Arts & Culture

Good luck finding two football teams with more misplaced arrogance than the Miami Dolphins and the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys, once America’s team, wear a big star on their helmets as if to say Texas Stadium is the 51st state. But they’ve been an afterthought for the past 15 years…

That great romantic Jon Bon Jovi once said, “The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I’m not about to lose that to her and her lawyers.” Which might be why Tenso in the rom-com flick A Boyfriend for My Wife (Un Novio Para Mi…

The Florida Marlins are out of baseball’s playoff race and have been for more than two months. What’s left for the rest of the season? Well, outfielder Mike Stanton might hit the most homers in the National League, so there’s that. Otherwise, the Marlins are left playing the spoiler role,…

Benji Brown’s skits are classless and vulgar. So of course he’ll have you crying with laughter in two minutes flat. His current show features his most beloved character, Kiki. She’s a caricature of a crazy black girl with a short temper and long gold acrylic nails. Brown, who got his…

Ever have that nightmare where you’re lying naked in bed and your bed is speeding down the street? And there are thousands of drunk people yelling at you and laughing at how small your bed is (what did you think we were going to say? Somebody’s got some size issues)?…

Germans are geniuses. Besides inventing the term fahrvergnügen (driving enjoyment), they also produced We Are the Night (Wir Sind Die Nacht), a film that combines two of the sexiest, hottest archetypes known to humans: lesbians and vampires. The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) will throw a fundraiser this…

Seeing people screaming and waving sticks on bicycles used to mean you were entering a scene akin to the McDuffie riots. But thanks to the Miami Bike Polo League, now you can join in the fun without having to worry about Officer Friendly paying too much attention. This Sunday, beat…

Catching an indie European flick can be a refreshing reprieve from Hollywood. Actors look like people, not airbrushed representations of perfection. Long crane shots are often replaced with documentary-style methods of capturing action that looks real and urgent. And there are messy plot lines, languishing dialogue, and multifaceted characters who…

Forget your vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. During Rosa Mexicano’s 2011 Ice Cream Festival, which ends September 4, we’ll all scream not for boring old ice cream but for newly created flavors such as Mexican corn truffle (huitlacoche, toffee bits, and chocolate); Negro Modelo (beer, salted cajeta, and candied bacon); and…

Historically speaking, baseball is colored by its division races. For the Florida Marlins and the New York Mets, a division championship is far out of reach. Instead, they’re in a dogfight to see which team will, uh, not finish in last place. So, not exactly the type of thing that…

On the anniversary of their first kiss, David Becks gets an email from his dead wife. Eight years earlier, while vacationing at a secluded retreat, he was knocked unconscious while his wife was kidnapped and presumably murdered by a local serial killer. In actuality, his wife was… oh, never mind…

Dance music flavors come and go, but you’ve got to hand it to the dirty Dutch. Heading into the last quarter of 2011, clubs, radio, and your average frozen yogurt joint are all throbbing to the new sounds of Dutch house. The subgenre is instantly recognizable for its fast bpm…

Shortly after former Congressman Anthony Weiner got nailed for exposing himself to young women over the Internet, Cuban artist Alejandro Galindo showed up at the World Erotic Art Museum to expose curator and owner Naomi Wilzig to a slew of phalluses. In this case, though, it was mutually beneficial that…

From Cain and Abel to the dudes from Oasis, brothers have a long history of fighting and generally acting like pricks with each other. Sometimes it’s jealousy. Other times it’s because they simply have nothing in common. In the play The Brothers Size, two brothers living in the Louisiana bayou…

Dinner and a show just got a bit more affordable with the launching of Di+Sh, a program that offers 15-percent off dinner at select North Miami Beach restaurants before or after a show at Miami Beach’s Byron Carlyle Theater. Getting your meal deal is easy—though Halloween, just present a ticket…

Not all cameras are created equal, nor do they often merit equal billing with the photographs in a show. But when celebrated Brooklyn-based shutterbug Thomas Roma gutted a Nikon in the ’80s, he ushered in a new era in photography. He milled an adapter out of aircraft aluminum to go…

You might not be able to pronounce oye, but you probably can pronounce 25 percent off. Beginning last week and lasting through fall, Pinecrest’s OYE Cuban Grill will give any student with a valid ID 25 percent off any menu item, whether to-go or eat-in, plus free Wi-Fi. Who knows,…

Everyone wants to be the next Tiësto. The man gets paid beaucoup dollars to get thousands of people moving to the beat. The copious amount of groupies probably isn’t a bad thing either. An aspiring Miami DJ can dream, but a devoted turntablist takes action. And if you’re looking to…

Oh those kooky Euros. They love cars that can be easily mistaken for roadkill. It’s like they’re immune to the whole bigger is better argument – the fools. And the latest evidence is that Italian car company Fiat — an outfit with less face time in the states over the…