Arts & Culture

When we first heard about the Sicilian Film Festival, our minds were flooded with blood-red visions of the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan and oversized servings of pasta alla Norma. Wrong, says festival director Emanuele Viscuso: “The focus of the SFF is to underline the quality of Sicilian cinema and culture, and…

With an acting résumé that stretches from GableStage and New Theatre to a featured role alongside Paris Hilton in the 2006 straight-to-video sorority romp National Lampoon’s Pledge This!, Miriam Kulick has proven her propensity to mix it up. She does stage and screen, drama and comedy, serious theater and unabashed…

Speedboats have always been tied up in guns, drugs, big money, and murder, so it’s no surprise that they were invented in South Florida. (Check out Thunder Man, the bio-pic of cigarette boat designer Don Aronow.) Well, go-fast boats aren’t just for cocaine trafficking anymore. They’ve got submarines for that…

This is America. We don’t go around handing out sirs or knighting people. The closest we come to having pop royalty is when the president handpicks an artist to play a special event. Last year, Obama chose jazz vocalist and bassist Esperanza Spalding to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize…

Before there was Brain Eno, there was John Cage. Although Cage is often lazily described as a composer, he’s actually the opposite. He created site-specific music installations where composition and performance occur at the same time. Among his avant-garde creations, he recorded silence (making listeners hyperaware of background noise) and…

The Florida Marlins didn’t make any serious offseason acquisitions to upgrade last season’s craptastic bullpen, and their manager may have suffered from narcolepsy during games. That being said, the Marlins front office is sure talking a shitload of trash these days. Sure, there’s great young talent such as Josh Johnson…

State Championship winners the Miami Rugby Football Club (RFC) play host to the USA Rugby Division 1 South Championship at Hialeah’s Amelia Earhart Park. Seeding will take place this Saturday as Boca Raton Football Club faces Life University at noon, followed by Miami RFC playing the Atlanta Renegades at 2…

South Beach isn’t shy about separating the haves from the have-nots. In fact, it relishes in its power to make things inaccessible to most. Take, for example, the Florida Room at the Delano, the Lenny Kravitz-designed space that transformed the hotel’s basement into old Florida glamour with a modern twist…

Need an excuse to keep partying well after the weekend is over? Leave it to the Opium Group and Mokai to give you a solution to your problem with Ransom, the Monday-night party at the recently renovated Collins Park lounge. The party, hosted by Mark Lehmkuhl, sort of takes now-defunct…

Six years is nothing to scoff at in clubland. It’s a world where things come and go quicker than that Swedish tourist you slept with last week, or the burning sensation in your jock a few days later. Places that are hot one day, quickly become yesterday’s news. It’s a…

The Roots in the City Farmers Market in Overtown saw its busiest day yet during a dedication ceremony that included Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and Commissioner Richard Dunn. The Booker T. Washington High School band kept things lively as Overtown residents, downtown workers on lunch breaks, government employees, and others…

In Miami, we truly appreciate all types of electronica. Whether we’re welcoming the indie drone of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone or the Euro-trash techno of Paul Van Dyke, South Florida is a destination hotspot for makers and mixers of beats. With all the Winter Music tranceheads tucked safely at…

TMZ reports the little-tyke production of Tony Montana’s spiral descent into Miami’s cocaine-fueled underworld is the brilliant work of director Marc Klasfeld and Rockhard Films, which did the video for Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.” It was produced in Los Angeles using child actors. And here I was hoping Miami-Dade County Public…

Last week, we noticed Vogue magazine had taken out permits for a photo shoot at Haulover Park, AKA home of Miami’s nude beach. Turns out the photographer was none other than Terry Richardson, the quirky master of humorous point ‘n’ shoot camera pics who has recently been embroiled in some serious accusations…

How amazing can a basic cable movie about giant mutant piranhas starring former teen pop star Tiffany and The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams be? Syfy’s upcoming Mega Piranha seems pretty amazing!In the recently released teaser clip below, there is a lot of “blah, blah, blah” for a while, but once…

Graduating from college sucks. Drawing penises on your friend’s forehead is no longer socially acceptable, everything costs money, and potential employers regard your expensive diploma like a sheet of Charmin. Kevin Saftner, Drew Dayton, and Galen Sisco, three 24-year-old buddies from Pittsburgh, know this all too well. Their college education…

Chelsea Handler, comedian, producer, author, and host of Chelsea Lately, loves the little things in life like sex and Belvedere vodka. She also has a pretty big month. Her latest book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang is #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her other two books — Hello,…

This odd little doohickey is something called the pear. Sounds innocuous enough, right? But, wait. It also looks like Satan’s penis. And that’s pretty much how sadistic 17th-century torturers used the device. To start, they’d insert the pear into their victim’s mouth, rectum, or vagina. (The victim was usually someone…

Forget what it says on the marquee — the venue is undoubtedly Amerykahn Airlines Arena when neo-soul queen Erykah Badu is in town. The striking singer, with her beehive headgear and enormous Afro wigs, is touring in support of the freshly released New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh),…

It’s that time of the month again — Second Saturday — so check out the latest openings at the Wynwood Art Walk. Luis Gonzalez Palma’s sumptuous gilded photographs echo across time. The Guatemalan artist creates baroque portraits of mysterious characters, dressed in opulent, theatrical garb; shanghaied from faraway places; and…

Two Miami galleries explore the aesthetics of time and the mysteries of the spirit