Arts & Culture

Magic City Kitty: I’m in jail. Can I lock her down?

Two Lowe Art Museum exhibits showcase life in repressive worlds 1,500 years apart

Traditionally, Wednesdays are a social dead zone. So you’ve got a routine: Cozy up at home and sip a little white wine while obsessively browsing online personal ads or watching excessive amounts of TV. Then, when that gets boring, it’s bedtime. Two tokes of Maryjane and you’re out like nightlights!…

Mondays, well, they’re called “manic” for a reason. That’s why Jazid Lounge every week provides a tonic called Open Mind Monday to the pleasure-starved masses. Like us, you probably get paid Friday, and you can’t be blowing that minimum wage right away. Good thing Jazid has drink and food specials…

GableStage’s obligatory annual politics play combines a stellar cast — David Hemphill! Nick Duckart! Deborah Sherman! The irrepressibly sexy Gregg Weiner! — with more or less the plot of Primary Colors: A goodhearted young fellow joins a high-powered presidential campaign, witnesses those around him becoming soulless victory junkies, and realizes…

The myth that Miami’s music scene never dips below 120 beats per minute has been steadily eroding the past few years as acts like Rachel Goodrich and the Jacuzzi Boys have received national attention. But if you’ve just moved here and don’t know your Churchill’s from your Church’s Chicken, or…

Thanks to Dancing With the Stars and reality television (Who really thought a show about NFL player Terrell Owens was a good idea?), the line between the sports and entertainment worlds is a blurry one. That makes the “Icons of Sports and Entertainment” exhibit at Icon Art Images and Gallery…

In a video that’s one part Lancôme commercial, three parts Discovery Channel, and seven parts Michel Gondry music video, Isabella Rossellini, clad in a giant squid costume, utters, “I would give the most passionate 20-arm embrace… 20? Eighteen. Two are not arms, if you know what I mean.” Rossellini, who…

First the Grinch stole Christmas with his spindly, lettuce-hued fingers, and then our landlord ruled that denominational holiday decorations be kept far away from all balconies, windows, and common areas. But Coconut Grove artist Glenn Terry is bringing the yuletide back with a viewing of his locally shot Christmas Film…

Deep in the heart of every snowflake’s completely unique structure lies the home of Flore de Lisa, Queen Fairy of Winter. Though smaller than a nanometer, Flore de Lisa controls when and how much it snows with one wave of her tiny magical ice wand. For eons, Lisa has shunned…

A heaping cupful of sugar, two eggs, a dash of salt, a pinch of nutmeg, a splash of milk, and a nip of vanilla equal a fantastically failed soufflé. An enthusiastic you, chef Katherine Cardoso, and the beautiful instructional kitchens at the Biltmore’s Culinary Academy equal the Holiday Baking class,…

“Never get married.” You might have heard this advice from a particularly randy friend or co-worker. Or your father. But now it’s the title of a new movie by South Floridians. The independent drama premieres on the big screen at the Colony Theatre this Saturday at 7 and 9:30 p.m…

New York City’s Aventura is the undisputed king of bachata, the Dominican ballad style that mixes romanticism with gritty realism. So why does the group plan to stop singing bachata? Especially since the bandmates, who formed Aventura in the DR in the mid-’90s, successfully resisted all attempts by label heads…

It’s a misnomer to call Brit bad boy Rusko, AKA Christopher Mercer, a disciple of dubstep. Sure, the 24-year-old DJ, producer, and remixer made his name on the underground London garage scene with moody booty epics that sorta fit the dubstepper formula of dark, choppy beats at 140 bpm. But,…

One of the forgotten stories of the American Revolution is the approximately 3,500 slaves who pledged loyalty to the British in exchange for their freedom. Before the end of the war, the redcoats gave amnesty to this group by transporting them to Canada, where they settled down for good, and…

“It’s sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten.” That’s how Naughty by Nature’s lyrics describe the word pussy in the group’s 1991 hip-hop classic “O.P.P.” Hey, that radio-friendly attitude is what garnered them platinum status and the reason even old, gray ladies of white America can sing…

Just like Drew Carey’s glasses, Whose Line Is It Anyway? is so yesterday. Today is about hometown talent, and no one reps Miami better than Kimberly Cox, Michael Murray, and Jason Finkelman of Model Citizens, a professional comedy troupe quickly putting the growing South Florida improv community on the map…

If you thought a Russian piano player was a vodka-based cocktail served with a sharp turn of the wrist, a flat fist to the bar, and a garnish of black and white keys, you could be on to something. And you could also be overlooking Natasha Marin and Maria Demina,…

The Magic City doesn’t have Aspen’s majestic snow-capped mountains or New York’s elaborate labyrinth of concrete, but Miami has plenty of comparable qualities. And it’s sick of you just pointing out your favorite Pollo Tropical location when giving out-of-towners the grand tour. The Ecoadventures staff is nice enough to share…