When it comes to movie buffs, gore-and-ghoul types are perhaps the most disenchanted of all. The gripping fear these freaky flick-lovers felt the first time they saw Halloween or Hellraiser was a thrilling delight. But alas, those jumping jitters have faded with age. The string of disappointments released in the…
Two years ago the honchos at the Florida State Division of Cultural Affairs decided the state needed to do something that would enrich the lives of Floridians, so they went to the Center of Emerging Art for help. The powers that be asked the CEA to form a chamber ensemble…
As land-roving mammals, we’ve been sentenced to a lifetime of seeing things from a very limited angle. Sure, we can feign a bird’s-eye view by levitating in helicopters and airplanes, but eventually the gas runs out and we’re back on the ground, reconfined to our lateral view of the world…
Perhaps a visit to the ballet could add a new facet to your already sparkling personality. Miami City Ballet’s 2007-2008 season opens at the Carnival Center with George Balanchine’s sumptuous ballet Jewels. If you’ve limited yourself, assuming ballet is just a little tutu, we highly encourage a sampling of this…
Few things can beat a sunny afternoon in the park with good people and good tunes, especially when the beautiful day is dedicated to a great cause. Today the members of Food Not Bombs Miami are hosting a fantastic fundraising concert to continue fighting the good fight to feed the…
On the opposite side of the spectrum from Miami’s glitzy reputation for fast cars, bootylicious women, and hard partying is the long history of Jewish Cuban families that have shaped South Florida’s multicultural environment. Photojournalist Randi Sidman-Moore knows smoked salmon isn’t a typical Cuban breakfast, but has raised a glass…
This Saturday is a great opportunity to visit a local landmark and enjoy some football at the same time. As the Miami Hurricanes pass the halfway mark in their 2007 football schedule, including this home game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, we’re looking at only three more games at…
Unfortunately $10 doesn’t go very far these days. It’ll buy you a large sub from Quiznos, two hours of parking in South Beach, or a dime bag of oregano, all three of which might leave you feeling unfulfilled. But tonight it will allow you to gain entry into a night…
he gays are planning something. They are taking over the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts tonight, when they are hosting an uprising called Queer Riot. Such atrocities they have in store. Murder! Mayhem! Just kidding. It’s just a comedy show, featuring notable comedians in the gay world. First there’s…
Santiago Porter mixes classic beauty with morbid history to demand scrutiny by peering eyes. His elegant façades are deceptive, belying the horrors that once took place inside. The artist shoots buildings not out of a love of architecture but as a testimony to places where Argentine society was submitted to…
Ever been to an adult party with a piñata? After the candy explosion, there’s a whole lot of cleaning up to do. Your friends might be loath to put their cocktails down and pick up the lollipops underfoot, because grownups just don’t have the yen for candy that little kids…
What with its diverse blend of native Spanish-speakers, Miami has much to commemorate this Hispanic Heritage Month. Events, taking place throughout the city, are all designed to pay much-deserved tribute to the achievements and contributions of Hispanics who have made this nation (and especially this city) the culturally fascinating melting…
An uninspired mind might look at a tablecloth and see simply a stretch of fabric designed to save your dining room furniture from errant spills. Artist Pip Brant looks at them and sees a world of expressive possibility. Her fiber-based art combines traditionally dyed and embroidered tablecloths with bold impressions…
While some teenagers were spending their time constructing racy MySpace pages and playing Halo, Amber Kizer, Lisa Shanahan, and Jake Wizner were busy writing some pretty awesome books. Weaving tales about puppy love, insecurities, and, of course, coming of age, the three authors have written great American teen novels: One…
The funny thing about anti-communist propaganda films from the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties is how much they resemble pro-communist propaganda films from the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties, according to Kevin Wynn of Cinema Vortex, which is showing a montage of the former called Public Domain Playhouse: Propaganda American Style tonight…
Sexual tension so thick you can cut it with a knife. Humor wicked enough to make Liz Taylor blush. Greed, death, dysfunction, and “the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity.” Hardly the kind of thing you’d expect from fresh-faced college students, but that’s just what you’ll discover at the University…
So you wanna be a writer, huh? But the New Times hasn’t responded to your 96th resumé submission, and the last publishing company you called told you to send your manuscript to 246 No Chance Lane. Don’t give up yet! Tonight from 7:00 to 9:00, the Miami chapter of the…
When two stars collide musically, it’s nearly impossible for the fruits of their labor to be anything less than amazing. Put this into the perspective of food: We all know that peanut butter and jelly are pretty tasty solo, but smash them together and we get the greatest thing to…
:As one of the founding fathers of blaxploitation, Melvin Van Peebles has a body of work with a reputation to uphold. It’s always bold, typically brash, and proudly in your face. His Seventies films, Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, set the stage for a new generation of filmmakers…
Overworked. Stressed out. Hating life. If you think we’re speaking directly to you, honey, you need hugs, not drugs. You could also use a massage. And maybe a facial. But the meager salary from your thankless job doesn’t quite cut the mustard when it comes to pampering yourself, does it?…
First of all, for the uninformed: Spencer Tunick is the photographer who goes to a public place—i.e., a park, an art museum, a tulip farm, what have you—and fills it with hundreds of naked people, sometimes standing blank-faced, sometimes lying in heaps. There’s a deeper meaning to all of it,…
Spencer’s Melbourne vacation A lady named Crystal just sent this delightful description of Spencer Tunick’s monster nude photo shoot: Spencer Tunick made a visit to this not so fair city on Columbus Day. That’s right, the Spencer Tunick who has seen more nipples than Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy put…
