It was only a matter of time until Gladys Knight’s charming yet awkward run on Dancing With The Stars came to an end. Like an older relative on a social network, it started cute, then became sad, then morbidly fascinating, and finally unbearable until we hit the proverbial “hide posts”…
Forget the over-the-top spectacles of David Blaine and Criss Angel. The most effective illusions are the simplest: an ordinary subject, a distraction or two, and an incredibly skilled performer.That also happens to be Death and Harry Houdini’s recipe for its performance at the Arsht last night. The ordinary subject: Death…
Billy Gardell is a funny fat guy from Pittsburgh, and the star of Mike and Molly, one of TV’s most popular shows in which he plays a cop who meets his future wife at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.You might also know him from bit roles on King of Queens, Judging…
Dennis Watkins Defies Death as Harry Houdini at the Arsht
All the greatest comedic acts of our time have used one recipe for success: an innate sense of showmanship and a keen eye for social commentary. For if not comedians, safe behind the veneer of jokes, who would call Drake an effeminate gorilla? Or even a Puerto Rican tranny?Both of…
Gavin DeGraw is gone! Rejoice!This does mean we have nobody’s stupid hat fetish to mock anymore, unless Roshon wants to take it up. But we’re still counting this as a victory for humankind.It’s Motown week on Dancing With The Stars, which means you can take solace that for one week,…
Who’s sick enough to come up with the idea to insert “comemierda” into random movie titles for fun?And who has the Miami star power to turn that idea into a trending Twitter hashtag?Only Pepe Billete, Escoria Films’ puppet-in-chief whose mouth is dirtier than the entire cast of Avenue Q combined…
If we had to summarize the theme of this week’s episode of Magic City, it might be “the baggage of our past often impedes our ability to live in the present.” Or “even if the State Senator claims to be into European girls, give him a few Scotches and he’ll…
Last night, at its annual Reach for the Stars Gala Auction, Actors’ Playhouse raised over $150,000 to fund its operating costs for the upcoming 2012-13 season.Meanwhile, in the neighborhood next door, the Coconut Grove Playhouse sits empty, mired in debt that nobody wants to shoulder.The Coconut Grove community’s Give It…
We had a power outage for a few hours this morning and maybe it says more about us, but we really couldn’t have cared less about the stifling heat or the fear of all of our refrigerated food going bad.No, we were far more preoccupied in getting our sweet DWTS…
For most members of Generation X, or Y, or XY, or whatever they’re calling 20-somethings these days, the entirety of our opera experience was the 10-minute segment in Pretty Woman in which Richard Gere flies a jewel-bedecked Julia Roberts off in a private jet. But after seeing the Florida Grand…
Boy, things really are boiling over on Magic City! Ok, maybe not “boiling over.” But things definitely are at least at a moderate simmer.Remember that troublesome union leader in the pilot? He done went and disappeared, which we’re pretty sure is a euphemism for getting killed, but what do we…
You may think that there’s an appreciable difference in going to see a play at Actors Playhouse or GableStage and going to catch a ballgame at Marlins Park. But you’d be wrong. Mostly. A Miami Marlins game is every bit as much theatre as something written by Tracy Letts or…
We love Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk for all the important reasons: free booze, killer visual installations, bizarre conversations with socially awkward artists. And now there’s yet another reason to get psyched for our favorite artistic endeavor: this weekend’s stroll is offering an earful of aria to help pump up…
Like a 6-year-old dropping an f-bomb, the things that come out of Nikki Glaser’s mouth are pretty shocking. The bits in her repertoire touch on some pretty sensitive topics — rape, for example. And in a YouTube video titled “Lady Comic Slumber Party” featuring Glaser, Amy Schumer, Rachel Feinstein, and…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Ring Theatre through April 15
Moscow at the Arsht Center Through April 15
Property Line at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center Through April 15
If you’re going to lend hundreds of thousands of dollars to someone, you think you’d at least keep a receipt.But disputes over who owes what to whom are the latest roadblock in the Coconut Grove Playhouse settlement, according to the Miami Herald. Development group Aries claims they’ve given over $2…
Most Miami Heat fans left last night’s losing game against the Boston Celtics in disappointment.But Lil Wayne isn’t most fans.The rapper watched most of the game quietly, looking away to text or talk to friends. He barely batted an eye when the Miami Heat dancers strutted across the court. He…
Last week, Miami City Ballet announced its new artistic director: Lourdes Lopez, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and current director of the New York-based dance company Morphoses, who will take the post on May 1, 2013. Following a five-month search, an 11-member committee chose Lopez from…
Last week Dancing With The Stars said goodbye to Jack Wagner, and not a moment too soon.You see, it’s Rock Week on our favorite celebrity dance competition, and you don’t want some old soap star dancing to the hottest rock groups of today, do you? Not with such up and…
