Wednesday July 16 Patty cakes, this ain’t. Although that doesn’t sound bad as a name for a female mud wrestler. Each Wednesday buxom babes grapple in a mud pit on the back stage of Churchill’s (5501 NE 2nd Ave.). What makes this battle different is that the girls are real…
One thing you have to say about the New Theatre: It’s not afraid to take on gigantic plays. Rafael De Acha’s troupe has assayed such monsters as Angels in America, Electra, and Hamlet in recent seasons. Now the New brings two more Shakespeares, termed “The Shakespeare Project,” running all summer…
There is one truly striking shock in the new made-in-Hong-Kong-by-Thai-directors horror flick The Eye, but unfortunately, directors Danny and Oxide Pang saved the best for first. If the film’s opening moments don’t grab you, nothing will; the Pang Brothers cut their teeth on commercials, and the first few minutes play…
What is it with women, anyway? They want to be safe walking the streets at night; they want to be able to trust strangers; they want the world to be beautiful, free, and wild. Are they nuts? Before you click SEND with the hate-mail (or, worse, with the “You said…
An Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film and winner of five Golden Lola Awards (the German Oscars), Nowhere in Africa recounts the true story of a Jewish family who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and found refuge in Kenya. Although beautifully shot and acted, the film is hampered by…
It’s fitting that the final play of Teatro Abanico’s 2002-2003 season is about endings. El Celador del Desierto (The Guardian of the Desert), an original work by Cuban composer and writer Ernesto Garcia, is a meditation about what can happen to man when he loses everything. In a world that…
Lighting up inside your own home in fabulous smoke-free Florida is still legal, but be forewarned: It’s only a matter of time. Public puffing on cancer sticks indoors has already been banned. Who knows what’ll be next? Thank goodness for Independence (ha!) Day, when flashy fireworks exhibitions offer one of…
Saturday July 5 Fads reflect society. In the 1980s the Rubik’s Cube signaled the need in Americans to resolve the mind-fuck of the Reagan years. Its predecessor, the pet rock, spoke of society’s love of nature and real estate. As with the recent Furby fetish, roasting a bird with a…
Monday July 7 Bump. Set. Kill! If those words get your heart racing, then you’ll be pumped to hear about the Miami-Dade College Shark Girls Volleyball Camp, going on through Friday, July 11, and run by MDC volleyball head coach Ilida Medero. Unfamiliar with her credentials? She and her Lady…
Wednesday July 9 School’s out. Yee haw! If kids aren’t avidly studying to retake their FCAT or getting a taste of the real world by working at a full-time job (like Mom and Dad!), what’s to keep them from knocking over convenience stores during the dog days of summer? The…
Saturday July 5 State support for the arts may be waning, but Altoids patronage remains — yes, folks — curiously strong. The fifth annual exhibition of additions to the Altoids “Curiously Strong Collection” comes to ArtCenter/South Florida (800 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach) with an opening reception tonight from 8:00 to…
Thursday July 3 Singer Oleta Adams’s career first got a boost in 1989 when she sang background on British duo Tears for Fears’ megahit album The Seeds of Love. With a powerful voice trained in a church choir in Yakima, Washington, she went on to splendidly transcend the Eighties and…
Thursday July 3 Fast, short, and piercing are a few ways to describe the songs of Japanese noise rock trio Melt Banana. The famed eleven-year-old band can often sound just like a hyperactive child of the same age throwing a mini tantrum. Luckily Banana fans won’t be having any such…
Friday June 27 Miami does have a history. And in local playwright and director Sandra Riley’s Mariah Brown, the city’s past is as magical as its present. Starring Laverne Lewis, the solo drama tells the true story of the Bahamian-born Brown, who immigrated to Key West in 1885 and soon…
In South Florida summer shows, like summer clothes, tend toward lightweight informality. So it’s not surprising that the Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs opted to present The Affections of May, a casual comedy that’s as unpretentious as a seersucker suit and just as traditional. Canadian playwright Norm Foster’s well-structured,…
A regular feature of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival, which is now in its eighteenth year, Miami-Dade Community College’s Prometeo continues to show its aptitude for children’s theater. This year’s original Spanish-language production of Matias y el Aviador, written by Cuban playwright Felix Lizarraga, even surpasses last year’s version of…
Rocket Projects is the latest effort by Nina Arias, proprietress of the former LaLush Gallery in Hollywood (R.I.P.) and curator of “Drawing Conclusions,” arguably the most successful independent show running opposite Art Basel Miami Beach last year. Her partner is Nick Cindric, a long-time art dealer hailing from Santa Fe…
I purposely avoided reading anything about Capturing the Friedmans till seeing the film, which has been no easy task. Andrew Jarecki’s documentary, about a Great Neck, New York family torn asunder in the late 1980s by allegations of kiddie-porn possession and the horrific sexual abuse of numerous children, has been…
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and it’s all PETA’s fault. Oh, we humored those wacky vegan extremists when they threw paint at rich bitches in hideously overpriced fur coats. We laughed when they’d come on conservative talk radio shows every Thanksgiving to get mocked for…
Once in a while a film comes along that is as sound, smart, sweet, and significant as can be, and Whale Rider is such a film. Fault the project on various counts if you like (I’ll try), but ultimately the tale is beyond reproach, a bane to cynics and a…
The egg, the ant, and the swan. Not a trio of kooky characters in a children’s story but chairs, curvy classics of modern design fabricated in the 1950s by trailblazing Danish designer/architect Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971). The self-described “perfectionist minimalist” was also a “nature-loving botanist.” Inspired by his environment, he produced…
Friday, June 27, at 8:00. Admission is free. Call 305-448-9677.
