In 1994, Juan Angel Ruiz was involved in a devastating car wreck. In the first terrifying moments after regaining consciousness in his hospital bed, Juan Angel tried to look around the room. “I opened my eyes. The light over my bed blinded me. It was too bright,” he says in…
There are certain bands that embody the spirit of Miami, gathering the energy that shimmers on the street like heat haze. With its smart blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms with Latin jazz, hip-hop, electro, loads of funk, Spam Allstars are chief among these. The band has come a long way since…
We always just thought it was a fact of life in South Florida: You’re driving along I-95 when, all of a sudden, a motorcyclist, or a group of them, screams past you at an obscene speed. You turn to your wife and say, “Look, honey — douchebags!” and then continue…
Born into the itinerant life of a con artist, Kay (Aida Folch) is a sexy but street-tough young woman who has helped her father, Sebas (Manuel Morón), run scams since she learned to walk. For years, they’ve lived off small scores, skipping from one city to the next across Spain…
Of the 17 acts set to perform during the fifth annual Jazz in the Gardens at Sun Life Stadium, only about half are jazz artists by the genre’s strictest definition. When it comes to headliners Mary J. Blige, John Legend, and Robin Thicke — three R&B stars who have enjoyed…
“Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time” showcases a tale of two cities at the Frost Art Museum
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough
Sarah Kane’s Blasted at GableStage explores how power corrupts
Miami International Film Festival 2010 goes for the little guy
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Through March 14. By Gabriel García Márquez; adapted by Nilo Cruz. The Playground Theatre, 9806 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores; 305-751-9556, theplaygroundtheatre.com Nilo Cruz does Gabriel García Márquez! The Cuban-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright adapted Márquez’s short story for a kids’ production at the…
“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…
Why is it that each generation of Saturday Night Live cast members becomes a sort of Mafia-style family after leaving the show? Adam Sandler, the don of the early-’90s clan, has only so many jobs he can parse out among his former SNL buddies, and Rob Schneider usually gets most…
Why is it that each generation of Saturday Night Live cast members becomes a sort of Mafia-style family after leaving the show? Adam Sandler, the don of the early-’90s clan, has only so many jobs he can parse out among his former SNL buddies, and Rob Schneider usually gets most…
Shad Gregory Moss, the artist formerly known as Lil’ Bow Wow, is a man-child of many talents. He raps, he acts, he tweets while driving drunk through the streets of Miami Beach. And this Sunday, Bow Wow will show off his on-court skills (see 2002’s orphan-becomes-NBA-superstar flick Like Mike) in…
It’s no surprise when the folks at the World Erotic Art Museum unveil a new exhibition of nude art. What can be surprising, however, is who’s nude. Take the museum’s latest exhibition, “Golden Gals Gone Wild,” a collection of images featuring the cast of TV’s The Golden Girls in sexually…
As you wander the streets, soccer fields, and empty lots of Little Haiti this Friday, keep your ear to the ground for the pounding sound of Ice Cream. It’s one part bad trip sing-along and one part hippie freak-out. Imagine a slow, giddy dive into Satan’s black guts. Trippy. Now,…
You know what would go great above the sofa? A piece of art. But you can’t just grab any old artwork and pop it into a frame. This thing’s gotta be special. So we’re thinking a 79-by-64-inch crayon drawing of a young male snuff victim. Imagine it: a giant Crayola-on-cotton-paper…
Chic, mysterious haunt Bardot Miami will host songster Sam Friend’s vinyl-release party this Thursday night. Born and raised in Kendall, Friend spent a year in Seattle, writing and recording his second full-length LP, Lady Madly. While recording, he played shows around the Northwest and has since debuted songs from the…
Is your bookshelf alphabetized? Are your socks sorted by thickness and color? Then Eat, for This Is My Body, the first feature film from director Michelange Quay, is not for you. Roughly, it’s about the complicated relationship between colonizers and colonized in Haiti. But that gives too much structure to…
Al Capone, Giuseppe Zangara, the Miami River cops, Yahweh Ben Yahweh, Andrew Cunanan, and Rory Conde are not your usual suspects. They are the crème de la crème of the murderers and malefactors coloring the Big Orange’s sordid history. They’ve provided the blood-flecked fodder for local crime and mystery writers…
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…
Four weeks ago, the Miami Heat was flailing without Dwyane Wade, who had been sidelined with a strained calf. The team dropped games against the lowly T-Wolves and middling Bucs, falling below the .500 mark and into third in the Southeast Division. D-Wade’s return game against the Orlando Magic was…
