Thousands of people read last week’s feature on the deadly thrills and spills of home-built airplanes. Countless fans followed our instructions and made paper planes out of our innovative cover. But only one person took the story’s DIY focus to heart.Local artist Julia Veli made dozens of paper planes from…
Howard Stern is the new judge at America’s Got Talent. The self-proclaimed “King of All Media” made the announcement this morning on his Sirius XM radio program and quickly became one of Twitter’s trending topics. While the reaction’s has been generally positive around the web, one conservative buzz killer’s not…
It’s shaping up to be a great year for women actors. Bridesmaids, with its Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice and Screen Actors’ Guild award nominations, managed to end the annoying debate over whether women can be funny. (They can, duh.) Lead actor nominations for the ladies have gone to Glenn Close,…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
Christmas in South Florida doesn’t quite have the same pizazz as other places in the country. Endless sunshine almost always beats the overcast gloom that our northern neighbors suffer through every holiday season, but still, a snowy Christmas must be nice.Since the weather wasn’t enough to satiate our wintertime needs,…
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Robert Downey Jr. gets a Bond makeover as everyone’s favorite Victorian detective
The Santaland Diaries: David Sedaris’s hilarious, scathing look at the holiday shopping season
The Sitter: Jonah Hill is a charming, self-aware loafer
The Women on the 6th Floor at Cosford Cinema December 16-18
“Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business” at the Bass Museum through March 4
One is the loneliest number, especially for a nut. Thankfully, Yamil Piedra and Johnny Trabanco are a perfect pair of nuts. The comedy duo has been sweeping the U.S. for months, performing A Pair of Nuts Live 60 times from sea to shining sea. They’ve warmed the heartland with their…
Prog rock has always been, by definition, kind of overblown — epic keyboard! Finger-tapping, warp-speed guitar solos! Melodies across more octaves than is humanly possible! So Trans-Siberian Orchestra might have achieved the apex of the style by creating an entirely new offshoot, dubbed “rock theater.” From the beginning, band founder…
Sandwiched somewhere between prescription pain medication and supersize value meals, reality television is one of those addictions Americans can’t seem to shake. What started innocently on PBS with An American Family, subsequently morphed into MTV’s exploitable hit Teen Mom, and beyond. Seemingly every network on television has dipped their grubby,…
In the old days, if paint-slinging artists had a beef with their royal patrons, they had to keep their beaks closed or risk losing their heads. “Lowly serfs or artists like Brueghel, Bosch, and Goya couldn’t complain about social ills to the king,” says Barry Fellman, director of Wynwood’s Center…
When the NFL season began, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the Philadelphia Eagles would come to town and slam the Miami Dolphins in the face with their juggernautness. But things haven’t quite turned out to be as awesome for the Eagles as originally thought. They signed some…
A woman desiring, pursuing, and having enjoyable sex with multiple men is just another Sex and the City rerun in today’s world. But back in the day, that was enough to get all kinds of straitlaced, prudish types freaking out. They couldn’t, for example, handle Jeanne Moreau frolicking through the…
Local quartet Ice Cream dubs its style “doom pop” and often plays the same kind of rough-around-the-edges DIY gigs as heavier acts like Slashpine. But despite some of its buddies’ metal-ish leanings, this group is almost as sweet as its namesake frozen dessert. Ignore the fact that the band favors…
Watching Air Supply videos with a hangover is not advised. The powerfully emotional ditties will draw the weepiness out of any living, breathing human. The band’s “All Out of Love” is still heavy on easy-listening radio rotation across America. The Australian duo can and will bring you to tears with…
Skateboarding is not a crime — not even in Cuba. In fact, it’s encouraged by Amigo Skate Cuba, a Miami-based non-profit whose mission is to enhance the lives of skaters, artists, and musicians living in Havana. “Last year we went to Cuba three times,” says Amigo Skate founder Rene Lecour…
The year is spiraling to an end, and first prize in the What Sucked About 2011 contest could go to reality TV or just plain reality. If crappy economic headlines and tweets from talentless Kardashians are blowing up your iPhone, consider two hours of unabashed and unapologetic escapism. Miami City…
