Arts & Culture

Pop culture has long relied on young women as a source of material. You’ve got your Gossip Girls, your Gallery Girls, your Bad Girls Club, and of course the HBO series Girls. You’ve got novels like Gone Girl, The Girls, and Kiss the Girls. You’ve heard about girls on film,…

All too often, Miami can seem like a city of haters, especially (and unfortunately) among its creative circles. We can be all too ready to build someone up as long as they’re trapped by our county borders, but we’re equally all too ready to start the smack talk the second…

What’s more Miami — specifically, more Cuban — than roasting and eating a giant, tasty pig with friends and neighbors? The second PALO! Cuban Pig Out at the Performing Arts Exchange (PAX) (337 SW Eighth St., Miami) is just that — with music, booze, and art added to the mix…

Coconut Grove will go to the mattresses as the neighborhood celebrates its annual Labor Day weekend pajama party, anchored by the Great Grove Bed Race this Sunday. The race has been around for several years, and participants have pretty much fine-tuned the drill: Five-member teams in costume race homemade beds…

There’s a brilliant duality in the large pop art paintings of GG, also known as Gabriel Gimenez. On the surface, he might seem obsessed with bright, solid colors and cartoon imagery featuring a squiggly-mouthed character with black asymmetrical circles for eyes, whom he calls Fado. But notice the margins and…

What happens when angry robot sluts attack? If you’re a brave soul who’s willing to risk potential public embarrassment for a night of gut-busting belly laughs, this is your chance to find out. Just the Funny Theater (3119 Coral Way, Miami), home of Miami’s own improv comedy troupe, is launching…

The Guava Rugelach Festival may be named after sweetly rich little pastries, but this festival is more a treat for your ears and eyes than your palate. The two-day event at Next@19th (137 NE 19th St., Miami) celebrates Miami’s diverse Jewish community through music. From songs in Ladino (a Sephardic…

The premise of new TBS sitcom Sullivan & Son could be the beginning of a bad bar joke. “So there’s this Asian guy, right? And his dad is Irish, but his mom is Korean. They own this bar, and this Asian guy leaves his job as a lawyer to run…

Third time’s a charm, optimists say. So the 95th time must be extra-lucky, right? The Miami Marlins’ starting lineup was the organization’s 95th variation this year, an embarrassingly high, however unsurprising, number. “I like the lineup we had,” Marlins skipper Ozzie Guillen told reporters after a 3-2 loss to Colorado…

Blessed — or maybe cursed — with fortuitous timing, Jon Shenk’s lionizing documentary of Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Maldives, the archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean consisting of 1,200 tiny islands, closely follows the charming president from 2008 to 2009, his first year…

Since the dawn of time, alcohol has helped historical figures make their decisions — for better or worse. The Ancient Greeks, monarchs, dictators, and even Jesus couldn’t live without a little liquid courage. In fact, great general and pocket-size emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was so hooked on Courvoisier that he took…

Havaianas flip flops have become an essential part of the Miami beach uniform in recent years, inspiring men and women alike to ditch those $2 sandals from Old Navy in favor of the slim straps and eye-catching colors and designs of the Brazilian brand. It’s impossible to walk down Lincoln…

See Pop-Up Pianos Infiltrate Art Basel.One of Art Basel Week 2011’s most recognizable public art series will return to town this December — and no, it’s not the traveling pink snails.The Pop-Up Piano Miami project, which debuted around town during Basel week last year, is now seeking artist submissions for…