Plays for Pervs

Who wants to pay 10 bucks to see Steve Martin’s Underpants? We do! And South Florida will get the chance starting tonight, when Martin’s Broadway hit takes the stage at FIU’s Mary Anne Wolfe Theatre. Martin based the play on the early-1900s German work Die Hose, about a woman who…

SoBe Still Scores

South Beach may not be the gay party mecca it was in its Nineties heyday, but there are still a few important dates on the M4M calendar: Edison Farrow’s “The Simple Life” party at Buck15 has been running strong for years with its eclectic beer-drinking vibe, and Sundays bring to…

Riffing Off the Great White Way

Attention, theater nerds: Get thee to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts to see the ultimate theater geekfest, Forbidden Broadway, in its inaugural South Florida run. In case you weren’t in high school drama club, Forbidden Broadway is a long-running New York musical revue that spoofs Broadway show…

Twisting the Night Away

What’s better than a gaggle of gays all in one place? Gays on the move! Tonight the streets of South Beach will be crawling with gay men partaking in the first-and-we-hope-not-last Equality Florida Bar Crawl, benefiting gay rights organization Equality Florida. The crawl bops around the various gay bars on…

Who Needs Snow?

“Circuit parties” are the Mardi Gras of the gay world, where hordes of revelers party for days on end. Miami, always happy to host a party, is the home of several of the largest circuit parties of the year, and there’s a doozy starting tonight — the Winter Party, which…

It’s Getting Hot in Here

Alaska is getting hotter these days, and we can feel it here in Miami. But it’s not global warming – not yet anyway. The Diana Szeinblum Dance Company is taking up residence at the Byron Carlyle Theater tonight and tomorrow night to perform a modern dance piece called Alaska. Sponsored…

Brand-New Dude

Scott Turner Schofield wasn’t always a man. Hence the title of his show, Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps, which opens tonight at the Carnival Center’s Studio Theater. 127 Steps features a series of monologues and anecdotes about Schofield’s life as a female-to-male transsexual, with some stories being lighthearted…

Parade on Ocean

Just when you thought South Beach was only for Eurotrash tourists and low-rent hip-hop clubs, culture comes to town: Art Deco Weekend is here, still running strong after 31 years. The weekend celebrating architectural history kicks off tonight with the Light Up the Night parade at 7:30 on Ocean Drive,…

Downtown’s Coming Out

For seven years, Edison Farrow has been hosting his SoBe Social Club parties like Martini Tuesdays and Simple Life at Buck15, bringing the gays (and the straight girls who love them) to the nightclubs of South Beach. His success is partially marked by his insistence to march to his own…

Blood, Guts, and Live Instruments

Long before Johnny Depp and Tim Burton made the movie, Sweeney Todd was a tale of 19th-century British folklore: a bloodthirsty madman who goes on a murderous rampage, seeking revenge for … well, we won’t spoil it for you here. After he kills, he does something to the bodies that…

Gay Sleigh Ride

Tonight is the last night to catch the Miami Gay Men’s Chorus in its holiday extravaganza, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, at the Colony Theater. The performance includes renditions of traditional show tunes and contemporary favorites, as well as slightly naughty versions of popular standards. Perhaps they’ll bring…

Feet of Fury

James Devine is listed in the Guinness World Records book as the world’s fastest tapper, able to pound out 38 taps per second. Try tapping your fingers 38 times in a second, right now. Not so easy, right? Devine doing his thing is a little more exciting than you rattling…

Nights in White Spandex

Thanksgiving weekend means two things unique to Miami: First, Hispanic families serve their turkeys with arroz, and tres leches for dessert; and second, the gays skip the fat and carbs altogether so they can show off their abs at the various parties during White Party Week. The largest annual fundraiser…

Where the Boys Are

Ah, circuit parties. Those bacchanalian gatherings where thousands of gay men converge, (allegedly) partake in recreational narcotics, and dance shirtless for hours on end. They were all the rage in the Nineties, fueled by an influx of cheap, readily available party drugs. Sadly their origins were also their downfall; inconvenient…

Gotta Pay the Landlord

“In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes — how do you measure a year in the life?” So go the lyrics to “Seasons of Love,” one of the most famous songs from one of Broadway’s most famous rock musicals, Rent — and if you don’t know…

Feel the Bass

Ah, the ups and downs of Lance Bass. First he tried singing, and he was pretty good at it — he was in that boy band ’Nsync, teenagers loved him, he was on top of the world. But then he tried to be an actor and made a movie called…

Such a Supple Wrist

In the early Nineties, the entire industry of Broadway theater was lagging from poor ticket sales, as people no longer cared to listen to the same happy-go-lucky drivel normally associated with show tunes. But then Pete Townshend came along and taught folks a thing or two about how to stage…

Kendall Car Dealership Keeps on Giving

The Wheels of Justice Filed under: Flotsam The other day, while whipping through the parking lot of the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, Riptide came across a sleek egg-shape ride stamped with the unmistakable portrait of the county’s top crime fighter: Katherine Fernandez Rundle. Painted in a futuristic, fast-forward blue-and-white scheme,…

Run for Your Lives!

he gays are planning something. They are taking over the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts tonight, when they are hosting an uprising called Queer Riot. Such atrocities they have in store. Murder! Mayhem! Just kidding. It’s just a comedy show, featuring notable comedians in the gay world. First there’s…

Stage Capsules

Talk Radio: Eric Bogosian’s play (which was filmed by Oliver Stone in 1988) about radio host Barry Champlain, once a small-time Akron DJ blessed with the gift of gab, incorporates elements of radio host Alan Berg’s murder at the hands of neo-Nazis. — Brandon K. Thorp Through October 7. Mosaic…

A Man, a Dream, a Lesbian Lube Party

Josepher Bonilla simply wanted to bring his two favorite things together: hot chicks in latex clothes, and hot chicks who make out with each other. Voila — the Liquor Lezbians Latex Lube Party was born, and the event’s latest installment (that’d be the Ongoing Adventures of the Liquor Lezbians Latex…

Wildcat Frenzy!

“What time is it? Party time! That’s right — say it loud!” Do you know what song this is from? Those are bona fide lyrics from Disney’s High School Musical movie franchise, which is only, like, the hottest film phenomenon in the universe. If you have seen it, you probably…