NOW 24/7 Croaking in a public place. Can there be anything more annoying (or mortifying)? With a poverty level highest in the nation, refugees periodically washing up on our shores, traffic congestion and road rage increasing on a daily basis, life in Miami is stressful enough without having to think…
WED 3/24 Reschedule your appointments. Forward your calls to voice mail. Call in sick. It’s Wednesday and the Florida Marlins Spring Training Camp is in full swing. What better reason, especially after the World Series championship, to take the day off and see for yourself what to look forward to…
MON 3/22 Partnership Dance, now there’s a concept. Could that refer to a couple dancing together in the old-fashioned way or just a cynical business venture? Whatever it is, promoting it is the mission of a group that calls itself Miami Dance Machine. In the ambitious show Baile on the…
THU 3/18 It’s a diaspora out there, as in the spread of Asians from the Old World to the New. Several North and South American artists of Asian descent will investigate their cultural roots within a Western context in the Tigertail Asian Diaspora of the Americas. Dancer Mabel Dai Chee…
Thursday 3/18 We know from his criticism that art collector and developer Martin Margulies doesn’t support plans for the Miami Art Museum to build a new structure at Bicentennial Park. Last year the art-loving Margulies began hosting regular art discussions with invited guests to address issues regarding museum building. Today…
Sometimes life really does imitate art. In a parallel universe, the New Theatre’s artistic director, Rafael de Acha, could be a world-famous Hollywood studio chief, renowned for his skill at ferreting out new works of genius. In our own less-judicious universe, de Acha isn’t well-known outside of South Florida. But…
Gay marriage is at the top of the news these days, so the Trap Door Theatre’s decision to produce David Mamet’s bitter comedy Boston Marriage could not be more timely. Mamet’s tale is a faux-Victorian intrigue about two nineteenth-century lesbians whose live-in relationship is considered by society to be platonic…
Blind Date: Reviewed in this issue. Through April 4. New Theatre, 4120 Laguna St., Coral Gables. 305-443-5909. Boston Marriage: Reviewed in this issue. Through March 20. Trap Door Theatre at the Black Box Theatre, Miami Dade College North Campus, Building #5, 11380 NW 27th Ave. 305-237-1438. The Bris, the Bar-Mitzvah,…
Zaha Hadid is arguably the hottest living architect. After graduating from the American University in Beirut in 1971, the Iraqi-born Hadid moved to London to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). She was awarded a Diploma Prize in 1977 and became a member of the Office for…
Enrique Campuzano: During a moment of identity crisis, modern art created “appropriation,” the depiction of a well-known image in a different visual context — as distinguished from outright plagiarism. This is what Enrique Campuzano does with one of the giants of art history: Diego Velazquez. He’s not the first to…
For the record, this article is NOT about Andy Warhol. I repeat: Neither Andy Warhol nor his “films” will be featured in the following story. Rather, this article is all about the filmmaker Paul Morrissey. Never mind that Andy Warhol’s name appears in large bold type all over and preceding…
Maybe the most amazing thing about the big-screen version of Starsky & Hutch is how much smaller it feels than its predecessor, the William Blinn-created, Aaron Spelling-produced cop series that ran on ABC from 1975 to 1979. Everything about this cineplex variation feels rinky-dink, like some extended variety-show skit that…
It was not surprising that Jonathan Schwartz would have an unusual life. With sophisticated songwriter Arthur Schwartz (“That’s Entertainment”) for a dad and fair-haired soprano Kay Carrington for a mom, how could it be anything but? Growing up in Beverly Hills during the height of World War II among luminaries…
The luck of the Irish gets stuffed into a multicultural empanada every time St. Patrick’s Day arrives in Miami. Cheap green beer specials always bring everybody to drink. In this town that means you’re bound to find a St. Patrick’s party where you hear just about every accent in the…
SUN 3/14 The Calle Ocho Festival has een described as the hottest street fair in America. With a mix of Latin music legends, hoochie-coochie starlets, and up-and-coming acts, the party gets beamed via Spanish television networks all over the world. Despite its grand scale, the event sneaks up on us…
SAT 3/13 During its 52 runnings, the Florida Derby, taking off today at Gulfstream Park (901 S. Federal Hwy., Hallandale), has served as a prescient precursor to the more prestigious Kentucky Derby, with a handful of horses winning both races, notably Spectacular Bid (1979), Swale (1984), Unbridled (1990), Thunder Gulch…
FRI 3/12 A labyrinth of love and passion. The choice between exile and conformity. In the end it’s the human spirit that takes flight in Milan Kundera’s novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Cuban expat Marianela Boan premieres The Unbearable Lightness, her latest dance work based on Kundera’s classic. Boan…
FRI 3/12 If Morrissey’s call to hang the DJ is carried out tonight, then his onetime Smiths bandmates Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce may be seen dangling from a gibbet. Thankfully the bassist and drummer for the legendary Manchester quartet don’t take Mozzer very seriously. Still why is the duo…
Thursday 3/11 With an army of top DJs from around the world, a bevy of cool places in which to party, and a zillion buff men in tight-fitting party wear, the Winter Party is set to rock gay Miami once again. The kickoff bash features DJs Marc Scott, Twisted Dee,…
At its best, the Winter Music Conference is a sprawling six-day party in the gentle Miami winter with 10,000 of your closest friends and the greatest DJs in the world, all found on a two-mile stretch of sandy beach. At its worst, WMC is a sprawling, disorganized, and overpriced mass…
At first glance Hidalgo seems to be nothing more than an old-fashioned, flat-footed adventure epic plunked down on a vast stretch of desert and amply furnished with the usual Hollywood conventions — a strong, silent cowboy on horseback, a couple of villains with nasty black mustaches, a killer sandstorm, and…
Tall, slim, with long dark hair and a beard, he roamed around Old Havana in the 1950s. Dressed in black, a cape fluttering behind his dignified stride, he wrote and recited poetry and always carried flowers, which he’d present to women he saw on the streets. Clearly cultured and more…
