For those of us with bananas for heads, the closest we’ve come to artistic representations of ourselves has been still lifes of fruit bowls and and the minstrel show that is Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Things are beginning to change thanks to the work of Lin Shih-Yung. “He is very…
Did you know drinking heavily is not only good for you but also good for those around you? It’s true, sort of, or at least it will be this Tuesday night when the Lymphoma Research Foundation hosts Swirl: A Wine Tasting Event at La Gorce Country Club (5685 Alton Rd.,…
Art Basel and its satellite fairs get a ton of buzz during Miami Art Week. But during the other 51 weeks of the year, Miami still boasts a vibrant art scene, largely supported by its galleries. Wynwood rightly gets much of the attention, but there are other parts of town…
Fine, so the name Art Basel comes from Europe. But in Miami, saying “I’m going to Basel” doesn’t imply you’re headed to a city in Switzerland where you can’t get a legit colada and the drivers don’t know to turn on their hazard lights when it rains. No, “Basel” means…
We all have reasons not to go to Miami Beach. Maybe your 300-inch spider heels designed by Louise Bourgeois don’t do so well on the sand. Maybe you are a superstitious bicyclist who knows he won’t be able to hold his breath all the way across the causeway. But this…
Four glass jars filled with plush animal eyes are lined up on a table in the corner of Agustina Woodgate’s studio in El Portal. “There are so many other parts,” Woodgate says. “But I have bigger plans for the eyes.” She is on all fours amid green and blue scraps…
Billy Corben is disappointed he has been selected for the New Times People issue instead of the food issue. Fortunately, aside from being a person, Corben is also a sandwich. Whereas Corben the person is Miami’s leading documentary filmmaker, Corben the sandwich is twin slabs of brisket on Portuguese muffins…
In NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel We Need New Names — a finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize — teenager Darling moves from Zimbabwe to Michigan, where she is struck by a rather large difference between Americans and the people back home. In Zimbabwe, Darling thinks, fatness “did not interfere…
If your friends really liked you, they’d start a film festival with you. That’s the lesson we’re taking away from the first Bright Minds Film Festival, unspooling Tuesday at the Colony Theatre (1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach). Not only are all the organizers friends, but they are also filmmakers and…
Like most poets, Jonathan Galassi is also the president of one of the world’s most renowned publishing houses and is the foremost translator of Nobel Prize-winning Italian poet Eugenio Montale. He probably also has a cat. Galassi runs Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which has Montale and 21 other Nobel laureates…
The first appearance of El Comandante, the ersatz Fidel Castro in Cristina García’s King of Cuba, finds the enfeebled dictator confined to lead his revolution from his bed. “The tyrant shifted onto his left arm, aiming his scrawny buttocks at the Straits of Florida, and released a sputtering, malodorous stream…
Don’t worry if you’re illiterate and someone is reading this to you right now. Though Miami Book Fair International is optimized for people who can read, there will be more than 350 authors there to read to you and to talk on panels. They’ll also sign books for you, which…
Old hip-hop soldiers never die; they just high-top-fade away. But sometimes they return to throw an all-night house party. This Saturday, sometimes becomes nowtimes, and it’s not for just a plate of soggy Triscuits in a lean-to, but for the Ultimate House Party with Kid ’n Play at Studio 504…
You guys, we’re so jealous of Nature right now! Sure, getting fracked is totally lame, but how awesome would it be to have Nikki Glaser as one of your besties? “I would say I’ve been friends with Nature since, god, since I bought a Gap shirt that said ‘Save the…
Eating a regular candy bar is hard work, which is why the little ones are the fun-sized ones. Same thing with movies. So the selections in the Miami Short Film Festival are sized for maximum fun. Over the eight nights this week (November 8 to 15), more than 80 films…
Marlins Park (501 NW 16th Ave., Miami) will have barely calmed down from the excitement of hosting the World Series — just kidding! — when it comes time for the second-annual TigerDirect Tech Summit & Holiday Bash, presented by tech retailer TigerDirect.com and Intel. This Thursday from 8 p.m. to…
Marlins Park will have barely calmed down from the excitement of hosting the World Series when it comes time for the second annual TigerDirect Tech Summit & Holiday Bash, presented by tech retailer TigerDirect.com and Intel. Just kidding! The Marlins are terrible. But hey, at least we’re getting some use…
When former Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac headlines the Friends of Nature music and comedy festival on November 9 and 10, it will be because of a called-in favor for an old pal. “I would say that Nature and I have been friends probably ever since we both fell out…
American women may have been gifted the right to vote nearly a hundred years ago, but it took much longer for them to earn the right to move their bodies at a pace faster than skipping. Progress, however, continues to be made with the return of the Divas 5K, a…
Comic books are not often thought of as the domain of Jewish women, but “Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women” aims to change that perception. Many of the most transgressive and influential comics of the past 75 years were written and drawn by Jewish women, and now a survey…
For the past quarter-century, when Martyn Jacques and his band, the Tiger Lillies, have passed through airports, onlookers have reacted with some variation of “I hope you don’t mind, but are you part of a religious cult?” “I usually manage to look away and leave it to the drummer, who…
Representative Allen West. Governor Rick Scott. Real Housewives skin assemblage Elsa Patton. Florida has long had a rough go of things when it comes to being represented to the world. But we’ve always had a fairly rich literary tradition — even if much of it has been tattooed across our…
