Just because Christmas and New Years Eve are behind us, it doesn’t signal the end of gift-receiving. Every January, Latino kids run to their closets or look under their beds in anticipation of gifts left by the Three Kings (and no, we don’t mean an NBA trophy from LeBron and…
During the January Second Saturday Art Walk Tennessee painter Jason Shawn Alexander has a solo exhibit at 101/exhibit in the Design District. In the past, he illustrated for Dark Horse Comics, Warner Brothers, DC Comics, and Hasbro. For this exhibit, his paintings display the complexity of double exposure photographs. Grimacing…
Choreographer Twyla Tharp once said, “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” So if you didn’t get a vacation at Christmas, go on a trip at this weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Wynwood and the Design District’s galleries open at 7 p.m. Curator’s Voice Projects has…
Choreographer Twyla Tharp once said, “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” So if you didn’t get a vacation at Christmas, go on a trip at this weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Wynwood and the Design District’s galleries open at 7 p.m. Detroit is perhaps the…
These days, Lady Fortune is Vanna White, a blond goddess we sometimes watch when we’re stoned. But back in Medieval times, Lady Fortune was a gnarly blind woman turning a wheel of stone. Times may have changed, but the theme remains the same in Carmina Burana. Written by Carl Orff…
He is the pimp of priesthood, the rock star of religion, the charismatic collar… well, you get the point. Father Albert Cutie (pronounced coo-ti-a) garnered international attention a few years back when he was captured canoodling with his girlfriend on the beach by heathen, ahem, paparazzi. The Catholic Church frowns…
Anyone who’s worked in a windowless warehouse at a commercial park knows the highlight of the day for years was the noon arrival of the roach coach. Serving victuals one step up from fish chum, and one notch down from airline food, these carts were the first iteration of meals…
Long before incredibly successful Cirque du Soleil pitched a tent in its native Canada in the ’80s, China’s Golden Dragon Acrobats toured this country with their own troupe of contortionist characters in 1967. The group performed all manner of gravity defying feats: fitting ten acrobats on a single bike, doing…
Feel like you’re sleepwalking into the new year? Let Miami City Ballet jolt you awake with George Balanchine’s classic La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker), a tale of a romantic poet who finds himself alone with a beautiful dreamer at a masked ball. Watch out, a jealous flirt has the poet stabbed…
Your grandpa claims he palled around with Al Capone. One day, a strong wind blew away the mobster’s Fedora and gramps caught it. “Keep it,” responded Capone, as he ducked into his armored 1928 Cadillac and zoomed onto Star Island. It’s a tall tale told each Thanksgiving. But now, you…
“So you’re comparing fart applications to a man who pioneered civil rights,” Wyatt Cenac responds after a software developer likens the listing of his Pull My Finger app on iTunes to the integration of baseball by Jackie Robinson. “As a black man, I see exactly what your struggle is. You…
The Imperfectionists, the debut novel from Tom Rachman, perfectly portrays a group of journalists at a dying newspaper. Is it truly the end of the print era? What will happen to all the old-timers looking for a scoop? Can they adapt? Or will they rot at the merciless hands of…
For the less adventurous, the idea of roller skating in hot pants while loaded on bourbon might seem harrowing — especially on a Tuesday. But you aren’t one of those strait-laced types. You piss into the wind. You attend knife-sharpening parties where kegs and children are present. It’s maverick thrill-seekers…
Set in a fictional African nation, French filmmaker Claire Denis’s polarizing film White Material evocatively echoes the ongoing tension between European entrepreneurs and Africans locals. Marie N’Diaye’s script takes place in an unknown time, but the reflections of Africa’s postcolonial racial strife is timely and compelling. Caught in the midst…
At the start and end of each Ringling Bros. performance in Miami, elephants will march trunk to tail downtown between the train tracks and the tent. What do you think the circus is? Fun and games? Nah baby, the big top is big business, and that means boxcar travel and…
Whenever you’re sick, you’re probably told by one or more concerned acquaintances to get plenty of vitamin C. The usefulness of this advice is debatable, but this flu season, you might as well dive head first into plenty of citrus at the Playground Theatre’s The Love of Three Oranges. The…
Have you always loved the play The Diary of Anne Frank but felt like it was missing something? Maybe a rubber chicken? A whoopee cushion? Hitler getting pie-in-the-face or Eva Braun tripping on a banana peel? Such was the thinking of performer Frannie Sheridan. Well, sort of. Raised Catholic, nine-year-old…
Addiction’s a bitch. Just ask the trollops walking Miami’s blighted streets. Crack has them trapped in a nasty lifestyle. There is, however, an alternative for those looking for a mistress with a more discerning addiction. Coco’s Habit at Coco De Ville isn’t exactly Betty Ford, but the small lounge at…
It’s never too early to think about chocolate, so mark your calendar for the ultimate choco-extravaganza, the fifth annual International Chocolate Festival at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. There will be no shortage of chocolate confections and cooking demos by local chefs such as Hedy Goldsmith, Crystal Cullison, Allen Susser, Andrea…
Come this time January, it’s likely you will have broken all your new year’s resolutions. So indulge all you want at Around the World in 80 Sips , a global wine tasting led by online wine community Bottlenotes.com. Head over to the weirdly cool building at 1111 Lincoln Road and…
Ring in the New Year a la Brazilian at Sushi Samba. The restaurant will offer its usual menu of sushi rolls, small plates, and raw bar items along with festive samba dancers and drummers, a DJ, and TVs tuned in to the countdown at Times Square. Dinner will be served…
Artist Brian Butler and his then girlfriend, now wife, decided to play on all of Massachusetts’ 84 miniature golf courses after seeing the orange dinosaur of Saugus vandalized. The fear of losing this nostalgic sport forever inspired the thought, “We need to play all of the miniature golf courses before…
