Arts & Culture

Oh, Foxhall! Yes, Adolfo. Could you cinch up my jodhpurs for me? Certainly, friend. I would hate to get any sand in them. Quite dreadful that would be. Worse than that mallet to the face Gabriel took at last year’s Miami Beach Polo World Cup? Well, I rather thought the…

Thanks to Shank, premiering in North America this Saturday at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the days of the coming-of-age gay-boy film might be over. That’s because 21-year-old British director Simon Pearce (not to be confused with the glass blowers) has taken the bildungs-ho-man, held it up against…

In another case of NYC following Miami’s lead on all things cultural, Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester (Blair Waldorf to the regulars) has recorded a cover of local band Awesome New Republic’s hit “Birthday.” And although it’s not as good as the original, it is good, and its very existence confirms…

Jack Daniel is the Colonel Sanders of whiskey. His company likes to pretend he has some sort of legacy to pass down besides a rather harsh-tasting product that, despite claims to the contrary, demonstrates no scientific correlation with toughness. The Jack Daniel’s Studio No. 7 Latino Concert Series, however, we…

Local museums are palpitating with spring fever while art pollinates the Big Orange. The Bass, MoCA, MAM, the Lowe, and others are joining forces for a Museum Month celebration that’s nothing to sneeze at. During the month of May, membership to any of the nine participating institutions will serve as…

The murderous Bob Rusk has robbed Babs of her life, but she has posthumously returned the favor by grasping in her cold, stiff hand the pin from his lapel. As much as he wants to abandon the accessory, he knows it could lead to his capture and ruin all chances…

Everybody is talking about money these days, but we say shut it and choose: paper or plastic? Every budget can squeeze in a shopping spree at prices that are discounted up to 75 percent off, and twice a year, fashion/beauty/nightlife guru Shecky’s rolls into town with trunks full of gear…

Tabbed as “the first Intracoastal waterfront dining experience in North Miami Beach”, RACKS Italian Bistro And Market will finally and officially open to the public on Monday, May 4th. This 4,000 sqare foot, indor-outdoor “European-style new-age bistro”, “Italian-influenced marketplace”, and “romantic old-world Italian bar” promises to add up to an…

Pretty much the only thing we need to say to convince you to go see DBR & the Mission, the newest incarnation of Haitian-American composer and musician Daniel Bernard Roumain, is that the title of one of the works he’ll be performing is “Sonata for Violin and Turntables.” Never mind…

The Miami Book Fair is obviously the 800-pound gorilla in the local literary scene, but did you know that Miami-Dade College also puts on a pretty awesome little writer’s conference at the end of every Spring? This year’s Writer’s Institute, organized by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, features…

This Saturday the guys over at Miami World Cinema Center are hosting a Meet & Greet for the 2009 Borscht Film Festival, and if you’re a local filmmaker, want to be a local filmmaker, or just want to date local filmmakers, you should probably head over there. The occasion is…

Miami Metrozoo, Miami Seaquarium and Wannado City have announced plans to offer a ‘Summer Savings Pass’ that will allow unlimited admission to all three of the attractions throughout the summer. That means a summer full of cheap outdoor distractions from how hot it is. Oh wait, you’ll still be hot…

Mauritius is the best play ever written about stamps. Well, it’s not really about stamps (though philatelists will probably get a giddy jolt from its characters’ learned discourse on all things stampy). Like Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, Mauritius uses the quirky passions of a small group of people as…

On a recent Wednesday morning at the Frost Art Museum, a gaggle of giddy fifth-graders suddenly stopped in amazement and began roaring in glee. The kids, from Homestead’s Peskoe Elementary, were collectively juked out of their shoes by Kori Newkirk’s untitled sculpture, which is fashioned from a pair of basketball…

…is the next best thing to tea and sympathy. This Friday, May 1st, The Miami Symphony will be performing at the Guzman Concert Hall at the University of Miami at 8:00 p.m. After the event, a Symphonic Celebration takes place at Cacao Restaurant from 10:30 p.m. to midnight. Miami Symphony…

Considering that our last president cut funding for the National Arts in Education program each of his eight years in office, it’s a wonder that art in public schools isn’t already buried next to the WMD report. Yet despite Dubya’s cuts, Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe A. Martinez partnered with community leaders…

The Audi Corporation has left their Bavarian A-frames and come to South Florida to pimp their new ride, the Audi Q5, to our admittedly car-obsessed population. To do so, they’ve taken over a large swath of the parking lot at Gulfstream Park to set up a test-drive course that you…

It’s pretty clear that over the past couple decades, nerds as a people have had their revenge, and then some. Through the magic of the Internets, spectacled geekwads now rule the planet. They control you through video games, too – World of Warcraft continues to plunder your free time like…

Like major-league closers, modern-rock musicians tend to specialize in the high hard stuff. Still, that doesn’t mean fans of the genre reject any and all softer sounds — and that’s where Kevin Devine comes in. A generation ago, Devine, who’s playing with with Miniature Tigers, Sarah Jaffe & Brian Bonz,…

Well, it is upon us once again–Cinco de Mayo, that most special of Mexican holidays revered in the states. Mexicans themselves don’t really celebrate it any more than we do Earth Day, but what the hell do they know? So it doesn’t actually commemorate Mexico’s Independence (that’s in September). It…

The Soultech folks will be celebrating their one – year anniversary this Wednesday night at Skybar with a special performance by Argy. Greek-born Argyris Theofilis was born only in 1985, if you can believe it — pretty much around the same time that his precursors were pioneering the first sounds…