Since 1991 The Crumbs have been belting out classic, Ramones-style anthems about drinking whiskey, popping pills, getting dumped by girls with green hair, and being broke in Miami. Their three-chord sing-a-longs are so catchy they’ll stick in your head for weeks. The original line-up was an all-star cast, featuring members…
Whether you’ve been trolling tirelessly for that brilliantly feathered gourd mask to set off a drab living room wall, or for a one-of-a-kind turquoise and lapis encrusted silver bracelet for that someone who rings your bell, this year’s Key Biscayne Art Festival promises both novice and seasoned collectors a chance…
Spring Break is here! It’s that time of year when those Girls Gone Wild videos come to life, and tons of hot and horny college kids flock to Miami. One of the biggest parties will be the second Annual Spring Luau at The Water Club, a born-to-be-wild kind of event…
Volleyball is one of those games that brings players to their knees, literally. One knee, two knees, either way, as long as you push, strike, or bump that white, marshmallowy ball over the net. Today and tomorrow, teams from throughout the east coast will do just that in the Native…
Even the most obtuse dance hall crasher has at least heard of Paul Oakenfold. The shaggy-haired DJ superstar has been twiddling knobs and remixing tracks for the better part of twenty years. He’s basically responsible for the infamous appeal of the club scene in Ibiza. He’s produced remixes for everyone…
Gourmands are invited to pull up a chair at Johnson & Wales University’s posh dinner party, honoring Edgar Leal as a distinguished visiting chef and Richard DiGiacomo as a distinguished visiting sommelier. The public dinner begins at 6:00 p.m. at the university’s North Miami Campus. “It’s a great time to…
It remains difficult to separate the grandest of Irish holidays from excessive use of alcohol. So we say the hell with it. Drink up for St. Patrick’s Day. Here’s where: At the Save-a-Limb SmashJohnMartin’s Restaurant & Irish Pub (253 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables; 305-445-3777, www.johnmartins.com), get lucky at a kick-off…
If blue-chip, edgy modern and contemporary Latin American art stroke your noodle, then boy does arteamericas deliver the money shot for you. Since it hung its shingle five years ago, this event has grown to become the marquee attraction for Latin American art, showcasing 50 of the top ranked galleries…
When you live in Miami — and when the idea of “summer vacation” is nothing more than a distant memory — the approach of the sticky season loses something of its magical energy. The Marcia Milhazes Dance Company, which performs tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. at the Byron Carlyle…
It’s kind of hard to believe that anyone in the world is still unfamiliar with the steel pan. The instrument was created in Trinidad and Tobago over seventy years ago. It is the only acoustic instrument to be invented in the Twentieth cCentury. And still pannist Doug Walker gets the…
Plaza Sesamo’s Pancho Contreras Spanish-language television channel V-me, a national network that has partnered with PBS to “entertain and educate America’s Latino families in Spanish,” began airing on digital cable stations earlier this month. Posturing itself as the anti-Univision, V-me celebrated its Miami launch with a party at Coconut Grove’s…
We’re Miami Ink, and you’re not Some things just seem to fit together, like chocolate and peanut butter, or government officials and corruption. And according to the cast and crew of the TLC network’s uber-popular reality TV show Miami Ink, so do tattoos and porn. The show’s casting director, George…
Long ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing militaristic psychopaths called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a copper-colored land, amid copper-colored fields, in copper-colored homes made from copper-colored stone. Legend has it they would outline their copper-colored pecs and abs with ash to enhance their manly…
When the editorial-cartoonist-turned-amateur-sleuth Robert Graysmith published Zodiac, his sprawling, meticulously researched account of the eponymous San Francisco serial killer, he wrote that the tale was “the most frightening story I know.” It was easy to understand why. Graysmith was writing in 1985, some 16 years after the Zodiac killer’s last…
In the Heart of the Earth This Spanish period piece is set in 1888 Huelva, an Andalusian mining town run by the British-backed Rio Tinto mining company, where conflict erupts between local Spanish workers and their employers. The story is framed by a friendship between Blanca (Catalina Sandino Moreno, a…
GableStage exists mostly to make people squirm. In the last three years, they’ve presented us with goat fuckers, chicken fuckers, child murders, and drug-addicted, child-molesting judges. Somehow, GableStage has made these subjects — which should be grim, numbing, and distancing — funny, poignant, and immediate. Now the company’s producing artistic…
It’s been a season of firsts since the opening of the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts. On the heels of the Miami debut of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, one of the finest stagings of Swan Lake in the world will have its local premiere. While the Merce in…
Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway: Showman Neil Berg’s salute to the Great White Way’s top-drawer musicals takes the stage for a performance that has been dedicated to the memory of local educator Zelda Glazer. The rip-roaring revue features veteran Broadway actors belting out memorable numbers from Showboat, Chicago, Cabaret,…
Sol LeWitt earned himself a place in history books as one of the Johnny Appleseeds of the minimal and conceptual art movements during the Sixties. He’s also among the most prolific artists of the mid-Twentieth Century. “Sol LeWitt x 2,” a two-part exhibition at the Miami Art Museum (MAM), offers…
“Masters in Sculpture” and “Lysergic Garden: an Exercise of Reason on the Border of Insanity”: One of two current exhibits at Gary Nader Fine Art features works by Fernando Botero, Mark di Suvero, Sandro Chia, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Rufino Tamayo, and more from the dealer’s blue-chip inventory. The first-floor…
Revenge of the Nerds: Panty Raid Edition (Fox) Revenge of the Nerds is a great movie. No, really. It’s got a bitching new-wave soundtrack and some truly inspired performances — memorable enough to wreck the careers of Robert Carradine (Lewis) and Curtis Armstrong (Booger). But mostly it’s the mix of…
From the newest iPod to the Olsen twins’ collective waistline, the world loves all things mini. The Nintendo Wii embraces this digestible format once again for Wii Play, a collection of nine easy-to-play minigames that comes bundled with a free Wii controller. However, the result is like a Happy Meal:…
