As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, Ralph Provisero bombed the streets of Miami with his inventive graffiti art. His natural-born talent took him to the prestigious Parsons School of Design in New York and later to galleries in places as diverse as Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Mexico…
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith Through May 24. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-3000; miamiartmuseum.org. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. It’s impossible to imagine a better city than ours as a host for the mojo-manic exhibit…
Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one would pay a cent to see them. That’s more or less what happened to Hill’s The Foot Fist Way in 2008, two years after its Sundance twirl first caught the attention…
South Florida native Brian Hecker’s uncomfortably strained directorial debut — a semiautobiographical comedy about a high school senior who can’t find a prom date — foolishly believes that Windsor fonts, swing-era songs, and Jews are enough to invoke Woody Allen’s wit. It’s a quirky indie, you see, as nerdy class…
Who told you knitting was for octogenarians? One look at designer Karelle Levy’s hooked-up confections and you wouldn’t dare think some bespectacled bitty created it. Now is your chance to learn from Levy and create some pieces of your own at her weekly yarn throwdown, Stichin’ Boozin’ Bitches. You bring…
Can Orlando, home of Mickey Mouse et al., successfully double as Miami? The makers of Just Another Day think so. The film stars Jamie Hector and Wood Harris (both of The Wire) and follows a day in the life of a rising rap star and a veteran rhymer as they…
Today was a big day for fashionable people in New York. They got their very own Topshop! This is exciting for reason I do not totally comprehend, but my friends in the area insist that it is indeed a very big, deal. Time, the AP, The NY Times, and the…
In his later years, as he descended into madness, Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón took to wearing a loincloth and wandering around a bizarre ramshackle compound where he created life-size dolls out of burlap sacks. The dolls were his family; some say he made love to them. They were also among…
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith Through May 24. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-3000; miamiartmuseum.org. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. It’s impossible to imagine a better city than ours as a host for the mojo-manic exhibit…
Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers and knee socks clinging to lower extremities than for the legions of pre-Internet Luddites who gather, like the apes at the start of 2001,…
Hello, Kitty: After years of getting my cooch waxed, shaved, and Nair-ed, I’ve decided to let my pubes grow naturally. Well, actually my boyfriend made the decision. He’s European and a major fan of a woman with some hair between her legs — which is something I’m not used to…
Les Misérables By Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil. Directed by David Arisco. Through April 5. Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables; 305-444-9293; actorsplayhouse.org Truly, the secret to Les Misérables’ stunning success is its target demographic. This is theater for people who do not like theater,…
You don’t need your passport to attend Miami’s longest running World Music Festival. All you need is a pair of eardrums and a willingness to groove along to sounds that celebrate the evolution of African culture in our community. Today from 6 to 10:30 p.m., local artists reppin’ locales from…
We are a city of many nationalities, but if you believe that music is a language that all can understand, spend the weekend with world music at the Festival of the Drum. This celebration of music showcases the drumming community and features a variety of percussion driven acts. From 10…
Freshly suited, booted and ready for a night of debauchery among shrubbery you arrived at 2nd and Collins to find that your favorite club was quiet. Balls of hair weave were rolling down the street and fossilized cigarette butts dotted the concrete in front of what used to be Opium…
Aaron “Shwayze” Smith and Cisco Adler began climbing the ladder of success several rungs higher than most new artists thanks to MTV. Buzzin’, a limited-run series on the network, brought the chilled-out hip-hop duo straight into the living rooms of their prime demographic, and their laid-back demeanor turned out to…
Arturo Sandoval holds a revered place in the pantheon of Latin jazz. The Cuban trumpeter not only stands alongside the greatest musicians in the genre, but he is easily the most widely recognized. Throughout his career, Sandoval has earned four Grammy Awards, six Billboard Awards and an Emmy. The latter…
Did you know San Francisco has the smallest population of African-Americans, percentage-wise, of any major U.S. city? (7 percent) How many films have you seen that feature black people choosing bicycles over cars as their primary form of transportation? These are just a couple of the questions that informed Medicine…
The ladies sported seamed stockings, and the cool cats drank vodka gimlets. If you were lucky to be a member of the elite crowd that tasted the cultural flavors of uptown New York’s Havana San Juan, you might have watched Celia Cruz sway her hips to the conga while Ol’…
Who among us hasn’t had a hankering to sing a duet of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” after finishing off a particularly tasty dragon roll? Thankfully, the folks at Red Koi Thai & Sushi Lounge have answered that call. So next time you get a case of the Tuesdays, head…
Flight of the Conchords might have concluded its second season on HBO (and, if rumors are true, the show might be gone for good), but that doesn’t mean you’ve gotta give up on “New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a-cappella/rap/funk/comedy folk duo.” Why? Well, for the next two months,…
Vienna, 1762. A five-year-old lad from Salzburg wearing more lace than Grandma’s dining room table sits down at the clavier. After his father blindfolds him, he begins to play the musical equivalent of Michael Jordan switching hands mid-layup in Game 2 of the 1991 NBA Finals: the merging of technical…
