Pancakes. Booze. Art. Think of it as your own personal holy trinity this Saturday, when you show up at Fusse Studios (327 NE 59th Ter., Miami) to enjoy all three under the same roof. The Pancakes and Booze underground art show has roots in L.A. and has toured to locales…
Ride a bike around South Beach, engage in ridiculous antics, and possibly win a sweet prize? Sounds like the fantasy of every Miami bike enthusiast, and it’s coming true during the second annual Bike Hunt, a wacky scavenger hunt on wheels. Beached Miami and Emerge Miami have partnered to plan…
Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes is a chameleon-like master of blending into her surroundings. The photographer explores issues of migration or relocation in her eye-popping oeuvre, creating what she calls “photo performances” in which she employs makeup and body paint to transform herself into part of the flora, fauna, or celestial…
Winner of the Best First Feature at Cannes last year and a highlight of New Directors/New Films this past spring, Pablo Giorgelli’s minimalist, gentle road movie Las Acacias traverses 900 miles, from Asunción, Paraguay — where terse, middle-aged truck driver Rubén (Germán de Silva) picks up Jacinta (Hebe Duarte) and…
Art Basel’s 2012 edition is on course to turn Miami into a living museum of publicly accessible art. In what may be the wildest installation of the year, Lords South Beach hotel will be turning into a massive, macabre pet. The LGBT landmark will be transformed from top to bottom…
Speaking to Eugene Jarecki is like having a web of thoughts coming at you a mile a minute. Considering the levels of analysis in his films like Why We Fight and his most recent documentary, The House I Live In, about the War on Drugs (both Grand Jury Prize winners…
An evening many assumed would be a run of the mill art showcase turned out to be anything but, as the curators of the Bass Museum of Art had attendees marching around the building grounds, into the streets, and finally depositing the group at a gas pump.The museum’s Temporary Contemporary exhibit,…
If you love movies that end with some mustachioed sheriff pulling a dead child out of a swimming pool, then you’re out of luck when it comes to Nobody Walks. If, however, you go for films of a rare, fragile emotional beauty, then you should not miss writer-director Ry Russo-Young’s…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
We no-name schlubs weren’t the only ones nervously biting our nails as we watched Florida flutter between President Obama and Governor Romney last night. Some of the biggest entertainers associated with our city were tracking the election, too — with varying degrees of success…
It wasn’t long ago that Miami didn’t have much of an art scene. That was before Art Basel took root, before Rebeca Raney left Miami in 1999 to go to college. By the time the scene got going in earnest, Raney was off living in New England.But in all that…
If you think the women of Bad Girls Club are outrageous, out of control and utterly obnoxious, just imagine being a dude by their side. We’d speculate it involves taking turns as a punching bag, a bottomless bank account, and a sex slave (the last one might not be so…
On a corner in Wynwood, a man and leopard hang out and get high next to women and roses in meditative poses.It’s one of several Miami-based artworks by 2Square, a nomadic free-expression camp that hit town last year for Basel and decided to stick around. In their wake, dozens of…
During Art Basel, Miamians take great pride in the art flying in from all parts of the world. It’s a chance for us to show up everyone who thinks we’re just a place for the Kardashians and Jersey Shore to capitalize on our nightlife and say, “Hey, we’re cultured too.”…
When Daniel Craig confidently strides into the hotel room at the Mandarin Oriental Miami to meet with us, he is wearing a perfectly tailored suit with a pocket square, not unlike how James Bond dresses in Skyfall, the latest installment opening Friday. He adjusts his watchband in a way that…
Kids these days have problems. No, seriously: There’s teen pregnancy and substance abuse and mental issues and sexual pressure, in addition to all the “finding yourself” you’re supposed to be doing in high school. These are problems that deserve a serious, thoughtful, mature approach, both in real life and when…
When I woke up at 7 a.m. on Saturday and checked the wait times for early voting at my local polling place, the Lemon City library, the Miami-Dade website said I’d spend 45 minutes in line. I remembered the horror stories about voting in 2008, and I knew the polls…
Everyone loves the Golden Girls. Call ’em the original Sex in the City crew. Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia still serve as an inspiration to anyone who wants to grow old with a healthy sex drive and a killer Florida abode. And while three of the actors who made the…
There aren’t many people who could pull off a Transformers-style switcharoo of a South Beach hotel into a big, black dog. But avant-garde artist Desi Santiago is about to do just that for this year’s Art Basel extravaganza. See also: – Giant Psychic Dog to Take Over Lords South Beach…
Whether they’re dropping a Baumgartner from the edge of space, or launching duct tape airplanes into Biscayne Bay, Red Bull throws one hell of a party. Tens of thousands of spectators hit Bayfront Park Saturday to watch teams of amateur engineers push their homemade aircrafts off a thirty foot platform;…
F our collective L’s: It’s Monday morning. We know, you’re depressed. Us too. But don’t worry, it’s only 17 days till we stuff ourselves silly for Thanksgiving and 45 until those love handles go up in flames when the world comes to its fiery demise. So say the Mayans. And…
To honor the holidays, to gloat about how superior she is to everyone else, or in a display of early onset dimentia, Oprah has once again compiled a list of her favorite things — things normal people like her simply cannot love without.According to Oprah, she “picked and planned, tasted…
