Arts & Culture

Su-en Wong: At Kevin Bruk Gallery, Su-en Wong parodies and pulverizes preconceptions of Asian women in a show that’s both brazen and brainy. Mining the muck of porn fantasy, Wong clones herself in paintings and drawings in which she often appears nude or draped in suggestive schoolgirl regalia, turning the…

Anyone who played games back in the olden days (i.e., the late ’80s) knows they used to be a lot tougher. Cartridges back then subscribed to the “Oh, you want some of this?” school of game design. They made you gnash your teeth, throw your controller, and bellow four-letter words…

It’s Super Bowl weekend, and South Florida is in a frenzy. Every little neighborhood bar is putting together some kind of shindig, but how does a discriminating reveler know where to go? It all depends on the size of your money clip. There are happenings for the high-end, the low-end,…

Although Super Bowl XLI is days away, THEY Improv will not be making fun of it. The comedy group simply respects intellectual property law too much to make light of such a valuable commodity. And there isn’t very much material there for the troupe’s brand of humor anyway. Football? Football…

VH1 isn’t just for B- and C-list stars hoping to move their way up – or on their way down — the celeb food chain. Even your Z-list ass might be able to grab a few seconds of fame: You, Kanye West, John Legend, and Fergie will be performing at…

Boats and babes: They’re synonymous with Miami, and — let’s face it — the reason many of us live in South Florida. You can enjoy an eyeful of both at tonight’s Boats and Bikinis street fair, sponsored by Luxe Marine, on San Lorenzo Avenue at the Village of Merrick Park…

Shopping for a great Valentine’s Day gift can be as grueling as finding a parking space at Dadeland Mall the day after Thanksgiving. After searching for hours, you settle for whatever is available, like a heart-shape box of generic candy. Instead of buying your honey some bland bonbons, this weekend…

What happens when Super Bowl week, a great celebration of American excess, hits South Beach, a community not exactly known for restraint? Does “350 top fashion models playing beach volleyball in front of a crowd of more than 10,000” sound about right? Well that’s the idea behind Ocean Drive’s fourteenth-annual…

When it comes to quenching a jones, Tim Calver simply reaches for his camera and dives into the drink. The hydroholic lensman can often be found immersed in one of the seven seas, capturing breathtaking aquatic scenes that have appeared in National Geographic and Time. “Surface,” an exhibit of his…

So you couldn’t score coveted tickets to the big game. Whether you’re in the Colts club, rooting for da Bears, or a local fete fiend, usher in the game at today’s Super Saturday Blast on Biscayne at Bicentennial Park. Fans and partygoers — about 10,000 to 20,000 of them –…

With a touch of technology and a cast of international performers, Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros is set to premiere Program II tonight at 8:00 at the Gusman Theater. The ever-innovative Gamonet promises to delight audiences with entertaining and inspiring performances by his Ballet Gamonet ensemble of dancers from the…

Even though her most famous portraits feature her nude, save for a spangly headdress and a skirt of bananas, Josephine Baker is remembered as some kind of saintly figure. To hear her adopted son Jean-Claude Baker tell it, she would have loathed any such pretensions: “Josephine was a naughty girl!…

Loving sports is becoming extremely difficult around here. Gainesville has been cleaning up at the collegiate level (gag), while UM’s football Hurricanes fell apart, the Dolphins dived, the Marlins are still behaving like holiday guests, and the pro hockey team is…. Do we still have a pro hockey team? Worst…

Super Bowl weekend is to football-fanatical guys what tax-free week is to shopaholic women: a few days of Shangri-La. And sometimes, just sometimes, there’s an event where both sexes can experience this bliss. One of those events is Off the Field’s sixth annual Players’ Wives Fashion Extravaganza, hosted by Patricia…

Why is it that breaking stuff can be so therapeutic? Perhaps it’s the rush of releasing pent-up aggression, or the look on Grandma’s face when she sees that you “accidentally” broke her heirloom tea set. Regardless of the reason, the ladies at EveInterrupted.com know it feels good to be bad…

Lord knows there are enough Super Bowl parties taking place about town this weekend, and a legion of athletes and celebrities will be throwing cash around like it’s confetti. But many of these ballers didn’t make their fortunes by sheer talent alone. Take Earvin “Magic” Johnson, for instance. Skill and…

There is something about storytelling that is soothing to the soul. The oral tradition can take us back to childhood or subconsciously even further, to the ancient times before television and written words, when epic poems and age-old tales drew restless villagers around the campfire. The concept of coming closer…

Of course South Florida loves its Marlins and Heat, but if you take account of the glittering talent flowing from the New World School of the Arts (NWSA) for the past twenty years, can you think of an institution more deserving of a parade down Biscayne Boulevard? Since NWSA opened…

You can take two bites or swallow one whole; use your fingers or a pair of chopsticks. It’s the Asian equivalent of the uber-American pig-in-a-blanket, but prettier, more colorful, and sometimes uncooked. It’s sushi! And until about 30 years ago, these little rolls the size of a jar of Carmex…

The competition is always fierce for Gen Art’s Fresh Faces in Fashion show, but this year designers will have their eyes on the catwalk prize for a different reason. Say it with us — one name, two syllables, made for cooing into the ocean breeze: “Uli.” Just last year the…