Arts & Culture

Fifteen minutes. It can feel like a lifetime or no time at all. Waiting at the doctor’s office? It seems like forever. Making out with your boyfriend? Time just flies by. The entries in the fifth annual Miami Short Film Festival? Well, there are films that fit into both of…

Ever since I saw Carrie Bradshaw sip her signature cosmo for the first time, I scratched that cocktail from my list. It just became so cliché, like gold-plated name necklaces and men named Big. Although I do enjoy watching Sex and the City (I have the DVDs), I never want…

Mama Lila’s Bistro is establishing a reputation as a go-to place for delicious Peruvian-fusion cuisine. The family-owned eatery is about to get an infusion of Hollywood glamour when baby sister Roberta Valderrama returns from Tinseltown to host the debut party for her hilarious new TBS sitcom, 10 Items or Less…

The turkey has been devoured, your in-laws have finally hit the road, and most important, you survived the first wave of holiday madness. What better way to round off the Thanksgiving weekend than to catch some rays on a Sunday afternoon? Make your midday destination the Caribbean Jazz Brunch on…

Oh, the irony. The song “White Christmas” was written by Irving Berlin in 1942 for the movie musical Holiday Inn. The song became so popular it was once said you couldn’t have Christmas without permission from Berlin. The irony? Irving Berlin didn’t like Christmas; he lost his infant son Christmas…

There is an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm in which Larry David visits his dad in a nursing home and joins him for a game of bingo. Larry quickly fills his card and shouts an exuberant, nearly in-your-face “Bingoooooo!” But when his card is checked, the caller says she never…

You have been eating turkey for two days straight — turkey sandwiches, turkey fajitas, turkey pitas. It is time to back away from the bird, slide on your LiveStrong wristband, and strap on your helmet. Castellow Hammock Nature Center is hosting a relaxing bike tour through the Navy Wells Pineland…

During the thirteenth annual Rasin Fest, guests at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater will celebrate Haitian roots music with the thumping tambour and soaring harmonies from bands like Boukman Eksperyans, Djakout Mizik, and Azor. And this year, attendees of the island fest are likely to hear the wail of electric guitars…

Western culture tends to view the afterlife as something to be feared, “the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns,” according to Big Willie Shakespeare. In Haitian culture, the hereafter isn’t necessarily seen in such dire terms, and maintaining a regular connection with the spirits is of paramount importance…

Ah, the holiday shopping season. It usually goes something like this: battle traffic; wade through the mall; buy overpriced, useless, generic crap; fight with significant other; go home and worry about the credit card bill. This year promise yourself that you will give – and receive — some genuine holiday…

Lowbrow Art is a movement that pointy-head elitists don’t care for you to embrace. Despite these puckered-ass purists’ notions, an appetite for all things underground has been swelling, and it’s damn time! Today at ArtCenter/South Florida, curator and artist Francesco LoCastro unleashes “We’ll Make a Lover Out of You,” an…

Dear Mr. Riley: With due respect, and an awareness that Shaquille O’Neal is being paid an enormous sum of money, we don’t understand why Alonzo Mourning isn’t the starting center for your World Champion Miami Heat. You have always been so defense-oriented, and in Zo you have one of the…

Some people adopt nicknames like Katie and Jimmy. But one Sixties-era hippy, known as a passionate humanitarian, preferred a catchier moniker: Lumpy Sue. The fifteenth annual Lumpy Sue Acoustic MusicFest, founded in 1982 by Sue herself, will feature live music, raffle prizes, and a relaxing alternative to the biggest shopping…

To the untrained eye, popular Miami DJ Lance-O’s sun-bleached dreadlocks and ready smile give the impression of an easy-going dude. But his hard work and determination are evident in the Dirty South Surf Contest, an improbable event that has brought crowds to Miami Beach for the past three years. Eager…

Your parents probably remember him for his alcohol-soaked stand-up in the Eighties, or his will-they-just-kiss-already sitcom with Jamie Lee Curtis, Anything but Love, but you know Richard Lewis as Larry David’s friend in need of a new kidney on Curb Your Enthusiasm. With more than 30 years of comedic experience,…

Unlike New Year’s (which is fundamentally about drinking) or Christmas (which is about either marketing or Jesus, depending on who you ask), Thanksgiving is definitely a holiday for eating. So what better way to spend this morning than working up a healthy appetite – and burning off a few hundred…

Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce fresh out of the can – the traditional Thanksgiving menu has become so familiar that families are in search of alternatives to the time-honored feast. Turkey deep-fryers are selling like hotcakes, and the little shelves near your grocery’s cashier are overflowing with recipe books suggesting new…

The bait Holiday movies are traditionally light-hearted attempts at restoring faith in human kind. In short, they are nothing like Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone (2001). Though well written and engagingly performed by an all-star cast, it is one of the most relentlessly grim movies ever made. And unless…

Umm, which way is Miami? After winning critical kudos for their output on Seattle’s tiny Barsuk Records, Death Cab For Cutie finally struck career paydirt when they inked a well-deserved major label affiliation and, in turn, a shot at wider recognition. But while Plans, last year’s aptly dubbed Atlantic Records…

Save Our MiMo Drowsy passengers on the cross-town bus Thursday night looked puzzled by the middle aged woman chanting outside the window. It was Bay Harbor Islands after all, a wealthy, quiet little burg — not exactly a hotbed of controversy. “Save it baby, save it,” the woman shouted, holding…