Arts & Culture

In the vile cesspool that is South Florida sports, there stands a flotilla of hope we call the Florida Panthers. It’s hard to tell if head coach and GM Jacques Martin will be buying or selling as the free agent deadline approaches. On one hand, a run at the playoffs…

Fans of flowery frocks and mustard-brown muumuus, step aside. It’s takes a bold babe to handle the pressures of rocking a little red dress (LRD) during a night on the town. Compared to fembots draped in its little black counterpart, the chica swathed in crimson is assumed to be a…

What Miami really needs is a museum that speaks to our interests. Where, for instance, is the I-95 Roadside Collision Drivetarium? Or the William Brickell Institute for the $18 Gin and Tonic? Couldn’t you spend an entire Sunday at the Julia Tuttle Lost Airline Baggage Museum? Alas, until some savvy…

After years of singing along to the radio, you thought you had a voice that would make you the next American Idol. So you went to the auditions, got shut down, and ended up on the blooper reel. Now do you believe us when we tell you it’s the acoustics…

Miami is supposed to be one of the world’s sexiest cities. Unfortunately the sex here has as much feminist power as sales racks of Victoria’s Secret lingerie. Thank goodness the World Erotic Art Museum is bringing intelligent sex to the Beach with its Josephine Baker exhibit, launched in honor of…

Young, sexy, fresh. New blood — that seems to be all fickle Miamians want. If you’re a seasoned veteran of your art, that doesn’t matter to some of these ageist idiots. Too often it’s out with the old and in with the new. We don’t like it one bit. Whatever…

Alaska is getting hotter these days, and we can feel it here in Miami. But it’s not global warming – not yet anyway. The Diana Szeinblum Dance Company is taking up residence at the Byron Carlyle Theater tonight and tomorrow night to perform a modern dance piece called Alaska. Sponsored…

The last time comedian Mike Epps hit a Miami stage, we were too wasted to remember what happened. Did he or didn’t he discuss Martha Stewart’s incarceration and say, “They lockin’ old white cookbook bitches up!”? Ah well, this wouldn’t be the first time the hooch made us miss out…

Triangle of Need: Chicago-based theater and film artist Catherine Sullivan will participate in a free screening and talk about her new multichannel video installation, Triangle of Need, which opened at Vizcaya this past fall as part of the museum’s Contemporary Arts Project. The work was filmed primarily at Vizcaya and…

Once a celebrated jazz haunt, Upstairs at the Van Dyke Café still offers a great alternative to South Beach’s megaclubs and glitzy hotel lounges. Now, instead of bebop and standards, party people looking for fun can shake it to samba and favela funk on Sultry Sundays, presented by Map magazine…

The Carbonell Award nominations are out, and GableStage’s production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore is the most recognized play with nine, including best play, best director, and best actor. Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s The Boy Friend leads overall with 11. Urinetown, at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, also bagged nine…

The Carbonell nominations for the best theater of 2007 will be announced today. As we reported earlier this week (“Carbonell Committee Leaves Animals and Plants to Molt”), Mad Cat Theatre’s much praised Animals and Plants will not be among the nominees. According to an email exchange circulated by Mad Cat…

Harris with his grandaughter Fiona in front of the collage, which stands 38′ by 9′. After stepping over the clutter of photographs and albums, Walter Harris opened a door that lead to a small room. He hit the light switch. The photographs, most of them shots of happy brides and…

Colbert crucified my Mayor. I didn’t even know who he was. And now I know he’s a jackass. — Calvin Godfrey…

Animals & Plants, a Mad Cat Theatre Company production from last April that got rave reviews, has been passed over for Carbonell Award eligibility on what appears to be a technicality, according to an email exchange being circulated by Mad Cat artistic director Paul Tei…

According to the New York Times, we’re all shitting art down here in Miami. Yesterday they ran a big piece in their Travel section on how party-fabulous Wynwood is – along with a slideshow. Sample caption: Art is everywhere in Miami, like this mural on a warehouse wall in the…

Nikki Beach, the A-list beach club, is expanding its monopoly on chic entertainment to Coconut Grove. The suburban-ish location will probably mean that this version will be a little less of the round-the-clock, drug-fueled, electronica atmosphere that the South Beach annex provides. Instead of cabanas they call the loungers in…

American Idol came to town this past August looking for some magic from the Magic City for the first time since Season Two. The results, which aired last night on FOX, were less than magical. Actually Miami fared as well or better than many other audition locales this season, with…

View a slideshow of some of Pinzon’s Immigrant Superhero photos. For Dulce Pinzón, the true superheroes inhabiting Gotham are the undocumented immigrants who work as waiters, delivery boys, laundromat attendants, taxi drivers, and nannies, yet remain invisible in the din of the bustling city. The Mexican photographer’s provocative solo show,…

He-Man Woman Haters Club: If you see only one show this season, don’t miss the Boyz of Basel at Carol Jazzar’s outdoor gallery. The title is aptly appropriated from The Little Rascals. It celebrates everlasting boyhood and features a variety of 2-D and 3-D media, including outdoor video projections, naughty…