Maybe you’ve been lucky and you’ve never come face-to-face with a Juggalo or Juggalette in full grip of a homicidal sugar rush. Don’t fool yourself, though, they’re out there, guzzling gallons of Faygo, hoarding unholy amounts of candy, flashing their floppy titties, touching up their scary mugs, and plotting crazy…
The lights dim. A couple dressed for a black-tie affair intensely embraces. As the bandoneon hits a sharp note, they quickly turn and gracefully march across the dance floor. It’s easy to imagine that the sensuously elegant dance of tango originated on a high-society ballroom floor in a sophisticated corner…
When you hear that there’s going to be a burlesque show at Churchill’s Pub, you might wonder: Who do they think they are, Moulin Rouge? And if you’ve never been to Churchill’s Pub, we highly suggest it for many reasons. Sure, it’s not in the best part of town and…
A traditional animator is someone who spends hours meticulously moving objects frame by frame. Meanwhile, computer animation makes poor souls hunch over their screens for hours at a time, staring at a graphic. Last night, Spencer Morin and his crew used both methods at the second Animiami Kick-Off Party. Over…
When we heard about the new director for the Miami International Film Festival, we treated him like an ex-boyfriend and googled him. That’s how we found out that a Jaie Laplante played the former lover of a gay serial killer in Frisk. The 1996 film was based on a Dennis…
We all know that local independent theater usually translates to epic fail. Occasionally, though, we are astounded to find that our $20 didn’t go to waste. And ArtSpoken, a new performing arts venue in Little Havana, really delivers with Ulises Cala’s Los Dictados del Fuego, turning its small stage into…
[jump] Name: Andy WardrobeOccupation: Back Door Bamby production manager, stylist at Funky Couture Describe your style: Kinky, current, ever-changingName your ‘stache: Pornstache…
A tip for aspiring weed spokesmen: Don’t smoke a sweet fatty before recording your national YouTube address. Stay straight! Respectable folks already think you’re a degenerate stoner who lives with his parents and laughs at his hands all day. You might be a smart, motivated young man. But the only…
We don’t know about you, but pretty much anything on Bravo completely takes over our DVRs. Bravo is the best friend a reality junkie could have. I mean, yes, they’ve betrayed us before with poor choices in programming (NYC Prep, Work of Art, Miami Social…we could go on and on)…
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. 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…
If you dig satanists, blind albinos, and Mick Jagger, then you’ll absolutely love Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother. Made in the very dark year of 1969, it’s an awesomely evil 11-minute masterpiece that stars Anger, Anton LaVey (AKA the High Priest of the Church of Satan), Charlie Manson…
In the midst of the economic downturn, three local business women conceived of an idea to beautify eyesores and halted construction sites with art. Erika Hawks, licensed attorney and the LEED AP Founder of UrbanoGreen; Annhy Shim, freelance art and design consultant and owner of urban garden center Pots and…
When she’s not designing for dance gods Twyla Tharp and Christopher Wheeldon, Isabel Toledo spends her time looking like an Almodovar character. Think lots of red, black, and beautiful bone structure. Otherwise, the Cuban-born fashion designer and artist is best known for creating Michelle Obama’s shimmery, pale yellow inauguration dress…
An exhibit that calls religious rites into question is perhaps a moot point in a town like Miami. You can see only so many decapitated goats discarded in Biscayne Bay without realizing that what’s pious practice to some is horrific animal cruelty to others. Still, even those dulled by prevalent…
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 many human beings can safely surf on a floating cluster of liquid bubbles? If a new group show at the Dorsch Gallery is any kind of sea test, our thoroughly unscientific estimate might be 24 artists and one curator. Loosely borrowing its concept from microstructural experiments by Nobel laureates…
Sasha Bezzubov has a taste for calamity. The Ukrainian-American shutterbug has traveled the world documenting the aftermath of hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. This Wednesday at 7 p.m., Bezzubov turns his incendiary lens on the West Coast’s annual wave of uncontrollable blazes with “Wildfire” at Gallery I/D, a smoldering set…
50 Words at GableStage explores ordinary tragedies
Flipped: Rob Reiner’s coming-of-age love story
Miami art this week: Bicycles and Buddhas at the Bass
The Last Exorcism: Trembling before God and the handheld camera
If years of being force-fed Elizabethan English in the classroom has given you Shakespeare nightmares, where men in tights attack your grades with swords made of discarded SparkNotes, please allow John Manzelli to change your mind. Trained in classical deconstruction of theater (“meaning I take old plays and make them…
