Robert Rodriguez just keeps cranking ’em out. This hasn’t always been a good thing — Spy Kids 2 and 3 felt rushed in a way that the first one didn’t, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico looked cheap compared to its cinematic predecessor, Desperado. But the more Rodriguez keeps…
About a year ago, buzz started building among horror fans about a French slasher movie titled Haute Tension, about two girls who go to a country house and get terrorized by a maniac in workman’s coveralls. It had been well received in Europe, and horror geeks with websites here occasionally…
In the astro-geek subculture, operating the projector of a planetarium holds the same cachet that driving the Zamboni between periods of a hockey game holds in the cult of the ice rink. At the Buehler Planetarium on Broward Community College’s main campus in Davie, that projector privilege rests upon the…
“At This Time, 10 Miami Artists”: Donald and Mera Rubell’s newly refurbished warehouse and legendary art holdings make the Rubell Family Collection one of America’s best privately owned contemporary venues. Its current exhibit suggests Miami artists are internationally respected. Curator Mark Coetzee has created a dynamic interaction among the pieces…
We’ve all been there — in jobs that are beneath us. Some of us bitch and moan about it. Some of us get proactive and start spending quality time with Monster.com. Some of us go postal. Then there’s Stacee Cooney. “I had two college degrees, but I was doing a…
THU 2 It took the Miami Heat all of four games to take down the Washington Wizards and wrap up the Eastern Conference Semifinals. The conference finals, however, have proven more difficult, as the Heat lost game 1 to the Detroit Pistons before winning the next two. There’s a pattern…
The New York Times calls it “ugly overkill.” The Boston Globe says its author can “dream up truly retch-worthy scenarios” but “reveals too much.” But if you ask said author, Fight Club creator Chuck Palahniuk, he’ll tell you what you’d rather not believe — that his new book, Haunted, is…
What is all the bleeping commotion about? FRI 6/3 For every cynic who saw the film What the Bleep Do We Know? and called it “a sea of new agey horse crap,” there were three fanatics who saw it and gushed, “It changed my life.” While some viewers went home…
Interleague play ends this week TUE 6/7 Unfortunately for baseball fans in Miami who despise pitchers’ batting and would love to see the entire National League convert to designated hitters, Marlins home games versus American League teams employ the rules of the home park. Thus, you’ll see Dontrelle Willis, Josh…
How many vacation days do you get? SAT 6/4 Tourists and cameras. They go together like hairy Europeans and teeny man-bikinis. But it wasn’t always so. Once upon a time, pirates could describe the beauty of French Polynesia to their families in England only by sketching a picture. Pioneers who…
No script, no prob for Mod 27 SAT 6/4 In the hierarchy of all things comedic, improvisational comedy fits somewhere between Rodney Dangerfield movies and mimes — neither gets much respect. There are dental procedures that are more fun to watch than improv at its worst. Watching a bad comedian…
There was no reason to expect much from Cinderella Man, Ron Howard’s biography of boxer James Braddock, who in the summer of 1935 became the most unlikely heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. After all, it’s a true tale whose outcome has been predetermined; surely there could be no…
Lords of Dogtown is an odd, disorienting commodity — a fictional version of a documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys) about the birth of skateboarding in 1970s Venice, California, that was written by the man who directed said doc, in which he was a central figure. Stacy Peralta, whose Dogtown and Z-Boys…
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a flawed movie born of a flawed novel, but let this be clear: Girls will eat it up with a spoon. It features three young stars, indulges in rampant romantic fantasy, drips with teary-eyed sentimentality, and pays a heapload of lip service to…
Ten is a magical age, when kids are old enough to make articulate statements about their experience and young enough to express their feelings without shame. In a couple of years, excitement will go the way of the bag lunch and become uncool, and acceptable poses will shrink to a…
Jules Feiffer’s memory play about Brooklyn in the 1950s resounds as a cautionary tale for the United States in the 21st Century. Now at GableStage in a terrific production directed by Joseph Adler, A Bad Friend is ambitious and intimate, a provocative series of family snapshots that evokes the history…
There’s nothing like a feisty group exhibition to usher in another long, hot South Florida summer, and so the “Hollywood All-Media Juried Biennial” is as welcome as a tall, tart glass of ice-cold lemonade. The competition was established just two years ago by the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood’s…
It’s so much easier to forgive someone for having a family fortune when the money is put to good use, as Artbeat discovered on a recent visit to the Rubell Family Collection. This contemporary collection is now world-class, although its origins are humble. About four decades ago, newlyweds Don and…
Now Showing The Last Session is a musical that overcomes an uninspired, predictable story line with solid songs and a vibrant production. Originally staged off Broadway in 1997, it tells the story of Gideon (Gary Waldman), a singer/songwriter who’s given up his fight with AIDS. All that’s left to do…
“Heavy petting. Foreplay. Mindfucking.” That’s what happens at a fetish party, says Glenn, owner of the Fetish Factory boutique. (He goes by just his first name so he can one day return to the healthcare profession.) “Sometimes, to get someone to agree to what you want is more exciting than…
THU 26 Memorial Day may be on Monday, but the weekend starts Thursday with a little game of “Drink Drink Goose,” as it were. There’s no better way to get loose than with a little Grey Goose. But at Pepper’s Café (3828 N. University Dr., Sunrise), there’s No Grey Goose…
You’re going to need some Red Bull to go with your Red Stripe this Memorial Day weekend, because you, baby, have some partying to do. “In Jamaica, we party every single day of the week,” Damien Tater says. “It’s crazy fun — fun from when I wake up in the…
