By Tony Guzman The latest production at Joe Adler’s GableStage is a compelling staging of David Mamet’s 2009 play, Race, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s penetrating, if jaundiced look at race relations and the justice system in America. Mamet is a master at creating vivid, convincingly realized milieus, as in that of the desperate, driven real [...]
“You have got to see this,” Dana Keith insisted with his customary enthusiasm. The work of New York filmmaker Shirley Clarke had been unknown to me until a few weeks ago, when the Miami Beach Cinematheque’s founder and director handed me a DVD copy of The Connection. The recently restored 1961 film, one of two [...]
The Amazing Spider-Man, the latest big-screen incarnation of Marvel Comics’ skyscraper-vaulting do-gooder, possesses all the ingredients for top-drawer escapism. So what if the two attractive leads look like they belong in an Ivy League graduate program instead of struggling through high school? And what if that nagging, usually soft-spoken voice inside my head kept yelling, [...]
Matthew McConaughey grabs his crotch in the first scene of Magic Mike. A minute later Channing Tatum’s beefy buttocks take over the screen as his character stumbles his way to the bathroom following a night of rampant decadence. Steven Soderbergh’s disarmingly sweet-natured peek into the world of male stripping wastes no time in whetting the [...]
So wondrous, so lyrical. A dash of Pixar magic, all set to another exquisite music score by Michael Giacchino. You probably think I’m talking about Brave, the latest effort from the Emeryville, Calif.-based animation studios, but I’m actually referring to La Luna, the Oscar-nominated short that precedes it. The tale of three generations of celestial [...]
Public art, safer streets, new gallery and studio space for artists are coming soon to the City of Miami Beach and Miami’s burgeoning Wynwood Arts District, thanks to a substantial grant from ArtPlace. One grant goes to the Bass Museum for “TC: Temporary Contemporary,” a public art projects program that will bring recognized contemporary artists [...]
By Elizabeth Hanly, artburstmiami.com Every spring they come back to Miami to dance together. Cuban classical dancers so exceptional that a few years back Time Magazine devoted an article to them entitled: “Psst! The Cubans Are Coming! Latin Ballet Dancers are storming the stage creating a revolution of Russian proportions.” Rolando Sarabia, likened by many [...]
Depending where you were during the mid-to-late eighties, the hair metal explosion was either a scourge on rock music or a blast of over-the-top decadence. I was in high school, so I couldn’t get enough of bands like Bon Jovi, Poison and Twisted Sister. (“I WANNA ROCK!”) You would think my fanboy credentials would make [...]
Seventeen, the fashion and beauty authority for 13 million teen girls, is searching for the ultimate real girl for its Pretty Amazing Cover Contest, presented by Neutrogena. Chloe Freytag, 18, a ballet dancer from Wayzata, Minnesota, has been selected as one of five finalists who will be flown to New York City and fêted at [...]
Expressionist Photography Exhibit Opens at Atelier 1022 A new expressionist photography series by resident artist Ellie Perla opens this week at the ATELIER 1022 Studio and Fine Art Gallery in Wynwood. Her ‘ASPHALT’ series showcases a unique visual technique that superimposes translucent layers of urban and nature images from recent photographs taken in New York [...]
What set Ridley Scott’s Alien apart from its scary-sci-fi brethren was a sense of mystery. It envisioned a future where space travel meant a one-way trip to oblivion for some interplanetary miners at the claws of a sleek creature that possessed all the attributes that send a chill down my spine. Birth by bursting through [...]
Kristen Stewart has a reputation for being a less than charismatic screen presence, a singularly unappealing romantic lead. A stiff, in other words. And time and time again, I rose up to her defense. Look at her nuanced supporting work in films like Adventureland and Into the Wild. Take her out of the Pacific Northwest [...]
