Say what you will about opera in general — that it’s intimidating, boring, or simply outdated. That might be true with traditional opera companies. But don’t you dare hurl those insults at Florida Grand Opera. The Magic City’s operatic artists have made a consistent effort to reach new audiences; in…

Sex! There, we have your attention. We know this because studies have shown that people are really, really bad at ignoring anything having to do with gettin’ it on. From the massive revenues that the porn industry rakes in year after year, to jiggling dancers in music videos, to increasingly…

Once upon a time, long ago (well, it was the 1970s), a group of teenage friends heard rumors of an abandoned crop of the plant Cannabis sativa that lay not far from where they went to high school in California. They made plans to investigate, meeting at the statue of…

Some say poetry is a dead art form. Others say the same about classical music. On Friday, New World Symphony and O, Miami will prove them all wrong with a show combining the musical talents of our city’s symphony and the verses of visiting poet Malachi Black. Take that, haters…

If you’re a card-carrying member of the Florida Family Association, this time of year has gotta be like your own, personal Hell. Well, except for the one that awaits everybody but you and people exactly like you after The Rapture. It starts with the Miami Beach Gay Pride Festival, which…

Last night, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen went on TV and said that Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, who is a stay-at-home mother, had “never worked a day in her life.” And just like that, we’ve all been sucked back into the same discussion about motherhood we’ve been having since feminists started…

Rum: It’s not just for pirates and old Cuban dudes anymore. Not this week, anyway. The Miami Rum Renaissance Festival kicks off Monday, and it’s your best excuse to drink during the workweek since, well, last year’s Rum Renaissance. The boozefest, which runs through April 22, begins low-key with panels…

You know that feeling, the one you get after you eat way too much. It’s gross, gluttonous, and guilty, all rolled into one foul package. And there’s only one way to avoid it. Eat healthful portions? Please — we meant one achievable way. And that’s to do your overeating at…

Pride means different things to different people. To some, it’s their child’s first steps. To others, it’s a set of jiggly new breast implants. To a dwindling few, it’s Dolphins pride for life. (Yes, they still exist.) But this Saturday on Ocean Drive, pride will mean only one thing: a…

If you could host a dinner party with any five historical or mythical figures, who would it be? If you’re Marlene, the central character in Caryl Churchill’s modern-classic feminist play Top Girls, the choice is simple: a legendary pope, the subject of a Brueghel painting, a 13th-century Japanese concubine, a…

It all seemed so innocent at first. The pretty pictures, the overwhelmingly nice comments, that swirly, scripted P.Once upon a time, Pinterest was merely a way to share all that was cute and aesthetically pleasing in the world — without getting defriended by your Facebook connections who didn’t want to…

There’s no denying Miami’s weird-ass ways. So every other week, Welcome to the Future addresses the absurdity of life in the Magic City — in comic art form, naturally…

Okay, Facebook will probably not expand its poking policy to the photo sharing app Instagram. Seriously, why does the site even have a “poke” option anymore? Has anybody used the “poke” function on Facebook in the past five years? And more importantly, what will happen to Instagram now that Mark…