Arts & Culture

While the days are getting shorter, the heat, humidity, and threat of hurricanes continue to linger throughout August and September. And as predictable as pit stains on a pizza delivery boy, Miami Spice Restaurant Month returns for its fifth year. If you are not familiar with this cheaper-eats program, Campo…

Wander through South Beach on any given Sunday afternoon, and you might feel as though you’ve stumbled into an anteroom of the Westminster Kennel Club. Pooches are everywhere, holding court at al fresco eateries and strutting jauntily into boutiques. Although most establishments on the Beach seem to have become pet-friendly…

When prepared correctly, the Puerto Rican dish mofongo is a little sweet, a little salty, filling and decadent, and infused with the smoky succulence of bacon. The indigenous mishmash is so yummy it’s difficult to describe. The culinary delight makes a perfect title for the first full-length album by popular…

After countless boxing movies and memorable matches, from screen legends like Rocky Balboa to real-life legends such as Muhammad Ali, Miami-Dade Parks will host the boxing spectacle you’ve been waiting for: a match between eight-year-olds. USA Boxing members from Key West to West Palm Beach, ages eight to adults, are…

“Nice gams!” You’ve heard the comments from co-workers and construction workers alike, but do you think you have the best legs in America? If yours are long, lean, and naturally toned and curvy without the aid of calf implants, you should compete in today’s “Legs of a Goddess” contest at…

Flying over Haiti reveals the unmistakable effects of deforestation. The parched earth looks like an open wound. The lack of greenery is stark in comparison to other Caribbean islands. “Haiti used to be green. But people gotta eat, they gotta cook. So they cut down the trees to make charcoal,…

Having driven in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston, we can honestly say Miami has the worst drivers. They may not know how to use a turn signal or stop at a red light, but they sure know how to lay on the bone-rattling train horn…

If you want to give your noodle a treat, let it boil at the Sergio Leone Retrospective this month at the Miami Beach Cinematheque. Named so because of the Italian studios that extruded them during the Sixties, spaghetti Westerns are often regarded as corny or tastelessly violent, but the off-putting…

Unlike George and Jerry’s pilot episode, Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is about something. Boy meets girl, boy and girl get engaged, evil Don John tricks boy into thinking someone is shagging girl, girl fakes death, the truth is revealed, and Dogberry saves the day. It’s a little more action…

Nicole Henry knows how to mesmerize an audience. Whether she is belting out “Fly Me to the Moon” or “Over the Rainbow,” Henry has a rare talent for commanding a room. Her voice has been described as lush, powerful, and sultry, as well as full of “emotion that seeps sincerely…

Maybe it’s the classic cursive blue logo. Or the legendary names — Roy Campanella, Sandy Koufax, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider — of seasons past. Or the embellished nostalgia of the days of yore in Brooklyn. Or the eternal spirit of Tommy Lasorda. Whatever causes it, there is…

Very little appears to be happening in some of Jamilah Abdul-Sabur’s imagery, and perhaps that is precisely her message. For her project, opening tonight at 6:00 at Diaspora Vibe Gallery, the young artist documented people as they navigated down-at-the-heels sections of Baltimore, attempting to focus on the socioeconomic disparities among…

Moviemakers in America have it pretty good. Thanks to the First Amendment, directors and writers can make a subversive celluloid statement without it being banned by the government. Stricter regimes around the world have prevented the release of motion pictures over objections to political undercurrents, religious imagery, and sexual content,…

Big Daddy Kane first tried to set the record straight in 1989, with “Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy.” Just last year, Memphis bass heads Three 6 Mafia attempted to reinforce that message, with the Academy Award-winning “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.” Rather than trying to convince a skeptical audience about…

If you come across a woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated, chances are she is wearing a swimsuit, because in the testosterone-laden sports media, many female athletes have a difficult time getting respect. Tanith Belbin, who skated away with a silver medal at the 2006 Torino Olympics, recently garnered…

Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…

Flight sims — games that emulate the experience of being in a cockpit — are plenty popular on PCs, but have never taken off on home consoles. This is partly due to their inherent complexity. When it comes to recreating an entire cockpit’s worth of buttons, levers, and gizmos, the…

A brief lesson for those who were asleep during eleventh-grade American history: The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, thereby ending Prohibition. Although the days of speakeasies are long gone and public drunkenness has been taken to new levels, Amendment XXI Lounge exists as a thankful reminder of why its…