SAT 2/7 Next month’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival may have Emeril. But this coming weekend’s FAB Fest — the long-running Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Taste of the Beach food festival, renamed this year to reflect a broadened international FAB (Food, Arts, Beverages) focus — has Skippy. For…
SAT 2/7 At Loxahatchee Arthur R. Marshall National Wildlife Refuge, the sound of a snail kite could take all the pressures and hassles of your cellularly connected life away. Even the toothy grin of an alligator basking in the sun could unleash the natural beast inside you. In fact there…
FRI 2/6 Not since Prince has an artist embraced the color purple. But Barney, that cuddly singing and dancing dinosaur, has an excuse for his purple power: He was born with it. Barney’s Colorful World Tour is taking the country by storm. In fact the show’s producers have been responsible…
MON 2/9 You can call it a local equivalent to the Oscars. There will be goddesses working the red carpet and glamorous gowns, but be on the lookout for the freaky styley. Shelley Novak, Miami’s hairy-chested drag wonder, is honoring the best of the local cross-dressing culture. Will Pussy-la win…
FRI 2/6 When jazz trumpet player Melton Mustafa blows his horn, people listen — on local and national levels. One of Miami’s favorite musicians, Mustafa for the last 8 years has even run his own jazzy celebration that attracts some of the biggest names in the biz. This year’s Melton…
Thursday 2/5 There are people who eat to live. And there are those who live to eat. You count yourself among the latter. But today for a change you can eat and help others live too. New Times newspapers in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach are presenting an event called…
Producing theater is something akin to surfing. Hard work and talent don’t always make for success — you gotta catch the right wave. Most of the time shows roll in and out of production with unremarkable regularity and less impact. But once in a while a tsunami hits. That’s a…
The Trickster archetype has been recognized by mythographers as one of the oldest expressions of humankind; a generator of forms, cultural concepts, and perhaps as enemy of boundaries. While laughter at the Trickster’s folly is didactic, it can also be fulfilling. It reminds us that cultural boundaries are arbitrary. The…
After several years spent slogging away, Miami drum and bass and meta-hop band Council of the Sun will finally celebrate the release of its debut album, Six Degrees of Culture, with a brief gig to bolster the birth of the Colusana Foundation, a nonprofit group that will benefit South Americans…
With beans or without? With meat or without? Sirloin, veal, how about pork? The great chili controversy rages on. It’s an argument not often heard in these parts, for chili is mostly thought of as a dish of the Southwest, a spicy comforting stew that warms one in cool weather,…
NOW 24/7 As we head into the campaign season, a time when politicians polish the art of the big and small lie, it’s reassuring to know that truth has sailed onto our shores. For the second time since 2002, thanks to our daily newsstand rag, the city, and the county,…
SUN 2/1 Sometimes you have to wonder if marathon runners are masochists. They endure long, strenuous exertions, flirt with dehydration, and pound city pavements until their joints give out. What’s the big thrill of running 26.2 miles? Pain? An obsessive need to be like P. Diddy or Oprah? The promise…
NOW 24/7 Yeah, it was an extreme political situation: Miami Beach Commissioner Matti Bower facing off with City Manager Jorge Gonzalez, wielding a stick and slashing the air with it. The incident happened earlier this month. Beach folk bore witness to this exhibit of politico exuberance, only recently eclipsed by…
THU 1/29 The Florida Center for the Literary Arts opens its writers’ residency and lecture series with a not-necessarily-politically-correct discourse. Prolific, award-winning author Francine Prose will lecture on “Scent of a Woman’s Ink: Why Women are Still Being Read Differently from Men.” When her original essay on the subject appeared…
SUN 2/1 Christians, Jews, and Muslims are finally getting together, not around the world but at the Coconut Grove Playhouse (3500 Main Hwy.). This afternoon at 4:30 following a 2:00 p.m. performance of Chaim Potok and Aaron Posner’s drama The Chosen, a panel discussion will ensue exploring how religions can…
Bon Voyage Watching Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s big World War II drama Bon Voyage is like taking a vivid trip back to the middle of the Twentieth Century. This retro journey is not just because of the detailed Art Deco production design or the Nazis versus Free French storyline. The entire ethos…
Thursday 1/29 The media is responsible for all of society’s ills. The media is slanted. The media lies and perpetuates false attitudes that most Americans don’t share. The media is the original Axis of Evil. The media is made up of pot-smoking, cross-dressing, leftist, pinko Commies. Blah, blah, blah, blah,…
Watching the Hollywood Playhouse’s new, energetic production of Beau Jest: The Musical is like attending two shows in one. As entertainment, this musical version of the popular comedy offers some sprightly tunes while retaining the original show’s humor and offering a fine performing ensemble. The play draws dramatic strength from…
There is a recent generation of American men who came of age too late for free love and wanton property-grabbing, and too early for postgrunge emotional wankery and info-age immediacy. Stuck on their iceberg, isolated by oceans from anything real like the original punk or Goth movements or Australia’s cinematic…
Behold a tale of true love (between a boy and a bicycle), of tireless courage (from a bitty grandmother with a club foot), and of a very shocking new definition of sexy (three wizened matriarchs who ravenously slurp down frogs). This is The Triplets of Belleville, an animated extravaganza of…
So the senseless wit of improvisational comedy isn’t always as funny as rehearsed routines? At least nobody’s wasting time writing it. And in times when nobody has time, skipping a consuming phase of the creative process embodies modern ingenuity, not laziness. But appreciating the spontaneity of improv is less about…
In 1945 Joseph Pilates published his revolutionary fitness manifesto, Return to Life Through Contrology. The thin volume has pictures of a tanned and toned 60-year-old master demonstrating his stretching and resistance regimen in tight Burt Lancaster briefs. Though the pictures evoke a timeworn prescription for health, the ideas expressed in…
