Actress Nia Long has a sister — Sommore, a straight-talking, no-nonsense ball of thunder who cuts into men like a hot knife through butter. The Trenton, New Jersey native is armed with an onslaught of smarmy jokes, sarcasm, a foul mouth, and tight-fitting leather one-pieces, sorta like a female Eddie…
Static, deep silence, and the sound of thought waves wind and rush through Serge Carrefax. A boy raised on an English estate where his radio-obsessed father ran a school for the deaf, Serge watches his teenage sister Sophie die, serves as a radio operator during World War I, becomes a…
If Miami had a French Quarter, it would be Stiltsville, the colorful houses built one mile off the coast of Cape Florida. Safely off the grid, girls got naked, men got boozy during Prohibition, and everybody lost a lot of cash at illegal craps tables. But beyond the lewd and…
Ever wanted to stroll into a museum as the sun goes down? Well, here’s your shot: Afterhours returns to the Miami Art Museum from 6 to 9 p.m. this Thursday. At night, the city is one big art project anyway, so why not start off at an actual museum? Sound-art…
Bummed out that tennis superstar Venus Williams canceled her Miami Book Fair appearance? Oh hey good news! The multiple Grand Slam champion will be signing her book Come to Win at the Books & Books at Bal Harbour Shops on Wednesday. So instead of waiting in line for hours on…
We’ve been up all night, furiously burning rubber over highways and back roads, derailing dawn’s sunlit offensive. Can you taste the neurons firing? Our synapses crack as sharp as AK bullets. Our quest for speed abuses time and space. Three-o-five is our battle cry; in Dade we trust. Your weak…
Amid the cries of Team Jacob and Team Edward, there’s a faction of tweens chanting Team Vlad. That’s right — young adults have come to battle over who has the best vampire books. Stephenie Meyer is charged with making Twilight bloodsuckers too damn emo. There’s way too much talk about…
How craptastic has this season been for your Florida Marlins? Well, there was Roy Halladay’s perfect game against the Fish back in May. But apparently giving up the 20th perfect game in Major League history wasn’t disconcerting enough, so the organization decided to sell all unused game tickets as souvenirs…
Masters and mistresses, get those gimps out of their dark, scary cages ’cause it’s time for the coolest fetish party on South Beach. This Sunday at 11 p.m., Rokbar will host Sunday Submission, its first kink night, to celebrate the 40th birthday of SoBe’s most eccentric bartender, Robert Frost, a…
Centuries before Brad Pitt led a vengeful army of jews onscreen in Inglourious Basterds, rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel hatched a monster avenger to protect Prague ghettos. As the legend goes, he molded clay from the Vltava River, spoke in tongues, and gave life to an angry golem. This big-fisted…
Yes, we know you’re a huge fan of unfettered adventure. But really, this whole “urban taste test” thing is an extremely bad idea. Let’s face it: You don’t know shit about nature’s nibbles. If you pick an empty lot or back alley at random and then eat whatever fruit you…
Rat-a-tat-tat! Crash! Boom! No, it’s not a ten-car pileup on I-95. It’s the latest ear-candy extravaganza from the creators of Stomp, who have put together another show full of inventive uses for everyday stuff. This time, instead of using regular objects to make beats, they use regular objects to create…
How craptastic has this season been for your Florida Marlins? Well, there was Roy Halladay’s perfect game against the Fish back in May. But apparently giving up the 20th perfect game in Major League history wasn’t disconcerting enough, so the organization decided to sell all unused game tickets as souvenirs…
How craptastic has this season been for your Florida Marlins? Well, there was Roy Halladay’s perfect game against the Fish back in May. But apparently giving up the 20th perfect game in Major League history wasn’t disconcerting enough, so the organization decided to sell all unused game tickets as souvenirs…
A South Florida August is like a New England March: We finally start to see the end of the bad-weather months. September is a more outdoor-friendly time, when two wheels begin to look a lot more appealing than four. Celebrate the end of summer and the onset of the breezy…
They’re going to build a international-level performing arts center where? South Miami-Dade County? Yes, specifically in Cutler Bay, formerly Cutler Ridge (before that known as the sticks or boonies). That’s right. It’s coming. And even if the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center is several years behind schedule, county officials are…
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the ’20s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…
Visions of a collapsed utopia and self-doubting ceramic figurines flatter each other at the Frost Art Museum, where two Florida International University profs, Jacek J. Kolasinski and Kathy Dambach, present complementary solo shows: “After History” and “DEMONS nurture/nature.” Kolasinski, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Krakow, Poland, and…
How do you kill an Argentine? Make him stand on his ego and jump. So goes the old Colombian joke as told by Sabina, a Colombian-American girl from New Jersey, the daughter of immigrants, and the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Vida. In one of Vida’s nine stories, Sabina spends time…
[jump] Wow. This is deep. Now, before I get all philosophical and shit, allow me to define “subspace” for those who are not BDSM or new-age savvy. Subspace is a trance-like state of mind. This particular state can vary from moderate to very intense, and it’s usually experienced by weird…
[jump] Name: Veronica AquinoOccupation: Psychology student What’s your nationality? ColombianDescribe your style: Spur of the moment, whatever makes me feel goodWhere did you got those sandals? Todos Santos, MexicoIs the Fendi real? YesWhere are you hanging out tonight? Parking lot…
There was a time when Miami was more likely to host a festival called Farts for All than Fall for the Arts. But the stink of being a cultural wasteland is gone. In its place is the sweet aroma of performing arts, and the Arsht Center has become the epicenter…
