The Real Housewives franchise is no longer a show, it’s a phenomena. And no matter how much we try to deny it–they have absolutely taken over lives. CNN’s Anderson Cooper isn’t ashamed to admit ATL’s Nene Leakes is “his boo,” many of the ladies are writing books and yep, we’re…
South Beach has a whole weekend devoted to celebrating its Art Deco architecture. But, damn it, the little strip of mainland just across the causeway needs love for its buildings too. The Upper Eastside is pretty much the only place in the world where you can find a concentration of…
Jersey Boys, the runaway Broadway hit and 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, hits Miami this week for a limited three-week run at the Arsht Center.With previews Wednesday and Thursday and regular run starting tomorrow night, Jersey Boys is the story of how The…
During the past two decades, Mark Dion has created a skull-staving catalogue of projects exploring how nature is represented in science and culture. The artist’s South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit is a large-scale installation that focuses on the Everglades and human attempts to control the South Florida ecosystem. Dion’s mustard-colored…
MIFF offers chimps and “wizardly enchantments”
Animated feature Chico & Rita opens MIFF
Microphone foreshadows the events that recently rocked Egypt
Small Town Murder Songs: Peter Stormare’s outstanding performance
Project Nim: The riveting story of a chimp raised as a human
Bobby Fischer Against the World: The tortured genius behind the chess grand master
Doug Benson, Adam Carolla, and Wanda Sykes talk weed, girls, and Hawaiians
If Spanish wine, food and culture is what you crave, you’re in luck Wednesday as the wines of El Coto de Rioja and 10 different versions of Spain’s iconic paella will be featured at the El Coto de Rioja Paella Parade, a cooking competition and tasting in conjunction with the…
They say that wine is art in a bottle, so it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation Museum will be hosting the second annual Ribera Wine Grand Tasting, the chance to swirl, sniff and sip more than 100 wines from Spain’s acclaimed Ribera…
To be sure, anyone looking for porn here will be disappointed: Blue Valentine’s stars only partially disrobe, and though their couplings are frank, they’re not explicit or gratuitous. In keeping with the rest of Cianfrance’s picture, Blue Valentine’s sex is both unimaginatively blunt and frustratingly obscured. The story of how…
At 23, Pioneer Winter is something of a curiosity. He was born in South Miami, graduated from the dance magnet at Michael Krop high school in 2006, choreographed a show for the largest arts festival in the world in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2007, had his master’s degree in public health…
Just a few months after from lampooning a naked and silver-spackled Kim Kardashian for our Basel cover, Bert Rodriguez is ready to join the queen of reality TV on the silver screen. The artist is the subject of Making Sh*t Up, a feature documentary film by the Miami-based contemporary art…
“Come Ply,” a group show featuring a bumper crop of talent poised to graduate from the Design and Architecture High School or New World School of the Arts, corrals six young artists who focus searching eyes on sexuality, permanence, technology, privacy, tradition, and convention at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Call…
Pablo Soria and Rusty Scruby split the marquee at Pan American Art Projects, where they twang divergent chords of photography with works riffing on childhood memories and personal experiences. Soria’s “Nocturnal” explores the persistence of memory through the play of shadows. Meanwhile, Scruby’s “Here WiFi” relates the details of a…
Contorted human figures, highway larceny, and freshly hatched homegrown talent pepper the neck-craning exhibits opening this weekend during the Second Saturday Art Walk. Beginning at 6 p.m., French artist Keren pushes anatomy through the wringer at the Lelia Mordoch Galerie. In “Body Geometry,” an eye-popping series of digital prints, she…
Behind closed garage doors, we gals are grunting and sweating through a program of pushups, pullups, and biceps curls. We’re in training so that the next time we get paid 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, we can put el jefe in a Nelson hold until he comprende…
In the words of female impersonator Charles Pierce, “I’d rather be black than gay, because when you’re black, you don’t have to tell your mother.” But if you’re Angela — the protagonist in the Italian indie film Purple Sea — it’s your father you have to worry about. When she…
If the Miami Heat represents a new era of high-profile stars teaming up with the goal of steamrolling the rest of the league, then the San Antonio Spurs are already a relic. Their nucleus has been together for what seems like two decades, and though they’ve added some new blood…
