Arts & Culture

If there’s one thing the artsy-fartsies in this city love, it’s young, up-and-coming creative talent with edgy ability. If you’re the new, hot painter, sculptor, dancer, musician, or avant-garde performance whatever and you fall into the right Wynwood/Design District circle, you too can be the toast of Miami. The people…

Today’s Farewell to the Orange Bowl celebration is the perfect send-off for the fabled stadium, where the OB will become The Battleground of Immortals one last time. The main event features a flag-football game between former Dolphins and Canes legends, including Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, Mark Duper, and other greats…

Today your average posse includes Bentleys, semiautomatic weapons, somebody in charge of videogames, and expensive sneakers. Not so long ago, the average posse had horses, pistols, and 10-gallon hats. Today’s posses trail NBA stars; yesterday’s followed sheriffs or outlaws. The battle for the Wild West ended long ago, but wranglers…

Depending on who you ask, there are many snakes roaming the streets of Miami, but not the kind that travel on their bellies. We’re referring to the ones that walk on two feet and control government funding, and you can see those slimy characters any day of the year. Today…

Race-based humor is an American tradition that has become a stereotype. Those typical “black people talk like this” and “white people can’t dance” jokes are beyond played out. Come on, comedians! There are so many more cultures and ethnicities to mock. Take a lesson from Russell Peters. The Indian-Canadian comedian…

Film festivals are great because the roving bands of 13-year-old girls who attend every single movie in Miami — laughing wildly at the most poignant moments — aren’t there. Instead the filmmakers submit themselves to awkward questions from the audience. And in the case of the Miami Jewish Film Festival,…

Scott Turner Schofield wasn’t always a man. Hence the title of his show, Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps, which opens tonight at the Carnival Center’s Studio Theater. 127 Steps features a series of monologues and anecdotes about Schofield’s life as a female-to-male transsexual, with some stories being lighthearted…

Navigating the traffic jam of diversity at Wynwood’s Edge Zones can be a touch-and-go affair. Without enough time to take it all in, it’s easy to bounce from artist to artist like a bumper car in the intricate maze of “23 Florida Zones” housed in the 22,000-square-foot space. Therein lies…

There’s a point when every fad overstays its welcome. Could it be that Guitar Hero is already just a sour note from being booed out of America’s living room? For evidence, look no further than the plethora of GH cash-in products hawked at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las…

I hate to be a hater, but the whole Heath Ledger thing has gone a bit too far. Actor overdoses on pills. It happens. At the moment, though, the upper lefthand corner of the Miami Herald’s web site reads “At a Loss: Sign Heath Ledger’s Book.” There’s even a little…

Photo by Elvis Ramirez Click here to see a slideshow from the benefit. After dealing with the traffic around the American Airlines Arena, a friend and I made our way to Tobacco Road for the Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert. Parking was awful (and I suspect it was the reason for…

Ralphie May Things got off to a rocky start at The Colony Theatre last night, where Jeffrey Ross and Ralphie May were performing as “The Meanest Men In Comedy.” My boyfriend and I were there to follow up on last week’s “Stage” column (“The World’s Most Righteous Assholes”), which, though…

Unfortunately for the billions of women – and fabulous drag queens – around the world, our faces do not resemble a paint-by-numbers portrait, therefore applying makeup requires a steady hand and a basic knowledge of what will and won’t work. For some, it is an art that they never master,…

At Little Havana’s Contemporánea Fine Art, Esteban Blanco focuses the crosshairs on American pop culture with a sniper’s skills. The 60-year-old Cuban-born artist was on hand at the gallery to talk about “Violent Toys,” a message-freighted series of mixed media and sculptures delving into America’s obsession with military might. The…