For Robert Battle, artistic director designate of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (he takes the reins in July), Miami isn’t just another stop on the company’s 24-city national tour. It’s home. Born in Florida, Battle began studying dance in high school at New World School of the Arts, where he…
The Bearded Lover is about three sisters, each crippled in a horrendous house fire that devoured their parents. They live together in almost hermetic isolation. Sounds like a downer. But the play, a dark comedy, is not without involving sentiment. It joins the sisters one night at 3 a.m. in…
You only notice typography when the arrangements are off. If you’re reading a sobering sentiment, it should be visually delivered with some authority and clarity, right? Not some balloony, bubbly style typeface that will detract from the message. Such whimsy just doesn’t feel right. Courier New, Helvetica, and Caslon all…
Since prehistoric humans first started pondering things, we all have been fascinated by the moon. What’s it doing up there? Is it made of cheese? It makes werewolves, brings out the lunatics, and controls the tides! OK, yeah, it definitely controls the tides, but the rest was merely myth, well,…
Nothing Personal is art-house cinema at its most esoteric: ignored by most, adored by few, screened by fewer. Czech-born director Urszula Antoniak’s feature-film debut is a low-key study in late-blooming romance between a steel-trapped, fiercely withdrawn vagabond (a striking Lotte Verbeek) and the hermetic farmer (Stephen Rea) she encounters on…
Conceived by author James Frey as the beginning of a potential blockbuster franchise, I Am Number Four is nothing but a million little pieces from prior superhero series and the Twilight saga. D.J. Caruso’s generic adventure, co-written by Frey under a pseudonym, concerns John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), a hunky blond…
Artopia is New Times Broward-Palm Beach’s annual injection of all things cultural and sensational. On Wednesday, the bold assortment of over-the-top fashion, art, live music, and dancing hits Delray Beach’s Italian restaurant and lounge Il Bacio. The $20 admission purchases you a night of tantalizing visual stimuli and plenty of…
Auteur Explosion returns! Perhaps you’ve heard of this brainchild of Dawn Dubriel, a local director, writer, and producer, the nights at Cinema Paradiso that incorporate live music, art, special performances, and, most important, local, short film screenings. This return — number 15 — is called “Vive la Femme!” and it’s…
Plenty has been said about Mugs (2671 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) in reference to the space it occupies. In a previous life, it was an upscale restaurant, and the remains of that are still present visually and represented in the menu. For that, the happy result is the…
How would you like to be in the “company” of greatness? The Caldwell Theatre Company’s latest production is a play lauded by critics. Yeah! Critics have had nothing but great things to say about the performance, despite the obvious social stigmas. Next Fall is a tale of a modern romance…
Lovingly animating an unproduced script by the great Jacques Tati, The Illusionist is, at least in part, a chaste father-daughter romance. Animator Sylvain Chomet was even given the source material by French filmmaker Tati’s daughter. Chomet sets The Illusionist on the cusp of the ’60s. The animator presents his title…
The Bieber movie, a concert experience and origin-myth documentary, is not good — not that it needs to be. It is draggily paced and lacks felicity of form; the 3-D is a rip-off, and the songs are pap, save a snippet of Etta James singing “At Last” while Bieber’s glossy…
Where some people might see a pile of junk, James “Super Chikan” Johnson sees guitars. Discarded gas cans, lawn mowers, car parts, and even a ceiling fan have provided the raw material for the Mississippi bluesman’s instruments. And his songs are as singular as the axes he plays them on…
Thanks to relatively small waves and gentle tides, South Florida has never been known as a surfing destination. But those tranquil conditions do make our coastline ideal for another high-intensity water sport: skim boarding. Like the love child of surfing and skating, skim boarding combines the rush of riding atop…
Who says Broward is a boring place (well, besides them)? It may be a bit quiet at times, but not for artists. From graffiti to conceptual, from fine to folk, artists have lots of opportunities to get out of their lonely studios and engage in communal activities that bring them…
Who said your grandma wasn’t a fashion icon? Sure, during your childhood, her shoulder pads, rose lapel bin, and penny loafers may have freaked you out. Who knows if they were even still in style then. But they were once. And there is a time for every style to come…
More than a century has passed since Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and still his theory is unpopular in the United States. “I came from God, not from a monkey,” insisted Georgia congressman (and primate) Jack Kingston in a recent TV appearance. The Middle Ages may rule the political right, but…
There’s hardly a day that relies more on gender stereotypes than Valentine’s Day. Lingerie, flowers, and expensive dinner tabs, we’re told, make Cupid’s aim a sure thing. But thankfully, Broward’s foremost indie gallery, the Bubble, will offer an alternative to the endless dinner specials and pink balloons that ostensibly appeal…
Recently nominated by the academy for Best Documentary Feature, Waste Land shadows a recent project of Brazilian art phenom Vik Muniz. The visual artist, known for recycling unorthodox materials in his mixed-media representations, travels to the world’s mother lode of trash to treasures: the Jardim Gramacho landfill, located just outside…
The female form with its hourglass silhouette has long been considered the peak of visual perfection — the curvier the form, the better — up until Kate Moss and her acolytes. Nowadays, the bountiful Botticelli ideal is known as the pinup girl or cheesecake. If you’d like to partake in…
The blowing will start Thursday evening, and it won’t stop until Friday afternoon. Only with this type of consistency does Waterfront Commons have the chance for a snowy finish. The snowboarding contingent in South Florida should get really excited — this space will hold a snowboarding competition Friday. Set designers…
The likelihood that you read New Times and consider yourself a huge fan of Enrique Iglesias is slim to none. We’ve done the research. We conducted focus groups and sat through interminable meetings with pie charts and bar graphs and pivot tables. Then we polled the staff. One person who…
