Arts & Culture

Castlevania, the vampire-hunting series that spans 20 years and as many games, has basically two kinds of fans. There are the traditionalists, who’ve followed the games since they were straight-up action titles with thumb-busting combat and infamously steep difficulty curves. Most agree that the best old-school Castlevania is 1993’s Rondo…

Your culinary prowess is both a blessing and a burden. You’re the reason behind your significant other’s 10-pound weight gain, because your savory concoctions are so good that people just can’t stop eating them. But although you’ve become quite the popular dinner host, sometimes you feel like your friends might…

Miami’s theater scene is alive with the sounds of artistic diversity this season. First GableStage kicked things off with the well-reviewed drama In the Continuum, which runs through November 18. Now two other troupes will be hosting productions that are sure to resonate with Miami’s myriad oft-overlooked residents of color…

Superdesigner Karl Lagerfeld swears by Coke Zero and is rarely seen in anything that’s not white-and-black. Traver Rains and Richie Rich — the guys behind avant-garde fashion line Heatherette — rock more makeup than you probably have in your entire eye-lined life. Now if you think you’re ready for a…

Old-school cats and their engines will be purring this weekend as the annual Antique and Classic Car Show takes over the picturesque Cauley Square Historic Village. More than 100 gorgeous vintage vehicles will be on display for the sheer enjoyment of any one of us who ever dreamed about riding…

These are dark days for Fins fans, as the team says cheerio to England and returns to the friendly confines of Dolphin Stadium staring down an 0-8 record. Coming off their bye week, the Miami Dolphins have been preparing for a visit from one of their division rivals; the Buffalo…

Aww, shucks! Looks like Rover got bored while you ran out to get your nails done. There goes that $20,000 buttercream leather sofa with the built-in Swarovski crystal-embellished remote control. Pity. Actually it’s still a nice piece of furniture — the teeth marks give it that extra, y’know, edge. Now…

Back in the days before Google was a verb and all of your friends were chatting online, there was a phenomenon that drew global gatherings to explore the world, learn about different cultures, and — particularly during the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties – ponder futuristic fantasies of flying cars, automated…

MySpace is a beautiful thing. You can check out your ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend’s recent blog about how he hates your guts. Then you can post a bulletin to all of your online friends, calling him a crackhead. After that, you can learn about cool local artists, whose “goal is to…

Last year, when Oprah introduced The Secret to her cadre of loyal followers, it wasn’t a car for you, a car for you, and a car for you, but she proved you don’t have to be a young African girl or a member of her studio audience for some of…

When the Shops at Midtown Miami opened in Wynwood, few would have thought the eyesore would have inspired neighbors to an aesthetic overhaul. But tonight at 7:00, as part of this month’s Wynwood arts crawl, Nina Dotti draws a bead on the rubbish heap blighting the horizon. At Hardcore Contemporary…

Because of the, um, forthright nature of her comedy, there are some crazy things we know about Lisa Lampanelli. We know the voluptuous soccer mom look-alike has an oft-indulged fetish for well-endowed black men; on Comedy Central’s roast of Flavor Flav, she gleefully declared she has screwed more black men…

There are those who throw stones at Alice Waters’s philosophies. The slow-food movement is expensive, impractical, and elitist, dissidents bleat. We say let them have another cold glass of haterade and stuff their faces with more McEvil. If you’re health-conscious, family-conscious, or just conscious period, you should at least hear…

The minute your Prince Charming slid that ring onto your finger, you morphed from princess to bridezilla. We don’t blame you — it’s a big day. The calls to friends complaining about the size of the rock and the demand for a veil made entirely of Swarovski crystals are understandable…

After realizing that your “psychic friend” Dionne didn’t even know the way to San Jose, and that your girl Miss Cleo was a lady-lovin’, Fort Lauderdale-livin’ fraud, you’ve been skeptical about random people predicting your fortune. But you haven’t yet met Daisy, the tarot card reader who takes over New…

You might have noticed that building next to the Carnival Center – the one that used to be a nondescript parking garage, which has recently morphed into a psychedelic box buzzing with activity, and not of the automotive kind. The paint job is by Lebo, and the change is courtesy…

Nothing beats a truly clever play on words. Case in point: Miami City Ballet’s Open Barre event, where there will be, of course, an open bar. Ba-dum-ching! MCB will be hosting a sneak peek performance of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, the most elaborately detailed production of the season. This weekend…

Work is over and it’s time to kick off your weekend on the right note. We’re talking drinks, delectables, mixing, and mingling. But you deserve more than a trip to your neighborhood watering hole. Treat yourself to a night on the town at a funky, bohemian locale. At charming aqua-color…

Traditionally the annual anniversary party at Tobacco Road – which, turning 95, becomes older than all of Miami’s other live entertainment enterprises combined – colors way outside the mainstream lines, usually successfully. Even if the music doesn’t kill, it seems only right to salute the city’s oldest bar at least…

Rolling Stone’s Elysa Gardner has praised her “feisty courage.” That same magazine’s Greg Kot has said she “glowed with a hard-won grace.” Robert Christgau, late of the Village Voice, has called her “boring.” Alack, Bonnie Raitt is probably worthy of all these comments and more. She has been a barefoot…