Do people even know this Wednesday is Veteran’s Day? Or the reason why it’s celebrated November 11? For the historically or Google-impaired, it’s the day in 1918 when the Germans signed the armistice treaty, ending World War I. Back in the day, every town in America had a huge parade…
Dwyane Wade and company need to send the guy who came up with the 2009-10 NBA schedule a Christmas card, because the Miami Heat plays eight of its first ten games at home. This Tuesday, they meet the Washington Wizards, a team that has underachieved the past two seasons owing…
Brave the 85-degree weather and venture out to Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus this week for one of the greatest author combinations Evenings With… schedules the Miami Book Fair has ever assembled. Sunday is poet Elizabeth Alexander and novelist Margaret Atwood at 5 and 7 p.m., respectively. Monday is food…
If you’re in Homestead and catch a whiff of barbeque and charcoal wafting through the air, chances are you’re at Ribfest. This Saturday and Sunday, local grilling experts will take to the outdoors for two days of ribs, motorcycles, grills and entertainment while the country side of South Florida comes…
Ever consider pasting a Big Mac wrapper onto a canvas? Then you’ve pondered entering the artistic realm of pop art. The genre, defined by an artist’s use of images and physical items found in popular culture, is like candy: yummy, often colorful, and utterly indulgent when consumed in large doses…
He’ll make you do things you don’t wanna. Things to which you always said, “Nuh-uh, I’m not gonna.” Agree to participate in his show and hypnotist Rich Guzzi will have you eating out of the palm of his hand. And quite possibly, literally. Calling himself “a cross between Tony Robbins…
Karma, it can be a bitch. Just ask author Alan Wieder. Or better yet, let Wieder tell you about it face to face this Saturday when he takes the stage at Books & Books to read from his debut book, Year of the Cock: The Remarkable True Account of a…
This Thursday, head to the Vagabond where, kicking it in the (((Shake))) kitchen, Tel Aviv’s Soulico Crew will stay busy slipping juicy morsels of hip-hop, dancehall, and Israeli folk between your bread. Doors open at 10 p.m., but being tardy to the table isn’t a problem — this fun buffet…
When people think of Caribbean fashion, they think of sarongs, layers of kente cloth, and those netted tanks that drape the “Dexter” rasta men of Jamaica. But Phelicia Dell of VeVe Collections has something else in mind: rich, colorful, hand-sewn sequin messenger bags; dreamy waist bags; and oversize jean handbags…
If you kissed a girl and liked it, you’re probably well aware of Rainbow Kisses at Nocturnal on Sunday nights. The week-old party is only one of a handful of lesbian nights in Miami. Maybe this marks a gayelle renaissance, probably set to the tune of something written by the…
Summer is tough on Floridians. Months of sprinting from one pocket of air conditioning to another can crush your soul. Fortunately, one festival is set to revive it: This Sunday’s Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival will pack in enough slow-cooked love to shift your EKG reading from sluggish to soca. As…
Looking for a testosterone-filled, ear-drum-rocking, patriotic way to spend the first weekend in November? Well, Homestead Air Reserve Base is revving up its combat-ready reserve unit to satisfy even the most demanding aircraft aficionado’s red, white, and blue needs. The highly anticipated annual air show Wings Over Homestead will be…
Even if you adore the feeling of having your feet planted firmly on the ground, riding a surfboard and allowing a wave to cradle you as you glide to shore is a sensation akin to flying. That is, flying with water spraying in your face and the threat of falling…
American Halloween is weak sauce: Dress up like Michael Jackson, pay too much to get into a cheesy club where every single girl is wearing a hooker costume, and then drive home drunk. No, thanks. Fet Gede, on the other hand, is pure tequila. The name translates to “Festival for…
Ooh-la-la! This Thursday marks the beginning of the second annual French Week Miami, hosted by the French American Chamber of Commerce of Florida, and it would be, like, totally a faux pas to miss it. It all kicks off with the opening cocktail party at Sofitel Luxury Hotel at 6:30…
It’s mere minutes after midweek and already you’re so starved for a giant earful of musical food that the typical low-cal, single-serving jazz smoothie will never sate your craving. In that case, the only guaranteed hunger-buster is a big, fat twin-patty tuneage melt. Get your first bite this Thursday at…
Chances are, if you listen to NPR, you probably do so in the convenience of your eco-friendly automobile or in your den (and on shuffle with Berlioz, of course). You were on the cardigan-and-bowtie train long before hipsters got on it, and you can cook up a mean bouillabaisse. Or…
The Paris-born Sleepless Night seems tailor-made for a town like Miami Beach, where hotel rooms are just a secure place to store your bags. This Saturday, the all-night celebration is back with 150 free cultural events from Mid Beach down to the Pointe. Trying to hit them all is futile,…
Not many films can boast what The Wind and the Water can: that it’s the first documentary ever made by an indigenous Panamanian tribe. The Kuna people own and live on a collection of 365 islands off the coast of Panama City, which, as you can imagine, is some of…
Jason Shawn Alexander’s striking solo show, “Insomnious,” features ominous, psychologically charged canvases and drawings. One painting of a two-headed, panty-clad Asian woman uttering a primal scream freezes spectators in their tracks. So does a work depicting a scrawny, two-faced mook dangling from puppet strings next to a naked hag ferociously…
Tonight: The new jam capital of the world, Broward County, welcomes The Radiators to Culture Room. Peaches, who is probably the polar opposite of every jam band ever, is playing Revolution Live. Surf rockers Cutback are playing a rum fueled show at Mai Kai tonight, and reggae masterminds 4th Dimension…
Alright, if you’re not headed up to FLIFF tonight to catch Radioboxer at Cinema Paradiso, but you are in the mood for a little local rocking this weekend, there’s a simple solution. It involves floors covered in a perpetual sheen of freshly spilt beer, a haze of cigarette smoke so…
