FRI 4/9 Riddled with cost overruns and delays, the new Miami Performing Arts Center is far from finished and already it has been reported that the acoustics will suck. Set to open in 2006, 16 months behind schedule, the onetime $254 million structure has, thanks to shoddy workmanship and the…
SAT 4/10 Tequesta Indians, a bridge made of natural limestone, an old starch mill, an oak hammock, and settlers from Elmira, New York: all part of the past and present of Arch Creek Park, a 9.4-acre green space in North Miami dedicated in 1982 after decades of preservation efforts. Today…
FRI 4/9 The other side: You know, that mysterious plane where our dearly departed depart to and even the folks we don’t care for eventually end up. Where is it exactly? What’s it like? How do you get there? Well, everyone knows the answer to that last question, and it…
As a professional wrestler, the Rock faced down giants like Hulk Hogan, the Undertaker, and the seven-foot-four Big Show. As an actor, in a relatively short period of time, he’s held his own onscreen with Oscar-nominated Michael Clarke Duncan and Oscar winner Christopher Walken (whom he describes as “geniusly insane”)…
Thursday 4/8 Why don’t we get drunk and screw? The folks who are organizing National Alcohol Screening Day today can give you several sobering answers to that eternal question. The day is part of Alcohol Awareness Month, a time when drinkers are asked to consider their alcoholic intake and the…
She’s a premed farm girl intent on administering to the world’s suffering children. He’s a car-racing Danish prince looking to shed the burdens of royal duty. They’re both in America’s heartland, where they share a chem lab, an employer, and a penchant for driving fast. What, pray tell, is going…
DMX fans expecting the next installment of Exit Wounds or Cradle 2 the Grave may be in for a shock when they sit down to watch his latest cinematic outing, Never Die Alone. For one thing, the movie opens with their hero lying dead in a coffin, and it’s no…
Dancers work on their craft around the clock, 24-7. Whether it’s rehearsing for concerts or practicing technique, their minds and bodies are continuously striving for perfection. Be it ballet or hip-hop, movement to dancers is like breathing. They can’t live without it. It would be difficult to walk away from…
As of today, after dozens of national teleconferences and numerous in-house meetings, the secrets of newspapering can be revealed. Never before has the public been exposed to how journalism really works, but there’s no time like the present (even though “present” means in the future and the correct word –…
MON 4/5 Spring is here and a young or old Jew’s fancy turns to matzo balls. Tonight marks the first night of Passover, the 8-day observance celebrating the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago during the reign of the Pharaoh Ramses II. Matzo ball…
NOW 24/7 After around 3:30 p.m. they start streaming in. Carrying backpacks full of homework, or wearing uniforms from minimum wage jobs, the teenagers who work out at the 27th Avenue Boxing Center come in every day with determination. Inside there is no hype, no parents or teachers hounding them,…
THU 4/1 Leave it to poet T.S. Eliot to dub April “the cruelest month” in his monumental 1922 work “The Waste Land.” And then 74 years later, leave it to some jokers at the Academy of American Poets to designate April as National Poetry Month. Ha, ha! Did they think…
If the traditional Broadway musical is your cup of tea, your cup runneth over with Fiddler on the Roof, now at the Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables. The beloved, well-known classic about a tradition-bound Jewish community caught up in the turbulent changes of prerevolutionary Russia is a huge undertaking, but…
This satire on life in America’s heartland may be suggestive of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, but it’s a sure bet its authors weren’t thinking of the poet when they created it. Greater Tuna began in 1982 as an impromptu party skit but ended up being one of the most…
Blind Date: Last year the New Theatre scored an incredible coup when it commissioned Nilo Cruz’s surprise Pulitzer winner Anna in the Tropics. This year lightning may have struck a second time as the New Theatre has delivered another masterpiece of a play. Mario Diament’s stunning, brilliant world premiere tracks…
Willie Keddell is an artist who tills the fields of perception. The urban furrows of marginality are his seedbed of imagination. Those who have encountered his stereoscopic (3-D) works in a gallery setting have perhaps found themselves experiencing an eerie sense of déjà vu, of recognizing a slice of desolate…
New Paintings: Emilio Perez’s lush, eye-popping new work conveys a lyrical fervor that seems to echo the big-wave surfer’s rush as he drops into an overhead tube. Perez romps adroitly across vibrant, churning swirls of chaos and serenity in a world all his own. This is clean, wicked stuff you…
FRI 4/2 As conductor, founder, and life president of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the most recorded chamber orchestra in the universe, Sir Neville Marriner has become one of the most familiar living figures in classical music. Radio stations all over the globe broadcast performances by the…
Thursday 4/1 Everybody has a story, and every story has several sides. If you don’t believe that, you will after seeing Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s critically acclaimed 1950 film Rashomon. It’s twelfth-century Japan and a crime has occurred in a forest: A woman is raped and her husband killed. What…
Poet Louise Bogan writes, “True revolutions in Art restore more than they destroy.” The same could be said for the theater of ideas. Thomas Gibbons’s most recent stage examination of the great American race divide, Permanent Collection, promises to resuscitate audiences who have become catatonically content with theater whose fiction…
Lionel Goldstein’s Halpern & Johnson, now onstage at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, is the story of two men brought together by the death of a woman who was central to both their lives. Despite an engaging premise, Goldstein’s adaptation of his own 1983 HBO teleplay Mr. Halpern & Mr. Johnson…
Blind Date: Last year the New Theatre scored an incredible coup when it commissioned Nilo Cruz’s surprise Pulitzer winner Anna in the Tropics. This year lightning may have struck a second time as the New Theatre has delivered another masterpiece of a play. Mario Diament’s stunning, brilliant world premiere tracks…
