Arts & Culture

Think that chihuahuas are nothing more than yappy little mutts? Think again. Sure their image has been co-opted by celebutantes stuffing them into purses for the better part of a decade, but those dogs can move. And this Thursday, the Seminole Casino Hollywood is looking for owners of little dogs…

As an aspiring fame monster, you could move to Lala land, pose for a nudie mag, and snag an agent. Or you could roll up to some random university in Fort Lauderdale, star in a sea of extras, and wait for the director to single you out. What? It happened…

When you’re staying at the Eden Roc or strolling along Lincoln Road, Morris Lapidus is probably the last person on your mind. Deborah Desilets will change that with her book Morris Lapidus: An Architecture of Joy. The author has compiled more than 50 years of the seminal architect’s work. Both…

Remember Kendall Coffey? He’s the former U.S. attorney with a history of losing huge cases, among other things. Coffey was the lead lawyer working to keep Elián González stateside. Strike one. As a prosecutor, he lost the largest government drug case in history (75 tons of nose candy, worth $2…

In 1977, legendary musician Dizzy Gillespie visited Cuba in search of the nation’s jazz scene. He needed someone to take him to the smoky clubs and side streets to find the true beating heart of soul-stirring Afro-Cuban rhythms. When a young trumpeter offered to lead the tour, Dizzy readily accepted…

When the Miami Dolphins host the Pittsburgh Steelers this Sunday at Sun Life Stadium, it will be the second start for Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Big Ben is coming off a suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in a Milledgeville, Georgia…

Don’t be fooled by the upscale seafood eateries and posh condos that now line the Miami River. There is still plenty of hazmat lurking beneath the blue-green waves. On the very bottom, layers of gunk incubate a dormant army of succubi, fed on foul human sewage and zinc-, mercury-, and…

You keep telling yourself you’re serious about going green, only to fill your Escalade with unleaded supreme while chugging mineral water from a plastic bottle. You’re torn. It’s not that easy to be good to the environment, to reduce your carbon footprint. But Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will get you…

Michael Moore is polarizing enough that as soon as his name is mentioned between “An Evening With” and “at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival,” you probably already know whether you’ll go. You might think conservatives unfairly jeer him: Fox News once famously announced to protesters in Manhattan via its…

The Indo-Canadian community might not seem like a traditional hotbed of stand-up comedy, but then again, Sugar Sammy isn’t a traditional stand-up comedian. Able to perform in English, French, Punjabi, and Hindi, the well-coiffed jokester quickly broke out when given the opportunity to open for Dave Chappelle, rising from being…

“Yeah, I bet I disgust some of you black women out there, but every boy out there on them streets wants to be just like me. A player. An entrepreneur of bodies.” That’s a line from the pimp character in Diary of Black Men: How to Love a Black Woman…

There’s more to Spanish cinema than Pedro Almodóvar’s romantic visions — i.e., Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem gettin’ freaky in an Andalusian olive grove. Consider the grittier flicks featured in the weeklong Festival of New Spanish Cinema, which opens at the Tower Theater this Thursday with an 8:30 p.m. screening…

Even a design Neanderthal knows the name Michael Graves, thanks to the designer’s partnership with Target. For over tens years, he’s made such mundane errands as buying tea kettles and dish scrubbers into guilty pleasures – at least for shoppers with eye for design. But Graves is actually more known…

Not long ago, our iPhone fell in a ditch, and when we climbed down to save it, we tripped on a shovel. Mountains of earth collapsed on us, and dirt filled our lungs. That’s when we noticed the dead body next to us and the maggots feasting on the remaining…

Upwind, at the Center for Visual Communications, a sprawling exhibit showcasing a homegrown movement calling itself The Miami School puts the 305 front and center in contemporary painting. The show features the work of Darby Bannard, who was one of the originators of minimalism in the late 1950s with Frank…

The precocious lad, who had won second place in a drawing contest while only six years old, was the son of educators who both worked for the government. Solomoukha later entered the Faculty for the Restoration of Icons in the Kiev School of Fine Art and was awarded a diploma…

During the Hoover years, the feds tailed artist Arnold Mesches for what they considered to be subversive paintings casting President Eisenhower’s America in a corrosive light. When the painter obtained his FBI file in 1999 under the Freedom of Information Act, it contained close to 800 pages that further fueled…

Did you hear that? “I want some of you.” There it is again. You’re in the Deering Estate’s Richmond Cottage and you’re hearing voices. The gentle cacophony continues: “We’re trapped here” and “Send me. I’ll go.” Thankfully, you’re not alone. You’re on Ghost Tour: Voices From the Past, where the…

Chicago house producer and DJ Felix da Housecat has been making crowds move since the early ’90s. He was cemented as a dance music pioneer when he — along with Larry Tee, Tommie Sunshine, Miss Kittin & the Hacker, DJ Hell, and others — ushered in the electroclash era at…

The first two years of Iron Fork were sell-outs. This year, the culinary event will be bigger and better. New Times’ massive foodie party returns for a third time, taking over the downtown event space/nightclub Grand Central (697 N. Miami Ave., Miami) this Thursday. Last year’s Chef Challenge Finals winner…

Chicago house producer and DJ Felix da Housecat has been making crowds move since the early ’90s. He was cemented as a dance music pioneer when he — along with Larry Tee, Tommie Sunshine, Miss Kittin & the Hacker, DJ Hell, and others — ushered in the electroclash era at…