Arts & Culture

Oh em gee, you guys. Guess what we just found. A bacon-flavored candy necklace! Isn’t that great? It’s so terribly hip and ironic and just what the world needs!Wrong. Beyond wrong, actually. For us, this candy necklace is the last straw. In recent years, the tastemakers of the world have…

​Though the way we listen to music has changed, it was vinyl that first freed music from the confines of the dance hall and made it accessible to everyone. The invention of the record player had one of the most enduring influences on pop culture ever. In celebration of the…

2012 MasterMind Award winners

View a photo slide show of the MasterMind Awards at Artopia.

Ever notice how the Irish are the one ethnic group that embraces all the stereotypes about themselves? Ask any die-hard from the Emerald Isle, and he’ll tell you that he and his 26 brothers and sisters are a bunch of jolly drunks fueled by Guinness and Jameson, all seeking that…

Last month, with just two weeks to go before the All Star break, the Miami Heat were throttled by the Orlando Magic and their high-flying three-point shooting assault. The Heat gave up 102 points to a team that both has a disgruntled star playing for it, and lives and dies…

Forget going green for the weekend, and tap into your artsy side instead. The 48th annual Rotary Key Biscayne Art Festival is back for another weekend of craft showcasing in Miami’s most desirable escape town. Let Key Biscayne be your alibi for the weekend, and peruse fine arts & crafts…

On March 20, Turner Classic Movies will bring its newly restored version of the 1960 film Elmer Gantry to the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts – for free. In an event that surely stirred memories of first glances at fifth grade required reading lists, TCM started its third annual…

If people-watching is the unofficial sport of South Beach – and we can all agree that it is, right? – then Wednesday kicks off our own personal Olympics. Miami Beach International Fashion Week brings faaaah-bulous fashions from around the globe to our shores – as well as plenty of designers,…

Never got a chance to see Frank Sinatra perform live? Don’t fret! Because thanks to Come Fly Away, the Broadway musical hit from the mind of Tony Award winning choreographer Twlya Tharp, Sinatra’s music and voice are superbly brought to life with a live band, spectacle and dance. 15 of…

Well before we jumped into this writing gig, a career as a professional locker room attendant on the ATP Tour was high on our list of potential job routes. The humble task of folding towels for a living seemed like an honest way of making a buck, the type of…

The Fair. Holy nostalgia. First make out session? Ferris wheel, Miami-Dade County Fair and Expo. First cigarette? Parking lot, Miami-Dade County Fair and Expo. First open cattle show? You guessed it, the World of Agriculture at Miami-Dade County Fair and Expo. Seemingly every major milestone in our lifetime has happened…

Just call Rita Ackermann an artist’s artist. “I’ve never seen such a response to an artist from their peers as I have with her,” says Bonnie Clearwater who organized the Hungarian-born, New York painter’s exhibit on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (770 NE 125th Street, North Miami). “Tracy…

Although the way we listen to music has changed, there’s no arguing that the invention of the record player had one of the most enduring influences on pop culture of all time. There was a time when vinyl was king, and music royalty hummed into our living rooms from discs…

For the Winter Music Conference attendee who felt that six days of constant pounding beats wasn’t enough to shake off the winter cold is in luck this year. Organizers had the bold idea of expanding the panels and parties throughout the course of 10 days. And if that wasn’t reason…

Your last name may not be O’Neil or McCarthy, but here in Miami, we all share a lot in common with the Irish — 95 percent of our population is comprised of immigrants that fled their homeland due to some type of famine. And now, here we are are in…