It is not exactly the Romans versus the Visigoths, but an epic battle is taking place at the Gansevoort Beach Club on Sunday afternoon. Men and women whose daily job is to pour drinks or serve food at 40 local establishments will compete in the sixth annual Seven Tiki Beach…
Sex, love, relationship advice from a professional dominatrix. If you have any questions, drop an e-mail to askadomme@miaminewtimes.com, you naughty boys and girls. Read more about Mistress Lera at Notes From a Miami Dominatrix.Dear Mistress,I want to politely ask for your advice. I found out about a dark, secret obsession…
The Original Gangsta wall is at 21st Street at NW 1st Court…
We don’t know what will surprise you more — the dancing, flickering images bouncing off the oak trees at Legion Park or the fact that there are actually people in a Miami-Dade park. This Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m., experimental film lovers and curious passersby will swarm the park…
Don’t be ashamed. Most of us growing up in the ’90s loved and wanted to live on the mean streets of 90210. Ms Donna Martin, I mean Tori Spelling, got to live our dream and to be honest, we’re still a little jealous.Everyone’s favorite fame whore will be whoring herself…
After Jerome Allen “Jerry” Seinfeld finally wrapped his nine-season stint as the crank-ass king of network TV, he got married, gained some weight, bred a couple of rug rats, and stopped pretending to be a nice guy. Basically, the Brooklyn-bred comic let loose. He was rich, powerful, and famous enough…
Miami Beach has always been a scene. In the ’40s, it was centered around families like the Whitmans who was later built Bal Harbour Shops. In the ’70s, it was the cocaine cowboy-types, and in the ’90s, it was a group of crazy surfing party-goers. Wait, there was a surf…
A graduate of University of Miami’s Marine Biology program, Aki Shiroza is now a researcher who works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But he’s also an artist. So when he recently ventured to the Gulf to document the onboard activities of NOAA’s Gordon Gunter, which was in…
ARTSCAM will take you into the workspaces of artists all over Dade County. This is the first piece in the series.Thread Nectar is a new art collective by Arthur Baute (AKA MXYTSPLYK), Desi Cuevas, and a dude named Sexton. From their headquarters at Biscayne Boulevard’s Omni neighborhood, they plot world…
In 2010, video game developers are making the controversial decision to try and take gamers where they seldom go: off the couch. Generally, people play video games because they prefer to live in a virtual world where there aren’t pesky things like weight, heat, or sweat. For some reason, though,…
An artist’s workspace is typically a tranquil sanctuary rarely available to the public–unless you’re Miami artist David Le Batard. In his case, painting live in front of a crowd of 40,000 people alongside DJ phenoms Thievery Corporation and country icon Willie Nelson is just another day at the office. Le…
Ever since Lebron James uttered the explosive and mildly inaccurate words “I’m gonna take my talents to South Beach,” the whole world seems to have gone batshit. In Cleveland, grown men called sports radio shows to cry, wail, and announce the Apocalypse. Angry fans flooded the streets to burn jerseys…
As you’ve probably heard by now, next week’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim isn’t open to the public. (We know, freakin’ fashion elitists!) We’ll be there to be your eyes and ears, and to fill you in on the latest in swimwear trends as well as any celebrities sightings. (Think Jon…
A small yellow plane flew figure-eight patterns above Bayfront Park, trailing a banner that read: “What the Flugtag are you doing down there?” The answer: We were packed shoulder-to-shoulder and belly-to-butt, perspiring like pigs in a superheated pen. It was noon, the sun was brutal, and the cumulative heat of…
Those of you who went to this Saturday’s Art Walk may have caught a glimpse of Karolina Wojtasik portrait photography series “{Sundara} Faces of India” at Gallery I/D. She spent two months riding rickshaws and motorcycles through India and Nepal, taking locals up on their hospitality, and snapping their portraits…
Fashion breakdown: a printed high-waisted skirt, knee-high black socks, and flat Charlie Chaplin-esque shoes…
We hear you spent all your money on iPhone apps that track how poor you are. So we’ve researched a lineup of free things to do this week to keep the inevitable depression at bay.Monday: What to do when the summer lull kicks in? Look for art in strange places,…
We are starved for art. It’s been four weeks since our last feeding. But, finally, Second Saturdays is here and the fast is over. Tomorrow we will wander Wynwood and the Design District, stalking from gallery to gallery rabidly satiating our deep, unnatural hunger for fine esthetic experiences and free…
Are you so excited about the Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and LeBron James trifecta? Can you already smell a championship win in 2011? Then get ready because the Miami Heat may be counting its chicks before they hatch tonight at the American Airlines Arena for its Summer of Heat celebration…
Everyone loves gratuitous nudity. Old ladies dig it. Hipster photographers (i.e. Ryan McGinley and imitators) have made careers documenting it. Pimply preteen males are huge, huge, huge fans. Even Bobo the Juggling Chimp smiles wide and winks when he sees a bare pair of boobies. All in all, the natural…
Last night, Miami’s Cremata Gallery hosted a lecture by local poet and art critic, Ricardo Pau-Llosa. He’s published six collections of poetry, has been featured in The Writer’s Chronicle and Saw Palm, and has been included in the Poetry Series on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS). Pau-Llosa will also…
Search “flugtag” on YouTube and the result is a Jackass-worthy montage of gruesome 30-foot plunges into the sea, trapped inside absurd constructions as air-worthy as a Hindenburg-Spruce Goose mashup. It’s not a pretty sight.So it takes a certain hubris to throw your name into this weekend’s Red Bull Flugtag, a…
