FRI 6/24 You’ve heard of a sci-fi convention, right? You know, it’s where geeky people in Lord of the Rings outfits meet in some hotel ballroom to trade anime comics and Matrix action figures. Well, the Universe Weekend at the Eden Roc Resort (4525 Collins Ave., Miami Beach) is the…
FRI 6/24 Before Mike Tyson threw his aural antics into the ring, Vincent van Gogh owned the crazy ear acting award. Tonight you can learn more about what prompted the artist to cut off part of his ear and give it to a prostitute when MIAMIntelligence and the Wolfsonian-FIU (1001…
Catch this crazy dance mix MON 6/27 San Francisco springs to mind way before Miami when it comes to kooky art shows, but our local Dot Fiftyone (51 NW 36th St., Miami), an alternative gallery with plenty of performance space, will play host to “Off the Wall,” a seriously nonmainstream…
For all of their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki, the revered animator who has bewitched Japanese audiences since the late Seventies and bewildered American ones since 1999, when Princess Mononoke was among the first of his movies to receive significant stateside release…
Summer is sizzling at the Frost Art Museum with its “Florida Artists Series: Tori Arpad and Kate Kretz,” a striking exhibit in which divergent approaches to confronting ideas about the body embrace conceptual and visceral perspectives with élan. The exhibit pairs the work of Arpad and Kretz, both associate professors…
THU 16 Forget that team-building Who Moved My Damn Fish and Cheese? philosophy crap. If you really want to plow through work tensions and boost office morale, you need to take it outside. Yeah, that’s right. Take it out on the playground, and kick some ass on a makeshift kickball…
Every year when Father’s Day rolls around, the family treks out to the mall to buy the requisite gift: a high-tech gadget, a new watch or wallet, a pair of silky socks, or something with “#1 Dad” proudly emblazoned on it. Fathers get the same boring presents because they never…
How funky is your chicken? THUR 6/16 BY LYSSA OBERKRESER Who you callin’ chicken? So what if they have beady eyes, sharp beaks, and floppy wattles. Chickens and roosters have been given a bad rap. But spend an afternoon strutting and scratching alongside these poultry pals and you’ll see their…
Celebrate Juneteenth in Overtown SAT 6/18 Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation became official New Year’s Day, 1863, but willful plantation owners continued slavery in the South for two and a half more years. On June 19, 1865, soldiers came to Galveston, Texas, and spread the word that slaves were actually free…
Escape Artists MON 6/20 Art is one of the most powerful ways to convey emotion and explore controversial political issues, which is why the Miami International University of Art & Design (1501 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) and the International Rescue Committee are celebrating World Refugee Day with a powerful exhibit featuring…
A musical start to summer TUE 6/21 It’s the first day of summer! Celebrate by participating in a worldwide party, La Fête de la Musique. A tradition begun in France more than two decades ago, the Fête aims to expose the public to an array of music. For the second…
William Shakespeare needs no justification. And the Shakespeare Project 2005, an ambitious summer-long festival now onstage at New Theatre, holds the immense promise of some of the most exciting drama the world has known. Romeo and Juliet, which will be followed by The Merchant of Venice in July and Macbeth…
For complete up-to-date South Florida stage listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Stage.” A Bad Friend: Jules Feiffer’s memory play about Brooklyn in the Fifties resounds as a cautionary tale for the United States…
For complete up-to-date South Florida art listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Art Galleries” or “Museums.” Anne Chu: This exhibition begins with a wide tabletop full of short human figures based on funerary guardians…
DC Comics has kept its superheroes locked in a fortress of solitude for almost a decade, forcing the likes of Superman and Batman to warm the bench while long-time rival Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man, the Hulk, X-Men, and Blade galloped up and down the playing field. Not counting Catwoman, which is…
For complete up-to-date South Florida stage listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Stage.” A Bad Friend: Jules Feiffer’s memory play about Brooklyn in the Fifties resounds as a cautionary tale for the United States…
For complete up-to-date South Florida art listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Art Galleries” or “Museums.” Anne Chu: This exhibition begins with a wide tabletop full of short human figures based on funerary guardians…
Miami, where a short drive can transport you from Little Havana to Little Buenos Aires and beyond, is the ideal spot in which to celebrate the vast and thrilling human quilt that is Hispanic culture. And some of the happiest celebrations are happening right here and now during the XX…
The most basic notion of time generally brings to mind images that combine to depict the drama of human life. What’s the relation between time and the human consciousness? Philosophers have debated this question for centuries, and Miami Art Museum’s new exhibit “marking time: moving images” showcases the works of…
It’s been a great season for movie lovers in South Florida, with a string of major festivals more than making up in both quantity and quality for the multiplexing of America. There have been major discoveries all over, not just in the vast Miami International Film Festival but also at…
Before there was School of Rock, the 2003 movie in which Jack Black awakened a class of subdued elementary school students with lessons in America’s loudest subject, there was rock school. Students of the Paul Green School of Rock Music in Philadelphia have been worshipping at rock’s altar — and…
Where else but the Fruit and Spice Park would you hold the Tropical Ag Fiesta? If you’re going to be outdoors this time of year, the beauty and shade make it worth the drive to Homestead. This fruit fest in the heat of South Florida’s presummer splendor will feature two…
