Oprah recently made a plea to Jay-Z to stop using the N-word. Jigga Man refused, and comedian Eddie Griffin has the rapper’s back. When it comes to the comic’s very R-rated comedy, you can’t help but notice his love for the term. But when someone is making you laugh that…
Starting in mid-November, Miami Beach will join other cities around the world when the city implements a bike-share program. Basically, you’ll be able to check out a bike at a kiosk for however long you need it, and ride it to any other Miami Beach kiosk to drop it off…
The sex tape is nothing new in the Hollywood hills. The real queen of the small screen has to be Pam Anderson. There were probably some before her, but who cares? Then of course we have princesses Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, who have made entire empires off being hoochie…
WikicommonsThey call him Picasso.Can an artist exist without an audience? Was Picasso, who often painted furiously until 3 a.m. and eventually died of a heart attack, content believing that the purpose of his existence was a painting hanging on a museum wall? We’ll never know. Just like we have no…
Although she may mask her real identity with her artist pseudonym, there’s no hidden message in the art that Birds Are Nice creates. The Miami-based artist wants people to stop taking art and themselves so seriously. With her cartoon-like happy birds and ability to use an array of media, Birds…
Singers and dancers from Texas’s Danmar Academy of Performing Arts will stop in Miami this weekend to perform America Latina: A Mosaic of Cultural Expression, which could easily be subtitled Miami: The Musical. After all, we’re no strangers to the myriad cultures Mosaic represents: Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Brazil,…
Any movie that tackles pedophilia, depression, and suicide will stir up a little controversy. In 1998, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz drew some negative reactions with Happiness, a dark satire about the miserable lives of an upper-middle class New Jersey family. Sundance rejected the film, and the MPAA gave it an…
Imagine being handed a VIP card to every major circle of the art world. Then try to convince yourself whether or not you can withstand the pressure, the glamor, the expectation, the academia, and the absurd amounts of money being spent. Art historian and sociologist Sarah Thornton goes on safari…
When you think about Latin theater in Miami, productions tailored to your parents and abuelitos probably come to mind. Yoshvani Medina, the director of Artspoken, wants to change that. Medina has dared to fully invest himself in establishing a performing arts center in the middle of Little Havana, dedicated to…
It was a wild summer for Miami Heat fans. One filled with irrational fear (Oh, no! Dwyane Wade is going to Chicago and we’ll be left with Carlos Arroyo as our best player!); tempered enthusiasm (No way LeBron decides to come here! That’s a laughable pipe dream!); joy (D-Wade and…
The last time the Miami Dolphins faced the New England Patriots, the Fins found themselves down and out early in the game. The Patriots’ high-octane offense scored two quick touchdowns, putting the Dolphins in a difficult 14-0 hole. But all was not lost. Because Chad “the Robot” Henne stepped up…
In China, dragons are revered for their potent life force, weather-controlling ability, and iconic graphic value — not to mention their knack for burping red-hot fire. And there’s plenty of evidence such dragon legends were inspired by a very real creature that lurks in our own back yards and sewers:…
As you go about your everyday, banal existence, selling your soul at the office for an overpriced concrete box you call a home, do you ever get the creepy feeling you aren’t the one pulling the strings in your life? That maybe you’re just a dancing marionette manipulated by some…
How did Cinco de Mayo, a historical date relevant to only one small town in Mexico, get confused with the country’s real independence day? Perhaps because Dieciseis de Septiembre didn’t fit as easily on a beer label. It’s all the more reason to catch the Miami debut of Tania Pérez-Salas…
Dwyane Wade might call the American Airlines Arena his house, but the venue is about to be invaded by a very different kind of domestic rule. This weekend, the arena will be Madea’s domain when Tyler Perry brings in his touring stage production Madea’s Big Happy Family. TP, who went…
That refreshing breeze wafting through Miami means fall is finally upon us. The Kiwanis Club of Little Havana will kick off this glorious season with Oktoberfest at Art in the Park, a weekend-long celebration of art, music, food, and beer. Head to Ponce Circle Park for this Bavarian-themed festival and…
How can you go wrong with a musical that promises to tell the story of all the “dreamers, scoundrels, bigots, saints, politicians, and millionaires” credited with the rise and demise of Miami Beach? Unlike novels such as Diary of a South Beach Party Girl or South Beach: The Novel, which…
The literary world is no longer run by dead white men, which is fitting, because the good ol’ U.S. of A. is getting more colorful by the minute. Heidi Durrow’s debut novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, is exactly the kind of socially relevant book that is destined…
It’s almost comical what an epic fail of a season it’s been for the 2010 Florida Marlins. And the microcosm of the Fish’s year of ineptitude can be summed up in ace pitcher Josh Johnson’s season. Johnson was a serious contender for the coveted Cy Young Award. He finished July…
As Duke Ellington said, “Jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.” This weekend, WDNA 88.9 FM has dedicated a whole film festival to such characters hopped up on hooch and horns. The 14th annual Miami Jazz Film Festival will open…
There’s an unwritten rule that only plays that have had a run in New York are awarded the Pulitzer. So when word hit that a Little Havana playwright with a story about Cuban cigar rollers was in the running, all of the haterade-sipping theater snobs considered it a long shot…
You can take the lawyer out of law school, but you can’t take law school out of the lawyer. Attorney-turned-artist Ellen Harvey puts art cliché on trial. She infamously took the idea of landscapes to task when she painted oil pastorals among NYC’s graffiti tags and concrete pylons. Next she…
