Arts & Culture

Still holding on to those skinny jeans and Aquanet? Can’t get enough ‘80s girl power? Can’t throw away those giant bracelets just yet? Well, you don’t have to. Your chance to relive the best decade ever is right around the corner. Those get-‘em girls, The Bangles, are coming at you…

As us locals will boast proudly–this town is quickly becoming a hub of diverse creativity and leaders of innovative thinking, the total package of brains and beauty. Trouble is, our smarts sometimes go unnoticed because let’s admit it, we do look good.To help demonstrate the city’s wit, TEDxMIA (where x=…

The long wait is almost over for Miami’s fashionistas (and, uh, fashionistos?). Lincoln Road is finally about to boast its own, permanent H&M location. Starting November 8, the cheap, chic Swedish chain officially makes its mark on South Florida. The uber-popular, fashion forward brand teased us with a summer pop-up…

This presidential election, the taxpayer funding of PBS has become one of Mitt Romney’s most controversial campaign issues. Now, thanks to Mittens, the fate of television shows such as Sesame Street and Downton Abbey are endangered. So we’re quite relieved the presidential inauguration isn’t until January, because this fall, there’s…

Haunted houses are all well and good, but fake spiderwebs and plastic chainsaws get old after awhile. Real scares do a body good. Think Ghost Hunters, The Exorcist and The Sixth Sense. That’s the stuff that gets the hair standing up on the back of your neck. See also: -…

This upcoming weekend is the weekend. You know, as in the weekend wherein all your Halloween costume ideas and planning from the last month (or 24 hours) will come to fruition. It’s go big or go home, folks. It’s time to think outside the Party City box. Big Bird on…

Halloween’s just a few weeks away, and already our calendar is filling up with costume parties, monster-themed pub crawls and 5Ks, and plenty of other local tricks and treats. October 31 falls on a Wednesday this year, which might mean that Halloween itself is a bit more low-key for the…

You don’t often think of the Design District, home base for Miami’s creatives, as a tame neighborhood. But last weekend, people settled into a quiet evening of artistic appreciation at Locust Projects. In preparation for its upcoming raffles and prizes, the group debuted a little taste of what’s to come…

Hey, remember last summer, when a guy chewed another guy’s face off on the MacArthur Causeway? And then the police blamed bath salts? And then all anybody could talk about for the next month was Rudy Eugene and whether he was possessed and Ron Poppo and hey did you know…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or in a post-zombie-apocalypse bunker), you’ve undoubtedly noticed the exponential increase in the number of themed 5Ks coming to Miami. We’ve got the Awesome 80’s Run, Run For Your Lives, the Glow Run, Color Me Rad and a whole host of others. But…

Zoo Miami isn’t about lions and monkeys anymore — at least not during the month of October. Now, it’s about the bloodthirsty ghouls and deranged psychos serving up body parts in Dr. Wilde’s Creepy House, one of the many attractions Zoo Miami’s cooked up for Halloween.Though it’s billed as a…

Even if the most exciting thing that happens in your cube all week is finding a rogue peanut M&M hiding behind your computer monitor, at least you can fill your after-work hours with more enticing entertainment. To help you survive the next five days with your sanity intact, Cultist has…