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…
What is it with women, anyway? They want to be safe walking the streets at night; they want to be able to trust strangers; they want the world to be beautiful, free, and wild. Are they nuts? Before you click SEND with the hate-mail (or, worse, with the “You said…
An Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film and winner of five Golden Lola Awards (the German Oscars), Nowhere in Africa recounts the true story of a Jewish family who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and found refuge in Kenya. Although beautifully shot and acted, the film is hampered by…
It’s fitting that the final play of Teatro Abanico’s 2002-2003 season is about endings. El Celador del Desierto (The Guardian of the Desert), an original work by Cuban composer and writer Ernesto Garcia, is a meditation about what can happen to man when he loses everything. In a world that…
Lighting up inside your own home in fabulous smoke-free Florida is still legal, but be forewarned: It’s only a matter of time. Public puffing on cancer sticks indoors has already been banned. Who knows what’ll be next? Thank goodness for Independence (ha!) Day, when flashy fireworks exhibitions offer one of…
Saturday July 5 Fads reflect society. In the 1980s the Rubik’s Cube signaled the need in Americans to resolve the mind-fuck of the Reagan years. Its predecessor, the pet rock, spoke of society’s love of nature and real estate. As with the recent Furby fetish, roasting a bird with a…
Monday July 7 Bump. Set. Kill! If those words get your heart racing, then you’ll be pumped to hear about the Miami-Dade College Shark Girls Volleyball Camp, going on through Friday, July 11, and run by MDC volleyball head coach Ilida Medero. Unfamiliar with her credentials? She and her Lady…
Wednesday July 9 School’s out. Yee haw! If kids aren’t avidly studying to retake their FCAT or getting a taste of the real world by working at a full-time job (like Mom and Dad!), what’s to keep them from knocking over convenience stores during the dog days of summer? The…
