NOW 24/7 Prometheus may have given fire to man, but living the high life, as a minimum-wage gopher at the Mutiny Hotel, set my dead-end life ablaze. A peanut farmer was prez, Barry White was king, and the Mutiny Club’s infamous eyepatched pirate logo in hand was sure-fire proof that…
SAT 8/14 Where’s Ricky? Can you find him on the beach, or is he hanging out with Cheech? Can you spot him near the coach, or toking madly on a roach? Football is what they’ll be playing when the Miami Dolphins host the Jacksonville Jaguars during preseason exhibition action on…
SAT 8/14 In the mood for some foot-stomping, hip-swaying, hand-clapping gospel music? The 1000 Voices of Praise, a concert intended to raise scholarship funds at Florida Memorial College, will get you moving. Award-winning Chicago-based recording artist Kim Stratton headlines. She will be joined by two well-known local acts: the Woods…
There is a phrase bandied about that other film industry — “gay for pay” — that means exactly what it says. The queer thing is, this switch-hitting work ethic obviously applies to the “straight” industry as well, since actors not infrequently launch their careers, or rev ’em up, by playing…
SAT 8/14 The last time Pandora Events threw an all-women party at Nerve Lounge, the club’s Rudolf Piper didn’t believe the promoter’s attendance expectations and ended up behind the bar pouring drinks as penance for his lack of faith. Not so tonight. Expect a fully staffed bar as the party…
Sheathed in a custom-tailored gray suit and sporting expensively barbered silver hair, Tom Cruise looks like an older, harder version of the self-absorbed L.A. sharpie he played sixteen years ago in Rain Man. But in Collateral, a frenetic Michael Mann thriller that runs up a Baghdad-level body count, Cruise’s character…
It would be nice to declare, “Fans of Mike Hodges, rejoice!” or some such thing at the arrival of the veteran director’s latest film — but alas, not this time. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead shares elements with some of Hodges’s previous work, including a familial revenge theme (from his…
Postura, brazeo, vueltas, taconeo, compas. What sounds like the latest additions to the menu of your favorite tapas restaurant are actually Spanish words that stand for some of the basics of flamenco dancing technique: posture, armwork, turns, and footwork. It’s a complex art consisting of dignified dancing, plaintive singing, and…
Iris Lynch, collector of exquisite and exotic ear apparel and server at Jimmy’s East-Side Diner, is now a filmmaker as well. Matt Gabriel, South Beach Ironworks Gym employee, just completed his first movie. Miami River bridge tender Allen Romeo’s vision, sure to be as deep and winding as the body…
Ricky’s NYC’s divine intervention NOW 24/7 The sticky haze of summer morphs thick Miami manes into huge, gargantuan monsters. But there is no need to panic. Chaotic coiffures can be tamed. All you need to do is remember two concepts and get yourself some industrial-strength hair goop. “Protein and moisture,”…
German soccer riles fans FRI 8/6 There is no end to soccer. Once one championship is won, a new one appears. National teams keep fans fixed on a four-year cycle that leads to the World Cup. In between, professional soccer leagues have soccer nuts painting their faces and screaming. Tonight…
Firemen blaze catwalk THU 8/5 You’re clubbing on South Beach with a free drink in each hand, and you’re surrounded by a passel of sweaty, shirtless firemen. Some kind of wonderful dream? No, you’re at State Nightclub (320 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach), celebrating the 2005 South Florida Firefighter’s Calendar. These…
Spotlight shines on talent SAT 8/7 Performance poet Rebecca “Butterfly” Vaughns can certainly be soft-spoken. But that’s not where her nickname comes from. It all started with a compliment a friend gave Vaughns on a dress she wore that was made with a butterfly-patterned fabric. Compliments soon turned to gifts:…
Americans can’t seem to agree on much these days, but all must allow that these are tense, restless times. War, terrorism, a divided electorate, and a widespread debate about the nation’s purpose are everyday subjects on television, in newspapers, and at the local java joint, yet few contemporary plays and…
Betty’s Summer Vacation: To playwright Christopher Durang, hell is psycho roommates screwing up your seaside holiday. That’s the freakish situation in Betty’s Summer Vacation, a comedy of menace that is receiving a first-rate staging from Miami’s Mad Cat Theatre Company. The tedious script, featuring rape, murder, and genital mutilation, is…
Though critics have been the witnesses, commentators, and archivists of modern art’s important achievements, they remain dubious figures who can be found “roaming through culture, looking for prey,” as aphorist Mason Cooley once said. Regardless of our take on critics’ motivations, they do serve a necessary purpose. Artists measure their…
All You Can Eat: The works here tend to blind with their glittery, luxe surfaces, but featured artists Sue Irion, Gavin Perry, and Mette Tommerup aren’t really engaged in an activation of surfaces in a traditional manner. Sporting glossy, protective coatings that function as barriers or prophylactics preventing infection, the…
THU 5 If we held a film festival, we wouldn’t group movies in the ordinary way: indie, foreign, porno. We’d do things a little differently. How about films in which staircases figure prominently? Gone with the Wind features a memorable moment when Rhett Butler sweeps Scarlett O’Hara off her feet…
Perhaps this exhibition at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood would be more aptly titled “Brave New World.” I kept thinking of soma, the addictive pleasure drug in Aldous Huxley’s dystopic narrative. The consumption referred to by curator Samantha Salzinger in “All You Can Eat” is that which produces…
“Hell is other people,” Jean Paul Sartre once opined. To Christopher Durang, hell is psycho roommates screwing up your seaside holiday. That’s the freakish situation in Betty’s Summer Vacation, Durang’s comedy of menace that is receiving a first-rate staging from Miami’s Mad Cat Theatre Company. Durang’s thin script has been…
Drawing Conclusions 2: Curated by Nina Arias, this show features the work of more than twenty locals, most from the Rocket Projects stable. Arias curated the first installment of “Drawing Conclusions” during the inaugural Art Basel, but quickly dismisses comparisons between the two versions. Still it’s difficult to disregard the…
Heaven Help Us! The Swingin’ New Rat Pack Musical: This toe-tapping world premiere about God sending the Rat Pack back to Vegas to help a suicidal lounge owner is stylishly presented, with the terrific cast belting out some great tunes — some 29 hits pop up in the show, ranging…
