When people think of Andy Warhol, they think of Campbell’s Soup and Marilyn Monroe decorated in glorious Technicolor. Blah, blah! That’s stereotyping. But it’s the same for any artist who becomes famous from a specific style. Need another example? Consider Pablo Picasso. But what those casual art admirers fail to…
Three years ago, a couple of ambitious artists named Oliver Wasow and John D. Monteith began communicating by way of Facebook. Wasow, a New York-based teacher and photographer, and Monteith, a painter in South Carolina, had a common interest in “found” photography (also known as vernacular photography) and decided to…
The first thing you see in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is a tight close-up of Kirsten Dunst’s face. Behind her, slow as molasses, birds are dropping from the sky. Brueghel’s The Flight of Icarus turns leisurely to ash; a passage from Tristan und Isolde swells on the soundtrack as lightning…
The Descendants is a case of bad things happening to good people. Honolulu lawyer Matt King (George Clooney), prosperous scion of a Hawaiian family claiming descent from American missionaries and Polynesian royalty, is humbled by a flurry of body blows. “Paradise can go fuck itself,” he declares in voice-over. A…
Desperately trying to appeal to not just the Gen X’ers who grew up with Kermit but also to the tykes who’ve never even heard of Jim Henson, The Muppets has none of the easy confidence of the original TV show or movie. The reboot is largely the labor of love…
The animated, 3-D Arthur Christmas introduces three generations of St. Nick’s family: Weedy retired Grandsanta (voiced by Bill Nighy, hogging the good lines), the obliviously ineffectual Santa Claus (Jim Broadbent), and his two sons, the North Pole’s ultracompetent control-room manager and Santa’s expected successor, Steve (Hugh Laurie), and his brother,…
In the TV-movie-quality impersonation that is Simon Curtis’ My Week With Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) has arrived in 1956 London to star in The Prince and the Showgirl, directed by and costarring Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). The pill-addled peroxide blond sweeps onto Olivier’s set with an entourage and habitually…
Martin Scorsese’s first foray into 3-D family filmmaking centers on its title character, played by Asa Butterfield, a just-prepubescent orphan squatting in a train station circa 1930. When not dodging an orphan-hunting station constable (Sacha Baron Cohen), Hugo secretly maintains the station’s clocks and attempts to fix an automaton, the…
If there had been an Occupy movement in post-World War II America, the fictional character Joe Keller in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons would have made for a model nemesis. Joe is a one-percenter, a war profiteer, and a manipulative snake who probably sent 21 fighter pilots plummeting to their…
We’re sure the reason you want to eat out on Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the charred carcass of a 20-pound turkey smoking in your oven as you read this. You just prefer that the money you spend on this dinner of thanks goes to a more thankful and…
The Fort Lauderdale Turkey Trot & Turkey Paddle on Thanksgiving Day benefits the fight against childhood obesity. A very worthy cause. Now, let’s back away from this thought a little bit. Runners are some of the luckiest mofos out there. Because on the days that they run, they feel no…
First, fraternities brought you Jell-O wrestling. Then one genius decided to dig a mud pit and throw some bikini-clad babes into it. Finally came South Florida’s entertainment groups: Last year, there was a Splash Paint & Foam Explosion Party. This year, ravingnation.com, Pure Entertainment, and Empire Entertainment Group are bringing…
From now until the new year, we all tend to overindulge. Eggnog latte with whipped cream, anyone? And all of that turkey and pumpkin pie can’t be good. So perhaps it would be wise to squeeze in some exercise. After you’ve received your annual Black Friday trampling and beating, head…
Saturday is going to be like Critical Mass fucked Second Saturday art walk. The G-Spot Bike Tour combines three of the coolest things to do in Miami: bike riding, beer drinking, and art. G-Spot commissioned ten Miami-based artists — including Domingo Castillo, Jia Hwang, Kerry Phillips, and Paul Guistinian –…
We’ve been gamboling around FAT Village ever since their Backward Bash in May 2010 that welcomed FAT Village residents to the neighborhood they were already residing in. But something was very different, and the residents soon found out — what was once warehouses along NW First Avenue between Sistrunk Boulevard…
To the erstwhile Sol Theatre’s funky digs — with its grand old Goodwill couches and tiny auditorium so intimate that theatergoers occasionally find themselves talking back to the actors — comes Thinking Cap Theatre’s world premiere of Death for Sydney Black, by Leah Nanako Winkler. Leah’s a young woman with…
South Florida is typically a sweltering-hot place full of heathens — but, once a year, those heathens make up for it by getting together and transforming our sticky paradise into a winterlike wonderland. For the past 49 years, Las Olas has been celebrating Christmas (or “the holidays,” to be more…
Five days to see 15-plus art fairs? Face it, you will not get to see everything during Art Basel week. But many don’t realize that a few of the satellite fairs open a day early, so you can eke out more art gawking and beat the badge-wielding crowds. Here’s that…
We’ve got STEM problems in this country. Not the argument over stem cells but not enough people choosing STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) as a career path. Maybe this has something to do with the way we view STEM subjects — boring. The Max Planck Florida Foundation and the…
For those who crave something darker for Yuletide, how about a naughty fetish party honoring Christmas? A Hollywood bar tucked away in Hollywood Circle will host this month’s enchanting soiree, and our fetish overlord, Electrolust, will glorify the Christmas-theme. It’s going to be a Cyanide Xmas fetish party, “Seasons Beatings”…
Ah, the holiday job. Plenty of us have had ’em: rung up orders, chucked boxes, scanned the days away. David Sedaris, however, had the king job of all — working as an elf at Macy’s. Not only did it give him enough cash to stay alive in New York City…
If you have ever sat on the beach as a kid in December and squinted your eyes at the white sand, trying to pretend it was snow, you might be a native Floridian. Taken to a public park and plopped on a giant pile of shaved ice and told to…
