So much for those crackpot theories about flighty teenagers and their short attention spans. For four long years now the bland pop star Mandy Moore has stuck in the brain pan of white adolescent America like a wad of bubblegum, and there’s no sign that she will loosen her grip…
“Like many immigrants, I’m constantly traveling and telling stories about what I see, and that ends up creating liaisons everywhere I go — it can be Bogota, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, or Santiago,” says busy Argentine rocker Fito Páez, explaining how comfortable he feels about his fifth visit to…
Thursday July 17 During the Nineteenth Century the Fisk Jubilee Singers were considered the last word in Negro spirituals, their heartfelt performances enchanting audiences around the world. These days the celebrated National Spiritual Ensemble has been handed the torch, keeping spirituals resonating in concert halls everywhere. Begun in 1994 as…
If David Copperfield could make a historic monument like the Statue of Liberty disappear, why couldn’t he do the same to Cher? Surely the aging pop diva must be dying to get away. Her farewell concert tour just keeps dragging on. Even after her parting performance was aired on network…
Friday July 18 Remember that dream you used to have repeatedly as a kid? You were sitting at your desk in school chatting with your friends, passing notes, shooting spitballs, and even answering the occasional teacher’s question when you looked down and realized your clothing was a bit baggier than…
Saturday July 19 The days are long and hot. You’ve been staring at the pavement again, huffing Metrobus exhaust, drinking lemonade made from a powdered mix, and perhaps wondering what happened to the good ole summertime. Well, it’s back in full swing today at Roberto Clemente Park (101 NW 34th…
Thursday July 17 Does a bear cha-cha-cha in the woods? Let’s see. It does if it’s the furry, 7-foot-tall star of Jim Henson Television’s Bear in the Big Blue House, which comes to interactive life onstage this weekend. The Emmy Award-winning show on the Disney Channel is beloved by both…
Thursday July 17 When artist David Rohn is made-up, costumed, and in character, he’s not himself. So pulling him aside and trying to chat about buying a painting or sculpture is fruitless. Just stand back and enjoy the show — whether he’s playing clueless real estate agent Gretchen Bender leading…
Thursday July 17 Local playwright Mario Diament might enjoy the production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure just a little too much. So, too, might the directors of Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre Company and Miami’s EDGE Theatre. The reason for their salivation? This production of the Elizabethan dark comedy is directed…
Part of the trick of producing plays is deciding not only what to stage but when. Some shows work better in the fall than the summer, some are hurt by financial bad times, others are helped by same. But all attempts to time a play’s opening are still subject to…
“Treasures from the Collection of the Bass Museum of Art” features a work that was a collaboration between Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. This is the same Botticelli who painted one of the most famous images in the history of art — The Birth of Venus, commonly known as Venus on the…
Those quirky kids over at the Florida Moving Image Archive are at it again, throwing the third annual film and video festival that highlights their amazing stash of archival footage. Never call this festival staid. It’s always bubbling with the unexpected, from the serious to the comically frivolous. This year…
To the wide U.S. audience who may not recognize the rockers in the new video from Chilean band La Ley, it should be said that indeed the group was not like this back in 1989. When they released their first album in Chile, they emphasized their good looks, plus a…
Thursday July 10 Hand-wringing, eye-rolling, and shrugging shoulders is the best we non-Jews/non-Palestinians can do when we consider the absurd, blood-soaked comedy that’s become the Middle East. Both sides have their screaming fanatics, each with children who speak with blood lust against each other. Although recent reports of a sunny…
With a name that sounds like a blaxploitation heroine, author Aphrodite Jones has been energetically kicking publishing-world ass since her first true-crime book, The FBI Killer, appeared on shelves eleven years ago. Among her quintet of compelling best sellers: Cruel Sacrifice, the gruesome tale of four teenage girls in Indiana…
Saturday July 12 A blue mango? Why not? A mango’s life is the pits. The sky-colored Neelum is just one of the 150 types of fabulous fruit that will be presented this weekend at Fairchild Tropical Garden’s (10901 Old Cutler Rd., Coral Gables) International Mango Festival. A dip into the…
Saturday July 12 If the theme from Jaws makes your blood race, imagine the thrill you’ll experience hearing it while diving in a shark’s back yard. It might sound creepy, but at the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival you’ll get to act out a scene from the film. That is,…
Sunday July 13 If you have kids who can’t get enough of creepy-crawlies and things that go “croak” in the night, leave them with some scaly friends this weekend. The Miami Museum of Science (3280 S. Miami Ave.) presents programs for kids who want to get close, but not necessarily…
Friday July 11 Nothing’s worse than being a prehistoric gill man dwelling in an Amazonian lagoon all alone. Where’s a good woman when you need her? Why, she’s in a boat skimming the surface of your watery home among a group of scientists on a fossil-studying expedition. Your sly ploy…
Wednesday July 16 Patty cakes, this ain’t. Although that doesn’t sound bad as a name for a female mud wrestler. Each Wednesday buxom babes grapple in a mud pit on the back stage of Churchill’s (5501 NE 2nd Ave.). What makes this battle different is that the girls are real…
One thing you have to say about the New Theatre: It’s not afraid to take on gigantic plays. Rafael De Acha’s troupe has assayed such monsters as Angels in America, Electra, and Hamlet in recent seasons. Now the New brings two more Shakespeares, termed “The Shakespeare Project,” running all summer…
There is one truly striking shock in the new made-in-Hong-Kong-by-Thai-directors horror flick The Eye, but unfortunately, directors Danny and Oxide Pang saved the best for first. If the film’s opening moments don’t grab you, nothing will; the Pang Brothers cut their teeth on commercials, and the first few minutes play…
