FridayTonight, at Books & Books, hear the former tech editor of Fortune, David Kirkpatrick, discuss The Facebook Effect, his new book that softly but thoroughly investigates the social networking phenomena. The Cliff’s Notes: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is awesome.Filo al Fuego is a play about professional boxing in’60s Miami, set…
Calm down, muchachos. There’ll be plenty of lovely lady humps pics posted for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim. This one is for men-loving ladies and dudes who like to wear short shorts. Local events firm Swell Suits Miami is organizing the first all male swimwear group show during MBFWS. The men’s…
Last week, Larry King announced that he’ll end Larry King Live at the ripe age of 178. Nah, just kidding. He’s only 134. Anyway, we’ve only just come out of our shocked stupor and stumbled across this TV clip from the 1960s starring King, which reminds us that the suspender-wearing…
Miami can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to being associated with gun violence. The above short film is “Debrief,” voted Best Film of the Miami Film Race 2010, where two hit men have to figure out a way to hit their mark, a shut-in. The national Film…
Magical alcoholic elixirs have long played a big part in procreation. It all starts out innocently enough: People get tipsy, then a few irresponsible decisions are made, and nine months later a litter of babies is born. Roughly a month ago, local collective the Overthrow and Atlanta artist Greg Mike…
OK. Who do we blame for turbans — those funny-looking scarf hat thingies? Was it Kate Moss? Those damn Olsen twins? Or was it the unwatchable, desert-themed Sex and the City 2? The headwear trendsetter may still be up for debate, but a Miami designer has combined headbands and turbans,…
We have good news and bad. Miami artists FriendsWithYou were commissioned to art up a public park, create installations in high rises, and treated like art royalty. But it all happened thousands of miles away from the 305 in a completely different country called Canada. (It’s not part of the…
We all know how much the Kardashians love Miami, what with sisters Khloe and Kourtney’s reality show, Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami, their first DASH store outside of California in — where else, SoBe — and Kim serving as de facto celebrity host at local events. But now the Kardashian…
Ramón del Valle-Inclán was a scraggly-bearded, one-armed, bohemian playwright from Spain, who penned sordid tales that were a slap in the face to bourgeois sentimentality. This weekend, Miami’s International Hispanic Theatre Festival presents his play, Divinas Palabras. It’s about a preyed-upon midget whose mother forces him to travel from carnival…
Think the world’s politicians are behaving badly now? Just wait for a few more natural disasters to hit, add rapidly diminishing resources and steadily increasing population numbers to the mix, and you have yourself a recipe for all-out global conflict. But don’t stay at home crumpled in a fetal position…
Karolina Wojtasik shoots people. She shot South Asian farmers, fishermen, soldiers, mothers — eyes wide in youth or crinkled with time — in her portrait photography series “{Sundara} Faces of India.” She spent two months riding rickshaws and motorcycles through India and Nepal, taking locals up on their hospitality, and…
Think of the new Miami Art Museum exhibit, “New Work Miami 2010,” as CliffsNotes to the local contemporary art scene. Curator René Morales calls it a “complex show that represents a complex art community,” but if pressed to summarize, he says a lot of the pieces deal with urban development…
This week in theater: Tap Dogs and the International Hispanic Theatre Festival
Three art shows in Wynwood explore manliness, devastation, and the passage of time
Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible La Mission
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: The third chapter in the saga serves fans and the brand
Despicable Me: Childish, funny 3-D delights
Sure, we all know Miami-Dade public libraries are packed with freeloaders getting their Tom Clancy fix, trawling YouTube for funny crotch shot videos, or digging through art book stacks and back issues of National Geographic for X-rated peeks at the female anatomy. But there’s also another kind of library patron,…
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…
Recently, the White House took historic first steps to end travel restrictions to Cuba. But until an epic Capitol Hill battle, which will likely end in blood, tears, and airline tickets, lifts the travel ban entirely, you’ll have to settle for swaying your hips to the conga drumbeat at the…
It’s odd that Ron White was one of the original members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, considering the persona he projects onstage: cigar in hand, the block-jawed Texan with shiny white teeth and a dark suit coat swirls and swills Scotch. A born storyteller who projects oil tycoon, White…
We’d wager the richest person in the world is the guy who created the “I Heart NY” design that covers souvenir tchotchkes to T-shirts in Third-World countries. But Milton Glaser never received a penny when NYC officials commissioned his graphic design skills for a morale-boosting PR campaign during the murder-…
