Arts & Culture

Are you a Miranda (a cynical feminist), a Charlotte (a hopeless romantic), or a Samantha (a shameless slut)? Because you’re an actual, breathing human being and not a fictional, one-dimensional female stereotype, you likely don’t identify with any of these Sex and the City characters. You probably think of yourself…

Sick of settling for adult-targeted jokes thrown into your kid’s Disney movies? Want something to do with the family that won’t make your friends cringe when you tell them about it? Then come for a night of live, explosive, energetic, unleashed entertainment courtesy of WWE’s Monday Night Raw. You already…

The wilderness is tough for a real party animal. One time our friend the zebra walked into a bar and asked, “Can I get a red stripe?” The bartender looked up and said, “We don’t serve Jamaicans here.” We broke that snarky bastard’s ribs, smashed every bottle on the top…

He died of consumption. Sounds like a cause of death better suited to Europe during the Middle Ages. But Miami? Turns out H. Graham Branscomb, a 24-year-old Englishman (had to be!), became the first person to be officially buried at the Miami City Cemetery when he died as a result…

Say what you want about soccer in this country (it’s a second-tier sport, it’s popular only because of soccer moms, and there’s not enough tackling), but the rivalry between the American and Mexican teams is among the most passionate on the continent. Mexicans never tire of besting their gringo brethren,…

Come fly with Diavolo, tempts the new South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. Diavolo, which literally means both “day” and “I fly,” features an eclectic group of dancers, gymnasts, and actors that redefines dance through dynamic movement, trust, and teamwork. The award-winning performing arts troupe from Los Angeles will be in…

Here in the subtropics, we don’t have motherly queens and stately princes. We have something far more regal: the quinceañera. Donning a Swarovski crystal-encrusted princess crown and flowing ball gown, she wanders the manicured lawns of the Italian Renaissance-inspired Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, stopping to lean against a wrought-iron gate…

Remember playing kickball outside with the neighborhood kids? Those days are so over. Now the young’uns are holed up inside, glued to their videogames (at least roaming pedophiles will have a harder time locating potential victims). And gaming isn’t exclusive to whiny brats either. Sure, back when the only game…

Every day, 82-year-old Bill Cunningham stands on a bustling NYC street corner and takes pictures of strangers. He’s not a creep; he’s the photographer behind the New York Times’ weekly “On the Street” column. And to appear in one of his street-fashion roundups is validation you’re sporting a trend months…

So awards season is officially over, right? The Golden Globes are behind us, and the Oscars are just a distant point in our rear-view mirror where Colin Firth is still grinning and Natalie Portman is scratching her head. The 53rd Grammy Awards are just a vague and blurry memory where…

Last year, after a North Korea torpedo sunk one of its warships, South Korea aimed speakers across the border and blasted the pop song “HuH (Hit Your Heart).” The girl group 4minute chirped out, “Baby, you’re kidding me?/I do what I want and I do it my way.” All hail…

How do you beat writer’s block? Do you thrash your head against a wall? Down a fifth of Jack and mutter atonal Bob Dylan songs? Give up and sell insurance? Next time a blank page triggers a panic attack, try doodling. That’s the advice of famed writer/cartoonist Lynda Barry, who…

Put the “daze” in your “Sundays” (and remind yourself how sweet life would be if you and your SO didn’t have to go back to work the next morning) at the new Sunday beach and pool party at the Oasis Beach Club at Brickell Key’s poshola Mandarin Oriental. Called—wait for…

At the Beautiful Villains Fashion Show, designer Lorie Lester’s friends and family (i.e., people of all shapes and sizes) will model her 2011 summer line. That way we get to enjoy her ’70s-inspired fabrics and silhouettes on bodies that look more like our own than a 12-year-old girl’s. Lester is…

We end our 4/20 coverage with a smiling Gary Busey, dancing bacon, cat crunking video mash-up. Here’s a recap of what we learned this week:…

In honor of fun we decided to play a little game with Google Image. We decided to Google three distinct terms  “pot head”, “stoner”, and just to be as specific as possible, “marijuana enthusiast.” All three images, although delightfully amusing in their own special ways, featured one undeniable trend –…

Miami is a city of complainers. Everyone here loves to say things suck, but nobody likes doing anything about it. Even when our city starts creeping in the right direction, our collective apathy quickly gets in the way.But you know what really grinds my gears? Those who complain about Florida’s…

It’s April 20, “four-twenty,” and by now you’re probably blitzed. You’re also probably short $80. Because last night, when your pot connection texted you about the specially priced quarters he had on sale for the holiday, you drove 12 miles with the fuel light blinking and dropped four crisp $20s…

When divorcing couples fight over assets, kids barter bubble gum for rubber band bracelets, and prostitutes haggle Johns over the price of a BJ, they are all unwittingly exemplifying Karl Marx’s “commodity fetishism,” or when human social relations are expressed as, mediated by, and transformed into objectified relationships between things…

Fashion Breakdown: Dress by Carven, Wishbone charm necklace self designed, shoes by YSL, watch by Hublot, RGB nail polish done at The Standard and an iPhone (that never stopped ringing)…