As promised on Tuesday, I’ll be shelling out for a professional Thai massage for two lucky winners: the best review of a Sleepless Night event and the most reviews of Sleepless Night events by a single person. What you review is up to you. The culture mavens at Miami Beach have selected more than 150 […]

The program for Sleepless Night is ready for download — and it’s a doozy! There are 150 events on offer all over Miami Beach next Saturday night and into the wee hours of Sunday morning. That got me thinking about how tired I’m going to be when I write this blog the following Monday. And […]

Last night in Sunny Isles Beach I saw the St. Pauli Girl running around with a woman in a purple wig, who appeared to be breast feeding a pair of cotton dolls. Another typical South Florida Halloween. If you’re looking for atypical, then I suggest you head over to Hoy Como Ayer tonight for the […]

This weekend I’ve been resting up, and looking ahead to the 130 events crammed into just 13 hours for this year’s Sleepless Night from 6pm to 7am on November 7 on Miami Beach. I do plan to get some sleep on Sleepless Night, though, as long as I can hunker down beside the banks of […]

This Saturday night, you can pay $25 to see the mischievous and mesmerizing Dutch drummer Han Bennink in the close quarters of the Byron Carlyle Theater. Or you can pay twice as much to sit even closer, along with “priority entrance.” Think of it as the presenter Tigertail‘s version of the velvet rope. Make that […]

The cold front did not arrive in time for the opening of “Into the Wild,” a wilderness-themed show at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art last Friday night. The art crowd sweat among the campfire paintings and Enrique Gomez de Molina’s bizarre churkendoose sculpture (okay, it was more like a peacock-crab-squirrel, but anyway it was disturbing) and […]

400 plus pages. 400 plus photos. 23 contributors. Seven years in the making. Miami Modern Metropolis is an insanely ambitious book. Architect and scholar Allan T. Shulman has a restless mind and relentless drive — and our understanding of the Magic City is the better for it. At the book launch at the Bass Museum […]

New plays is what New Theatre does best. Whether the work is a stinker or a hit hardly matters. What’s exciting is seeing something brand new brought to light right here in South Florida. Like playwright David Caudle’s “In Development,” which had its world premiere in Coral Gables last weekend. While not a surefire hit […]

Ah, Miami. One day you’re watching Cuban hotties hustle on stage in a make-believe Havana. The next you’re in deepest Kendall, in a warehouse across the street from the Tamiami Airport, with a handsome Trinidadian gentleman handing you a pair of felt-tipped mallets and gesturing toward an array of six steel oil drums. Don’t ask: […]

The saxophone gives it away. Whenever the characters in Abel González Melo’s Chamaco pause to consider a moral dilemma or fret over a fatal error, the sax shivers in punctuation.  Chamaco is classic noir, with a touch of melodrama and a whole lot of beefcake. The homme fatale here is Kárel Darín, a young hustler […]

For 20 years, Karen Peterson and Dancers have been pushing the boundary of physical ability and dance. Which is all very nice. But this is no experiment in social equity. This “mixed-ability” company has nurtured some of the best dancers in down, including the remarkable John Beauregard and Marjorie Burnett. As choreographer Peterson reveals again […]