Until the City of Miami chooses to host an unannounced street festival on the Palmetto Expressway between 4 and 6 p.m. on a random Tuesday, the most exciting road closure of the year is still Carnaval Miami’s Calle Ocho party, self-erecting this Sunday between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. across…
After each fold of your brain is in use and your thirst for knowledge has been quenched, we’ll sit back and listen to you. Till then, take cues from the University of Wynwood, a collective created by our very own assistant calendar editor P. Scott Cunningham on the premise that…
Legendary photog Spencer Tunick made waves two years ago when he took over the Sagamore Hotel and filled it with more than 800 nude South Beachers. The birthday suit photo shoot was a clear indication that strippers aren’t the only ones who like to walk around naked. Many models disrobed…
There are two ways to watch street-legal racing for free in Miami. One is to get an Interstate 95-facing room at the City Inn Hotel on 82nd Street, though the view is partially obscured by the giant Budweiser advertisement and every now and then three cops bust in looking for…
There’s nothing quite like the thunderous boom of a drum the size of a Volkswagen Bug to get the bones in your chest rattlin’. Japan’s legendary Kodo ensemble, master of the rumbling sound of the giant taiko drum, is poised to blow the roof off the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert…
The Knicks were simply dominating the Miami Heat — crashing the boards, hitting their shots, playing shutdown defense. New York was nine minutes away from a big, bragging-rights win in Miami. Then Dwyane Wade took an elbow to the mouth. And it was on. The Heat was down 103-88 late…
Picture yourself 50 stories above the universe in a low-slung semiprivate lounge at the highest outdoor pool in the city. Club 50 at the Viceroy is taking you Off the Radar and into a new stratosphere of ostentatious displays of wealth. What is a “semiprivate” lounge? Event curator Gordon Myers…
The streets outside Moroccan eatery Tazin are usually lined with luxe modern whips, far from the camel you might see tethered outside a North African resto serving the same cuisine. But the glittery people queued up to get inside might not be able to handle the sight of a furry,…
One positive outcome of the recent downturn in the art market is that institutions like our own Miami Art Museum should have a little easier time trying to compete with the big collectors for important works. With all the buzz surrounding the new Herzog & de Meuron building, scheduled for…
If Ty Webb were still on the tour, this is where he’d be the evening after the cut at Doral: the 9-Hole PUMA Open Launch Party. The party is a competition, meaning that each “hole” is a golf-related challenge, involving such random objects as a deck of cards, a hand-held…
Things that most people no longer do. A: sheep shearing. B: log-splitting. C: cigar-rolling. If you had to go watch one in person this weekend, the choice seem pretty obvious, no? The great tradition of rolling your own is alive and well today at the La Gloria Cubana Super Roll…
Rockaway Beach, Missouri is a city with less than 600 people, but the real RB is a place in Queens, NY that has been thrust into the pop culture spotlight thanks to a song by The Ramones and an early twentieth century rep as “New York’s Playground.” You could buy…
Fashion and art will shake hands and get friendly tonight at the opening of the David Castillo art gallery. Luxury denim brand G-Star Raw will be celebrating the launch of their 2009 spring/summer collection with intriguing works of art providing the perfect backdrop for what will definitely be utilitarian and…
Few places in Miami are as legendary as the Transit Lounge. From its unassuming storefront amongst the sky-scraping condos in Brickell to the recession-friendly drink prices you’re guaranteed some good, dirty fun each time you walk through the doors. Tonight, in honor of a holiday which advocates drunken debauchery and…
Pancho Luna is no stranger to yanking perfection from the jaws of chaos. The artist often tinkers on multiple series of works at the same time, allowing his cranial crankshaft to intuitively fire the connective rods linking disparate elements of his art. “I am very restless,” the 51-year-old Argentine says…
That was the most offensive display of sexualized violence I have ever seen,” one wilting fellow in need of a camphor hankie was overheard saying in the elevator. Such blanching is the reaction Last House on the Left is trolling for, but I doubt it will be typical. Permissibility has…
Hello, Kitty: I went to Vegas for the weekend and met a nice guy from Miami. My friends gave me shit about going out of town to meet someone from home, but I was just glad to meet someone. The problem is, he seems to be interested in making a…
Who’s got a case of the Mondays? Time to call in sick in buddy, and pay $15 to super-size that weekend. It’s an easy drive up to Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter to catch a Florida Marlins Spring Training Game against the Washington Nationals. The World Baseball Classic it ain’t,…
Baltimore club music began in the early Pleistocene era, when males from the Homo habilis species found that tapping a stick on a rock in 8/4 time while repeating one unique grunting noise made them 64 percent more likely to get ass. Unfortunately, this highly effective mating technique was lost…
The midweek mystery flu is not uncommon. So if you’ve been battling cold chills while coughing up blood and suffering less than stellar erections, resist that premature urge to rush for the emergency room. Trust us — you haven’t contracted some deadly jungle disease requiring immediate medical care or quarantine…
“We’re all having a good time” is repeated over and over as Lemonade’s track “Blissout” fades out. but there’s no need to state the obvious. The trio’s post-punk, dance-frenzy sound reaches a fever pitch on almost every track, so a sweaty, manic, good time is already preordained. Straight off a…
A packed house could have told the story as well, but a recent New York Times’ nod gave Bella Rose another boost on the cool meter for its weekly murder-mystery hipster party Black Sunday. And now, the club is home to the perfect Saturday sister party: Bella Donna. Billed as…
