Arts & Culture

After-dark activities in Miami’s city parks typically involve something along the lines of two consenting adults, an unripe mango, and a safe word such as Okeechobee. Needless to say, you wouldn’t bring mom, your girlfriend, or the kids on that kind of field trip. This Monday, enjoy a decidedly more…

Archie comic books made us fear the evil sandcastle-destroying bullies lurking on the beach. But when we finally made it to the fabled SoBe shore, the would-be brutes looked too sun-baked and hung over to kick rocks, let alone a sandy re-creation of our childhood home. Still, let’s hope the…

If you think your hair’s jaunty curl is avant-garde, the creations you’ll witness at Glynn Jackson’s Hairtopia will make you reconsider. Because unless you’ve ever had a toy helicopter launch from a crevice in your beehive, your hair is blasé, basic, and b-b-boring. Jackson has produced spectacles of hair fashion…

The fact that Congress chose Miami as one of 11 cities to host events celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth says a lot about how far the Big Orange has come. And to its credit, the city didn’t half-step when organizing this Sunday’s culminating event, A Lincoln Town…

Popular American cinema is dead, and the Hollywood Sign sleeps with the fishes. Our information age’s data flood has drowned it in a sea of digital leisure time. Francis Ford Coppola recently put it more succinctly to a Bloomberg interviewer in Beirut. “The cinema as we know it is falling…

Yes, this Saturday’s Captain Morgan’s Fantasy Fest Parade on Duval Street in Key West is a healthy distance from Miami. But is three hours really so long to drive for hordes of shirtless women with butterflies painted on their boobs? We think not. Especially when the theme this year —…

If you live south of downtown, take care of your little ghouls by taking them to the Gables. Head to Miracle Mile for Halloween on the Mile, a city-sponsored and supersafe trick-or-treat event from 3 to 6 p.m. There will also be a scavenger hunt, a haunted house, and a…

For folks across the causeway, head to Miami Beach Botanical Garden for Halloween Family Day. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the name of the game is pumpkins: Youngsters can carve them and paint them, and adults can buy them. There will also be holiday-themed arts and crafts, along with…

Sometimes the “Day” doesn’t get enough respect here at “Night & Day,” especially on that most nighttime of holidays — Halloween. But for those of you who plan your days like Amish farmers in a candle wax shortage, here are some things to do this Saturday before the sun goes…

Sometimes Nicole Henry likes to make crowds of strangers think about lost love. Sometimes she likes to arouse them. And sometimes she just likes to make them celebrate. The Miami Beach jazz singer understands the power of music, and she has used classic songs to entertain audiences from South Florida…

To many hip-hop fans, JT Money is just another Southern rapper. But as soon as you get anywhere near Dade County, fans call him a legend. A onetime protégé of Uncle Luke, the Miami native released his first album 20 years ago via Poison Clan, a group that has left…

Just as the first robin is a cheesy, Disney-style sign that spring has arrived, since 2004, horror fans have known Halloween is just around the corner by the release of another movie in the Saw franchise. Could have sworn the main villain was killed off in Saw IV, but as…

Forget the haunted houses and the crappy slasher films — the scariest spectacle you can treat yourself to this weekend is the premiere of Ground Up and Rising’s production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman at ArtSouth Sanctuary Performing Arts Center. The most ambitious work in the young Irishman’s acclaimed oeuvre,…

Don’t expect to find voodoo flags, glittery spirit bottles, or primitive folkloric paintings at Windisch-Hunt Fine Arts, chirps the gallery’s director. Instead, AnnaMaria Windisch says her “Haitian Masters” exhibition will showcase never-before-publicly-displayed blue-chip pieces by some of the Caribbean nation’s most vaunted names. “The works have been culled from the…

Over her four-decade career, Gal Costa has done it all. She belted out songs of protest during the ’60s; came of age in the mid-’70s as one of Brazil’s most recognizable voices; scored a multi-platinum hit — “Festa do Interior” — in the ’80s; and became a film star in…

The nightmare of the 2009 election is over and yet, there will be more than a few Sarah Palins running the streets this Halloween — tailored suit, spectacles, lipstick and all. But Gen Art’s spooktacular event is more culture than pop culture and will celebrate the days of Old Hollywood…

Legendary British DJ/producer Stave Lawler will be playing at Gryphon Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this Thursday night. A child of the ’90s UK rave scene, Lawler got his start organizing some of the infamous M42 Motorway illegal parties as a teenager, before getting his big…

A cross between the melodic punk of Lawrence Arms and the churning hardcore of Rise Against, A Wilhelm Scream combines a high quotient of both heft and hooks. Original drummer Nicholas Pasquale Angelini is the beast’s backbone, driving tempo like Jeff Gordon, and keying a thick bottom end worthy of…

Derek Vincent Smith is lost in California, he says by phone. He has once again wandered away from his tour bus to sample local flavors, as he does in each tour-stop city, while his production team erects a spectacular lighting rig for the evening’s show. And that rig is intense,…

Plenty to check out in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend, and no matter who you are, you’ll find something that will scare you. David Allan Coe, for instance, is playing tonight at Culture Room. He’s been known to scare more than a few people in his day. KMFDM are…

Well, it’s that special time of year kiddies, when real kiddies get to go door to door yelling “trick or treat!” and collecting candy, most of which their grandmothers will warn, “esta envenenado” (“it’s poisoned”). Meanwhile, grownup kiddies get to dress like strippers and dipshits (I managed both at once…