Arts & Culture

Back in the day, one required genetic superiority to set a world record. Being the fastest man in the world granted you with an air of excellence literally unmatched by all other humans. Today, all you need is the ability to think of dumb shit you can do and put…

Disgusting is a new video series in which interviewing is only half the fun (trying not to vomit is the other). All interviews take place in a disgusting, Miami environment from public bathrooms to the underbelly of urban living. Today on Disgusting, Director and Choreographer Yara Travieso joins your host,…

Wynwood Second Saturday November 12: Sex, drugs, and profanity

Miami native, Octavio Campos, founder and director of the arts organization Camposition, has built a local and international reputation for creating provocative, multidisciplinary performances that reinvent the boundaries between dance, theater, and activism. Now after a two-year hiatus, Camposition debuts Intention Intervention, a hybrid dance theater piece commissioned by Sleepless…

In Spanish, an arboleda is a grove of trees. Grace Castro and Francine Madera chose the term to name their vintage and handmade crafts festival — which lands in the Design District this weekend — because to them, the word represents “Mother Nature and her incredible power to create.” Inspired…

Postmodernism is slipperier than a greased watermelon. Society used to have simple standards and reasonable expectations: up was up, men and women were men and women, and fiction tidily progressed from beginning to end in a linear fashion. But then Postmodernism — the literary and arts movement that threw out…

John Sayles is a Renaissance man in the truest sense of the term. He self-produced his first feature film, 1979’s Return of the Secaucus 7, and quickly moved on from exploring baby-boomer blues. His later films run a varied assortment of subjects, ranging from extraterrestrials landing in Harlem (The Brother…

Classical music aficionados will get a taste of the old and the new this Thursday at 8 p.m. when Perlman and Protégés perform at the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall. Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman — well known for his aching solos in Schindler’s List and his performance for Barack Obama’s…

Immigration is off his back. And that nasty attempted murder charge — file it under pardoned. Slick Rick is not only on top of the world but also straight touring it. The Ruler is back, bitches! So let’s get crazy. Rocking a crown, enough weight in gold chains to equal…

Left-hand turns can be a real bitch sometimes, especially at 200 mph. But goddamn are they exciting. Few things in life are as thrilling as a 400.5-mile, midafternoon NASCAR race. Each year, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ends its season at Homestead-Miami Speedway with NASCAR’s Ford Championship…

Saturday at 10 a.m., Jeffrey Eugenides, who won the Pulitzer for Middlesex, will discuss his latest novel, The Marriage Plot, in the Chapman Conference Center at Miami Dade College. Later that day, Colson Whitehead will talk literary zombies, Darrell Hammond will relate Saturday Night Live misadventures, and Touré will discuss…

Holy crackers! Craig Ferguson, hilarious host of the Emmy-nominated Late Late Show, is coming to town. He might even provide you with a new set of abs via the finest form of indoor exercise: laughter. His personality is that of a chatty child crossed with the Energizer Bunny. His observational…

Believe it or not, there once was a time when the Miami Dolphins ruled all the football-playing land. And there was no bitterer rival than those damn Buffalo Bills. It was a time when Dan Marino and Jim Kelly would smash the other’s defense with their awesomeness. It was back…

This party has the makings of pretty much everything we love: dressing like a Napoleon Dynamite love interest, posing awkwardly for Glamour Shots-style pictures, slow-dancing, and possibly making out to synth beats. Yes, the annual ’80s Prom will return to the Vagabond — on a school night, no less! —…

Andrew Dice Clay will never forget the year 1990. It’s when he sold out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row — a feat that hasn’t been repeated by any comic since. These days, however, the former household name is fighting to get back into the comedy game. It…

New York-based artist Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos has lived her life surrounded by unique cultures–born in Greece, raised in Paris–and now she aims to bring her one-of-a-kind vision to Miami’s own little center of culture, Art Basel. With “Palm Authority,” Kosmatopoulos is raising funds to create five towering sculptures of hands in…

Next time you’re walking the sea wall at South Pointe Park, squint and picture a neon forest growing just under the waves in Government Cut. Thanks to tidal flows and the artificial habitat of the sea wall’s rocks, the Port of Miami shipping lane is an accidental coral farm. Amazingly,…

The peripatetic Spinello just returned from Berlin where he and Agustina Woodgate having been working on an arts project at an abandoned amusement park. Issues of abandonment also loom large in a trio of solo shows Spinello is raising the curtain on in his return to the local art scene…