Aida: A powerhouse trio of principals makes the Actors’ Playhouse Aida a fabulously entertaining evening of theater and one of the season’s happiest surprises. For those who already love the show, here is a chance to experience the Elton John-Tim Rice score persuasively, passionately sung and acted by Desmon N…
The wrapped monumental structures of Christo and Jeanne-Claude must be seen in context, for they manifest much of their magnificence through the fleeting nature of their existence. So the exhibit “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Würth Museum Collection,” comprising more than 65 collages, drawings, photographs, and scale models currently on view…
Crustacean in the Hall of Furies and Orly Genger: Despite the resemblance to your third-grade teacher’s bulletin-board decorations, a sense of gloom pervades Locust Projects, courtesy of artist Frank Haines. Dismemberment, jousting, battling with axes and swords by armor-clad medievals, skulls dripping blood, Vikings, and a hellish grotto are selections…
If nothing else, Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, co-directed with Frank Miller (and Quentin Tarantino, for a few seconds), will be remembered as the most faithful comic-book adaptation ever put on film (or high-def video anyway). Rodriguez uses Miller’s hyper-noir serial, published over a ten-year period, as storyboards for the movie…
A spin-off of a sequel, Beauty Shop plays like most Hollywood comedies these days — as tepid sitcom, benign product, and cynical afterthought. If last year’s Barbershop 2: Back in Business was little more than a dilapidated retread of the charmingly lightweight 2002 hit Barbershop, consider this incarnation condemned for…
When you spot that thick book crammed into your mailbox, you know any plans you’ve made for the evening are off. Suddenly the thought of putting on pajamas, flopping on the couch, and absorbing all 492 pages of the new April InStyle magazine is much more enticing than getting dolled…
THU 31 Fainting spells, painful dye jobs, and more bitches than you can throw a bag of kibble at — don’t you just love the UPN guilty pleasure America’s Next Top Model? This season’s Cycle Four features a bevy of young baby mamas, including local beer-throwing-bad-girl-trying-to-make-good Tiffany (“That ho poured…
Hey, couch potatoes, here are some statistics to scare you out of that sedentary lifestyle. According to MSNBC, a quarter of American adults get practically no exercise at all, citing lame excuses like a lack of time and “gym intimidation” as preventing them from being physically active. The New England…
SAT 4/2 Like bats out of the Hell’s Angels, 40,000 crotch-rocket enthusiasts will be revving up their engines and throttling over to the Miami Motorcycle Show. Weekend road warriors will mingle with those tattooed long-hairs who scare the bejesus out of grandmothers when their clubs zoom down the highway. Don’t…
TUE 4/5 The only thing worse than the way professional sports has become way too much professional and way too little sports is how the pay for players has reached such astronomical heights that baseball can hardly be considered a game any longer. That and how pitch-counts and skill-specialization have…
FRI 4/1 At times inscrutable yet always lyrical, the richly toned woodcut and ink-on-paper works in “Out of This World” reveal the fertile delta of Ibrahim Miranda’s interior cartography, a place where scientific data and historical figures are freed from their boundaries by the artist and recast in his image…
SUN 4/3 When thinking of Shakespearean drama, animated characters don’t spring to mind. But who better to tell Shakespeare’s bloody “Tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” than the ultimate American idiot himself? In MacHomer, Rick Miller channels the Bard’s tragedy through spot-on impersonations of…
To Rastafarians, Empress Menen of Ethiopia is Mother Mary. The wife of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I, was a devout believer in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and a benevolent figure who put energy into women’s issues and helping the downtrodden. She was born March 25, 1889. To mark…
THUR 24 Silk, linen, and even chain-mail dresses have been done to death, so the American Institute of Graphic Arts has constructed easily disposable and completely flammable designs from paper. The fourth annual runway show of fabulous paper fashions that put those doctor’s office gowns to shame will unfold tonight…
Ducks and chicks and bunnies better scurry. Easter is here and there are still people who think it’s cute to give little baby barnyard animals as gifts, without realizing that chicks grow up to be hens and roosters, ducklings grow into nasty honkers, and bunnies often live ten years or…
Stretch and your mind will too SAT 3/26 Flexible bodies will converge on the beach for a marathon yogic fundraising event during the second annual Karmapalooza, a festival of giving through yoga. Event coordinator Michael Brandwajn expects about 200 people to participate in the day-long celebration. “The intention truly is…
The natural high FRI 3/25 Lately it seems the only issue baseball fans want to talk about is steroids. With major-league players being summoned before the U.S. Congress to testify about the apparent unrestrained use of questionable body-building supplements, now is the perfect time to catch an unadulterated, wholesome game…
Three artists on deck SAT 3/26 As a rule curators spend a crazy amount of time putting together a winning lineup when working with multiple artists during an exhibit, but in the case of tonight’s opening reception from 7:00 to 10:00 at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (3550 N. Miami Ave., Miami),…
THUR 3/24 Here’s an interesting approach to relationships: Befriend the woman who’s boinking your husband. That’s part of the premise of Ann and Debbie, a play that’s in South Florida for its world premiere. Elizabeth Ashley and Lucie Arnaz star in the comedy, which involves the title characters interacting in…
The latest edition of the Miami Light Project’s signature commissioning program designed to nurture Miami-based artists, Here & Now 2005, is also its first co-production with the incipient Miami Performing Arts Center. Unveiled last week and continuing with a second program through Monday, March 28, at the Light Box, this…
It can’t possibly be their fault, so don’t blame the stars. In fact give Lucie Arnaz and Elizabeth Ashley two points for doing everything humanly possible to try making Ann and Debbie work. All their glamour, presence, acting and overacting, terrific timing, gorgeous legs and distinctive voices, together with wishing,…
Aida: A powerhouse trio of principals makes the Actors’ Playhouse Aida a fabulously entertaining evening of theater and one of the season’s happiest surprises. For those who already love the show, here is a chance to experience the Elton John-Tim Rice score persuasively, passionately sung and acted by Desmon N…
