Arts & Culture

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…

Along with red roses and candlelit dinners, a drugstore box of chocolates is probably one of the most overworked Valentine’s Day gifts of all time. So if the card your mate gave you last year went something like “Roses are red, violets are blue, your moves in the sack are…

Sent shivers since 1969 Fuck wine and baby quiche. When I go to a play, I want some hot wings and I want drink specials on Hennessey. Walking into the James L. Knight Center last night, I thought: I smell wings. Check. And at the bar — er, folding tables…

Que guapo! One of the biggest names in Cuban music has defected from the island with his wife and children and is living in Tampa, the LA Times reports in today’s paper. Issac Delgado has been called “the heart and soul,” of Timba music (a combination of jazz, salsa and…

Don’t let the lush, tropical grounds surrounding University of Miami’s Bill Cosford theater lull you into thinking things are just as delectable on the inside of the movie house. They’re not. Based on the smattering of movies I’ve seen from this year’s usually impressive repertoire of unconventional works, who ever…

For her solo debut 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,…

I’m So Much Better than You: Magnus Sigurdarson’s installation features four tons of Miami New Times papers interlocked like bricks to form a curving hip-high wall. It houses a DVD player and monitor where the artist is seen performing a puppet show in Xiamen, China. Sigurdarson, who was born in…

For most of us, the closest we get to practicing medicine is telling a depressed co-worker, “Somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.” But that doesn’t stop us from living vicariously through TV doctors. Now, with Trauma Center: Second Opinion, you can take your surgical dreams one step further. Thanks…

The tradition began wayyyy off-Broadway, when theatergoing snobs used to (un)affectionately refer to stage plays marked by gospel sangin’ and inspirational story lines as “chitlin’ theater.” These dramatic expressions of heartbreak and redemption featured the black stars of Seventies sitcoms and Eighties R&B. But when Tyler Perry’s stage-bred, cross-dressing Madea…

You are here. If you love maps, here should be the Miami-Dade Cultural Center, where the Historical Museum of Southern Florida is hosting the fourteenth annual Miami International Map Fair, a weekend in which tons of antique maps in various shapes and sizes will be on display. This celebration of…