The odds of you going to Princeton to learn creative writing are pretty slim. So when the former director of Princeton’s creative writing department comes to your local bookstore to talk about literary craft, consider it your 15-minute brush with an Ivy League education. And you won’t have to flash…

Even though The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director at this year’s Oscars, Hollywood is still a men’s club. But while women make up only 7 percent of directors, they’ve recently made some kick-ass films. Directed by Andrea Arnold, Fish Tank won the 2009 Jury Prize at Cannes and…

Before Bike Month slips away with the rains of April, put on a cocktail dress or a tuxedo shirt and spin over to the Bike Prom. Meet at Government Center, ride to Brickell and Wynwood, take a rest at Bayfront Park, and then ride along the Miami River. The Bike…

Two Miami-based artists, Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares will present their latest work at “A Great Disorder Is an Order.” Wright’s series of photographs, titled “On the Other Hand,” repeats the same gesture – a reaching hand – in varied contexts. Whether a friendly wave or a plea for help,…

If a Brit, not that horny Nabokov, wrote Lolita, you’d have something along the lines of the film An Education, where a precocious teenage girl turns her nose up at Oxford for a chance at nabbing and shagging a charming older man. The film, which won the Audience Choice and…

We’re blind from the neon Lycra of Miami’s cyclists. And frankly, we’re a little weirded out by their alien-like pointy helmets. No need to fear the road this Saturday for cyclists will look like Victorian bankers with knee socks, vests, and caps. We might even stop and offer them a…

Paper. We write on it, we crumple it up, we fold it into airplanes — otherwise, we don’t give it much thought. But what if some communist dictator told you to stop making all of that beautiful paper art and then used the same paper to cover the country in…

The Magic City has such little experience with the tragedies and tribulations of asylum seekers. So it’s lucky that British author Chris Cleave will come to town to read from his novel Little Bee, which tells the story of a young Nigerian immigrant seeking refuge in England. Cleave is a…

Whenever we tell people we’re from Miami, either they picture us either rubbing padded shoulders with blue-hairs like the Golden Girls or they imagine us with three-piece suits, cocaine mustaches, and fingers on the trigger à la Scarface. Let us formally thank director Brian De Palma and writer Oliver Stone…

Take a peek at the Passover dinners of many Jewish Miamians and you’ll likely find guava paste and cream cheese on matzo among the traditional offerings. Sure, the gefilte fish is there, but it could be sprinkled with a little Goya Sazón, and the charoset is marinated in sangria instead…

We like to think of Here & Now as a blind date with select Miami artists and their latest work. Sure, we agreed to go, but we were a little anxious about what we’d find at Arsht’s Carnival Theater. But matchmaker Miami Light Project hooked us up with interesting company…

Paper. We write on it, we crumple it up, we fold it into airplanes — otherwise, we don’t give it much thought. But what if some communist dictator told you to stop making all of that beautiful paper art and then used the same paper to cover the country in…

Is your bookshelf alphabetized? Are your socks sorted by thickness and color? Then Eat, for This Is My Body, the first feature film from director Michelange Quay, is not for you. Roughly, it’s about the complicated relationship between colonizers and colonized in Haiti. But that gives too much structure to…