While great minds of the past set themselves to curing diseases or explaining the laws of the universe, today our best and brightest aspire to another sort of goal: building robots that can fight each other. This year’s BotsIQ National Robotics Competition starts today at the Miami Beach Convention Center…
“Free is a good price for beer; there is really nothing fancy about it,” quips Herb Garfinkle, owner of Sunset Billiards. Every Wednesday night starting at 7:00, patrons can enjoy free ice cold domestic drafts while shooting pool on the Brunswick Gold Crown Tournament tables. Now you can see if…
Drinking and dashing, for the fun of it What’s better than running, then drinking? Drinking, running, drinking, running, and then drinking some more, of course! And that’s exactly what was on the menu last Monday, when I joined the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Hash House Harriers for their weekly “Wild Card Hash,”…
Vincent Guadazno Despite her breast efforts… With a book title like Stacked: A 32DDD Reports From the Front, author Susan Seligson was already expecting at least a little attention. As a woman with a rack of her own, she’s been on the receiving end of the male gaze for most…
David at upnup.blogspot.com Friday night, Club Mansion; something’s different. Sure there are a million and one people drinking like fish and grinding to beats that don’t exist. But what is that long stretch of stage reaching into the crowd? Suddenly, the stripper-wannabes inhabiting the stage were yanked away, and a…
Stop Miami is coming to a stop When Stop Miami came on the nightlife scene almost three years ago, more than a few hipsters heralded it as a savior. An outpost of understated cool in the burgeoning Wynwood District, Stop was where you went for a glass of good, affordable…
There exists some debate about audience familiarity with the term “grindhouse,” and even a certain confusion about the origins of the word itself — whether it refers to the movies that comprised a gilded age of exploitation cinema, or to the all-night urban theaters in which they were regularly shown…
Sharply adapted from the William Joyce book A Day with Wilbur Robinson, this speedy animated film features Lewis (voiced by Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry), a bespectacled science geek and orphan who, though well cared for by a loving foster mom (velvety-voiced Angela Bassett), is too weird to get himself…
La Cage aux Folles: This weirdly resonant story began life as a French play, got reworked as a now-classic French-Italian film, was turned into a Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical that proceeded to win just about every Tony ever invented, and then received a Hollywood face-lift to emerge as The Birdcage,…
In a picture at the Kevin Bruk Gallery, an ostrich-necked geisha faces away from the spectator, her grapefruit-size head almost floating in a creamy buttermilk sky. She wears what appears to be a bearskin frock, cut low to reveal the broad expanse of her back. Two oily plumes of smoke…
“Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I”: MoCA’s institutional toast to the legendary choreographer’s career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists, and features costumes and decor actually used in his company’s productions. The exhibit includes works by Sandra…
Twin Peaks: The Second Season (Paramount) So, here it is: perhaps the most infamous shark-jumping in TV history. The first season of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s comedy-horror-mystery-soap opera caused a cultural frenzy of “damn good coffee” quips and questions over who murdered prom queen/town doorknob Laura Palmer. It’s also…
A video game about birds flying biplanes makes as much sense as a game about fish captaining submarines, but there are far bigger gripes to be found in Wing Island for the Wii. “In a world ruled by birds,” explains the manual’s grim version of the future, Sparrow Wing Jr…
All That Jazz: Special Music Edition (Fox) The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour (Image) Back Stage (Strand) Bong Water (First Look) The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series (Paramount) Charlotte’s Web (Paramount) Copying Beethoven (MGM) Dancing With the Stars: Cardio Dance (Lions Gate) Entourage: Season Three, Part One (HBO) Jump In!:…
It’s ironic that Laundry Bar, a place with quite a bit of soap, is actually the filthiest joint in town. At least it is one Monday a month, for the Queen Cabaret drag revue, a glorious parade of men with improbable wigs, platform shoes, and a pathological need for a…
There are too many hectic hotel parties on Miami Beach, all competing for your attention by offering louder music and more colorful cocktails. For that reason we say skip the done-to-deathness and enjoy a different sort of scene at the Standard. Every Sunday the bayfront spa retreat offers Love Life,…
What does Easter Sunday mean to you? Is it a sacred day to celebrate the ressurection of Jesus Christ, or a time to hide chocolate eggs and give your little ones a sugar rush to rival Halloween? Is it just another excuse to indulge in festive indulgence? How’s about all…
If you’re like us, you get chills simply glancing at a bank statement. And don’t get us started on taxes. Luckily the FIU theater department is offering artistic relaxation, and evidence that numbers can be intriguing, in the form of David Auburn’s Tony Award-winning play, Proof. The play centers on…
Are you ready to samba? Okay, you won’t actually be doing the dancing, but you can still groove in your seat while watching the Brazz Dance Theater perform A Foot for Samba (Pé de Samba) at the Byron Carlyle Theater at 8:00 p.m. Led by artistic director Augusto Soledade, this…
If your last attempt at cooking a meal resulted in a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and a burned meatloaf, maybe it’s time you got some professional help. To help rescue you and your family’s menu, come to the weekly Saturday cooking class at Two Chefs. This week’s educational experience…
Tonight at the Joseph Caleb Auditorium, soul legends will be resurrected. Local artists will embody the spirits of music greats like Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, and Billie Holiday in Butterfly’s Tribute to Missed Voices. The show’s creator and producer, Rebecca “Butterfly” Vaughns, says, “I’m out of the box. I really…
Deicide, the Tampa-based pioneers of satanic death metal, have caused some serious controversy since the band’s formation in 1987. The band’s music, lyrics, and onstage antics have supposedly caused fans to murder priests, sacrifice animals, blow up clubs, and commit suicide (as alleged in the BBC’s 2005 documentary Death Metal…
