Fill up the tank and get out of town while the roads are free from out-of-state license plates. Since the calendar gals are often strapped for cash, we’re going to see the Florida Keys in a day with just a few dollars. The key (har, har) to doing the Keys…
Get crunk in the Gables FRI 8/19 It’s been a tough week. Working for The Man has got you down. Get over your stress by embarking on the Coral Gables pedestrian pub-crawl. On Friday nights the City Beautiful transforms into a carouser’s wonderland. Begin your evening with wine or beer…
With mad skillz SAT 8/20 For you anglers who’ve been glancing at your rods, yearning to get to the Everglades and cast a fly, but don’t relish returning to your car’s A/C after bathing in sweat, get prepped for milder weather at the Back Country Fishing from Canoes and Kayaks…
See, the laughs are better with two SAT 8/20 BY MARGARET GRIFFIS Will this be the comeback year for the comedy duo genre? Although still taking a back seat to solo and ensemble acts, this uniquely twentieth-century form is gaining new fans after about 30 years of relative disinterest. Not…
A play called If We Are Women in a place called the Women’s Theatre Project? Shocking but true. What sounds like scary Lifetime television, though, is actually entirely satisfying, even if you happen to sport one of those crazy penis things. It’s so satisfying that you should be prepared to…
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…
The emphasis is on the process, not the final product,” said chief curator Bonnie Clearwater about the Museum of Contemporary Art’s current exhibition, “Trading Places.” “Although,” she added, “we were really pleased with the outcome.” To create temporary studios for artists Kim Brown, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Frances Trombly, and Salvatore La…
Co Operate: Fashion and its built-in seasonal obsolescence have long been the engine that drives aesthetic innovation in the contemporary art world. As soon as a new style bubbles up, an alarm sounds. Soon thereafter legions of young artists rush to be anointed by that ever-mutating but absolutely required craze…
Sure you want to be inside Sophie Jacobs’s head? The poor woman’s cabeza is so stuffed with guilt and fear, so tormented by grief and what might be delusions, that to spend even five minutes in there poses an obvious risk to your own sanity. At least that’s the way…
Red Eye may not seem to be your typical Wes Craven movie. It’s not really horror, there are no marketable monsters, and unlike Cursed, Scream 3, and other recent Craven offerings, it’s actually an enjoyable time at the movies. But heroine Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is very much in the…
The South Florida Firefighters Calendar is the end of a long road, fraught with protein smoothies, Cybex machines, and secretaries whose judgment can make or break a man. Few jawlines are sharp enough; even fewer meet rigorous standards of stomach topography. And then the existential “prize” — having fake soot…
THU 18 In Miami there are as many varieties of ceviche as there are nationalities: traditional Peruvian, spicy Mexican, and inspired Floridian, among others. There are several ways to serve the pickled seafood dish as well. Some serve it in little dishes, some in shot glasses. At Jaguar Ceviche Spoon…
The Glades on film FRI 8/19 A couple million acres of soggy swampland with sweeping vistas, wildlife both monstrous and beautiful, and mystique to spare — it would seem moviemakers would exploit the mighty Everglades much more often than they have. There was Crash, the 1978 recounting of the Eastern…
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 writer held captive by his “number one fan,” now in production at…
“So fair and foul a day I have not seen” goes the famous line in Macbeth and, may it be said, so fair and foul a play can now be seen in a recently opened production at New Theatre in Coral Gables. Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is one of his most…
Sisters of Swing: The Andrews Sisters, who rose to megastardom during the World War II big band era, were the Dixie Chicks of their time. That is, if you replace the Chicks’ antiwar sentiment with patriotism and then add an unbridled popularity no girl group since the Andrews Sisters has…
Fashion and its built-in seasonal obsolescence has long been the engine that drives aesthetic innovation in contemporary art. As soon as a new style bubbles up from an original source, scribbled by an early adopter of a disenfranchised subculture like grunge or skateboarding, an alarm sounds. Soon thereafter legions of…
Fuzzy Was He? Once upon a time, before psychedelic Sesame Street of the Seventies turned into Elmo Street (the fifteen-second-skit show of the Nineties), there were Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, and Big Bird. Perhaps red furball Elmo was nice at first, but he pushed old favorites into the…
The contentedly independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has brought his restless energy to a series of surreal road movies that move nicely along on the strength of rare characters, quirky humor, and a willing embrace of chance adventure. These quest stories for hipsters have transported Jarmusch’s fiercely loyal audience from New…
Toward the end of Saraband, the uneven new film from legendary director Ingmar Bergman, a character sits down with his daughter, a taut girl obviously under emotional distress. “I have the feeling that some sort of discussion is coming on,” he says. Indeed it is — as it has been…
For thousands of years portraits have been a favored vehicle for trumpeting the virtues of the rich and famous, lionizing our fearless leaders, and at times letting the air out of history’s biggest windbags. “Portraits have been used to preserve the memory of the deceased, provide continuity between the living…
THUR 11 Considered the definitive surfing movie, The Endless Summer is a documentary about two young surfers who travel the globe in search of the perfect wave. Bruce Brown’s 1966 chronicle of sun, ocean, friendship, and travel also preserves a lost time; we see our young heroes in Senegal, Tahiti,…
