Written by award-winning playwright, Leslie Ayvazian, High Dive, which opened this past Saturday at New Theatre, is a light comedy about the indelible task of overcoming one’s greatest fears while finding the absurdity in them. The story tackles one woman’s fear of heights while she chronicles her misadventures of past…
Juan Carlos Valdivia’s Southern District (Zona Sur), which won Sundance awards for directing and screenwriting, opens at the Coral Gables Art Cinema tonight. It’s is a subtle film that comments on Bolivia’s dissolving upper class seen through the seemingly scattered lives of an affluent La Paz family. Matriarch Carola is…
Dwyane Wade’s magic goggles seemed to run out of awesome juice in the fourth quarter of Thursday night’s 93-88 loss to the New York Knicks.Because after Wade started the game hitting pretty much every shot he threw up (except his free throws… hit those goddamn free throws, D-Wade!!), he missed…
Atop a high dive in a hotel in Greece is a woman who is terrified of heights while her son and 34 other on-lookers goad her to jump. That’s the setting of High Dive, a charming one-person play that opens this Saturday night at New Theatre.Written by award-winning playwright, Leslie…
February is Black History Month, and what better way to kick things off than attending The M Ensemble Company’s gospel musical Crowns at the Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater this Thursday? Church hats (or “crowns”) are the springboard for an exploration of history and identity as seen through the eyes…
January was a month of bad mojo for our major sports teams, thanks mostly to the Miami Dolphins and their refusal to stop sucking. The Fins not only missed the playoffs, but embarrassed themselves nationally with their botched attempt to get a new head coach, while trying to save face…
A Round-Heeled Woman By Jane Prowse. Through February 6 at GableStage at the Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-445-1119; gablestage.org. Tickets cost $37.50 to $47.50 . A 66-year-old divorced schoolteacher who hasn’t had sex in 30 years thinks it’s about time she get some nooky. So she takes out…
The 83rd Annual Academy Award nominations were announced today. The King’s Speech (which was quite exceptional) leads the pack with 12 nominations. But the real story of the day is the Academy’s snubbing of Christopher Nolan as Best Director for Inception. And while The Social Network and True Grit were…
Known for his creative Pistol Pete Maravich playing style, shaggy haired Spanish phenom Ricky Rubio was the youngest player to play for the Spanish ACB League when he debuted at the age of 14. Then in June of 2009, when Rubio was 19, he declared himself eligible for the NBA…
Dwayne Wade was forced to sit out thanks to a migraine, while Chris Bosh sat out his second-straight game with a bum left ankle. And so LeBron James was left to the mercy of having to rely on Mario Chalmers and Carlos Arroyo for support if the Miami Heat was…
Set on a diving board in a hotel in Greece, High Dive chronicles a woman’s fear of heights and her misadventures during past vacations. Written by award-winning playwright Leslie Ayvazian, High Dive is a light comedy about the indelible task of overcoming one’s greatest fears while finding the absurdity within…
It had been a while since card-carrying members of the Miami Hate Machine had any real reason to hate LeBron James with all their might. With no ammunition at their disposal, the Miami Heat haters tried twisting LeBron’s interviews into discourses of pure evil, all to shoehorn their theory that…
Written and directed by Jane Prowse, A Round-Heeled Woman is based on Jane Juska’s 2003 memoir A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance. Sharon Gless, whom you might recognize as the neurotic chain-smoking mom in hit TV show Burn Notice, turns in a candid performance as Jane,…
It’s that time of year again. Miami International Film Festival time? Oh yeah (Film Lovers powers: activate!). The official lineup of the 28th Annual Miami International Film Festival (which runs from March 4-13, and which you can call MIFF, at the risk of sounding like a total pretentious film nerd…
And Karmapocalypse 2011 continues.While LeBron James was all healed up from his ankle injury and back on the court, it was Chris Bosh who was forced to sit out with a bum ankle. So we all got a glimpse into a Miami Heat team sans Bosh. And the result was…
The Tales of Hoffmann, presented by the Florida Grand Opera and opening at the Arsht Center Saturday night, is a 19th century, three-act opera by German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach. And, as it is with the best operas, the stirring tale involves forbidden love, ominous symbolism and, of course, tragic untimely…
The Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opens this Wednesday at Actor’s Playhouse. It tells the story of six junior high kids (all played by adult actors) locked in a spelling bee competition while dealing with the quirky torment of prepubescent life. The importance of…
LeBron James was forced to sit out his second-straight game with his karma-fucked ankle, forcing Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to once again play with Mario Chalmers longer than they should be able to.Wade missed a three-point attempt as regulation expired, as the Heat fell to the Bulls 99-96, giving…
In A Round-Heeled Woman, Jane Juska is a 66-year old divorced schoolteacher who hasn’t had sex in 30-odd years and thinks it’s about time to get some nooky. So she puts out an ad in the New York Review of Books that gets straight to the point: “Before I turn…
The Miami Heat suited up against Denver last night without LeBron James and his karma-fucked ankle. This was also the last game before the Heat return to the east coast where when it’s 7:30, it’s not actually 10:30. Mix in a dash of Mario Chalmers bricks and a Mike Miller…
In 1989, the Miami Heat snapped it’s 17-game losing streak by defeating the L.A. Clippers, and earning the franchise its first ever win. Last night, the Clippers snapped the Heat’s 13-consecutive road wins streak, beating the Heat 111 – 105 at the Staples Center. Synergy? Coincidence? Or….. KARMA??? We’re pretty…
Before the season began, NBA analysts wondered if there would be too many egos and not enough basketballs to go around once the Big Three donned Miami Heat uniforms. Three months and a crapload of victories later, it seems pretty safe to say the whole LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris…
