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First it was your coconut palm. Next it was your mango tree. Then you watched in horror as the final lashing winds of Hurricane Wilma ripped your giant staghorn fern from its...
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Once you are out of school, it is difficult to make new friends. Sure, you have your work friends, but when you hang out with them, you just end up complaining about your...
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Creative-writing students are often taught that the richest material comes from one’s own experience: childhood, family, hometown growing pains. However, some writers...
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How do we love Amy Sedaris? Let us count the ways. First, she won our hearts with facial contortion and druggie humor as Jerri Blank in Strangers with Candy. Second, she...
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It's no secret that, in a country where national service is decidedly not everyone's duty, it is often the poorest who find in the armed services a sane career choice. It...
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By Francisco Alvarado, Calvin Godfrey and Rob Jordan
Published:
October 26, 2006
Sticky Lingers
Filed under: Flotsam
Tired of dodging — or stepping in — those ubiquitous black lumps of desiccated chewing gum that pepper every urban landscape?
A...
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It would be tempting to tag the Monday Photo's song "Fall" as a cynical appropriation of the Mancunian era, if not for singer Leo Marcelo's breathless enthusiasm for his...
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In the beginning, there was the hamburger, a simple round of chopped beef slipped into a soft white bun. And the hamburger begat the cheeseburger, which begat the double...
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There's a scene about halfway through Catch a Fire during which freedom fighters — men and woman, boasting nicknames such as "Pete My Baby" and "Hot Stuff" — are...
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By Frank Houston, Vanessa Garcia and Brandon K. Thorp
Published:
October 26, 2006
Fahrenheit 451: Cast in the, er, glow of the recent public school book-banning controversy (Vamos a Cuba) and fresh off of its selection by the Florida Center for the Literary...
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Part 1 described a federal sting designed to catch a bad lawyer named Israel Perez Jr. A convicted drug dealer named Antonio Monroy told authorities that Perez had promised to...
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By Arielle Castillo, Eric W. Saeger and Billy Blair Williams
Published:
October 26, 2006
Taught to Be Taut
Ska. Go ahead, laugh if you will. Much like a current genre label of the same length (hint: It begins with e and ends with o), it quickly became a musical...
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In a blood-red work Bruce Nauman created in 1970, the word war is spelled out in neon tubing, with several cables snaking to a black transformer box on the floor.
The piece...
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It was midday-hot in the tony neighborhood just north of Miami's Design District this past June 22 when as many as twenty snipers took aim with high-power rifles. A deep male...
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Best known for incredibly catchy punk songs about murder and monsters, Misfits/Samhain mastermind Glenn Danzig is the only alumnus from hardcore's original old-school scene to...
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By Carlos Suarez De Jesus, Vanessa Garcia and Marya Summers
Published:
October 26, 2006
Asian Art from the Bass Museum Collection and Treasures from the Bass Museum of Art: With a bushel of blue-ribbon shows, the Bass has embarked on perhaps its busiest...
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Woof! Woof!
Maybe it wasn't covered in the CliffsNotes: Regarding Daniel Renzi's review of the GableStage production of Fahrenheit 451, "Burn, Baby, Burn" (October 19): I'm...
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Mayday!'s self-titled debut is one of this year's pleasant surprises. Plex's early production work for Miami groups like Algorithm and Spirit Agent were simple blue beats that...
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Even more bliss-driven than last year's Mysterioso?, Totimoshi's new record is reflective of the band's recent road haul, which probably would have made for good reality TV...
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BBE's Kings Of compilation series invites high-profile producers (Wu Tang Clan's the RZA, Dimitri from Paris) to dig in the crates and mix together some favorite tracks....
