Arts & Culture

In an era of fake boobs and Photoshop, the notion of pin up photography is titillating. Homegrown sex appeal is making a major comeback, and with it, our fascination with the days of coy glances, high-cut bikinis, and big hair. And when it comes to the pin up world, Miami-born…

If your front lawn doubles as a popular hangout for furry felines, you might be a cat lady – in most of the world, anyway. In Miami, on the other hand, that’s just what happens when you have a front lawn. Or a patio. Or an alley behind your apartment…

Can you believe it’s the end of October already? The year 2012 just flew by. Gone are the breezy spring mornings and lazy summer afternoons. And rapidly approaching are stressful family-filled holidays, even more stressful shopping for said holidays, and oh yeah, a giant influx of tourists flooding our streets,…

Country music! Hooters! Line Dancing! BBQ! If this is all you need to hear, read no more and head over to the South Dade Food and Country Festival at the Harris Field Pavilion (1034 NE 8th St., Homestead) on Saturday. If you require a bit more fleshing out, here’s the…

There’s nothing illegal about Smash and Grab, Locust Projects’ (3852 N. Miami Ave., Miami) annual fundraiser that lets attendees win thousands of dollars’ worth of art by local and international artists. But the thrill you get from its art raffle very well should be. Ticket-buyers go in knowing they’ll score…

If life’s getting a little mundane, being chased by the bloodthirsty undead might liven it up a little. Just in time for Halloween, the ZMBLND 5K is coming to Miami, and the name of the game is to come out alive. Participants in this gory trek can sign up as…

With upwards of 50 individual artists, artist collaboratives, performance ensembles, dancers, musicians, and writers, this year’s dynamic lineup at the Art Live Fair promises a three-day immersion into the creative process that fairgoers will long remember. Beginning Friday at 5:30 p.m. and running through Sunday at the Coconut Grove Convention…

The shortened 2011/2012 NBA season ended on a remarkably sour note for the Boston Celtics this past June. After all, the Miami Heat did manage to knock the C’s out of the playoffs for a second straight year, advancing to the NBA Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder. But the…

Things that are awesome: Quality musical theater. The city of London. The nostalgic feeling you get when you see a former Spice Girl on the stage. Things that are not awesome: Transatlantic flights in coach. Jet lag. The exchange rate between the American dollar and the British pound. So while…

Cheesy carnival rides and gimmicky acts aside, House of Horror amusement park at Miami International Mall (1455 NW 107th Ave., Doral) ranks as one of Miami’s top haunted houses – and at two-acres, it’s also the largest in South Florida. With 25 rooms of masked maniacs, screamy sound effects, and…

Dr. Wilde’s Screamatorium at Zoo Miami (12400 SW 152nd St., Miami) is where all types of phobias derive. Expect legitimate scares from the gory scenes of butchers and deceased creatures—the haunted house is the brainchild of special event design team called Flore de Lisa, which has crafted props and effects…

Like any evil villain, Count Dracula has one goal: world domination. And like most evil villains, he has a half-diabolical, half-comically unlikely plan to achieve it. “I’ll launch a traveling circus with my minions as the stars,” Dracula mused to himself in his 19th-century Bohemian lair. “It’ll be the perfect…