thursday september 10 The Bass Museum (2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach) reopens its doors after a six-week hiatus for renovations with the exhibition Crosscurrents: Contemporary Painting from Panama, 1968-1998. On display are works by fourteen Panamanian artists, including Brooke Alfaro, Isabel de Obaldia, Alfredo Sinclair, David Solis, and Haydee Victoria…
The opening credits of Simon Birch assert that it was “suggested” by John Irving’s popular 1989 novel A Prayer for Owen Meany. Actually, it’s a thin but relatively faithful adaptation of the first few chapters of Irving’s comic ramble through the nature of religious faith, predestination, and heroism. Screenwriter Mark…
Matt Damon, the blond matinee idol, has apparently become Hollywood’s idea of a deep thinker. After playing a math whiz in last year’s Good Will Hunting, he has now been reinvented as a poker genius in John Dahl’s Rounders. So anybody who had doubts about the second coming of Albert…
Men don’t get it. Moms don’t get it. Sometimes even your roommate or best friend doesn’t get it. But if you bray and carp and vent long enough, someone will listen, someone will begin to understand the precious particulars of a young woman’s sexuality. Whether they’re interested or not. That’s…
Of all the people you might encounter in a solo drama, John Hinckley is not likely to be anyone’s first choice. Chances are the would-be Reagan assassin won’t be serving tea in the cozy manner of Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst or experiencing high-volume sexual liberation along the…
thursday september 3 Bristol, England’s trip-hoppers Massive Attack plug their latest album, the mesmerizing Mezzanine, tonight at 8:00 at the Cameo Theatre, 1445 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Opening act is DJ Lewis Parker, who was the first act Massive Attack signed to its new Melankolic label (see “Music,” page 81)…
“Unlike other parks, which are wonderful places to go and recreate, this is a place to go and contemplate. It’s more for education, preservation, and serenity than it is a place to throw a Frisbee — but if you wanted to throw a Frisbee, you could!” So says Terry Coulliette…
You look in any direction and encounter a stillness, a quiet placidity that makes vistas in this chunk of Florida appear much like photographs, beautiful and moving ones. In fact, you are looking at a drenched hotbed of fertility. Bugs and birds, snakes and gators, flowers and weeds. “This place…
Shane, the teenage hero of Mark Christopher’s 54, wears the petulant expression of a Raphaelite cherub, and he comes complete with a halo of thick blond hair. He’s played by a pretty newcomer with the exotic name Ryan Phillippe, but there’s nothing exotic about the voice that comes out of…
On the continuum of tragic black musicians, Frankie Lymon can’t hold a votive candle to, say, Charlie Parker or Billie Holiday. But now, like that pair, the late doo-wopper has his own movie — or, rather, he has his own space in a movie that, for better or worse, is…
Creating theater frequently involves assembling miracles in small spaces. Extremely small spaces, if you happen to be the Florida Playwrights’ Theatre (FPT), which is mounting its Fifth Annual Shakespeare Festival in its postage-stamp Hollywood storefront venue. Squeezing Hamlet and The Tempest — Shakespeare’s most popular play and his most magical…
Take a peek inside the gleaming silver bridge tender’s house plunked on a Miami Beach sidewalk along Washington Avenue, right outside the Wolfsonian-FIU, and what you see may confuse you. Inside is artist Gareth James’s installation called The Department of Revolutionary, Everlasting Material, made with a fragile material: white paper…
Looking for a new Luke Skywalker with Blast Shield Helmet Star Wars action figure? Maybe that rare 1955 Roberto Clemente rookie card? How about a 1953 placard advertising Coca-Cola? Then poke around the event that bills itself as South Florida’s Largest Collectibles Show. An alternative to the tiny hotel conference…
thursday august 27 The kings of flamenco cool, the Spanish group Ketama, led the Eighties nuevo flamenco movement with their complex mix of Gypsy rhythms, rock, and underground attitude. That Ketama has left those cutting-edge days behind is evident on their latest release, Konfusion, which is composed of mellow blues…
In the bluish-green depths of the ocean, we see the deck of a sunken ship. Out of the murk, two pinpoints of light approach — humans, lured to the wreck by irresistible curiosity. It’s the beginning of a James Cameron movie, but it’s not that James Cameron movie. It’s the…
“That is known as the lowest point in my life, because I was basically a human barbell,” says Next Stop Wonderland star Hope Davis, referring to her role in the 1995 remake of Kiss of Death, in which she played Nicolas Cage’s girlfriend. “Big, big hair and really cheesy clothes,”…
The idea of destiny, especially the notion that two people are fated to meet and fall in love, is a load of crap, but a surprising number of people buy it. Probably for that reason it has proven to be a fairly popular component in movie romances, City of Angels…
There’s a moose in the guest bedroom in Michael McKeever’s new comedy 37 Postcards. The animal never makes an appearance onstage (a taxidermist crossed its path long before the play begins), but it does take part in the events that unfold when Avery Sutton, a young man newly returned from…
thursday august 20 Whew! The comedic play Making Porn gives us not just one naked man but three — and one of them is hunky gay porn star Ryan Idol! If that’s not enough to bring in the big audiences, there’s the script, which provides plenty of laughs; and the…
Every artist has a theory about the purpose of art. Some believe it should exist solely in the realm of aesthetics. Others believe it should be used as a tool to educate as well. Eric Hilligoss falls into the second group, that of artists who use their work to convey…
If you were to turn Jim Tommaney upside down, chances are a play would fall out of his head. The prolific South Beach multihypenate — who has written, produced, directed, and acted in “five or six” of his own plays since opening EDGE/Theatre in early 1995 — gives birth to…
As the lights came up after a screening of the new Neil LaBute movie Your Friends & Neighbors, a colleague next to me growled disapprovingly, “That was a nasty movie.” For LaBute — whose divisive debut film In the Company of Men (1997) is probably the worst date movie ever…
