Eleven Best Things to Do This Weekend

Florida Twi-hards, fans of Twilight currently salivating over the new Breaking Dawn trailer, will be pleased to know that our state has its very own vampires and werewolves. There’s no reason to get starry-eyed in Forks, Washington, where Stephanie Meyers set her novels. Just head up to the Florida pan…

Vodou, Do You?

The spotlight will again be on Haiti when University of Miami history professor Kate Ramsey talks about her book The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. She argues that when the government outlawed spells and superstitious practices, it reinforced the marginalization, stigmatization, and exploitation of the Haitian…

Rock of Angst

What’s it take to get art banned in Germany? Abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse, and suicide — at least in 1891, when Frank Wedekind wrote the play Spring Awakening. More than a 100 years later, the 19th-century play is now a rock musical and winner of eight Tony Awards. The…

!Women Art Revolution Documents 40 Years of Feminist Art

After conducting a penis count of major NYC art institutions in the ’80s, activist group Guerilla Girls asked, Do ladies have to be naked to get into the Met? Only five percent of the exhibited artists were women while 85 percent of the nudes were female. While we haven’t done…

Ten Best Things to Do This Weekend

All together now, Miami: “La-di-da-di, we like to party. We don’t cause trouble, we don’t bother nobody.” That’s right, Slick Rick is the climax to another packed 305 weekend of concerts, film festivals, and stand-up. It’s a heady stew that includes a little Ace Ventura, a Jackie Chan sidekick, backspin…

Killed It In France

Call us shallow, but our desire for Miami City Ballet only really flared up after news that the troupe was garnering standing ovations in Paris. Our hometown pirouetters, under the direction of Edward Villella, recently spent three weeks in Europe for the Les Etés de Danse Festival, performing 14 ballets…

Stranger Than Fiction

We’re big fans of the Moth, a storytelling series with the tag line “True Stories Told Live.” Everyday folks — as well as acclaimed performers and writers such as Margaret Cho, Jonathan Ames, Ethan Hawke, Gay Talese, and Moby — have been enthralling us with tales from their lives on…

Abandon the Digital

Allow us to introduce you to a little-known film genre called sharksploitation. One example is the 1976 drive-in classic Mako: The Jaws of Death, in which a weird, nature-loving guy in South Florida discovers he has a psychic link with sharks. He becomes very protective of his finned friends and…

Who Wants Free Tickets to House of Horror? Yeah You Do

The billboards are up, so it must be true: the walking dead have taken over the parking lot at Miami International Mall. House of Horror, the month-long pop-up amusement park, opens its second run next Thursday. And we’re giving away two tickets to opening night.For an extended preview of what…

Eleven Best Things to Do This Weekend

Feel that breeze? The relentless humidity has knocked down from torturous to somewhat muggy. We no longer have to wring our shirts out between exiting our cars and entering a building. And because we live in arguably the best state (well, really, the best city) in the country, you need…

Friends and Lovers

Nan Goldin’s photos are a film in stills. They capture downtown New York bohemians and outcast drag queens embracing, sleeping, kissing, and dying of AIDS. And just as Goldin’s images became emblematic of the ’70s and ’80s postpunk skid-row scene, her protégé and muse Sunny Suits’s stills are doing the…

Yo, Ho

Pirates. Until a few years ago, we had only good associations with the salty thieves thanks to joy-filled rides on Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean. But consider the real-life pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia. There’s nothing like the sight of a ship full of sneering men with assault…

Weenie Hunt

In 2009, a film crew asked visitors exiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art to name three female artists. Not one person could. But artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson expected as much. She was filming !Women Art Revolution, a documentary about…

Ten Best Things to Do This Weekend

TGIF, right? Meh. The freaking rush of an upcoming weekend of leisure seems a little anticlimactic when reduced to a four-letter acronym. So allow us to break down the situation for you: we all spend about 60% our lives either working or asleep. From the remaining 40%, about half of…

Reflect Loss

Ten years ago this Sunday, Americans woke up to the terror of a World Trade Center in flames and a smoking Pentagon. A decade later, the Wolfsonian examines how disaster and tragedy have been interpreted by art and technology. “Reflections on Loss and Commemoration,” an exhibit of material culture that…

The Grunge and the Restless

In 1992, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder pulled Selene Vigil, lead singer of grunge band 7 Year Bitch, from the water after she drunkenly slipped off a dock. If this small tidbit excites you, you’re the prime demographic for Pearl Jam Twenty, a Cameron Crowe rockumentary about the Seattle band. In…

Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’

There’s only one acceptable reason for bruises on your wife, daughter, or aunt, and that’s roller derby. These indigo battle scars are unavoidable in the sport that sends ladies flying around a rink and slamming full speed into each other and occasionally into the rink wall. So a few times…

Paradise Lost and Found

On the second page of Birds of Paradise, Diana Abu-Jaber evokes local carpet salesman Don Bailey as that “thirty-foot naked man reclining, selling God-knows-what.” The novel, which is steeped in the visual cues of Miami life, flips back and forth between a wayward daughter’s street life on the pink sidewalks…