For the seventh year in a row, Miami gets to be the first to view the latest crop of homegrown films from Latin America’s biggest nation during the Brazilian Film Festival. Starting on June 4, a coupling of shorts and features will take over the Lincoln Theatre (541 Lincoln Rd.,…
Although radio man David Gilmore likes to refer to himself as the “purveyor of fascinating stories of the gay community,” his technical title for the past five years is that of executive producer for Outright Radio, an independent syndicated radio show that tells odd, wacky, and amazingly heartfelt stories of…
Just think: the country’s largest Hispanic theater festival existing in a state that cuts major funding for the arts in one fell swoop. Seven countries, four continents, and multiple languages converging on South Florida for two weeks despite orange-level terror alerts, heightened airport security, and indecipherable visa applications. Indeed it…
Thursday, June 5 Gimme Strength Surely over the years the venerable, High Renaissance-style Central Baptist Church (500 NE First Ave.) — which predates the City of Miami’s birth by two days in 1896 — has seen more than its share of powerful moments. But nothing like John Jacobs and the…
Saturday June 7 The Redland Farm and Garden Show is a perfect excuse to visit enticing Fruit and Spice Park (24801 SW 187th Ave., Homestead), home to historic structures and 32 acres of fertile farmland that produce more than 500 varieties of plants. The show will revolve around antique tractors,…
Thursday, June 5 Postpartum anxiety never felt so good. Now new mommies and daddies can alleviate their nerves about keeping their little bundle alive while shopping for cute outfits, as Bloomingdale’s in the Falls (8778 SW 136th St.) and Aventura (19555 Biscayne Blvd.) offer emergency tips in their seminars Lifesaving…
Thursday, June 5 Getting Religion Author talks of Judaism Temple Israel (137 NE 19th St.) welcomes the Provocateur of Judaism for a talk tonight. Don’t get all freaked. We’re not referring to Ariel Sharon or Yasser Arafat but to cultural critic Douglas Rushkoff, whom a newspaper recently graced with that…
Thursday June 5 City Theatre’s Summer Shorts festival has definitely grown in prominence and size since its first outing in 1996, but this year’s bill proves it hasn’t gotten too successful to ignore homegrown talent. The annual event solicits, develops, and produces a diverse group of short (one-act) comedies, dramas,…
Thursday, June 5 Who says all top-quality cultural events evaporate come summer in Miami? The moment hurricane season rolls around, temperatures linger in the upper nineties, and the humidity starts to wreak havoc with our hair, we thank the Lord that there’s still something to look forward to: the Coral…
Saturday 5/31 Upon graduation from the Miami City Ballet School, 18-year-old Xavier Cave will jette off to join New York City’s famed Dance Theatre of Harlem. Seventeen-year-old Jeanette Delgado will become a bona fide member of our own Miami City Ballet. And Lindsey Barber, at the ripe old age of…
Now 24/7 Men. A mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a body not nearly as good as he thinks, and forever focused on his ever-fascinating SELF. Enter, into the pool at Roney Palace, Playgirl’s Man of the Year — no “mystery” here, just a lot of body, an Appalachian…
Friday 5/30 He’s big, he’s bad, and he’s one of South Florida’s very own. Ira Sullivan has been playing his critically acclaimed jazz for nearly six decades and his band Ira Sullivan’s Inter/Outer Continental Quintet will share a bit of its post-bop vibe at 8:00 p.m. during the Jazz at…
Thursday 5/29 We’ve had more than our share of the blues, thank you. One thing we don’t ever get enough of, though, is poultry. Yes, turkey, chicken, capons — baked, broiled, fried, you name it. They make us happy. The same might be said, musically at least, for blues man…
If you’re reading this paper, chances are you’re more literate than the average American. If you’re reading the film reviews, it’s also likely that you’ve become familiar with words like “bravura” and “eponymous,” which seem to exist only in the vocabularies of professional movie assessors. But what if you were…
The budding teenage poet in Karen Moncrieff’s Blue Car writes melancholy verse about autumn leaves falling off trees and fathers abandoning their daughters. Predictably, the girl’s floundering mother is too harried and too strapped for cash to pay much attention to her, and her troubled little sister is endlessly needy…
There are many ways to keep Granny and Grandpa’s memory alive. Some people arrange meticulous albums filled with yellowing and faded photographs. Some folks have their grandparents’ cremated remains put in an urn and display them on the mantelpiece. Other people, like artist David Baskin, get their grandpa’s hat, coat,…
There are more than 170 million people living in Brazil, the largest country in South America. Despite the dense population, there are only about 1600 movie houses — roughly the same amount as in Manhattan, according to Adriana Dutra, executive director of the seventh annual Brazilian Film Festival of Miami…
Now 24/7 As you read this the King and Queen of Miami are most likely rocking themselves to a peaceful dither in new fancy recliners. A fitting throne for Ms. Marie Louis Alexis and Mr. Idelfonso Gonzalez, our respective monarchs, who at 103 years of age were named Miami’s most…
Thursday 5/29 Any time you see a cheering band of Hassidic men in high jubilation, you think of a bar mitzvah or circumcision. But at recent boxing bouts at the Seville Hotel, the flinging side locks and hearty hugging is for a different rite of manhood, a win by undefeated…
Thursday 5/29 Is the United States’ wet foot/dry foot policy of immigration prudent? Is it fair? Legions of immigrants from Cuba and Haiti (and points beyond) risk their lives crossing the Florida Straits in rickety vessels each year, and each year the results remain the same: If you’re Cuban and…
Whatever else may be said about the South Florida theater scene, certainly there’s a whole lotta playwrighting going on here. The place seems to be jumping with premieres just about weekly, and several area companies focus on new works, each in its own way. Florida Stage in Manalapan is dedicated…
The hoopla surrounding Art Basel is six months behind us now, which is why it’s as good a time as any to step back and assess our current art scene. When looking at the art being done in Miami, it doesn’t appear much different from what I saw three years…
