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On a Thursday afternoon a few weeks before Christmas, real estate developer R. Donahue Peebles sat at his desk in the Coral Gables office of his firm, Peebles Atlantic...
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As one of the most prominent members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, Clarence Clemons blows his sax with all the low-down power of waves crashing upon the Jersey shore,...
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To think of restaurant reviewing as an Xtreme Sport may at first seem overly dramatic to readers who are more accustomed to thinking of the genre in terms of, say, rock...
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While virtually no one in this country foresaw the American disaster in Vietnam, the late British writer Graham Greene glimpsed it with astonishing clarity a decade before the...
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Talk about your etiquette dilemmas: What's the proper way to say thank you to a kidney donor? Do you marry them? Buy them a car? Pay off their house? Send them flowers every...
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Rawson Thurber has been so busy the past few days that by the time he finally returns a reporter's phone call, he does so at 1:30 in the morning--and he doesn't even realize...
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If English mysteries are your cup of tea, you might want to sample Sherlock's Last Case, now being served up at the Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables. Charles Marowitz's...
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Pop morality quiz: An organization with offices in the United States has assassinated a foreign spy in that agent's homeland, or tried to do so. This is: A) right, B) wrong,...
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With a setting Sun, a dead King, a reformed Killer, and empty Stax, Memphis has spent the past few decades coasting on the fumes of its musical reputation. After making the...
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As the original supervising architect of Coral Gables, Phineas Paist established a board of review whose approval was required for any new construction or remodeling. That...
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Astaire & Rogers. Hepburn & Tracy. Heck, Ball & Arnaz, Houston & Washington, or Vardalos & Corbett. Over the decades Hollywood has proved that its romantic comedies needn't...
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The better a barbecue sauce, the more likely you'll end up with it all over your hands, says a Southern rule of thumb. If it's an extremely good sauce, you'll likely find some...
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On a recent Friday, Tony Winton and Cathy Wilson skipped lunch and headed down to the monstrous word factory on Biscayne Bay known as the Miami Herald. The two veteran...
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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL THAT IS OFFENSIVE TO READERS WHO TAKE THIS COLUMN WAY TOO SERIOUSLY.
With your existence edging closer and closer toward...
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Just when we think it's gone and done it -- little Miami has finally grown up -- we get whacked in the baby teeth by yet another example of just how unsophisticated and...
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Camilo and Me
Though it happened a while ago, it was something you don't forget: Tristram Korten should be commended for his in-depth, thoroughly researched, and well-written...
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Three years is not a long time. It takes decades -- half-centuries even -- to measure the careers of such musical treasures as singers Celia Cruz and Ibrahim Ferrer, pianist...
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Most-asked question of the past two weeks: Why did Michael Schwartz leave the executive chef position at Atlantic in the Beach House Bal Harbour only four months into the job?...
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The last half of 2000 was a bittersweet purgatory for "Big" Chad Neptune. The year-in-the-making full-length debut, The Moon Is Down, of his band, Further Seems Forever, was...
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It's high noon in the historic district of Delray Beach. Two members of the Yoko Theory, Nathan Farnham and Henri Lemaire, haven't been awake for long, so they're a little...
