In a city where revelers regularly debauch until 5 a.m., Sleepless Night is more than just an excuse to stay up all night. No, in this town, where folks often greet sunrise with another vodka Red Bull, the event stands out because it transforms Miami Beach into one giant 13-hour…
Aside from pitching a tent outside Government Center for Occupy Miami, there’s another way to boost the 99 percent’s economic standing without getting roughed up by cops. Buy handmade. Every time you throw down some green at a big-box store, the employees continue to endure minimum wage while some fat…
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb? One. He holds the bulb, and all of Europe revolves around him. No, but seriously, if there’s one thing France is at the center of, it’s film. The Lumière brothers practically invented it in 1895 Paris; then the New…
Short-story writer and essayist Steve Almond has made a career out of examining the manic state of modern American life, and his new book, God Bless America, pulls no punches. He has filled his third short-story collection with empathetic glimpses into the lives of everyday Americans by crafting narratives both…
What’s worse than being forced to spend an extended and unnecessary amount of time with your family thanks to holidays and weddings? Being stuck inside with them while a hurricane rages outside. Such is the ordeal that befalls three siblings and their parents in Captiva, 2011 Carbonell Award winner Christopher…
For his latest daring Miami stage experiment, Joseph Adler, producing artistic director of GableStage, presents Red, John Logan’s six-time Tony Award-winning play about Russian-American abstract artist Mark Rothko. Set in 1958, the drama centers on the sometimes-antagonistic interaction between Rothko and his assistant Ken as they create what was at…
Santa Claus is a bit of a jerk. He works one day a year and spends the other 364 judging you. Why do we find it necessary to leave milk and cookies for a pessimistic, fat scumbag like Old Saint Nick? It’s time we take back Christmas from the lazy…
Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a master of the Dutch Golden Age, not a master of golden showers. Or was he? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t create works that were considered risque for the 1600s. A collection of 20 of Rembrandt’s etchings, which historians, curators,…
Garth Fagan choreographed the spectacular Broadway production of The Lion King, sealing his legacy. But there’s much more to the 71-year-old Fagan than leaping gazelles and flying baboons. His company, Garth Fagan Dance, has set the standard for contemporary dance inspired by the many movement styles of the African diaspora…
Coinciding with the book fair this year is “We Are the Ship,” on view at the Freedom Tower. The exhibit features paintings, sketches, and educational materials from award-winning artist and illustrator Kadir Nelson’s tome We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, which will be available for sale…
The 27th edition of the nation’s largest literary hoedown, Miami Book Fair International, will draw hundreds of authors and thousands of bibliophiles to the streets of downtown. With more than 200 exhibitors from across the country selling books in a family-friendly atmosphere, this edition celebrates the culture of China. This…
All eyes will turn to the Big Mango in December, when Art Basel transforms the 305 and adjacent latitudes into the planet’s largest city-wide arts confab with the likes of Picasso, Warhol, Beuys, Hirst, and Emin shopped out at the Miami Beach Convention Center and close to a dozen satellite…
California has the Carlos Santana Arts Academy and a school auditorium named for comedian George Lopez. But we’re pretty sure there aren’t many schools named after visual artists. But then again, Faith Ringgold isn’t the average talent. At a new Miami Art Museum exhibit, discover why the Harlem native boasts…
No longer a sleeping giant in the art-world arena, China has become one of the hottest markets for contemporary works on the global stage. “China: Insights” boasts a strong argument for the reasons why. It features 150 photographs by seven Chinese shutterbugs exploring the relationship between contemporary photography and visual…
Theatergoers will squirm in their seats and itch to swap notes after the curtain falls during Next to Normal, a gripping musical production that has snagged three Tony Awards and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It portrays a dysfunctional clan trying to stem off a looming implosion, with music…
Prepare to get bowled over at the Light Box at Goldman Warehouse when Miami Dade College’s Cultura del Lobo series unleashes Nora Chipaumire’s scalding presence on the intimate stage. The fiery Zimbabwean artist’s dance work is a visual, aural, and kinesthetic equivalent of Africa’s urban experience through a female lens…
The Frost Art Museum salutes 2012 with a duet of solos by women artists, one of whom explores the feminine universe while the other creates vivid canvases that till the furrows of life in the Amazon. Annette Turillo focuses on the theme of women in “Women and the Eternal Feminine,”…
Joey “Twinkle Fingers” Hernandez is a true Miami brawler and the world junior middleweight champion. He’s also Don King’s newest knuckle scientist, he throws a left hook like a Mack truck, and this Saturday at 6 p.m., he’ll defend his belt against Mexico’s Elco “the Animal” García. Don King Presents…
Disgusting is a new video series in which interviewing is only half the fun (trying not to vomit is the other). All interviews take place in a disgusting, Miami environment from public bathrooms to the underbelly of urban living.Today on Disgusting, writer Nathaniel Sandler, co-founder of Allography.com, joins your host,…
The inimitable Miami Book Fair is just around the corner. For those who say that Miami is a cultural wasteland, we say, “phooey!” For an intellectual vortex, we sure get lucky hosting the best, brightest, and biggest names in the literary world every year.And that is why the coolest, edgiest,…
There are several European galleries that maintain a second outpost in Wynwood. Usually, the dealers visit their spaces here once or twice a year, primarily during Art Basel. It’s a cheap way to gain a foothold in our art scene and save on renting a booth during the fair.Many of…
While watching The Addams Family musical last night at the Adrienne Arsht Center, we were struck by the realization that the entire pop culture phenomenon is basically an extension of the idea of “opposite day.” Bad is good, gloom trumps happiness, death is preferable to life, weird is normal, and…
