Last Thursday night, Gallery Diet ushered in the Wynwood arts season with a group exhibit titled “Behind the curtain, a lock of hair falling.” The mixed bag features 18 works by seven artists hailing from Los Angeles, New York, and Miami working independently of each other but whose practice Diet…
Like Meatloaf’s willingness to do just about anything for love (except “that”), women are also inclined to partake in dumbassery for the sake of fashion. Men aren’t perfect either, don’t get us wrong, but you can’t compare wearing Ed Hardy to justifying the taxpayer money allocated to the fashion police…
Every once in a while, a community produces a divine marriage of talents and resources. With the project Hard Poems in Space, jewelry designer Nektar De Stagni and Gallery Diet’s Nina Johnson are that perfect pair. They’ve brought together a gifted group of artists, designers, and architects for a series…
Contagion: Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head
The Brothers Size at GableStage through October 2
MMA flick Warrior holds the audience in an emotional arm bar
September 10 Wynwood art walk revs up for Art Basel
3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy at Coral Gables Art Cinema
“A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou” was all Edward Fitzgerald needed in when translating Persian poetry in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. That was so 19th Century. In these modern times you and your thou need something more, like the Brunellos and Super Tuscans of Italy’s…
The annual Thighs & Pies contest is not about how many pies you can eat before your thighs start looking like a pair of cellulite tree stumps. It’s actually about who can best satisfy a panel of three celebrity judges with their home-baked pie whose main ingredient must be grown…
Funk, soul, and free chicken wings till midnight. Enjoy it ya burnout, it’s called Maryjane Mondays for a reason. Upstairs at Jazid you’ll be able to kick back, relax, have some drinks, and enjoy an atmosphere you can only find at the longest running live music venue on South Beach…
House producer and DJ known as Laidback Luke first got his kicks in his native Holland as a graffiti artist. When the thrill of the physical and legal danger wore off around the mid-Nineties, he turned to music. Still, he preserved the sly cunning of the graffiti writer in the…
Leap Year is a delightful cinematic romp in which Amy Adams plays a woman who brings her fiancé to Ireland to propose to him. Oh, wait. No, that’s not it. That’s the English-language movie that came out last year. This year’s Leap Year, AKA Año Bisiesto, is a tad darker…
On the second page of Birds of Paradise, Diana Abu-Jaber evokes local carpet salesman Don Bailey as that “thirty-foot naked man reclining, selling God-knows-what.” The novel, which is steeped in the visual cues of Miami life, flips back and forth between a wayward daughter’s street life on the pink sidewalks…
This Friday, Big Night in Little Haiti will turn the entire hood into a massive dance floor. Shleu Shleu, compas music’s living legends who have wowed crowds around the world since 1965, will play the Little Haiti Cultural Center. The band’s name is a play on words that loosely translates…
There’s only one acceptable reason for bruises on your wife, daughter, or aunt, and that’s roller derby. These indigo battle scars are unavoidable in the sport that sends ladies flying around a rink and slamming full speed into each other and occasionally into the rink wall. So a few times…
He’s the top toque of tapas in Miami and beyond. That would be chef Douglas Rodriguez, who’s strutting his small plates stuff in a degustation (French for lots of cool dishes) menu of 12 tapas at La Bottega by Carmen Trigueros in Coconut Grove Friday, September 16. A few highlights:…
Come one, come all to the event consisting of the only known method to circumvent drinking-and-driving laws. No, not really. If you want to get down with Beer Snob Bike Crawl IV, you’ll have to drink responsibly, bring a bike light, and obey all traffic laws. It starts Saturday at…
At an almost imperceptible creep, Miami has turned into a dance center. National and local troupes now regularly deliver topnotch stuff, from ultra-contemporary and hip-hop to folk and classical ballet. There’s maybe no better way to assess this arrival than looking at the 16th annual International Ballet Festival, which will…
Two iconic college football programs tainted and shamed after their most scandalous off-seasons will face each other early in the season. Who will win when the University of Miami takes on Ohio State University? Who cares? Just point us to the afterparty, ’cause you know there’ll be memorabilia for sale…
Remember when you were a kid snorkeling at John Pennekamp in the Keys and your father panicked when he spotted a nurse shark? He plopped you atop a coral reef to take you out of danger’s way. Bad daddy! Didn’t he know he was damaging the reef? So what if…
Dutchmen René ter Horst and Gaston Steenkist, AKA Zki & Dobre, first tasted success as the Good Men, the alias they used to release their 1993 dance hit “Give It Up.” The track was a samba-tinged number with drums and whistles; it had a First World-meets-Third World style that pitched…
