Thursday 10/23 Setting the table can be easy unless you’re one of the 40 local architects, fashion designers, florists, or interior decorators participating in this year’s Dining by Design. Then the pressure is on. The creative types will be dreaming up outrageous and elegant tablescapes at this exclusive event devoted…
The Actors’ Playhouse has a serious personality conflict. The Coral Gables company is known as a purveyor of cheerful, lightweight entertainment that’s rather like the upscale chain restaurants sprouting near its Miracle Mile location: The fare is uncomplicated and consistent, no challenges and no surprises. AP has had considerable success…
Miami is in the news again! We have become one of the top five cities for worst traffic congestion in the nation. A report published by the Texas Transportation Institute, which covers 75 urban areas, also reveals the price Americans pay for their congestion: $69.5 billion in wasted time and…
If you lie down with dogs, you’ve got to expect to get up with fleas. And when you go to a movie about a coked-out former porn star who was implicated in the grisly murders of four lowlife drug dealers — a case that remains “officially” unsolved to this day…
Watching Hollywood’s endless stream of John Grisham adaptations — The Firm, The Chamber, A Time to Kill, etc. — it would be easy to assume that Grisham is the worst sort of hack writer, with simplistic morals that usually overwhelm logic and come close to contravening the very law the…
Veteran stand-up comedian Bobcat Goldthwait may have gigged at just about every Los Angeles comedy dive, but one joint you can bet he won’t be hanging around these days is the Twisted Balloon, the mythological respite for washed-up clowns in his 1992 film Shakes the Clown. “It would be hypocritical…
To folks with an Eastern European background and a knowledge of Yiddish, the word “klezmer” literally means “musician.” To folks who are clueless about Eastern Europe, Jewry, or Yiddish but claim a little knowledge of music, the word “klezmer” means the dynamic clarinet-led and violin-embellished style of song that itinerant…
NOW 24/7 Every playa knows pimpin’ ain’t easy. Late-night hours are a must and low energy a bust. No surprise then that a whole new lineup of nightlife energy elixirs has hit the marketplace, each hoping to replace Red Bull as the premier stay-awake party drink. Last month we saw…
There is no way of knowing at press time what the fate of the Marlins will be. We tried consulting Miss Cleo, but she’s been impossible to track since entering the FBI witness protection program. As you read this, scores of fly-by-night Marlins fans, newly christened by the glow of…
THUR 10/16 In 1945 the Chicago Cubs were jinxed with the Curse of the Billy Goat. A fan miffed because his goateed pet was refused entry into the ballpark told the press that there would never be another World Series played in Wrigley Field. This year it fell on our…
THUR 10/16 Speeding your bike Evel Knievel-style over ramps crudely constructed of plywood planks and concrete blocks. Suffering an assload of road rash after wiping out on the pavement. Jumping off the roof of your house into the swimming pool. Breaking your arms on the concrete patio. Sure, you’re a…
SAT 10/18 All right, little dumplings, your time to run away with the circus has arrived. Long enough have you fitfully struggled, enduring law school tort classes just to get your parents off your back. All you’ve ever wanted to do is prance around in a unitard as Lolo the…
Thursday 10/16 Duende, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is the ability to attract others through personal magnetism and charm. It’s an appropriately neat and tidy definition for the antiseptic modern American world. But the true concept of duende lives in the fiery ways of Gypsy culture. It’s not always…
Lipstick lesbian, lang-thang, dyke on a bike, professional tennis player. Young closeted lesbian, you don’t have to live pigeonholed in one of these categories. As painful as the coming-out process can be, once you’re out, chances are you’ll be more confident, proud of yourself, and reassured with the direction of…
About halfway through producer Jane Goldberg’s engaging 1983 video documentary By Word of Foot, Charles “Honi” Coles — a tall, slender master of “rhythm tap dancing” — demonstrates the language of this quintessential American art form for an appreciative group of students, sprawled behind him on a stage. “And then…
NOW 24/7 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a miracle of another feather. It’s the 60-by-60-foot labyrinth on the parking lot blacktop of the Unity on the Bay church. The cheeky diva of Miami’s holy houses has spawned a veritable “happening” with this blue-on-black meditative walking…
SAT 10/11 Men and women quickly walk from the water’s edge to long, vibrantly colored wooden boats to the beat of pounding drums. On Biscayne Bay, rowers yell as their boats roam in all directions and water splashes. Bienvenidos to Miami’s version of the classic dragon boat race. Two separate…
SAT 10/11 In a world where high-schoolers need to be schooled on the overuse of the N-word, it’s no wonder getting old-school manners means going back to school. The Kid’s Village Youth Etiquette Camp gives youngsters the cues they need to gracefully navigate through precarious social events like greeting our…
THUR 10/9 Every year when National Depression Screening Day rolls around, your interest is piqued but you just can’t seem to get off your ass and get to one of their free and anonymous screenings. It’s not that you’re lazy, maybe just … depressed? Depression does spread its ominous cloud…
SAT 10/11 The always-edgy minds at GableStage may have outdone themselves this time. Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? is the shockingly amusing tale of an architect named Martin (Bob Rogerson) whose happy life, complete with loving wife and gay teenage son, is changed by the admission that…
Talk about counterprogramming. South Florida playgoers tired of lightweight modern plays and musicals can find some heavy — really heavy — drama at the New Theatre in Coral Gables. The tiny troupe often takes on gargantuan projects and its latest, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, is a monster. This three-hour-long…
Recently ornithologists in Antarctica made a startling discovery: Female emperor penguins, being forced against their wills to endure stern patriarchal societal norms, tend to practice iffy mating habits. Close scrutiny revealed that most adult females go bonkers struggling to choose between an exciting-but-destructive “bad-boy” penguin and a dependable-but-boring “good-boy” penguin,…
