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Thanks to the stupefying power of cartoons and a basic lack of book knowledge, there are far too many 30-year-olds who continue to believe in the once-upon-a-time coexistence of dinosaurs and cavemen. Usually, this wild delusion bubbles into conversation at 2 a.m. after six beers, a few bong hits, and…

Under normal circumstances, an alien spaceship hovering above an impressionist cityscape is a sure sign of a forger on acid. In this case, however, we’re talking about “Paredolia,” a series of oil and gouache paintings by New York City artist Derek Buckner at the Miami-Dade County Main Library through September…

The Summer Groove is every bit as awesome as its name suggests. Once again, Miami Heat legends Alonzo Mourning and Dwyane Wade have banded their collective bad-assed-ness together to bring us this annual five-day jam to help benefit Alonzo Mourning Charities and Wade’s World Foundation. But if golf isn’t your…

The Summer Groove is every bit as awesome as its name suggests. Once again, Miami Heat legends Alonzo Mourning and Dwyane Wade have banded their collective bad-assed-ness together to bring us this annual five-day jam to help benefit Alonzo Mourning Charities and Wade’s World Foundation. Go tee off with Zo…

There is no lapel ribbon pin, charity run, or celebrity spokesperson for humanity’s number one killer: old age. But according to Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner, gerontology is an active research field, albeit one with a long history of eccentrics. In Long for This World, he catalogs the search…

The tap-tap crawls through the streets of Port-au-Prince, packed beyond capacity with animals, produce, and people. This is Haiti’s version of public transportation, a pimped-out pickup, minivan, or bus painted watermelon green, cherry red, black, and yellow. The sides are adorned with religious mottos like “God is good” or maybe…

An exercise in voyeurism, Maren Ade’s provocatively titled, superbly performed, emotionally graphic Everyone Else is more fascinating than enjoyable. Placing a youngish, newly formed couple under relentless observation, Ade’s two-hour squirmathon gets a bit more intimate on the subject of intimacy than the viewer might wish. Chris (Lars Eidinger), an…

Let’s face it: This past month’s nonstop soccer marathon has made us all World Cup junkies, and soon we’ll be kicking, sweating, screaming, and grinding our teeth through a nasty, weeklong bout of withdrawal. We are dangerously addicted, and the supply is drying up. With Sunday’s Final pitting the Netherlands…

First off, forgive us for not having the budget to upgrade this summer movie preview to 3-D. Rest assured, there are plenty of eye-popping (brain-numbing?) epics in the preview that follows, but to our pleasure and surprise, there is a surplus of attention-worthy 2-D flicks too. Happy summer, movie fans…

India is home of Ganesha, the Hindu deity who places and removes obstacles from our path. It’s also the native land of the mango. From the sumac family, the fruit is poison ivy’s cousin and produces an irritant called urushiol. Some folks are so allergic that the mango’s sap, skin,…

India is home of Ganesha, the Hindu deity who places and removes obstacles from our path. It’s also the native land of the mango. From the sumac family, the fruit is poison ivy’s cousin and produces an irritant called urushiol. Some folks are so allergic that the mango’s sap, skin,…

In the early 20th Century, bourgeois Spanish playwrights were writing the after-school specials of their time — flowery tales of everyday life that spewed hypocritical morality like a BP oil spill. But then came Ramón del Valle-Inclán, a scraggly bearded, one-armed bohemian who penned Divinas Palabras, a sordid tale about…

Back in 1895, there was a cranky, old Scottish physicist named Lord Kelvin (AKA William Thomson), who proclaimed, “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” Needless to say, he was monumentally wrong. Within a decade, the Wright brothers were zipping around Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in a fixed-wing aircraft. And 66 years…

In the early 20th Century, bourgeois Spanish playwrights were writing the after-school specials of their time — flowery tales of everyday life that spewed hypocritical morality like a BP oil spill. But then came Ramón del Valle-Inclán, a scraggly bearded, one-armed bohemian who penned Divinas Palabras, a sordid tale about…

Sure, you could continue to toil away at your day job, bank $8 an hour, and save up for a life of leisure when you’re too curmudgeonly to enjoy it. Or you could yank out all the crazy ephemera you have stashed in your closet since Aunt Dotty passed and…

Sometimes music needs to speak to you on an emotional and intellectual level so you can work out all the stress and angst you’ve built up throughout your day. Sometimes, though, you just want to zouk. And party you will when French-Caribbean band Kassav’ celebrates 30 years of making zouk…

This weekend, you’ll have a chance to see more muscle-loving junkies than any gym can hold at the 30th annual NPC Southern States Bodybuilding, Fitness, Figure, and Bikini Championships. Watch the bodybuilders — guys and gals from teens to seniors — stroll along the stage, satisfied in their tight skin,…

Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, we all live in glass houses. At least you do if you’re one of the 500 million users of Facebook, a social networking site he founded that makes our private lives public. But what began as an interactive college yearbook has become a phenomenon where many…

Almost 30 years ago, Marc Joseph was a health counselor who worked with refugees at the Krome Detention Center in Southwest Miami-Dade. After one of the distraught detainees hanged himself, Joseph, also an accomplished musician, wrote the reggae-infused protest song “Refugee” for his band. Twenty years later, the same detainee…