Ever-evolving, always changing, the universe nonetheless sustains many constants: Hair metal never really goes away. British women inevitably become besotted grumps. And short men always turn into intolerable control freaks. Another “true generality” holds that males of all statures develop their innate behavioral characteristics within patriarchal cultures that, while aiming…
That sound you hear is the stampeding feet of millions of pubescent and prepubescent girls, racing to movie theaters this weekend to catch sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen in their first feature film since 1995’s It Takes Two. The Olsen twins began their acting careers at the age of nine…
In a pretty awesome coup for our tip of the peninsula, the Miami Art Museum will unveil “Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration,” a retrospective of 118 of Close’s works, with pieces ranging from 1972 to 2002. Fresh from a showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,…
Tap dancing is all in the feet, whether large or small, or so many people think. Not true, says 26-year-old hoofer Marshall Davis, Jr., a generous size eleven-and-a-half, double E. “It’s more your approach, your technique, and how you want to be heard dealing with tonality — just being precise…
NOW 24/7 In the underbelly of the Dadeland South Metrorail Station the late-night bus riders gather. Dressed in sweaty uniforms from shifts at Publix, or drained from monitoring a lackluster parking lot during security detail, they begin their journey home at the sign that says DROP OFF: 500 Midnight Owl…
FRI 5/14 Curse the dry air that shriveled your phalaenopsis plants’ leaves into raisins! Now 5 are on sphag-and-bag life support and 3 are compost. How to get through this mourning period? Buy more orchids, obviously. How convenient, then, that it’s time for the 8th annual Redland International Orchid Festival?…
TUE 5/18 Your friends snicker at your vast and valuable collection of Precious Moments figurines. But now you have the last laugh. The teardrop-eyed porcelain statues bearing inspirational messages have learned to rock. That’s right. PM Rocks! is a cute little girl band, a quintet in fact, bearing guitars, playing…
SAT 5/15 It just may be that artist Robert Wyndam Bucknell is conceited. It could be he is a narcissistic charlatan capitalizing on his heroin-chic Jesus aura to draw attention to himself. But then again, he may be doing more. According to the London-born artist, his show “Why I Think…
Watching Deborah Zoe Laufer’s biting satire The Gulf of Westchester at Florida Stage is something akin to witnessing a hotshot skier hurtling down an icy slope. Laufer’s topical tale of suburbanites caught up in divisive political debate over the war in Iraq hurtles along with such passion and intensity, it’s…
Master Harold … and the boys: Athol Fugard’s modern classic has to do with the stormy relationship between a white teen and two black family workers in South Africa circa 1950. The fine GableStage production features assured, understated direction from Joseph Adler, which is well supported by some excellent, evocative…
All My Lies Are Wishes: Rubén Torres-Llorca is a conceptualist with superb craftsmanship. His photo series features blurred images, laid-over symbols, and tangential titles. They work like a personal domestic still-life sequence, though a bit cryptic. The show’s pièce de résistance is a spider-web installation, made of rope and filled…
Thursday 5/13 Fabulous people, fabulous furniture, fabulous art, and fabulous cocktails. You too can be fabulous at Art and Design Night, a monthly series of faboo block parties in fabulousness central, Miami’s Design District. Best of all, the district’s fabulous restaurants, cafés, showrooms, and galleries provide multo-fabulous settings for you…
If you’re looking for a quick trip to a faraway place, Joseph Adler and GableStage can arrange a 90-minute journey to an entirely different planet courtesy of their latest production, Master Harold … and the boys. Athol Fugard’s drama is set not only a half-century ago but in apartheid South…
A Picasso: Picture this: Bearlike Pablo Picasso sits in a dark stone cellar amid stacks of paintings, staring intently at his beautiful female model, who happens to be a Nazi official. As the woman begins to disrobe, Picasso sketches furiously, and despite the dank, dark surroundings, you can feel the…
All My Lies Are Wishes: Rubén Torres-Llorca is a conceptualist with superb craftsmanship. His photo series features blurred images, laid-over symbols, and tangential titles. They work like a personal domestic still-life sequence, though a bit cryptic. The show’s pièce de résistance is a spider-web installation, made of rope and filled…
When a pleasant Italian comedy called Mediterraneo won the 1992 Academy Award for best foreign language film, a lot of observant American moviegoers scratched their heads. Gabriele Salvatores’s fairy tale of Italian soldiers happily stranded on a gorgeous Greek island during World War II was an outright charmer, but it…
“We must keep the atmosphere electrified!” announces creepy Igor in reference to an abominable experiment in Van Helsing, but he could be appraising the entirety of this enormous event movie. Breathless cutting, nonstop special effects, and a pummeling soundtrack camouflage very silly plotting and mediocre-to-sappy dialogue — and yet the…
That sound you hear is the stampeding feet of millions of pubescent and pre-pubescent girls, racing to movie theaters this weekend to catch sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen in their first feature film since 1995’s It Takes Two. The Olsen twins began their acting careers at the age of nine…
Blood pulses out of freshly hacked flesh in puddles. Bikini-clad girls sip champagne and giggle in high heels as rivulets of the red stuff splatter perfectly on their bitching bods. Fast-cut closeups of their cleavage, their asses, their glam sunglasses, and of the beer-bellied man sprawled in the center of…
With aqua-driven economies and permanent-vacation mentalities, you’d think Fort Lauderdale and New Orleans would be sister cities. These are two places where everyone has a tan, a boat, and a drinking problem. Both cities indulge happily in things cultural, from buskers to giant festivals. Both offer fantastic food. Both enjoy…
THU 5/6 Here’s a dilemma. As you were giving birth to your first child, your doctors frantically informed you that they needed to perform an emergency hysterectomy. They took your uterus, but nice guys that they were, they left your ovaries intact. No more bearing children but you could still…
SAT 5/8 Finally an event that gives new meaning to the phrase “go with the flow.” The WaterFest pays tribute to all the refreshing liquid that surrounds us, besieges us in the summer, and makes up most of what we are. Created 2 years ago by some of the folks…
