Getting your hair cut is an intimate experience, and finding a new stylist is like meeting a new sexual partner. You have to find out if you’re compatible. If they’re worth the cost and risk. You wear your hair on your head every single day, so whomever is manhandling it…
Miami is one of the most pet-friendly places to live. Lincoln Road is overrun with little dogs wearing designer labels, and there are probably just as many cats curled up in a spot of sun waiting for their humans to come home. And yet there are still literally thousands of…
Microtheater Miami: Speed Dating for Theater Lovers
There’s really no such thing as Good Thursday, which we’re defining here as April 5, the night before Good Friday and Passover. But if you haven’t been sticking to your Lenten commitments, you can at least earn some points for showing up to support local music. To ring in the…
Religion tends to be divisive as well as unifying, while soul music is typically only the latter. That is, of course, unless it involves Clarence Reid, AKA Blowfly, the most foulmouthed, motherfuckin’, panty-sniffin’, sex-crazed old man you will ever care to come across. To those with a certain foul mentality…
On this holy weekend, God bless Sweat Records for putting on all-ages shows that aren’t in obscure warehouses that make anyone who is over 18 (or 21) feel like an abject weirdo for showing up. Rather, the shop’s in-stores are some of the few events where a truly wide age…
Despite the fact that winter came to a close last month, a few Canadian snowbirds still linger in South Florida, many of whom are eager to catch Alberta’s beloved FC Edmonton take on our very own Florida Strikers in a North American League Soccer showdown. On Saturday at 7:30 p.m.,…
Can we get an “amen”? Unless you have kids or are so religious that the idea of the resurrection of your lord and savior gives you crazy spiritual orgasms, Easter is a pretty lame holiday. OK, the Cadbury eggs and marshmallow Peeps are pretty cool. But when you wake up…
Gather ’round, ye fairy-tale lovers, ye Dungeons & Dragons players, ye Game of Thrones watchers, all. For we come with a tale sure to strike a pleasant tune — something played on a lute or a mandolin perhaps — in your very heart. The Florida Renaissance Festival is upon us,…
Alliance Lab’s Off Center of Nowhere, now playing at the Main Street Playhouse, can best be described as Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner meets All in the Family with a splash of the film Crash. It’s funny, poignant, and at one point, deadly serious. But that kind of emotional roller-coaster…
Poppy Champlin’s restless, roving comedic mind was forged in the pressure cooker of Second City, and it gracefully alights on any subject on any night. But on the Queer Queens of Qomedy Tour, it probably sticks close to the night’s binding theme: lesbianism, and the terrors and triumphs thereof. Codependency,…
March was a cruel month for your Miami Heat. Just as they entered the All-Star break, looking like an unstoppable basketball force, they came out for the second half of the season looking like a horde of hung-over zombies. A wicked road trip saw them battered and bruised at the…
Poetry is good for a hell of a lot more than impressing that girl you had a crush on back in middle school. Luckily, the University of Wynwood is here to remind us of all the grown-up reasons to love modern verse. This very poetry-friendly month of April continues Wednesday…
The Cannes Film Festival is the ideal gathering for movie buffs. It has become a significant showcase for European films and welcomes A-list stars such as Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, and Penelope Cruz every year. However, the festival takes place in France and is invitation-only, so unless you have a…
Mounting a group show of more than 40 artists can be a massive undertaking for any institution, let alone one using a space about the size of an average living room. But that is what indie curator Adal Delgado has managed to pull off with his all-female photography exhibit at…
Goethe, the German writer who found his aesthetic inspiration in 18th-century Italy, wrote that “to have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.” Unfortunately, the bulk of Miami remains without the clue to everything because of…
If you’ve ever looked at shipping containers lined up at the port and thought, It’d be really great to gather a dozen people, break into one of those, and enjoy a weirdly awesome night of performance with a group of Spanish actors prone to traipsing around former brothels, you’re (A)…
From Natasha Duwin to David LeRoi, Hugo Moro, Nina Surel, and Antonia Wright, ArtCenter/South Florida is home to some of the region’s most notable creative names. And you have the chance to win one of their masterpieces. ArtCenter’s 38 resident artists are each creating a signature opus for “Winning Art!”…
Titanic 3D and American Reunion Test the Shelf Life of Clinton-Era Nostalgia
The Raid: Redemption pits cops versus thugs in this high-powered high-rise fight flick
The Forgiveness of Blood at O Cinema April 5-8
When my editor asked me to cover a meeting of the Florida Skyliners, a congregation of Miami’s tallest residents, at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, she told me it was because I live in Palm Beach County, where the gardens are located. But I suspect the…
