FFCC Best Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years A Slave. The year 2013 hasn't been the proudest for Florida, especially when it comes to issues of race. This is the year of George Zimmerman's innocence. It's the year Taylor Chapman harrassed a Dunkin...
The Coconut Grove Playhouse is one step closer to the revival neighborhood activists have supported for years. Yesterday, the Miami-Dade County Commission adopted a resolution to save the historic building, planning to work with the City of Miami to ...
Hattie Mae Williams in all her Guerilla Glory You walk into a large room with high ceilings and walls made of massive mirrors. You are dressed in tights and a form-fitting leo, perhaps a pair of garbage bag shorts for the sake of menial comfort, a...
It's 85 degrees outside. The sun won't stop shining. You can't wear anything heavier than a sleeveless tee, and you're sweating balls, as usual. For folks in the Northeast, this might sound like a little piece of paradise. For many in South Florida...
Developer Jorge Prez was engulfed in scandal last week when it was disclosed that a Carlos Alfonzo oil-on-paper work that Prez had donated to Florida International University might be forged. Authorities found the claim credible enough that they re...
Timothy A. Barber, executive director of The Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida, receives a 2013 Knight Arts Grant from Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibarguen, left, and Matt Haggman, program director/Miami, right ...
There's something about comedy that requires it to come from a really dark place. Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison, and a whole litany of comedians have such notorious dark histories that they usually read like the lyrics to rap s...
Suenalo As Frank Costanza taught us so many years ago, Festivus is for the rest of us. From the Airing of Grievances to the Festivus Pole, this holiday's got a hell of an appeal for everyone who's so over Christmas songs and crowded malls. And let...
It's Christmas in Miami, which means yet another year of fried dough and crushed dreams at Santa's Enchanted Forest. But if you're looking for something -- anything -- else to do that doesn't involve flying into a snowstorm, there's always Orlando. ...
The Miami International Film Festival announced today that its 2014 fest would premiere the movie Foosball, an animated film from Argentina by Oscar-winning director Juan Jos Campanella. The film tells the story of a young man named Amadeo who fi...
10. Agnes of God Having seen this ascetic, fact-based play about a novice nun and the dead baby that winds up in her wastebasket a few seasons earlier at Palm Beach Dramaworks, I wasn't frothing for another production so soon. But New Theatre nailed ...
Chef Loren Pulitzer It's always good news when two of our favorite things join forces to make Miami a better place. In this case, it's local eats and local arts. Recently, F.E.A.S.T. (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) Miami was awar...
So, here are a few fun things to get into this week that won't cost a thing. Our gift to you. istolethetv Flickr/cc Tuesday Bootcamp in Bayfront Park: Burn off some holiday calories and feel good about yourself all week. ...
It was hard to know what to expect from Chappelle in the year 2013. Seven years ago, in the middle of creating the third season of the TV series that made him a wildly popular comedian, Chappelle quit, disappeared to South Africa, and cut ties with h...
Downtown Miami residents are about to have a night of culture, art and music at the Buskerfest Street Music Festival. The first annual Buskerfest aims to bring some zest to Miami's nightlife tonight between 5 to 9 p.m. "Buskerfest is a street music...
Unless you crawled under a large rock to escape the visual bombardment of Miami Art Week, chances are you're still reeling from the orgy of multi-media works that festooned our shores from South Beach to Biscayne Bay and far beyond during the recent...
Today only, Chippendale's, "the world's #1 male revue," is hosting an open casting call at Mansion Miami. Show up 2 p.m. and you could be looking at a future full of hysterical females, banana hammocks, and sweat-soaked dollar bills. See also: Chip...
First Beat drummer Last week, PAMM welcomed media, local VIPs, and celebrities for a first look at the art museum and blew us away with its striking panoramic views, stunning edifice, and mesmeric art. While locals were also welcomed to celebrat...
Show-off. Did you see the photo Gisele posted to Instagram this week? There she sits, looking all serene as no fewer than three professionals do her hair, make-up and nails -- while she sits, glowing, holding a baby to her breast. In the caption, ...
In 2013, love came in many forms: girl on zombie, boy on smartphone, and James Franco on -- count 'em -- two hot bikini babes at the same damn time. Sure, romantic comedies are as extinct as Oprah Winfrey's chances of winning Best Supporting ...
Asif Farooq stooped over a metal sink in a Jackson, Mississippi Huddle House restaurant. Feverishly scrubbing away at the mountain of pots and dishes in front of him, he tried… More >>
When looking back at the past year in theater, there's no escaping the void. Companies that had become staples at awards shows and in best-of tallies were nowhere to be… More >>
Developer Jorge Pérez was engulfed in scandal last week when it was disclosed that a Carlos Alfonzo oil-on-paper work that Pérez had donated to Florida International University might be forged.… More >>