Calendar of Events

Monday, September 06

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  Carlos Mencia

  Miami Improv

  When Carlos Mencia first brought racist road signs, Peter Boyle reading hate mail, and terrorist snacks to the American television audience in July 2005, certain critics slagged him as Comedy Central’s cheap replacement for Dave Chappelle. No doubt, there were a few too many similarities between Mind of Mencia and Chappelle’s Show. The formula was obvious: Start with a... More >>

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  Driftwood

  Miami-Dade Main Library

  The door to the auditorium is slightly ajar. Inside is a large blank projection screen pulled down across the face of one wall and an entire theater of chairs arranged in carefully regimented rows near the center of the room. The place is empty. No one else is here. But human traffic seems to have passed through very recently. A few seats have been yanked wildly out of position. A couple of... More >>

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  Duchess

  Mondrian South Beach

  Monday seems like the most logical day to stay home and avoid going to work hung over the next day. But what kind of Miamian would stay home on a weeknight? Then again, if a low-key affair is something you are looking for, check out the Duchess, the Monday-night soiree at the Mondrian. Here an older and affluent crowd mixes in the hotel's Sunset Lounge to enjoy $9 caipirinhas and strawberry... More >>

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Tuesday, September 07

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  Jilliane Hoffman

  Books & Books

  Ding-ding. It’s the sound of your daughter’s instant messenger. You might think she’s trading LOLs with friends, but in reality, FriendlyOldGuy69 is telling her how mature she sounds and how much he’d like to meet her. One night, she doesn’t come home. The police start asking if she spent a lot of time online lately. And you think, Who doesn’t? In Pretty Little... More >>

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  Rumble

  Kill Your Idol

  The demise of Bella Rose seems to have given Kill Your Idol exclusive property rights to a certain slice of South Beach. With almost zero competition, the bar has latched onto the area’s street scene. In a space that was once home to house-head fave Blue and then the abomination known as Vince Neil’s Feelgood’s, this party spot has morphed into hipsterati central. In a certain... More >>

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Wednesday, September 08

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  Jacek J. Kolasinski and Kathy Dambach

  Frost Art Museum

  Visions of a collapsed utopia and self-doubting ceramic figurines flatter each other at the Frost Art Museum, where two Florida International University profs, Jacek J. Kolasinski and Kathy Dambach, present complementary solo shows: “After History” and “DEMONS nurture/nature.” Kolasinski, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Krakow, Poland, and moved to Miami in the early... More >>

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  Scott Eyman

  Books & Books

  A delusional actress shoots her boy toy and then mistakes the news cameras for those of a movie set: “I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille!” But in stark contrast to Sunset Boulevard’s Norma Desmond, director Cecil B. DeMille actually survived Hollywood’s transition from silent movies to talkies without flipping out. His first successes were silent classics such as... More >>

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Thursday, September 09

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  Robert Hobbs: The Contemporary Sublime"

  de la Cruz Collection

  Way back in the First or maybe the Third Century AD, there was a Greek rhetorician and literary critic named Longinus who wrote a little treatise titled On the Sublime. He riffed on its essence (“the echo of greatness of soul”), championed risky writers (“bold, lawless, and original”), and tried to track down the wellsprings of sublimity (“great thoughts, strong... More >>

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  Patricia Engel

  The Webster

  How do you kill an Argentine? Make him stand on his ego and jump. So goes the old Colombian joke as told by Sabina, a Colombian-American girl from New Jersey, the daughter of immigrants, and the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Vida. In one of Vida’s nine stories, Sabina spends time in Miami, falling for an Argentine and hitting up local hot spots such as Opium and Churchill’s.... More >>

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Friday, September 10

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  Jeff Lindsay

  Books & Books

  If you’ve been watching Showtime’s hit series Dexter but not reading the source material, you’re missing out on novelist Jeff Lindsay’s take on the creepy world of Dexter Morgan. (Spoiler alert!) After the second season, the TV show took a drastic turn away from Lindsay’s vision. The biggest difference: In the show, Dexter’s wife, Rita, played by the eternally... More >>

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  Cine! Chilean Film Festival: The Gift

  Tower Theater

  The only Chilean filmmaking that comes to mind are the videos that those poor trapped miners are sending up to their relatives. That’s perhaps all the more reason to check out this week’s Cine! Chilean Film Festival at the Tower Theater. The festival, which showcases some of Chile’s best films, opens this Friday at 9:15 p.m. with a comedy called The Gift (El Regalo). Winner of... More >>

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Saturday, September 11

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  Pro Rodeo's Davie Championship Bull Riding

  Davie Arena

  What’s better than watching sweaty, burly men ride on a big, muscular, writhing beast? Nothing. It’s time you took in some good old-fashioned bull riding. Luckily, you don’t have to travel to Kentucky to get an eyeful. The Davie Arena will host the Pro Rodeo’s Davie Championship Bull Riding this Saturday. Head out to those creaky metal bleachers to watch 30 cowboys sit atop... More >>

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  Fetish Apocalypse

  Sea Monster Nightclub

  This Saturday marks the ninth anniversary of 9/11. So from morning to midnight, CNN will be a maudlin Ferris wheel while Fox News stokes the shards of hurt and fury that still float in your system like kidney stones. The networks will probably air footage of the towers falling repeatedly, which, not to get too Freudian, will be a real boner killer. Still, you’ll have to find your inner... More >>

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Sunday, September 12

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  Justin Kramon

  Books & Books

  Normally, if we were to recommend a coming-of-age novel, we’d suggest simply re-reading The Catcher in the Rye. But have you heard that sociologists have coined a new phrase to describe the life phase of today’s 20-somethings? They’re calling it “emerging adulthood,” but that’s just a fancy name for a sudden clingy dependence and listlessness. Holden... More >>

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  Fall for the Arts

  Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

  There was a time when Miami was more likely to host a festival called Farts for All than Fall for the Arts. But the stink of being a cultural wasteland is gone. In its place is the sweet aroma of performing arts, and the Arsht Center has become the epicenter of our city’s overdue cultural renaissance. This Sunday, more than 100 nonprofit arts and community organizations will participate... More >>

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