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…
There’s no better seismometer for groundbreaking performance art in Miami than the annual Miami Made Weekend. Commissioned by the Miami Light Project and Arsht Center, the series includes the 305’s most innovative multimedia artists, dancers, and thespians in three programs. Here & Now features premieres of works commissioned specifically for…
This year’s Miami International Film Festival, which runs Friday to March 13, boasts 100 films from 40 countries, red carpet galas, world premieres, competitions, awards, film seminars, and other stuff to blow your indie-film-loving mind. MIFF kicks off in style on Friday with Chico & Rita, the first opening-night animated…
Sometimes it’s hard to tell a true Miamian from a Juanito-come-lately. The closest thing we have to a litmus test is knowledge of a short-lived local TV show that ran from 1977 to 1980 called ¿Qué Pasa, USA? If, for example, you know that Rocky Echevarría starred as Joe Peña…
Put your stilettos on! Miami Beach International Fashion Week, now in its 13th year, promises to be bigger and better than ever. Sixty designers from more than 20 countries will bring their haute couture to Miami Beach Convention Center to show off next season’s hottest looks. Whether you’re into swimwear,…
Nominee for seven Tony Awards and winner of five, including those for Best Play and Best Director, August: Osage County is an epic play. It follows the Westons, a family forced to come together at a pastoral Oklahoma homestead after the booze-hound patriarch up and disappears. At the center of…
Three exciting exhibitions open Friday at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. “Forever” will showcase Cristina Lei Rodriguez, a Miami artist whose fantastical plastic sculptures and landscapes resemble sequined tumbleweeds or technicolor fauna from an alien planet. Their neon goodness highlights the real and fake in our consumerist world. Meanwhile,…
A beautiful brooch is a great conversation piece. Perhaps that is why Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State of the United States, collected hundreds of them throughout her life. During Middle East peace talks, nothing serves as a better icebreaker than a gold serpent resting on your lapel…
Paint me with your words,” Zero Mostel tells a young New York Times reporter who’s come to interview him at his 28th Street studio in New York City. It’s an appropriate request because that’s exactly what actor and writer Jim Brochu does for Samuel “Zero” Mostel in his one-man biographical…
Experimental composer David Tudor’s 1973 “Rainforest IV” is an electro-acoustic environment, where sculptures and everyday objects are used as speakers. By placing a contact microphone on, for instance, a tea kettle, the device used to boil water transforms into a vibrating noise machine. As part of the 2011 Subtropics Festival,…
It’s hard not to think of a “deez nuts” joke when you hear about A Pair of Nuts. That seems fitting, considering comedians are usually a little nuts and these guys clearly appreciate a joke about balls. The comedy duo are bringing their 2011 tour to the 305 for one…
We’ve heard for a while now that Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio would team to bring the real life story of Miami drug icons Jon Roberts and Mickey Munday to the silver screen, but that looks closer to happening with reports that director David O. Russell is considering directing the…
“Go, go, go shawty / It’s your birthday/ We gon’ party like it’s yo birthday.” Doesn’t sound like the verse of a method actor with a sympathetic heart, but it is. Thrown into fame in 2003 with ear-worm hits like “In Da Club,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson currently stars in…
If you see bumper-to-bumper traffic on Tamiami Trail heading to the Everglades, it’s because author Karen Russell has made our mucky, inhabitable frontier seem like a thrilling carnival ride. Her debut novel Swamplandia! follows the adventures of the Bigtree gator-wrestling dynasty. Ava takes an Odyssey-like expedition through the swamp in…
According to the Sun, Glenn “Bunny Boiler” Close has apparently beat out Catherine Zeta Jones and Robin Williams (who apparently loves dressing in drag and speaking in a British accent) for one of the most coveted roles in Hollywood — Susan Boyle.Frumpy, caterpillar-eye-browed, Pebbles-the-cat-loving Susan Boyle rose to international fame…
Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys. 7. Lucas LeyvaLucas Leyva is a creative man of action. At only 24 years old, he is already sort of a hometown hero and is definitely an…
A beautiful brooch is a great conversation piece. Perhaps that is why Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State of the United States, collected hundreds of them throughout her life. During Middle East peace talks, nothing serves as a better icebreaker than a gold serpent resting on your lapel.Miami…
The first episode of any Real Housewives series is all about meeting the ladies. And yep, that is exactly what we did during episode one of Real Housewives of Miami last night.Lea Black is a good time. We can already tell we’re going to really like her. She takes over…
Fashion Breakdown: Urban Outfitters glass charm necklace, H&M bracelets, tank and leggings from Target, vintage denim jacket with Este’s graffiti work on the back, and black pumps from Jessica Simpson. Hair by Vidal Sassoon…
It’s easy to forget Miami and South Florida are actually part of the rest of Florida most of the time. We might fancy ourselves cosmopolitan, but invariably we are humbled by the realization that we are closer to the “South” than we are comfortable admitting. That point is unmistakably driven…
We’re always glad to see another publications enter the online domain, especially if they’re local and humor based. Which is precisely why we are so pleased that a cult newspaper that rocked Miami high schools, Misplaced Humor, has revived itself as a website. The founders of the paper, Sebastian Abella…
Many of Miami’s creatives are transient, showing up on our shores and disappearing as quickly as the tides. The Art on the Street series will document this overlooked and ever-changing element of South Beach culture.”I prefer performing for children; they are always happy and adults are always angry,” jokes 25-year-old…
