The title of the art exhibit “101 Dresses” might conjure thoughts of a certain horrible rom-com starring Katherine Heigl. But rest assured: These dresses are not that kind of frock. Adriana Carvalho’s culminating solo exhibition as an artist-in-residence at ArtCenter/South Florida (800 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach) showcases her evolutionary journey…
Jonathan Larsen’s Tony Award-winning musical Rent has become so well-known that even if you haven’t seen it, you’ve probably found yourself humming the lyrics to “Seasons of Love.” You know the song, the one that goes, “Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,” over and over. The equal parts heart-wrenching/rock-’n’-rolling…
If Shark Week didn’t chill your bones enough to stay safely landlocked at Miami Beach without even sticking so much as a toe in the water, you’ll definitely think twice about hopping in the ocean after watching Bait 3D. The Jaws-channeling 3D feature will show for one time only at…
Coconut Grove will go to the mattresses as the neighborhood celebrates its annual Labor Day weekend pajama party, anchored by the Great Grove Bed Race this Sunday. The race has been around for several years, and participants have pretty much fine-tuned the drill: Five-member teams in costume race homemade beds…
Kicking off this weekend, the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre will present five plays written by the controversial Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera, in a grand production entitled “Absurd Celebration: The First International Festival of Virgilio Piñera’s Theatre.” The first play, Aire Frio (Cold Air), opens Friday, with the…
No, it’s not the 50 shades of rainbow colors splashing across the baseball team’s new uniforms. It’s the soft-core porn novel that the Washington Nationals, who will face off against the Miami Marlins this Wednesday, are allegedly perusing in the dugout. According to the Washington Post sports blog, the Nats…
Kicking off this weekend, the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre will present five plays written by the controversial Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera, in a grand production entitled “Absurd Celebration: The First International Festival of Virgilio Piñera’s Theatre.” The first play, Aire Frio (Cold Air), opens Friday, with the…
A death stare. Looks that could kill. Stink-face. There are plenty of ways to make a person feel crappy, just by looking at them.But what about a love stare? Why can’t we all get some more of that?Well, Miami is about to get just that. Locals are signing up to…
Imagine if someone pointed their phone at your T-shirt and, all of a sudden, you were decked out in a Miami Heat jersey, shooting free throws with Dwayne and Lebron. Or perhaps, wielding a sword and slaying a fantastical beast in a Game of Thrones-esque battle.Wait. Can this kind of…
The Brooklyn Rail has become a mainstay as a source of off-beat artistic, cultural, and political criticism in New York. Offered free in the borough, it’s a bit hard to come by in other reaches of the art scene.But not for long. Miami’s own version of the Brooklyn Rail is…
As we shift from March to April, it is with heavy hearts that we Florida residents must wave good-bye to the droves of shamelessly wasted, toxically sunburned, and unequivocally annoying college kids that swarm our shores every year for the spring break season.Here in Miami, spring break brought the usual…
When my editor asked me to cover a meeting of the Florida Skyliners, a congregation of Miami’s tallest residents, at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, she told me it was because I live in Palm Beach County, where the gardens are located. But I suspect the…
