Arts & Culture

Calling all nostalgia seekers: Stage Door is a 1937 screwball comedy, complete with all the way-back fixins. The plot follows a gaggle of young actresses crammed into a theatrical boarding house in New York while waiting for their big break on The Great White Way. Love affairs, despair, betrayals, wise-cracks,…

If you saw The Artist, you experienced what it’s like to watch a silent movie in a theater. It’s so quiet you can hear the woman seven rows back chewing her popcorn. The silence and concentration necessary to enjoy a silent film demonstrate the level of focus that should be…

Not to freak out the freedom fries crowd, but it has to be said: Everything is prettier in France. Seriously. We have election squabbles a year before voting booths open; they have who-knows-how-many glorious revolutions every 100 years. We live in our offices; they get mandatory 35-hour workweeks and five…

If you missed the quirky Chinese import The Piano in a Factory when it premiered at last year’s Miami International Film Festival, you’ll have another chance at 7 p.m. Tuesday when it screens at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center (3385 NE 188th St., Aventura). With a divorce looming from…

With a little more than two years left until the World Cup invades Brazil, soccer fever has infected that nation’s North American cousin, Miami-Dade County. More than 70,000 people watched Chivas Guadalajara upset FC Barcelona in a friendly match last year, and thousands caught the U.S. Men’s National team outscore…

Laughing burns mad calories. And in a city that LivingSocial.com calls America’s vainest, staying fit is the priority. Thankfully, the South Beach Comedy Festival starts Wednesday. Medically speaking, the four-day fest is the ideal setting to laugh and lose weight simultaneously. Though results may vary, New Times can all but…

Winter Party Miami Beach is so gay that everyone gets there by rainbow, the fire hydrants spew lube, and all women in a 20-mile radius get repetitive-motion cramps in their fingers. Blown-out O-ring repairmen fill the streets, drag queens sell nut hiders out of the trunks of their cars, and…

Have you seen Shakespeare’s Hamlet and thought to yourself, This tragedy about a guy avenging his dead father needs more people singing? If so, you’re in luck. Composer Carson Kievman this Friday will present a highly original and totally rad operatic version of Hamlet, enjoying its world premiere at Little…

It’s time to let go of all your preconceived notions about humans and horses. Leave the Equus and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back references at home before heading to Cavalia’s Odysseo. The phantasmal production goes one step beyond Cirque du Soleil and introduces horses into the artistry in a…

From primitive man’s efforts to chart the heavens on the walls of the Lascaux caves more than 15,000 years ago, to 19th-century phrenologists’ attempts to diagram the functions of the brain, maps have been perceptual touchstones for understanding our place in the universe. That is the focus of “Mapping: Time…

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is best described as the Super Bowl crossed with an ancient Roman bacchanal. For four days, almost every luminary in the culinary world descends upon Miami Beach to conduct cooking demos, host dinners, and drink heavily. The heart of the festival lies in…

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has become a legendary force throughout the world since it was founded in 1958. The first and still most prominent African-American troupe broke all boundaries, not only in ethnicity but also in movement and style. Yet more than 50 years later, the company needed…

At last night’s Brit Awards, Adele won the award for Album of the Year. And she seemed pretty psyched about it — until she was cut off in the middle of her acceptance speech. In response, she flipped the bird……which, of course, made us flash back to M.I.A.’s Super Bowl…

From primitive man’s efforts to chart the heavens over 15,000 years ago on the walls of the Lascaux caves, to 19th century phrenologist’s attempts to diagram the functions of the brain, maps have served as perceptual touchstones for understanding our place in the universe. The advent of GPS technology has…

Good news, perverts: Rule 34 — “If it exists, there is porn of it” — is still in full effect.Two readers of the blog Unicorn Booty were apparently inspired by Rick Santorum’s increasingly anti-sex and anti-gay statements on the campaign trail to compose his portrait. The catch? It’s made entirely…

Disneyland, Walt Disney World Resort’s half-sibling on the West Coast, was dangerously unprepared for what hit them over the weekend. A seemingly inebriated 53-year-old patron with a mean right hook went ape shit at the Anaheim park — just outside the Tower of Terror, appropriately enough. A four-minute video (below)…