Thursday, July 01 Hearing — or is that seeing — is believing at Miami-Dade Public Library (101 W. Flagler St.), at least if you’re an artist who is participating in the exhibition “The Spectacle of Sound.” In the auditorium, local painters, sculptors, and photographers who have been influenced by sound…
Its the moment once again to break out the old Red, White, and Blue. The Fourth of July is upon us and in Miami the colors will be flying in the hot Miami swelter reminding all that they are, in fact, living in America. There will be fireworks, rock stars,…
Sat 7/3 The enchanting grounds of Vizcaya (3251 S. Miami Ave.) begin Independence Day celebrations ahead of schedule since the attractions 6th annual Red, White, and Blue Pre-Independence Celebration occurs a day early every year. But the historically inclined villa is just keeping in theme with regard to a popular…
Fri 7/2 When it comes to love, what’s worse, being a hopeless romantic or a hopeful romantic? Silver-haired author/singer David Leddick leans toward the latter, or so his musical collaborator/pianist Andrew Sargent has noted. Sargent should know. The duo has worked closely together, creating the book and songs for last…
Mon 7/5 Once a year the clothing-optionals, the true embodiment of our own neurotic fears, celebrate their lifestyle during Nude Recreation Week (NRW). They do activities such as frolic in the surf at nude beaches, play volleyball naked, compare their wealth of unusual moles, or wag their naked boom-booms to…
Sat 7/3 The lore around 130-pound, Cuban-born pugilist Joel Casamayor, above, can be seen as allegorical for Cuban Americans. After Casamayor won the gold medal in the 1992 Olympics, Fidel Castro presented the worlds best bantamweight amateur boxer with a bicycle. Casamayor is said to have sold the bicycle to…
Let’s begin with the bottom line: By any measure, The Shakespeare Project, the New Theatre’s summer repertory of King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is an undeniable success. These masterworks, played by a plucky acting ensemble of thirteen, are delivered in visually striking stagings by artistic director Rafael de…
Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, now in its Florida premiere at the Caldwell Theatre, is nothing if not ambitious. Its subjects are wide-ranging — among them, major-league baseball, gay identity, prejudice, and tolerance — and so are its genres. The play wants to be both a pressure-cooker drama and a…
Richard Feynman was a physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1965, helped develop the atomic bomb, and was a key member of a panel that investigated the Challenger explosion in 1986. He was also a loon. Oozing eccentricity as often as possible, Feynman — aside from being considered the…
Thanks to a group of individuals with vision, our arts scene keeps developing. Usually the vision is unfunded, and they start from scratch. So realizing their dreams requires a great deal of resolve. Two of those people with vision and resolve are Susan Caraballo and José-Carlos Diaz. New Times spoke…
Definitive Juxt: Curated by Lissette Garcia and co-organized by José Carlos Diaz at the Odegard Building in the Design District, this show challenges viewers to accommodate highly personal visions of a group of Miami artists. Works by the Paper Dolls, Mauricio Espinosa, Sarah Murrie, Brian O’Dell, Jason/Opalka, Bert Rodriguez, Gustavo…
Desert Storm: Jim Tommaney’s antiwar fable balances three stories: soldiers on the war front, their concerned parents back home, and inside the Oval Office as the first President Bush and aides discuss U.S. involvement in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. The fictional plight of the soldiers and families hits hard,…
The real Melvin Van Peebles shows up just once in Baadasssss!, a fictionalized account of his making of Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song in 1971, and it is at the film’s end; he sits silent, grinning, clutching his ever-present cigar. But he’s all over this movie, in which his son Mario…
A strong toxin requires a strong antidote. In the case of the Bush administration, the cure is being served in significant part by Michael Moore, he of the Peter Jackson Diet (and similar pop culture ambition), who previously delivered the rousing documentaries Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine. This…
Tammi Terrell, creator of glam darlings at Tammi’s House of Flava, her North Miami salon, will be styling and cutting and throwing attitude as she sculpts intricate designs upon the heads of her models. You could say Tammi is something of a performance artist. When she takes the stage at…
Modern living is great! Or so they say. If some are to be believed, modern living was even better from 1945 to 1965, especially if you lived in a fabulous Florida tropical home. During the sunny post-World War II period, the United States was bursting with optimism. The future was…
Parents who trip over toys scattered on the floor and scream at their children to put them away might not realize that those little doodads could inspire their tykes later in their lives as artists. In the hands of a child, Barbie may seem to be nothing more than a…
A chop is a chop is a chop: chicken chunks and rice and beans and sauce, or some other variation. In the age of healthy fast food, anything devoid of a hamburger bun and lacking mayonnaise makes lunchgoers think they are eating healthily. At Miami-based Pollo Tropical, the Tropichop Summer…
Silent warriors key to peace BY JUAN CARLOS RODRIGUEZ In the ongoing hearings of the commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks, one government expert, asked about ways in which to improve sentiment toward Americans in the Middle East, suggested the following: finding avenues for Arabic society to express negative…
Everything you wanted to know about mangos BY MARGARET GRIFFIS Tommy Atkins, Kent, Graham, Haden, and Lancetilla. Lancetilla? These aren’t the names of hunky soap opera studs or zany drag queens. They’re just a few of the hundreds of varieties of mangos cultivated over the last 4000 years. Sweet, fragrant,…
Thursday 6/24 Reports of the death of Coconut Grove have been greatly exaggerated — at least to some people, namely local retailers. That’s why the store owners on Main Highway and Fuller Street have decided to organize a Progressive Evening in Coconut Grove from 7:00 to 10:00 tonight. The public…
Back in 1999, the first time members of the South Beach Gay Men’s Chorus let their voices loose in our midst, the tenors, baritones, and basses were seen on Lincoln Road wearing red Santa hats, handing out lyric sheets, and exhorting passersby to sing along with a multilingual version of…
