At the barely known and underused Little Haiti Cultural Center, a world-class exhibit focusing on the art of the Caribbean begs for attention. Curated by Miami’s Edouard Duval-Carrié, largely funded by the French government, and cosponsored by the City of Miami and the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, “Global Caribbean” features…
Nilo Cruz does Gabriel García Márquez! The Cuban-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright adapted Márquez’s short story for a kids’ production at the Playground Theatre, where sets are large and psychedelic and the old movie house is transformed, weekend after weekend, into a light- and music-filled wonderland of endless possibilities. In A…
If you haven’t visited the Bass Museum in a while, a new exhibit will likely leave you scratching your head. Gone are the typical old-fangled portraits or Baroque paintings for which the museum was once known. Instead you’ll find a giant chicharrón. The institution’s bleeding-edge transformation has come courtesy of…
History tells us that over the centuries, people have been inspired to take off across the world in hot pursuit of two things: God and spices. Portuguese explorers sailed all the way around the tip of Africa to get to India and its turmeric, so we don’t want to hear…
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is the title of one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most popular films, but it could very well be the title of most of the works in his oeuvre. And his 1993 Kika — a satire of exploitive television, with shocking scenes of rape,…
University of Miami baseball coach Jim Morris likes to tell a story of when he arrived in Coral Gables 17 years ago: The season hadn’t begun, and an assistant coach asked Morris if he had a preference in hotels for the College World Series in Nebraska. Morris said he thought…
“What’s the matter with the car I’m driving? Can’t you tell that it’s out of style?” Billy Joel sang. “Should I get a set of whitewall tires? Are you gonna cruise the Miracle Mile?” Yes! You know the song, you know the street, and you know what time it is…
Cyclists are snobby enough. With their commitment to fitness and knowledge that their chosen mode of transport didn’t contribute to any wars in the Middle East, bikers are hard-core idealists, risking life and limb for a chance to get there on two man-powered wheels. So it’s fitting they also demand…
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…
Are you itching to douche out the brain pan after a soul-withering workweek? The Miami Made Weekend is the remedy to leave that noggin feeling fresh and renewed. Cosponsored by the Arsht Center and the Miami Light Project, the event showcases über avant-garde South Florida talent with a trio of…
As snow falls in the North, the sands of South Beach prepare for the ultimate Miami winter bash. The Winter Party Festival features pool and beach parties, shopping perks, cocktail receptions, art showcases, and plenty of opportunities to just dance — all of that fun while also giving back to…
Tuesday-night party Favela Chic is very much a misnomer, considering favela is Portuguese for slum. There is nothing chic about a place where gang activity, drug trade, and shanty houses are the norm. But we suppose American ignorance can make something so depressing and hostile seem trendy. That’s why at…
The Opium Group has the fever, and the only cure is consuming every South Beach nightclub space that comes up for lease. After opening two lounges next door to each other — Louis at the Gansevoort South and Wall at the W South Beach — the auspicious club conglomerate has…
Right on the heels of the Miami Jewish Film Festival, the 24th annual Israel Film Festival (the Miami edition) starts tonight and runs through February 25th. It opens with A Matter of Size, the same movie that opened the Miami Jewish Film Festival, a prime choice because it took home…
This week, New Times plays the role of the roadie in a story about a bus full of jiggling ladies called the Stripper Mobile. Part obnoxious stunt, part genius advertising gimmick, the contraption was booted from Las Vegas and shut down in New Orleans. Inside is a hotbox of sex,…
Two weeks ago, we reported about WLRN’s plans to replace the retiring jazz man’s show with a computer. The station explained the move as a financial one, a result of “the Great Recession.” But that was all before local listeners went primeval on management, protesting the move with online petitions.Now…
Since publishing an exposé about illegal slaughterhouses in northwest Miami-Dade’s C-9 basin last year, Riptide has chronicled other strange offenses: killed horses, brazen cockfighting, endangered wood storks used for target practice, illegal dumping, and protected swamplands used as oil-drenching semi-truck parking lots. The county has finally taken notice, and in…
Riptide knows we give Romero Britto a lot of crap for regularly shilling out his artistic aesthetic to the highest corporate bidder while we continue to heap love on local art collective Friends With You even though they don’t exactly shy away from collaborating with corporations. But at least they…
Although many expected the economic downturn to topple Wynwood galleries like so many dominoes this season, few would have predicted that one of the area’s flagship spaces, and one of only two Miami galleries to gain entrée to Art Basel’s inner echelons over the past several years, would depart the…
Jesse Bull, a surfer with a tidy goatee, rides a four-foot wave to shore on a blustery South Beach day. In his black wetsuit, he gazes toward the crashing waves and then furrows his brow. “The ocean is important,” he says. “Drilling would mess up our beaches.”Jesse is one of…
Food Network personalities, high-profile chefs, and food fans from all over the world will descend on Miami for the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival February 25 through 28. You locals should consider yourselves lucky: In years past, you’d be hard-pressed to find a ticket to any of the festival…
Monday: Hey, all you Argentina-philes. Both of you. Española Way’s Tapas & Tintos offers complimentary tango lessons every Monday night, but you should probably shell out for some sangria. Tuesday: We know, we know. Only in Miami is it newsworthy that you can show up to a bar and not…
