Arts & Culture

Flowers, dinner reservations, heart-shape boxes of bonbons. Meh. Valentine’s Day has become so ho-hum. It seems like every restaurant, boutique, and nightspot in town is offering some kind of V-Day deal. Should you go to The Palm? Azul? Wish? The Miami Seaquarium? All of the above are offering pricey prix-fixe…

It doesn’t matter if they’re rockers, punks, or salseros — blast a vallenato number at a party and the Colombians in the room automatically converge on the dance floor. They soar gracefully, their arms outstretched like eagles as they wind their way among other dancers. Does this nationality have closer…

Your weekends have become as mundane as your workdays. You veg on the couch, watch Meet the Press or a little Best Week Ever, shop for groceries, and somehow inevitably wind up at Target. Every. Damn. Weekend. We say routines, be gone! Today we recommend you scrape your butt off…

In high school, while you were learning geometry, we were cutting class to get drunk under the bleachers. Since we can’t remember the last time we were required to recite the cosign of a square, we figure it was time well spent. Back then we felt like we wanted information…

Queen Latifah rapped about it in the Eighties, and now her fierce female-centric message has apparently reached the University of Miami. In celebration of feminine talent, the college is welcoming “Women Only! In Their Studios,” part of a seven-city national tour that celebrates women in the arts, as curated by…

In Miami the color green has traditionally referred to the cheese, the chedda, and the Benjamins, you know? And organic was a word used only by drug dealers. But things are changing. Bike paths are being built, and today from 9 to 3, in the newly christened MiMo Historic District,…

Kimbo Slice is an absolute bad-ass. If you need proof, search his name on YouTube and watch a bevy of videos of him pummeling some random dude’s face into creamed corn. Most men dare not even imagine stepping into one of those bare-knuckle bouts with Slice. There are several reasons:…

The organizers of the annual Coconut Grove Arts Festival, now in its 45th year, boast their event is a bigger draw for locals than Art Basel Miami Beach. After all, the weekend-long event — beginning today — draws four times the crowds of Basel. This year the sprawling exhibit will…

Hollywood blockbusters are fun to watch, but their view of the world can be myopic. There’s always a witty one-liner, damsel in defiant distress, or rugged tough guy to fill in the plot holes and keep the story moving. If you’re like us, you get sick of seeing the world…

We’re taking a wild guess that none of the brilliant minds behind the PetFit Mobile Tour has ever been a cat owner. It’s no problem getting a big slobbery dog to participate alongside you during a vigorous workout. But the kitties ain’t having it – they’re far too busy clawing…

We’re still months away from the June wedding season, but any bridezilla worth her salt has been planning the nuances of her big day for months – if not her whole life. And for good reason — it’s not easy figuring out which knot to tie, broom to jump, and…

In a weird and exhilarating election year that’s got even the terminally ambivalent talking about America, history, and the meanings thereof, the University of Miami’s Ring Theatre is the only local playhouse in tune with the Zeitgeist, with two deep and deeply strange plays running from February 19 to March…

It’s another lazy Sunday and a wild-haired munchkin and his equally wolfy pops are strolling down Biscayne Boulevard hand-in-hand, searching for Cutz Barbershop. They’ve waited all week for Father and Son Sunday, and judging by the overgrowth of hair framing their faces, we don’t blame them. The pair reaches the…

Has it always been your dream to wear an orange-and-teal barely-there outfit? Do you feel the only way to get the Dolphins out of their slump is by jumping up and down while waving glittery pompoms? Now’s your chance to join the ranks of the hottest, most hometown-spirited women in…

With global warming in full effect, it might not take more than a huddle of Arctic-based chain smokers to generate enough extra heat to flood Miami. So why not buy a yacht and be ready for our waterlogged future? That way your postapocalyptic aquatic life will be less Waterworld and…

I have to say I thought Chris Rock was getting soft when he directed and starred in last year’s “I Think I Love My Wife.” I’m just not used to seeing Pookie playing corny roles. Thankfully, Rock was back to his old raunchy self during his sold out performance last…

Intermittent rains — and a handful of shuttered galleries — put a bit of a damper on Saturday’s art crawl in Wynwood. But at Locust Projects, London artist Graham Hudson’s installation was a warm nexus of light and sound. Hudson set four record players within a stack of cubes, each…

Rain came through Saturday and Shawn Marion lost in his debut with the Heat on Sunday, but there were good things going on too, like the Agent Orange show and the 10th Annual Volksblast. Oh yea, and something called the Grammys also took place over the weekend. Tristan Spinkski To…

If you noticed a lull in the amount of fashionable souls roaming South Beach today, you may be a chic stalker. But your criminal proclivities aside, you’re pretty observant; the fashionistas were probably resting after a long weekend of being fly. Yesterday marked the end of the Trafik Tradeshow, a…

Long have we waited to be taken down to the Paradise City, where the girls are green and the grass is pretty, or whatever. Now, thanks to Burnout Paradise, we know what all the fuss is about. Burnout, the crash-happy racing series from EA, puts the pedal down once again…