The new show, “Self, Symbol & the Spirit,” features photography, mixed-media works, and paintings by Sergio Garcia, Evelyn Valdirio, Nicolas Leiva, Mariano Costa Peuser, and a woman who goes by the odd moniker Lili(ana) as if considering herself a household name. Garcia’s large canvas Bed-Man is a self-portrait of the…
While you juggled glowsticks at a WMC event last Friday, someone slipped some Special K into your Red Bull. The strobe lights and techno pounded your brain as visions of Paas Easter eggs dripped into your conscience like colored honey poured behind your eyelids. You met pierced-lip Ingrid on the…
In television and movies, the list of celebrity switcheroos due to death, retirement, or just being too damn famous to hobnob with the little people is long and tragic. Enter Mike Epps’s Day-Day, Ice Cube’s handpicked replacement for Chris Tucker’s Smokey in the Friday series. Tucker was too busy making…
What’s that? A movie about female orgasms, you say? Zit-faced teenage boys are clambering for tickets right now. Only thing is, Orgasm, Inc.: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure is better suited for the women’s studies crowd than for a pack of horny adolescents. The documentary takes a funny and…
Art Basel is many things to many people. Some see it as a drug-infused bacchanal where, occasionally, art is appreciated. Others see it as the art world’s seasonally scheduled hangover. Most would agree it’s a catastrofuck of major proportions. Do you remember anything from last year’s Art Basel? Don’t you…
Hollywood would be happy to take Florida’s tax breaks, but it’s not exactly thrilled about controversial proposed legislation that would ban productions featuring GLBT characters from receiving state assistance.While the bill would ultimately up the amount of incentives to lure film and television productions to Florida, the “Family Friendly” clause,…
Earlier this month, we pointed out we hadn’t heard a peep from crime-ridden Florida Memorial University since it announced a national search for a new president last December. A few days after that blog post was published, the university sent us a press release claiming it was speeding up the…
Six years ago, county voters gave the Miami Art Museum $100 million to build a new home at Bicentennial Park. There were no specifics on the ballot, or timelines, but in the flush times of the early ’00s, it was another one of those “Sounds good and why not” votes.The…
Short Dwarf is not the most politically correct talent agency on the planet. They represent “midget talent” — their words, not ours — for performance and party gigs nationally. They claim to be “your premier source for leprechauns, elves, oompa loompas, and many more short characters.” Today is their busiest…
Comic sans is perhaps the single most hated font amongst designers and web professionals, so we and a few others were a bit taken aback when we realized that the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami’s website had been infected with the typeface disease.One Twitterer wondered if it was ironic, another…
The Miami International Film Festival, which ended Sunday, has announced its competition winners. The Best Miami Mini Film was awarded to Where It Stops by local filmmaker Kyle Shea. As you’ll see in the above clip, it’s an intense and uncomfortable short film about aging. Yet with all the gambling…
After producing several documentary films (and a few shorts) over the last six years, Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer has finally made the leap to feature-length fiction work with Children of God. And he has no intention of looking back. “Documentaries were really, really important to me. I will probably return…
Catherine Keener has played the smart, neurotic gal in so many indie flicks, we assumed she was born in the land of Woody Allen — New York City. But the actress was actually born and raised right here in Miami. She’s a graduate of Hialeah’s Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High…
Awhile back, Riptide wondered who might be the next celebrity to get busted driving drunk in a Bentley on Miami Beach.Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. At 3:37 this morning, Heat forward Dorell Wright was busted “driving erratically” in his 2005 Bentley, according to TMZ. He didn’t have insurance…
Last October, Riptide reported that the famous Don Bailey Carpets I-95 billboard, which features the business owner and namesake in a nude recline, had been augmented by a graffiti artist with a penchant for large schnozzes, and we recounted the Burt Reynolds-centerfold-inspired backstory behind the bizarre landmark.Our favorite local radio…
In January 2009, bankrupt hip-hop chieftain Marion “Suge” Knight filed a lawsuit against Kanye West, claiming the rapper should be financially responsible for an unsolved 2005 shooting at a South Beach Shore Club party West hosted that left Knight capped in the leg. Among Suge’s alleged damages: medical bills, expenses…
These days, we’d be lucky if we could afford to see a soap opera on network TV, let alone an opera at the Arsht Center. But thanks to a grant from the Knight Foundation, even the unemployed now have a chance to see fat ladies sing. Florida Grand Opera is…
Basel schmasel. That’s how the organizers of this weekend’s Arteaméricas fair will respond to those judging their modest event by the standards of the titanic confab that makes Miami the hub of the international art world each winter. For its eighth edition, the boutique fair has scaled back from 70…
“Art Encounters: Interstices Between Literature, Cinema, and Graphic Design” Through March 20. CCE Miami, 800 Douglas Rd., Ste. 170, Coral Gables; 305-448-9676; ccemiami.org. Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Some people believe a picture is worth a thousand words, but others swear a well-made poster can more effectively…
Horses, sexual angst, and first-rate acting in New Theatre’s thrilling Equus
Art Battles turns Wynwood’s Eazy Street Gallery into a war zone
Matt Damon and his WMD of a movie Green Zone confirm the big lie, Hollywood-style
