Perhaps you don’t drink – ever since “the Incident”—and you actually believe the Irish should be celebrated for more than inventing gin blossom noses (we kid!). You’re in luck because this Thursday, Lord of the Dance opens in 3D at Regal Cinemas South Beach. Did you hear that stomping and…
Machines deserve some TLC from time to time, especially if they’re the means for creating music that programs our bodies to shake. Extrapolate that thought to the “Digital Love Thursday” party series that began a few weeks ago at Green Room in the Revolution/America’s Backyard complex in downtown Fort Lauderdale…
When I mentioned to a handful of artists my plans to check out the “Impressions of Florida” show at Bonnet House recently, one reaction was a dismissive “Oh, old-lady art.” The perception, sadly, was that the Bonnet estate’s annual juried show is a stuffy, unadventurous affair, something suitable only for…
Michael Hall, the Caldwell Theatre’s founder and executive director emeritus, returns to direct his first production for the company since he passed the baton to Clive Cholerton in 2009. The inspiration for his return is the recent Tony nominee Next Fall, a play that’s funny, meaty, and humane enough to…
Rok:Brgr is a designer burger joint — a fitting addition to the downtown Himmarshee strip. And recently, the Rok:Brgr crew has launched “Beer School Mondays,” a night of slashed prices on their extensive craft-brew selection with some live music. Inside this low-lit venue, the hip atmosphere includes exposed brick walls,…
In The Adjustment Bureau, Matt Damon plays David Norris, a Brooklyn-born, bar-fight-prone congressman rocketing to the front of a Senate race apparently on the strength of his charisma and the idealism of his young supporters: “Come November, I want [the naysayers] to know it was young people like you who…
Ink still wet on his MIT degree, Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is back in hometown Los Angeles, waiting for his future to clarify itself while he loiters behind the counter at Suncoast Video, hawking VHSes of Harry and the Hendersons because it’s, like, totally 1988. Inspiration comes when Matt reencounters…
A rollicking, surreal, and existential kids’ Western that worships at the altars of Sergio Leone, Hunter S. Thompson, and Chinatown, Rango drowns under the weight of discordant objectives and influences. With his crooked neck, bug eyes, and Hawaiian shirt, reptilian Rango (boisterously voiced by Johnny Depp) is a Ralph Steadman…
The Biscayne Corridor around the Upper Eastside is pretty much the only place in the world you can find a concentration of Miami Modernist, or MiMo, buildings. Dating from the ’50s and ’60s, the style took the clean lines of popular postwar architecture movements and then, of course, Miami-fied them…
The Man Show was once upon a time a TV show dedicated to the unwashed miscreants of men in American society. On that show, the audience got to learn things like whether adults would buy beer for a loud-mouth boy or how many votes it would take to “end women’s…
This year’s Miami International Film Festival is replete with 100 films from 40 countries, red carpet galas, world premieres, competitions, awards, REEL Education Seminars, and other stuff to blow your independent-film-loving mind. The 2011 MIFF also features a seminar with documentarian Morgan Spurlock (the McDonald’s guy!) and will be screening…
Existence is a blank canvas upon which the mural of your life is painted. Some people take this sentiment more literally than others. Some people become actual painters. Others cover themselves in tattoos. But if you are a true literalist — and prefer your body art be the removable kind…
Every year gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer people converge on Miami Beach to celebrate their fabulousness. This year, Winter Party 2011 goes out of its way to celebrate diversity in people as well events. Of course there are going to be massive parties and electric DJs, but there are…
A modernized riff on Beauty and the Beast that’s as subtle as its protagonist’s freaky facial blemishes, Beastly offers up an Apple-store-shiny high school crammed with catty cretins, blossoming love in a luxuriant rooftop greenhouse, and a wise, racism-enduring Jamaican maid (Lisa Gay Hamilton) as its de facto Mrs. Potts…
Enter tarot cards and palm readings and Miss Cleo, because few people like surprises, especially when it comes to their future. But unfortunately, unlike presents, you’re not likely to get an easy exchange if you don’t like what you see. Whether or not you believe in the divine powers of…
Three exciting exhibitions open today at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. “Forever” showcases Cristina Lei Rodriguez, a local artist whose fantastical plastic sculptures can resemble sequined tumbleweeds or Technicolor fauna from an alien planet and comment on the real and fake in consumerism. “Yes, No, and Everything in…
The South Florida location of drag-show mainstay Lips has gathered crowds for three years. It’s no surprise — the giddily ostentatious shows are entertaining — so it seems fitting that, in its third year of success, a third show has been added to the Saturday-night lineup — a show reserved…
Remember when indie dance parties were low-key affairs with cheap drinks, a lax door policy, and great music? Luckily for us, there are people looking to bring that back. Back in the day, Nightdrive started at the News Lounge but never seemed to gain the popularity it deserved. It was…
In the second act of A Bearded Lover, Lucia, the youngest sister in this three-character opus, delivers one of the play’s most telling lines: “I’m not lifeless anymore, like the two of you.” For much of the protracted duration of this production, set in prerevolutionary Cuba, it’s an insult that…
Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages (to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively) have achieved somnolent routine in suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Yet the wives worry. Rick is a girl watcher; Fred masturbates in the privacy of their parked Honda Odyssey…
Ned (Liev Schreiber), the beleaguered patriarch in writer/director Richard Levine’s middling first feature, slogs through slowly simmering domestic and work stresses. Wife Jeannie (Helen Hunt) has begrudgingly allowed her sour, incapacitated father (Brian Dennehy) to move into their Queens home; recently out teenage son Jonah (Ezra Miller) has set off…
Although John Lennon is no longer with us, imagine in his 70th year of life what he would think of the world today. Would he still be a firm believer in promoting the message of peace and love? No doubt. Yoko Ono continues to spread Lennon’s mantra through a touring…
