Arts & Culture

Looking to absolutely school your friends on Words with Friends? Envious of Scrabble competitors’ loquaciousness? Word wizards should sprint/canter/dash/dart/scamper/whisk themselves to Is That a Word? David Bukszpan on From AA to ZZZ, the Weird and Wonderful Language of SCRABBLE (Saturday, November 17, 3:30 p.m., Room 8316, Building 8, 3rd Floor)…

Graphic novel enthusiasts looking to witness the shattering of the industry’s glass ceiling in person should not miss the conversation between author Aline Crumb and scholar Hillary Chute, who authored her own examination of gender and the graphic novel industry, Graphic Women (Saturday, November 17, 2:30 p.m., Batten, Building 2,…

For the intellectuals with a sense of humor, be sure to check out author and South Florida darling Dave Barry and The Onion writers Seth Reiss and Will Tracy as they show off their respective books, Lunacy and The Onion Book of Known Knowledge (Saturday, November 17, 10 AM, Chapman…

Ah, Ford Championship Weekend. It’s when NASCAR gets its final kick at the close of the season, when champs are crowned into infamy, when Budweiser is sprayed over crowds like Dom Perignon. And it all happens right in our back yard, year after year. Kicking off Friday and continuing through…

If you still need evidence to convince your peers that comics are awesome and are more than just mindless ink on paper, look no further than Comics and Social Change: with Marjorie Liu, Dan Parent, Ellen Forney, Stephanie McMillan, and Riva Hocherman. Moderated by DC Comics/Vertigo editor Joan Hilty. (Sunday,…

The eighth annual Mad Hatter Arts Festival hits Coconut Grove this weekend in all its creative absurdity. This year’s event will feature the same live music, silly-hat contests, and excellent artwork as previous years. There’ll also be a “Chalk It Up” street painting event and a participatory drum circle planned…

Our beloved Three Kings are still basking in the glowing warmth of the Larry O’Brien Trophy, so it’s easy to forgive them for the flat-footed performance against the rival New York Knicks. It really wouldn’t have been fair to dropkick the once-favored team of a city that was just ravaged…

Feeling nostalgic for the ’80s? It’s easy to understand why. From synthesized beats on the radio to neon colors and leggings on the world’s hipsters, much of today’s culture has its roots in the Reagan era. But if you’re the kind of ’80s freak still into crimping hair and saying…

Usually it’s Miami’s sports teams that make changes to personnel during the off-season. But this year, Miami’s arts organizations made some big moves too. Miami City Ballet, for instance, brought in hometown girl Lourdes Lopez to succeed company founder Edward Villella in the season that opened last month. And Florida…

If you’re just learning how to cook, it might make more sense to start with a simple pasta and not, say, a four-course dinner featuring coq au vin and foie gras. But former PlayGround Theatre artistic director Stephanie Ansin doesn’t subscribe to that philosophy. For her very first production under…

It takes a truly gifted artist to knock viewers on their tails. But during Art Basel Miami Beach 2006, Ivan Navarro accomplished the feat with a pair of beautiful purple neon chairs. The works were on exhibit in “Artificial Light,” a group show organized by North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary…

The clock is ticking. The countdown to Miami Art Museum’s transformation into PAMM has officially begun. This time next year, when you visit the cultural institution relocated to a snazzy bayfront Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in Museum Park, it will be known as the Pérez Art Museum Miami. To…

Printmaking’s been going on since ancient Mesopotamians used round cylinder seals on clay tablets. Later, Asians innovated woodblock prints on silk and fabrics. Then, Europeans got in on it. Today, there’s etching, engraving, monotypes, lithographs, mezzotints, aquatints, screenprints, and more. Plus the cranking gears and crushing force of a steel…

When news of the Marlins’ devastating trades of many of its best players to the Toronto Blue Jays broke yesterday, the city’s sports fans had a collective aneurism. And for good reason. After all, we did build the team a brand new $515 million ballpark this year — a park…

For most of us, Thanksgiving is all about the three f’s: food, football, and family time. But as we unleash our inner glutton, fall into a food coma, and bicker with loved ones over Tannehill’s latest fail, it’s important to remember those less fortunate. See also: – FYXD305, Miami’s Newest…