Since 1996, budding literati at local grade schools have collaborated on a yearly exhibit of 10 art tomes. The Wolfsonian’s One Page at a Time program presents the children’s views on hot-button topics in creative, thought-provoking form. This year the intrepid scribblers — from the fourth through sixth grades —…
Mopey, miserable, admittedly anal-retentive, and undeniably hilarious, Richard Lewis has made a comedy career out of his neuroses. Addiction, recovery, sobriety, therapy — everything is grist for his mill, and for more than 30 years, he has made audiences cackle at it all. He’s just re-released his 14-year-old memoir, The…
Middle Easterners aren’t too pleased with our culture lately. Some don’t take too kindly to our McDonald’s-fueled consumerism, love of globalization, or national symbol: Britney Spears. They hated her since before we had no choice but to — even back when she was belly-dancing her way into our hearts on…
Life would be a lot easier for Augusten Burroughs if he just smacked the tag “the characters portrayed here are not real” on his memoirs or called them fiction. The controversial author faced a lawsuit from the children of the psychiatrist he lived with in his sad and hilarious memoir,…
Ballet fans rejoice: another Cuban ballet star is coming to Miami. Carlos Quenedit, a former dancer with the National Ballet of Cuba, crossed the Mexican border last week. He’s slated to arrive in South Florida tonight to begin rehearsing with the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami, a company created to…
Wifredo Lam in North America More than a quarter-century after his death, Cuba’s greatest artist is getting his due in the first large-scale solo exhibition. The beautifully encyclopedic show features more than 60 paintings and drawings spanning the breadth of Lam’s prolific career. The exhibit is beefed up with nearly…
Depressed playwright Sarah Kane killed herself in 1999, and 4.48 Psychosis was her last work. It sounds like a last work, too: full of desperate and unhappy self-indulgence, a sense of options exhausted and possibilities closed. Think of the sound of Elvis Presley’s booming, bloated voice on 1977’s Moody Blue,…
If you’ve ever found yourself cackling at contemporary art, you will likely bust a gut at the latest ArtCenter/South Florida show. But this time, rather than a response to artistic opportunism or obscurity, hilarity is the point. “What Are You Laughing At?” features nearly 30 outrageous mixed-media works by David…
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean the ones, like Batman’s Bruce Wayne, whose transformation from average joe into masked crusader is an act of will instead of the unintended result of a…
In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), who’s on her way to Scotland to marry Mr. Right Now since Mr. Right is too chickenshit to say boo before…
Lonely is the life of the mogul. The long hours and hectic schedule make dating a headache, but who needs romance when you have the services of an anonymous sex club at your disposal? Like Rideshare with benefits, the “list” around which Deception centers is a phone directory of stock-market…
Was a new-year resolution too little to inspire you to work out? Then do it for the children — literally. Leukemia accounts for 30 percent of all childhood cancers, according to the American Cancer Society. The Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run takes place at Bayfront Park, beginning at 6:45 p.m. Entry fees…
Do you appreciate fine art and good drinks? Yeah? How about beautiful architecture and good company? Then we’ve got the place for you. The Miami Design Preservation League is featuring Lively Libations, a monthly event hosted in our city’s grandest historic spaces. If you wanna impress that new special someone,…
It’s only Thursday and you’re already having weekend dreams and no-work wishes. Since you’re the type to indulge your desires, you’re quitting the cubicle life early today, rounding up your fly girl mafia, and heading to the Moore Building for the spring version of Shecky’s Girls Night Out. This bi-yearly…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the coolest mall of all? We say, “Aventura, of course.” What with Ted Baker recently opening, Calvin Klein due soon, and a Barneys Co-Op on the way, it’s easy to see why the mall up north deserves the title. And with the launch…
Although they play in a lower-tier soccer league and draw fewer people than a city commission meeting, the Miami FC Blues are still very much a part of the South Florida sports scene — in that they suck. In three seasons, the Miami FC Blues had never scored a goal…
Whip out your daubers and grab your lucky charms tonight — Sundays are heating up in South Beach at The Standard hotel. Sundays are Bingo Nights at The Standard, where legions of tattooed hipsters descend upon the lobby to sip pricey drinks, absentmindedly play their cards, mingle, and scream drunkenly…
The Exxxotica convention, models playing volleyball on the beach, and booty-shaking fiestas at downtown hotspots are all well and good for the grown and sexy. But adults-only fun isn’t enough. There are lots of cool parents in this town who spend their weekends looking for family-friendly events. Well, this weekend…
On any given day, the waters of Biscayne Bay are speckled with sleek luxury yachts and fishing boats, but on Saturday, if you look out into the glittering blue, you’ll see a different type of vessel. No, those aren’t psychedelic kayaks. Covered in vibrant colors fashioned into intricate patterns, they…
TV shows such as What Not to Wear rag on your personal style, but we say embrace your individuality. If you like wearing muumuus with high-top Reeboks or entire outfits made of different shades of denim, damn it — do it! And at On the Catwalk, see how the other…
Now that you have HD TV, you can’t even bring yourself to watch those other channels anymore. Standard definition is below your standards. You’ve seen the future, and there’s no looking back. Nothing can come between you and your TV screen. Unless it’s … a bigger screen. Like silver-screen big…
They don’t come around too often, these perfect Miami days when the breeze and humidity lean more toward spring than muggy summer. Afternoons like these shouldn’t be wasted cruising an air-conditioned mall or lying on the couch gazing at the television. Get up, get out, and get active! There are…
