Arts & Culture

Picture this: You’re out enjoying yourself in the Design District, sipping some finely crafted cocktails, browsing through records on sale, and jamming to the sounds of an R&B DJ when your mother calls. You answer the phone, and she asks what you’re doing. “Not much,” you reply. “I’m just in…

Miami is a pretty bad place to be a homeless pet. Roughly 22,000 are killed every year at the local pound, and countless others are abandoned in the Everglades or elsewhere and left to die. Luckily, our furry friends have dedicated activists working to save their lives — and some…

In the veritable sea of Cubans that is South Florida, Dominican-American Junot Díaz stands out. Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz recently set out to tell the story of Yunior de Las Casas, a Dominican-cum-Jersey boy like Díaz who takes about as many missteps in love…

Are you the ultimate Miami Dolphins fan? Do you bleed aqua and orange? Do people still talk about your epic tailgate bash of 1998? Then Tailgate32 wants to talk to you. John and Mike Trupiano are brothers and the ultimate NFL fans. These Baltimore natives have launched a 25,000-mile, cross-country…

If you’ve recently found yourself calling the hood of your car a “bonnet,” craving baked beans on toast for breakfast, or driving on the left side of the road, even while sober, you probably have a scone-size hole in your heart that only a healthy dose of British culture can…

When you think of motorbikes in Miami, you probably think of Memorial Day weekend — girls riding on the backs of seats, bent over, arms around boyfriends’ waists, flashing thongs, and showing off those famous Miami curves. But this isn’t Memorial Day weekend, and these aren’t the bikes that come…

Stepping into the role of Billie Holiday is a bit like attempting to portray Jesus: Get it wrong, and you’re committing blasphemy; get it right, and you’re fomenting an evangelical fervor in faithful followers. And anyone whose admiration for Lady Day borders on the religious can do no better than…

Issues of race in America are rarely, well, black and white. So it falls to writers like Touré, author of Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness, to help unpack and understand the seemingly infinite sides to the racial issues that continue to affect life in this country. In his book, Touré, a…

Scarlett O’Hara, Ashley Wilkes, and Rhett Butler. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo. Rihanna, Jay-Z, and Beyoncé. Whether fictional or real, there is nothing quite like a love triangle to stir the passions or crush the soul. Since the days of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, and Mark Antony, we have…

Carnival is traditionally a colorful bacchanal, designed to let party people go wild one last time before getting all pious (or at least trying to) during Lent. It’s not unusual for revelers to drink, dance, and party till the wee hours. But bring the bash to Miami and add 1,200…

We were all teenagers once. So we can all relate to a time we felt ignored, undervalued, unappreciated — and we can all remember making questionable life decisions. Beginning this Sunday, “Teen Miami,” a new exhibit at HistoryMiami (101 W. Flagler St., Miami) puts teenagers in the spotlight for a…

History has given us a great deal of endearing maternal figures to look up to: Mother Teresa, Mother Jones, Mother Goose, Mother Hubbard. Miami’s art scene has been blessed with a “Momma” of its own, and it’s banded together to celebrate her in a gallery show tonight.More than 50 artists…