To most, art begins with a piece of paper and efforts of drawing inside the lines. Yet, Audrey Hynes figured out the secret formula: skip the paper and start with the roots. Or, in her case, the trunk.For her MFA exhibition, “Neither Here Nor There,” opening this weekend at the…
The gnarliest of the master’s recent works, Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme starts with the first half shot almost entirely on video, and provides a dense, visually ravishing metaphor for Western Civilization: Europe is allegorized as a Mediterranean luxury cruise ship in which the casino doubles as a chapel and philosopher…
German art book publisher Taschen’s got the 20-pound book thing under control. Remember The Big Penis Book and The Big Book of Breasts? Old sexy pics of giant members and huge tatas? These are the kinds of art books that stay on the coffee table and aren’t relegated to propping…
Bitch is an enigma. Probably due to her name of choice, even Google finds it hard to track her. Whether Bitch is screaming through a megaphone or playing the ukulele, when you see Bitch, time stops.The lesbian, freak, virtuoso, is a legend among LGBT women, including Ani DiFranco, whom Bitch…
Sam Shepard’s mythic play Fool For Love, which opens tonight at the Alliance Theatre Lab, is set in a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert and tells the story of Eddie and May, two young lovers who also happen to be half-siblings. Eddie is a rough-spoken rodeo…
You won’t find Miami-based belly dancer Tamalyn Dallal standing still. The performer, teacher, and choreographer also writes books, produces CDs, and directs films. Catch her latest creation, the documentary film Zanzibar Dance, Trance, and Devotion, at the Miami Beach Cinematheque (1130 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) Thursday. A Q&A with Dallal…
Long before Octomom (AKA Nadya Suleman) was implanted with a dozen embryos by a California doctor, diverse cultures across Africa employed sacred objects to ensure fecundation. Octodoc, Michael Kamrava, later had his license revoked when it was discovered he had also produced Suleman’s first six kids through in vitro fertilization…
Stressed? Don’t distress, de-stress. Treat your honey to at least one night’s freedom from the soul-numbing pressure of the daily grind at The Palms Hotel & Spa’s Sip ‘n’ Spa Thursdays. The posh Miami Beach resort is offering 50-percent off all spa and salon treatments from 1 to 9 p.m…
Wynwood Second Saturday Art Walk June 11: from Dada to Armada
Film Socialisme: Jean-Luc Godard’s take on Europe then and now
Super 8: J.J. Abrams’s superfun, superloud catastrophe flick
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff at O Cinema June 11 and 12
Miami theater this week: Summer Shorts, good vibrations, desire, and love
You might think every day is a bacchanalia in the Southernmost city in the United States, but there actually is an official Key West Bacchanalia, an orgy of good food and strong drink that takes place Thursday through Sunday, June 12, at venues all over town. Rum and gin tastings,…
Get the goods from chef Paula DaSilva of hot-hot-hot 1500 Degrees at an interactive culinary demo and luncheon set for Saturday, June 18, at Coral Gables’ historic Biltmore Hotel. From noon to 2 p.m., you can sip Champagne de Castellane Brut Rosé while DaSilva prepares whitewater clams with chorizo and…
Tourist season might be over, but grilling season is here in full force, so take the grrr out of grill with a few tips from one of Miami’s savviest chefs. Jonathan McCann of Atrio Restaurant in Miami’s Conrad Hotel will pass on recipes for grilling shrimp, mahi-mahi, beef, and pork,…
Take everybody’s favorite fowl (chicken), prepare it everybody’s favorite way (fried) and serve it in everybody’s favorite manner (all you can eat) and you’ve got unrestrained gluttony. Well, yes. But you’ve also got the third annual summertime all you can eat fried chicken feast at “>Michy’s. At dinner every Wednesday…
More than 40 wines from all over the world, plus gin, single-malt Scotch, and haute hors d’oeuvres make up the Gourmet Experience at the Crown Wine & Spirits in Pinecrest. From 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, they’ll pour samples of a half-dozen sparkling wines, as well as reds such as…
The best rum in the world is called Barbancourt, and it comes from Haiti. This top-shelf liquor is so smooth you can pour it in your cereal for breakfast. And did you know the Haitian city of Les Cayes is the world’s number one exporter of vetiver? That plant’s essential…
If you remember the ’90s, you probably remember hating on boy bands. And if you were a Neanderthal (ignorant straight guy), you probably remember telling your girlfriend and your little sister that the guys from ’N Sync, 98 Degrees, and the Backstreet Boys were fags. Well, in at least one…
If former President Bill Clinton wrote a novel about a fictional prez’s dalliances with a cherub-faced White House intern, you couldn’t help but think he was making a statement about what actually happened with Monica Lewinsky, right? Same goes for former senator and two-term Florida governor Bob Graham and his…
Cephus Miles’s story is not a happy one. First he has the misfortune of being born black into the Jim Crow-era South. Then his childhood sweetheart marries a career man while away at college. Next he gets drafted into the Vietnam War. He resists and is imprisoned for five years…
