To all the South Beach sugar babies feeling unfulfilled despite their mountains of Prada bags, stacks of Cavalli sunglasses, and streams of spa appointments: Your story is far from new. In fact, Giacomo Puccini composed an opera about this same situation in 1913. Opening at the Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet…
The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade’s 28 and Broward’s 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors’ Playhouse, proved a heavy hitter,…
A spoonful of Nintendo helps the Beethoven go down. That’s the philosophy that the Boston String Quartet has applied to getting high school students excited about classical music with its Ethno-Urban Orchestra.Through this initiative, the BSQ will invite about 100 high school students from around Miami to collaborate with them…
One year after You Got Served brought dance floor battles to the silver screen in 2004, Nora Chipaumire was awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award for bringing a much deeper conflict to life through her dance. Her work, titled Chimurenga, will be presented at the Light Box at…
Just stroll the halls of the local asylum, and the mellifluous yet deranged cries of the psych patients are sure to convince you that music and mental illness were simply made to go together. In any case, that’s the idea Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey had when they composed Next…
Philippe by Phillippe Chow at the south end of Ocean Drive, reminds me of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Wonderland. There are white chairs with the funky, violin-like curves and elbow-patch like black padding, reminiscent of something the Mad Hatter would have happily rested his rump on. The bright reds and…
If the depleted bodies of ING Miami Marathon finishers haven’t resorted to feeding on their eye muscles for fuel reserves during the 26.2 miles (or 13.1 for the half) of the race, they’ll be greeted with an exciting sight at the finish line. The medal for this year’s tenth anniversary…
Just stroll the halls of the local asylum, and the mellifluous yet deranged cries from the psych patients are sure to convince you that music and mental illness were simply made to go together. In any case, that’s the conclusion Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkie came to when they composed…
In many ways, 2011 was a great one for movies. Some really good films came out this year — some that broke the mold and swirled genres together in unprecedented ways. Several icons of the movie world made remarkable contributions that should be mentioned at the year’s close. On the…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
Did you stuff your face to the point of bursting this Christmas? Yes, of course you did. But it’s okay; it’s not too late to turn things around in time to fit into a slinky dress for New Year’s Eve. What’s the answer? Juice fasting. Not only will your reduced…
Glenn Terry is the creator of the King Mango Strut parade, an eccentric, satirical, and politically relevant parade initiated in 1982 and indigenous to Coconut Grove (although Terry also helped launch Wynwood’s version just a few weeks ago).Terry’s efforts to bring cohesion to the eccentric South Florida community don’t end…
Kombucha is fermented tea crawling with live and active cultures. And it is taking up ever more shelf space in the beverage aisle at Whole Foods. Why? It may help restore health to your digestive tract and give you an immune boost.Probiotics are not just for yogurts anymore. In fact,…
Like your drunk uncle slurring “Jingle Bells” and your nieces and nephews whining over whose turn it is to mess around with the new Wii games, Ebenezer Scrooge’s iconic humbugging is an irreplaceable sound bite from many Americans’ Christmases. But what would Scrooge’s tale of rebirth be without the ominous…
The City of Miami Beach SoundScape Cinema Series’ showing of Some Like It Hot won’t be the first time we see drag queens cavorting outside a Miami Beach building at night, but it might be the classiest. As part of the Arts in the Parks Program, the film will be…
When a friend tipped me off about some acai concoction at Apple A Day that was selling at speeds that bordered on lunatic, I wondered whether I’d fallen back in time four years or so. That’s when the real acai craze was in full swing, when people were buying $25…
Where I’m from, winters are frigid, depressing things. The morning sky is gray and it just degrades to a darker shade of gray by evening. When you step outside, the wind whips your fingertips blue in a matter of seconds. They quickly go numb, but like when the dentist drills…
Even though, or maybe because, I was always a really really tall girl, I’ve always gravitated toward tiny things. I love miniature doll furniture, pocket-sized notebooks, glitter, and as a child of the ’80s, Shrinky Dinks.So does vegan baker Mariana Cortez, who at 29, is the exact same age as…
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and in Miami apparently, ’tis also the season for one-man shows. The Arsht Center has David Sedaris’ The SantaLand Diaries, and a few miles southwest, Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre is putting on Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. Starring South Florida stage veteran Ken…
The 29th Annual Miami International Film Festival is about 80 days away, but the board has broken us off a little sumthin’ sumthin’ to give us film junkies a reason to salivate for the next few months. Namely, the titles of the first ten films in the 2012 MIFF lineup,…
We’ve temporarily suspended our sense of disbelief and are allowing ourselves to be awed by a young magician named Ace. Born in Miami to Cuban American parents in 1981, illusionist Dylan Ace is a natural performer who became fascinated with magic at the age of six after watching David Copperfield…
As I stood in line at a Taco Bell on NE 36th Street and Biscayne Boulevard, I was not comfortable or hopeful. It had been a long time since I’d been in a fast food joint, and the proximity of all the nutritionally bankrupt white flour tortillas, preservative-packed foodstuffs, and…
