Now 24/7 Dazzling designer duds debut on Biscayne Boulevard Part high-fashion atelier, part curiosity shop, part funkadelic boudoir, FG Presents, designer Fernando Garcia’s store on Biscayne Boulevard, naturally attracts the residents of the surrounding schizophrenic neighborhood. Among the current fans of his sexy evening wear and thrift-shop couture for women…
Basketball is more than a sport — it’s a religion. Beyond that, it’s an addiction. Just look at what happens when young cagers get their hands on anything that bounces, rolls, or spins. The need to dribble and break ankles is deep-rooted in the soul of a true-blue hoopster. This…
Thur 5/1 No Sex For You Kids learn how to say no BY JUAN CARLOS RODRIGUEZn theory, abstaining from sex is a simple proposition, but in practice the A word is a heavy challenge, especially for teenagers experiencing hormonal overload stoked by pop-culture saturation. Young bucks will be getting a…
Fri 5/2 Robin Hill unleashes his dynamic work Thirty-seven black-and-white photographs boasting lines of poetry. Original verse set to the Celtic folk song “Whiskey in a Jar” and sung a cappella by Inner Voice. Seems a little over-the-top for British lensman Robin Hill, so well-known for his elegant images of…
Thur 5/1 The Faint offers a rousing set Omaha, Nebraska’s the Faint has no qualms about eating worms and swallowing dirt for a good photo op. In fact its members don’t have many qualms, period. Recently in Britain’s Bizarre magazine, frontman Todd Baechle let his catsuit out of the bag,…
Like larger human communities, theater companies have their collective strengths and limitations, their insights and their prejudices. And it’s entirely possible that those theaters that survive more than a few seasons often do so because they come to mirror their audiences’ characteristics. The Caldwell Theatre Company, long ensconced in Boca…
They were loud once, deafeningly so–and dumbingly so, if such a thing is possible. They wore skins of leather stuffed with cucumbers of foil, towered over dwarves who danced around a Stonehenge made of pebbles, sang about women who fit like flesh tuxedos and explored the majesty of rock and…
The fifth annual Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival does feel a little rudderless this year without founding director Robert Rosenberg at the helm, and the extension of screenings to Fort Lauderdale can make viewing a little difficult, since the films only show once. But there are some good films…
It is rare to find a film that defies one’s expectations as sweetly and satisfyingly as Raising Victor Vargas, a coming-of-age comedy-drama from first-time feature writer-director Peter Sollett, which first premiered here at the Miami International Film Festival. The surprise isn’t in the plot — that would be too easy…
Musclebound fighters all slick with sweat and Vaseline. Bruised and battered warriors raging on despite puffy welts and cramping legs. Bloody brows, cut lips — the gasp of a knocked-out brawler struggling to get to his or her feet. There is something primal about watching a really good fistfight. Our…
Thurday 4/24 Zora Neale Hurston is one of Florida’s most important and least recognized writers. A dry and quizzical critic of a segregated America, Hurston was among the vanguard of the Harlem Renaissance before she wound up sadly working as a maid in Miami Beach hotels. North Miami’s M Ensemble…
Sandra Ramos is part of a generation of Havana artists whose visual language makes frequent reference to the dream and reality of exile. Her work, both conceptually clever and affectively sincere, often takes the form of suitcases or trunks, containing what the artist calls “a compilation of the experiences, dreams,…
Sat 4/26 Lofty Living Brightly colored hot air balloons floating peacefully in the sky. Competitive balloonists lobbing sandbags at on-ground targets. Motorists swerving in and out of lanes while craning their heads out car windows. Talent shows, free pancakes, and even a towering Energizer Bunny that stands fifteen feet higher…
Sat 4/26 In a culture enslaved to the concept of the superlative, halls of fame have proliferated at an alarming rate in recent times. Even horse tracks like Calder Race Course (21001 NW 27th Ave.) boast them. This Saturday the speedy Florida-bred Chaposa Springs and her trainer Marty Wolfson will…
Sat 4/28 Now that Iraq, the cradle of civilization, has been bombed to bits and the remains have been hastily demolished or looted by its own citizens, what other part of the world still exists to teach us something? Remember Asia? It’s no accident the Orient is still going strong,…
Sat 4/26 Move over, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Christopher Guest, and Quentin Tarantino. Here comes Clifton Childree. Who? Why, the Broward-based musician-performer-filmmaker, that’s who. In the early Nineties, the South Florida native founded such Broward hipster hot spots as the multimedia Mudhouse and Theatre 1225, home to art and horror…
Fri 4/25 Karen Peterson attests that no other artist is more bound to the body’s wear and tear than a dancer. As an experienced choreographer, Peterson has a unique spin on the maturation process: “As a dancer gets older she has more to offer. Maybe you can’t do endless pirouettes,…
It has been a few weeks since it hit the headlines. If you haven’t been paying attention, Nilo Cruz, the Cuban-born, Miami-raised, New York-based playwright, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his lyrical Anna in the Tropics, a play that received its world premiere last fall at the teeny…
Filmmaker Terry Gilliam is no stranger to fiasco. After all, this is the human dynamo who saw 1989’s inventive (if sometimes incoherent) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen through a series of artistic and financial crises that would have landed most people in an asylum. But Gilliam’s encounter with the tale-spinning…
Imagine a large, dead Saint Bernard with its bones removed. Then visualize a hefty bellows inserted into it from behind, with a gorilla hopping up and down on it, causing the huge dog’s baglike corpse to twitch spasmodically, wheeze, and croak. Voila, this is today’s Nick Nolte. What’s amazing is…
In 1997’s The Apostle, Robert Duvall took on a subject near and dear to his heart: Southern Pentecostal preachers. No one would make the film for him, so he went ahead and directed it himself, garnering much acclaim from media both secular and religious for his warts-and-all portrayal of a…
My beer belly deserves some attention — national attention — I’ve decided. While my vanity tells me it’s not totally flabby, my lower torso leads my way through life. Gently sloped love handles are forever spilling over my belt line. It will NEVER be flat. I’m learning to love my…
