For the record, this article is NOT about Andy Warhol. I repeat: Neither Andy Warhol nor his “films” will be featured in the following story. Rather, this article is all about the filmmaker Paul Morrissey. Never mind that Andy Warhol’s name appears in large bold type all over and preceding…
Maybe the most amazing thing about the big-screen version of Starsky & Hutch is how much smaller it feels than its predecessor, the William Blinn-created, Aaron Spelling-produced cop series that ran on ABC from 1975 to 1979. Everything about this cineplex variation feels rinky-dink, like some extended variety-show skit that…
It was not surprising that Jonathan Schwartz would have an unusual life. With sophisticated songwriter Arthur Schwartz (“That’s Entertainment”) for a dad and fair-haired soprano Kay Carrington for a mom, how could it be anything but? Growing up in Beverly Hills during the height of World War II among luminaries…
The luck of the Irish gets stuffed into a multicultural empanada every time St. Patrick’s Day arrives in Miami. Cheap green beer specials always bring everybody to drink. In this town that means you’re bound to find a St. Patrick’s party where you hear just about every accent in the…
SUN 3/14 The Calle Ocho Festival has een described as the hottest street fair in America. With a mix of Latin music legends, hoochie-coochie starlets, and up-and-coming acts, the party gets beamed via Spanish television networks all over the world. Despite its grand scale, the event sneaks up on us…
SAT 3/13 During its 52 runnings, the Florida Derby, taking off today at Gulfstream Park (901 S. Federal Hwy., Hallandale), has served as a prescient precursor to the more prestigious Kentucky Derby, with a handful of horses winning both races, notably Spectacular Bid (1979), Swale (1984), Unbridled (1990), Thunder Gulch…
FRI 3/12 A labyrinth of love and passion. The choice between exile and conformity. In the end it’s the human spirit that takes flight in Milan Kundera’s novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Cuban expat Marianela Boan premieres The Unbearable Lightness, her latest dance work based on Kundera’s classic. Boan…
FRI 3/12 If Morrissey’s call to hang the DJ is carried out tonight, then his onetime Smiths bandmates Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce may be seen dangling from a gibbet. Thankfully the bassist and drummer for the legendary Manchester quartet don’t take Mozzer very seriously. Still why is the duo…
Thursday 3/11 With an army of top DJs from around the world, a bevy of cool places in which to party, and a zillion buff men in tight-fitting party wear, the Winter Party is set to rock gay Miami once again. The kickoff bash features DJs Marc Scott, Twisted Dee,…
At its best, the Winter Music Conference is a sprawling six-day party in the gentle Miami winter with 10,000 of your closest friends and the greatest DJs in the world, all found on a two-mile stretch of sandy beach. At its worst, WMC is a sprawling, disorganized, and overpriced mass…
At first glance Hidalgo seems to be nothing more than an old-fashioned, flat-footed adventure epic plunked down on a vast stretch of desert and amply furnished with the usual Hollywood conventions — a strong, silent cowboy on horseback, a couple of villains with nasty black mustaches, a killer sandstorm, and…
Tall, slim, with long dark hair and a beard, he roamed around Old Havana in the 1950s. Dressed in black, a cape fluttering behind his dignified stride, he wrote and recited poetry and always carried flowers, which he’d present to women he saw on the streets. Clearly cultured and more…
The end of Sex and the City left fans of the TV phenomenon without their weekly revelations about city women’s feminine mystique. No more jokes involving pubic hair, female farts, or romps with sexy yoga instructors. We caught Candace Bushnell, author of the book that started it all, in a…
FRI 3/5 For some people, guarding orchid-growing secrets is tantamount to the Department of Defense protecting information about nuclear warheads. They steal, they lie, they hire spies. You wouldn’t believe it. In case you haven’t read the book The Orchid Thief or seen the film Adaptation, you should know that…
THU 3/4 The common denominator unifying creatures is the passing of time. After all, the same sun rises and sets in its daily cycle for all of us. Right? Wrong. Some creatures live in their own bubbles of time. For instance the Aldabra tortoise, named for its native Aldabra Atoll…
MON 3/8 Your days of screaming obscenities at the television screen are over. Don’t get too excited: Hardball, Chris Matthews’s annoying MSNBC gab fest, hasn’t been canceled — yet! The silver-haired pundit continues to offer up in-depth political analysis with weighty guests such as comedian Bill Maher. But if you…
SAT 3/6 Miami filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar laments the dearth of countercultural icons in a world rife with war, corporate greed, and disease. He bemoans the growing apathy in cities and the eerie quiet that comes with assimilation. Once-radical heroes such as John Waters, he observes, maintain a comfort in…
On the face of it, Jolson and Company, the latest biographical musical presented by the Coconut Grove Playhouse, should be dead on arrival. Its subject, Al Jolson, became a star before World War I, died more than a half-century ago, and hardly registers in the contemporary Zeitgeist. He was reputed…
Blind Date: The New Theatre presents another world premiere with Mario Diament’s Blind Date. Diament is the Miami-based, Argentine-born author of The Book of Ruth and Smithereens. As the title suggests, the play explores encounters between strangers, sighted and blind. Directed by Rafael de Acha. March 6 through April 4…
By the Woods: This show takes us to a humorously dark side of nature. Pepe Mar’s Totem brings taboo to the realm of innocence via stuffed toys, butterflies, trinkets, and Blue Puffy Head. More akin to Strindberg’s gloom, Norwegian painter Frank Brunner’s misty works portray nature, light, and artifice. Chris…
Thursday 3/4 Skate rats and nouveau punks will be getting their fiercest attitude together as Linkin Park, the rocking clash of old-school hip-hop and hard-driving rock and roll, brings its Meteora tour to town. The altmetal quintet packs a loud and energetic wallop despite the fact that its members are…
Ars longa, vita brevis, goes the old Roman saying, and it remains true today. While decades and centuries come and go, art endures. The tumult of prerevolutionary Russia is by now a dim memory, but Chekhov’s plays remain to recall the era. So it is with the plays of Jon…
