Arts & Culture

A great blessing of living in South Florida near the Gulf Stream is winter sailfishing; there’s a real opportunity to catch the jaguars of the sea. They’re famous for spectacular dorsal fins, fast growth (several feet in one year; adults commonly weigh 100 pounds), as well as fearsome speed, agility,…

After many years of research, you’ve convinced yourself that the bull-doggish bouncers manning the velvet ropes at Privé would never let you slink into the ubër-exclusive spot. With your own eyes, you’ve seen them leave half of the Miami Heat begging to enter, and you couldn’t make a layup if…

Soprano saxophonist Marion Meadows has built a career purveying what is politely called “smooth jazz.” As cool as that (and he) may be — cool being code for both contemporary and chill — it could be noted that the guy has paid some dues and enjoyed intriguing adventures since those…

Although the groundswell of interest in mixed martial arts (MMA) ostensibly struck a deathblow to boxing, rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. Sure, Chuck Liddell read lines with Johnny Drama on HBO’s Entourage, but Floyd “Money” Mayweather and the Golden Boy set pay-per-view records for their May bout…

In the heated political rhetoric of this year’s presidential race, the immigration issue can bring even cool heads to a boil. If you are sick of the emotional hyperbole stirred up by words like amnesty, alien, and deportation, visit Kunsthaus Miami Contemporary Art Space (3312 N. Miami Ave., Miami). Its…

In our traffic-congested concrete jungle lies a secret (okay, maybe not so secret) garden where we can grab a little culture with the horticulture. Today take a minute to smell the flowers and enjoy a little artwork at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens. Four and a half acres of verdant…

You want a classic NBA grudge match? We’re talking about Ali-versus-Frazier, O’Donnell-versus-Hasselbeck, Hamilton-versus-Burr type of stuff. Then look no further than the Chicago Bulls versus the Miami Heat. There’s no love lost between these two. Last season the Bulls smacked the Heat with a sock full of pennies in a…

Your new year’s resolutions: 1) Read more. 2) Educate yourself about this upcoming presidential election and keep another power-mad, oil-hungry idiot out of the White House. You can add check marks beside both after attending today’s opening reception at the Miami-Dade Library Auditorium. From 6:30 to 8 p.m., you can…

A nine-hole minigolf course whose every obstacle was designed by a different local artist, plus a complimentary drink with each round — we’re in San Francisco’s Mission District, right? Wrong. As construction finishes up along downtown’s busiest stretch, Miamians are discovering all sorts of gems that lurked behind the orange…

So you say you want to be a tennis star? You crave the glamorous life of roaming from the red clay of Roland-Garros to red carpets at chic nightclubs? You want to walk the green grass at Wimbledon too? Then why not try out the $10,000 Extreme Tennis Futures of…

What better way to usher in a brand-new year than with a gut-check? The Colorado Avalanche (which has one of the best team names in hockey) descends on South Florida with visions of victory etched into its players’ minds. The Avs are perennial playoff contenders, and the additions of Ryan…

Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden is a magnificent new coffee table book by locals Michele Oka Doner and Mitchell Wolfson Jr., saturated with stunning historical images and luminous prose. And according to Oka Doner, it all started with a song. “Micky [Wolfson] and I were crossing the Suwannee River,…

“Five days you work, one whole day to play. Come on, everybody, wear your roller skates today!” All right, maybe we’re a day too early to quote De La Soul’s classic “A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays,” but the feeling’s the same no matter what the calendar says. Strapping wheels…

“Hey, let’s go to that sweet new bar in Coconut Gro …,” you begin to say before you remember, Damn, yet another new place with potential has shut its doors in this pedestrian paradise. Just in boozy memory you can reel ’em off: The Hungry Sailor, Murphy’s Law, Tigertail, Firkin…

In this week’s calendar section, you’ll find an article about a special Culture in the City event. It’s a Cornerstone reunion, and apparently we got it twisted. The article conflated up-and-coming local hip hop group The Cornerstoners – comprised of rappers and poets who met and collaborated at the Cornerstone…

You know when you see something and you can’t decide if it’s good or bad? It has been two days since I saw the Broadway touring production of Sweeney Todd, and I still can’t make up my mind. I’m guessing it was good; this is theater we’re dealing with. This…

The inevitable challenge faced by Wii developers is this: Can you create a game so spectacularly awesome as to prompt a gamer to even consider ejecting Super Mario Galaxy from his console? The gravy train is over; good luck looking consumers in the eye while offering them another lame collection…

Barry Fellman has ushered in the new year with an embarrassment of riches at his Center for Visual Communications in Wynwood, where he is exhibiting 120 prints from the archives of Long Island’s storied Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE). “I’m really excited by the exhibit. It’s a major coup,” Fellman…