Few South Florida arts organizations can boast the deep footprints of Tigertail Productions. Since 1979, the pioneering outfit has featured innovative performing, visual, and literary arts; international exchange projects; and culturally diverse festivals that have earned national recognition. Tigertail has commissioned, presented, and produced more than 500 local, national, and…
Besides Coolio and probably the Amish after listening to “Amish Paradise,” who doesn’t love a good Weird Al Yankovic parody? Terrorists, that’s who. We have it on good authority that one of the reasons for America’s invasion of Iraq was Middle Easterners’ hatred of Weird Al’s timeless parodies such as…
The final Harry Potter movie, Deathly Hallows, Part 2, released this past July, ended the epic series that stretched eight movies across an entire decade. Wednesday at 8 p.m., go back to the movie that started it all — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — when it’s projected as…
Eat, drink, and be philanthropic at the 14th annual March of Dimes Signature Chefs Auction, which will take place Thursday, October 6, at Coral Gables’ Westin Colonnade. Hosted by NBC 6’s Jackie Nespral, the benefit will feature lots to eat and drink, as well as auction items ranging from luxury…
Sure, the Irish are famous for their battles with the “creature.” But really, it’s the Germans who’ve made an international holiday of alcohol with Oktoberfest. It’s not just one day either; it’s nearly a month of getting filled with beer. And we’re not talking about any beer; we’re talking specially…
Get ready for a long-running play that features a shrill and domineering girl, a boy with an oral fixation, and one of the biggest losers in pop-culture history (who also might or might not be clinically depressed). Is it a Sarah Kane play? Perhaps something by Arthur Miller? Why, no!…
The Alien franchise got its distinctive aesthetic from Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger. His paintings gave the alien its drooling, multijawed, angry-lobster look, and he won an Academy Award for his work on the film’s visual effects. On the flip side, scary movies inspire art in a new exhibit, “Creep…
The wines of Italy, France, Spain, German and everybody’s favorite, bubbly, will be the subject of a quartet of classes at Miami’s Global Liquors in association with the Societa’ Dante Alighieri. Societa’ executive director Claudio Pastor will do the teaching, which will cover everything from the countries’ various wine regions…
The billboards are up, so it must be true: the walking dead have taken over the parking lot at Miami International Mall. House of Horror, the month-long pop-up amusement park, opens its second run next Thursday. And we’re giving away two tickets to opening night.For an extended preview of what…
This past summer, Miami has been overtaken by a Sketchy revolution. No, the streets haven’t been overrun by freaks, perverts, and all around weirdos. Not anymore so than usual, anyway. Instead we refer to a nightlife-and-internet uprising that draws (sorry) from a much more traditional notion of sketch — that…
The DocMiami International Film Festival will showcase more than 90 flicks from local, national, and international filmmakers. The event includes an award ceremony with categories such as Best Feature Documentary, Best Contemporary Issue Documentary, Best Investigative Documentary, and Best Local Documentary. Screenings will include The Invocation, an exploration of God…
When I first heard that cock-crazed City of Miami officials were planning to pepper Little Havana’s streets with six-foot fiberglass sculptures of roosters back in 2002, I thought le cayó comején al piano. Cojones! What’s next? Soon the nabe was overrun with the eyesores, painted by a bunch of planchado…
Over the past 17 years, Kevin Smith brought gross and disgusting conversation to film and created intimately personal stories about the rigors of being a convenience store clerk and a mythical adventure about a distant descendant of Jesus.With potty humor, foul language, and Randal Graves’s one-liners, Smith built an empire…
Fashion Breakdown: Sequin dress, stockings from Home Depot, gloves from bone doctor, shoes from a place where she can afford them, jewelry from dead people, and the head piece grows on her…
Everybody wants Miami to be the next Hollywood (and we don’t mean that city in Broward). Wouldn’t it be grand to have major productions like Rock of Ages consistently pick the Magic City to film, and not just once every half decade. Instead of having a couple of shows based…
Laugh tracks make us cringe, and because of that, rarely do we venture into the world of CBS primetime. But last night, Cultist made an exception for the season premiere of Two and a Half Men. No, we’re not die-hard Ashton Kutcher fans. In fact, we think the dude’s a…
As the midafternoon sun beat down on his pale shoulders this past weekend, Amilcar Packer struggled with a twin-size mattress he was wedging between the iron bars of a fence enclosing a lot in Wynwood.The Chilean artist, who had a GoPro camera strapped to his head, spent most of the…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. The San Sebastian Film Festival — at 59 years old, Spain’s #1 film festival event — has a seashell for a logo, and seems pretty much to be…
Did you know that Dancing With the Stars is on its 13th season? Or that it’s on for three to four hours a week? You did? Well then you are clearly smarter than we are! Had we known that DWTS was such a time suck, we would have asked to…
Who says you can’t shoehorn big ideas into tight spaces? At Little Havana’s unpretentious 6th Street Container, the alternative space’s founder and chief curator, Adalberto Delgado, has been dishing out a string of shows that are drawing jaded art connoisseurs like hobos to a ham sandwich.This past weekend, the indie…
“Where my money? I need, I need, I need cash!” Maybe Rick Ross wasn’t singing about the everyday grind of paying bills. But there once was a young Rick Ross, who struggled to find a way to balance his creative ambitions and cash flow. In “Everyday Hustlin’,” we talk with…
Success can be misleading. Take Taylor Lautner, for example. His meteoric rise to superstardom as Jacob Black in the Twilight franchise almost makes it look easy. If you call adding 30 pounds of muscle for a flick easy. But easy really isn’t Lautner’s M.O. anyway.When Jacob 2.0 appeared in the…
