Horizon: Nina Ferre’s latest body of work brings to mind click ön’ dub music, in which a tick changes an unbroken sequence here and there — almost imperceptibly — to call our attention and make us more aware of nodes and skips in the apparent flow of a recurring continuum…
Better than I thought it’d be” was the refrain repeated by those exiting the preview screening of Guess Who, which doesn’t mean much — freebie audiences expect nothing and usually receive it. But in this case it neatly summed up the experience of catching Ashton Kutcher in a part once…
The Ring, Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake of Hideo Nakata’s Ringu, offered sufficient closure that it didn’t exactly demand a sequel. The horror lay in wondering why a mysterious videotape kills viewers seven days after they watch it; to a lesser extent, there was the mystery of the creepy girl, face…
A formidable trio of principals makes the Actors’ Playhouse Aida a fabulously entertaining evening of theater. 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. Walker, Christopher A. Kent, and Melanie Penn –…
Edward Albee’s Seascape is all talk and no action, but what talk it is. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play presents themes of evolution both in the literal, Darwinian sense as well as in the notion of the long relationship of married couple Nancy (Joanna Olsen) and Charlie (John Felix). Nancy and…
Edge: This one-woman show about the tormented life of poet Sylvia Plath features a startling, riveting performance by Angelica Torn that blazes as fiercely as Plath’s poetry. Paul Alexander’s play depicts Plath’s failed romances and suicide attempts, and excoriates her husband Ted Hughes as a controlling monster who profited mightily…
Following World War II, the epicenter of the art world moved from Paris to New York City. Though Europe was wholly occupied with its recovery from the conflict, advances in art were taking place all over the continent, some of them comparable to those on the other side of the…
Cristina Lei Rodriguez: Multihued like liquid acid dreams, Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s series of three gleaming “Experimental Garden” sculptures are cunning representations of her imagined artificial paradises. Luscious eye candy titillates the senses; thin crystal raindrops hang in the negative space above each separate geographical region: glossy banana trees, orchids, and…
Let the lady gloat. Ellen Wedner, director of the 2005 Miami Jewish Film Festival, has a point when she boasts of this year’s “wonderful festival filled with a huge diversity of film topics.” She’s not kidding. With pictures from Israel, Argentina, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Uganda, Luxembourg, Italy, the Netherlands,…
Everyone with a TV set remembers President Bush in the flight suit, landing on that aircraft carrier, standing in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner, and triumphantly declaring that major combat operations in Iraq were over. Two years on, many feel like asking what exactly he meant by that. Gunner…
A slight rustle of saw grass and incessant belches of frogs provide a gentle soundtrack, lulling the Everglades explorer, allowing the natural beauty to instill a serenity that — KERPLANG! — explodes into the launch of chaotic white and brown or blue and gray, a flying object springing from the…
THUR 17 Ah, St. Patrick’s Day. A time to guzzle green beer and get rowdy like it’s 1992 and you’re auditioning for a House of Pain video. There are several primo Irish pubs to choose from when it comes to St. Paddy’s Day celebrations, each offering entertainment, traditional grub, and…
The first signs of spring are in the air: Ferris wheels, farm animals, and the scent of fried dough. Oh yes, it’s time for the fair. If you haven’t graced a midway since your senior year of high school when you and your stoner friends forked over the big bucks…
South Miami keeps partying SAT 3/19 If the City of South Miami seems to have gone cuckoo for culture, mounting its second outdoor arts and crafts show in less than month, it may be because the family-oriented hamlet has gotten the crowd-pleasing block party down to a science. ArtSouthMiami, not…
Proud Miami keeps on rolling SAT 3/19 The Miami Riverday celebration is a way-cool event, paying tribute to the waterway on which this city was founded. It’s the area’s only “working” river, which is to say the only one that handles industrial boat and ship traffic. Earthman Project, Grant Livingston,…
Historically speaking SAT 3/19 Seventy-nine years ago North Miami was far from the modern district it is today. Explore this neighborhood’s pioneer past at the North Miami history fest. See antique photographs of the original city hall and fire station, then visit their new digs. Bus tours depart at 11:00…
Local artists push their policies THUR 3/17 The explosion of Miami’s real estate development meets the expression of hip-hop and graffiti art in Queens during “Here and Now: 2005.” The Miami Light Project and Miami Performing Arts Center present the works of South Florida artists Octavio Campos, Joanne Barrett, Ico…
The Diaries, a mess of a play now being presented at the New Theatre in Coral Gables, begins with the suggestion of something much better. A young American scholar is about to give a talk on campus on the subject of his Nazi grandfather’s diaries, a controversial document that may…
Edge: This one-woman show about the tormented life of poet Sylvia Plath features a startling, riveting performance by Angelica Torn that blazes as fiercely as Plath’s poetry. Paul Alexander’s play depicts Plath’s failed romances and suicide attempts, and excoriates her husband Ted Hughes as a controlling monster who profited mightily…
Real estate development has different meanings in the minds of different people. Buy land cheap, increase rents, displace residents, demolish, then build big, dreary structures to multiply the investment. This is the typical scenario for greedy, irresponsible developers who only care for a quick return, even at the expense of…
Cristina Lei Rodriguez: Multihued like liquid acid dreams, Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s series of three gleaming “Experimental Garden” sculptures are cunning representations of her imagined artificial paradises. Luscious eye candy titillates the senses; thin crystal raindrops hang in the negative space above each separate geographical region: glossy banana trees, orchids, and…
If you’re looking for an escapist shoot-’em-up action adventure and figure a Bruce Willis flick is a reliable option, think twice. Hostage certainly delivers violence and heroics, but not in a way everyone will enjoy. Children and dogs die brutally, and the villains are so thoroughly hateful that even the…
