Once, in the ’80s, we starred in a DIY inspirational video where making waffles was a metaphor for career success. We thought the death of the VHS format meant the evidence would eventually disintegrate in some faraway Salvation Army thrift store. Yet there’s a group of seven friends who search…
When the League of Paranormal Investigators set up cameras to document ghosts at the Deering Estate (16701 SW 72nd Ave., Miami), it captured an image of a man watching them from the boat basin. It also saw a woman dressed in Victorian clothing floating above the bay. So keep an…
Think of the new Miami Art Museum (101 W. Flagler St., Miami) exhibit, “New Work Miami 2010”, as CliffsNotes to the local contemporary art scene. Curator Ren calls it a complex show that represents a complex art community; if pressed to summarize, he says that a lot of the pieces…
It’s your choice. You could either elbow your way through the crowds at Sawgrass to get your loved ones T-shirts from Old Navy, or you could come to the Indie Craft Bazaar at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale), a historic movie house, and pick up one-of-a-kind pieces…
Let’s hear it for female empowerment movies that are so graphic they could never air on Lifetime TV flicks such as Hard Candy, Jennifer’s Body, and the latest The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. When it screened at this year’s Miami International Film Festival, women in the sold-out crowd at…
When 125,000 Cuban exiles fled to Florida in the Mariel boatlift, many believed that Castro opened prisons and mental hospitals to infiltrate the U.S. with undesirables. But at this weekend’s Cuba Nostalgia, Marielitos will have the chance to shake off that stigma by documenting just how awesomely productive they’ve been…
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…
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 just days before beginning an American tour. Less than a year later, the posthumously released “Love Will…
The gulf between South Florida’s rich and poor will shrink an inch or two this week. Starting Monday, select SoFla spas will offer $50 treatments as part of Spa Week. Show up to the Dessange Paris Salon & Spa (1845 Cordova Road, Ste. 210, in Fort Lauderdale) in your Payless…
Earth Day is like New Year’s Eve — you make all sorts of resolutions you never plan on keeping. This year marks the 40th Earth Day, but we have a hunch, South Florida, that you never really took it seriously. You continue to slip in green city rankings. But in…
Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes makes pop music out of guitars, synths, and anxiety. There’s no better example of his melodramatic tendencies than “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal,” a track off the band’s 2007 album, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, which catalogs his marital troubles. It’s an intoxicating 12-minute…
Who’s Lang Lang? Oh, just a child-prodigy Chinese pianist. Now 27 years old, he has played for kings and queens, helped score Hollywood films like The Painted Veil, and performed at the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony as well as with some the world’s top orchestras. Items you can purchase at…
As the Miami International Film Festival winds down this week, there are still some choice films showing. This Thursday at 8 p.m., see Trash Humpers at Cosford Cinema (University of Miami Memorial Building, Campo Dano Drive, Coral Gables), the latest film by Kids director Harmony Korine. Four insane old people…
History tells us that over the centuries, people have been inspired to take off across the world in hot pursuit of two things: God and spices. Portuguese explorers sailed all the way around the tip of Africa to get to India and its turmeric — so we don’t want to…
As the story goes, Rome was founded by twin boys who were raised by a she-wolf. One brother eventually killed the other in a fisticuffs over who would be king. The victor then raided a nearby town to rape and kidnap the women, as an ideal city has at least…
If Food Inc. awakened your inner PETA member, catch the current exhibitions at the Coral Springs Museum of Art (2855 Coral Springs Drive) by artists who think of animals as muses and not as lunch. Hunt Slonem’s “Birds, Butterflies & Bunnies” runs through April 24. Slonem, known as “The Birdman,”…
It’s time to say “sayonara” to the Year of the Ox and make way for the Year of the Tiger. (Surely, this lithe predator is better-suited to end our wars and our recession, yes?) Oshogatsu, the Japanese new year, was once based on the same lunar calendar that spawned the…
There’s an old Haitian proverb: Ignorance doesn’t kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot. So get culturally enlightened via the new Around the World in 80 Nights program at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6 St., Fort Lauderdale). This Tuesday, the first stop on this armchair world tour is…
It’s your choice. You could either elbow your way through the crowds at Sawgrass to get your loved ones T-shirts from Old Navy, or you could come to the Indie Craft Bazaar at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale), a historic movie house, and pick up one-of-a-kind pieces…
Downsizing doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Take the “Small Stuff 3” exhibit that opens today at the Bear and Bird Boutique. For the third year, an eclectic group of more than 50 local, national, and international artists will showcase their small-scale art — from paintings to embroidery…
A portrait of decadent life in Rome — complete with a love triangle, hard drugs, and elaborate costume changes — is the opening-night flick of the Italian Film Festival this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Regal Cinemas South Beach (1120 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach). Parlami d’Amore (or Talk to Me…
