New England is home to the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), which is dedicated to collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and celebrating bad art. Miami boasts Art Fusion Galleries, which seems dedicated to selling it. MOBA is housed in the basement of the Dedham Community Theatre outside a men’s bathroom, where at…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
Arrested Development: Season Three (Fox) The final collection of Arrested Development discs feels sadly incomplete: only 13 episodes this time, the result of Fox’s inability to attract viewers to one of TV’s greatest comedies and the network’s unwillingness to give it a full farewell. But none of that diminishes the…
Have you ever looked into onrushing traffic and imagined how much damage you would cause with a simple crank of the steering wheel? If so, FlatOut 2 is the racing game for you. The latest entry in a genre best described as Evel Knievel meets NASCAR, FlatOut 2 lets you…
Akeelah and the Bee (Lions Gate) American Gun (IFC) The Castle of Cagliostro (Manga) Desperate Housewives: Season Two (Buena Vista) Stephen King’s Desperation (Lions Gate) Friends With Money (Sony) Iron Island (Kino) Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (Paramount) Lonesome Jim (IFC) Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Warner Bros.)…
If you are not lucky enough to have a few British friends in your circle, allow us to introduce you to some of their slang. Fanny refers to female genitalia (not the buttocks); a chav is a working-class person who wears horrid sportswear (and too much Burberry); and a toff…
It is a big responsibility to be in charge when your parents go out of town, but how about ruling a country? When Dom Joao VI left Brazil to return to its ruling country of Portugal, he told his son Pedro to watch over things. Well, after two years, Dom…
You would have been mocked and ridiculed, laughed at and possibly urinated upon, had you, early in this season, even suggested the possibility there was a chance the Marlins would make a run at the playoffs. Way underfunded, the scrappy terrors in teal have beat up on and just plain…
You could call Little Jimmy Scott the legend you might have never heard of. He found fame in the Fifties as an instantly recognizable torch singer. The hereditary condition Kallman’s Syndrome robbed him of the hormones of puberty, so even today, at age 81, Scott’s pipes remain as dulcet, warm,…
Ah, Lincoln Road on market day. There is nothing lovelier than strolling along the promenade, sipping fresh lemonade, and browsing table after table of eclectic antiques. Unfortunately the weather is far too hot and disgusting to afford such outdoor pleasures. That’s why the Miami Beach Antique and Collectible Show is…
Lest anyone forget: Florida means football, dammit. Those basketball championships won by the Miami Heat and the Florida Gators this past spring — though we are pleased as punch with them — were aberrations. Now it’s autumn and time to direct our attention back to the sport where the state…
Like Brangelina’s new baby, footvolley fuses the appeal of its parents and razzle-dazzles a crowd. The sport is catching on like wildfire. Spawned on Brazilian beaches from the mating of soccer and volleyball, footvolley combines the fancy footwork of soccer with the flyaway-hair, sand-in-the-crack excitement of beach volleyball. The red-hot…
When Bryant Castro’s indie-rock band had trouble finding a solid gig in Miami, he decided to start his own. Luckily he knew the right bands to ask for help. The Greater Miami Music Fest will feature six groups, including Hialeah’s Humbert — which recently performed at the SXSW festival –…
You should not fear the thousands of bikers who will roar into our city this weekend for the National Association of Black Bikers Miami International Bikefest; you should embrace them. (Miami Mayor Manny Diaz did; in fact he’s the one who invited them.) But after reading more about the nonprofit…
A devoted Miami FC fan called “rev TT & Grin coco” (or is that two fans?) is so passionate about the United Soccer League that he or she goes to a fan forum site and posts the league’s scores for the week, as well as an ad hoc pitch about…
The joy of being entertained by the morbid yet humorous lives of undertakers and the funeral industry has not died with Six Feet Under; in fact it existed long before Alan Ball was even born. The Loved One, a satire by Evelyn Waugh that frequently makes “The Top 100 Novels…
Ballet companies from Cincinnati to the Congo have descended upon our shores to eat, sleep, and breathe all things ballet at the International Ballet Festival of Miami, currently underway all over the city. (Well, maybe not eat — those ballerinas are pretty skinny.) Because the dancers need a break now…
Displays of beautiful images, an eager crowd of Miami’s finest, copious hors d’oeuvres, and generous pours of wine all combine to make Gallery Night in Coral Gables one of the area’s best. The neighborhood knows how to make art lovers feel welcome and satisfied, even down to the free trolley…
It has been brought to our attention that men really don’t know what women want, so we are going to take a few moments to clarify things. We want you to open doors for us, we like to get flowers (all kinds — tulips, lilies, sunflowers — but skip the…
Although there is no absolute parameter that defines the so-called best days of our lives, those four (sometimes five, or even six) years spent in college are often thought of as such. Not only have you escaped the confines of your parents’ house and developed a new appreciation for alcohol,…
Summer is finally rolling to a close. Although there are still a few weeks left until the official change of season (and a few months until we can even fathom wearing long sleeves), tonight marks the end of August and the end of preseason football in Miami when the Dolphins…
Downtown Miami is undergoing an incredibly rapid growth spurt. Everywhere you look, buildings seem to have sprouted overnight, and road expansion projects are cutting through major thoroughfares like stretch marks on the city. Strange to think that as recently as 1984, the 55-story Wachovia building (then known as the Southeast…
