Genesis Fine Art, a small gallery on Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Boulevard shopping district, specializes in original paintings, emphasis on original. That may not sound like such a significant distinction — until you consider how prevalent limited-edition prints and giclées are in today’s art market. Genesis currently stocks works by…
Waaay far out SAT 1/1 Garage rock is so 2001, ain’t it ? Sure, if all you know is the Billboard version of it. Never mind that the genre has been carried on for the past 40 years, from the Sonics in the ’60s all the way down to today’s…
Roman Vishniac was more of a storyteller than a photographer. In Vishniac’s photographs, currently tucked into a tiny gallery at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, one sees picture after picture of the haunted eyes and bundled, hunched figures of poor Jewish people living in Eastern Europe, taken from 1933…
Well, boys and boys, Santa has delivered all but one package, and he is definitely not heading home. Tonight, he’s gonna make like a sugar plum fairy and dance at Coliseum nightclub’s Fifth Annual Christmas Pageant (2520 S. Miami Rd., Fort Lauderdale). Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And…
THU 23 As a standup comic, Derek Richards is an entrepreneur by default, what with all the CDs and videos he has to sell to keep afloat. One has to wonder, though, what’s up with his “I Love Booze” hats and T-shirts. Um, shouldn’t they, like, have his name mentioned…
The following letter, regarding Damon Wayans’ sitcom My Wife and Kids, was posted on PetitionOnline.com, where it received 140 signatures: “To: Touchstone Television “Re: My Wife and Kids on DVD/VHS “My Wife and Kids is a show with moral values that covers relevant issues for young people today. It displays…
Pick the needle up SUN 12/26 Don’t let the name intimidate you. DJ Icey, a.k.a. 36-year-old Eddie Pappa, might as well be called DJ Nicey. “I got the name Icey,” he says, “because when I was 18, I lived with three guys, and I had a new down comforter I…
Bottom feeders tangle at the Pro SUN 12/26 Finally, this horror of a Dolphins season nears its end. Bordering on unbearable, the year has been marred with mediocrity and poor execution at every level. The only thing left to accomplish, for lack of a better term, is to decide whether…
New collection mixes it up THU 12/23 Spanish artist Cristobal’s Sanchez’s works are illuminating, inspiring, and occasionally… OK, we’ll say it — gay. Not gay as in happy, but gay as in naked men, tush up or pants down. But even homophobes will appreciate his art, as Sanchez skillfully captures…
Held over by popular demand SUN 12/26 I am matron — hear me roar! Madison Avenue, take note: 55 to 70 is the new 18 to 30. Metrosexual is out; menopausal is in. And FYI, the only baking today’s Sweet Potato Queens are doing is in the tanning bed. When…
The critic who takes notes during The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou will ultimately fill a notepad only with scribbled details: “All the crewmen wear red stocking caps with their tuxedos,” “some names of Zissou’s movies: The Battling Eels of Antibes, Shadow Creatures of the Lurisia Archipelago, Island Cats!,” “one…
A Very Long Engagement, the new film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (most famously of Amélie), will have its fans. For one thing, there’s no denying its beauty, an onslaught of gorgeous tableaux, painstakingly arranged and shot through filters to exclude colors that don’t suit (i.e., anything other than sepia…
Several questions are raised in Florida Stage’s Ice Glen, but not ones the theater likely intends. The first is why this underrealized world premiere was pushed into production before its time. Veteran playwright Joan Ackermann’s work offers poetic sensibilities, but it trickles its watery way to a tepid conclusion, and…
Not to be confused with Plaza Suite, Neil Simon’s California Suite is a series of four vignettes that take place in the same hotel room. The play starts off slowly with a scene between anal intellectual New York editor Hannah (Merry Jo Pitasi) and her ex-husband, Polo-shirt-wearing Billy (James Cichewicz)…
This much can be said for the movie version of Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events: Its villain, Count Olaf, just might be Jim Carrey’s finest screen role. A bitter, would-be master thespian who delights in donning ridiculous disguises and adopting funny accents, he doesn’t seem that far removed…
In Spanglish, which is less a story than a snapshot of a crumbling marriage populated by sitcom characters, Adam Sandler plays John Clasky, an average man with an above-average life. With his burgeoning double chin always covered in a slight shadow of stubble, he’s a celebrated chef who runs his…
He lives in Nashville, raises cattle, and once worked as a hay farmer. He married a woman from Alabama and named his boys Jackson and Grant. He says heck a lot and speaks with a raging Southern accent, but his roots are far from the Land of Cotton. His parents…
THU 16 Never mind the tireless question of what constitutes art. The real question concerns what makes a solid friendship; e.g., do friends let friends blow money on overpriced pieces of bad art? That’s quite the conundrum indeed, and Yasmina Reza tackles it in her play Art, which runs Thursday…
Homesickness doesn’t seem to bother Shaquille O’Neal. When he came to Miami this fall, he wasted no time selling his $7.5 million Beverly Hills mansion and scooping up a $16.9 million pad on Star Island. He happily accepted the Heat’s offer of $27.7 million and waved bye-bye to California’s 9.3…
And get your art on FRI 12/17 This holiday season, you can buy all your gifts from UNICEF and thereby support struggling artisans in Third World countries. Or you can say the hell with them and support the starving artists right here in the motherland. What’s that? You have no…
Pats come in for Monday night MON 12/20 To say it has been a rough season for the Miami Dolphins would be an understatement. Their record, which now stands at 2-11 following the loss in Denver, could be the worst single season in franchise history. It’s hard to remember the…
No Tinky Winkies here TUE 12/21 Oh, how cute — a Japanese doll collection! It must be full of cuddly little animals like the ones on those adorable Pokémon cards. Er… not exactly. The dolls in the exhibit “Ningyo: Antique Japanese Dolls” are even older than those in your grandma’s…
