Tonight you might notice hordes of well-dressed men heading to Bird Bowl. The attraction? It’s the beginning of the Gay Bowling League’s season! The evening kicks off with an organizational meeting at 7:00, when teams will be divvied up into groups of three bowlers each. “Practice” bowling starts at 8:00;…
What’s a better way to impress your date than pretending you have some culture? Take him/her to culture that is free! Then you can spend the extra money on drinks and dinner and such. Today you can save some bucks if you go for a stroll through the gorgeous, glamorous…
So let’s say you woke up this morning and thought, Today I’d like to humiliate myself beyond all comprehension, in front of millions of people. How do I do this? We have the answer. Today, you masochist, the Miami auditions for American Idol are at the American Airlines Arena, and…
The gay Nineties are back! Okay, they’re not back entirely; they’re still just peeking around the corner and seeing if it’s all right to come out and play. But there’s a renaissance brewing at Click, South Beach’s Sunday-night party at Dek23. Promoters Omar Gonzalez and Dustin Reffca are bringing back…
How does one explain a Sandra Bernhard show? Is it a musical revue? Is it stand-up comedy? Is it a one-woman rant about the demise of society? Yes to all of the above. Experiencing a Sandra Bernhard show is like crawling into her brain and rolling around in the chaos…
Sunday nights have turned into a battlefield of gay party promoters, with clubs opening homocentric events all around town (Flavour in Coconut Grove, Amika in South Beach, et cetera). But the only Sunday party that matters is Click at Dek23, hosted by promoters Omar Gonzalez and Dustin Reffca. It’s an…
Imagine you’re a gay male prostitute. And let’s say one day you have a break from all of your sexing, and you’re flipping channels, and you come across a televangelist preaching the evils of homosexuality with the sin and the Sodom and the Gomorrah and all that. You find out…
Hurry up and get thee to Wynwood — tonight opens the one-weekend-only run of The Death of Kings: An Encyclopedia at Circa 28 . The Death of Kings is a nouveau-artsy parable about the impact of 9/11 on humanity, as told by the character of a Harlequin (an omnipresent literary…
Summer really is the best time to live in South Florida. Sure it’s so hot outside it’s like walking on the surface of the sun, until the occasional hurricane comes along and blows us all to bits. And since those fickle tourists pack up and leave — they really have…
Once upon a time, there was a little gay bar called Rocks on the Mile in a little city called Coral Gables. Not many people knew this little gay bar was there, for everyone thought all the gay bars were on South Beach. But this little gay bar had a…
Rare is the straight man who will don a wig and false breasts and head out for a night on the town. Not that they are to be blamed; it’s hard to cruise chicks when you’re wearing a pink bouffant, so they leave it to the gays. But there’s one…
The Carnival Center continues to import fantastic shows from around the U.S.; tonight’s opening, 12 Angry Men, hails from Broadway. Set in the Fifties, the play takes place in a jury room, after the trial of a troublemaker accused of murdering his not-so-nice father. It seems to be an open-and-shut…
The Miami City Ballet is not only one of the top ballet companies in the US — it’s also a school for the best and brightest of South Florida’s up-and-coming dancers. And this weekend the kids are putting on a student showcase of their own. It’s like a ballet high…
We don’t think there is a more romantic event this week than the Evening Under the Stars, the tenth edition of this annual Vizcaya fundraiser. Presented by the Vizcayans (the main fundraising committee for the estate), the annual event is one of the largest fundraisers for the historic estate, with…
What is it about Shelley Novak that we love so much? We’re big fans of the hilarious drag queen with the ratty blond wig, the frumpy frocks … and of course that ever-present facial stubble, fighting its way through the countless layers of makeup shellacked onto his (her?) face. We…
Modern dance master Merce Cunningham is back in Miami, kicking off the latest exhibition of his work, “Dancing on the Cutting Edge part 2,” for a two-month run. Cunningham is well-known to dance mavens in Miami, having taken up something of a secondary residence here with the Museum of Contemporary…
Tonight the Momentum Dance Company kicks off its ten-day Miami Beach Dance Festival, featuring dance companies from around North America and beyond. Flamenco, ballet, modern; you can see it all at various locales around town, with most of the action taking place at the Byron Carlyle Theater. Among the performances…
Attention South Beach: Put your thongs away; things are getting civilized ’round here today. The FedEx Miami Polo Cup is riding into town — yes, a real-life polo tournament is taking place all weekend, right there on South Beach. And we mean on South Beach, with Argentine polo ponies literally…
It’s ironic that Laundry Bar, a place with quite a bit of soap, is actually the filthiest joint in town. At least it is one Monday a month, for the Queen Cabaret drag revue, a glorious parade of men with improbable wigs, platform shoes, and a pathological need for a…
File this under “truth is stranger than fiction” — a modern dance company coming to Miami Beach is performing a ballet based on The Price Is Right. Seriously. The Australia-based Expressions Dance Company’s latest work, Score!, is based on the behind-the-scenes action at a reality TV game show. If there…
If you can’t wait for the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival any longer, head to South Beach tonight to get your fill of the Sapphic silver screen with the Best Lesbian Short Films. In addition to a variety of select shorts and music videos, founder Sandra Grace will reveal…
Southwest Miami-Dade residents, rejoice! Something is actually happening in your neighborhood! Pack up the kids and head to the third annual Deering Seafood Festival, touted as “the biggest backyard festival on the bay.” Activities include nature hikes, cooking demos, a performance by local band the Mosquitoheads, and a humongous seafood…
