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Like a 6-year-old dropping an f-bomb, the things that come out of Nikki Glaser’s mouth are pretty shocking. The bits in her repertoire touch on some pretty sensitive topics — rape, for example. And in a YouTube video titled “Lady Comic Slumber Party” featuring Glaser, Amy Schumer, Rachel Feinstein, and…

We love Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk for all the important reasons: free booze, killer visual installations, bizarre conversations with socially awkward artists. And now there’s yet another reason to get psyched for our favorite artistic endeavor: this weekend’s stroll is offering an earful of aria to help pump up…

The regular season is winding down, but the Miami Heat’s nastiest rivalry is just picking up steam. With the Knicks wallowing in mediocrity, bouncing between the eighth and seventh seeds in the Eastern Conference, the Heat needed a worthy opponent to compete with and properly hate. Then came last year,…

Some say poetry is a dead art form. Others say the same about classical music. On Friday, New World Symphony and O, Miami will prove them all wrong with a show combining the musical talents of our city’s symphony and the verses of visiting poet Malachi Black. Take that, haters…

The French spliff, or marijuana cigarette, is sprinkled with tobacco, topped with hash, and rolled into a weedy cone. It is smoked while drinking wine or coffee, looking cool, and thinking French artistic thoughts. It is usually followed by a warm croissant; sex with a moody, dark-eyed beauty; and a…

Once upon a time, long ago (well, it was the 1970s), a group of teenage friends heard rumors of an abandoned crop of the plant Cannabis sativa that lay not far from where they went to high school in California. They made plans to investigate, meeting at the statue of…

Sex! There, we have your attention. We know this because studies have shown that people are really, really bad at ignoring anything having to do with gettin’ it on. From the massive revenues that the porn industry rakes in year after year, to jiggling dancers in music videos, to increasingly…

Say what you will about opera in general — that it’s intimidating, boring, or simply outdated. That might be true with traditional opera companies. But don’t you dare hurl those insults at Florida Grand Opera. The Magic City’s operatic artists have made a consistent effort to reach new audiences; in…

Homestead, Florida, has always maintained a more countrified vibe than its city-mouse cousin Miami to the north — which makes it the perfect place to eat ribs and listen to live country music. This Saturday and Sunday, the second annual Blues, Brews & Barbecue Festival will turn the Fruit &…

When Mad Men debuted in 2007, it revived ’50s- and ’60s-era style for present-day fashionistas. Across the nation, what was old became new again as fashion-hungry shoppers raided consignment shops for vintage clothes and accessories. Well, except in Miami. Something about the stiff construction and thick materials that Betty Draper…

It doesn’t matter who you are. When you hear “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers, you think of Ghost, the 1990 movie that broke ground by being the first film to present pottery-throwing as foreplay. That famous, clay-caked scene harks back to a more innocent time, when Demi Moore looked…

What sets Michael Genovese apart from most artists is that the Miami-based talent typically engages an audience as part of his creative process. And the ambitious proposal that snagged him the 2012 Visiting Artist title at the Frost Art Museum is no different. Genovese created 60 baked, enamel-coated aluminum discs…

A name like Thugfucker is bound to raise a few eyebrows. It’s also a risky moniker for a musician, being so provocative that it could distract from the mission one sets out to accomplish — make music. Luckily, the duo that has assumed the name has the talent to push…

As a child living through the turmoil of post-World War II Europe, Ursula von Rydingsvard, along with her family, was among the dispossessed who sought shelter in the sprawling barracks haphazardly built to house the masses driven from their homes by the Nazis. Born in Germany in 1942, she grew…