Florida Artists Series: R.F. Buckley and Clive King: FIU visual arts faculty members Buckley and King exhibit way too many artworks in a small museum. Overhung inevitably leads to overworked. In the case of Buckley, despite a few serendipitous still life elements, the forged and welded aluminum doesn’t reward the…
Fit To Be Tied: Tormented Arloc hates his promiscuous mother and falls for an “angel” in a local dramatic production. Long, somewhat aimless, and without conjuring any discernible interest, Nicky Silver’s play needs about three more drafts and some quality actors before it will be even remotely watchable. — Dan…
Winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Maria Full of Grace is an uncomfortably realistic look at a seventeen-year-old Colombian woman who, desperate for a job, agrees to swallow capsules of heroin and transport them to New York. Although a work of fiction, the film…
If you’re wondering how Hollywood could possibly adapt Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, a collection of similarly themed short stories bound together by the slenderest of common threads, the answer is that it didn’t. The credits for I, Robot read “suggested by Isaac Asimov’s book,” but the canny sci-fi fan will…
Nearly one-third of the way into Ian Smith’s relentless thriller The Blackbird Papers, protagonist Sterling Bledsoe, an FBI special agent/anatomy teacher, watches silently as New Hampshire’s chief medical examiner leads a meticulous autopsy on a Nobel Prize-winning Dartmouth College professor who has been brutally murdered, a racial epithet carved into…
THU 22 What would it be like to compare your interpretation of a screenplay with that of its writer or director? With its new Scriptures script presentation night, the Miami Beach Cinematheque (512 Española Way) allows fervent movie buffs and aspiring filmmakers the chance to “see” a movie before it’s…
Sammy Davis, Jr., Henry Kissinger, Shirley Chisholm, John Cage, Luis Tiant, and even Patty Hearst each are overshadowed when it comes to historical relevance in Miami by Crockett and Tubbs, those archetypal Miami Vice cops who branded our city as the sexiest, fastest, and most dangerously chic place to be…
Forty’s something for Flipper What becomes a legend most? When you hit midlife without a crisis and you are still capable of leaping through hoops and turning somersaults with class. Miami’s original TV darling, Flipper, hit the big four-OH this year and you wouldn’t know it to look at him…
Phillies, Schmillies, it’s anybody’s game Welcome to the second half — same game, higher stakes. The playoff race heats up tonight as the Marlins take on the Phillies. Some interesting tidbits about those Phillies: They have lost 10 straight games at Pro Player, dating back to April 2003 (pre-Jack McKeon!)…
Clothes Call Trendoids, hold onto your Prada socks. The next big fashion thing could be showing his or her work at Gen Art Styles Miami ’04. The national arts organization devoted to highlighting young talent will present the creations of five designers from Canada, Great Britain, and the U.S. who…
Mantra scopes the scene for stars Despite South Florida’s continuous influx of talented immigrants from South America and the Caribbean, Miami’s reputation on the world music scene is about as substantial as the breakfast menu at the International House of Pancakes. Our city’s musical exports are all too often flat…
It’s charming. It’s hilarious. It is perhaps the most beautifully crafted, lovingly rendered portrait of extreme geekitude ever to grace the screen. It’s Napoleon Dynamite — the first feature film from 24-year-old Brigham Young University student Jared Hess — and, if there is any justice, it’s going to be huge…
If you’ve seen a movie at a Landmark theater in the past year or so, you’ve probably enjoyed the trailer for Shaolin Soccer. Over a lilting Asian flute that morphs into pounding percussion, airborne soccer players execute kung fu moves that send the ball blazing across the field (or, in…
Solo performer Tim Miller knows a little something about being in the middle of a raging storm. In the early 1990s, Miller (along with artists Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and John Fleck) had his National Endowment for the Arts fellowship revoked on the basis of obscenity, thanks to the racy…
Former Miami Heat all-star player Alonzo Mourning has proven that top-tier NBA stars are not all self-centered, money-hungry, bling-headed egoists. Mourning breaks the bad-boy mold with a charitable heart and a mission to do well in the community. Showing moxie with a courageous battle against focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a rare…
THU 7/15 Outside OLA (Of Latin America) on a recent Thursday evening, flashing squad car lights made chef Douglas Rodriguez’s pan-Latin restaurant look like a riot site. Was the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit back in town? Was Paris Hilton taking her clothes off — again? Actually the…
FRI 7/16 So you wanna learn a drop-step post move that’s money in the bank? Or a nifty crossover dribble to keep your man off balance? Or a sweet stroke from downtown? Well, if you wanna be the best you gotta learn from the best, someone like Alonzo Mourning for…
SAT 7/17 The old Ministry anthem “Everyday is Halloween” says it all for an urban industrialist or nostalgic Goth. Oh, the joy of suburban angst. Ah, the fierceness of donning black trenchcoats in the summer swelter. In Miami the Kitchen Club, a regular gathering of fun-loving weirdoes, has been keeping…
THU 7/15 Every 4 years during a presidential election season, some joker comes forward to pledge his candidacy for the highest office in the land. Persistent comedian Pat Paulsen never let his optimism flag year after year as he languished at the bottom of the pack. Al Franken fantasized about…
Whew! Summer is here with a vengeance, a fierce season that is, in some ways, a little like winter up north. Most everyone starts spending more time indoors and plotting how to minimize the time spent walking in full sunlight between car and destination, while the spare room or the…
The EDGE Theatre’s self-appointed mission is to “find new playwrights and produce the neglected works” of well-known writers. That this charge knowingly does not lend itself to works with tremendous commercial appeal is admirable. However, that same mantra becomes troublesome when long and dreadful pieces like Nicky Silver’s Fit to…
Josephine’s Bakery: A small bakery in France is given a rambunctious welcome by two overtly gay proprietors of the establishment and an orchestra of misfits. By mistakenly attempting to be a topical, biting black comedy instead of taking solace in what it really is — a rowdy, raucous farce –…
