Arts & Culture

After seeing almost a hundred years’ worth of gangster films, we’re all familiar with the tropes: greed, betrayal, restitution, etc., and of course the black-market trade of products such as guns and drugs. Logic suggests gangster films of the future will continue down a similar path, except the illicit smuggling…

Summer — the triple plague of humidity, mosquitoes, and bored teenagers — is upon us. The folks at the SoBe Music Institute can’t solve the first two, but they’ve got a great solution for that boy or girl ages 13 to 17 lying on your couch all day, eating your…

Once you’ve felt the weight of 24-karat gold on your earlobes, it’s tough to go back to rockin’ the stuff that turns your listening machines green. Same goes for diamonds — after you’ve had a chance to dig into the Queen’s jewels, CZ will never look or feel the same…

Leave your topsiders at home, Pops — this definitely isn’t your grandfather’s afternoon regatta. The biggest powerboats in the nation are revving it up in Sunny Isles Beach for the second annual Offshore Powerboat Challenge Weekend. From the shores of Florida’s Riviera (sort of), you can watch motorists take it…

You don’t have to have silver hair or a neck full of wrinkles to enjoy the sounds of music that emanate from the Miami chamber choir Seraphic Fire. This assemblage of professional singers from around the world turns the chorus image on its head, performing classical music with young, hip…

While the rest of the country is frolicking in unabashed sunshine, we’re cursed with a summer of dank, rainy weather. We’d bet that weeks full of days that make you want to sleep and nights that make you want to cry drive liquor sales through the roof. This year, instead…

Michael Genovese’s art career began with professional training in sign painting, a skill set that perhaps explains why his work is so technically precise. From his incredible etchings to his hyper-detailed site installations, Genovese’s work somehow combines the improvisational urban spirit of his native Chicago with a mood of thoughtful…

January brings cold ocean temps, but in the 305, there’s always at least a heated pool you can dive into. Yet corporate America seems to think the arrival of June means we’re suddenly thinking about beach bodies and eating right. Thanks so much, Shape Magazine Bikini Body Tour, but we…

In case you thought Miami was all about McMansions and 24-hour high-rises, get acquainted with Coral Castle. Built in 1923 by Edward Leedskalnin, a Latvian-American whose Lolita lover had recently jilted him, the place is full of more mystical mystery than Gollum’s middle finger. Some folks surmise Leedskalnin used a…

The average lifespan of a Miami Beach club is a stat that seems to be continuously closing in on zero. That’s why Jazid, only now entering its teens, can be said to have reached a grandfatherly age. The club’s longevity is a testimony to the power of its world-class jazz,…

One of the benefits of having artists hanging around town is that while we’re working, they’re thinking. The bad ones are usually thinking about themselves, but the good ones patrol the city like Basho: considering structures and alterations, movements and stagnations — everything the rest of us take for granted…

If the extent of your knowledge in Tiki culture is the talking parrot ride at Disney World, it’s time to wise up. For the past seven years, a band of so-called Tikiphiles has gathered in Fort Lauderdale for what has become the premier celebration of Polynesian pop. The Hukilau 2009…

The term blaxploitation was coined to describe a film genre that targeted urban audiences, was often set in U.S. ghettos, freely used the word honky, and stereotyped blacks as pimps, prostitutes, and drug dealers. Black power, black fists, and black Afros were ubiquitous, and as the first block of mainstream…

Hey, lady friend, we’ve been going steady for five months now and Daddy thinks it’s about time we take that next step. It’s time to put on that red dress, those high heels, and that sweet perfume because you’re going to see Charlie Wilson and Johnny Gill at the James…

Dog-themed art has a message for you. It doesn’t appreciate being reduced to the series of 16 “dogs playing poker” paintings that Cassius Marcellus Coolidge made in 1903 for a cigar company’s ad campaign, and it’s going to prove it to you at the opening reception for “Dog Tales: Words…

At 12:10 p.m. this Thursday, the Florida Marlins will play the St. Louis Cardinals. Cardinals are stupid. Wikipedia says they’re “seed eaters.” What kind of lowlife hippie bird is runnin’ that ball club anyway? Cardinals are red, like communists, and we heard St. Louis smells bad. Watch the Fish crush…

When the Miami Herald rehired novelist Ana Menendez as a columnist in 2005, a colleague greeted her grimly: “Welcome back to newspapers. It’s like joining the railroads in 1897.” That witticism turned into an omen; three years later, Menendez was laid off, but not before she’d collected a devoted following…

In the 18-block district that hosts this town’s most cutting-edge furniture stores, chichi design, and high-minded art galleries, Miami New Times and the City of Miami present the first annual Design & Dine at the Buena Vista Building. From 7 to 11 p.m., local designers, artists, restaurants, and musicians will…

There are more than 1,500 children eligible for adoption in the state of Florida, of which an average of 37% will sit on a waiting list more than three years. The Children’s Trust is hoping to lower that number with an initiative called The Children’s Trust Miami Heart Gallery, which…

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