Arts & Culture

Girls just wanna have a really good meal. Those would be the Miami chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier, which is hosting its third annual alfresco Tropical Brunch in Homestead at Schnebly Redland’s Winery Sunday, April 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Food, wine, and a live auction are all…

A cook-off between Hell’s Kitchen alums and 1500 Degrees chefs Paula DaSilva and Ben Walanka, plus another culinary death match pitting chefs from Whole Foods against those of Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Academy, are just two of the events scheduled for the third annual Heart of a Chef bash set…

Okay, trendoids, don’t be letting any xanthan gum grow under your feet or you’ll miss “An Evening of Sweet and Savory Molecular Gastronomy: Room 4 Dessert Popup Miami.” If that sounds like the hottest thing since Parmesan foam, well, the Saturday, April 2, dinner does feature molecular gastronomist and chef…

If you don’t know much about history but you know you like the “Latin beat poetry fusion” of local musician Oscar Fuentes, not to mention an open bar and light snacks, then HistoryMiami,formerly known as the Historical Museum of South Florida has just the deal for you. It’s their Wine…

Those hankering for some Southern-fried generosity during the Second Saturday Art Walk in our urban climes can mosey over to the University of Miami’s Wynwood Project Space, where artist Sean Smith will host a sensory-smacking hoedown. The artist invites the public to join him in “Creativity Driven Southern Hospitality,” an…

Life in boom town: The asphalt jungle may alienate, but strangers’ kindness can also inspire serendipitous joy. A pair of disparate exhibits explores both sides of urban living during this weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk. It’s time yet again to wander Wynwood and Design District streets for the free monthly…

During Saturday’s Dérive Miami, poets and the curious will drift through Wynwood and write verse on the spot. The free situationist-style exercise starts at 1 p.m. at NWSA ArtSeen Gallery. On Sunday at 4 p.m., Brooklyn Rail publisher Phong Bui will get philosophical at “The Hedgehog and the Fox” talk…

It’s the second week of the O, Miami poetry festival, so we’re guessing about a quarter of you have encountered at least one poem by now, right? Thanks to the monthlong event’s guerrilla programming, verse is being trailed behind planes, shouted from Ferraris, printed on menus, and even shown on…

Sicily has had to deal with a media onslaught of unfavorable perceptions. Not only is it the de facto Mafia-origins backdrop in movies such as The Godfather, but also now it’s been forced through the warped hole of reality TV. Each time Vinny from Jersey Shore shows off his tattoo…

Gorgeous, gay Brit George Michael recently gave composer Steve Schalchlin the chance to play John Lennon’s piano — the infamous ivories used to compose “Imagine.” The performance was in Alec and Gabi Clayton’s front yard, where their son Bill had taken his life after he was bullied for being gay…

On the surface, the budding rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat represents something very basic: the defending conference champions protecting their title from the newest challengers. But to many observers, this matchup between the team of perfectly in-tune veterans and the team of hastily assembled megastars is…

Pulling off a cover song ain’t easy. Stick too close to the original, and you’ll be accused of playing it safe and boring. Deviate too far from the template, and you’re committing creative blasphemy. So it’s to the Easy Star All-Stars’ credit that they reggae-fy big-name albums such as OK…

Trying to evade death? Take a note from Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Masque of the Red Death” and throw a masquerade ball. The grim reaper won’t be able to identify you among all the masked couples waltzing by, right? Wrong. He’ll just start killing everyone. Poe’s gothic scene inspired…

Overtown was once the hottest black community anywhere in the South, including Atlanta. The neighborhood had a Cotton Club, the Rockland Palace, the Harlem Square Club, and, of course, the Lyric Theater. Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Cab Calloway, and Billie Holiday all played gigs in Overtown in what…

Opera doesn’t usually inspire laughter — quite the opposite in fact — but New World School of the Arts has wisely decided that during our country’s current economic nightmare, Miami might not be in the mood for La Traviata or Madama Butterfly. Instead, New World brings us a double billing…

There’s rarely an onscreen Hollywood bromance that isn’t threatened by the sudden arrival of a hot, young femme. She almost wrecks their friendship before the bros eventually reconcile over a Bud Light and an awkward man-hug — you know the drill. However, the classic love triangle gets new life in…

David Sedaris, best-selling author, humorist, and contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker, enraptures us with his stories. In Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he describes his childhood as one of six kids in a second-generation Greek family, his…

Every sport has a team that provides a welcome respite for opponents. A team historically so bad that it represents an almost sure victory for the rival. In Major League Baseball’s National League East, that team is the Washington Nationals. The Florida Marlins in particular have gotten fat at the…

First there was De Rodriguez Cuba, then there was De Rodriguez Ocean, and then there was De Rodriguez Cuba on Ocean. Now you could say there is De Rodriguez Cuba on Oceans of Botran Rum. Until April 15, anyway, because that’s how long Douglas Rodriguez’s newly reconstituted SoBe restaurant is…

Beer. It’s not just for breakfast any more. It’s also for Miami-Dade College’s Kendall campus, where on successive Thursdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., March 31 to May 5, suds expert “Good Beer Larry” Goeser will teach Beer 101. We’re not talking corporate piss-water either, but craft beer—their history, how…

Emily Book returns to her hometown ten years after a tragic school bus accident took the lives of her entire second-grade class and left her the lone survivor. Now, preparing to spend her senior year attending the town’s high school, she must come to grips with being not only the…