Vaudeville entertainers have gone the way of the dinosaurs, the Polaroid instant camera, and America Online. But in the world of live theater, their influence is still felt by nostalgists who miss the variety, camaraderie, and nonthreatening slapstick of the vaudeville show. Proof: Of the 34 plays Neil Simon has…
If the original authors of the Bible were around today, in this tough publishing market, they could always design for Broadway as a fallback plan. The books are nothing if not theatrical — large-cast, challengingly choreographed, creatively set-designed, multi-act epics with resounding messages. It’s why their texts have inspired so…
In 1963, the Coconut Grove Playhouse staged a bawdy musical production, and organizers were worried about attracting theatergoers to their event. An intrepid publicist came up with a solution that resulted in crowds pouncing on the play like a sardine at a cat show. It also sowed the seeds for…
Ian Bagg: Meeting Presidents and Sucking Balls
Let’s face it: Even if you’re a champion sprinter on the race track, wouldn’t you pick up a little speed if zombies were out to eat your brains? Even the exercise-averse are likely to hightail it with the hungry undead on their tails. That’s the concept of Reed Street Production’s…
Years before Wynwood transformed into an artists’ haven, and decades before it became one of the most hipster-friendly places in the country, the warehouse-heavy neighborhood was known as Miami’s fashion district. Now, with more galleries, restaurants, and bars moving into the rapidly gentrifying space, Wynwood style is even more important.See…
For author Junot Díaz, it’s time to add yet another trophy to the mantle. The Dominican-American writer’s latest book, this year’s This Is How You Lose Her, was announced this morning as a finalist for the National Book Award.See also:- This Is How You Lose Her: Junot Diaz’s Oscar Wao…
In some ways, “Vote Right,” the video from New York City comedians Juan Bago and O, looks a lot like the last presidential debate. In the parody of Chief Keef’s “I Don’t Like,” the right-wing character spouts off about supporting his own corporation — err, his common people. The left…
Whence comes the boom? Here, here comes the boom. This and other great existential questions of our time are at last answered in Kevin James’s new mixed martial arts comedy, the appropriately titled Here Comes the Boom. Other questions may vault from the mind like so many lumps on a…
Ride a bike around South Beach, engage in ridiculous antics, possibly win a sweet prize — where do we sign up? This will be the mantra of every Miami bike enthusiast when they hear the details of the second annual Bike Hunt, a wacky scavenger hunt on wheels.Beached Miami and…
131 is a Wynwood artist whose real name you will never know that you know, and whose face you will never see. His work covers more warehouse walls than there are particles in a microbe. His chaotic explorations of subatomic energies through paint appear in solo outdoor pieces and in…
Look, we’re going to be honest with you: Circ X’s 10-year anniversary show last weekend wasn’t what you’d call a masterpiece. At three hours long, there were plenty of sketches and performances that didn’t entertain nearly as much as we’d have liked. Even with two intermissions, 180 minutes is a…
Back before Miami’s book fair, film festival, ballet, and symphony existed, Mary Luft arrived in Miami. It was the early ’70s, and she was a fresh-faced girl from Sioux City, Iowa. She attended the biggest cultural shindigs in town — the Coconut Grove Arts Festival and the infamous annual Halloween…
Growing up in Puerto Rico, Silvia Karman Cubiñá rarely had the opportunity to visit art galleries or museums. “The scene was very underground and out of reach to the mainstream,” she says. “It might not be inaccurate to say that what is out of reach is what you end up…
No, we aren’t talking about those spoiled twits on the intolerable Bravo series Gallery Girls. In fact, we’d much rather have seen these talented, ambitious fems who curate Miami’s art scene on the reality show. At least that way we would have learned something about art.See also:- Nina Johnson-Milewski Featured…
A small motorboat meandered through the Columbus Day Regatta, carrying just a driver, a cameraman, and a frail-looking 80-year-old man in an impeccable white suit. If, between swilling daiquiris and cannonballing into the sea, revelers on other boats noticed the strangely dressed octogenarian, they probably assumed he was just a…
The zombies are coming. Specifically, they’re invading the 305 in the form of the South Miami Zombie Crawl, the Lincoln Road Zombie Walk, the South Beach Zombie Dinner and Walk, the Run for Your Lives 5K and so on. (We’ve got a real epidemic on our hands here.)See also:- Zombie…
Ian Bagg has performed stand-up comedy for terminal cancer patients, for troops in Afghanistan, and for audiences in far-flung places such as South Africa, China, and Dubai. He has been interviewed by the History Channel for a special on the history of the joke, and he’s known to fly 100,000…
Cherry Pop was an icon of her time. She was a vivacious redhead, demure and doted on, the textbook definition of “glamour puss.”Literally. Cherry Pop was a fabulous feline who was once voted the “most pampered cat in the world.” And this coming November, she’ll be a star once again.This…
Despite the wacky charms of our childhood friends Slimer and Beetlejuice, real ghosts are no joke. And tracking ’em down with high tech equipment takes a special kind of courage. (Balls. It takes balls.)Enter Steve Gonsalves and Jason Hawes, two of the stars of the SyFy channel’s longest running spook…
When the Kardashians announced they were looking for a home in the Sunset Islands, DiLido Island, or North Bay Road, they didn’t exactly get a neighborly welcome. Residents of the high-end neighborhoods have sent the ladies packing, the Belle Isle Blog reports — all the way to North Miami Beach.See…
The weekend is over, and that sucks. You probably spent way too much, didn’t clean your apartment (again), and wasted at least half a day on a hangover. But if you’ve got a cliched case of the Mondays, buck up. There are lots of things to look forward to this…
