Arts & Culture

Anyone can skate down the street and think they’re a skater, but it takes a real experienced thrasher to jump off a 20-foot half-pipe and nail a 360-degree flip. And only at an actual skate park can you successfully train to skate like a pro. For years the Miami skate community…

Compared to our Canadian cousins to the north, Miami’s quite lacking in semi-aquatic buck-toothed rodents. But we’re certainly not short on appreciation for the mighty beaver in its, uh, other incarnations. This eternal love of the feminine mystique has found its platform with Chalk’s upcoming girl-friendly “Beaver Fever” weekend, featuring hot female…

What have you done for your Miami Heat lately? Cheered them on from your couch? Spilled beer on yourself while pointing out missed fouls at Will Call? Bitched about Spoelstra on sports talk radio?Pathetic.When it comes to professional athletics, rabid fandom knows no bounds. Truly die-hard supporters are willing to…

According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, last year in Miami-Dade there were 15,229 hit and runs.The latest victim, local artist Aholsniffsglue, was run down and left for dead by a “pale faced, orange-haired old lady in a gold ’90s car” near Dogma at 71st and…

Bernice Steinbaum, Miami Art Matron, Departs

The Miami Marlins will need all hands on deck if they want to climb out of the recent stinkhole they’ve dug themselves. Specifically, they need to start playing like they did last month, when they were the best team in all of baseball. While the Heat has been plowing through…

Reside in South Florida long enough and you’ll eventually get hit by a mango falling from a tree. That’s some pesky squirrel’s way of telling you that mango season is here again. Surely by now you know the best way to eat a mango (naked in a bathtub), but what…

During a recent “friendly” match against Brazil, Argentina’s Lionel Messi scored an impressive three goals to lead his country to victory over its South American rival. He played as though his reputation were at stake. In many regards, that was true. Soccer fans and sportswriters alike have criticized Messi’s international…

Miami is a young buck as far as cities go. But while our years are few, our memories are many. Overtown is one such bastion of historical recollection. One of the city’s earliest black neighborhoods, it boasts a narrative that includes the voices of some of music’s greatest African-American musicians,…

If you thought Caribbean cuisine was just red beans and rice, you need to hustle to Taste of the Caribbean at the Hyatt Regency (400 SE Second Ave., Miami) to experience the finest food the region has to offer. Top chefs from the Caribbean will converge on our city for…

Have you ever been to Tokyo? At night the city is just as alive as it is during the day. The Meiji Shrine there has a wall of sake barrels waiting for your straw. If you don’t think Japanese history is cool enough already, you should visit the 300 Years…

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena is a tale of two apartments: a spacious chrome, glass, and marble luxury flat that might be anywhere in prosperous western Europe, and a cramped unit in an exhausted-looking, distinctly Soviet-vintage apartment block with a view of a nuclear plant. Central to the movie is the distance…

If the commercial success of Think Like a Man is any indication, America is ready to line up for more actors of color at the box office. And that’s a great thing, especially for Miami moviegoers this week. The American Black Film Festival, a beacon for African-American and urban movie…

The tag line of the new Magnum Mondays at STK Miami at the Perry South Beach (2377 Collins Ave., Miami Beach) says it all: “Because size matters.” You know what else matters? Every Monday in June, STK Miami offers free champagne for the ladies from 8 to 10 p.m., a…

No matter how miserably mundane your job seems — whether you’re constantly crunching numbers for a large insurance provider or mindlessly trolling the web for relevant blog fodder — the American workforce has little reason to complain when compared with workers in many other countries. That’s not to say, however,…

William James, the 19th-century pioneer in philosophy and American head-shrinkery, was more than just a little interested in what lies waiting for us in the great beyond. In one of his tomes about the psychology of religious experience and mysticism, he wrote that “in order to dispute the law that…