Thanks to the poetry festival O, Miami, we’re appreciating the written and spoken word in new ways. After a full month of mad words all over the place via O’s billboards, poems falling from the sky, and a near brush with academic wordsmith James Franco, we’re still hungry for more…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. A “melancholy” mood has set over the Cannes Film Festival today: in a few hours, Film Fiend and 2,299 of his closest personal friends will settle into the…
Writer, dancer, and, although he doesn’t like to admit it — actor, Rudi Goblen has performed with The Roots, Mos Def, and De La Soul, just to name a few. The acclaimed B-Boy and his crew, the Flipside Kings, perform, compete, and judge events all over the world. You may…
Greatly expanded from a four-page, single-situation short story by Raymond Carver, Dan Rush’s first feature Everything Must Go is an ambitious if enervated vehicle for Will Ferrell–playing it straight as Nick Halsey, a middle-class drunk fired from his job and locked out of his suburban home by an irate, never-seen…
Kids often forget that their parents existed as real people before having them. Kids also think they know everything. These two facts are the reasoning behind Three Days of Rain, which premieres Friday at the Black Box Theatre at Nova Southeastern University.Richard Greenberg, a Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize…
For any South Florida resident who has lived here their whole lives, you know it’s a great place to grow up. And a lot of amazing people have come from the Magic City: Sidney Poitier, Enrique Iglesias, Jose Canseco, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan. And well, we forgot one: porn star…
Fashion breakdown: Stetson hat from some warehouse, wood charms from Paraguayan natives, shirt bought in Slovakia, pinstripe vest from Salvation Army, piggy key chain from Spain, and pants and shoes from Zara…
NBC may have passed on the Wonder Woman pilot, but ABC is moving forward with their own nostalgic version of crime-fighting, jiggle TV — Charlie’s Angels. The new series began filming in Miami back in January (perhaps some of you showed up for the casting call?) and will air Thursdays…
For over two decades the National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill (NAEMI) has organized some pretty incredible shows of outsider art while also launching the careers of local talents such as Mario Mesa, Lucia Ballester, and Boris Lopez whose works are regularly sold in galleries from New York to…
Talk about the creative struggle. This weekend, Miami will play host to a group of dancers, known as Ayikodans, who have overcome obstacles more challenging than what most of us can imagine. The company, led by choreographer Jeanguy Saintus, is based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Their facility was partially destroyed in…
When most people think porn convention or really just porn in general, the dominant image is men ogling haughty Barbie-like blondes with big implants and small IQs. But the truth is, plenty of intelligent, sex-positive ladies are not only making porn, but consuming porn. This may come as a shock,…
Matthew Miller blows. Glass, that is. Like a caveman Matt uses fire as a tool to turn what would otherwise be inconspicuous materials into works of art that sometimes double as home décor.Nickel Glass is his custom line of home décor, which he showcases at his shop of the same…
An earnest, intermittently droll dramedy about a manic-depressive toy manufacturer and his bewildered family, The Beaver is a parable that’s not easily parsed. While director Jodie Foster fails to maintain a consistent tone–could there be such a thing as inspirational satire?–the movie’s lopsided wobble is undeniably enhanced by her star…
Okay, so we’re just giving away three pairs of tickets to Exxxotica Miami Beach, the threeway you have to come to on your own. But, really, is it that difficult to find a pair for a ménage à trois? Typically, it’s harder to find parking for your car on South…
Are there rich South Americans in town or are locals buying up all the art in Wynwood? Whatever the case, the gallery walls on Saturday’s art walk were full of red dots signifying sales. Now some young Picasso will be able to afford a ham sandwich and quit thinking about…
After watching RPM Miami last night we’re not sure quite what to think. We know that the show is Mun2’s testosterone-fueled sausage fest, which promotes women as immoral, materialistic whores, but…it’s still fun to watch.The show — think the Fast and the Furious shot telenovela-style — revolves around a group…
Comic Lewis Black is so outraged, we bet the spittle from the corners of his mouth could make an entire city hate each other like that pink goo in Ghostbusters II. And us worker bees can barely muster the rage to lie on the couch and watch one of his…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. Although Film Fiend is over his jet lag, a peculiar feeling of fatigue at the Cannes Film Festival persists. Too many parties? It can’t be, I get even…
Mob Wives is pretty damn gangsta. The new VH1 realty show, now four episodes deep, fits a niche for our market. Everyone knows South Florida is the sixth borough of New York City. There are tens of thousands of exiled New Yorkers here. The mafia lifestyle is very real for…
Fashion Breakdown: Earrings and bracelet bought online Pop of Chic on Facebook, top and skirt from Zara, shoes at Aldo, vintage Timex watch, and bag at the thrift shop…
Last fall, over 1,300 artists and arts organizations applied for $150,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. (Check our Q&A with Miami Program Director Dennis Scholl.) Today the 56 finalists were announced, and by November, the Knight Foundation Trustees will select the winners. As far as we…
On paper, the staging of In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) at GableStage at the Biltmore would read like Sex and the City set in Victorian times: women experimenting sexually, a full nude scene involving a male, vibrators a-plenty (including a very intimidating anal contraption), and a lot…
