A portrait of decadent life in Rome — complete with a love triangle, hard drugs, and elaborate costume changes — is the opening-night flick of the Italian Film Festival this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Regal Cinemas South Beach (1120 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach). Parlami d’Amore (or Talk to Me…
If Shakespeare had been a tweaker, he might have set something up like the Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theater Project — a veritable meth lab of creative collaboration and ad hoc performance. Lest you believe, however, that any original play conceived, written, rehearsed, and performed in a 24-hour period will be…
Brazil is the Ferris Bueller of nation-states. Everyone loves Brazil, wants to party with Brazil, doesn’t care if Brazil doesn’t show up to the G20 meetings, and just hopes Brazil hasn’t dropped out or moved to some other planet. Seriously, Brazil, just hang here with us. We need you. Why?…
The bluesy, punkabilly Dex Romweber Duo is a must-see for any roots rocker. Fronted by Dexter Romweber, the brother/sister pair (or at least Dex, who played in the iconic underground group Flat Duo Jets) has been cited as a major influence by numerous artists such as Cat Power, Neko Case,…
Martin Provost’s lyrical but bracing portrait of the early-20th-century French painter Séraphine Louis begins and ends with a quietly ecstatic shot of the artist nestling up to the rustling leaves of a majestic tree. In Provost’s vision, the dirt-poor country housekeeper’s elemental flower paintings, derided by her bourgeois neighbors, are…
I would be hard-pressed to come up with two artists as diametrically opposed as Sheila Elias and Stan Slutsky, whose work is presented in a mismatched pair of solo shows at the Coral Springs Museum of Art. Maybe that’s the point. Elias, whose “Sheila Elias: Somewhere — Anywhere” takes up…
It seemed like a cool idea: Invite a bunch of tattoo artists to put down the needle and pick up the paintbrush (or pencil or whatever). That’s the premise behind “Off the Needle: The Art of SoFla Tattoo Artists,” a group show now at the Bear and Bird Boutique +…
The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore’s latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing slogans like “Make Love, Not Capitalism” and “Capitalism, We Have a Problem.” The shirts and the movie are brought to you by those filthy Reds: Overture Films —…
The Invention of Lying’s plot hook sounds like a pileup of Jim Carrey/Tom Shadyac concept comedies. The assumption is that there isn’t much crossover between the Liar, Liar and the Ricky Gervais fan base. Gervais’ fuzzy parable exists in an alternate universe where nobody has made a word for “truth,”…
A montage of news footage crisply introduces the not-too-distant future, where the world’s white-collar professionals live vicariously through plastic-smooth swimsuit-cut surrogate bodies, psychically remote-controlled by flesh-and-blood selves abandoned to storage and pallid vegetation. These superdurable avatars are free to live in (somewhat timidly imagined) consequence-free hedonism. No real victims means…
Drew Barrymore, making her directorial debut, is blunt onscreen and off about her inspirations for this tale of an anguished debutante-turned-roller grrrl. Take a little bit of Peter Yates’ Breaking Away (a teen townie trying to escape his humdrum existence and Dad on a ten-speed), toss in Adrian Lyne’s Foxes…
The zombie movie — that evergreen vessel for all manner of social and political allegory — gets stripped down to its “Holy shit! Zombies! Run!” chassis in this fitfully amusing romp directed with little ambition and even less distinction by first-timer Ruben Fleischer. Set in a not-too-distant future where most…
Arts 9 Muses Art Center 7139 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-746-2055. Daily: Created to give those suffering from psychological disorders a creative outlet and an artistic road to recovery, 9 Muses features the work of local artists coping with mental illness. Armory Art Center 1700 Parker Ave.,…
There are a lot of obvious things to dislike about Texas: the obesity, the racism, the arrogance, the football obsession, the political leaders. But there are also many things to vindicate the Lone Star State: barbecue that makes your toes curl, beautiful women, a tangerine sky that stretches for miles,…
Tonight, check out “This Land is My Land,” an exhibit of Latin American artists at Art Expressions Gallery. No, it’s not a Woody Guthrie tribute to redwood forests and Gulf Stream waters. Rather, it’s a way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month and experience works by Colombian Ana Maria Hoyos, Adriano…
Dori Berinstein’s documentary, which looks at a year in the lives of the 12 women and one chunky B-boy in the New Jersey Nets senior — as in over 60 years old—hip-hop dance team, would be just another disposable, albeit touching, distraction if its subtext didn’t hint that growing old…
The ritzy, glitzy Whiskey Blue at the new W Hotel on Fort Lauderdale Beach is hosting a new Wednesday night party that it guarantees to be “the only high-end gay friendly party in town.” Whiskey Blue’s Facebook page says the party is for gay men and women “and the lucky…
Even if he hadn’t made his name rapping about kilos and capers, Wu-Tang MC Ghostface Killah’s longform flow would still be described as straight dope. But Ghostface – AKA “Tony Starks”, “Ironman”, “Pretty Toney” and now “Ghostdini the Wizard of Poetry” – did gain a reputation from swaggering through tales…
Satan’s Youth Ministry typically plays under several glowing neon pentagrams that flash in time to guitar solos and blink along with the vocals. But where you’d expect guttural grindcore screams and crunchy guitar noise, there are only the softer sounds of psychedelic garage rock. The Alabama-based five-piece mixes Motörhead-style vocals…
Directors and actors get all the attention in Hollywood. The people who make them look good — like editors, costume designers, and cinematographers? Not so much. Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale) has decided to do its part to raise awareness of these behind-the-scenes magicians by highlighting the…
It’s been nearly 20 years since the Black Crowes dropped their debut album Shake Your Money Maker, which, though not exactly groundbreaking, kicked serious ass. Following its release, UK music mag Melody Maker dubbed the boys from Atlanta “The Most Rock ’n’ Roll Rock ’n’ Roll band in the World.”…
Picketing, boycotts, sit-ins, marching… Protests can take many forms, although most, with the exception of the bumper sticker, involve some sort of action-oriented defiance. In 1969, however, Yoko Ono and John Lennon proved yet another advantage of being famous. While the rest of us risked rubber bullets and pepper spray…
