Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He’s now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He’s so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session…
Are your bellies full but wallets empty from this weekend’s SoBe Wine & Food fest? We scoured our resources to find you some cheap thrills for the week. Monday: Bardot gets off on being hard to find. But considering that Fridays and Saturdays are usually packed in this bar, they…
Leo can’t deliver the goods to his girlfriend of six months. And there’s a good reason – he’s gay. But this is Catholic Uruguay, and men don’t just go around kissing other men in public. In Leo’s Room (El Cuarto de Leo), the title character, played by puppy-eyed Martín Rodríguez,…
The SoBe Wine & Food Festival kicked off yesterday, but considering the high ticket prices and the fact that some events sold out last fall, we thought you might need a back-up plan for things to do this weekend. While everyone else is attending cooking demos and wine seminars, you…
Have you bought your Miami International Film Festival tickets yet? Although they just went on sale to the public a week ago, three performances are already sold out. In fact, the festival reports that advance ticket sales are up 35 percent from last year.Two of the hot tickets are films…
We don’t need an excuse to frolic outside this time of year. And it’s especially difficult to ignore the call of fresh air when the DWNTWN concert series books a lively band. Celebrate the end of another workweek with a performance by Bachaco at the Tina Hills Pavilion at Bayfront…
Every time Stephen Colbert goes home to South Carolina, he becomes an elderly black woman named Shirley. At least that was his shtick at Second City’s 50th anniversary reunion show, where he and other alumni got back to their sketch comedy roots. Often called the “Harvard of humor,” the Chicago…
Miami is not known for its extensive Irish-American population. So this week, don’t expect rivers to be dyed green in honor of the patron saint of Ireland. But in the wake of last year’s South Park-inspired “Kick a Ginger Day,” we should all eat corned beef and drink green beer…
Miami is not known for its extensive Irish-American population. So this week, don’t expect rivers to be dyed green in honor of the patron saint of Ireland. But in the wake of last year’s South Park-inspired “Kick a Ginger Day,” we should all eat corned beef and drink green beer…
As the Miami International Film Festival winds down this week, there are still some choice movies we think you should see. Why go to a festival screening and not a blockbuster such as Shutter Island? Because the fest films are so new, so interesting, and so different that some of…
Somebody must have poured water on fame monster Lady Gaga, ’cause that gremlin of an entertainer has multiplied. Well, that’s not actually how it happened. Once upon a time, there was a little person named Terra Jole (stay with us), who paid her rent throwing Vegas shows as Mini Britney…
As the Miami International Film Festival winds down this week, there are still some choice movies we think you should see. Why go to a festival screening and not a blockbuster such as Shutter Island? Because the fest films are so new, so interesting, and so different that some of…
Obama eased travel restrictions to Cuba, but the country 90 miles south still remains an enigma to most Americans. Its proximity and mystery inspired Minnesota composer Sage Lewis to create a multimedia production — The Closest Farthest Away (La Extrañable Lejania) — that would make this paradox of distance visible…
Monday: We can’t believe it either. The posh W Hotel is hosting a free screening of Blonde Venus, staring Marlene Dietrich, as part of their “Dive-In” series with the Miami Beach Cinematheque.Tuesday: We think you need to chill out, you of the 6th most miserable city in America. Clear your…
For the last four years, the Goldman Warehouse on 26th Street in the Wynwood Arts District was being used as an annex museum and storage space for the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. MOCA decided not to renew their lease last fall in order…
The SoBe Wine & Food fest and Miami International Film Festival will consume your next two weekends, so this weekend, you have our permission to take it easy. Kick back and screen some Oscar-nominated shorts, and catch a few of the concerts making their way through our clubs and amphitheaters.FridayThey…
It’s time to get ultra-protective about Miami’s venues, galleries, and event spaces. There’s a bad trend going on: Upper Eastside Garden is closing; Wallflower might be on its way out too. So now’s the time to grab hold of spaces like Locust Projects and shove them under your wing.Now twelve…
Cyclists are snobby enough. With their commitment to fitness and knowledge that their chosen mode of transport didn’t contribute to any wars in the Middle East, bikers are hard-core idealists, risking life and limb for a chance to get there on two man-powered wheels. So it’s fitting they also demand…
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is the title of one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most popular films, but it could very well be the title of most of the works in his oeuvre. And his 1993 Kika — a satire of exploitive television, with shocking scenes of rape,…
History tells us that over the centuries, people have been inspired to take off across the world in hot pursuit of two things: God and spices. Portuguese explorers sailed all the way around the tip of Africa to get to India and its turmeric, so we don’t want to hear…
Whereas songbird Nina Simone relied heavily on blues and jazz, Roberta Flack brought more folk to the table — perhaps a reflection of her first album coming out so close to the summer of ’69 — as well as groove-heavy Southern soul, showing some of her North Carolina roots. If…
According to the boob tube, Miami is where the lawless hide out to strike like gators crouching in the saw grass. It’s been the backdrop to a machine-gun-wielding Tony Montana, crime-fighting playboys Crockett and Tubbs, and more recently, Dexter as he hacks into another victim; it’s even hosted the hookers…
