Luis Diaz is a Miami artist working in the commercial world of video games, comic books, trading cards, and T-shirts. He is simultaneously in the process of “finding his own voice and doing more personal work.” He calls himself an “illustrator and wannabe fine artist.” Since 2003, he’s produced about…
Flickr CC CloudzillaA kitty with a vanity problem.Sure, the rest of country spent a summer of bad TV frolicking outside in their low-humidity backyards. Meanwhile, here in Miami, sweat pooled in the most unmentionable of places so we spent most of days indoors, channel surfing awful reruns. The only passable…
Have you ever fantasized about having sex with an inanimate object? Does watching an elderly gentleman bang a pile of trash tickle your fancy? If you answered yes to either of these questions, (1) you should seek counseling, and (2) you’ll love demented filmmaker Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers. The film…
At the risk of sounding like major-league homers, we’re not sure how the last So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD, the longest acronym in television history) ended up without any South Floridians in the finals. Remember androgynous Billy Bell and chongo b-boy Jose Ruiz? They represented SoFla with flamboyance…
Although the name Scarface will forever be linked with a scowling Al Pacino, it originated with one of America’s most notorious criminals, Al Capone. Made infamous by his sometimes-bullet-riddled effort to bring the people some hooch, Capone pioneered one of the leading trends of the era: bootlegging. Next on that…
The triple mysteries are many in French author Jean-Christophe Valtat’s new novel, Aurorama. In North Pole paradise New Venice — amid crystalline structures, never-ending expanses of frozen tundra, and brief bouts of sunlight — the colonizers and the Inuits play power games. This place is called “the pearl of the…
Baby, it’s cold inside. Not the temperature, but the display of decaying, everyday materials frozen in layered resin at Fredric Snitzer Gallery. This is Gavin Perry’s solo exhibition “Glacier,” which revisits past works reminiscent of epic ’50s and ’60s painters by hacking, sawing, and cutting them apart. Covered in ribbons…
Can an artist exist without an audience? Was Picasso, who often painted furiously until 3 a.m. and eventually died of a heart attack, content believing that the purpose of his existence was a painting hanging on a museum wall? We’ll never know. Just like we have no idea why the…
Here’s something to chew on: Know why the murder rate took a sudden dip in the 90s? No, it wasn’t stricter gun control laws or more police presence. The lower murder rate was a direct result of legalizing abortion in 1973. According to the authors of bestseller Freakonomics, criminals are…
Don’t be afraid of “Mörker” — darkness in Swedish and also the name of a new exhibit on display through November 19 at Wynwood’s Calix Gustav Gallery (98 NW 29th St., Miami). There you’ll find Sweden’s Johan Björkegren, whose work is a real palette-cleanser for the Miami art scene. Although…
New Miami art galleries reflect the grit of downtown and Little Havana
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A terrorist, hijacker, or kidnapper picks up the phone, and magically there’s a law enforcement officer on the other end: “What are your demands?” Then the dance starts. The bad guy gets mad and orders a pizza. The negotiator plays good cop/bad cop and eventually utters, “I just want everyone…
As soon as the Man gets the chance, he’ll sell Biscayne Bay out from under us and use it as a county dump. Imagine old motel mattresses, soaked in the sweat of 10,000 hookers, floating on millions of gallons of trembling fat straight from Miami’s many liposuction clinics. Thick-neck politicos…
A couple of seasons ago, Chad Pennington led the Miami Dolphins to an AFC East-winning victory over his former team, the New York Jets. Last season, after getting into a war of words with Fins linebacker Channing Crowder, Jets head coach Rex Ryan and his team were served a massive…
Nothing says Hispanic culture like old-timers in guayaberas playing dominoes under a thick cloud of cigar smoke. Throw in some Hispanic folk music, paella, and other Latino delicacies, and you have a certified celebration. Now you just need a reason to celebrate. Luckily, it’s Hispanic Heritage Month, and that’s more…
Improvisational theater, the kind doled out by Chasing Tales at Just the Funny Theater, isn’t simply about comedy. Sure, it’s funny. But that’s mostly circumstantial. The point is to tell a story. And getting the gist of the story is the real fun of improv. At least that’s how member…
Like watching Burn Notice or reading a Carl Hiaasen novel, part of the fun of living in Miami is trying to distinguish what rings true in the fictional depictions of our city (out of disrespect, we won’t even mention Nip/Tuck). Enter the latest Lupe Solano mystery from local novelist Carolina…
Screw graduate degrees and career ladders. Everyone knows the best way for a lady to make real cash is to dress tarty and swindle her suitors. But leave it a writer from The Simpsons, David Mirkin, to make this classic plot device more perverse. In his 2001 film, Heartbreakers, a…
Oprah recently made a plea to Jay-Z to stop using the N-word. Jigga Man refused, and comedian Eddie Griffin has the rapper’s back. When it comes to the comic’s very R-rated comedy, you can’t help but notice his love for the term. But when someone is making you laugh that…
Now that our school days are long behind us, our memories are weak. Dates and names become more difficult to remember. To help retain some semblance of brainpower in a vapid, Jersey Shore world, catch the latest event hosted by the University of Wynwood, an organization devoted to advancing contemporary…
