Good luck finding Miami-based belly dancer Tamalyn Dallal standing still. The performer, teacher, and choreographer also writes books, produces CDs, and now directs films. Catch her latest creation, Zanzibar Dance, Trance, and Devotion, at the Miami Beach Cinematheque on Thursday, with a Q&A session with Dallal following the documentary screening.Zanzibar…
Los Amigos Invisibles With Minimal Grand Central Miami June 11, 2011 Better Than: Your standard art walk afterparty. The disco ball was all too fitting at Grand Central last night with the funky, disco jazz rock-pop fusion of Los Amigos Invisibles. Only the Grammy-winning Venezuelan band could have a whole…
Get out of the house and into a seat at the Colony Theatre: San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist Keith Hennessy performs on Saturday as part of Out in the Tropics, South Florida’s first gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender performing arts festival, now in its second year. Among the pioneering artists addressing…
As boarding-school bodice-rippers go, this assured debut by British director and girls’-school alumna Jordan Scott fairly bursts with pent-up carnality trying to ripen under rigid autocracy laden with lesbian denial. Shot in a lushly wild corner of Ireland, Cracks looks as lovely as a colorized old postcard, all vibrant vermilions…
Lionel Richie. His hair is fucking crazy, bordering on crazy awesome. However, throughout the decades he has made efforts to tone it down. That mustache, on the other hand, has stuck around like his daughter’s herpes. We’re not insinuating Nicole Richie is a slut, by the way, it’s just that…
Packing massive tracks and trippy visuals, Dutch DJ and producer Sander Kleinenberg will be invading Arkadia this Thursday night as part of the weekly party hosted by Erick Morillo’s Subliminal Records + Friends. So Crossfade called Mr. Kleinenberg in Las Vegas to discuss the midweek gig, some of his favorite…
Composer Gabriel Pulido, who conceived the multimedia performance work Deep Surface, has a degree in music synthesis. Perhaps that’s one reason why the Venezuelan-born artist’s collaborations take him to Paris and New York from his home base in Miami, bringing together influences from a variety of sources to create a…
In blonde, braided pigtails and cherry-bomb lipstick, Heidi doesn’t look like a beast. But she sure as hell sounds like one. She’s that girl who scares all the boys ’cause she’s just that cool. I swear I saw DJ Bill Patrick flinch when she took over the tables. And last…
See the full 20-photo Primus at the Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow.Primus With the Dead Kenny G’s Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, June 4, 2011 Better Than: Pretty much any live music coming our way this month. I mean, what do we really have to look forward to? Katy Perry. Primus is…
Wisin y Yandel’s Los Vaqueros: El Regreso Tour With Gadiel American Airlines Arena Friday, June 3, 2011 Better Than: Pushing through the stifling crowds on South Beach to grind on complete strangers. So much easier to let the crowd come to you in our city’s state-of-the-art facility with AaC cold…
The information presented in Werner Boote’s Plastic Planet, which opens at O Cinema this weekend, is so important that the documentary is a must-see for anyone even remotely interested in the staggering health costs of plastic to humans and the planet itself, or in the backroom machinations that have squelched…
In YellowBrickRoad eight people venture into the remote woods of northern New Hampshire. Care to guess how many get out alive? This indie horror flick by Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland stands squarely on the shoulders of The Blair Witch Project. One of the party’s leaders even does video interviews…
Performer/dancer/writer/director Teo Castellanos is back. His new piece, Fat Boy, which opens tomorrow, is unlike anything the hometown homeboy has done before — and anything you’ve seen before. With his troupe D-Projects and accompanied by original music from another local favorite DJ Le Spam, Castellanos mines dance and cultural traditions…
Sure, it looks all fun and easy. But crowdsurfing is an exceedingly perilous extreme sport. And it’s not just the surfers who’ve gotta worry about getting hurt. The crowd’s in an equal amount of danger. So don’t be the fool, getting bruised and making enemies for a lack of expertise…
Do you know Los Amigos? Well, this Venezuelan disco-funk crew is right on the forefront of the Latin indie-dance scene, one that thrives here in Miami and runs parallel to the general street-level culture oozing out of our downtown bars and clubs. And really, lead singer Julio “Chiulu” Briceño’s trademark…
Most sequels are born of good box office rather than good ideas–if you build it and they come, you simply must build another one. But it’s hard to imagine a more calculating, creatively bankrupt piece of real estate than The Hangover Part II. Trade out Las Vegas for Bangkok, a…
Opening Friday at Coral Gables Art Cinema, Meek’s Cutoff, like all of director Kelly Reichardt’s previous features (River of Grass, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy), is essentially a road movie about both the unequal distribution of power and resources and the frustrations of the disenfranchised. Tracking three hungry and thirsty…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director Jaie Laplante as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. As another Cannes Film Festival winds down, all the chic cineastes here on the Croisette are pretending not to care about the Grand Jury prizes, awarded in a glitzy ceremony…
How many times has one of your friends said something along the lines of, “oh wow, hot yoga, that sounds like fun,” or, “you know what we should do? We should take a cooking class!” All the time, we’re sure. Those ideas are lame, though. We need to up the…
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, which screens at O Cinema, lives up to its grandiose title, taken from the old Michelangelo potboiler. Vikram Jayanti’s BBC production is certainly a scoop, culled from 50 hours of interviews made during the reclusive Spector’s first trial–he was accused of sticking…
Greatly expanded from a four-page, single-situation short story by Raymond Carver, Dan Rush’s first feature Everything Must Go is an ambitious if enervated vehicle for Will Ferrell–playing it straight as Nick Halsey, a middle-class drunk fired from his job and locked out of his suburban home by an irate, never-seen…
Talk about the creative struggle. This weekend, Miami will play host to a group of dancers, known as Ayikodans, who have overcome obstacles more challenging than what most of us can imagine. The company, led by choreographer Jeanguy Saintus, is based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Their facility was partially destroyed in…
