SAT 5/8 Boasting the title An American Salute, this concert would surely gain the approval of George Bush. But Democrats shouldn’t fear. The hat will not be passed for the Republicans amid the strains of a John Philip Sousa march. The Americans being saluted at this show are composers, creators…
FRI 5/7 The last time Fernanda Porto (right) performed in Miami, she wowed the crowd at the awards ceremony of the Brazilian Film Festival with an eclectic mix of bossa nova, samba, drum and bass, and for that extra-special something, Japanese taiko drummers. The crowd was dazzled and the raspberry-haired…
These days there is something ineluctably thrilling about a cavernous warehouse space converted to cultural use. In fact it’s hard to find anyone immune to this particular contagion. Perhaps it’s the residue of manufacturing activity, which serves as a romantic metaphor for cultural production in the 21st Century. Or maybe…
Thursday 5/6 Before there was Madonna, there was David Bowie, the true template for pop stars if there ever was one. Sure, Mick Jagger was the bad-boy-pouty-lipped-pretty-boy-devil, but Bowie was the mercurial space freak who morphed identities and crossed synth pop with disco and punk to create a netherworld of…
One thing few may mention about Mean Girls is that it could have been unrelentingly terrible. It isn’t — it’s actually pretty fabulous on its own terms — but consider: a rush-job comedy (hastily lensed a few months ago), constructed around a high-concept title with built-in ka-ching and endless potential…
Every once in a while, you encounter a person who seems to have been born under an urgent, righteous star — a person who is both a fiery activist lit with the passion of his convictions and a dramatic storyteller who naturally occupies a place in the public eye. When…
Pour a couple of old-fashioneds into the average golf historian, and it won’t be long until he gets misty-eyed over Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. Jones not only ruled golf in the 1920s, the fellow will tell you; he also epitomized the gentlemanly ideal of the old Scottish game, transplanted to…
Laws of Attraction is the kind of film you might mistake for “cute” or “charming” at first glance. Maybe you will open the paper and spot the ad with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore canoodling and think to yourself how nice it would be to see James Bond defrosting indie…
Wine and food. Food and wine. Whether you prefer eating or drinking, there will be a whole lot of it going on this weekend when the Ninth Annual Miami Wine & Food Festival and the Biltmore International Food & Wine Weekend compete for lovers of the good life. The Miami…
Thursday 4/29 Oh, to sing in a baritone. It’s a powerful thing, to be sure. You possess the ability to make audiences swoon with a range of rich, deep, mahogany tones while impressing all with your high notes. Added bonus: Everybody wonders what you have working beneath your belt. Tonight…
A drama unspools every day in Carol de Lynch’s back yard. This time a black rooster stalks a tiny kitten, recently kidnapped from the Little River streets by the pack of feline ruffians who rule the terrain. A rabble of onlookers — the cats, a hen, and a dog of…
NOW 24/7 Coconut Grove is not exactly Basra. But as ever-increasing numbers of cars compete for ever-shrinking numbers of metered parking spaces (can we say valet parking?), the Grove sometimes feels like something of a gentrified war zone. As the battle for a parking space heats up, all we huddled…
NOW 24/7 Photographer Rick Cruz looks at his favorite subject, the Florida Everglades, as if the marshland were an emergency room patient left to fend for herself while we watch. “With the Everglades we are witnessing one of nature’s most basic of survival instincts,” Cruz says. “She is maintaining a…
FRI 4/30 Kangaroo, squirrel, wild boar, alligator. British artist Edwina Ashton is inspired by the behaviors of all creatures, great and small. Whether she’s drawing them or shooting video footage of them, Ashton employs animal instinct, both hers and those of her subjects, to forge an absurd and disturbing body…
TUE 5/4 Only one man can spoof Prince as a basketball-playing, pancake-making fop; make milquetoast talk show host Wayne Brady seem insanely edgy (“White people love Wayne Brady because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X”); and single-handedly revive superfreak Rick James’s career with a plethora of punches and…
There’s an adage in the writing business: “Write what you know.” Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr., known as A.R., certainly took that advice to heart. After studying playwriting at Yale in the 1950s, Gurney set out on a writing career based almost exclusively on his upper-crust family background, the clubby Northeastern…
On a muggy Thursday night in the District, clusters of ragtag art urchins bummed cigarettes from swank passersby under the awnings of tony design and furniture shops. The youthful angels of nihilism shrugged their shoulders in sang-froid detachment as their flyers for art shows were casually tossed to the ground…
A Picasso: Picture this: Bearlike Pablo Picasso sits in a dark stone cellar amid stacks of paintings, staring intently at his beautiful female model, who happens to be a Nazi official. As the woman disrobes, Picasso sketches, and despite the dank, dark surroundings, you can feel the temperature rise. That’s…
Historias Recurrentes: For years Gustavo Acosta has untiringly pursued an imaginary space of architecture between the future and the past, nostalgia and satire. In his grand images, the viewer sees a monumental landscape with absolutely no human presence. It must be pretty weird to stand on a wide avenue filled…
Picture this: Bearlike, charismatic Pablo Picasso (Peter Michael Goetz) sits in a dark stone cellar amid stacks of paintings, staring intently at his beautiful female model, who happens to be a Nazi official (Lucie Arnaz). As the woman begins to disrobe, Picasso sketches furiously and despite the dank, dark surroundings,…
This just in: White people have a lot of secret racial prejudice. J.T. Rogers hammers home this theme in White People, now playing at the New Theatre in Coral Gables. The three-character show is more poetry than drama, a series of interlaced monologues that centers on deep-buried anger in white…
For years Gustavo Acosta has untiringly pursued an imaginary space of architecture between the future and the past, nostalgia and satire, nineteenth-century Friedrich Schinkel and twentieth-century Charles Jencks. Check out his show “Historias Recurrentes” at Praxis International Art. First we must understand the influence of architectural representation, starting with the…
