Arts & Culture

Does feeling tiny get you all randy? Do you want to feel dominated, vulnerable, and totally insignificant? Wish something you normally squish could finally squish you? Well, take away the latex and leather — and add wings — and you’ve got some giant frickin’ bugs. Or play God and be…

It’s neither uncommon nor shameful for future masters of the written word to begin by aping their idols. Take the late, great god of gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson. He first became intimate with the English language by typing his way through the 50,061-word entirety of The Great Gatsby. Plus, as…

Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy beats the pulp out of girl, everyone wonders what to do next. This is where A Lie of the Mind, a 1980s off-Broadway play by Sam Shepard, begins — with a husband and wife and their dysfunctional and distraught families dealing with the…

There is an inexplicable force that drives men to collect toys. You might act perplexed when you walk into your male friend’s bathroom and see a scuba-stealth Batman figurine in the corner of his tub, but where else is he supposed to put it? It belongs there. And in today’s…

Not long after academics came up with what they thought was the be-all and end-all of why humans have sex, a South Florida poet and her co-author feverishly compiled 237 More Reasons to Have Sex. Um, as if we needed a reason other than it feels really good. Well, Denise…

Believe it or not, there was a time when the sport of mixed martial arts was actually extreme. But then John McCain hopped on his high horse to rant about the incomprehensible evils of “human cockfighting.” And so the game was forced to get legit — backing off its vale…

South Florida becomes the center of the football world from the end of January until February 7, when Super Bowl XLIV goes off at Dolphin Stadium, uh, Sun Life Stadium. Helping kick off all of that pigskin goodness is the South Florida FanFest, which runs this Friday through Sunday at…

Elvis fans, rejoice. You can now pay proper homage to the original “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” who would have been 75 years old this year if he hadn’t had that untimely death on the john. This Saturday, the top Elvis Presley tribute artists will descend on Miami to celebrate…

Coconut Grove is home to many types of hippie: the Birkenstock’d, tie-dyed Rusted Root enthusiast; the sunburnt boomer in Bermuda shorts; the dreadlocked, Cheetos-fingered white boy; and the sleeping-in-a-rowboat Rip Van Winkle. But who does peace-loving better than Hare Krishnas, those constantly smiling Grovites? Take some time this weekend to…

Everyone loves tough guys in ten-gallon hats and juicy hot dogs snuggled inside hunks of deep-fried cornbread. But even 2,200-pound Brahma bulls think clowns are creepy. So head to this weekend’s 61st annual Homestead Championship Rodeo at the Doc DeMilly Rodeo Arena at Harris Field for the cowpokes and corndogs,…

Although he has slipped aboveground these past few years with higher-profile projects such as Mysterious Skin with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Smiley Face starring Anna Faris, radical gay filmmaker Gregg Araki originally made his name detailing the darkest zones of underground L.A. A seminal figure of the new queer cinema of…

A train is hurtling out of control down a track where five people are tied. Fortunately, you can flip a switch that will divert the train to a different track where only one person is tied. Do you flip the switch? Nazi-era Europe was rife with such moral dilemmas. Take…

When life gives you a dearth of arts funding, make haikus! The Knight Foundation and the University of Wynwood recently cosponsored “Do You Haiku” — a contest to find the best haikus written about the impact of Miami-Dade’s lack of arts funding. They received a grand response; it turns out…

Last week’s freeze was not nice to Miami’s homeless contingent. The shelters were overflowing, and the Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offenders crowded around barrel fires and behind makeshift walls. But Harold, a burly 37-year-old Georgia-born transient who wears a Moses beard and huge circular eyeglasses, tends to find the silver…

These days, Joe Rogan’s amped about a lot of things, including jokes, drug experiments, and the art of ultimate fighting. He’s a 20-year standup vet with a television resume that lists NBC sitcom NewsRadio, gross-out game show Fear Factor, and hours upon hours of UFC commentary. This Friday he’ll hit…

Right now in Bicentennial Park, a bunch of French Canadians are putting the finishing touches on a 12-day process of erecting what is supposedly North America’s largest tent. For what? Cavalia, the-Cirque du Soleil-meets-Mister Ed extravaganza that is easily the gayest thing involving horse faces since Sex and the City: The Movie. Created by one…

Michael C. Hall, star of the Miami-set TV series Dexter, announced yesterday he has cancer, but has kept it a hidden from fans since last year. The 38-year-old said he was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma — a blood cell disease –and that he’s now in complete remission. “I feel fortunate…

If Aziz Ansari was a rapper and this was the ’90s, the little Tamil motherfucker would be dead in a Mercedes. Why? Because Ansari flipped sides — East Coast to West Coast — when he hopped a plane from NYC to Cali so he could become a member of the…

At the Little Haiti Cultural Center, a world-class exhibit focuses on the art of the Caribbean