No use resisting, this city is going to be silly with basketball talk over the next couple of weeks. Either Miami is going to lift its second NBA title trophy or we are going to be left laughing stock of the entire country who collectively hates the Miami Heat. Even…
The information presented in Werner Boote’s Plastic Planet, which opens at O Cinema this weekend, is so important that the documentary is a must-see for anyone even remotely interested in the staggering health costs of plastic to humans and the planet itself, or in the backroom machinations that have squelched…
There was a wonderful time, not so many years ago, when Miami Beach was brimming with hot bods, the word fabulous hung in the air, and rainbow flags were flying high. Those were the good old, tasteful days when the gays ruled sunny South Beach.At some point, sadly, they flocked…
Twenty-two-year-old Miami native, Julian Consuegra, stands at a confluence of genres, philosophies, and methods. His clothing brand, Stray Rats, is the product of a buffet-style sampling of youth culture via digital age appropriation of various waves and trends that have become prerequisites to understanding the 2010s: hardcore punk, hip-hop, high…
As a follow-up to the post about hitchhiking around Cuba, Fulano and two associates see if they can hitchhike from Remedios to Cienfuegos City — a 55 mile journey — armed only with a camera and a rudimentary understanding of the Spanish language…
YellowBrickRoad: indie horror a la The Blair Witch Project
Flamenco virtuoso Clarita Filgueiras has danced with the Gipsy Kings, Plácido Domingo, Florida Grand Opera, and numerous other troupes and groups — but really, she needs no extra backup. From Madrid to Miami, she is one of the lead performers and masters of the tablao, or flamenco stage. For this…
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen’s way-back machine
Summer Shorts 2011: No shortage of comedy, drama, and the provocative
The tiny country of Belgium is certainly known for its chocolate and waffles. But mostly it’s known for its beer, which was full of flavor, character, and exotic infusions when American brewski was nothing but fizzy dishwater. So to celebrate the goodness of Belgium suds and to benefit the South…
Miami art this week: sleeping giants
Children of God at O Cinema June 2 through 5
Check out the best tables in the Gables during Coral Gables Restaurant Week, actually two weeks, from Monday, June 6, to Sunday, June 19. More than two dozen local restaurants will offer special prix fixe lunch and/or dinner menus priced in the low to mid-$20 range for lunch and mid-$30…
If you’ve seen the wine prices in some of our tony local restaurants, the words highway robbery, extortionate, and unconscionable probably come to mind. So beginning this Wednesday, June 1, and continuing every Wednesday throughout June, megameatery Gotham Steak at the luxe Fontainebleau Miami Beach is offering what it calls…
The hazy spaces where communication evolves or dissolves into nonsense is the subject of “Noise Field” at the Dorsch Gallery, investigating written, spoken, and nonverbal languages in a variety of media. Curated by local writer Annie Hollingsworth, the compelling group show oscillates between the meaning of words and murky images…
Grammy-nominated Lisa Loeb has done a lot since her cool/dorky mug serenaded us with the 1994 hit “Stay.” She’s had a reality show on the Food Network, launched her own line of eyewear, had a baby (with husband Roey Hershkovitz), and created numerous children’s books. Her album of summer camp…
Sure, you might have left behind your wild-child, club-kid days for the peaceful beatitude of parenthood. But we all know better. Under the baby wipes, diaper bag, toddler language-building DVDs, and puréed organic carrots still lies a heart that thumps to a four-four beat. Luckily for you, your days of…
Because he hasn’t yet had an icky cameo on Glee, you might not realize that actor and comedian Joel McHale’s star is cresting. He plays heartthrob Jeff Winger, a lawyer forced to go back to junior college, on NBC’s Community. And he hosts E!’s The Soup, a clip show that…
At Gallery Diet, “Mayami Son Machin” is a group show organized by Guatemala City’s Proyectos Ultravioleta, exploring stereotypes associated with Latin American identity refracted through the Magic City’s prism of glitz and glam. The provocative exhibit, named for Gloria Estefan’s back-up band, riffs on our city’s exoticism, overinflated machismo, and…
This weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk offers avian attacks, glitzy Latin flavor, and uncanny word play. Beginning at 6 p.m., Taro Hattori conjures a vision of a postapocalyptic world. Menacing clouds of birds blot out the sun, and the darkened landscape is scattered with the skeletal armatures of man’s fallen…
The Miami River has rapids? Yeah, that’s right. And before you come with some barb about “black-water rapids” or “sure, it has rapids, every time somebody flushes the toilet,” you better respect the history of Miami’s only legitimate river (OK, even we felt funny about using legitimate). Laugh if you…
If you believe films like Heathers and Mean Girls, there’s nothing nastier than a female clique. Adding to the myth of feral femmes is the sinister drama Cracks, the debut film of Jordan Scott (daughter of Ridley). Set in the ’30s at the spooky, all-girl St. Mathilda’s School, it centers…
