It’s 1989. You’re one of many 12-year-olds at Super Wheels Skating Center in Southwest Dade on a Friday night. Strobes are flashing while beams of high-intensity colored light cut through the smoke machine fog. The stage at the center of the rink pulses with the energy of all the young…
The medical fetish — now there’s one that’ll creep your ass out. Where’s the sex in medicine? Get undressed. Sit on a cold table. Wonder whether it’s malignant. Wonder whether your insurance will cover the visit. See the doctor. Wonder whether he hears a word you say. Wonder whether you…
Ever since that pest hipsteratis mobilis (colloquially called the hipster) began invading Williamsburg circa 1999, Brooklyn’s resident species have been in steady decline. And there’s none more threatened than the Wild Yaks. A naturally musical beast, the Yak just wants to hang with his bandmates, sip something cold, and holler…
Say adieu to the classic ringmasters of Ringling Bros. past. Instead of a man with a top hat, overcoat, and twisty mustache, you’ll find sassy and hip Aunt Maggie. She embodies the spirit of the UniverSoul Circus, a traveling big top based in Atlanta that’s owned and operated by African-Americans…
Take a peek at the Passover dinners of many Jewish Miamians and you’ll likely find guava paste and cream cheese on matzo among the traditional offerings. Sure, the gefilte fish is there, but it could be sprinkled with a little Goya Sazón, and the charoset is marinated in sangria instead…
He’s a graff guy, so he spends most of his time in the streets, stickering, tagging, and spraying. But now and again, Aholsniffsglue steps off the corner and into the gallery for the purposes of peddling his work. In the past, Ahol’s art-world activity has been limited to group shows…
It begins with the ritual slaughter of a virgin goat. Its blood flows off the edge of a machete forged in a fire stoked with biblical passages. Hunks of dismembered body parts stolen from local graveyards are demonized with evil passages from ancient thrash texts. The spectators pass a blood-filled…
Whenever we tell people we’re from Miami, either they picture us either rubbing padded shoulders with blue-hairs like the Golden Girls or they imagine us with three-piece suits, cocaine mustaches, and fingers on the trigger à la Scarface. Let us formally thank director Brian De Palma and writer Oliver Stone…
Even today, there’s debate among scholars and conspiracy theorists whether William Shakespeare was his real name. Yet despite the dearth of definite biographical data, there’s one thing we can say for sure about the Bard of Avon: Like most classy famous dudes of the 16th Century, he had a beautifully…
The Magic City has such little experience with the tragedies and tribulations of asylum seekers. So it’s lucky that British author Chris Cleave will come to town to read from his novel Little Bee, which tells the story of a young Nigerian immigrant seeking refuge in England. Cleave is a…
Tampa Bay fans don’t particularly care for South Florida. Perhaps it’s the fact that we had an NFL team long before they were even considered for one. Or that when they built a domed baseball stadium to lure an MLB team from another city, Miami ended up getting a team…
Normally, the only place you can admire a cow in Miami is in the grizzled remains of your vaca frita or through your tío’s Bacardi-induced tales of Toro Diablo, the bullfighter demon of Guadalajara. What’s a whippersnappin’, saddle-rustlin’, eager-spurred cowpoke to do? Admire the Angus Steak Burger at the Hialeah…
The Crandon Park Tennis Center is actually the third home of the Sony Ericsson Open. When former pro-tennis-player-turned-promoter Butch Buchholz first organized the event, he held it in Delray Beach and Boca Raton. He brought in Alan Mills, then tournament referee at Wimbledon, as head referee, and Ted Tinling, a…
Paper. We write on it, we crumple it up, we fold it into airplanes — otherwise, we don’t give it much thought. But what if some communist dictator told you to stop making all of that beautiful paper art and then used the same paper to cover the country in…
We’re blind from the neon Lycra of Miami’s cyclists. And frankly, we’re a little weirded out by their alien-like pointy helmets. No need to fear the road this Saturday for cyclists will look like Victorian bankers with knee socks, vests, and caps. We might even stop and offer them a…
If a Brit, not that horny Nabokov, wrote Lolita, you’d have something along the lines of the film An Education, where a precocious teenage girl turns her nose up at Oxford for a chance at nabbing and shagging a charming older man. The film, which won the Audience Choice and…
Two Miami-based artists, Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares will present their latest work at “A Great Disorder Is an Order.” Wright’s series of photographs, titled “On the Other Hand,” repeats the same gesture – a reaching hand – in varied contexts. Whether a friendly wave or a plea for help,…
It’s been more than 20 years since the Alliance Theatre Lab’s artistic director, Adalberto Acevedo, first read Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans. But all along, he has been plotting his own version. “I had always planned to have my own company,” Acevedo says. “And this was on the list of plays…
For his swan dive into Jungian archetypes, local performance artist David Rohn is channeling more personalities than Sybil. During his solo show “In Characters” at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art this Saturday at 7 p.m., the quick chameleon will unveil a suite of photographs and a series of performances exploring the…
Before Bike Month slips away with the rains of April, put on a cocktail dress or a tuxedo shirt and spin over to the Bike Prom. Meet at Government Center, ride to Brickell and Wynwood, take a rest at Bayfront Park, and then ride along the Miami River. The Bike…
The Joffrey Ballet is widely credited as the best ballet company in the United States. It tours the world, performing both classical and modern works. Miami will get a taste of the troupe’s fabulousness this Friday and Saturday when it swings through town for two performances at the Arsht Center’s…
Even though The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director at this year’s Oscars, Hollywood is still a men’s club. But while women make up only 7 percent of directors, they’ve recently made some kick-ass films. Directed by Andrea Arnold, Fish Tank won the 2009 Jury Prize at Cannes and…
