Monday: Known for its convoluted plot but delicious noir atmosphere, The Lady From Shanghai screens poolside at the W Hotel. Orson Welles not only directed and starred in it; he cast his then-wife, Rita Hayworth, as the female lead. You can watch it for free this Monday night – thanks…
When we last saw 35-year-old, indie curator Dustin Orlando, he was in the grips of a mind-numbing implosion. He was brooding in utter darkness inside his gallery Objex Artspace. That was back in 2005. FPL had just cut the gallery’s power, and there was an eviction notice slapped on his…
This week, Riptide told you about Stephen Koschal, the Brickell memorabilia detail who’s been the world’s leader in selling art by executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy (we have no idea what’s going on in the comments section of that story, by the way). Today we bring you the ten…
Spring, glorious spring. Start your frolicking at the Marlin’s first home game or at the Fillmore, where a colorful indie band from Athens, Georgia plays Scandinavian-style pop music. Spend Saturday outdoors watching BMX racing or rugby. You have your pick of celebrating two cult figures on Sunday. Will you choose…
When Bravo announced it would air a Project Runway-like show with artists produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, we were intrigued, to say the least. We actually got excited when Miami was picked as one of the four cities to host a casting call last summer. That went down at the Frederic…
Miami artists live or die by Knight Foundation grants, but a new(ish) website called Kickstarter gives creative types more ways to score funding. The site makes artists’ fantasy projects a reality, much in the same way Etsy made indie crafters’ small business dreams come true. Based out of Brooklyn, Kickstarter…
Like Coral Castle and Tobacco Road, the ex-shrimper hideaway known as Jimbo’s Place (Duck Lake Rd., Virginia Key) is one of those odd outcroppings of the subtropical landscape that provides an increasingly necessary contrast to Miami’s million condos and strip malls. For more than a half-century, James “Jimbo” Luznar has…
The Bartered Bride By Bedrich Smetana. April 9 and 10. New World School of the Arts, College Opera Theatre, Gusman Center, 174 E. Flagler St., Miami; 305-374-2444; gusmancenter.org You probably haven’t seen The Bartered Bride before, and you probably shouldn’t let this opportunity slip by. Bedrich Smetana is an overlooked…
The Runaways: Sex, drugs, and feminism
Date Night: Tina Fey and Steve Carell go lowbrow and chemistry-free
After.Life: Justin Long, Christina Ricci, and Liam Neeson star in a macabre gothic mystery begging to be left alone
“Instruments of Torture Through the Ages” lashes the Freedom Tower
In the days before Art Basel and Second Saturdays, Wynwood was just a collection of forgotten streets north of downtown. Although off the national radar, it was the stomping ground for a local band of underground, consciously lowbrow artists. Chief among them was Dustin Orlando, the owner/curator of the pioneering…
When thinking of the Cuban influence on Miami, it’s hard not to start immediately daydreaming of food. From café con leches to yucca fries and platanos, bistec de palomilla, and guava and cheese pastries, tasty treats have become staples for Cubanos and turistas alike. It makes perfect sense, then, that…
Earth Day is like New Year’s Eve. You make all sorts of resolutions you never plan to keep. This year marks the 40th Earth Day, but we have a hunch, Miami, that you never really gave a shit. You continue to slip in green city rankings, coming in 34th out…
The mania over Mad Men is hard to explain. What’s so appealing about a pre-civil rights era when women were shackled in kitchen mittens? Maybe it’s the brashness of three-martini lunches and smoke breaks inside the office. Or perhaps it’s the eye candy of well-tailored suits and frocks, and all…
Last week, a swampy garage rock band from Toronto called Teenanger crossed the Canada-U.S. border in a 2000 Dodge Caravan packed with exotic animals, weird meats, and musical instruments. It was the dubious beginning of the foursome’s very first American tour, a crazy two-week blitz cutting through the center of…
The cartoonishly grotesque star of Tawnie Silva’s new art show, “You Like Everything About Me, Except Me,” is a four-eyed, thick-lipped, gap-toothed fat lady. (And when we say she has four eyes, we mean she literally has an extra set of holes in her head.) Basically a BBW blow-up doll…
On major holidays such as Saint Patty’s Day and Halloween, you can count on downtown Fort Lauderdale to become one big drunk fest. But once a year, the same sticky streets are upgraded to showcase top quality domestic and imported micro brews, specialty ales, and lagers. Ladies and gentleman, this…
Harland Williams is a Canadian comic who looks like a skinny-fat giraffe with rockabilly hair and sounds like a drunk Jimmy Stewart. He’s also a professional weirdo. You’d probably recognize Williams for his movie stuff: He sipped piss in Dumb & Dumber, he was a serial killer selling a six-minute…
Yes, soccer is back, this time in the form of the Miami FC, a team that has been trying to curry local favor since 2006. This season, the stakes are pretty high — with Major League Soccer planning to expand even more for the 2011 season, perhaps a good showing…
Being compared to Bob Dylan, one of the greatest and most incisive songwriters of our time, is an honor for any musician — unless the comparison refers to hair. It’s a lot to live up to, and yet, Brazil’s Caetano Veloso has succeeded over the course of his 45-year career…
