Arts & Culture

First kiss? Jewish girl. First cigarette? Jewish girl. First bong rip? Jewish girl. Seemingly every “bad” thing we did as a kid was in cahoots with a Jewish gal named Sarah we’d met in third grade. She was a real badass, the first girl in our school to develop boobs…

It was just another stressed-out, guilt-ridden day for Cathy. Her boss, Mr. Pinkley, expected her to work overtime. She just couldn’t seem to find Mr. Right. The cats, her only companions, had become increasingly distant. And when she stepped on the scale this morning, she couldn’t believe it: Even after…

Stewart O’Nan’s latest novel, The Odds, hits close to home. Exploring themes of truth, pain, heartbreak, and hope, the book tells the tale of Art and Marion Fowler, a troubled couple on the heels of their 30th wedding anniversary, stuck in crises such as impending home foreclosure and joblessness. Escaping…

This season, the Miami Heat got off to its best start in franchise history. And it’s been particularly sweet watching the guys beat down opponents using nothing but basketball aptitude and total badassness. Of course, they fell short of winning the title last summer when the Dallas Mavericks upset them…

“Isn’t every film festival a Jewish film festival?” That’s how Uncle Bubba from the Panhandle responded when we told him the Miami Jewish Film Festival was coming to town Saturday. “Don’t be an asshole,” we sighed. Then we explained that the movies shown at the Miami Jewish Film Festival aren’t…

To all the South Beach sugar babies feeling unfulfilled despite their mountains of Prada bags, stacks of Cavalli sunglasses, and streams of spa appointments: Your story is far from new. In fact, Giacomo Puccini composed an opera about this same situation in 1913. Opening at the Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet…

Annette Turrillo is darn proud of her gender. The Caracas-born, Paris-based artist is all about womanhood and the feminine mystique. Though she began her formal training in urban design, Turrillo branched into fine arts in the early ’90s and began showing seriously around the end of that decade. The linear…

Call us ignorant, but we’ve always thought of ukulele music as something played by moonshine-swigging, overall-wearing, tobacco-chewing, stained-tooth-having hillbillies somewhere in the Ozarks. Turns out the ukulele, a small, four-stringed instrument similar to the Latin cuatro, comes from Hawaii, and chicks with coconuts on their boobs shake their grass-skirted asses…

Pop-up shops are all the rage, but what about a pop-up park? On Friday, January 20, Omni Parkwest Redevelopment Association Inc. will formally unveil Grand Central Park, a five-acre, multi-use recreation space designed to generate a pedestrian-friendly environment in Overtown Miami, the city’s first Instant Park. “We took a piece…

Like a lot of kids, I nursed a healthy addiction to video games in prep school, trafficking kilos of cocaine across state lines on a graphing calculator from a desk in advanced Algebra. And according to gamer evangelists like James Paul Gee, this actually made me smarter — it helped…

Many a celeb rang in the New Year by putting a ring on it and getting engaged. Aretha Franklin got a sparkler from longtime beau William ‘Willie’ Wilkerson, local b-baller LeBron James finally decided to make his longtime babymama an honest woman, Justin Timberlake vowed to stop cheating on Jessica…

Fashion Breakdown: Shirt by Ralph Lauren; blazer by Discount Man, found at a thrift store; belt by Salvatore Ferragamo; black jeans by Levis; shoes are Versace for H&M; bow tie by Robot and Brucling (“these are the designers that made the bow tie Beyonce wore at her performance on Oprah”);…

Leandra Medine of The Man Repeller made The Webster her home for a weekend where she met her fans and held one-on-one styling sessions.Arm party and all, Leandra is exactly what you would expect in person — lanky, goofy, and with a killer sense of style. The blogueuse helped me…

Miami may be one of the vainest cities in the country — but at least we look good doing it. In that spirit, we’re indulging our love of the superficial by spotlighting fashion finds in the 305.The Find: A Jaweater, a jacket/sweater by Heather. The vest of the jacket is…

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…