Arts & Culture

Do you have grand dreams of going to Paris? Want to tour the Louvre, climb the Eiffel Tower, visit the Arc de Triomphe? Well, too bad, because you’re broke, and transatlantic flights are pricey. But the Colony Theatre (1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach) is offering the next best thing. This…

So you like to drive like Mario Andretti. But despite your best efforts, you can’t push that four-cylinder Prius into the triple digits. No worries. Imagine Motorsports is offering the rare chance to harness some otherworldly horsepower this Friday — at a price affordable to mere mortals. Drivers at the…

Just 90 miles south, 11 million residents of the communist island nation of Cuba struggle to get by on the little food and money that the government has been rationing out for more than five decades. The freedom to use said money on simple luxuries that free countries such as…

Benoît Jacquot’s Farewell, My Queen, a soapy, sexy, and lezzie adaptation of Chantal Thomas’s 2003 novel about the chaos at Versailles on the eve of the 1789 revolution, is told not through the vantage point of the monarchs but through the eyes of Sidonie (Léa Seydoux), the besotted reader to…

Brickell is getting some balls. Meatballs, that is, along with burgers and beer. At the inaugural Burger, Beer & Balls Bash, Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m. at Miami Circle (401 Brickell Ave., Miami), 15 local restaurants will showcase their favorite burger and meatball recipes for your carnivorous pleasure. Wash…

Over the past five years of its official existence, the on-again, off-again Night of Weirds has morphed into a kind of bizarre extra limb for Churchill’s Pub (5501 NE Second Ave., Miami). In other words, it’s hard to imagine one without the other. The event is infamous around town for…

It’s easy to find women in front of the camera in the film industry, especially in movies set in Miami. (Every beachside and poolside scene needs at least a handful of busty, generic bikini babes.) But women behind the lens? That’s a rarity. Miami’s Indie Film Club is trying to…

Ever since Steve Zissou and crew dived into the deep to track down that jaguar shark, you’ve been enchanted by the idea of underwater exploration. But aside from years of schooling or a Navy enlistment, it’s difficult to score a spot on a working submarine. Luckily, you can catch see…

All artists want to believe their calling makes the world a better place. But few art exhibits connect creativity and worldly preservation as directly as “Design for a Living World.” Presented by the Nature Conservancy, “Design for a Living World” offers a glimpse at how the products we throw away…

Miami is an amazing multicultural cauldron, a heated brew of North American, South American, and Caribbean backgrounds. But even here, an event such as the third annual African Diaspora Dance and Drum Festival stands out as unique. Taking place over three days, this Friday through Sunday, the festival concentrates on…

Miami: a city of clubs, a premier dance music destination. Our crowds want only the best in established and up-and-coming house DJs from around the world. And what the Magic City wants, the Magic City gets. Turkish import Deniz Koyu, named an MTV EDM artist to watch in 2012, will…

The Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau brought a taste of the Magic City (or, at least, a taste of the prevailing Magic City stereotype) to the Big Apple yesterday afternoon, setting up a temporary swimming pool in the middle of New York City’s Union Square.The reactions were mixed.Some New…

See Olympics 2012: Is It a Spoiler?Despite your best intentions, hours spent on the treadmill or doing the doggy paddle in your condo complex’s pool aren’t likely to turn you into the next Lolo Jones or Ryan Lochte. But that doesn’t mean you can’t let their greatness inspire your attempts…

We’ve seen a lot of misty-eyed homages to British history since the London Olympics kicked off on Friday: at the opening ceremonies, or in montages about the 1948 London Olympics. But the execs at NBC are probably feeling most nostalgic for more recent history — specifically, the days before the…

Wynwood and the Design District have Second Saturdays. Coconut Grove has its monthly art walks. Little Haiti has its “Big Nights.” Most of Miami’s major neighborhoods can boast at least one festival celebrating its cultural facilities.And Downtown Miami — home to arts powerhouses like the Miami Art Museum and the…