Most humans have no business writing autobiographic, one-man plays. Sure, that time you leaked a truly musical fart during a religious ceremony is a fun anecdote, but it isn’t likely to pack the seats — especially the front few rows. But where one escape tale fails, another succeeds, like Debra…
For his swan dive into Jungian archetypes, local performance artist David Rohn is channeling more personalities than Sybil. During his solo show “In Characters” at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art (158 NW 91st St., Miami) at 7 p.m. Saturday, the quick chameleon will unveil a suite of photographs and a series…
In the 1930s, a church group tried to warn us of the dangers of cannabis with Tell Your Children, a film which was then purchased by Dwain Esper, the infamous director of irredeemably bad cult classics, who cut it into what we know today as Reefer Madness. Fast forward to…
Decked-out divas will strut the stage at Lake Worth Playhouse 8 p.m. Friday and again on Saturday for the third-annual Playhouse Pride Week drag show Send in the Queens. While modern day queens such as Jennifer Hudson and Lady Gaga will be in the number, so will the likes of…
The Classic Spring Block Party at Seminole Casino covers the interests of a large pool of South Florida citizens: The weekend features a battle of the disc jockeys, a battle of the bands, a cougar contest, and a beefcake contest. As with every battle worth fighting, the victor should get…
The next stop for Jonathan Brilliant, a South Carolina-based installation artist, is Fort Lauderdale’s 18 Rabbit Gallery. For his Have Sticks Will Travel World Tour, Brilliant sets up an eight- to ten-day residency in a gallery, where he builds an on-site installation made out of nothing but a shitload of…
Crip walk to the American Airlines Arena (601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) for some low-frequency bass therapy at the White Lion Records 15th Anniversary Megaconcert. Presented by 800-411-PAIN, get help from Latin rap and reggaeton heads, including Calle 13, Tego Calderon, Ivy Queen, Cosculluela, Jowell y Randy, JKing y Maximan, Julio…
Comedian and political provocateur Lewis Black, formerly of the Daily Show, says the kind of things we all want to say. His comments include the devolution of our political prospects: “I believe in 12 years, we’ll be voting for plants.” And then there are comments on home and holiday: “Americans…
Do booze and creativity go hand in hand? We don’t know if it’s been scientifically proven, but we do know of some pretty bad-ass bibulous artists. Van Gogh, for example, drank absinthe and created Starry Night. OK, so you might think that’s a bad example because he cut off his…
Just because it’s not St. Patty’s day or just because your heart doesn’t pump green blood, doesn’t mean you can’t indulge in a little Irish living from time to time. Boca pub The Dubliner takes your liver straight to Erin with their two-for-one deal on Guinness. And with cuisine like…
No, not the parkas. The fearsome north face of the Eiger mountain became the object of national socialist obsession during the ’30s. An Olympic gold medal was promised to its first summit party — preferably to be of good, blond Aryan stock, and the Nazi press glorified those alpinists who…
It’s hard not to picture Polanski under house arrest in Gstaad editing his diverting new thriller, in which a former British prime minister dodges extradition while having his memoirs rewritten. Then again, when your life is like a mashup of the History Channel’s entire catalog of shock programming, autobiography will…
What’s remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s seventh feature film, is that the familiar comes across as fresh. Despite recycling potential clichés — the grouchy elderly father, the disenfranchised second son — Kore-eda imbues his story with such specificity, tactility, and humanity that yet another movie about a dysfunctional…
Essentially a locked-room mystery with lashings of gore and sexual brutality, Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo disguised the simplicity of its narrative by embedding it within an almost Balzacian depiction of Swedish society, warts and all (but mainly warts). Niels Arden Oplev’s adaptation relies more on…
With stick figures and crisply funny journal entries, Jeff Kinney’s cartoon series breathed fresh life into pre-teen lit’s most exhausted trope—the twisted tribal etiquette of middle school. Screenwriters Jackie and Jeff Filgo’s respect for Kinney’s sharply observant dialogue is the chief virtue of this fairly capable screen version. But the…
You’ve followed their packaged romance in the supermarket checkout line — now see the movie. Jennifer Aniston’s hair plays a New York Daily News crime reporter who stumbles onto corruption at the precinct house. Gerard Butler’s scowl plays her ex, a former policeman now working as a bounty hunter. For…
Another wholesale dystopian future, just like the last one. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker are two repo men punching their timecards for The Union Inc. Their job is to hunt down those recipients of synthetic organ transplants who’ve fallen behind on payments, then retrieve company property at the point of…
You might think there’s not much for film buffs to sink their teeth into right now, but you’d be wrong: This year is the fifth anniversary of the annual Delray Beach Film Festival, which runs all week, starting Monday. In addition to screening independent features, foreign language films, shorts, documentaries,…
Say adieu to the archetypal ringmasters of Ringling Bros. past. Instead of a red-top-hat, ornate-overcoat-wearing man, you’ll find “Tony Tone.” He’s witty and hip and embodies the spirit of the UniverSoul Circus. Operated and owned entirely by African-Americans, this big-top traveling circus is based in Atlanta. The soundtrack at this…
It starts with the ritual slaughter of a virgin goat. Its blood flows off the edge of a machete forged in a fire stoked with biblical passages. Hunks of dismembered body parts stolen from local graveyards are demonized with evil passages from ancient thrash texts. The crowd passes a blood-filled…
What’ll it take to bring down the sinister Dr. Dragon and his musclebound henchman, Goliath? Not much, just your average group of crime-fighting superheroes. In the comic-book-styled film Lucky Streak and the Crimefighters, local director/writer/producer Kurt Donath introduces us to a whole cast of specially powered (and costumed) vigilantes, led…
It’s funny how Tampa Bay fans don’t particularly care for South Florida. Perhaps it’s because we had an NFL team long before they were considered for one. Or maybe it’s because when they built a domed baseball stadium to lure an MLB team from another city, Miami got a team…
