When we first encountered the work of Ragnar Kjartansson in 2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (770 NE 125th St., North Miami ), he struck us as an unusual talent and left us humming the same lyric continuously for days. His work, titled God, was a 30-minute video in…
We’ll admit it. Watching 1,000 Ways to Die on Spike is one of our favorite, slightly sick pleasures. So many wacky, wickedly stupid ways to star in your own snuff film, so little time!In that same morbid vein, we were pretty stoked to see #1001MiamiWaystoDie pop up as a trending…
Being a grown-up is pretty lame. Go to work, run errands, pay bills. The daily grind is so boooooring. So who doesn’t love an opportunity to let your kid flag fly? Enter the Color Run, a 5K of straight-up silliness that ends in a cornucopia of chromacity. You haven’t seen…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner, and you know what that means: three days of trying to sleep as tourists cruise past your apartment blasting music loud enough to shake your walls; putting up with cops on every corner of South Beach; and the biggest traffic nightmares of…
Yeah, baby. You know you want it.Tickets to Exxxotica, that is.The largest sex expo in the country is back in Miami Beach this weekend, bringing the biggest names in porn, a giant load (heh) of sex toys, a bus where people will film you doin’ it, and a giant, pink,…
It takes a lot to shock us. As you know, living in Miami, well, you see some things. Then you go home and watch reality television for your job, and you see some more things. Let’s just say our skin is pretty damn thick.But while watching Basketball Wives Monday evening,…
Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!In case you’ve been living under a rock, the Broadway version of Disney’s The Lion King starts its run at the Adrienne Arsht Center today. And while you might be tempted to scoff at its plebeian origins, it stands as one of the longest-running Broadway productions and…
So Roshon and Melissa took their final bow last week. But who cares? It’s the semi-finals of Dancing With The Stars! Our four final teams are great and professional and it just tears us up inside. The dirty secret of DWTS is this: The longer the season goes, the more…
There’s no denying Miami’s weird-ass ways. So every other week, Welcome to the Future addresses the absurdity of life in the Magic City — in comic art form, naturally…
Exxxotica, the biggest sex convention in the country, is back in Miami this week. And if you’ve attended before, you know that this show can be full-blown, balls to the wall (or in your face) nutso. There’s so much skin, so many toys, and sadly, so little time. The event…
Syndee Winters, the multi-talented singer, dancer and actress, has had a passion for the arts since she was an adolescent dreamer growing up in Miami. The youngest of three children, the Palmetto High grad moved here from New York at age 13 to live with her father and grandmother. Now…
Calling all starving artists and film students: If your pipe dreams of submitting features to Sundance have yet to be realized, maybe start a little smaller. With the upcoming 24-Hour Film Race, for example.After blessing Miami with poop jokes galore in last year’s Audience Favorite short film Wall of Shame,…
All the signs of the apocalypse were there. Global warming. That Mayan calendar business. The existence of this.We knew the end was coming. But we still weren’t prepared for this.NBC President Robert Greenblatt announced today that 30 Rock will end its seventh season with a series finale. Not season finale…
It’s Fight Night here at Magic City, and everyone has gambling fever! Except for maybe Stevie who almost definitely has herpes (as do most characters on this show) and also Danny, who has a raging case of being a giant wet blanket who can’t get past second base. Oh, and…
David Zambrano is the kind of choreographer who inspires his audiences to trade their day jobs for a life of dancing. His acclaimed workshops and performances have been presented around the world. Along the way, he has collected an international group of performers from Mozambique, Slovenia, Greece, Slovakia, the U.S.,…
It’s the end of an era. An era of fake South Florida scenery, shlocky one-liners, and lots and lots of dead people, but an era all the same.After 10 seasons, CBS has canned CSI: Miami. The announcement came Sunday, from a spokesperson who broke the news with a long pause…
We’re not sure what’s in the water this week, but something is making sure the visual arts take over in Miami. From cedar sculptures to paintings of soda pop cans, artistic renderings of the physical and the psychological can be found just about everywhere these next few days.To those of…
In these modern, scary times, it’s nice to know that the Miami-Dade court system is focusing on what’s important: Billy Corben’s social media practices.A Miami-Dade judge has ordered the filmmaker to appear in court May 25 to explain his reasons for sending Twitter and Facebook messages while he was serving…
For now, most have only seen 16-year-old Sami Gayle co-starring as Tom Selleck’s precocious but sensitive granddaughter in CBS’ acclaimed drama Blue Bloods. However, the Weston, Florida-raised actress is on the cusp of a major breakout in films. Next year will see her sharing the screen in a sci-fi thriller…
Kat Edorsson, the 22-year-old, polka-dot-bikini-wearing Survivor: One World contestant, really wants your love. No, seriously, she does. And she wants you to demonstrate that love by voting for her for the show’s fan favorite before Sunday’s finale. “That’s all I want to do,” Edorsson told us, referring to being named…
As Mother’s Day approaches, we’re reminded of the tireless efforts of the women who lovingly raised us into the neuroses-plagued adults we are today. They cooked for us, they cleaned up after us, they dressed our wounds and taught us manners. And along the way, they left us with more…
