Email Author Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

2004 Stories by Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

• Funked Up

  published December 30, 2004

  A Parliament/Funkadelic concert will make you feel like you're tripping, even if you're not. Band members wear the most outlandish gear, including... More >>

• Loco Nuts Grove

  published December 23, 2004

  On a windy, mid-December evening in Coconut Grove, a group of folks clusters around picnic tables. Their meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30... More >>

• Night&Day

  published December 16, 2004

  THU 16 David Yurman makes the kind of jewelry that causes discerning, Vogue-reading women to salivate. When... More >>

• Night&Day

  published December 9, 2004

  THU 9 They say that behind every good man, there's an even better woman. Behind James Joyce, there was Sylvia Beach, who was driven to... More >>

• The Hotel Victorious

  published December 9, 2004

  L. Murray Dixon was part of a circle of architects who sought to create a district on Miami Beach that would set a fashionable tone for this... More >>

• Freshly Baka-ed

  published December 2, 2004

  The Baka Boys have come a long way since they moved here from Los Angeles. Sure, out in La-la-land they were big shots, creating Friday Night... More >>

• Night&Day

  published December 2, 2004

  THU 2 November's in the rear view mirror and we're zooming full speed ahead through the holiday tunnel. For college students, this... More >>

• Night&Day

  published November 25, 2004

  THU 25 The football games are over and the pumpkin pie is almost all gone. The leftover food has been wrapped up and put... More >>

• The Bearded Queen

  published November 25, 2004

  Behind the carefully polished, clean-cut Leave it to Beaver veneer of the 1950s, there existed an underbelly of shame and fear. This was... More >>

• Various Artists

  published November 25, 2004

  When Kid 606 couldn't find the amped-up ragga he yearned for, he invited some like-minded friends to collaborate on their own music. Enter... More >>

• Waiting For Another Superman

  published November 18, 2004

  Rather than stretch another kitschy television show into a feature length summer blockbuster or -- gasp! -- come up with a completely original... More >>

• Night&Day

  published November 11, 2004

  THU 11 Ah, The King and I. The 1956 film version of this beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical gave Western... More >>

• Night&Day

  published November 4, 2004

  THU 4 Prepare to pay homage to the first Cuban ever to be nominated for a Tony Award. The University of Miami's Casa... More >>

• Night&Day

  published October 28, 2004

  THU 28 We all know one woman to whom we owe a great deal. The one who teaches algebra, volunteers at the rape crisis center, starts a... More >>

• Kitty Versus the Bushes

  published October 21, 2004

  It took Kitty Kelley four years, four sets of lawyers, and nearly a thousand interviews to produce The Family: The Real Story of the Bush... More >>

• Night&Day

  published October 21, 2004

  THU 21 Ladies and gents, we introduce the Whack-a-Mole of the dance world -- Dance Dance Revolution. The DDR craze hit Japan... More >>

• Night&Day

  published October 14, 2004

  THU 14 Most often, the Design District's second Thursday gallery open house night is all about gazing longingly at art... More >>

• Customary Contest

  published October 14, 2004

  In 278 BC, Qu Yuan, the peaceable prime minister of the Chinese Chu empire, found himself destitute, wandering the outskirts of his former... More >>

• Night&Day

  published October 7, 2004

  THU 7 When some people think theater, they think boring and stuffy. Well, how's about a play called Jane Fonda's Breast?... More >>

• Wade Deep

  published October 7, 2004

  I was prepared to loathe Wade Robson. Discovered by Michael Jackson when he was only five years old, he's appeared in three music videos... More >>

• Night&Day

  published September 30, 2004

  THU 30 Cheesecake fantasy. Chocolate devotion. Birthday cake remix. Black forest dream. If you love ice cream, you'll recognize these... More >>

• Chuck Amuck

  published September 23, 2004

  Chuck Palahniuk wrote Fight Club, which became the twitchy 1999 film starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, and bestsellers... More >>

• Night&Day

  published September 16, 2004

  THU 16 Forget all about steroid scandals and get ready for some all-American athletes doing their thing. Yes, a giant Wheaties box will... More >>

• Night&Day

  published September 9, 2004

  THU 9 If you've ever seen the Toxic Avenger (1985), the Class of Nuke 'em High (1986), Terror Firmer... More >>

• Foreign Affairs

  published September 2, 2004

  Celebrate Miami's many cultures SAT 9/4 How many times have you sat at a stoplight in... More >>