Every decadent, cultured city needs a Taschen store. Otherwise, where’s a connoisseur of highbrow pornography to go when he needs a $1500 signed copy of Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior? They just don’t sell that shit at the Pleasure Emporium.Anyway, Miami’s finally got one of these…
Some Florida lawmaker may be hellbent on only luring “family friendly” movies to the Sunshine State, but if filmmakers want to make darker pictures set in our state it seems like Puerto Rico can play the role of South Florida pretty well. More and more films are using the island…
Four shy guys pay $7,000 each to learn how to talk to women. A British “pickup artist” named Adam Lyons is their teacher. They try to find true love in one week. It sounds like the plot of a bad romantic comedy, but it’s happening in Miami as we speak…
If you thought your family was messed up, just wait till you meet the Rizzos, the big brawling clan at the chaotic center of writer-director Raymond De Felitta’s new comedy City Island. One moment, they seem normal, then they don’t, and then they do, and then they don’t. They lie…
It’s that time of the month again — Second Saturday — so check out the latest openings at the Wynwood Art Walk. Artist Michael Costello cranks up the tension with his psychologically freighted canvases that traffic in perceptions of beauty, sexuality, and maturity. At 101 Exhibit, catch Sam With Eggs…
A strange brew and deep pockets help artist John Brevard travel a million years B.C.
“Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time” Through May 16. Frost Art Museum, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami; 305-348-2890; thefrost.fiu.edu. Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. With his Mack truck-size opus on view at the Frost Art Museum, Yao Jui-cheng transports the spectator…
A Prophet: The “French Scorsese” Jacques Audiard arrives with his ’70s-style gangster epic
If you haven’t heard of Gilberto Gil, either you’re not Brazilian or you’ve been hiding under a pop-music rock far too long. Gil is one of Brazil’s best-known singer-songwriters. He has performed his signature blend of rock, samba, and reggae around the world and earned stacks of Grammys. Known primarily…
Items you can purchase in Lang Lang’s online store: a Steinway piano, a silk scarf with a piano pattern, and black Adidas sneakers with gold stripes. Who’s Lang Lang? He’s a child prodigy Chinese pianist. Now 27 years old, he has played for kings and queens, helped score Hollywood films…
There are only so many photos you can take of your cat Minksy and still call yourself a photographer and not just a feline fancier. What you need is a challenge of reality-TV-like proportions. This Sunday, sign up for Photomarathon, a photo contest organized by the nonprofit Fotomission and Tropicolor…
You wouldn’t expect an exhibition put on by college students to be this cool. But “Aesthetics and Values 2010,” the annual exhibit curated by FIU’s Honors College students, shows exceptional vision — both by the students choosing the artists and the artists themselves. The signature piece is Wendy Wischer’s Incandescence,…
Say Florida broke off from the rest of the country. (The planet has already tipped off of its axis, so it’s not unthinkable that another quake just might break us free.) Now let’s imagine we had to survive on the spoils of this state alone. Every day would be one…
Maybe the Winter Olympics should be played every year. Or at least the NHL should always take a two-week break in February, because ever since the Olympics, the Florida Panthers have looked like a different team on the ice. Forget those guys who couldn’t close out opponents. This Panthers squad…
The Miami Heat has been teetering between the eighth and ninth playoff seed in the East and trying to stay consistent against the likes of the lowly 76ers and craptastic Clippers. Although Miami has Dwyane Wade denting asses on a nightly basis, the rest of the rotation has been hit-or-miss…
Last month, tennis fans got a chance to see Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal join legends Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi for a charity doubles match benefiting earthquake victims in Haiti. The crowd expected a great match. Instead, they witnessed Agassi and Sampras exchanging sarcastic barbs while Federer and Nadal…
The old-timey tradition of having some guy play the piano while moving pictures dance on the wall is something that goes all the way back to the Lumière brothers’ earliest experiments. Unfortunately, the whole live music movie scene pretty much died in 1927 when Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer…
Local musician Jim Camacho has done a bit of everything — from fronting the almost-famous punk-ish rock band the Goods in the ’90s to writing three musicals and contributing to Grammy-nominated soundtracks such as Tom Dowd & the Language of Music. (One of his songs was also used to score…
Thanks to Marion Manley, our pre-1945 houses were literal iceboxes this past winter. With cold tile floors and rooms built for cross ventilation, they were clearly built for a place where the mercury rarely dips below 45 degrees. Miami’s first female architect, Manley designed houses in Morningside, Coral Gables, and…
MOVED TO SWEAT RECORDS. Click here for details. When Miami-bred indie band Glocca Morra decamped to Philly last summer, everyone was bummed. Bookers shook their heads in disbelief and fans cried on street corners. But no one was bummed quite like the band’s high school buds. It was, as local…
You’re a popular dominatrix with ten years’ experience in torture play. You have an extensive collection of rubber cudgels and leather whips. You’re a very, very naughty girl. Well, not really. Compared to European freaks of the 16th and 17th centuries, you are a total amateur. Back then, a torturer’s…
When we look back on ’60s comedy, we think foremost of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, stand-ups who did yeomen’s work railing against the venality of the establishment (roughly moneyed white men). More quietly, Bill Cosby reached the targets of those comics’ scorn and made them his audience. Once asked…
