Nassie Shahloulian, AKA The Notorious Nastie, emceed the Second Annual Miami New Times’ Brew At The Zoo, where a 4,000-plus horde of beer-swilling Dionysian degenerates sampled a potent variety of ales, pilsners, lagers, and stouts. There was even a Four Loko stand.Dressed in a toga to augment the Delta Tau Chi…
It’s reasonable to say you haven’t seen classical ballet until you’ve seen it danced by classically trained Cubans. For one weekend in May, Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (CCBM) performs Paquita Suite and the company premiere of La Fille Mal Gardée, two ballets of French origin. Launched in 2006, CCBM…
Of Gods and Men: Monks persevere despite terror attacks
Celebrate the anniversary of the Mexican army beating the foie gras out of the French in 1862 and ensuring the victory of the taco over the croque monsieur on Thursday, May 5—aka, Cinco de Mayo—at the Rosa Mexicanos in South Beach and Mary Brickell Village. You and Mr./Ms./Mrs. can start…
“The Fabulous Bunny Yeager” at Harold Golen Gallery
Something Borrowed: Sloppy seconds
Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Werner Herzog’s 3-D excursion
Miami theater this week: Meshuggah-Nuns, Cyrano, and The Red Thread
Get the locals’ take on the local dining scene beginning at 7:30 p.m. Monday when Check Please! South Florida returns to WPBT 2 for its sixth season. The host, of course, is SoFla restaurant goddess Michelle Bernstein, who will shake up the show with the first episode, featuring a trio…
Snack like a king and sip King Cab when Morton’s hosts another of its wine master classes on Wednesday. The Miami Beach meatery will pour Cabernet Sauvignons from the U.S., Chile, Australia, France, and Italy, all for tasting and analysis. Morton’s Gee Emm Chad Lipson will lead the tasting, which…
Meet the chef of Meat Market and beef up your culinary skills when Sean Brasel leads an Interactive Culinary Demonstration at Coral Gables’ swanky Biltmore Hotel on Saturday. Compare your pathetic kitchen skills to the chef’s as you work alongside Brasel preparing achiote-marinated scallops with pineapple-macadamia nut salsa and sweet…
“Food as art” is no lie at Homestead’s Fruit and Spice Park, where on Saturday, May 7, you can learn how to turn the humble carrot or melon into a blossom or cone or flower at a three-hour Thai Fruit Carving class. The class begins at 9 p.m. and costs…
Space might be the final frontier, but it’s old hat for filmmakers. And though studios continue to release them at warp speed, space movies just aren’t the same these days. It used to take thousands of hours and intricate detail to create the infinite unknown on film. Now it takes…
Though a regular-season matchup between the Florida Marlins and the Chicago Cubs is unlikely to make national news, there is still something special in the air when the two teams meet. The players, coaches, and soon the stadiums will have changed. But thanks to the infamous gaffe by exiled Cubs…
While we’re still celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden as if it were a national holiday, we might want to think about how things were done back in the ’60s. In those days, people went around saying things like make love not war and groovy. Those against war staged…
Don’t miss “The Fabulous Bunny Yeager” at the Harold Golen Gallery, the first gallery show featuring the iconic photographer as its subject. Most people know Yeager as the shutterbug who snapped the infamous Bettie Page pics for the holiday-themed centerfold during Playboy’s infancy. What they don’t know is that Yeager…
Venture south to Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts and discover “Indigo.” It’s a collaborative exhibit by Chicago’s Laura Kina and India-based artist Shelly Jyoti, built around the plant that has long been symbolic of England’s colonial heritage in India. Working together since 2008, the artists share a mutual interest in textiles…
This weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk, the Wynwood and Design District arts romp, will get going at 6 p.m., when you can catch Mark Messersmith’s “Blighted Eden” at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. The artist presents canvases weaving a tale of man’s destructive intrusion into Florida’s pristine natural splendor. Rather than evoking…
This weekend, Doug Varone and Dancers will be down from New York to break in the stage at the brand-spanking-new (and, we’re told, spectacular) South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center (10950 SW 211th St., Cutler Bay) with a trio of works from the company’s repertory. This is the kind of dance…
If we had known being on a reality-TV show was so profitable, we would have signed up for the first season of Survivor faster than you can say fame whore. Snooki and those Jersey Shore assholes will make about a million dollars this year, and that’s just for their fourth…
Miami is a hell of a place for lovers of Latin music. The Billboard Latin Music Awards just passed, and two months before that, there was Premio Lo Nuestro. In another two months, Premio Juventud comes along. But even amid all of those awards shows, local music festivals and radio…
Comedian Reggie Watts’s real name is Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts, but there are hundreds more characters living inside him. And each of his personalities comes with its own instrument. Launched from Brooklyn’s alt-comedy scene, Watts’s routines are a fluid mix of accents, personas, and musical interludes. They are as…
