SAT 10/30 Those who didn’t get their fill of Cheney vs. Edwards will rejoice in the Absolute Fighting Championships, a bone-cracking good time where spandex-clad knuckle-draggers named after reptiles and nuclear weaponry enter the ring to maim each other for sport. This clash pits anything-goes eye-gougers and crotch-stompers in a…
SAVE Dade submerges itself SAT 10/30 For true queens, everyday life is a drag show. It can get tough to muster up the inspiration to outdo yourself when you get stuck in a Liza Minelli phase, and after a while, even the most diehard Marilyn impersonators get sick of whimpering…
SAT 10/30 As if the prospect of an open bar wasn’t enough to draw throngs of Magic City costumed freaks, the Kiwanis Halloween Party will host the lovable DJ Le Spam on the turntables. Our unofficial mayor will take the stage tonight, creating his unmistakable vibe as he spins funk…
THU 28 We all know one woman to whom we owe a great deal. The one who teaches algebra, volunteers at the rape crisis center, starts a community crime watch, and helps drive seniors to vote on Election Day. The one who seems to have more arms than an Indian…
There have been plenty of plays and films about boxing, but the intense mano-a-mano conflict of the sport makes it an enduring subject for drama. In the tradition of Golden Boy and Rocky comes the New Theatre’s latest project, Barrio Hollywood, a world premiere with considerable potential: it’s not only…
You’ve heard about Irish Alzheimer’s? That’s when you forget everything but the grudges. And that’s the kind of cute, deep-down affectionate humor at the heart of Late Nite Catechism. The one-nun show, starring Kathleen Stefano, has turned the Encore Room at the Coconut Grove Playhouse into a parochial school classroom,…
Amadeus: Peter Shaffer’s play about the life and death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a satisfying potboiler. John Felix is splendid as the villainous Antonio Salieri, a hard working but mediocre composer who seethes in jealousy and despair when Mozart effortlessly proves his musical genius. Director Richard Jay Simon ably…
After touring some national parks in the Southwest a few summers ago, I hatched a concept for an artificial park in which manmade materials would be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations. Tourists would travel great distances to ooh and aah over Astroturf prairies, to camp with their families…
De Ida y Vuelta: This show presents eleven artists of Cuban descent who traveled to and worked in Spain before settling in Miami. According to the curator, two themes differentiate the works: humor and the sheer diversity of themes. Yovani Bauta, Julio Antonio, and Arturo Rodriguez have in common their…
Brassbound skeptics may see the complex, provocative docudrama What the #$*! Do We Know!?, which poses the Big Questions of Life, as just another product of new-age self-absorption, an act of pompous navel-gazing that might best be confined to screenings at the local ashram. Certainly, these 108 minutes are singularly…
The Czech drama Zelary brings to mind Bertolt Brecht’s pointed observation that “war is like love; it always finds a way.” In this instance, war creates the atmosphere in which an unlikely love flourishes, then overwhelms that love. Only a fool would try to improve on Brecht, but after absorbing…
Very few people can claim a life as varied as that of the legendary “Fight Doctor,” Ferdie Pacheco. Displaying more moves than a juggling octopus, the polifacetic Pacheco has experienced success as a cartoonist, pharmacist, medical doctor, and corner man to twelve world champs, including Muhammad Ali. He went on…
It took Kitty Kelley four years, four sets of lawyers, and nearly a thousand interviews to produce The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty. She watched every word, pored over every document, and had everything quadruple-checked before she dared send her 705 pages off to the publishers. She…
Adopt-a-thon brings pooches to the people SAT 10/23 Some pooches are so savvy, their people need to spell. “Honey, we need some T-R-E-A-T-S for the D-O-G.” Some canines do double-duty as vacuum cleaners, dutifully lapping up specks of food the instant they hit the floor. Princess-y pups allow their humans…
Swamp critters on display SAT 10/23 Betrayed and bedeviled, the indigenous people of this land have nonetheless survived and even thrived. Take the Seminoles. A series of wars in the Nineteenth Century penned the tribe in the middle of the vast swamp known as the Everglades. Roughly 150 years later,…
Funky fresh dressed SAT 10/23 Wannabe models, call your plastic surgeons and go for that boob/pectoral job. Ignore anyone who says you’re too young for Botox, and if you don’t already have one, develop an eating disorder. It’ll all be worth it if yours is one of the two lucky…
Performance art by America’s multimediamatrix SAT 10/23 Never short of amazing, performance artist Laurie Anderson flaunted a knack for experimenting with gravity early on, freezing unsuspecting pedestrians in awe. As a member of New York’s downtown art scene in the Seventies, Anderson strapped on a pair of ice skates and…
THU 21 Ladies and gents, we introduce the Whack-a-Mole of the dance world — Dance Dance Revolution. The DDR craze hit Japan before spreading to the youth of America, among whom it’s caught on like the common cold. DDR is an interactive video game. You hit four large buttons with…
In 278 BC, Qu Yuan, the peaceable prime minister of the Chinese Chu empire, found himself destitute, wandering the outskirts of his former homeland, his once respectable empire crushed underfoot by the remorseless warmonger King Huai. Learning that his homeland was occupied by warriors, Qu Yuan composed the poem Li…
THU 14 Most often, the Design District’s second Thursday gallery open house night is all about gazing longingly at art you can’t possibly afford and downing libations at artistic haunts. Amnesty International and Arte del Barrio plan to bring a bit of gravity to this traditional evening of whimsy by…
There was a time when film festivals were the preserve of places like Cannes, premiering and honoring the top films of the season while adding a dollop of prestige in the process. Not anymore. With the birth of the indie film movement in the 1970s, and the emergence of foreign…
Shop for a cancer cure THU 10/14 Forget baseball. That sport is limited to a specific season, when we gorge on peanuts, Cracker Jack, and the sight of steroid-enhanced men running around in tight pants, smacking balls with wooden clubs. America’s favorite pastime has got to be shopping. There’s no…
