Arts & Culture

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,…

As you’ve probably heard by now, next week’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim isn’t open to the public. (We know, freakin’ fashion elitists!) We’ll be there to be your eyes and ears, and to fill you in on the latest in swimwear trends as well as any celebrities sightings. (Think Jon…

Don’t be ashamed. Most of us growing up in the ’90s loved and wanted to live on the mean streets of 90210. Ms Donna Martin, we mean Tori Spelling, got to live our dream, and honestly, we’re still a little jealous. Everyone’s favorite fame whore will whote herself out once…

Wait, there was a surf scene in Miami? Yep, and there still is. And beginning this Thursday, this somewhat overlooked culture will be exposed during Surf the Webster. Together with Surfrider Foundation’s Miami chapter, high-end fashion boutique the Webster is transforming its ground floor into a pop-up surf shop/museum with…

Miami Beach has always been a scene. In the ’40s, it was centered around families like the Whitmans who was later built Bal Harbour Shops. In the ’70s, it was the cocaine cowboy-types, and in the ’90s, it was a group of crazy surfing party-goers. Wait, there was a surf…

Even if the world is consumed by violence and disaster, life goes on. Marital proposals are voiced over the sound of gunfire, babies are born amid the rubble, and marriages test their limits as massive riots rage outside. The last is the subject of Por Las Tierras de Colón (Across…

From an H-65 helicopter, the Coast Guard spots an oversize fishing cooler just off the western coast of Florida, bobbing in the choppy, black waters of Pensacola Bay. The copter descends to an altitude of 200 feet and hovers momentarily above the lost icebox before a rescue swimmer rappels from…

If you ever wanted to hit replay or pause on the Wynwood art scene, summer is your chance. Exhibits have slowed, and galleries are pulling out old gems to remind you of the good things they own and you don’t. Take “Gallery Projects” at the David Castillo Gallery, where you’ll…

When researchers from the League of Paranormal Investigators set up cameras to document ghosts at the Deering Estate at Cutler, they captured an image of a man watching them from behind the boat basin. They also saw a woman dressed in Victorian clothing floating above the bay. So keep an…

We know what you’re thinking: Legos as art. Yeah, right. If by art you mean sweet-ass minihelicopters or little Death Stars or any of the other bazillion machines that Legos have built over the past 60 years, then, yes, Legos can be art. But aside from bad-ass dinosaurs and completely…

When you travel through the fabric tent at the door of Locust Projects, you enter a world of childlike neuroses and wonder. There are fire-breathing T-rex, docile sheep and goats made from wire and fur, dream sequence video art, and larger-than-life fabric foliage. Through the end of August, “The LAB”…

Taking public transit is traumatizing enough without having to watch a man dismembered on the tracks. But in Puerto Rican artist Teo Freytes’s comic book Estampa Niuyorquina (Image of New York), a blue-collar laborer finishes work for the day, only to have his subway ride interrupted by a suicidal jumper…

When marionette master Pablo Cano got a pistol stuck in his ribs a few years ago, he had to reconsider his approach to unearthing the found objects he employs to create his unusual puppets. “After I got held up while dumpster diving, I stopped combing through trash heaps as often…

The Florida Marlins entered the All-Star break at 42-46. The ownership still wants you to believe this team is a playoff contender. But the reality is that the Marlins will start to trade players in the coming weeks. It’s predictable and sad. But mostly, it’s sad. As it is every…

Patricia Franchini got what any American girl would want while studying abroad in Paris: an androgynous but sexy haircut and impregnated by a morally bankrupt Frenchman. She’s the protagonist of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film, Breathless, the pièce de résistance of French New Wave cinema, beloved for its film references, jump…

Patrice O’Neal might tell Miami how to perform a sex act called the chicken cutlet. It involves sand, a wet member, and — we’ll let him explain the rest. The 300-pound comic has no shame in his game. He’ll even explain how to introduce golden showers into the relationship. At…

“Space is a lonely town,” reads the tag line for Cory McAbee’s 2001 film, American Astronaut. Dubbed a “space-Western/musical,” the film follows Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader who must deliver the women of Venus a new king for mating. In return, he’ll receive their deceased king, who can fetch Curtis…

For those of us needing a glamorous dose of drag while RuPaul’s Drag Race is on hiatus, or for those of us still recovering from the shock of Tyra being crowned last season’s winner (everyone knows Raven should have won), there’s a fierce and fabulous drag competition at Miami’s Club…

Man, it really sucks when a stiff, old white dude shows up with his posse of greedy corporate goons and starts saying things like, “I’ll finish you, your friends, and your whole damn neighborhood!” Before you know it, there’s a convoy of bulldozers rolling up to the doorstep of your…

We’re big fans of DnD. No, not the ’70s role-playing game where make-believe wizards and warlocks shoot lighting bolts from their fingers. We’re talking about Miami’s quarterly animation event, Drinking and Drawing, where professional and amateur animators go pen-to-pen to create a two-minute film over rounds of booze. In the…

Gansevoort Beach Club on Sunday afternoon. Men and women whose daily job is to pour drinks or serve food at 40 local establishments will compete in the sixth annual Seven Tiki Beach Ball It is not exactly the Romans versus the Visigoths, but an epic battle is taking place at…