In Autumn Spring, a bittersweet comedy from the Czech Republic, an aged ex-actor, Fanda, lives in bleak, unfulfilling retirement with his dour, too-careful wife, Emilie; he is forever pestered by the complaints from his hapless, thrice-married son. As he lacks youth, money, and health, Fanda’s one pleasure is to make…
A few words of advice for those among you fortunate and/or dogged enough to have seen the original The Singing Detective miniseries that aired on the BBC in 1984: If you plan on seeing the new movie, also called The Singing Detective and also written by the late Dennis Potter,…
Even the untimely death of Bee Gee and squirt-gun/firearm enthusiast Maurice Gibb could not halt the surging of the upstart gel-sport paintball. The fifth and final leg of the National Professional Paintball League Super 7 World Series will be held in Miami. An avid paintballer in his time, Gibb fielded…
If you’re an avid viewer of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, you already know the name Lewis Black. Wednesday night’s Back in Black segments feature his apoplectic musings on subjects as varied as the merits of monkeys, the mysterious beverage Clamato, and the failings of Bill Clinton,…
THUR 11/6 Cultural wasteland. Culturally deprived. Culturally backward. We’ve all heard the knocks about the level of aesthetic goings-on in Miami. How aware, we wonder, are those naysayers of the fact that in 1973, the county decided to set aside 1.5 percent of the construction cost of all new county…
SUN 11/9 “So castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.” Maybe so, Jimi Hendrix, but that’s no reason not to have another sandcastle-building contest. As part of the nearly month-long American Institute of Architects’ Miami Architecture Week, local firms will compete for best design during Sandblast 2003, now…
THUR 11/6 Mmm, pizza. Thin-crust pizza. Mushroom. Sausage. Pineapple. What do you mean, ewww? All pizza is good — and educational. Want proof? Check out “Pizza: Any Way You Slice It” at the Miami Children’s Museum (980 MacArthur Cswy.). The museum’s first traveling exhibition gives kids ages 3 to 7…
THUR 11/6 It came from Portland. We assume that’s the hip West Coast city in Oregon, not the crusty East Coast bastion in Maine. “It” is something called the Clouds and 3D’s Ril Music Tour starring States Rights Records folkie-turned-electronica-artist Bobby Birdman and labelmates Yacht, plus DJ Maxx Bass, and…
SAT 11/8 Hialeah Rocks! Really. What other municipality in Miami-Dade can boast of its very own festival at the rock and roll holy ground of Churchill’s? Kendall? Ha! Coral Gables? Don’t make me laugh. Now in its ninth year, Hialeah Fest started over a few beers and a bunch of…
Life certainly has its daily struggles, but these tend to distract from the really big issues that sooner or later we all must face: Why are we here? Why do we have to die? And what should we do with the time we’ve got? Playwright Michael McKeever addresses the Big…
According to the philosophy of liberal nations, war is defensible only as a last, pragmatic resort, after all political means have been exhausted. Of course that’s not why the world fought two wars within the first three decades of the Twentieth Century. With tens of millions slaughtered, plus the legacies…
Even when people were watching Will Ferrell on television every Saturday night, they weren’t seeing Will Ferrell. They saw no more than a glimpse of him, beneath wigs and behind glued-on beards and buried under characters who became almost better known than he during his seven years on Saturday Night…
Thursday 11/6 Hey, classical music fans: If you want to catch conductor/violinist Pinchas Zukerman down here, this may be your only chance. See, he also had some gigs arranged with a local orchestra that recently disappeared into thin air. You know who we’re talking about, and you know if you…
Having your share of woes in the dating wars? Consider yourself lucky you’re not one of the characters in Beyond Therapy, the scathing, hilarious comedy receiving a stylish revival at Palm Beach Dramaworks. The New York hit from the 1980s takes aim at an array of contemporary targets, among them…
The Design District’s striking yet desolate Buena Vista building is the perfect site for Cuban director and playwright Victor Varela’s first Miami-based creation, Nonato en Utero, a disturbing piece of Spanish-language theater that explores cloning, immigration, and the regeneration and destruction that make up the birth process. A sterile woman…
Ongoing •A Gift of Murder: President Fred Fink of Fink’s Family Fruitcakes gets a deadly dose of his own dessert. Did his disgruntled employees do him in, or was it his feuding family? 8:00 p.m. Saturdays, through November 22. Dave & Buster’s, 3000 Oakwood Blvd., Hollywood; 954-923-5505. •Ain’t Misbehavin’: A…
The nineteenth Israel Film Festival lets us see once again how diverse the troubled land in that turbulent sea is — physically, politically, and philosophically. A classic across-the-divide love story in A Trumpet in the Wadi follows the impossible relationship of a Russian immigrant and an Arab woman; in Miss…
When it comes to defining love (romantic, brotherly, erotic, platonic), no one has come up with a term to describe the complex emotions that arise when love and survival become dangerously intertwined. This is the challenge for filmmaker joshua bee alafia’s new work Cubamor, which attempts to understand love in…
You’ve had your eye on that property for years. Built in 1141 in Segovia, Spain, it’s a bit old and far far away. But piece by piece, you can have it shipped to America and re-assembled stone by stone. You’ll be the envy of all your neighbors living in their…
With more than 250 authors arriving in town to participate in the twentieth anniversary of the Miami Book Fair International, South Florida, of all places, becomes the hub of the book world for two weeks. It seems as if everybody’s here (and we’re not talking Beyoncé or P. Diddy), from…
It’s Halloween! Time for trendsetters to be wondering: Whatever can we serve at our “Creepy Creature Feature” parties that, in terms of hideous yuckiness, will blow even J.Lo and Ben’s last flick outta the water? Debbie Fritz-Quincy, director of Hobe Sound Nature Center, has the answer: Edible insects. Homemakers who…
SAT 11/1 Since the early days of flying machines, Man has enjoyed marveling at the ridiculous ways experimental aircraft can crash and disintegrate. But why sit and watch archival biplane footage when one can view sillier contraptions plunge into the sea just down the street? Flügtag, which means “flying day”…
