Arts & Culture

“Sweet Bird of Youth”: This photo-based exhibit, curated by Claire Breukel, features selections from the Debra and Dennis Scholl collection that focus on an evolution of time and place based on the mundane. Breukel has combined imagery of banal, barren landscapes with the loaded rituals of female adolescence to convey…

After starring in 20 years’ worth of video games, the Super Mario Brothers have been spread mighty thin. The mustachioed heroes’ latest outing, however, takes this concept to a literal extreme. Paradoxically, Super Paper Mario is like every Mario game you’ve ever played — and like nothing you’ve seen before…

The NBA playoffs are here! We love this game! But for real, we’ll love it more if the Heat can get by the Bulls in the first round. The way it looks, if the Heat loses game six, it could be the last time they play at home this season…

The common thread among the LA Dodgers’ best players is that they all reached their professional apexes when beating Yankees. Luis Gonzales had the clutch final hit off the Bronx Bombers in the World Series back in 2001. Nomar “Nohhhmaaaa” Garciaparra was with the Red Sox for eight-plus Yankee-hating seasons…

Madonna and Angelina Jolie have made it fashionable, but Mia Farrow started the trend long ago. It seems that nowadays, adopting a foreign baby is the Hollywood way of getting good press. But local playwright Susan J. Westfall knows firsthand how significant of a life change the decision can be…

For those of you who think that Miami is all about sunbathing and matching bikinis, think again! We’ve got culture, class, and a little something for everyone — even the classical piano-lovers. Yup, this month marks the tenth anniversary of the Miami International Piano Festival: Discovery Series. To commemorate a…

In terms of artistic interest, the battle between heaven and hell has been more one-sided than the Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals. What’s the best book in the New Testament? Revelation. The best character in Paradise Lost? Satan. And does anyone even remember Dante’s Paradiso? The world-famous choreography team…

To you and I, Samantha from Bewitched might have been just a blond broad with some mean allergies, and Jeannie the “genie” little more than a subservient vagabond. But occult expert and Wiccan High Priestess Rev. Sandra Cheryl Richardson felt a kinship with these sitcom characters. “I always had a…

Maibaumfest, or Spring Festival, is the traditional German celebration to end winter and celebrate the warm and green season. This is the first time that the German American Social Club of Greater Miami will host the free event for the public. The celebration takes place today and tomorrow, starting at…

May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Who knew? Well, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz did; she’s the politician who spearheaded the campaign to designate May as such. Thanks to her efforts, the Jewish Museum of Florida (301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) can present “Making America Harmonious: Jewish Contributions to the…

While we won’t tell a soul that you got that fabulous necklace at Claire’s for seven bucks, the tell-tale blush that rises in your cheeks when someone compliments you might give your shopping secret away. Here’s a tip from one fashionista to another. Making your own trinkets is the way…

There’s a preponderance of frizzy hair in Miami. Thanks to a unique combination of multiethnic residents and high humidity, local ladies have some of the most off-the-meter Rosanna Rosannadanna hair in the nation. Today, there’s hope on the horizon for those with the bad hair day blues — the Activate…

The Miami City Ballet is not only one of the top ballet companies in the US — it’s also a school for the best and brightest of South Florida’s up-and-coming dancers. And this weekend the kids are putting on a student showcase of their own. It’s like a ballet high…

Not so long ago the appeal of comic books was limited by the stigma attached to its traditional core audiences — dudes who live at home with their parents, quiet Japanese men, and, of course, dweebs. Today, with comic book heroes tearing up the box office, the growth of adult-oriented…

Being duped into buying cheesy Buns of Steel workout tapes is forgivable. You just wanted to get in shape! We won’t even blame you for letting them become dusty ornaments. But now that your buns have turned into the doughy kind, we will point the finger at you if you…

Even though Miami’s enormous Latin population skews to the Caribbean, and to the South, not Central, American side, there’s no reason why the Magic City wouldn’t be down with Cinco de Mayo. It’s all about partying, right? To celebrate the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla,…

Summer is nearly here and our tongues are already hanging out. Tell your furry buddies to bark, don’t fret. This weekend canines and their humans have a chance to batter up (no, we’re not talkin’ flapjacks) and show off at two fun events for our four-footed friends. Bring your slobbering…

On the southern end of the Biscayne corridor, between Overtown and what the powers that be are calling “midtown”, sits a large yellow fortress known as The Firefly. Behind the barbed-wire fence of the establishment, visitors will discover an intense art space where members of the Firefly Collective work on…

You shimmied hard when the Ying Yang Twins told you to “sh-shake it like a salt shaker,” and after Shakira bragged that her “Hips Don’t Lie” you couldn’t walk for three days. By the way, your hips lied like a rug. So tonight give your shake a rest and watch…

Five days a week, you can curl up in front of your TV and watch Judge Greg Mathis hand down judgments to wronged mistresses and slow-talking dope-fiends. But today and tomorrow, the judge will be settling a different kind of case: Youth vs. Premarital Sex. Why? “Having faced so many…