Miami New Times' Mastermind Awards honors the city's most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We'll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year's three Mastermind Award winners will be announced March 8 at Artopia, our annual soiree celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit the website.

​John Adkins

Sometimes, Grandpa just knows best. Wait, who are we kidding? Grandpa always knows best. John Adkins knows what we're talking about. He's a painter who creates based on the memory of how his blind grandfather "saw." And he's inspired by organization.
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Bleeding Palm animates Miami's underground scene with psychedelic humor. So we've employed them to make the Magic City feel more magical with weekly animated GIFs.

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​Of all of Shakespeare's plays, none has captured the public's imagination quite like Hamlet, the Bard's harrowing tale of betrayal, murder, sexual politics, and dead people looking for vengeance (okay, all of William's plays are pretty much like that).

But you haven't seen Hamlet until you've seen it performed as an opera.

And, even more to the point, the way Carson Kievman and the Soundtheater will be performing it at the SoBe Institute of the Arts from February 24 through March 11.
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​If you read all three Hunger Games books in as many days, follow the Capitol Couture blog, and have a "Hunger Games" alert set up in Google News (not that we do any of those things), prepare to be very excited.

If, on the other hand, you're not a fan of the crazy popular series of novels and/or the upcoming film, you might want to avoid Westfield Broward Mall on March 8.

Cast members from the film are embarking on a nationwide mall tour, and South Florida is on the agenda.
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The end of a bird-flipping era.

​At last night's Brit Awards, Adele won the award for Album of the Year. And she seemed pretty psyched about it -- until she was cut off in the middle of her acceptance speech. In response, she flipped the bird...

...which, of course, made us flash back to M.I.A.'s Super Bowl halftime performance, during which the singer hoisted a middle finger of her own, for reasons beyond anybody's comprehension, perhaps even including her own...

...which, then, reminded us of the guy in the bright yellow SUV who cut us off on I-95 the other day, the one who still had the gall to change lanes, slow down beside us, and give us the finger, all while smiling behind some ridiculous Ray-Bans.

Case in point: Even if you're America's British sweetheart, when you present the one-fingered salute, you align yourself with douchebaggery. That means it's time to retire the middle finger.
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​From primitive man's efforts to chart the heavens over 15,000 years ago on the walls of the Lascaux caves, to 19th century phrenologist's attempts to diagram the functions of the brain, maps have served as perceptual touchstones for understanding our place in the universe.

The advent of GPS technology has given us the ability to find our position anywhere on Earth with the touch of a finger. But for many creative minds, maps still provide expansive conceptual latitude for investigating far-ranging themes of importance in society today.

That's the focus of "Mapping: Time and Space," a group show opening this Friday night at 7 at ArtCenter/South Florida which seeks to redefine "the map" as a collection of compass points for exploring sex, consumption, communication, and growth.

"Maps have always been this sort of universal method of communication," says Lauren Wagner, director of exhibitions at the Bakehouse Art Complex who curated the show.
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A boring, un-porny portrait of Santorum.

​Good news, perverts: Rule 34 -- "If it exists, there is porn of it" -- is still in full effect.

Two readers of the blog Unicorn Booty were apparently inspired by Rick Santorum's increasingly anti-sex and anti-gay statements on the campaign trail to compose his portrait. The catch? It's made entirely out of images from gay porn.

We applaud the artists, and not just because we support gays gettin' it on. We also support all portraits made out of porn, just as a matter of principle. Are there many portraits made of porn, you ask? Why yes. Yes there are.

Check out Santorum's "porn-trait" and other porntasticness after the jump.
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The following videos are not Disney-approved.

​Disneyland, Walt Disney World Resort's half-sibling on the West Coast, was dangerously unprepared for what hit them over the weekend.

A seemingly inebriated 53-year-old patron with a mean right hook went ape shit at the Anaheim park -- just outside the Tower of Terror, appropriately enough. A four-minute video (below) surfaced over the weekend that captures the angry guest dropping several f-bombs and a few punches.

In an effort to subdue the man, Disney employees were forced to use pepper spray. It's unclear why the guest turned to violence, but we can only speculate it had something to do with his Fastpass.

Theme parks are supposed to be fun, but sometimes people lose their shit -- and if you've ever waited in a two-hour line for a two-minute roller-coaster ride, you can relate. But the following videos show just how bad it can get when you fly off the handle in the middle of the Happiest Place on Earth. So before your next road trip to Orlando, watch these theme park fisticuffs to calm that aggression. And if necessary, pack sedatives.
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Miami New Times' Mastermind Awards honors the city's most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We'll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year's three Mastermind Award winners will be announced March 8 at Artopia, our annual soiree celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit the website.

​Jolt Radio
Screw New Times. We wanna work at Jolt Radio! The online radio station is based in the 305, and its number one priority is to push the local music scene as far as possible. After putting their pennies together from the street, couch cushions, and linty dryers, the station's founders hired a web designer and started their own site.
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​Will Ferrell's new movie, Casa de Mi Padre, doesn't open wide until March 16. But you have the chance to see it before anyone else, thanks to the South Beach Comedy Festival, which will present the first public screening of the film Feb. 29 at the Colony Theatre.

The film follows Armando Alvarez (Ferrell) and his brother, Raul (Diego Luna), Mexican ranchers who get mixed up with a powerful drug lord. The trailer makes it look like a well-deserved spoof of Latin, action, and western films. And you have the chance to check it out for free.

We're giving away two tickets to the special screening. To find out how to enter, and to watch the film trailer for yourself, read on.
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