Arts & Culture

Playing footsie under the table; winking as you stick your tongue out; playful slaps and hair-pulling. Yep, you have been perfecting the art of flirting since kindergarten, but you are still looking for that special someone who gets your wacky sense of humor and love of documentary films. Test your…

Interviewing a mentalist is intimidating. Does he already know what we are going to ask? Can he really read our minds? Maybe, but then we realize it doesn’t work as well over the phone. “Much of my work is nonverbal,” says the world-renowned mentalist, Marc Salem. Even so, he tried…

Three words: jazz and poetry. Four words: free jazz and poetry. Many words: An Evening of Jazz with Walt Whitman and the Mystical Trumpeters. You don’t have to say it. Just hush up and kick back for GableStage’s reading of the Jerry Marshall musical – based on works by one…

One autumn day in 1963, the mother of a yet-to-be best-selling author was invited into her basement by a yet-to-be convicted serial killer. Something was wrong with the washing machine, he claimed, with a look in his eyes she later said was “indescribable” — like, in a bad way. The…

Before whisking her off to a fabulous Mother’s Day brunch, you should take Mom for a stroll. Today the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization is launching its inaugural Miami Walk to Empower at Kennedy Park (2200 S. Bayshore Dr., Coconut Grove). The Y-ME’s mission is not medical research, but “to…

She birthed you, raised you, and, for better or worse, made you who you are today. Mother’s Day is a perfect opportunity to show appreciation to the woman who knows you better than anyone and loves you like no one else will. For such an occasion, the typical bouquet of…

The word feast conjures images of sumptuous culinary samples and goblets overflowing with wine. Not so at the Goddess Feast Extravaganza. “There will be delicious organic food available, but this is a feast of art,” explains Chia Ortegon. The artist and fashion designer will present her latest handbag collection and…

What do a pop artist from Pittsburgh and an Argentine surrealist have in common? Try Romero Britto. Tee “Teepop” Davis and Cesar Levy met a few years ago while working as graphic artists for the Brazilian marvel. Davis and Levy recognized that philosophically they were “twins separated at birth” and…

Admit it: You take every opportunity to show off your rock-hard abs to your friends. “Go ahead; punch it!” you tell them as they shake their heads and beg you to put your shirt down. But today you can show off and possibly win a prize at the FAME Tropical…

Nickolas Muray — the photographer behind more than 10,000 portraits of celebrities such as Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Claude Monet — may be most remembered for his relationship with Frida Kahlo. In her 1990 biography, The Brush of Anguish, Martha Zamora mentions several men with whom…

The caveat for really cool stuff is the longer it exists, the less cool it becomes. BoardUp is Miami’s first Pro-Am Wakeboard Championship, which makes it pretty cool (although wakeboarding is already a $90-billion-per-year industry). The sport is also known as skurfing because it combines water skiing and surfing –…

Parents are usually hard-pressed to get their teens to spend a Saturday afternoon at a museum, but today all of the cool kids will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art for Teen Day 2006. Hip young artists, photojournalists, and documentarians will be on hand to share their experiences and…

Jete, pointe, pas de chat…. No, this is not French class. It is ballet. And you don’t need to understand the words to appreciate Miami City Ballet School’s thirteenth annual Student Showcase. The event gives 2006 graduates an opportunity to show their stuff before they begin professional careers. Dancers will…

The season opener indicated South Florida’s new soccer team is competitive: Miami FC played the Montreal Impact, which had the best regular-season record in the USL last year, in a 0-0 tie. An April 29 scrimmage against local Haitian team OKAP also indicated FC is keen to develop a good…

Whenever egos and public monies are at stake, politicking, back-dealing, or just plain whoring colors the arts as strongly as a fresh tube of alizarin crimson. Miami’s dance community is no exception. But sometimes the negatives add up to a positive. Tonight’s performance by Ballet Gamonet/Maximum Dance Company marks Iliana…

Those still suffering from 2004 election heartbreak are escaping reality by fantasizing about America’s future presidential candidates. Progressive advocates are yearning for a woman in the Oval Office. Will it be Hillary, or Condi? Whoever lands commander in chief should seek counsel from strong-minded, savvy ex-officials who know a thing…

If you were one tequila shot short of fully experiencing the Mexican phenomenon known as Cinco de Mayo, get the rest of your Latin dose tonight at Centro Cultural Español. DJ Fussible (Pepe Mogt) provides Nortec music — a mix of Tijuana’s popular folk music Norteño and techno. Feast your…

Hip-hop began as the little genre that could. When the Sugarhill Gang and Kurtis Blow started spitting rhymes in the late Seventies, few dreamed that hip-hop would become mainstream and that rappers would own fashion labels and star in corporate commercials. The bass keeps booming and the movement is unstoppable…