Arts & Culture

If you’re like us, nothing quite quaffs the culture-starved senses like a shot of rum chased by a heady dose of digital art. Rubi Rey Rum is a nontraditional brew after our own hearts. The brand has created the86collective, a cutting-edge cocktail it hopes will intoxicate visual junkies and remind…

According to Wikipedia, that oft-debunked fount of publicly produced information, the pay-it-forward concept was first inspired by Benjamin Franklin in 1784. But we the people had to wait until 2000, when Kevin Spacey took the help-thy-neighbor theory to the big screen, in a flick that can be best described as…

At The Americas Collection, paper isn’t playing second fiddle to the canvas anymore. The gallery recognizes that for centuries, works on paper have been shuffled into the background. “The Beauty of Paper,” its current exhibit, features dozens of striking examples of why modern artists chose this surface for its versatile…

Out of the long list of grade-school cafeteria food we hated, the cheeseburgers reign supreme. The disparity of the cardboard bun and lifeless cheese could be forgiven, but the meat, ohhh the meat — that’s another story. It was the color of the moon, with craters to match, and had…

Combine Miami’s heat with the stifling humidity and you’re left with conditions that can make personal style a little difficult to manage. Forget the layering; it’s all about making the choice between bare and skimpy or maxi and flowing. Word to the wise: The looser the cooler, even if there…

At the theater, you can see plenty of talking pictures, but most of them don’t have much to say. The Love Guru featured tons of words, but none of them were arranged in a way that proved particularly funny. WALL-E, on the other hand, didn’t have dialogue for the first…

The current exhibit at Damien B. Contemporary Art Center will leave you hot and bothered. Not because of the content of the show, though. “ARTundressed” features 57 works by nearly 50 artists and includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, and digital art, with the bulk of the exhibit fleshed out by photography…

Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside From the Bronx Museum comes the widely acclaimed survey of 17 years of work by Cuban-Dominican artist Quisqueya Henríquez. The exhibition showcases the artist’s proclivity for self-determination and versatility through photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation. From her early photographic documentation of seaweed arranged…

Indigenous to Asia, adored in Africa, celebrated in the Caribbean, and loved throughout Latin America: Is there any fruit more universally admired than the mango? We certainly have a difficult time coming up with a more versatile fruit. The sweet, succulent flavor is equally delicious in sugary fare such as…

with: Jesse Jackson, Sir Majesty, Airship Rocketship, Raffa and Rainer, and others Fri., July 11, 2008…

From a vagabond roach to Aesop’s fables to the high jinks of a fancy-free clown, the Hispanic Theater Festival’s International Children’s Day is sure to keep the entire family in stitches and squeals. Beginning at 3 p.m., the homegrown Gira-Sol troupe presents Martina the Cockroach Comes to Miami, the tale…

Some celebrity siblings carve out their own section of the spotlight, while others are comfortable warming their career in the spotlight cast on their more famous kin. Don’t confuse Tony Rock with members of the second group, because the only footsteps he’s followed in are very funny ones. Yes, his…

Still working out with two feet on the treadmill? Tsk, tsk. That’s so yesterday! Not everything that goes up must come down. Crunch’s new AntiGravity Yoga class will prove that when you get tight and hang loose using a fabric hammock hung from the ceiling. Call it yoga of the…

We’re seeking any opportunity to retreat from the oppressive heat, and fewer places are cooler (in every sense of the word) than the cinema. But ugh — the very thought of dealing with the insane summer blockbuster crowds and the just plain rude audiences is enough to make us want…

Whether they’re made of stiff linen or a gauzy style designed to catch a wayward summer breeze, sundresses are undoubtedly the uniform when it’s too hot for denim and way too hot for those Juicy sweats. And don’t get us started on the footwear of the season: We worship sandals…

Opera, like Richard Simmons, lends itself to parody. Spotlight-hungry divas upstage one another with impunity. Sopranos, bleeding profusely through white nightgowns, find singing more urgent than medical attention. Unlike Richard Simmons, opera singers also possess talent strong enough to break wine glasses. Birgit Fioravante, one of the creators of the…

Tupac Amaru Shakur was more than just a rapper; he was a promising actor, a published poet, and to his true fans, an icon that might or might not still be here among the living. Few musicians have inspired such devotion and universal admiration, and even fewer are as open,…

What are the brilliant minds at the Miami Science Museum thinking? By day, the educational institute features family-friendly offerings such as Lizard Day and the ongoing “Dinosaurs of China” exhibit. By night, it transforms into an adult-pleasing spot via the monthly Fabulous First Friday shows as well as regularly scheduled…

Want to make a hipster snarl? Just utter this innocuous sentence — “Wanna go see Dave Matthews Band?” — and watch the fun begin. The mere suggestion of attending such a patchwork and patchouli-laced event will make your skinny-jeans-wearing, electronic-music-loving friends recoil in horror. Few bands are as polarizing, as…

In 2002, Ice Cube rocked a Heat jersey through most of his starring role in the film All About the Benjamins. The motion picture featured a Slip-N-Slide-era Rick Ross on the soundtrack, and the plot dealt with diamonds, shootouts, and a fish named Zo. Scour the Internet and you’ll find…