The medical fetish — now there’s one that’ll creep your ass out. Where’s the sex in medicine? Get undressed. Sit on a cold table. Wonder whether it’s malignant. Wonder whether your insurance will cover this visit. Wonder whether it’ll cover this visit and then triple for your entire family for…
When Jeff Foxworthy shows up Saturday with Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy, South Florida will look like the friggin’ Rapture has hit. ’Cause all the God-farin’ folks will be lined up at the BankAtlantic Center (1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise). Tickets cost $59.50 (that’s $71 after the Ticketmaster “convenience…
When Florida Citrus Commission spokeswoman Anita Bryant got a Dade County referendum passed in 1977 to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance and make LGBT people second-class citizens, local activists organized a Pride Parade and Rally. Almost 20 years later, they helped reinstate the ordinance. Gays still can’t adopt in Florida or…
Good things come in 12s: like the 12 days of Christmas, the 12 Olympian gods/goddesses of Greek mythology, doughnuts, and ArtServe’s “Twelve by Twelve — The Collective” exhibit. Fitting into 12-by-12-inch frames, all artwork is made by local artists and will be priced at $200 and be available for purchase…
Promethean Theatre has a knack for putting on some of the edgiest productions in South Florida, as illustrated with its latest production, The Dumb Waiter, by Harold Pinter. The plot: Two hit men are sitting in a room, waiting for their next murderous assignment. At the back of the room…
African countries rarely make the list for top ten tourist destinations or happiest places to live. But Africa does top one satisfying list, and that’s Cinema Paradiso’s most popular event for its free “Around the World in 80 Nights” series. It dedicates three days to “The African Experience.” Here are…
Is your vagina depressed? If she could talk, what would she say? Would she be angry? Insecure? The patron saint of female anatomy, Eve Ensler, set out to find the answer with Vagina Monologues, a controversial yet quasiliberating episodic play. It drew criticism when it came out in 1996 because…
As the Miami International Film Festival winds down this week, there are still some choice films showing. This Thursday at 8 p.m., see Trash Humpers at Cosford Cinema (University of Miami Memorial Building, Campo Dano Drive, Coral Gables), the latest film by Kids director Harmony Korine. Four insane old people…
Even if you’ve never met the man who built Churchill’s (5501 NE Second Ave., Miami), he’s pretty easy to spot. His name is Dave Daniels, and he’s that dapper 68-year-old gentleman with the great, white grandfatherly beard. On a typical night, Daniels can be found sitting at the far end…
Paul Greengrass’ expertly assembled Green Zone has evidently been parked for some time on Universal’s shelf. Had the movie been released during the 2008 election season, it might have been something more than entertainment. Still, Green Zone, which could have more accurately been titled Told You So, Jerk-Off!, does gain…
This isn’t entirely without its selling points, chief among them T.J. Miller, who’s a cross between Seth Rogen and Jason Segel — paging Judd Apatow, now. Miller plays Stainer, a moptopped giant and best bud to Kirk (Jay Baruchel, an Apatow player from way back), a TSA lackey and a…
All that remains of Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day is Denzel Washington’s Oscar-winning performance, his baddest and best. The rest of the movie? A blustering stumble toward parody — an overwrought, operatic buddy-cop flip-flop also starring Ethan Hawke as the rookie put to the test again and again by the devil…
The Miami International Film Festival has never quite gained the Olympian status of other South Florida arts events. But in the festival’s 27th incarnation, which begins this week, 115 movies will be screened across five venues, perhaps signaling that it’s finally ready for a bigger stage. Festival director Tiziana Finzi,…
As much as it might delight some graduate art student researching a thesis on the finer points of this American impressionist, I can’t imagine that “Mary Cassatt: Works on Paper” would be of much interest to anyone else. This small show of 40 or so works, now at the Boca…
Sarah Kane’s controversial Blasted is one of the loveliest and hardest to watch plays you’ll ever see, an elegy for love in a world rent by violence and the corruption of power. “I am dying to make love!” cried one character, but he can’t — armed and dangerous, all he…
At about 90 minutes, Mosaic Theatre’s production of William Finn’s Make Me a Song feels like a lifetime. From the musical’s opener of the same name to the closing, “Heart and Music,” the numbers are at times so cartoony and overacted that it’s hard to pay attention to the quality…
A friend of mine holds that there are no coincidences. But I’m hard-pressed to explain this otherwise: One week, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach opens “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000.” Two and a half weeks later, the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale premieres “Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the…
Walt Disney mulled an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for decades before producing an animated feature in 1951, although by all accounts, he didn’t much care for the prim little protagonist, let alone her supporting cast of “weird characters.” One wonders what Uncle Walt would have made of his studio’s…
Perhaps comedian Patton Oswalt’s says it best when he describes Cirque du Soleil as being “wet and French and gay and on fire.” Well, there’s a different outfit coming to town, but it’ll have similar outfits: It’s called Cirque Dreams, and one of its shows is Cirque Dreams Illumination. The…
Indie art-house theater Cinema Paradiso is, like, South Florida’s very own Epcot. On nights that showcase “Around the World in 80 Nights,” Cinema Paradiso (503 SE Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale) turns into a full-blown country — sometimes continent! — by showing that place’s cinema, art, and food. It’s already featured…
What’s a natural force? Well, the news release for the new exhibit at Coral Springs Museum of Art will tell you: “the light of water on the sunset, the refraction of color through glass that forms waves, words engraved into stone.” But some artists take using natural forces a step…
If you have no idea what a “$500+$50 buy-in” means, you haven’t played a game of poker that can truly hurt your bank account — or truly increase it. A “$500+$50 buy-in” means that $500 goes to the prize pool and $50 goes to the tournament organizers: You’re dishing out…
