Arts & Culture

The University of Miami Hurricanes women’s basketball team began the 2011-12 season by plowing through teams such as Virginia Commonwealth and Holy Cross during the holiday tournament, with 2011 ACC Player of the Year Shenise Johnson winning tournament MVP and forward Morgan Stroman beating opponents into submission. So far, so…

Drunk, drugged, bedazzled tourists stumble around South Beach intent on getting laid, with eyes only on the next party. It’s good for our economy, but it also sucks, because their glazed gazes miss out on Miami’s greatest treasure: its architecture. Happily for the rest of us, the 35th annual Art…

The year 2012 seems like it’ll be a bad one for Republicans. When they’re not busy proclaiming that solar flares will crisp the planet if Barack Obama is re-elected, conservative presidential hopefuls keep reminding us we might have to abandon our homes and move to a deserted island if we…

The sensuous sounds and stylings of flamenco have grown in popularity outside of its Andalusian heartland, no more so than in Miami, which now has several festivals and its own companies. Ballet Flamenco La Rosa is one such troupe, which is just as comfortable performing in the intimate setting of…

Just when you thought Miami’s art fairs couldn’t get any more obscenely glam, the Miami International Art Fair one-ups everybody by taking all of its high-priced, avant-garde showpieces and putting them on a yacht. And not just any yacht — this is the Seafair, a four-deck megayacht that ranks among…

The Miami Heat came roaring out of the gates this season, blowing out the defending champion Mavericks in Dallas, dismantling the Celtics at home, and generally wreaking havoc on everyone in the league. LeBron, D-Wade, and Bosh looked to be headed to a 66-0 season. And if that weren’t enough,…

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Way to Calvary hangs proudly at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Though the incredibly detailed 1564 oil painting is breathtaking in person, the Flemish Renaissance painter’s masterpiece comes to life even more vividly in filmmaker Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross. The film is…

Just stroll the halls of the local asylum, and the mellifluous yet deranged cries of the psych patients are sure to convince you that music and mental illness were simply made to go together. In any case, that’s the idea Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey had when they composed Next…

Dana Schutz’s absurdist narratives traffic in the weird and whimsical, roping the spectator into a world that’s at once vaguely familiar yet oddly peculiar. One of the most imaginative artists of her generation, Schutz creates bold paintings and drawings that pick at the scab of our cultural neurosis, deftly combining…

Amanita muscaria are magic mushrooms with red caps and white spots, the same ones that transported Alice to Wonderland. The technically poisonous fungi are eaten worldwide, rarely cause death, and pack more psychedelic punch than a Ken Kesey uppercut. The friendly fungus is native to Siberia, where the ancient shamans…

Do you like delicious food? Do you like top-shelf cocktails? How about combining the two for a good cause? Because that’s exactly what the Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Foundation will do during its third annual Taste of Miami — and you’re invited. It will be an evening…

If you only watch one fake pizza ad featuring a severed penis today, make it this one. Pizza Boomerang, a video from the folks at Sofa Experience Communications, is hands-down the best pizza commercial we’ve seen this year. It all starts with a low-rent Thor look-alike, cooking up a boomerang-shaped…

She’s starred in her own TV series. She’s written a series of books. She’s been a tabloid scapegoat, and also a tabloid darling. And now, Kate Gosselin is hosting her very own cruise, departing from Ft. Lauderdale in August. When we heard the news, we couldn’t help but imagine what…

I’m not sure when I first started dressing for myself, but I do remember instances that, like puzzle pieces, all seem to make sense when you put them together. Here’s one: I was in 7th grade. The seventies were spontaneously (albeit briefly) brought back to 1997. Those white, chunky Flower…

Fashion Breakdown: Skull cut-out tee made from a cheap Halloween costume; black slacks from a thrift in England; boots inherited from a friend; bat skeleton necklace from a Mexican flea market on US1 and 128th; golden zebra from Forever XXI; glasses from FourEyes, with blue tape at the sides to…

50 Cent has officially lost his street credibility. In a shocking move, the entertainment mogul has announced a partnership with Jersey Shore star Paul DelVecchio to “develop a full line of headphones.” When he’s not (allegedly) picking up STDs ’round the Jersey shore, DelVecchio–best known by his 13-year-old fans and…

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: Super-soft leather and patterned canvas moccasins with a memory foam insole and…

If the depleted bodies of ING Miami Marathon finishers haven’t resorted to feeding on their eye muscles for fuel reserves during the 26.2 miles (or 13.1 for the half) of the race, they’ll be greeted with an exciting sight at the finish line. The medal for this year’s tenth anniversary…