Arts & Culture

Every profession has its gold standard. The tech industry had Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan set the bar in the NBA, and David Sedaris is top dog when it comes to cleverness. At 54 years old, this Grammy-nominated humorist, author, and radio personality has an incredibly keen eye for the hilarity…

With Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell officially over, many people are discovering that the old stereotypes related to homosexuality simply don’t pass muster. Nowhere is that sentiment clearer than in Scott Pasfield’s Gay in America, a book chronicling the cross-country journey the photographer took to interview gay men from all walks…

Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis depicts a futuristic city of employees and an elite group of managers that controls and exploits them. The industrialist machine literally feeds on disposable workers — much to the horror of a privileged son who follows his working-class crush underground. As we’re still allowing CEOs to…

If financial crises and layoffs have you down, what better diversion than a film about financial crises and layoffs, right? Everyone knows that money meltdowns are way more palatable when A-list actors at the center of drama. Get your fill of headline-based fantasy — brought to you by a star-studded…

A reputation of controversy precedes Mitzi’s Abortion, a Seattle black box hit in 2006 that deals directly with late-term abortion. But don’t expect sign-wielding pickets outside Empire Stage during its short run at the Fort Lauderdale theater. Although it’s a deeply affecting work, Mitzi’s Abortion is hardly controversial; rather, it’s…

Just days after Halloween, witness a quiet, threatening beast that has struck fear in the hearts of millions: the wild artist. ​The Cabinet of Dr. Strange is an art installation and performance created by Livio Tragtenberg, a Brazilian composer and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. It will be at Lincoln Road and…

The Women’s Theatre Project’s episodic world premiere of Women Drivers explores the harried life of a driving instructor, Erin (Pilar Uribe), and the pupils who consume her life. There’s the enthusiastic teenager (Lela Elam, saucer-eyed and hilarious), an accident-prone mother (Jacqueline Laggy), and an elderly woman stricken with Parkinson’s (Miki…

Everybody has bad days, but when you’re a kid, it’s magnified by a thousand. Alexander learns that the hard way. He wakes up with gum in his hair, trips on a skateboard on his way out of bed, and sees his two brothers get supercool cereal box prizes while he…

The quick-witted Stephanie Miller has a loyal following thanks to Sirius XM syndication, and the Parker Playhouse will mark the only stop in Florida for her Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour. Known for shredding Republicans through inconvenient truths, inspired skits, and more than a few morning-zoo sound effects, Miller has been…

Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic adaptation of The Birds has certainly reached countless more audience members than Daphne du Maurier’s novelette on which it was based. Here, Irish playwright Conor McPherson uses the book to create the stage adaptation, so expect a purer encapsulation of du Maurier’s vision that’s freed from the…

It’s no surprise that Mansion booked Samantha Ronson for its weekly We Rock Hip Hop party. Because it’s all in the family when she takes over the decks at this Opium Group locale. Not only is Ronson a sibling to Mark (famous musician and producer) and Charlotte (famous designer), but…

Why wait till December for an imported artsy party when we have the Wynwood Art Fair boasting a brand of creative muscle all our own? This three-day urban “happening” — a term Allan Kaprow invented to describe the inspired shenanigans at George Segal’s farm — celebrates every conceivable form of…

If you’ve ever played the game Telephone, in which a person whispers a message to another and then it passes on down the line successively until the last player announces the message out loud to the entire group, you know it makes for a great metaphor for cumulative error, the…

Trying out a new car is as easy as slipping a slim jim in a lock, hacking a keyless entry, busting a window with a spark plug, using a dent puller to trigger an ignition, cracking a steering column, swerving around town, and dumping some schmuck’s whip in the Miami…

Add big budget exploitation to the laundry list of shit that the one percent is doing to piss the rest of us off. LA Times reports that Christopher Nolan’s third Batman flick, The Dark Knight Rises, is scheduled to begin filming in the streets of New York City later this…

Naomi Fisher’s video installation Jungle Sweat, Roseate, is up at Vizcaya, the one and only Italian castle sitting on Biscayne Bay. Never scared of the intellectual, Fisher often uses a feminist lens in her work.  Through a grant from the Contemporary Arts Project focused on reinvigorating the house and gardens with…

Don’t confuse the inaugural version of the Wynwood Art Fair with the snootier version for which Basel is famous. It doesn’t even look like any of the other satellite tent fairs in Wynwood that sprout up like toadstools from cow patties after a flash summer rain.No, sir. Instead, the three-day…

​Fashion Breakdown: Shirt from Rainbow, shorts and tights from Forever XXI, boots from Fetish Factory, and silver cuff from Tattoo Steel…

“We’ve learned to recognize that brands that appeal to a global audience are powerful,” Arturo “Tury” Sandoval says about FriendsWithYou’s partnership with the Japanese powerhouse of all things cute, Sanrio.Together they’ve come up with a limited edition collection with that drops today called Wish Come True for Hello Kitty. Everyone’s…

Just days after Halloween, witness a quiet, threatening beast that has long struck fear in the hearts of millions: the wild artist. ​The Cabinet of Dr. Strange is an art installation and performance created by Livio Tragtenberg, a Brazilian composer and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. It will be at Lincoln Road…