It smelled like sweat and diesel fumes. Minutes before noon, outside the Design District’s Buena Vista building, a giant yellow Blue Bird school bus sat idling at the curb, parked crookedly across three spaces. The sidewalk was clogged with 32 art nerds and civic enthusiasts who had all signed up…
Two years before Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were born, the city of Madrid spawned Lope de Vega, one of the most prolific dramatists in theater history. Vega penned 1,800 plays and 3,000 sonnets, and sure, they weren’t all gems. (It’s hard to imagine anyone writing so many plays without…
If there’s one silver lining to this whole BP oil spill, it’s that the world’s attention has been focused on the health and well being of our oceans. But remember when Frenchie artist Christo insisted on wrapping our Biscayne Bay islands in Pepto-pink, polypropylene fabric? Titled, “Surrounded Islands,” this 1983…
In Restrepo, the Sundance-winning documentary that debuted in South Florida this weekend, director Sebastian Junger tackled the toughest questions about the war in Afghanistan by ignoring the politics and immersing himself in the day-to-day fight for survival in the country’s toughest valley.The film is named for Spc. Juan Restrepo, a…
Put that gold AmEx card away. This week is on us. Below, we’ve listed one (at least!) free event for each day of the week: Wynwood galleries, celebrity book signings, climate change talks scored by the Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, and even space-western art films. Monday: Wynwood’s Bas Fischer Invitational highlights…
Fashion breakdown: Miniature top hat, night goggles, lace-up black gloves, see-through black vest, ragged skirt, black knickers, and Mafalda-esque shoes. This outfit spells H-A-R-A-J-U-K-U…
Surrounded by steaming swampland rife with 20-foot pythons, man-eating gators, and marauding skunk apes, our little burg at the end of the continent is a certified hot spot for the dangerous, deranged, and bizarre. We’ve already had sex offenders under a bridge, cat killers in our midst, and tar balls…
Have you ever been caught at a pool party or the beach without any swimwear? Skinny dipping not an option? The Standard Hotel has a solution for you, a swimwear vending machine stocked with limited edition Standard boardshorts by Quiksilver ($75), with designs inspired by the hotel’s four locations: Miami,…
There’s nothing we probably love more than a celebrity caught misbehaving. And this week’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim shows are certain to draw a crowd of A- to D-list stars into town.While most of us regular folk won’t be able to get into Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim to see the…
Fashion breakdown: Pin-stripped, button-down shirt, skinny jeans, and brown boots. …
We’re hot on the trail of LeBron James, and if our sources are correct, he and Chris Bosh will join Dwayne Wade for this weekend’s Summer Groove block parties, comedy shows, and all-star games. If you’re part of the disgruntled lot chanting “Who’s LeBron James?,” you can skirt all this…
Recently, the White House took historic first steps to end travel restrictions to Cuba. But until an epic Capitol Hill battle, which will likely end in blood, tears, and airline tickets, lifts the travel ban entirely, you’ll have to settle for swaying your hips to the conga drumbeat at the…
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim isn’t just about hot bodies in teeny tiny swimwear. Okay, maybe it is. But these models have faces, people! And if you look up long enough, what you see may surprise you. Caking on the makeup probably isn’t the most realistic plan when trolling on South…
Remember when we bitched and moaned about Miami’s indie artists ignoring Kickstarter as a source of funding? Well, the micro-patronage site now has seven current projects in Miami, but it looks like we bitched a little too soon. According to the experience of one Miami team, Kickstarter is less a…
It was a very strange thing when Louis CK scored a family sitcom on HBO called Lucky Louie. Why? Well, here was a guy who’d made his name telling the dirtiest, most depraved jokes about his wife and two little daughters — crotch smell, toddler masturbation, borderline coprophilia — and…
If you weren’t totally rabid with adrenaline — T-stepping through the end zone, starting fistfights at the cineplex, throwing coke-powered countdown parties, hiring strippers like Tipdrill and Spyda for lunchtime lapdances, running naked across campus — in the run-up to ESPN’s December premiere of Rakontur’s documentary The U, then you…
You’d expect a play titled The Pillowman to involve a terrifying character who inflicts nightmares upon a poor victim’s sleeping mind. On the contrary, the eponymous entity’s purpose is to save children from the nightmares of their real lives. Is this an act of self-righteousness or the work of a…
This week in art: Macho men and urban cocks
Inception, a self-important picture, tries to get inside our heads
Peter Pan complexes collide in black comedy Cyrus
Surrounded by steaming swampland rife with 20-foot pythons, man-eating gators, and marauding skunk apes, our little burg at the end of the continent is a certified hot spot for the dangerous, deranged, and bizarre. We’ve already had sex offenders under a bridge, cat killers in our midst, and tar balls…
Summer is in full swing, which means Miami Spice is just around the corner. The foodie favorite begins this Saturday at 7 p.m. when the Greater Miami Convention & Visitor’s Bureau hosts a culinary extravaganza at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Participating restaurants include A Fish Called Avalon, Philippe Chow,…
