MOCA revisits the Eighties SAT 1/29 You’ve shellacked your bangs into a perfect waterfall and slipped your leggings on beneath your skirt. The baby-doll socks with white pumps, lace gloves, and pastel jacket with linebacker shoulder pads are all you need to complete the look. Oh my God! You are,…
FRI 1/28 Ah, spring. In most of the country it means the flowers are beginning to emerge, and the birds are singing. While Miami’s spring doesn’t bring anything new weather-wise, the changing of seasons is marked by new performances courtesy of the Maximum Dance Company. The Rite of Spring is…
THU 27 Just in case you fell out of the loop, the cool, young, upwardly mobile set have found a new meeting place. Doraku, Benihana Inc.’s boutique sushi lounge, provides a swanky vibe for the ambitiously well-heeled. At tonight’s Young Professionals Networking meeting, you’ll enjoy delectable hors d’oeuvres by executive…
I must confess, I have never been a big fan of Broadway tunesmith Charles Strouse. Not that he needs my approval. The prolific composer has been banging out hits since his very first musical, Bye Bye Birdie, grabbed a Tony in 1960. After that, Strouse went on a tear with…
The Boys Next Door: This is a heart-warming, brilliantly acted look at the lives of four mentally challenged men. Arnold (Michael Collins) constantly spells out the injustices of life, threatening to move to Russia if his grievances go unacknowledged. A chubby and lovable Norman (Jason Scott Quinn) always has a…
Collage Series: Matthew Rose offers the best work in this show of four collage artists. Using lithography, Rose combines images cut from ads from the Twenties and Thirties and transforms them into personae who would feel right at home in the creepy parlors of Max Ernst, particularly the Victorian Lady…
In her first stab at narrative drama, writer/director Shainee Gabel has managed to assemble a superstar cast and a seasoned technical team. She spent five years on the project, adapting an unpublished novel written by the father of a friend, working with a clarity of vision and an admirable goal:…
A bit of advice when considering whether to see Bear Cub, a lovely new drama from Spanish director Miguel Albaladejo: Ignore the title. Also, if you would, please bypass the cringe-worthy pun of the tagline, “Parenthood is about to get a little hairier.” Because quite apart from those cutesy and…
We could all use a little more cash, and the best way to get people to open their wallets for you is to throw a really chic party and get them drunk. That may not have been the exact thought process behind A Very Wolfsonian Weekend of fundraising events to…
You’ve heard the arguments against America’s tragic prohibition of marijuana: how pot was only made illegal to protect the profits of corporate robber barons, how dangerous criminals are set free because the nation’s prisons are crowded with people arrested on reefer charges, how desperately ill citizens find respite in a…
It’s hip to be old THU 1/20 You’ve been watching Antiques Roadshow for years, and now it’s time to finally put that knowledge for spotting authenticity to use. Armed with your wallet and a keen eye for treasures, you’ll be prepared for the 43rd annual Original Miami Beach Antique Show…
Mooning at Vizcaya WED 1/26 Gaze at the full moon as James Deering did from the gardens of his winter residence in the early Twenties. Walking from the grand patio to the long garden path, you can imagine the setting as the perfect backdrop to a stylish Gatsby party with…
A nation’s tragedy in photos FRI 1/21 Between April and June of 1994, in the space of 100 days, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans, primarily Tutsis, were murdered by their Hutu countrymen while the global community did little more than wring its hands and offer platitudes. Troops were all airlifted out…
SAT 1/22 You do it in the car. You do it in the shower. And now you can do it in the library without getting into trouble. The Miami Children’s Chorus will lead a rousing sing-along today from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the West Kendall Regional Library, 10201…
THU 20 Teenagers get a bad rap. Angst-ridden and confused youngsters pull away from their parents, and they can often find themselves adrift in a malevolent world where alcohol, sex, and drugs are de rigueur. The next thing you know, your innocent little one has been labeled an “at-risk” student…
The death of a parent, especially the mother, is usually a particularly painful passage and one for which most people, however well meaning, can offer few meaningful words of solace. But in Shelagh Stephenson’s funny, moving The Memory of Water, now being performed at the Mosaic Theatre in Plantation, such…
The minor works of a genius are often more rewarding than the best that lesser mortals can bring. In the case of Paul Bunyan, the unclassifiable musical entertainment that had its South Florida premiere Saturday night at the Miami-Dade Auditorium, the rewards are actually double: This is the work of…
With its enticing characters and an engaging plot, Enchanted April lives up to its name. The tale begins in 1922 in dreary England, where a frumpy Lotty Wilton (Cary Anne Spear) finds herself dissatisfied with her tyrannical husband and her humdrum existence. She finds escape through an ad in the…
Merm and Me: The nomadic EDGE theatre, now encamped in Miami Lakes, presents Jim Tommaney’s autobiographical play about his complicated, confusing relationship with Broadway star Ethel Merman. The play, which tracks four friends of Merman in 1985 who conjure up her spirit one year after her death, is a stra…
Last month the world learned of the following Website message co-signed by Ansar al-Sunna, the Islamic Army of Iraq, and the Army of the Mujahideen: “Democracy is un-Islamic.” An earlier posted manifesto held that democracy amounted to a Greek practice of idolizing human beings. Such an awkward statement (even under…
The Gifts I Could Never Give You: In this show Bert Rodriguez shelves the “conceptual prankster” tag and wears his heart on his sleeve. You can’t help but share his lament. The work delves into the detritus of failed relationships, shifting perception from visual displays of marketing props, mannequins, neon…
The grim little green-walled apartment where Walter finds himself after his release has the look of a jail cell — with one apparent easement. What seems to be the only window in the place faces a school playground across the street. When Walter looks outside, he often sees kids running…
