If you’ve never sipped top-shelf whiskey next to an ice-white European model chick while looking at a Picasso or discovering Matta, Cundo Bermudez, or Wilfredo Lam, then you haven’t been to Gary Nader Gallery.Nader told us, “I go all over the world and whatever I like that I would like…
Model Tara Ryze/MLMLME.comFetish Apocalypse on Saturday.Don King once said “You don’t get nothing from sleep but a dream.” So stay up late this weekend and get up early. There’s lots of merrymaking to get into.FridayThe 305 will be drowning in consumerism and aspiring fashionistas tonight. Check out our guide to…
OK. Now we get it. We’ve been trying to make sense of what goes on at South Beach dance floors for years. Finally, we have an answer, and it’s come from all the way over in England. A group of evolutionary psychologists from Northumbria University just released the results of…
The world is a-buzz with fashion as New York Fashion Week is in session. Tonight’s the annual Fashion’s Night Out, a one-night-only shopping extravaganza designed to spur spending–even in our much-dampened economy–and raise money for good causes. All fueled by a few too many glasses of champagne, no doubt. (Anything…
[jump] Name: Jordan Occupation: HairstylistDescribe your style: I just like what I likeWhere are you headed tonight? MoonchineHow long have you had your dermal piercing for? A month and a half…
Anyone who’s spent an afternoon on Key Biscayne or climbed the island’s lighthouse has seen them: the cluster of mysterious wooden houses, hugging the horizon, absurd and alluring in the middle of the sea. The ramshackle frames are all that remains of Stiltsville, a colony of homes built in Biscayne…
Have you noticed the stinky, low-class, drunken hordes tearing up Wynwood during Second Saturdays lately? No. Actually, neither has Cultist. But Joey’s Italian Café co-owner and Women of Wynwood co-founder Thea Golman claims to have spotted a certain “negative element” invading our streets. Now, if you’re wondering what exactly is…
courtesy of IFC FilmsHuman Centipede’s evildoer.Forget Silence of the Lambs. Now there’s a movie that’s trumps all existing worst case scenarios if you find yourself kidnapped. The Human Centipede is a recent Dutch horror film where captive tourists are sewn together, mouth to anus. We refuse to write those two…
With the anniversary of the apocalypse only 34 and a half hours away, it’s high time you finalized your 9/11 memorial plans. Like most Americans, you could just curl up on the couch under a star-spangled comforter and cry yourself into a coma while CNN reruns archive footage of the…
If you’re reading this blog there’s a good chance you are NOT ready for some football and we dig that about you. Still, the season starts this weekend and you’ll have to live with large segments of the population going vegetative for most of Sunday and parts of Saturday. But…
No, it’s OK. They’re friends.Sunday Submission, the coolest fetish party at South Beach’s RokBar, is only a ten days away. We know most of you are aching with anticipation, especially those who are just breaking into this wonderful, yet dark world of BDSM. If you’re shy, but want to know…
If you happen to be clubbing on South Beach this weekend and notice an abnormally high percentage of graciously elegant foreigners on the dancefloor, it might be because the International Ballet Festival of Miami is in town. Dancers from 18 of the world’s most famous ballet companies have descended on…
SwampDogRobert McKnight at Bakehouse Art Complex studio.”The idea behind my work is like, it’s jazz music, taking elements from all the schools, movements, and -isms of art and being spontaneous in merging them together,” says sculptor artist Robert McKnight, who came up in Kendall, graduated Killian in the late ’60s,…
Some words — I love you and you won — so beautifully alter the course of our lives that we wish we could enshrine them, bathe in them, and take them to bed at night. Others — you’re fired and it’s over — we’d like nothing more than to destroy,…
When local artist Typoe was 7 years old, a second-grade teacher asked him: If he could be perfect at one thing, what would it be? He quickly responded, “I would be perfect at graffiti because I would have mad skills and write everywhere.” The local tagmeister’s second solo show, “Bang…
A day after ditching his home country of Holland for New York City in pursuit of something bigger and stranger, photographer Ari Marcopoulos got a twisted version of what he wanted. On December 7, 1980, Marcopoulos flew into NYC. Less than 24 hours later, Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon…
Want to write a novel but can’t get started? Or maybe you banged out a brilliant first chapter before getting distracted by the new episode of CSI: Boise? Well, keep watching that tractor chase because the Florida Center for the Literary Arts is finally offering a seminar called Writing Your…
No, the pile of colorful clothes is not a highly stylized garage sale. It’s visual artist Shinique Smith’s exuberant manifestation of praise music, poetry, and urban life. The Baltimore-born artist’s latest solo exhibition, “Menagerie,” features her unique designs, which blend the flamboyant lines of street graffiti (using Japanese calligraphy ink…
Wynwood gallery roundup: O. Ascanio, Dorsch, and OHWOW
Life During Wartime: A Miami backdrop to Todd Solondz’s latest
Mademoiselle Chambon: French love triangle
Miami art this week: Ghetto-fabulous sneakers
