Most people can’t build a building, and building people is probably a hell of a lot harder. But Benefactors is about that very thing. Michael Frayn’s 1984 drama follows a frustrated architect as he turns from the increasing drudgery of cookie-cutter skyscraper construction to the more interesting task of reconstructing…
Bootie bass maestro José El Rey is multitasking. In addition to his full time job (Player), he’s also throwing down some new tracks in a Miami studio when we call. Fortunately, he has a portable telephone, a patio, and many big thoughts to share. Otherwise, we might never know about…
It’s 2 a.m. on a Friday night. You’re drunk, as usual. Then, a gurgle in your belly – it starts out low and bass-heavy like far away thunder before building into a crescendo of crackling, splooshing, swirling noise. It’s the onset of the munchies, and a particularly vicious case at…
You’ve probably heard the sad news already: Due to rising fuel costs and lack of corporate sponsorship, the annual Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show has been cancelled. Yes, it’s a bummer (and kind of ironic…does the war have a sponsor?), but we still have Fleet Week! Today through May…
There’s a sensual art to disrobing. Most of us get awkwardly tripped up in our blue jeans, god forbid we try our evening wear — hopping hopelessly until we tumble over. Then there are seasoned burlesque performers, like the fancy ladies of the Boudoir Beauties: They just shimmy a hip…
We here at New Times are what you’d call city folk: We don’t like roughing it, we rarely wrassle pigs (tell that to my wife, bada bing!), and we couldn’t spot a constellation if it had a neon sign glowing next to it. Yup, we prefer to do our contemplative…
One of the most evil and satisfying sensations known to man is the anticipation of contempt. It’s a feeling so powerful and pervasive that an author once suggested naming it. He didn’t offer any suggestions, whoever he was, so I’ll posit one: “anticitempt.” I was full of anticitempt on my…
Have you ever had the experience of getting together with old friends who seemed not themselves that particular day? That’s sort of how my most recent visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami felt. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was, but almost…
What are you looking at?” Tabatha Mudra challenges us. Her photographs of androgynous individuals, “The A-Project,” make us evaluate how we assign gender and confront our discomfort with sexual ambiguity. Mudra approaches the subject of alternative lifestyles with alternative methods, using acetone transfer to watercolor paper. The process delivers fractured…
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the sole season of NBC’s Freaks and Geeks, on which Segel played bright-eyed burnout Nick Andopolis. On the episode “I’m With the Band,” Nick imagined himself an…
Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long, and going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the furniture. Alas, it’s worse than that. Pacino plays a Seattle forensic psychiatrist in symbiotic thrall to the serial killer he helped…
If you don’t remember a game called The Typing of the Dead, you’re not alone. Released on the failed Sega Dreamcast system, this gory, hilariously titled arcade-style shooter was in many ways exactly like its popular counterpart, The House of the Dead. But instead of aiming a gun at the…
These days everybody’s going green. Last year, NBC devoted an entire week’s worth of programming to green initiatives, which is why we ended up with a horrible episode of 30 Rock about David Schwimmer’s “Greenzo” character. Credit card providers are in on it too – you’ve probably been asked to…
Here’s why April rules: Because the Marlins can sit in first place for a few moments, even as they surrender 50 percent more runs than they score. (That’s what some walk-off dingers in the first couple of weeks will do for a team that figures to lose more than it…
What if you showed up at work one day and found out your boss wasn’t a tool? What if he was Bruce Springsteen, the unofficial poet laureate of New Jersey? It would be cool, indeed, to have Bruce, the Boss of Bosses, as your boss. Fantasy aside, you’re stuck with…
To some, student artwork means painting fraternity letters on a beer bong and naming it Sir Chugs-A-Lot. To others, like the 2008 graduating class of FAU’s Department of Fine Arts, it’s a description of a journey that’s taken them four years to complete. Well, today at the Ritter and Schmidt…
French chicks are cute. Maybe it’s the accent. Maybe it’s a certain je ne sais quoi, an intermingling of charming worldliness, quirky joie de vivre, and a seemingly wry acceptance of human imperfection. Whatever. They’re cute. And Audrey Tautou is one of the cutest. Best known in the U.S. for…
Before you go rushing out to see “In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey,” please be aware that, no, Bernard and Shirley aren’t the sex-research Kinseys. Instead, they are a California-based couple who have amassed an impressive collection of slave-owners’ documents, artifacts,…
It’s getting harder to have faith in our judicial system with each passing day. It seems that every high profile (read: celebrity) case ends with an overwhelmingly guilty party getting off on a technicality or a clever closing argument that rhymes. Those of us longing for the good old days…
It’s been some years since boxing has seen a puncher like Juan Urango – he’s got a no-holds-barred approach that blends discipline with pure power. It’s a style that brings buzz and excitement to a sport that more often than not lacks it. With his brutal, face-pummeling method of attack,…
It’s official: This year’s Exxxotica Miami Beach – you know, the annual Adult Industry trade convention that gathers even more freaks than usual on South Beach – is also going to be home to the Amateur Adult Film Awards. The AMMYs will be a lot of fun because (1) any…
What is it about the current crop of British musical imports? They’re all female, sassy, fresh, and irreverent, and so far, the most prominent two – that’d be Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen – seem to be squandering their massive talents for the kind of antics that guarantee tabloid attention…
