Who can fix your espresso machine SAT 12/16 Part mime, part quick-change artist, and part paper doll drag queen, Ennio Marchetto has made a career out of wardrobe malfunctions and ripping off costumes to expose funny and ironic punch lines. One moment, he’s Celine Dion keening “My Heart Will Go…
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A nude man coats himself in honey and rolls in birdseed until his entire body is covered. He then enters a large enclosure, a sort of cage made of wood and chicken wire, containing only a bare-branched maple tree and a stacked pair of wooden crates, the top one much…
Since it opened in the late 1990s, Frons/Martin Dynasties has been known for its selection of country Chinese antiques — fashionably rugged furniture, austere ceramics, Buddhas, and Buddha heads. Step into this high-end design showcase and you enter a serene oasis only a few feet from the insanely busy intersection…
Ennio can best be described as laugh-out-loud hilarious. Italian performance artist Ennio Marchetto engages the audience with side-splitting parody, physical comedy, and origami skill. With presto-changeos of his self-made paper attire, he transforms from one pop icon to another. Lip syncing to some of the catchiest tunes from the ’20’s…
THU 9 Naturally, when the South Beach Gay Men’s Chorus does its take on It’s a Wonderful Life, it changes the title to It’s a Fabulous Life and translates the film into a musical. This new version centers on Joe — a gay actor whose role in Randolph the Rainbow…
You know what Venus Williams can do with a tennis racket, but have you seen what she can do with some color swatches and a design budget? How about what she can do on the craps table? The multitalented superstar — along with her friend and rival Jennifer Capriati –…
B-boys battle for dollars FRI 12/10 Breaking may be about moves, but break battles are nothing if not about cocky endurance — they’re spinning, flying, acrobatic, getting-served, street-level dance wars. At the Bridging the Gap B-boy Battle, athletic five-on-five crews will prove this by hitting the floor to show off…
Team enjoys home cooking FRI 12/10 Death, taxes, and the Heat at home. It was like that early on this season, when the team got off to a 5-1 start on the Triple A (American Airlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) hardwood. But they’ve gone 1-2 since in Miami, with…
‘ Tis the art season THU 12/9 If you can get past the giant crowd that surrounds the even more gargantuan Christmas tree at Delray Beach’s Old School Square, you can check out four new exhibits inside the Cornell Museum of Art and History (51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach)…
Dance fiends, it’s OK to come out now SAT 12/11 After the world’s disco balls were packed away but before its ecstasy tablets were mass-produced, dance fiends of the late ’80s and early ’90s found themselves in a strange vortex of teased hair, stirrup pants, and synthesizer beats. These folks…
If you’ve already decided to see Ocean’s Twelve, it’s probably best not to read much about it. Unlike its predecessor, a remake that clung to a hoary heist formula, the sequel contains ample pleasures, most of which amuse as the result of surprises both great and small. There’s no one…
There is something very important to know about Enduring Love that is not apparent from the title: It’s a thriller. More specifically, it’s a creepy, twisted, overproduced, and often intelligent psychological thriller with an ending all too loyal to the genre. Director Roger Michell (most recently of The Mother, a…
They walk among us. They resemble people, approximate our words and actions, present themselves more or less as human. And yet they are more — a different species, with their own dark legends, their own clandestine meeting places. They are dorks, and they are going to be pretty OK with…
Oh, how deceiving first appearances can be. At the start of Tracy Lett’s Bug, now in its Florida premiere at GableStage, a leggy redhead stands in the doorway of a battered motel room, sipping some wine and swaying gently to lively Colombian music playing somewhere off in the night. It’s…
STAGEBEAT Nothing much happens in Lake Worth Playhouse’s The Water Tower — in the beginning. It’s 1976, and Buddy, played by playwright Steven Griffith, lounges on the front porch of his aluminum trailer deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. When he’s not arguing with the countdown playing on the radio,…
“Continental Drift: Installations by Joan Jonas, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Juan Muñoz, and Yinka Shonibare,” now at the Norton Museum of Art, is cleverly named for the geological phenomenon that separated the supercontinent over millions of years, leaving us with seven continents and thousands of islands that look like puzzle…
For almost 25 years, the Milwaukee-bred trio the Violent Femmes has ridden the undercurrent of popular music and retained a rabid cult following, thanks to a cadre of memorable tunes, including “Blister in the Sun,” “Kiss Off,” and “Add It Up.” Formed in 1980 by multi-instrumentalist Brian Ritchie, drummer Victor…
If you time it right, you can see three shows in one night this Friday. So if you’re bummed out about the cancellations of the Le Tigre and Coheed & Cambria shows, hang tough. There are plenty of alternatives that’ll more than make up for any spoiled plans. The six…
THU 2 If you think Jon Stewart is one sexy mother, wait till you meet Carl Kasell! So what if he’s, like, 100 years old? If hotties were measured in brains, not brawn, Kasell would be off the hook! The dude is like the Brad Pitt of radio. Both tonight…
Aha! We figured it out! Miami isn’t really a city. It’s a big event-planning company disguised as a city! Its club scene provides built-in entertainment; its hotels provide built-in lodging; its beautiful residents provide built-in decoration. That’s why, when MTV, The Source magazine, or the Latin Grammys need a space…
Stars serve and volley for kids FRI 12/3 What do a former president, a sitcom star, and a filthy-rich icon of American capitalism have in common? No, this isn’t the beginning of a joke — these folks are all on the guest list for the 15th Annual Chris Evert Pro…
