There was like five seconds after Deerhunter was announced at Langarado where I almost bought a ticket, but with WMC and a planned long weekend in Austin coming up my wallet decided against it. I wasn’t the only one who decided against it, and as you know the fest got…
Nate Silver, the human calculator behind FiveThirtyEight — the magic blog that predicted the presidential race — has now moved into the Oscar-predicting biz for New York. He’s predicting in the Best Actor catagory a win for Mickey Rourke over Sean Penn, who at one time seemed a lock. How confidant is…
I’ve never seen an episode of Prison Break in my life, so I’m not sure whether to be excited or not with news that the producers may be toying with the idea of a spin-off set in a Miami-Dade womens’ jail. Plans for a spin-off series first emerged in 2007…
Anri Sala: Purchase Not by Moonlight Through March 1. Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami; 305-893-6211, mocanomi.org. Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Anri Sala hijacks the language of cinema and video to create disorienting dreamscapes that gnaw at…
In the world of American theater, it’s difficult to imagine more dramatically fertile subject matter than our history of slavery. It is terrifying even in theory, but Americans can’t think about it theoretically. It was here; it happened. Slavery hits close to the bone: You never know if the ground…
Party for change? Yes, we did. Last month, Icandee Productions brought Miamians from all walks of life together at its inaugural ONE LOVE event and used music to answer President Obama’s call for us to join together as a nation. For February, we’re getting even more LOVE, and once again…
Trade talks have been heating up between Florida Panthers GM Jacques Martin and several teams throughout the league concerning stud defenseman Jay Bouwmeester. The Cats last summer reportedly offered Bouwmeester a multiyear deal worth more than $5 million per season, so Martin has every right to believe that the soon-to-be-free…
Huge hair, ludicrous nicknames, and scripted trash talk have become the strange trademarks of boxing in America. For haters, these are the signs of decline. Meanwhile, for fans raised on pro wrestling and tabloids, today’s game is a perfect mix of prizefighting and freak show. It’s a rift that can…
Ah, Saint Valentine’s Day — an occasion for sweaty-handed daters and old marrieds to shower each other with overpriced gifts, and for singles to bitch about the elusive nature of love over lavishly garnished cocktails. Hate it or love it, the pink-and-red theme will be inescapable this Saturday. We say…
If you duck into a local museum this weekend, chances are you’ll leave wondering where all the spectators went. The answer is the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, which transforms the quirky village on the bay into a winding outdoor gallery boasting the eye-catching works of 336 artists from 36 states…
It’s Valentine’s Day in Miami and you wanna do the wild thing like a wild thing. Tell your girl to grab your paddle ’cause you’re about to get her hot and wet. Have her bring extra shoes, a change of clothes, and a towel — things could get messy. Also…
He kinda looks like him. He kinda talks like him. Their material is bound to occasionally overlap, seeing as they were raised in the same house in Bed-Stuy. But Tony Rock has worked hard to separate his comedic identity from that of his older brother, Chris. He has honed his…
Since its inception, Georges Bizet’s notorious opera has been transformed from an opera to Beyoncé’s hip-hopera, and now Miami theatergoers can see the U.S. premiere of the Antonio Gades Company’s rendition of Carmen. This Latin-flavored production is based on the Oscar-winning film and pulls music from the original opera as…
Don’t judge us because it took the promise of cinnamon raisin bread doused in margarine to bring us to church for Sunday school each weekend. And don’t look at us funny when we’re driving and suddenly hit the brakes, careening into the Krispy Kreme parking lot. The “hot” light was…
The words Friday the 13th conjure up images of dudes donning hockey masks and wielding giant machetes to cleave up promiscuous teenagers. This Friday is February 13, and although said promiscuous youths will likely get to keep their nubile limbs intact, there will be dudes running around with hockey masks…
The Minnesota Timberwolves no longer have Kevin Garnett — if you remember, they gave him away to the Celtics for a Larry Bird-autographed back brace and some duty-free aperitif — but they do have feisty former Villanova standout Randy Foye. When the Miami Heat met the T-Wolves three weeks ago,…
The music of the Gipsy Kings might be rooted in flamenco tradition, but don’t for a second think the dancing will be reserved to stage performances and audience foot-tapping this Thursday night at the American Airlines Arena. For the Grammy Award-winning Kings, rhythm runs in the family and tradition is…
Motion sickness and the fear of a succumbing to a Gilligan-ish fate might keep you on dry land for the other 360 days of the year, but we say pop a Dramamine and suck it up. It’s time to abandon your landlubbing ways because the 68th annual Miami International Boat…
Miami has an open-mike event almost every evening. But hump day just got a lot more happening. Welcome to The Bohemia Room: A Spoken Word Experience, a weekly event with a difference. Host Ingrid B. sets the tone while local poets and poetesses spit fire in the main room. Feel…
Anri Sala hijacks the language of cinema and video to create disorienting dreamscapes that gnaw at the senses like acid eating through cheap cement. Featuring seven films dating from the late Nineties to the present, the impressive exhibition marks the Albanian artist’s first major U.S. museum show. It also includes…
The M Ensemble, the nation’s oldest black theater company, produces many biopics like A Woman Called Truth and knows how to choose the good ones. Like the best of them, Truth never tries contorting itself into a neat dramatic arc; it shows Sojourner’s life as the chaotic, tragicomic jumble that…
Motion sickness and the fear of a succumbing to a Gilligan-ish fate might keep you on dry land for the other 360 days of the year, but we say pop a Dramamine and suck it up. It’s time to abandon your landlubbing ways because the 68th annual Miami International Boat…
