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With an electronic buzz, the back door of the Miami-Dade Pre-Trial Detention Center cracks open. A broad-shouldered man in a white T-shirt and prison-issued sandals steps into...
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Sometimes it seems as though half the people we meet are dudes. Yet very few of them are oiled-up studs, shaking their bulging dong slings in our face.
Chin up, though....
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One of out every five professional baseball players in the United States comes from the Dominican Republic. Take a second with that stat. Here's another: Every big-league team...
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The Miami Dolphins are the most hypocritical football organization to ever be featured on national television. Cutting Chad Johnson, one of the top wide receivers in the NFL,...
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Next week, the Republican Party will convene in Tampa to plot world domination. And you're feeling left out.
Yes, you badly want in on the ground floor of the next culture...
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When iconic South Beach party spot Rokbar closed in 2011, the time was right. It had enjoyed a seven-year run — an eternity by SoBe nightclub standards — with...
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In terms of looks, charisma, and talent, Rashida Jones should have been a star a long time ago. But in terms of what she's ready to offer Hollywood (and what Hollywood finally...
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When Andre Frings returned to his South Beach apartment from a trip to New York last December, his jaw dropped at what had happened to the historic building next door. The...
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Brooklyn-based alt-rapper EL-P is admittedly not that "fucking brilliant," but he's comfortable being a perfectionist. "When I do my records, I'm trying to push myself and say...
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Boyishly lean, with a brooding angularity that suggests both high maintenance and nefarious vacancy, Robert Pattinson has somehow filled the role of a grade-A male sex symbol...
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Poor Julian Assange. Eighteen months ago, the 41-year-old Aussie was a globetrotting Wiki-warrior with dashing, wizard-like white hair. Now, he is effectively imprisoned...
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Perhaps it's the instability and unpredictability of our nightmarish economy, though that's highly unlikely. Or maybe it's his unprecedented drive to bring Afro-Latin blues to...
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There has been some debate, usually centering on the availability of prison weight rooms, that overdeveloped physiques might constitute a serious threat to the rest of us,...
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Last year, former New Times Broward-Palm Beach music editor Reed Fischer "accidentally" touched a "stranger's greasy hair" at Respectable Street's 24th Anniversary Block...
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Postblaxploitation and pre-Dreamgirls, the original, funky, low-budget Sparkle from 1976 set its girl-group rise and fall in Harlem in 1958. Salim Akil's remake, scripted by...
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In our nation's capital, real consensus happens as often as a noncreepy Rick Scott grin. Yet for the past couple of years, everyone in Washington, D.C., has agreed on this:...
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We've gotta give props to the folks at Kontrol Miami. All summer long, they've somehow run a successful underground EDM night at Mansion, the same club that purportedly kicked...
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African Opportunity
Seems like a scam: After reading about controversial Pastor O'Neil Dozier's plans to raise money for an African community ("Golden Opportunity," Stefan...
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Remember how action movies used to be? The good old-fashioned American (but often European-accented) ones from the '80s and '90s, the type paid tribute to (but not necessarily...
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David Koepp writes, and now directs, superior B-movies.
This is an admirable and tough-to-master skill given how few major movie studios are willing to take chances on films...
