Miami’s $15 cocktails are hard to swallow. Here’s a list of six free things to do this week so you can leave your ATM card sheathed in your wallet. Monday: Think naïve Harry Potter could use a dose of the real world? Tonight, at Books & Books, hear author Lev…
We don’t know about all of you but we’re exhausted from busting homophobic hypocrites and providing fodder for unfunnyman Jay Leno and funnyman Stephen Colbert. What have you accomplished this week? No matter. Everyone deserves to have a good time. So come wander the streets of Wynwood, see some art,…
In the mid-1950s, Cubana Airlines offered the Tropicana Special, flying socialites from Miami to Havana for just one night of glamour and debauchery at the glitzy Tropicana nightclub. They even removed rows of seats to make room for a showgirls stage and any impromptu, mile-high conga lines. This Saturday at…
Beautiful vistas and panoramic scenery have long inspired the visual arts. But what happens when, to quote Joni Mitchell, they pave paradise and put up a parking lot? “Contemporary Landscapes,” a new exhibit at Bakehouse Art Complex, examines current depictions of the pastoral, particularly those achieved through technology. Curator Nina…
Thirty years ago, on May 18, 1980, radio DJ John Peel announced, “Bad news, lads. Ian Curtis of Joy Division has just died.” Curtis, just 23 years old, hanged himself in his kitchen, days before beginning a U.S. tour with the Buzzcocks. Months later, the band’s posthumously released “Love Will…
When 125,000 Cuban exiles fled to Florida in the Mariel Boatlift, many people believed Castro opened prisons and mental hospitals in order to infiltrate the United States with undesirables. But at this weekend’s Cuba Nostalgia, Marielitos will have the chance to shake off that stigma by documenting just how awesomely…
Miamians have always had trouble turning down another drink, even during Prohibition. Three years after the 18th Amendment banned “intoxicating liquors” in 1919, a Miami ship headed for New York was raided of its 36,000 bottles of hooch. Fed up with the Magic City’s enterprising alkies, Uncle Sam sent an…
With a name like Black Blondie on the bill, you’d be forgiven for expecting a female-fronted New Wave band with Afrobeat influences. Though the mostly female Minneapolis band was named for the brash Debbie Harry, it sounds more like Amy Winehouse, Duffy, and Adele. Black Blondie plays dark neo-soul, and…
Politicians can’t seem to keep it in their pants. John Edwards is the latest poster boy for infidelity, but he certainly wasn’t the first. Frankly, we’re a little surprised the White House doesn’t include mistress quarters. Italy’s Benito Mussolini was such a badass that he flaunted his mistresses while hiding…
You’d never know her body was covered in dark purple bruises and cherry-red abrasions (thanks to her conservative office attire) but your office’s friendly HR rep moonlights as Chesty McBruiser, a hard-core, fun-loving derby girl who can block and jam with the best of them. Though Miami doesn’t have its…
Snake oil salesmen used to peddle their magic cure-alls in town squares, but now they hawk their tonics through print ads. (Flip to this publication’s back page and count how many times you see the word pain.) The Wolfsonian Museum examines the evolution of such messages in its recently opened…
Monday: Sometimes it feels like we need a flux capacitor just to get through Mondays. Continue with that theme at Buck 15’s Buck to the Future party for some Rum and Tab soda. No cover!Tuesday: It’ll be strange to see her without Stacey and Clinton but What Not to Wear’s…
News alert! Arty, creative things are happening outside of the Wynwood Arts District.Tomorrow, a new art walk officially kicks off in Miami’s original arts neighborhood, Coconut Grove. Held the first Saturday of every month, the Grove Art Walk will unveil new galleries and debut new artists from 7 to 10…
FridayGot a week’s worth of aggression pent up? Feel the release of watching someone else get their face pummeled at Friday’s New Generation boxing and MMA contests at the Miami Beach Convention Center.OK, so the Sex and the City movie wasn’t half bad and we’d be lying if we didn’t…
Nineteen hours. That’s, on average, the amount of time your mom had to sweat, grunt, and push so you could lie around and play World of Warcraft all day. And you can’t even remember to take five minutes to call her on Mother’s Day? Make this year different. This Sunday,…
With his novel The Magicians, author Lev Grossman offers an astringent antidote to Pollyanna Harry Potter mania. As he told the Village Voice, he wanted a Potter-like character who was “having sex instead of snogging, or drinking real beer instead of butterbeer, if… his friends didn’t have a Voldemort in…
Nineteen hours. That’s, on average, the amount of time your mom had to sweat, grunt, and push so you could lie around and play World of Warcraft all day. And you can’t even remember to take five minutes to call her on Mother’s Day? Make this year different. This Sunday,…
Nineteen hours. That’s, on average, the amount of time your mom had to sweat, grunt, and push so you could lie around and play World of Warcraft all day. And you can’t even remember to take five minutes to call her on Mother’s Day? Make this year different. This Sunday,…
Nineteen hours. That’s, on average, the amount of time your mom had to sweat, grunt, and push so you could lie around and play World of Warcraft all day. And you can’t even remember to take five minutes to call her on Mother’s Day? Make this year different. This Sunday,…
Nineteen hours. That’s, on average, the amount of time your mom had to sweat, grunt, and push so you could lie around and play World of Warcraft all day. And you can’t even remember to take five minutes to call her on Mother’s Day? Make this year different. This Sunday,…
Throughout April, students in 12 inner-city high schools and middle schools received a crash course in poetry and classical music. The Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation brought live music and spoken-word performers into classrooms, attempted to present Chopin as the Tupac of his day, and then asked students to write…
Twenty years after filmmaker Luis Buñuel made the surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou with Salvador Dali, he fell in love with Mexico, relinquished his Spanish citizenship, and spent the rest of his life making movies there. Mexico has always had a rich cinema history, from the Golden Age of the…
