A Parliament/Funkadelic concert will make you feel like you’re tripping, even if you’re not. Band members wear the most outlandish gear, including wizard outfits, giant fake noses, elaborate capes, and even adult diapers and nothing else. From the shadows, a dreadlocked shaman emerges, shaking his multicolored hair extensions and commanding…
THU 23 Kevin Spacey is working overtime. He spent his own cash and five years struggling to make his latest film. The actor has a lot on the line with this labor of love that brings Fifties crooner Bobby Darin to vivid, complicated life, from his meteoric rise to his…
On a windy, mid-December evening in Coconut Grove, a group of folks clusters around picnic tables. Their meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., but at 7:00 people are still arriving. A gray-haired man sets up an amplifier and hands a microphone to Antoinette Baldwin, a petite brunette with…
THU 16 David Yurman makes the kind of jewelry that causes discerning, Vogue-reading women to salivate. When Sybil Yurman wore a handcrafted gift from her husband to an art opening, the gallery owner fell in love with the piece. The woman asked if the gift was for sale. David answered…
THU 9 They say that behind every good man, there’s an even better woman. Behind James Joyce, there was Sylvia Beach, who was driven to bankruptcy by publishing his scandalous masterpiece, Ulysses. Behind Pablo Picasso stood Gertrude Stein, who discovered and promoted this then-unknown artist while employing a young errand…
L. Murray Dixon was part of a circle of architects who sought to create a district on Miami Beach that would set a fashionable tone for this burgeoning resort area to follow. Dixon helped to sculpt Ocean Drive into 23 marvelous blocks of Art Deco design, turning the strip into…
THU 2 November’s in the rear view mirror and we’re zooming full speed ahead through the holiday tunnel. For college students, this time of year traditionally means high stress, what with finals bearing down. For professors, it means stacks and stacks of papers to read. Well, professors Zack Bowen and…
The Baka Boys have come a long way since they moved here from Los Angeles. Sure, out in La-la-land they were big shots, creating Friday Night Flavas on Power 106 back in the heyday of the east coast/west coast rivalry. The boys represented westside rap to the fullest, until Power…
THU 25 The football games are over and the pumpkin pie is almost all gone. The leftover food has been wrapped up and put away into individual containers for the next day’s snacks. Turkey Day has begun its long, slow journey into night. Instead of slipping into a full-bellied slumber,…
Behind the carefully polished, clean-cut Leave it to Beaver veneer of the 1950s, there existed an underbelly of shame and fear. This was not an era where self-expression was encouraged, or even allowed. McCarthyism ruled the day, women were seldom allowed to wear pants on television, and civil rights were…
When Kid 606 couldn’t find the amped-up ragga he yearned for, he invited some like-minded friends to collaborate on their own music. Enter Shockout Volume One, an introduction to a burgeoning Tigerbeat6 sub-label that blends sweaty Jamaican machismo with junglist breakbeats. The most satisfying tracks are menacing soundclash shout-outs. Com.a…
Rather than stretch another kitschy television show into a feature length summer blockbuster or — gasp! — come up with a completely original idea for a film, Hollywood executives plan to return to the tried and true. They’ve cast a new Superman, and shooting of the re-re-remake of these favorite…
THU 11 Ah, The King and I. The 1956 film version of this beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical gave Western audiences sing-along songs “Getting To Know You” and “Shall We Dance,” Deborah Kerr in period gowns that made her rear end look 40 feet wide, and the Oscar-winning performance by…
THU 4 Prepare to pay homage to the first Cuban ever to be nominated for a Tony Award. The University of Miami’s Casa Bacardi will host an exhibit featuring the Art Deco paintings of Cuban-born artist Randy Barcel. See his costume-design sketches for the Broadway hits Jesus Christ Superstar and…
THU 28 We all know one woman to whom we owe a great deal. The one who teaches algebra, volunteers at the rape crisis center, starts a community crime watch, and helps drive seniors to vote on Election Day. The one who seems to have more arms than an Indian…
THU 21 Ladies and gents, we introduce the Whack-a-Mole of the dance world — Dance Dance Revolution. The DDR craze hit Japan before spreading to the youth of America, among whom it’s caught on like the common cold. DDR is an interactive video game. You hit four large buttons with…
It took Kitty Kelley four years, four sets of lawyers, and nearly a thousand interviews to produce The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty. She watched every word, pored over every document, and had everything quadruple-checked before she dared send her 705 pages off to the publishers. She…
THU 14 Most often, the Design District’s second Thursday gallery open house night is all about gazing longingly at art you can’t possibly afford and downing libations at artistic haunts. Amnesty International and Arte del Barrio plan to bring a bit of gravity to this traditional evening of whimsy by…
In 278 BC, Qu Yuan, the peaceable prime minister of the Chinese Chu empire, found himself destitute, wandering the outskirts of his former homeland, his once respectable empire crushed underfoot by the remorseless warmonger King Huai. Learning that his homeland was occupied by warriors, Qu Yuan composed the poem Li…
THU 7 When some people think theater, they think boring and stuffy. Well, how’s about a play called Jane Fonda’s Breast? Or, I Stand Naked Before You? The second annual Lavender Footlights Festival of New Plays brings four nights of mind-expanding theater from gay and lesbian theater legends Edmund De…
I was prepared to loathe Wade Robson. Discovered by Michael Jackson when he was only five years old, he’s appeared in three music videos alongside the erstwhile, self-proclaimed king of pop. He was referred to as the “unofficial sixth member of NSYNC,” actually standing in for an injured Joey Fatone…
THU 30 Cheesecake fantasy. Chocolate devotion. Birthday cake remix. Black forest dream. If you love ice cream, you’ll recognize these as a few of Cold Stone Creamery’s insanely good creations. If you love ice cream and football, you’re in for a double delight. The Reach for the Stars Foundation’s Ice…
