, “Dude, I wonder what it would be like to be a cop?” Well, now is your chance to learn the inner…
We love a man with a large organ. Find us one who, with only a few fast flicks of his magical fingers, is internationally known for sensational, thundering sounds that can send pulsating waves throughout our bodies, and we will be entertained for hours. Oh, yes, we’re talking about Don…
Getting your hair done at a luxe salon feels refreshing to the spirit but distressing to the pocket. Now the adventuresome can sport chic styles for a fraction of the price by standing in as hair models at the Vidal Sassoon Miami Education Center. This establishment has been called the…
In a town where hip bars with flat-screen TVs come a dime a dozen, one neighborhood haunt has the secret to longevity. Fox’s Sherron Inn has been open since 1946. “Every customer feels like they’re in their own home. The ambiance makes them feel like that,” explains Eva Andrews, part…
If you are the only one on your block who has not been to a winetasting, you can jump in and start swilling tonight when AV Grill and Wine Bar, in conjunction with National Distributing Company, presents A Taste of Spain wine and tapas event. At press time Chef Alex…
Even if you don’t know much about American classical music, you’ve almost certainly heard Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. It has been featured everywhere from the Olympics to the soundtrack to He Got Game. Yet it’s only one of many masterpieces created by “the dean of American composers.”…
Fine art usually costs a bundle, but NFAA Arts Week 2006, organized by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, is hosting a week of major art events and isn’t charging a dime. If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to expose yourself to more culture, and another…
Once considered the Carmen Miranda of local art expos for its predominantly Latin flavor, Art Miami has undergone a radical makeover to broaden its appeal, featuring 50 new galleries on its overhauled roster. “We have made a concerted effort to attract more American, European, and Asian galleries because it’s a…
The media’s depiction of Africa surprisingly has changed little over the past century. But Africa is so much more than the wretched images of hungry, bare-breasted women and mysteriously menacing tribesmen. The curators at the Lowe Art Museum are presenting the exhibits “Imaging and Identity: African Art from the Lowe…
They can be wooden or plastic. Or maybe you prefer one of the fancy Lucite varieties embedded with playful bubbles, delicate seashells, or shiny pennies. Once your artistic streak rears its head, you can get funky with a brush and hot glue to create your own throne fit for a…
Loudon Wainwright III’s intimately personal repertoire can make audience members feel as if they’re eavesdropping. Songs about his family, the time he struck his daughter, and how difficult it is to correctly spell his name should work fine outdoors, though “Tip That Waitress” might be deleted from the setlist. That’s…
As well as playing havoc with trees, signs, and traffic signals throughout the area, Hurricane Wilma put the kibosh on the second annual Colombian Film Festival set for Miami Dade College. Now the winds have died down and the buzz is on the rise again as the festival receives a…
