Arts & Culture

It’s Friday night and all you want to do is laugh. Not in your head, and not that breathy cubicle laugh. You want to laugh like there’s no one else in the room; laugh till your sides hurt; laugh till something warm trickles down your leg. If this is how…

The Marie Chouinard Dance Company has been exciting international audiences since 1990, but the much-discussed Montreal compagnie has not graced Miami stages with its unique brand of modern dance until now. No, this is not your hippie mother’s modern dance troupe, no way, no how. Visually and conceptually, Chouinard is…

Lincoln Road, Ocean Drive, and Washington Avenue serve as impromptu runways for models and wannabes alike 365 days a year. But starting today until Monday, April 16, these guys and gals will have a ton of official places to strut their stuff, complete with bona fide runways for the models…

Tonight the Momentum Dance Company kicks off its ten-day Miami Beach Dance Festival, featuring dance companies from around North America and beyond. Flamenco, ballet, modern; you can see it all at various locales around town, with most of the action taking place at the Byron Carlyle Theater. Among the performances…

If you’ve never heard of PostSecret, you’re either an internet idiot, or you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past four years. Frank Warren’s community art project began innocuously enough — in 2004, he handed out blank postcards in the hopes that people would anonymously mail him their secrets…

The Big Read — a month-long program aimed at increasing the public’s love of all things literary — is currently underway in South Florida. The Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College (MDC) is offering film screenings, open forums, book discussions, panels, art exhibits, and musical and…

During the late Nineties, identity clip artist Nikki S. Lee earned herself a spot on the art world’s most wanted list with snapshots in which she flimflammed her way into other people’s lives. In her celebrated “Projects” series, the artist skulked along the boundaries of truth and fiction, disguising herself…

While great minds of the past set themselves to curing diseases or explaining the laws of the universe, today our best and brightest aspire to another sort of goal: building robots that can fight each other. This year’s BotsIQ National Robotics Competition starts today at the Miami Beach Convention Center…

“Free is a good price for beer; there is really nothing fancy about it,” quips Herb Garfinkle, owner of Sunset Billiards. Every Wednesday night starting at 7:00, patrons can enjoy free ice cold domestic drafts while shooting pool on the Brunswick Gold Crown Tournament tables. Now you can see if…

Drinking and dashing, for the fun of it What’s better than running, then drinking? Drinking, running, drinking, running, and then drinking some more, of course! And that’s exactly what was on the menu last Monday, when I joined the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Hash House Harriers for their weekly “Wild Card Hash,”…

Vincent Guadazno Despite her breast efforts… With a book title like Stacked: A 32DDD Reports From the Front, author Susan Seligson was already expecting at least a little attention. As a woman with a rack of her own, she’s been on the receiving end of the male gaze for most…

David at upnup.blogspot.com Friday night, Club Mansion; something’s different. Sure there are a million and one people drinking like fish and grinding to beats that don’t exist. But what is that long stretch of stage reaching into the crowd? Suddenly, the stripper-wannabes inhabiting the stage were yanked away, and a…

Stop Miami is coming to a stop When Stop Miami came on the nightlife scene almost three years ago, more than a few hipsters heralded it as a savior. An outpost of understated cool in the burgeoning Wynwood District, Stop was where you went for a glass of good, affordable…

In a picture at the Kevin Bruk Gallery, an ostrich-necked geisha faces away from the spectator, her grapefruit-size head almost floating in a creamy buttermilk sky. She wears what appears to be a bearskin frock, cut low to reveal the broad expanse of her back. Two oily plumes of smoke…

“Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I”: MoCA’s institutional toast to the legendary choreographer’s career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists, and features costumes and decor actually used in his company’s productions. The exhibit includes works by Sandra…

A video game about birds flying biplanes makes as much sense as a game about fish captaining submarines, but there are far bigger gripes to be found in Wing Island for the Wii. “In a world ruled by birds,” explains the manual’s grim version of the future, Sparrow Wing Jr…

It’s ironic that Laundry Bar, a place with quite a bit of soap, is actually the filthiest joint in town. At least it is one Monday a month, for the Queen Cabaret drag revue, a glorious parade of men with improbable wigs, platform shoes, and a pathological need for a…