SAT 1/24 In Frank Capra’s 1937 classic, Lost Horizon, our handsome protagonist Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) is haunted by a strange feeling of déjà vu while lost in the Himalayan utopia, Shangri-La. “I sense I’ve been here before,” he tells the beautiful doe-eyed Sondra (Jane Wyatt). “Everything is somehow familiar.”…
SAT 1/24 Would you buy a ticket to watch a man coax 1700 horses into submission while the steeds haul 12,000 pounds of steel and fling their load 25 feet into the air? Multiply the spectacle by about a dozen and you’ve got an event that’s something close to this…
SUN 1/25 Fine art museums are not child-friendly. Curious little hands and clumsy little feet have no place near million-dollar canvases. Not to mention the tendency of 20th-century art to be shocking, if not completely vulgar or prurient — which is a shame because many modern artists derived inspiration from…
THU 1/22 You’re intellectual, caring, and humorous. You must be a monkey. In the lunar calendar of Chinese astrology, that is. Yes, it’s Chinese New Year and you guessed it: The year of the monkey is upon us. We don’t recommend eating a bushel of bananas to celebrate. Instead head…
FRI 1/23 Twenty years after breaking up eclectic rock trio The Police, Sting is hotter than ever. Credit his new album Sacred Love, where his delicate exchange with Mary J. Blige almost allows people to forget other unfortunate duets, e.g. backing up P. Diddy. Also credit Broken Music, his autobiography…
Thursday 1/22 Ahh, the media, never tiring of their incessant navel-gazing. What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? Who the hell cares anyway? Well, some people do and they’ll be the ones attending this evening’s symposium, titled Managing Perceptions: Media, Propaganda, and the War on Terrorism, at…
When aspiring independent filmmaker Justin Routt calls you up asking for help on his movie — free help, that is — don’t think that just because the industry outsider has no money, connections, or prior experience in moviemaking, he’ll be easily deterred. On the contrary. Routt has somehow got it…
Does anyone know more about South Florida history than Paul George? Now we’ll finally find out for sure. Recognized for the numerous tours he’s conducted over the past twenty years in or around places like the Miami City Cemetery, the Miami River, Hollywood, Coral Gables, Stiltsville, and Morningside, the local…
At 2:00 my telephone rings. “Hello Juan, this is Sandra Bernhard,” a clear, enunciated voice says in rapid staccato. “I’m supposed to call you in a couple of hours, but I overbooked myself with interviews. Can we talk now?” My eyes roll. “That’s just so typical of you,” I tease…
NOW 24/7 In a world where celebrity sells, having your likeness reproduced in the form of a bobblehead doll may very well be the highest measure of an athlete’s worth. Whether it’s through raw athleticism or magnetic theatricality, a bobblehead doll means you are a somebody in your respective arena…
SAT 1/17 Big-mouth baseball players: You’re on notice. It’s time to put up or shut up. The Global Scouting Bureau (GSB) is rolling into town, rattling your very own keys to the planet, during a 2-day Professional Baseball Tryout. Since 1998 GSB has signed 1200 players to scores of leagues…
NOW 24/7 Being a good sailor is simple when you have major bucks to spend on a fancy boat, club membership fees, and what seems like endless maritime maintenance. Never mind actually devoting some money toward learning how to handle a vessel. Now you’re broke and suddenly feeling just a…
FRI 1/16 Some wimp requests information about John Waters’s film Pink Flamingos on an Internet bulletin board. “I want to see this movie but I want to know what I should watch out for, how gross it is … please help!” A reply is posted: “You’ll see the following: Divine…
SUN 1/18 Wearing puffy shirts and eyepatches, hoisting the Jolly Roger, walking the plank. It all screams pirates to us. But in the kooky world of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, dreamed up in England during the height of the Victorian era, pirates do more than just parade around in…
There is much to savor and even more to contemplate in Nilo Cruz’s new play Beauty of the Father, now receiving a visually compelling world premiere at the New Theatre, www.new-theatre.org the third world premiere of a Cruz play at the Coral Gables space in as many seasons. The production…
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is an important player in the shaping of urban Miami. She’s one of the founders of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, Architects and Town Planners (DPZ), a leader in the national movement called New Urbanism. DPZ has received numerous awards, including two State of Florida Governor’s Urban Design Awards…
Not a lot of people know this, but our word “actress” is derived from the Greek phrase strumpetos luckyos, meaning “prostitute who somehow landed an agent.” The reason that this etymological root remains largely unappreciated is that it is entirely fake, fabricated for the present purpose of irritating a lot…
Thursday 1/15 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s birthday is officially observed on Monday but today is the actual anniversary of his birth. No doubt events will be held all over town on Monday, but beginning today the West Perrine Community Development Corporation kicks off a five-day observance. Attend a…
Those who choose writing as a career often face many sorrows — poverty, public indifference, and critical contempt, to name but three. But whatever woes must be endured in a literary life, the writer has one secret weapon: the chance to turn life experience into a story and, by so…
MUSEUMS Bass Museum of Art: Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon, images of the painter by legendary 20th-century photographers, through Feb. 1; Dispersions: A Decade of Art from Spain, contemporary art from the Coca Cola Espana Foundation Collection, through Feb. 22; Judith Schaechter: Extra Virgin, stained glass works exploring social…
William H. Macy’s plain-vanilla features and hangdog screen demeanor have served him well. Who could resist him as the clueless car dealer who hatched the disastrous kidnapping plot in Fargo, or as the distraught husband of a frisky porn star in Boogie Nights? A splendid character actor with a gift…
This year’s British assault on the Yank funnybone is a spirited, hard-trying farce called Calendar Girls, plucked straight from a 1999 news story and dolled up with all the heartwarming charm we’ve come to expect from recent films made by our former rulers. The film recounts the slightly naughty daring…
