“Intimacy and Discomfort” — When intimacy between strangers becomes too intimate, things can get a little weird. That much is evident in this show featuring multimedia works by Laura Burns and Teresa Diehl. More than a passive art display, the exhibit serves as a mirror into the viewer’s own feelings…
Can there be anyone who doesn’t go all Pavlovian when he hears the name Aretha and start singing “R-E-S-P-E-C-T”? OK, maybe North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is sitting somewhere in Pyongyang under two pounds of Elvis hair watching Daffy Duck cartoons. But he doesn’t count. Everybody else knows that…
THU 27 God save South Florida — the Creepy T’s have added a second guitar to their already fuzzed-out garage-punk mix, in the form of one Dr. Steven Van Helsing. While that may sound like a heavy load, just try to recall the last time guitarist/vocalist Derek Hyde actually played…
Beenie Man performs at the Voodoo Lounge (111 SW Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale) on Thursday, May 27. Doors open at 10 p.m., and tickets cost $20. Call 954-522-0733.
Latin poet lays down beats THU 5/27 Called to priesthood by verse and inspired by African poets known as griots, Adrian Castro writes and recites rhythmic tales of history, civilization, and spirituality. The way this Cuban-Dominican Miami native sees things, maracas swim in his veins, Caribbean people are born in…
FRI 5/28 So, you’ve always wanted to finish a triathlon, but you’ve been too lazy to switch off the TV, put down that tub of buttered popcorn, and lace up your running shoes to even start a triathlon. Well, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program will hook…
Assaulting more than eardrums SUN 5/30 Tampa Bay has long been home to rock music’s more evil-minded attention-getters, from death-metal heavyweights like Deicide, who taught us the virtues of animal sacrifice, to industrial-rock media whores Hell on Earth, who promised (though didn’t deliver) an on-stage euthanasia last October. So where…
… don’t come knockin’ SUN 5/29 Thanks to the success of Shaggy and Sean Paul, an entire generation of Americans has come to define reggae as ass-shaking music with lyrics too rapidly sung to comprehend, laid over looped hip-hop beats. The musically challenged minds of America’s youth, warped by countless…
What becomes of Morgan Spurlock’s body after a month of eating and drinking nothing but McDonald’s assembly-line foodstuffs is not surprising. He bloats up, gaining nearly 30 pounds in 30 days. His sex drive peters out, among the myriad disappointments visited upon Spurlock’s vegan-chef girlfriend, who’s only too happy to…
Those people who live in small towns, they’re not like you and me. So naive, so innocent. And adorably quirky. Why, they’ve got so many lovable quirks, you just want to run up and hug ’em. Or if you’re a filmmaker, perhaps you can make a movie about these simple…
Sitting through Raising Helen is an exercise in frustration, because somewhere inside this big heap of Hollywood nothing is a something (someone, actually) worth saving and savoring. Her name is Joan Cusack, always a supporting player but never a star, no matter her grace and warmth and charm even in…
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Screenplay by David Benioff, inspired by Homer’s The Iliad. Starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Diane Kruger, Orlando Bloom, Brian Cox, and Peter O’Toole. Rated R.
Directed by Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon. Written by Andrew Adamson, Joe Stillman, and J. David Stern & David Weiss. Starring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and Antonio Banderas. Rated PG.
Directed by Dennie Gordon. Written by Emily Fox and Adam Cooper & Bill Collage. Starring Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Andy Richter, and Eugene Levy. Rated R.
Written and directed by David Mackenzie, based on the novel by Alexander Trocchi. Starring Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, and Emily Mortimer. Rated NC-17.
There are few sure things in theater, as in life, but a sex comedy from funnyman Steve Martin performed by a first-rate cast should be one of them. Sad to say, The Underpants, now in production at the Actors Playhouse in Coral Gables, is something of a disappointment. Martin’s adaptation…
David Mamet’s 1974 play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, takes the audience back to a time when women’s rights, drugs, and sexual freedom were in the forefront and political correctness was nonexistent. Prepare for exposed flesh, a cacophony of curse words that would make George Carlin proud, and frank discussion about…
When intimacy between strangers becomes too intimate, things can get a little weird. That much is evident in “Intimacy and Discomfort,” which features the multimedia works of Laura Burns and Teresa Diehl. More than a passive art display, the exhibit serves as a mirror into the viewer’s own feelings toward…
Brilliant Traces: Two strangers, both weary with life, come face to face with awful truths they’ve tried desperately to hide in Cindy Lou Johnson’s play. Rosanna de Luce (Deborah L. Sherman), clad in a wedding dress, stumbles into the isolated Alaskan barn of self-made hermit, Henry Harry (Peter P. De…
“Michael Joo” — Stripped of all art-babble the artist likes to surround his art with, Joo’s work, though essentially conceptual, often has an amazing visceral impact. That’s “visceral” both in terms of the viewer’s reaction to it and in terms of the subject matter and sometimes even the actual content…
Attention, control freaks and misogynist pigs: Come see how you tear asunder that which probably shouldn’t have been joined together in the first place! Like the dysfunctional relationships presented in Sexual Perversity in Chicago, David Mamet’s breakthrough play, which will be reinterpreted by the players at the edgy Sol Theatre…
THU 20 It’s OK if Mexican immigrants want to clean our half-million-dollar houses… but when they move into our neighborhood? Hey, that might lower our property values! That’s the basis of the conflict that happened recently in Farmingville, Long Island — which is not too far from what’s happening in,…
