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Sammy Figueroa didn't imagine it would be so hard to find a pair of congas in Havana. To avoid the hassle and expense, he decided not to bring his own drums with him on the...
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You know you'd like to say something special to your sweetie, but you just can't find the right words or the right tone to tickle her ears. This year why not let one of the...
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In 1991 Hectór Rolotti opened a modest little café in New York City called Novecento Soho. A few years later he instituted a more extensive bistro menu there,...
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Some filmmakers use documentaries to explore complex subjects. Others use docs to ram home their own agendas. That's certainly the case with The Trials Of Henry Kissinger, a...
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Be it by a simple pat on the back, a hefty raise, or a shiny award, everybody wants to be recognized in some small way for the things they do, especially drag doyenne Shelley...
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It was supposed to be make-believe, a disturbing but ultimately uplifting work of science-fiction from a celebrated author of grim futurama and glorious fantasy. The subject...
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Despite the efforts of Miami-Dade Aviation director Angela Gittens to reform Miami International Airport, the brewing set-to over a prepaid phone card vending contract shows...
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It happens to all of us at one time or another. An overwhelming feeling comes over us that suggests we are living inside elaborate theatrical productions that we mistake for...
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It's that time of year when the annual horde of houseguests descends from the north yet again, demanding to be schlepped out to the Everglades yet again. What they claim they...
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Thursday, February 13, 2003
For days you've been seeing more boats on land than you've ever seen at sea. That can only mean one thing: The Miami International Boat Show has...
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Time was, the great repertoire of classical drama was the mainstay of established New York City and regional theaters. But take a quick look at the season lineups at the...
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Never mind more than 50 years of economic domination. Nor the role played in the Seventies by the U.S. government supporting the last military dictatorship (blamed for the...
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This Thursday, the Mid-Eastern Dance Exchange (MEDE) is hosting its seventh annual Orientalia festival, a yearly event that draws hundreds of people to see belly-dance...
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So what exactly did the "First Annual Cheeca Lodge & Spa Food & Wine Festival February 2003," held over the course of three evenings in the infamously laissez-faire Florida...
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Part armored military vehicle, part dune buggy, Volkswagen's The Thing briefly blitzkrieged through American automobile culture in the Seventies, a wiggy antidote to the...
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SFCA (South Florida Composers Alliance) is one of the most underrated marvels of Miami. For more than a decade, this organization has presented its annual Subtropics Festival...
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After nearly twenty minutes of tortuous verbal gymnastics, Jay-Z was growing audibly tired of his on-air interrogation. But his radio interviewer, Angie Martinez, showed no...
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Drum and bass doesn't leave much white space for the listener. It fills the air without pause: drum fills layered on top of one another, breakbeats at a breakneck frequency,...
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Give Unto Others as They Give Unto You
For Don Peebles that means ... Screw You! It isn't common that a simple two-word headline rightly expresses the theme and subtext of a...
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Miami DJ George Acosta is a soldier who plays straight-up, balls-to-the-wall trance and nothing else. His latest mix compilation Touched is a two-CD cannon ready to bombard...
