Santa Claus is coming to the Shops at Midtown Miami (3401 N. Miami Ave., in front of Loehman’s and West Elm) this Saturday, and he’s bringing his rubbers.Rubber ducky reindeer, that is. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Santa and his helpers will set up rubber duck reindeer races for…
American men’s tennis is in the crapper. Andy Roddick looks more and more like a one-slam wonder, James Blake can’t stay healthy, and the next big thing, John Isner, is still merely the next big thing. However, hope always springs eternal at the Junior Orange Bowl, where the stars of…
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg play a couple who flee to a remote cabin in the woods after the death of their only child. They lose their minds, and soon Gainsbourg uses a woodblock to violently crush her husband’s manhood. And so goes Lars von Trier’s seminal film, Antichrist, or…
One of the forgotten stories of the American Revolution is the approximately 3,500 slaves who pledged loyalty to the British in exchange for their freedom. Before the end of the war, the redcoats gave amnesty to this group by transporting them to Canada, where they settled down for good, and…
New York City’s Aventura is the undisputed king of bachata, the Dominican ballad style that mixes romanticism with gritty realism. So why does the group plan to stop singing bachata? Especially since the bandmates, who formed Aventura in the DR in the mid-’90s, successfully resisted all attempts by label heads…
Deep in the heart of every snowflake’s completely unique structure lies the home of Flore de Lisa, Queen Fairy of Winter. Though smaller than a nanometer, Flore de Lisa controls when and how much it snows with one wave of her tiny magical ice wand. For eons, Lisa has shunned…
The myth that Miami’s music scene never dips below 120 beats per minute has been steadily eroding the past few years as acts like Rachel Goodrich and the Jacuzzi Boys have received national attention. But if you’ve just moved here and don’t know your Churchill’s from your Church’s Chicken, or…
Got a thing for Morris Lapidus? The Bacardi Building? The old Jetson’s cartoon?Then tonight’s “Time for Design” forum on Miami Modernism at the Musuem of Contemporary Art in North Miami (770 NE 125th St.) is your kind of get-together.From 7-9 p.m., art historian Edwin Stirman and photographer Robin Hill will…
So the Borscht Film Festival rejected your heart-rending short film about a poetry professor who loses his cat to cancer. You just gonna sit there and cry about it? Or are you going to show those cocky bastards what real filmmaking looks like?Now’s your chance. Until December 31, the Miami…
The Masking Tape Film Festival. The Lifeguard Stand Film Festival. The Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Film Festival. Until these are formed, the Bicycle Film Festival is the weirdest and coolest niche film festival the world has yet invented.Started nine years ago by Brendt Barbur, a New York City resident who…
Nothing makes Santa happier than enjoying a frosty adult beverage after his exhausting work delivering presents. And hey, shouldn’t you be rewarded for your gift giving too? From now until December 22, bring an unwrapped toy at least $10 in value to La Marea at the Tides Hotel and get…
It’s the traditions that make Christmas — an otherwise downright Scrooge and noninclusive holiday — meaningful: trimming the tree, singing carols, hanging the lights, anything that gets people together for, in the words of Clark Griswold, “a fun old fashion family Christmas.” And one of the best public Christmas traditions…
If you sometimes feel like a motherless child, try the following. This Friday, skip the after-work happy hour. Go home, make yourself a decent meal, then head over to the Knight Concert Hall for Sweet Honey in the Rock. If you know your Ketuvim, you’ll know that the name comes…
Video might have killed the radio star, but iPods and bit torrent streaming have yet to kill the live musical act. That’s because there’s still nothing like hearing a great rendition of a song in person—the sonic boom, the intimacy, the vibrato, none of these comes across in the little…
If you’re into both numerology and astronomy, 2009 is your year. Why? It’s not only the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing but also the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s invention of the astronomical telescope. And the intelligent folks over at FIU’s Music Department found another coincidence that they’ve…
Lots of us make dinner from whatever’s lying around, but at Paradise Farms in Homestead, what’s lying around is the best organic produce in South Florida. If you’ve ever eaten at one of the best restaurants in Miami—Michael’s Genuine, Fratelli Lyon, Michy’s—you’ve already sampled the Paradise Farms bounty, but there’s…
Power couples make the world go round: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler, Frank and Kathy Lee Gifford, etc. Like the Power Rangers, these individual juggernauts combine to create forces greater than their parts. Just the sound of their hybrid names — Billary, Brangelina,…
If you haven’t heard, there’s a major show coming to town December 2 through 6, an international exhibition of incomparable artistic quality. And no, we’re not talking about Art Basel. The South Dade Kennel Club and the Greater Miami Dog Club have joined forces to bring you the Miami-Dade Cluster…
Time to rummage through your closets, all you lapsed Jews, and break out those dreidels, because shit is going down at the Vagabond this Thursday night during (((Shake)))’s weekly party. You thought it was all fun and games and Hebrew lessons? Think again. The Major League Dreidel Championship is gettin’…
Watching The State back in the ’90s (yes, we were alive then), we always felt like the corporate slave drivers at MTV were holding the reins a little too tightly on Michael Ian Black, David Showalter, Thomas Lennon, and company. The utter weirdness behind nonsensical skits such as “Taco Mail…
Only a guy named Lars von Trier could go to the Cannes Film Festival with a movie called Antichrist, get booed throughout the screening, and then go into the pressroom and say — and this is a direct quote — “I am the best film director in the world.” And…
Call him Billy “Cristal,” because this Wednesday, Billy Crystal will be the toast of Miami. In a big win for both the Arsht Center and Miami audiences, Crystal will bring his Tony Award-winning one-man show, 700 Sundays, to town. Taking us all the way through Crystal’s rise to megastardom, 700…
