Florida may have given women the right to vote 50 years after the 19th amendment was ratified, but there’s, ahem, one front where South Florida can consider itself progressive in regards to gender rights. In most parts of Miami Beach, women are allowed to go topless. No, it’s not legal…

Back in May, we told you about a Miami stylist, Shareen Rubiera-Sarwar, who was launching Vintage Mavens, an online shop of vintage and original designs. She just released her first video look book, and not only does it make her threads look good, it reminds us how freakin awesome SoFla’s…

Forget channel- and web-surfing — vaudeville was the original form of entertainment for short attention spans. This Thursday night, a variety show called the Millionaire Tramps Vaudeville Debut will land at Churchill’s Pub, with Dangerfun!’s handpicked selection of South Florida tramps. Settle in for some stand-up and sketch comedy by…

All he wanted to do was dance. No, not Billy Elliot. Kevin Bacon as Ren in Footloose, or as we like to call it, Flashdance in farm country. No one has since matched the euphoria of Bacon doing axels off tractors. Despite his manic dancing, though, Footloose was panned when…

Florida gave women the right to vote in 1969, 50 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Our state’s treatment of ladies improved exponentially, though, when one feisty feminist took up residence in Coral Gables in the ’50s. Roxcy Bolton demanded that women get equal pay and access to…

What happens when a famed French New Wave director grows as old as Betty White? He abandons head trips such as Last Year at Marienbad — cinema’s most awkward love triangle — and Hiroshima Mon Amour, a lovers’ spat centered on nuclear bombing. With his most recent film, Wild Grass…

Much like the pink slime that made the toaster dance in Ghostbusters 2, Miami’s anger is morphing its graffiti murals. We already showed you the raging muppets armed with box cutters. And now here’s another violent scene over on NW Sixth Avenue and 28th Street. Wall-E is there but surprise,…

For those of us who still haven’t quit our jobs via an inflated, emergency slide with a cold beer in hand, it’s time to celebrate. The weekend is here, and you need to feel the joy in order to unravel your anger. You’ve spent a week letting people hit you…

In 1960, experimental composer John Cage went on the TV show I’ve Got a Secret to make music with a mechanical fish, a rubber duck, a water pitcher, and ice cubes. The presenter warned Cage that although the audience was a friendly crowd, some of them weren’t going to laugh…

With the opening of O Cinema in Wynwood and the Coral Gables Art Cinema, Miami will soon have twice as many independent movie theaters. In the meantime, film festivals are still your best chance to see indie foreign flicks. So invade the Colony Theatre this Thursday for three gritty movies…

With the opening of O Cinema in Wynwood and the Coral Gables Art Cinema, Miami will soon have twice as many independent movie theaters. In the meantime, film festivals are still your best chance to see indie foreign flicks. So invade the Colony Theatre this Thursday for three gritty movies…

If your bookshelf is vibrating, it’s because we’re hurtling toward high literary season with Miami Book Fair International just three months away. We’ve been building up our endurance at Miami Squares poetry nights and Hialeah Haikus readings, and we’re hitting up every open-mike night in town. Next up is Writers…

Perhaps confusing high office with an extended benefit concert, Wyclef Jean has decide to run for president of Haiti. But Clef, seriously, the country needs more than your soothing rendition of “No Woman No Cry.” So remember what’s at stake in Haitian politics with a classic piece of Kreyol literature,…

Call us old fashioned, but we still insist on pumping out a print issue every week. We like smear newsprint ink under our eyes and shoot paperclips at each other until they shut off the lights and AC. We had to stop such war games last week, though, when Leroy…

Everyone from Shakespeare to Stephen King has been rehashing these female stereotypes archetypes, so we weren’t surprised when we also found them in Miami’s street murals. To the uninitiated, these graffiti gals might look like a blur of T&A, but we’re here to point out the telling subtleties. 1. The…

California has already inspired the rest of the nation to ban plastic bags, get high for health, and allow (wo)man-on-(wo)man nuptials. And now a San Franciscan might inspire Miami to stop ignoring those who sleep on our streets.This Saturday, a traveling exhibit called “The Tenderloin Project” opens at Wynwood’s Butter…

Now you can whore along with the cast of the Jersey Shore as they drag their STDs through South Beach. (What? Too harsh?) Our friends over at The Heat Lightning whipped up these fantastic Jersey Shore sock puppets. Check out the cleave on JWoww. Although her dress needs to be…