Pantomime. For many Americans the very word elicits frightening memories of silent, pale, black-clad street performers terrorizing little children with wild gesticulations. However, obnoxious mimers represent only a small minority in the history of the theatrical art that has existed in some form or another since antiquity. In the United…
NOW 24/7 You walk down the beach, searching for seashells, but as far as the eye can see there are none. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Gone. When the powers-that-once-were manufactured the Miami Beach coastline, were shells not part of the equation? Or is nature just holding out on us? Probably not…
SAT 12/27 “Uh, you know, we’re really, uh, just like getting, the, uh, like, you know, the, uh, kids together, like it’s really cool that there’s, uh, so many kids in the, uh, city, who, you know, like, uh …” What Matt Cantor, creator of Control Skate Park, is trying…
TUE 12/30 Jobie, the on-again-off-again mascot of the Junior Orange Bowl Parade, is on again, at least for this year. Today the cute little citric mascot re-emerges as the symbol of the Junior Orange Bowl Parade, in its 55th year as a Coral Gables holiday tradition. Because of legal issues…
WED 12/31 The philosophical roots of Paul Miller, AKA DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, run deep. More than just a mixer of sounds, beats, and words, Miller describes his art as a new evolution of music. He uses the word jazz to describe what he does, but don’t expect horns…
WED 12/31 The thrill is definitely still there when it comes to 78-year-old master blues guitarist B.B. King. In a career that spans 6 decades over worlds from the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s to South Beach today, blues music’s regal ambassador has accomplished more than just about any other…
Once again, the time has come to wonder where it all went and where do you go from here. But first and foremost, it’s time to party. In order to save you some trouble, we here at New Times have devised a list of worthwhile New Year’s celebrations. Use this…
Uh oh. When I learn that a screenwriter has just written a play, I usually look for a place to hide. Many, no, most successful writers fall into the trap of hubris: If they thrive in one medium, they assume they will triumph in all. The result is often abysmal…
For all of its inspired side trips down Imagination Lane (let’s call it that, because the “memories” of protagonist Edward Bloom are too majestic to be trusted and too affecting to be discounted), Big Fish is ultimately about one thing: the relationship between a son about to become a father…
Thursday 12/25 Beware of cantors from the Great Smoky Mountains: They come bearing guitars and singing funky Jewish folk tunes. Cantor David Shneyer is one such dude. Founder of the Jewish Folk Arts Society and the Fabrangen Fiddlers klezmer band, Shneyer is a singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C. Trekking to South…
Art Basel Miami Beach 2003 is over. But this year’s fair and the events it generated were so multifaceted — and there was so much — that there’s no way to summarize it within this space. We’ve decided to ask a group of art experts to contribute their perspectives as…
Damien B: “Sweetly the Air Flew Overhead,” by Cathy de Monchaux, with musicians Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke and philosopher Theodore Zeldin. Through January 2. The installation’s glowing celestial lights emanating from Damien B called to the pedestrian traffic making their Basel rounds on the Art Loves Design Thursday night…
You know how it’s often the ones we love whose flaws are most apparent? Well, when it comes to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, I am smitten. This film is a miracle, an extravaganza equal to its predecessors and in some ways more stunning. It…
The Mona Lisa Smile in question belongs, of course, to its star, Julia Roberts. Why? For no particular reason, actually. It’s just what Italian professor Bill Dunbar (Dominic West) calls her — Mona Lisa, perhaps because he’s an Italian professor possessing few points of reference outside the works of da…
Thursday 12/18 One week until Christmas. You’ve already spent thousands of dollars on gifts (none of which is for you) and you’re not quite done shopping for others yet. You could use some major laughs. Lucky for you that comedian Richard Jeni is beginning a four-night stint at the Miami…
NOW 24/7 I found Jesus in a black velvet dinner jacket hanging on a rack at the Douglas Gardens Thrift Shop. Flared at the waist, the garment was tres-1970s Bob Guccione. Alas the Messiah was bleach stained and at $40 far too expensive. Despite the suede yarmulke found in the…
THU 12/18 Two names: Antonio Wilson, Charles Bouie. Six feet 2 inches, 6 feet 8 inches, respectively. Each of these 200-plus-pound Pahokee High School hoopsters has the raw talent and physicality that can morph into a super-freak like Lebron James. This weekend’s Zoned-Out Shootout Basketball Tournament, the brainchild of local…
THU 12/18 If you’d rather not be bombarded by electro music at a club, you can watch it on TV. Well, it’s more like a little big screen at the Miami Beach Cinematheque (512 Española Way, Miami Beach), where at 8:30 p.m. local filmmaker and music enthusiast Iris Cegarra will…
It’s high holiday time to help out kids affected by AIDS
By Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Worldwide the number of children affected by AIDS continues to grow. In South Africa thousands of so-called AIDS babies are abandoned each year, found by police in trash bins and public bathrooms. Meanwhile the pandemic continues to spread voraciously across the Indian subcontinent. In China, where health officials continually underreport…
For 365 days a year this Liberty City bookstore celebrates black life
By Joyce C. Murray
At times when others might be curled up at home with, say, a good book, you might find William or Stephana Clark answering the phone or tending to customer requests at their Liberty City store. They might not seem like typical bookstore owners. In fact it’s not even their day…
NOW 24/7 Pudge, Pudge, Pudge. How we loved chanting your name this championship season. Your chubby image spoke of determination and guts, team spirit and flavor. Pudge was cute. Pudge symbolized a tough and hungry underdog squad. In fact we got used to seeing your big J.Lo butt flabbing around…
THU 12/18 Venevision International Theater’s production of Kvetch: The Art of Complaining calls for an end to whining. The play gets a Spanish translation, which turns it into El Arte De Quejarse. Either way it is a sharp-tongued comedy, written by British actor and playwright Stephen Berkhoff, whose mastery of…
