Arts & Culture

Lisa Slominsky’s “Dreamy Nomads, Baby” is profound and ephemeral

Free food, free wine, free stuff! And live music! No flies on that, right? Not at the grand opening bash for Miami’s Kork Wine & Cheese Bar, anyway. The festivities are on Friday. With some 3,000 square feet of dark, dungeon-y, Medieval space, plus 5,000 bottles of wine and a…

n Analyze This, Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) tells therapist Dr. Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal) about his inability to maintain an erection. They’re sitting at an empty bar, and behind the top-shelf liquor, “mermaids” with pouty lips and sensual underwater acrobatics seductively tease the two men. But behind that veil…

It’s really no surprise that the recently released album, If Not Now, When?, proves to be the band’s most ballsy growth spurt yet. Of course, the outfit makes no apologies for this newest change of direction. On the contrary, as drummer Jose Pasillas recently told Crossfade, Incubus is simply intent…

In their younger days, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, and Jimmy Connors were the best players in the world. Now the old tennis gods are competing against each other in a national tournament, the HSBC Tennis Cup, which is moving from city to city with a Thursday stop at…

In 2009, a film crew asked visitors exiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art to name three female artists. Not one person could. But artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson expected as much. She was filming !Women Art Revolution, a documentary about…

Tom Shadyac, director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, and a bunch of other Hollywood megahits, got a little introspective after a 2007 cycling accident that almost left him permanently incapacitated. When he finally recovered, he became unsatisfied even with his highly satisfactory life…

With some 500 wines to sample over the course of an evening, plus food from 35 local restaurants, chances are you’ll be pretty toasted by the end of Wine Enthusiast’s Toast of the Town orgy of wine, food, and blessed excess, set to take place from 6 to 10 p.m…

Fighting, along with prostitution and alcohol consumption, can be considered among the oldest of human traditions. That makes us a terrible, just plain awful species. But so what? If anyone has a problem with that, we’ll beat the ever-living crap out of them and celebrate with booze and unregulated sins…

In 2005, when he got pulled over by the no-good fuzz for driving 109 mph on a Georgia highway in his Bentley Continental, Chris Tucker supposedly told the cops he was in a rush because he was late for church. He still got arrested. What a bunch of pigs, huh?…

New York has chess in the park, Europe has bocce ball in the plaza, and Boca Raton has shuffleboard at the retirement home. But dammit, Miami has dominoes in its back yards, restaurants, and even gas stations. Nothing symbolizes our city better than an old Cuban wearing a guayabera, puffing…

The old and new in classical music collide under conductor Alasdair Neale’s baton in the preseason, full-orchestra performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony at the New World Center Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Music aficionados will be familiar with the piece and its mixed reception over the years (frequently rising and falling…

Earthdance is an international get-together in the name of peace, sustainability, and social justice. One love, peace-out, and all that jazz — basically it’s fertilizer for the green movement. Since its inception in 1997, the event has been held in 500 locations in more than 80 countries. If you’re interested…

To prove you can never have too much fruit of the grape, September 23 to 25 will see the Miami International Wine Fair. The fair itself is open only to the trade, but the Saturday-night afterparty is a different story. Beginning at Miami’s Tempo, booze hounds, cork dorks, and stogy…

Who says scientists don’t know how to get it on? They do at the Miami Science Museum, where Saturday, September 24, the Around the World Food & Wine Event will pour wine, dish food, and fill your ears with everything from salsa music to jazz. Hours are 7 to 10…

This year’s DocMiami International Film Festival will showcase more than 90 flicks from local, national, and international filmmakers. The event will also feature an awards 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…

Pirates. Until a few years ago, we had only good associations with the salty thieves thanks to joy-filled rides on Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean. But consider the real-life pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia. There’s nothing like the sight of a ship full of sneering men with assault…