Arts & Culture

The Miami Marlins might not have the league’s best record. Or the second best. Or anything requiring the use of the word best. But showing support for their efforts earns you some good karma. Plus, someone’s gotta pay off that multimillion-dollar stadium construction tab. Might as well be you. The…

It’s the fourth anniversary of Fashion’s Night Out, the yearly celebration of all things faaaahbulous around the globe, and this year, Miami has upped its game. The Design District last month released a promotional video featuring a model in eveningwear crossing a street under the gaze of studly construction workers,…

We’re a real city! Shout that sentence in a Pinocchio voice as we all celebrate yet another hallmark of our proper intellectual city-dom: a thinking-people’s independent magazine based on cultural criticism. No, that doesn’t mean a rag snarking on the latest clubbing faux pas. Rather, the recently minted Miami Rail…

Imagine a shimmering, steroid-juiced Lite-Brite pattern depicting a cast of deviant and marginal characters. That’ll give you an idea of Shonagh Adelman’s peeper-popping oeuvre. “Shonagh’s kids with Halloween monster masks, rockers with painted faces, houses on fire, and girls in a motel room make me think about Diane Arbus’s art…

Wynwood and the Design District have Second Saturdays. Coconut Grove has its monthly art walks. Little Haiti has its Big Night series. Most of Miami’s major neighborhoods can boast at least one festival celebrating its cultural facilities. And downtown Miami — home to arts powerhouses such as the Miami Art…

Yoga: the relaxing, zen-like practice of stretching, posing, meditating, and generally finding peace with oneself. Gangsters: Pretty much the opposite of all that. So when we saw a flyer for an event benefiting a group called Yoga Gangsters, we couldn’t help but giggle. The name may be silly, but their…

In the late 1960s, Mexican businessman Eduardo Velázquez struck up a friendship and eventual professional partnership with legendary automotive designer Carol Shelby. After working as an official Shelby parts distributor, Velázquez began limited production of Shelby de México’s Mustang notchback in 1967. He built fewer than 200 cars his first…

Beer is good. Pork is better. Together they’re awesome. There’s only one thing that could make the pair even more awesome: a butchery class. Monday at 8 p.m., 8 oz. Burger Bar (14815 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami Beach) and Stone Brewing Company will host a beer and butchery pairing —…

For four years, Casa de Ha-Ha has been a safe haven for Miami’s comedic talent to break their stage virginity or polish up an act to take out on the road. Every second Tuesday of the month, Sweat Records (5505 NE Second Ave., Miami) provides a stage and home to…

The world’s largest lady lumps are a size ZZZ. Whether or not you own a pair of sweater puppies, we bet you didn’t know those letters of the alphabet could have anything to do with what’s going on underneath that inconspicuous blouse. Though the breast is a universal symbol for…

All across Miami, the soaring steel beams rising from urban construction sites give one a sense of a world constantly uprooted by change. But in the hands of sculptor Lydia Azout, the same elements forging the transformation of our landscape exude a force powerful enough to transport viewers to the…

There are ambitious ballets, and then there is Ballet Austin’s Light/The Holocaust and Humanity Project. This epic work in five sections begins at the dawn of time, diagnoses decades of exploitation, bigotry, and internment, and finally suggests hope for the triumph of the human spirit. A passionate plea for human…

In a city like Miami, it can seem like nothing is truly natural. There’s processed food in our restaurants, fluorescent colors in our clothing; hell, half the boobs in this town are made of silicone. Even Miami Beach, home to the Bass Museum (2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach), isn’t a…

They say you never forget your first time. So prepare yourself for “Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks.” It’s the first major solo exhibition for the New York City-based artist, who’s known for his poignant, complex, and deeply moving assessments of the black experience in America. Raised in Chicago, Johnson…

Penned by local playwright David Michael Sirois and first presented by Alliance Theatre Lab in March 2011, Brothers Beckett earned three Carbonell nominations — a major achievement for a new work. This funny, sensitive, authentic and occasionally heartbreaking examination of the bloodlines and love lives of 20-something college graduates was…

Four years ago almost to the day, something big happened in fashion: Fashion’s Night Out. A global initiative sponsored by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Vogue magazine, it’s a one-night-only event that’s meant to encourage consumers to shop ’til they drop while supporting the fashion industry…