The Black and White of the Black and Blue and Bloody Boxing may not be the glory sport it once was back in its heyday — and if last weekend’s Manny Pacquiao/Shane Mosley bout was any indication, it’s not gonna be either. But at its best, and its brightest, there’s something brutally beautiful about the [...]
A curious thing happens a few hours after I see a Judd Apatow movie: I get into a funk. What was raucous escapism on initial viewing – Steve Carell stumbling his way into love in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, or Seth Rogen maturing before our eyes in Knocked Up and Funny People – becomes a sobering [...]
Photographer Justice Howard Wows it at WEAM There’s no beating the heat on South Beach. Ever. Once that calendar clicks to the cruelest month, we know we’re in for it. The best we can wish for is that the worst will come gradually, that we can slide into the sultriest season in increments, rather than [...]
Glenn O’Brien Gives Us a Guide Like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s infamous crack about obscenity, style is pretty much undefinable, but you know it when you see it. It’s an inner grace, an outward ease and a joie de vivre that sets a man a part from the pack (unless it’s a Rat Pack). [...]
It’s official. Comic book geeks will be dictating our multiplex movie diet for the next several months. How do I know this? I used to be one. Most of the titles I used to collect, though, were published by DC Comics and its adult division, Vertigo: Action Comics, Legends of the Dark Knight, Swamp Thing, [...]
How Dana Keith Brought Arthouse Film Culture to Washington Avenue It began as a glimmer in the mind’s eye. In that movie playing in his head, Miami Beach Cinematheque (MBC) founder and director Dana Keith envisioned an intimate space in which South Beach’s increasingly sophisticated cinema lovers could come together to see the best and [...]
By Tiffany Hanan Madera, artburstmiami.com Last Friday at Inkub8, the new white box performance space run by local dancer Heather Maloney in Wynwood, a marathon of performance took place and it was anything but dull. Field Day Performance Marathon was the culmination of a 12-week creative workshop where artists work on new pieces and share [...]
Romance fills the screens at the movies this weekend, and that’s gotten me in an inquisitive mood. What draws two people together? Is a relationship born out of mutual interests destined to last a lifetime? How about two lovers with diametrically opposed worldviews? Is an expiration date automatically stamped on their affair? Love stories come [...]
Another High Adventure Joe R. Lansdale Salt ‘n’ pepper teams are rare enough, but to have a salt ‘n’ pepper team that consists of a brooding good ‘ol boy and a muscle-bound gay black man is about as rare as a politician’s truth. To have both dwell deep in the heart of East Texas, well [...]
Shadows and Shade in the Sunshine State With all the hoopla about Earth Day, it only seems right we localize the holiday and celebrate what we’ve got right under our lucky noses. Yes, I mean the beaches and the theme parks (after all they’re both as intrinsic to our state as sunshine itself). But I [...]
Catch a cool documentary about Joe Cross and his journey to lose major weight. 100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger [...]
Let’s hear it for individuality, for sticking to your guns in the face of adversity. The 13th Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival kicks off Thursday night at the Colony Theater, and it’s put me in a celebratory mood, so much so that, even though I didn’t particularly care for the two movies I have [...]
