Dancers work on their craft around the clock, 24-7. Whether it’s rehearsing for concerts or practicing technique, their minds and bodies are continuously striving for perfection. Be it ballet or hip-hop, movement to dancers is like breathing. They can’t live without it. It would be difficult to walk away from…
As of today, after dozens of national teleconferences and numerous in-house meetings, the secrets of newspapering can be revealed. Never before has the public been exposed to how journalism really works, but there’s no time like the present (even though “present” means in the future and the correct word –…
MON 4/5 Spring is here and a young or old Jew’s fancy turns to matzo balls. Tonight marks the first night of Passover, the 8-day observance celebrating the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago during the reign of the Pharaoh Ramses II. Matzo ball…
NOW 24/7 After around 3:30 p.m. they start streaming in. Carrying backpacks full of homework, or wearing uniforms from minimum wage jobs, the teenagers who work out at the 27th Avenue Boxing Center come in every day with determination. Inside there is no hype, no parents or teachers hounding them,…
THU 4/1 Leave it to poet T.S. Eliot to dub April “the cruelest month” in his monumental 1922 work “The Waste Land.” And then 74 years later, leave it to some jokers at the Academy of American Poets to designate April as National Poetry Month. Ha, ha! Did they think…
If the traditional Broadway musical is your cup of tea, your cup runneth over with Fiddler on the Roof, now at the Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables. The beloved, well-known classic about a tradition-bound Jewish community caught up in the turbulent changes of prerevolutionary Russia is a huge undertaking, but…
This satire on life in America’s heartland may be suggestive of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, but it’s a sure bet its authors weren’t thinking of the poet when they created it. Greater Tuna began in 1982 as an impromptu party skit but ended up being one of the most…
Blind Date: Last year the New Theatre scored an incredible coup when it commissioned Nilo Cruz’s surprise Pulitzer winner Anna in the Tropics. This year lightning may have struck a second time as the New Theatre has delivered another masterpiece of a play. Mario Diament’s stunning, brilliant world premiere tracks…
Willie Keddell is an artist who tills the fields of perception. The urban furrows of marginality are his seedbed of imagination. Those who have encountered his stereoscopic (3-D) works in a gallery setting have perhaps found themselves experiencing an eerie sense of déjà vu, of recognizing a slice of desolate…
New Paintings: Emilio Perez’s lush, eye-popping new work conveys a lyrical fervor that seems to echo the big-wave surfer’s rush as he drops into an overhead tube. Perez romps adroitly across vibrant, churning swirls of chaos and serenity in a world all his own. This is clean, wicked stuff you…
FRI 4/2 As conductor, founder, and life president of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the most recorded chamber orchestra in the universe, Sir Neville Marriner has become one of the most familiar living figures in classical music. Radio stations all over the globe broadcast performances by the…
Thursday 4/1 Everybody has a story, and every story has several sides. If you don’t believe that, you will after seeing Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s critically acclaimed 1950 film Rashomon. It’s twelfth-century Japan and a crime has occurred in a forest: A woman is raped and her husband killed. What…
Poet Louise Bogan writes, “True revolutions in Art restore more than they destroy.” The same could be said for the theater of ideas. Thomas Gibbons’s most recent stage examination of the great American race divide, Permanent Collection, promises to resuscitate audiences who have become catatonically content with theater whose fiction…
Lionel Goldstein’s Halpern & Johnson, now onstage at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, is the story of two men brought together by the death of a woman who was central to both their lives. Despite an engaging premise, Goldstein’s adaptation of his own 1983 HBO teleplay Mr. Halpern & Mr. Johnson…
Blind Date: Last year the New Theatre scored an incredible coup when it commissioned Nilo Cruz’s surprise Pulitzer winner Anna in the Tropics. This year lightning may have struck a second time as the New Theatre has delivered another masterpiece of a play. Mario Diament’s stunning, brilliant world premiere tracks…
It’s 1970, a year of political turmoil in Cuba, marked by a return of militarism and the consolidation of the totalitarian state. People leave by the thousands. One family splits apart, the mother and her young daughter traveling to Florida while the father stays behind. The understanding is that they…
Enrique Campuzano: During a moment of identity crisis, modern art created “appropriation,” the depiction of a well-known image in a different visual context — as distinguished from outright plagiarism. This is what Enrique Campuzano does with one of the giants of art history: Diego Velazquez. He’s not the first to…
The Ladykillers is the second film in as many years made by Joel and Ethan Coen to fill space between pet projects that seem to run off leash; it’s their time-killer, if you will. But even their recent paychecks reflect the brothers’ restlessness: Their movies have grown more manic and…
Jersey Girl, the sixth film by writer-director Kevin Smith, is the least Kevin Smith-y film he’s ever made, which will be welcome news to those exhausted by Smith’s everlasting obsession with his dick, fart jokes, and stack of comic books; and bad news to those enamored of Smith’s everlasting obsession…
Speaking to comedian Joan Rivers on the telephone, we can’t help but be tempted to turn the tables and ask “Who are you wearing?” or maybe risk sounding slightly perverted and instead inquire “What are you wearing?” But restraint wins out with the relentless woman who oftentimes has no restraint…
Buddha Gonzalez, the admittedly “funky and chunky” frontman for local band Buddha Gonzalez and the Headless Chiwawas, has mad love for three things: music, weed, and his friend Tommy Chong (Cheech and Chong, That ’70s Show). When he heard about the movement to free counterculture icon Chong from the federal…
SAT 3/27 As election officials reach out to planet hip-hop to register to vote in time for November, the use of hip, or at least loud, figures from the music world as spokesrappers is one strategy that might lure the young generation of black voters to the polls. The objective…
