Arts & Culture

Miami art this week: the wilderness and erotic art

A free cooking class by chef Alejandro Piñero of midtown Miami’s farm-to-table Sustain Restaurant + Bar is on the schedule of Coral Gables’ Whole Foods Market for Wednesday. The demo will begin at 7 p.m. and feature seasonally inspired dishes assembled from locally sourced ingredients. And you get to taste…

More than 50 wines, hors d’oeuvres, cigars, a souvenir wine glass, and the chance to talk to certified cork dorks will all be at one place this Wednesday. From 6 to 8 p.m., Doral’s ABC Fine Wine & Spirits will host its Welcome to Wine Country bash. It’ll cost you…

Randy Singer is no slouch. The guy has played, recorded, and/or toured with the likes of Julio Iglesias, Al Di Meola, Desmond Child, Caetano Veloso, and Stephen Marley to name a few. His virtuosity with the harmonica is world renowned in the recording industry, and he’s done shows around the…

There were about 100 years between the Civil War and The Mariel Boatlift when Miami was more characterized by its Southern heritage than any worldliness. Those were the days when a cheek full of chewing tobacco, a banjo, and a jug of moonshine were the perfect remedy to a long…

According to neuroscientist David Eagleman, our consciousness is on a time delay. The millisecond lag is when the brain processes all sensory input and offers the best story of what exactly is going down (AKA reality). So imagine being on a flight when the cabin’s roof rips off, exposing the…

Hair is a form of communication: A mullet or Mohawk speaks volumes about a person. And in the ’60s, it was all about the length of one’s mane. Letting your hair grow out meant you were breaking with your parents’ conservative choice of coifs and mores — choosing to tune…

Don’t expect sullen lawmen pistol-whipping horse thieves or renegade Indians attacking wagon trains in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff. “It’s not a shoot-’em-up type of movie,” explains Robert Rosenberg, director of the Coral Gables Art Cinema, where the critically acclaimed picture is making its Magic City debut. Instead, the Miami-born indie…

So prom was a disaster. Your date puked, your best friend spent the entire night crying in the bathroom, and the DJ played nothing but booty bass for drunk cheerleaders. That’s OK. For all but the scariest pep-squad types, prom is designed to suck. Now that you’re a grownup and…

We usually get so drunk and high on Memorial Day weekend that we forget what happened. We have the odd flashback of doing tequila shots with a stripper from Nebraska and waking up in the fountain at the Fontainebleau. Last year, we think we might have tried doing stand-up comedy…

Miami is immensely proud of its Cuban A-listers. Andy Garcia, Gloria Estefan, Desi Arnaz, Pitbull, and even Steven Bauer (holla at ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?) still hold a special place in the 305’s heart. So it’s a little odd that we don’t automatically consider Hollywood Latina icon, accomplished musician, and Miss…

Know what we love about living in Miami? All the British culture. Have you ventured into Little Britain for some Cornish pasties or over to London Town for a sleeve of McVitie’s digestive cookies? Of course you haven’t. Save for the odd double-decker bus and Winston portrait courtesy of Churchill’s…

As an artist, R&B singer Trey Songz thrives on being perfectly competent. He doesn’t have the outsize personality of R. Kelly, the songwriting chops of Ne-Yo, the consistent crossover potential of T-Pain, or the ability to put an album together like The-Dream. But nonetheless he’s the biggest male star in…

You won’t need goggles, a snorkel, or swim fins to attend the inaugural Underwater Film Festival this Saturday at the Miami Science Museum (3280 S. Miami Ave., Miami). But we can guarantee you’ll have more fun if you wear them. Actually, you won’t even have to get wet — unless…

In 1931, Berlin crowds were enthralled by two little, toothbrush-mustached men who were born in April 1889 to alcoholic fathers and sick mothers: Adolph Hitler and Charlie Chaplin. Understandably, the Tramp was more than a bit disturbed by this comparison to Herr Wolf, saying, “Just think: He’s the madman; I’m…

In arguably the most successful comedy family in showbiz history, Keenen Ivory is the big brother, Damon is the most independent, and Shawn and Marlon Wayans are the runts of the litter. After playing inept hoods in Keenen’s 1988 cult classic, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, the two youngest Wayans…

Billed as a “five-day fun frenzy,” Sizzle Miami is America’s premier gay urban celebration. Started as a one-day party called Sex on the Beach, Sizzle has turned into a nearly full week of bowling, cheese and wine socials, film screenings, comedy and R&B acts, and water sports. Oh yeah, and…

It was the film that launched Marlon Brando’s career, and the play that earned Tennessee Williams his first Pulitzer. It is a timeless tale of fading beauty, the New Orleans working class, rape, and a dude in a wifebeater who belts out one of the most famous scenes in showbiz…

Artist Mark Boulos translated Karl Marx’s idea of commodity fetishism into “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air,” a film exhibit newly acquired by the Miami Art Museum. Titled after a line in Marx’s Communist Manifesto, the work consists of two films played simultaneously on opposing walls. One shows traders…

The ’90s were a transitional period. We were coming down from our ’80s cocaine high and settling into a new world that was relatively peaceful and prosperous. President Bill Clinton’s most pressing problem was keeping his wandering eye for full-figured interns in check. The nation’s biggest crisis was the supply…