If you sometimes feel like a motherless child, try the following. This Friday, skip the after-work happy hour. Go home, make yourself a decent meal, then head over to the Knight Concert Hall for Sweet Honey in the Rock. If you know your Ketuvim, you’ll know that the name comes…
Unlike most massive weekend-long smorgasbords of tuneage, the three-day Miami Music Festival is almost entirely focused on the local scene. With the exception of a few bands such as Greenpoint, New York’s Big Suga, the festival will be presenting 75 separate shows packed with 600-something individual sets by South Floridian…
Every year, as Christmas decorations are going up, Jews are breaking out their menorahs, dreidels, and frying pans (for latkes). But this year, Birthright Israel NEXT and The Open Tent are putting a new spin on Hanukkah tradition with a holiday party of their own. Join them this Thursday at…
It’s the traditions that make Christmas — an otherwise downright Scrooge and noninclusive holiday — meaningful: trimming the tree, singing carols, hanging the lights, anything that gets people together for, in the words of Clark Griswold, “a fun old fashion family Christmas.” And one of the best public Christmas traditions…
When Lionel Richie was a kid, he ripped out his own throat, soaked it in honey, dipped it in star dust, and had it back in his body in time for lunch. Now that’s smooth. So it’s no wonder that his career has seen him soar to the heights of…
The Miami Heat kicked the year off with a bang with a franchise-best 6-1 record in the first weeks of the regular season. Since then however, they’ve been hit with a mild case of The Mediocrity, dropping games to top tier teams like the Magic, Cavs and Celtics as well…
It has been described as “music among friends” and in the case of a string quartet “four friends conversing.” Regardless, chamber music, which dates back to the early days of the Renaissance, is usually played in a small room for a small gathering. This Sunday at Thomas W. Lamb’s intimate…
Last year it was a portrait of then President-elect Obama that was the main focus of Dietch’s project Art Basel booth. This year it’s the King of Pop Michael Jackson. Painted by Kehinde Wiley, who’s work usually puts hip-hop youth in the context of classical Royal portraiture, the piece was…
Miami New Times, the Southeast’s top alternative news weekly, is giving away $4,000 in awards to local artists. As part of our annual Artopia® celebration, artists of all stripes — filmmakers, fashion designers, visual artists, performance artists, writers — can apply for a MasterMind Award. It’s easy to enter: Send…
During a week when unchecked imagination runs wild and art comes close to scrambling your brain, Design Miami/ always refreshingly mixes things up by showcasing work with at least somewhat of a foundation based in function. Though the fair’s ArandaLasch-designed tent seemed a but smaller than years past, the fair…
Miami transplant, part-time rapper/producer and full-time nonsensical screamer DJ Khaled is the master of extolling the virtues of shit most people find worthless and/or despicable. Such as his own musical prowess: who but DJ Khaled could scream, with great frequency and without irony, that DJ Khaled is “THE BEST”? So…
Art Basel week Miami 2009 is all about music and street art. The “Primary Flight” exhibit is fucking it up all over Wynwood, and so is Tony Goldman’s public art project Wynwood Walls, produced in concert with Deitch Projects of New York. Galleries on the Beach and in the city…
Art Basel has a funny way of making us feel like we’re outsiders in our own town. Traffic is horrible. Parking even moreso. The line at your favorite Cuban restaurant (even if that happens to be Pollo Tropical) gets filled with hoity-toity Europeans trying to work in a little “authentic…
The Knights Arts Challenge 2009 grant winners were announced this morning. The winners represent a large swath of Miami’s cultural landscape. Winners include everything from Sweat Records, the den mother of Miami’s indie-oriented youth crew to the Florida Grand Opera took home money.A full list of winners can be seen…
Most people know quixotic movie director David Lynch for his Academy Award-nominated films like Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man. But Lynch is also an accomplished visual artist who brings the same surreal, dream-like imagery and deadpan irony that are a staple of his films to his art work.Also known…
Beginning December 1, Jim Drain of Bas Fisher Invitational, British artist Graham Hudson, and I are co-curating a project inside Design Miami (where my wife works) called The Brief Happy Life of Workshop Workshop. Here’s the press release, which I wrote, so I guess it’s a press release in the…
John Hillcoat’s The Road is middle-of-the-road
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FGO’s Pagliacci and Suor Angelica: Two operas about the perils of sex
Magic City Kitty: Closeted lesbian wants to try ladies
Spinello Gallery’s “Littlest Sister 09” bursts Art Basel’s bubble
It might have been a little scandalous when Miley “Jailbait” Cyrus did her infamous pole slide atop an ice-cream cart at the last Teen Choice Awards show. But for those of us old enough to try it, there’s a certain monkey-bars feeling of fun in pole dancing, a fitness regimen…
