Viewers of those VH1 nostalgia countdown shows are familiar with the term awesomely bad, denoting a song one hates to love because it’s unintentionally tacky and awful, yet there’s something about it that won’t let you dismiss it entirely. It’s also a fine way to describe The Cave, but chances…
Ain’t nothing in this world more tedious than highbrow erotica, which works itself into a lather and then wipes off the sweat before anyone notices how awfully and inappropriately worked-up it got. Asylum, adapted by Closer’s Patrick Marber and Chrysanthy Balis from the novel by Patrick McGrath, is just that…
Remember Nick Cannon? For a while there he seemed to be the next big young heartthrob, right after starring in the marching-band movie Drumline and the remake of the Eighties comedy Love Don’t Cost a Thing. When Dave Chappelle joked that his son was leaving him for Nick Cannon, people…
Funkmaster Flex is more than a DJ. The man who first made his name a decade ago as the on-air voice for the blossoming hip-hop scene in New York has managed to parlay his influence into a multimedia career that successfully combines his two major passions: hip-hop and tricked-out whips…
THU 1 Eddie Griffin is lucky he’s so damn funny. His movie resumé contains more bombs than a Lockheed-Martin warehouse. Coneheads. House Party 3. The Mod Squad. Armageddon. You can currently catch Griffin on the silver screen, pimpin’ all over the world in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Despite his list…
Dogs donning diamonds are a girl’s best friend this weekend at the International Gem & Jewelry Show. Featuring the largest selection of fine jewelry, watches, beads, precious and semiprecious gemstones, crystals, gold, and sterling silver, the show has some bling for the whole family, even the dog. “There’s a gem…
Lesbian life in the Keys TUE 9/6 Hey, buddy. Don’t even think about heading to the Keys this week. It’s ladies’ night every night during Womenfest Key West 2005. More than 4000 women are expected to converge for parties, contests, and art shows today through Sunday, September 11. Celebrating eighteen…
Stop gyrating and watch the pros Ballroom dancing has the costumes, the twirling, and the sequins. It reminds you of a time when dancing required agility, not just the ability to shake your ass. Although vibrating solo might attract attention, waltzing with a partner is not as easy as it…
Love kicks ass, but we need cash THUR 9/1 For some, navigating the minefields of intimacy when stymied by profit and power seems a source of soul-withering despair, while for others a belief that love conquers all yields a sense of uplifting empowerment. “Love/Money,” opening at 7:00 tonight at the…
Ballet up to the barre TUE 9/6 You may think you can dance, but does your lithe body move with the grace of a prima ballerina? If you’re ready to get serious about pliés, pirouettes, and arabesques, perhaps you could benefit from additional training in creative movement, jazz, and ballet…
Misery: Horror meister Stephen King certainly knows a thing or two about the vicissitudes of fame. Like many a writer before him, King draws on personal experience for his short novel Misery, a grim fairy tale about a famous novelist held captive by his “number one fan.” The 1992 play…
marking time: moving images: Science, technology, and the speed with which we communicate today have altered modern-day perception of reality. The world is so much more accessible nowadays that time has become a fluid medium flashing back and forth — as if we were living inside a movie. Curated by…
I always cannot understand why girls don’t wanna be with me for a long time,” says Timothy Treadwell, subject of the documentary Grizzly Man. “I have really a nice personality — I’m fun, I’m very, very good in the … umm, well, you’re not supposed to say that when you’re…
Terry Gilliam’s last film featured the former Monty Python troupe member as an eccentric, demanding, and difficult director prone to destroying his ambitious projects before a single frame of footage was ever shot. “If it’s easy,” he says in the movie, “I don’t do it.” Alas, this was not a…
The calendar gals need to see the words gift bags on an invitation before we can be bothered with dolling ourselves up for a party. Peg Samuel, founder and president of Social Diva, totally understands that. “We only write about things we’ve personally approved,” says Samuel of her Website and…
THU 25 You shouldn’t even think about throwing a party without free-flowing wine and a glorious cheese platter. But how much do you really know about cheese? Ars Magirica: The Art of Cooking (158 Almeria Ave., Coral Gables) has a new addition to its culinary course load, a cheese appreciation…
Before Beat Street and Breakin’, street gangs were b-boying to the Sugar Hill Gang. Before that, there was the Rock Steady Crew, doing fly moves to the sounds of Afrika Bambaataa. Earlier still, there was James Brown’s “Get on the Good Foot,” which sparked a trend of competitive street dancing…
Cocktails for a cause WED 8/31 Just ask Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — nothing says “I’m socially conscious and worthy of your admiration” more than adopting a needy child from a foreign land. But what about American orphans? Owing to grueling adoption procedures, wannabe parents tend to prefer the…
Watch the coral get it on FRI 8/26 The full moon in August casts a steamy, romantic spell. For the hard corals in the Florida Keys, the looming orb means the time is right for love. A few days after the lunar event, branching and boulder star varieties of coral…
It’s a Victorian girl thing SAT 8/27 Fingersmith? Tipping the Velvet? Affinity? Can any postpubescent individual not guess where this thought is going? Those constrained by Victorian sensibilities need not read on. As for the rest of you, dear readers: Fingersmith is coming. One of Sarah Waters’s “lightly lesbian” novels,…
FRI 8/26 For some the MTV Video Music Awards are a drag: celebrities misreading cue cards, music that’s overplayed on the radio already, writhing choreography. If certain has-beens or wannabes low on the publicity quotient cause a mundane scandal, it will be replayed well beyond its allowable half-life. Fortunately the…
Did you know that ARTnews magazine ranks Don and Mera Rubell among the world’s top 200 art collectors? The Rubell Family Collection is located in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, inside a two-story, 40,000-square-foot warehouse that once served as a Drug Enforcement Administration storage facility for cocaine and cash seized from drug…
