Arts & Culture

If you pay attention to pop culture’s portrayal of love in Miami Beach, you would think it’s all about sex, drugs, and models. It isn’t? Apparently not, because the Miami Design Preservation League has been screening a whole film series, called Square Pegs in Round Holes, that focuses on characters…

Northeast 79th Street was kind of a dump before it suddenly became an up-and-coming area for fine food, art, and culture. Way back in 2003, the only artsy place-to-be was the Flower Bar – a funky flower shop and gallery that aimed to bring beauty to the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood…

People who are really into astrology set their calendars by the stars — planning where they’ll go and what they’ll do according to moon phases, planets in retrograde, and so on. Others look at the 12 symbols printed weekly in that little corner of the newspaper and think of that…

Even when Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour is off globetrotting, he doesn’t forget his peeps. Take for example a 2002 performance at a Madrid amphitheater, where he noticed that a group of poor Senegalese immigrants was trying to catch a glimpse of the show atop a dumpster outside. He sent them…

Cash your welfare check. Fix your car in the yard. Make fun of the one Arab family in town. Then sneak off to a cow pasture with your girlfriend. Life in West Virginia? Non. Actually that’s the depiction of life in northern France, specifically the Flanders region, where director Bruno…

Back in the day, he was Cassius Clay, a handsome and sharp young boxer with a smart mouth and a knack for showmanship. He had won the light-heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, but he hungered for a new title — Sonny Liston’s world heavyweight championship, to be…

People of Appalachia have long had an, uh, independent streak — the area remains a top pot-growing region – and that independence is perhaps manifested by extreme poverty. In decades past, these hillbillies brewed moonshine and then distributed it in souped-up cars. It got to be where the chase was…

In the years leading up to your senior prom, you imagined it would be a magical night of balloon arches and corsage/cummerbund coalescence. Instead it was a Cisco-induced blur that ended with your mom’s station wagon reeking of vomit. But tonight at Sweat Records’ Eighties Prom, you’ll have a chance…

Miami-Dade county commissioners and Animal Services Director Dr. Sara Pizano could learn a thing or two from Cesar Millan. The Dog Whisperer recently chatted with Riptide about his take on the county’s ban on pit bulls, arguably the most maligned dog breed in the universe. Since 1988, it has been…

Goya: The Engravings of the Caixanova Collection: The Spanish master’s skull-staving series of etchings created during the later stages of his career is on view for the first time in the United States in this must-see exhibit. The four series include Los Caprichos (The Caprices), 1799; Los Desastres de la…

Between 1976 and 1983, Argentina’s military dictatorship systematically tortured, killed, and “disappeared” 30,000 people suspected of opposing the government. During the so-called Dirty War, many citizens were dragged from their homes in the middle of the night and never seen again. The military junta deployed terror tactics, torturing victims at…

Castlevania, the vampire-hunting series that spans 20 years and as many games, has basically two kinds of fans. There are the traditionalists, who’ve followed the games since they were straight-up action titles with thumb-busting combat and infamously steep difficulty curves. Most agree that the best old-school Castlevania is 1993’s Rondo…